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  • Louise Bourgeois, Spirals. 2005.

    Emotional Reproduction

    "It is mostly through intimate relationships that we reproduce ourselves emotionally, and that we create our sense of authentic subjectivity. But these relationships are often in themselves a source of pain and frustration." - Alva Gotby

  • Louise Bourgeois’s The Good Mother, 2003.

    Lay All Your Love On Me

    What would it mean to theorise love as a form of labour? How can we think of our emotional dependency on other people in political terms, rather than as expressions of individual and interior subjectivity?

  • Marx at the Chicken Shack

    Marx at the Chicken Shack

    What makes Marx a stranger to Marxist movements is not simply the difficulty of certain key works and passages, but a series of other obstacles.

  • The Frankenstein Problem of Capitalism

    The Frankenstein Problem of Capitalism

    “If capitalism survives by creating monsters that it cannot itself fully control, then those monsters must also have the capacity to harm capitalism itself. Like Frankenstein’s monster, they might destroy their own master.”