1st Edition

Insurgent Metaphors Essays on Culture and Class

By Pothik Ghosh Copyright 2023
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Marxism’s cultural turn, which has been prominent in its operation over at least the past four decades, continues to belie the hope it had initially held out. The idea that such a move would eventually pull Marxism out of its ‘ontological crisis’ is on the verge of a miscarriage. That is certainly the case in sub-continental South Asia. Unsurprisingly, therefore, ‘culturally-turned’ Marxism... Read more

1. In Search of Class

2. Fascism and a Marxist Praxis of Art

3. Academics, Politics and Class Struggle

4. The Siren Songs of Neo-traditionalism

5. Akhtaruzzaman Elias: Beyond the Lived Time of Nationhood

6. Kafka and the Question of Revolutionary Subjectivity

7. Media and the Indian State: On the Draft Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill, 2006

8. The Blind Art of the Concrete

9. In Defence of Hamas

10. Sri Lanka: Genocide and Other Majoritarian Falsehoods

11. Fascism in its Liberal Womb

12. Lalgarh beyond Maoism, Maoism beyond Lalgarh

13. Three Fragmentary Theses on the Politico-theoretical Problematic posed by the Current Phase of the Indian Maoist Movement for Working Class Politics

Biography

Pothik Ghosh was educated as a professional journalist in Calcutta, Lucknow and Delhi. Active with various Left groups, he is currently based in Delhi and is one of the editors of Radical Notes. His monograph, Loss as Resistance: Towards a Hermeneutic of Revolution, has also been published by Aakar as part of the Radical Notes booklet series.