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   news VII / 02                                                                   
     "kanonmedia.com" <office@kanonmedia.com>                                        

   the commoner update                                                             
     "Massimo De Angelis" <m.deangelis@btinternet.com> (by way of richard barbrook)  

   Info                                                                            
     "Lorenzo Taiuti" <md3169@mclink.it>                                             

    - BRIDGES II - Call for Papers EXTENSION AUG.6TH - Art + Science               
     "Kabatoff, Mathew" <Mathew_Kabatoff@BanffCentre.CA>                             

   [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 43                                   
     Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net>                                                    

   UNRELIABLE NETWORKS  - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS                                     
     ray <ray@glowlab.com>                                                           

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     integer@www.god-emil.dk                                                         

   HM 10.2 NOW OUT!                                                                
     SEbastien Budgen <sebastien.budgen@wanadoo.fr> (by way of ric

   HELP :: F[RI]CTION ::                                                           
     "spike hibberd" <spike_h@mail.com>                                              



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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:45:35 +0200
From: "kanonmedia.com" <office@kanonmedia.com>
Subject: news VII / 02

dear all, please note:


km.com highlight: SAMAC
agricola de cologne referring to SAMAC: the principle of simultaneous 
associative media art composing uses very different elements in order to 
create interactive compositions, mostly carrying as their kernel 
experimental electronic poetry. the progressive poetic structures of samac 
are continuously developed as a consequent continuation of the artist's 
divisionistic principle.
visit the special: http://www.kanonmedia.com


anti-smokers-sp01: exhibited on mirror at the bottom at virtual memorial:
is there more to moral than moral - and anti - moral questions ? truth and 
anti - truth questions ? do individaul approaches to perception maybe 
contain more authenticity & reality than theories & ideologies?
visit: http://www.kanonmedia.com/news/sp01.htm, 
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/


S.P.I.N.Y.: participating in free manifesta frankfurt:
a film script is the material used for an interactive role play on cd rom, 
allowing the user to surf through the experiences of Sandrella, to reflect 
the phases of her as well as his / her own personal development needed to 
leave behind dependencies and gain freedom of decision.
visit: http://www.kanonmedia.com/news/spiny.htm, 
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/reill.html


NY9202: soon shown at violens festival tabor:
two completely different systems of society, economics and belief opposing 
each other and fighting a seemingly endless conflict - NY9202 refers to the 
ongoing world conflicts as a war of the rich for more power and the poor 
for equal rights, freedom of belief and stable economics. the violens 
festival will take place in tabor / cz from august 15 - 26, 02. a relating 
site is going to be released. in the meantime -
visit: http://www.kanonmedia.com/portfolio/nyc9202.htm


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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:55:49 +0100
From: "Massimo De Angelis" <m.deangelis@btinternet.com> (by way of richard barbrook)
Subject: the commoner update



Dear friends



some new articles on the commoner web page.  http://www.thecommoner.org



Please circulate in your network. Thanks



massimo






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In the Reviews and Letters section



Interview with Evo Morales (president of the coca  farmers' federation in
Chapare, Bolivia) by Yvonne Zimmermann



Cyril Smith reviews John Holloway's book Change the  World without Taking Power



In the Groundzero section on  movements



Laura Corradi on the Black Bloc: the ultimate  Logo



Steve Wright. Pondering Information and Communication in  Contemporary
Anti-Capitalist Movements



Peter Waterman, Reflections on the 2nd World  Social Forum in Porto Alegre:
What's Left Internationally?



In the groundzero section on war



 Les Levidow, Terrorising Dissent: the  Neoliberal 'Anti-terrorist' Strategy



 




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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:16:41 +0200
From: "Lorenzo Taiuti" <md3169@mclink.it>
Subject: Info


Could anyone tell me about experiences on the web with handicapped =
children?
Ciao & thanks
Lorenzo Taiuti



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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:11:27 -0600
From: "Kabatoff, Mathew" <Mathew_Kabatoff@BanffCentre.CA>
Subject:  - BRIDGES II - Call for Papers EXTENSION AUG.6TH - Art + Science


CALL FOR PAPERS

ARTICLE ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENSION - AUGUST 6TH 2002

BRIDGES II: COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, CONVERGENCE
October 4-6, 2002

The Banff Centre, Banff New Media Institute, & The University of Calgary in
collaboration with the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University
of Southern California.

+ + + 

We would like to inform you that the call for paper proposal's and
submissions to the upcoming BRIDGES Consortium event BRIDGES II has been
extended until Tuesday, August 6th. We like to thank those who have
submitted abstracts already, however we would like to open up the call for
another two weeks in order for the symposium pool to be as wide, deep and
conceptually rigorous as it can be. We encourage you to submit a 300wd,
article abstract for BRIDGES II as the event intends to punch strong with
the term 'collaboration,' fast with the term 'new media,' and graceful with
the term 'research.' 

Conference information can be found below. Guidelines for article abstract
submission are attached in Microsoft Word document. The extended deadline
for submission is Tuesday, August the 6th. Please pass this call onto peers
and colleagues that would be interested and fit within the scope of this
event. 

+ + +

The first BRIDGES Consortium was held in 2001 in Los Angeles at the
Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California. It brought
together top experts from education, research and funding institutions and
the private sector, as well as independent artists, technologists, and
scientists, to explore interdisciplinary collaboration between art, science
and technology. This year, it is the turn of the Banff New Media Institute
(BNMI) to welcome this international forum.

The BRIDGES Consortium works from the belief that the great challenge of
convergence is not technology, but communication between people. It
pinpoints collaboration as a skill to be identified, studied, and learned
proposing practical strategies for its inclusion as a vital component in
education, creation and research. It also seeks to identify the best methods
and practices, amplifying networks in order to provide a means of exchange
and for those engaged in the reality of collaborative research. 

The differences in work styles, priorities, language usage and invention,
communication, educational principles, institutional frameworks, and
personal temperaments and beliefs have the potential within a production
setting to become either obstacles or stimulants of effective collaboration.
Project development and research using ever-more complex technology comes to
involve social scientists, research scientists and artists to develop a more
specialized skill sets and almost 'requires' collaboration between multiple
disciplines and practices.

The purpose of the First Summit was to establish the need for the BRIDGES
forum and its discursive role in the broader landscape of art, science,
technology and culture. At Banff, we will expand the multi-disciplinary
focus to include social sciences and humanities researchers who are partners
in culture and science collaboration. The summit will result in an on-line
document accessible for use by anyone working in the areas of cultural
production, science and technology, and in active research communities
engaged in the building of active multi-disciplinary networks. 

For the results of our First Summit, please check our web site at:
www.annenberg.edu/BRIDGES

For information about the coming BRIDGES event please check the BNMI web
site at The Banff Centre:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/bnmi_BRIDGES_consortium2_2002/

For more information and to submit an abstract please contact:
Janet Anderson
Special Projects Coordinator
Banff New Media Institute (BNMI)
The Banff Centre
Box 1020, Station 40
Banff, AB, T1L 1H5
janet_anderson@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 1-403-762-6282
Fax: 1-403-762-6665
www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi 

Secondary Contact:
Mathew Kabatoff
BNMI Research Fellow
mathew_kabatoff@banffcentre.ca
1-403-762-7434




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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:46:36 +0200
From: Lloyd Dunn <ll@detritus.net>
Subject: [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 43

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Retrofuturism 14

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direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/r14.pdf


Description. "One Year Into the Art Strike." This being January 1991, 
the Persian Gulf War loomed large in the minds of contributors, and 
was extensively reflected in the works that appeared in this issue. 
The works range from Steve Perkin's opening text 'Desert Storm', to 
graphics by Eleutheros Productions, and on to a report on the 
activities of the Aggressive School of Cultural Workers that centered 
around their anti-Gulf-War art exibit 'Lies in the Sand' held in Iowa 
City that month. Less particular to that moment, but no less apt, was 
the art-satyrical text 'State of the Art for Today's Artist' by the 
Bureau of Control and its accompanying and amusing comic strip. 
(Additional works of comic detournement appeared in this issue as 
well, the form being all the rage at that moment.) Al Ackerman, whose 
welcome deflation of the proceedings through humor were always 
eagerly absorbed by our readership, contributed 'The Magic of Bigamy 
(An Alternative to Art Strike)'. As we previously warned, Art Strike 
1990-1993 makes appearances in other works, and in letters and 
commentary that make up this issue.

Contributors include. H. R. Fricker, Stephen Perkins, Eleutheros 
Productions, Buzz Art, Don Baker/Jeff Brice, Ralph Johnson, Semiotic 
Liberation Front, The Tape-beatles, Gen Ken Montgomery, Black Eye, 
Bureau of Control, Cracker Jack Kid, C Schneck, Al Ackerman, Thomas 
Wiloch, John Marriot, David Tiffen, Mark Pawson, Ben Allen

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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:51:16 -0400
From: ray <ray@glowlab.com>
Subject: UNRELIABLE NETWORKS  - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

UNRELIABLE NETWORKS
co-hosted by Pollen Systems and Glowlab,
at Remote Lounge (NYC) on August 19, 2002.

_Unreliable Networks_ is the first in a series of
multimedia events by Brooklyn´s Pollen Systems and
Glowlab arts collaborative. In the underground
performance space at Remote Lounge, we´ll present a
night of audio, video and interactive works concerned with
the structure/form/function/mal-function of networks.

SUBMISSIONS 
We are currently accepting submissions of sound, video
and interactive media works.
Topics we are especially interested in include: mass
communication, data systems, transportation, navigation
and mapping, neural networks and organic growth
algorithms. 
Experimental/new work and works in progress are
encouraged. DJ´s: mainly looking for idm, microhouse,
microsound, techno, and noise submissions.
Equipment includes 8 dvd players, 4 vhs, video mixer,
turntables etc. Please send an email with a description of
your project with online links or contact us to send a
sample (cd, dvd, tape).

Send submissions to: pollensystems@yahoo.com

Pollen Systems 
pollensystems@yahoo.com
a subsidiary of flint projects http://www.abattoir.com/
~flint/index.htm 

Glowlab 
http://www.glowlab.com/index.html
a brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts collaborative


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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:38:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: integer@www.god-emil.dk
Subject: \/\






       -  http://www.m9ndfukc.org/data/filmz/immune.play.its.about.time.mov





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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:55:58 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Budgen <sebastien.budgen@wanadoo.fr> (by way of richard barbrook)
Subject: HM 10.2 NOW OUT!



Historical Materialism
Research in Critical Marxist Theory

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2

CONTENTS


Commentary

Paris Yeros
    Zimbabwe and the Dilemmas of the Left


Articles

Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
    Gems and Baubles in Empire

Marcus Taylor
    Success for Whom? An Historical-Materialist Critique of Neoliberalism in
Chile

Sean Creaven
    The Pulse of Freedom? Bhaskar's Dialectic and Marxism

Paul Nolan
    Levine and Sober on Natural Selection and Historical Materialism


Interventions

Jason C. Myers
    Ideology After the Welfare State

Tony Smith
    Hegel: Mystic Dunce or Important Predecessor? A Reply to John Rosenthal

Robert Albritton
    A Response to Chris Arthur


Film Review

Mike Wayne
    A Violent Peace: Robert Guédiguian's La Ville est tranquille


Reviews

Milton Fisk
    on Markar Melkonian's Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of
the American Century

Ian Birchall
    on Jean-Pierre Le Goff's Mai 68, l'héritage impossible and Gérard
Filoche's 68-98, Histoire sans fin

Dave Beech
    on Arthur C. Danto's The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the End
of Taste

Gregor Gall
    on Peter Waterman's New Internationalisms and Labour Worldwide in an Era
of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order, edited by
Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman


Historical Materialism seeks to reappropriate and refine the classical
Marxist tradition for emancipatory purposes. It promotes a genuine and open
dialogue between individuals working in different traditions of Marxism and
encourages an interdisciplinary, international debate between researchers
and academics. Historical Materialism sees itself as encouraging a new
generation of Marxist writers and researchers. Future issues will focus on
Africa, fantasy, the visual arts, Empire, anticapitalism, film, dialectics,
the American working class, modes of production, sexuality and postcolonial
fascism.


Now published by Brill Academic Publishers


EDITORS:
MATTHEW BEAUMONT
EMMA BIRCHAM
PAUL BLACKLEDGE
MARK BOULD
SEBASTIAN BUDGEN
DAE-OUP CHANG
ALEJANDRO COLÁS
ALAN JOHNSON
ESTHER LESLIE
MARTIN MCIVOR
CHINA MIÉVILLE
PAUL REYNOLDS
GREGORY SCHWARTZ
PARIS YEROS
CONTACT: HM@LSE.AC.UK


ADVISORY BOARD:
AIJAZ AHMAD (New Delhi), HAMZA ALAVI (Karachi), GREG ALBO (Toronto), ROBERT
ALBRITTON (Toronto), ELMAR ALTVATER (Berlin), GIOVANNI ARRIGHI (Baltimore),
CHRIS ARTHUR (Brighton), JAIRUS BANAJI (Bombay), COLIN BARKER (Manchester),
DANIEL BENSAĎD (Paris), HENRY BERNSTEIN (London), PATRICK BOND
(Johannesburg), WERNER BONEFELD (York), ROBERT BRENNER (Los Angeles), SIMON
BROMLEY (Leeds), MICHAEL BURAWOY (Berkeley), PAUL BURKETT (Terre Haute),
PETER BURNHAM (Warwick), TERRY BYRES (London), ALEX CALLINICOS (York),
GUGLIELMO CARCHEDI (Amsterdam), ALAN CARLING (Bradford), VIVEK CHIBBER (New
York), ANDREW CHITTY (Sussex),SIMON CLARKE (Warwick), DAVID COATES (Reynolda
Station), ANDREW COLLIER (Southampton), GEORGE COMNINEL (Toronto), MIKE
DAVIS (Los Angeles), RICHARD B. DAY (Toronto), MICHAEL DENNING (Yale), FRANK
DEPPE (Marburg), ARIF DIRLIK (Eugene), GÉRARD DUMÉNIL (Paris), TERRY
EAGLETON (Manchester), GREGORY ELLIOTT (London), BEN FINE (London), ROBERT
FINE (Warwick), JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER (Eugene), ALAN FREEMAN (London), NORMAN
GERAS (Manchester), MARTHA GIMENEZ (Boulder), MAURICE GODELIER(Paris), PETER
GOWAN (London), IRFAN HABIB (Aligarh), JOHN HALDON (Birmingham), DAVID
HARVEY (New York), WOLFGANG-FRITZ HAUG (Berlin), COLIN HAY (Birmingham),
MICHAEL HEINRICH (Berlin), JOHN HOLLOWAY (Mexico City), FREDRIC JAMESON
(Duke), BOBJESSOP (Lancaster), GEOFFREY KAY (London), JOHN KELLY (London),
RAY KIELY (London), STATHIS KOUVELAKIS (Paris), MARK LAFFEY (London), DAVID
LAIBMAN (NewYork), COSTAS LAPAVITSAS (London), NEIL LARSEN (Davis), NEIL
LAZARUS (Warwick), MICHAEL LEBOWITZ (Vancouver), ANDREW LEVINE (Madison),
DOMINIQUE LÉVY (Paris), MARCEL VAN DER LINDEN (Amsterdam), PETER LINEBAUGH
(Toledo), DOMENICOLOSURDO (Urbino), MICHAEL LÖWY (Paris), JOE MCCARNEY
(Brighton), DAVID MCNALLY (Toronto), SCOTT MEIKLE (Glasgow), PETER MEIKSINS
(Cleveland), ISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS (Brighton), WARREN MONTAG (Los Angeles), KIM
MOODY (New York), FRED MOSELEY (Mount Holyoke), FRANCIS MULHERN (Middlesex),
PATRICK MURRAY (Omaha), BERTELL OLLMAN (New York), JOHN O'NEILL
(Lancaster),WILLIAM PIETZ (Los Angeles), KEES VAN DER PIJL (Sussex), CHARLES
POST (New York), MOISHE POSTONE (Chicago), HELMUT REICHELT (Bremen), GEERT
REUTEN(Amsterdam), JOHN ROBERTS (London), JUSTIN ROSENBERG (Sussex), MARK
RUPERT (Syracuse), ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO (London), SUMITSARKAR (Delhi), SEAN
SAYERS (Kent), THOMAS SEKINE (Tokyo), ANWAR SHAIKH (New York), JENS
SIEGELBERG (Hamburg), HAZELSMITH (Warwick), NEIL SMITH (New York), TONY
SMITH (Iowa), HILLEL TICKTIN (Glasgow), ANDRÉ TOSEL (Nice), ENZO
TRAVERSO (Paris), LISE VOGEL (Lawrenceville), ALAN WALD (Ann Arbor), RICHARD
WALKER (Los Angeles), JOHN WEEKS (London), CHRIS WICKHAM(Birmingham),
MICHAEL WILLIAMS (Milton Keynes), ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD (London), ERIK OLIN
WRIGHT (Madison)


Details
o Volume 10 (2002, 4 issues per year)
o ISSN 1465-4466
o List price Institutions EUR 149.- / US$ 173.-
o List price Individuals EUR 36.50 / US$ 42.-
o Price includes online subscription

Why Historical Materialism now?
It is thirteen years since the implosion of 'historical communism' and the
triumphal proclamation of capitalism as the natural terminus of world
history. As neo-liberal strategies continue their work of global
accumulation and exploitation, the invincibility of the world market has
been assumed by all sides of the political spectrum. But while this new
global order is thus marked by an unprecedented unity of appearance, in
reality sharp differences and deepening inequalities persist, both between
states and within societies. For the world today is increasingly driven by
the political, economic and social contradictions which capitalist
development brings in its wake. To those on the margins of the world
economy, the effects of being left out are devastating: poverty, starvation
and civil war are widespread. Meanwhile in the advanced countries, the
pursuit of global competition for investment and the related internal
restructuring of the state have discredited even moderate Keynesian policies
and social reformism. Thus, despite the production of ever greater surplus
wealth, the numbers of those in poverty keep growing; and the vast majority
remain excluded from any meaningful power. And yet against this backdrop,
capitalism itself has been absolved of responsibility, and there has been a
retreat from any fundamental critique. One of the most effective arguments
in the hands of political and economic elates in enforcing domestically
unpopular policies is that international, 'globalising' capitalism has
become our 'fate' in a qualitatively new sense. It is this disabling eclipse
of social imagination, manifested in the almost universal assumption of a
continuing capitalist future that Historical Materialism seeks to counter.

Theoretical orientation
Motivated by a vision of society free of exploitation and domination, the
journal sets out from the conviction that classical Marxism provides the
richest framework for analysing the making and unmaking of social phenomena.
Its aim is to build upon that tradition, drawing on and debating the diverse
contributions of its various strands. We believe that the explanatory power
of classical Marxism derives above all from two key elements. The first of
these elements is the epistemology of the Theses on Feuerbach, especially
its unity of theory and practice. Marx famously said that 'philosophers have
only interpreted the world, the point is to change it'. In other words, the
most incisive interpretations of the world are those which are harnessed to
practical efforts to transform it. The second key element is Marxism's
recognition of the centrality of class relations and social struggle which
result from historically specific modes of surplus appropriation and
domination. The key to understanding history lies in relating the systemic
forces inherent in capitalist and other class societies, with the
experiences of their agents. From this dialectical antagonism of subject and
object arises historical change.
Aware of the deformations and instrumentalisations of Marxism, we believe
that Marx's dictum in the Eighteenth Brumaire that 'the tradition of all the
dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living' must
be critically applied to Marxism itself as an intellectual and political
tradition. Far from being a theoretical monolith, Marxism is necessarily an
object of continuing debate, a debate fuelled by the ever-changing
subjective experiences of people in differing social contexts, and
contingent on the objective logic of production and reproduction as embedded
in specific social relations. We propose that the regeneration of classical
Marxism requires the recovery of human agency, understood both in its
objectified existence which reproduces dominant social relations, and in its
disruptive, and potentially emancipator forms.

Working principles
The journal maintains two fundamental working principles:

Interdisciplinarity
When the study of natural and social life is fragmented into discrete
disciplines, the potential for comprehending the shape of the whole is
weakened. This modern division of intellectual labour arose with the
emergence of capitalism and its concomitant differentiation of society.
Society is not, however, composed of different spheres of action, separately
pursuing their own self-reproductive logics. Rather, one relation dominates
and takes an exploitative form in class societies - that 'twofold relation'
through which people organise their collective interaction with the natural
world in order to transform it according to their needs: the relation of
production. The historically specific forms of this relation affect all
dimensions of social life, which have in the modern period become
differentiated in new ways. The task must be to take self-reflexive account
of these historical differentiations without naturalising and reifying their
separation and content. It is therefore necessary to continue the critique
of ideology and oppose the compartmentalisation of knowledge. Historical
Materialism will encourage the systematic integration and
cross-fertilisation of various fields of knowledge in concrete analyses.

Marxist pluralism
Historical Materialism will seek to create a forum for debate between those
working in different Marxist traditions. The journal will also engage with
non-Marxist contributions which constructively criticise Marxist theorems
and attempt alternative explanations of social phenomena. The journal is not
aligned with any particular tendency or party and aims to ensure that
political differences are neither simply repressed nor asserted a priori,
but can emerge as a result of substantive theoretical enquiry.


'The birth of Historical Materialism was a major event not only because it
provides a unique forum for non-sectarian Marxist debate but also because it
represents a change in the wind a really promising sign of socialist
renewal.'
- - Ellen Meiksins Wood

'Historical Materialism provides exactly what is needed today: a Marxist
antidote to postmodern and similar fashions. It is one of the few journals
in English actually turned towards the future - one of the few journals in
which a progressive theorist can publish without secretly feeling ashamed!'
- - Slavoj Zizek

'Historical Materialism is already among the most highly regarded journals
in Marxian theory published in any language. In an age of increasing
specialization it is committed to high quality articles from across a broad
range of disciplines. If a resurgence of Marxian thinking occurs in the
twenty-first century Historical Materialism will deserve a good part of the
credit.'
- - Tony Smith


Research agenda
The journal encourages research into four broad and, we stress,
non-exclusive areas.
Firstly, at the very heart of the Marxist tradition is the theorisation of
history, class struggle and revolution. Within the wider ambit of the
Marxist theory of social change, we invite contributions of a historical and
theoretical nature which investigate the nexus between class conflict, and
social and political movements. Furthermore we encourage studies which
address Marxist conceptualisations of revolution.
Secondly, the development of historical materialism involves an attempt to
fathom and revitalise the elements which remain fundamental in the Marxist
tradition. We therefore welcome studies which survey recent attempts to
re-appropriate and redefine Marxism for contemporary social science. Areas
which could be covered within this context include: the clarification of
core concepts and theorems such as work on variations in Marxist method and
epistemology, as well as studies on the history and historiography of
Marxism itself.
The third area of study is provided by the uneven and contradictory
universalisation of capitalism, and its international political economy.
Here we envisage debate on the geographical expansion of capitalism, its
incorporation of other social structures, and the politics of resistance to
these processes. We invite work on the historical relationship between the
state and the economy, and that between fragmented political authority and
the world market. The complexity of the historical genesis of capitalist
modernity requires that the arguably neglected themes of war/geopolitics,
diplomacy, trade, migration, strategies of exploitation, conjunctures of
crisis, questions of globalisation, and the latest round of neoliberal
orthodoxy must be within the scope of Marxist scholarship. Furthermore, we
welcome single country or area studies which combine the explanation of
conjunctural contexts within the perspective of long-term economic, social
and political developments.
In the fourth area we aim to confront the challenges of post-Marxist
critique, the claim that the allegedly totalising and class-reductionist
premises of Marxism hinder comprehension of important questions concerning
gender, racism, ecology, culture and aesthetics. We recognise the need for
constructive engagement with these issues and encourage studies into their
historical constitution, and their relation to the reproduction of
capitalist society as a whole. Space will also be provided for the critical
exploration and development of the classical themes of ideology and
consciousness in which discussion of the above issues were prefigured.

Editorial policy
Historical Materialism aims to be neither a traditional academic journal
locked into the career structure of a particular discipline, nor a platform
for the exhibition of a particular 'line' on the intellectual Left by the
already established. We welcome submission of work by graduate students and
younger researchers.
The journal also intends to maintain a broad international awareness and
will actively encourage contributions from a non-anglophone public. These
could take the form of introducing country-specific Marxist debates and
issues to a primarily English-speaking readership, or the presentation or
discussion of major new or as yet untranslated publications.
Operating from these principles, the journal hopes to display the ongoing
power and commitment of historical materialism - both as a method of
analysis capable of providing explanation adequate to the world we inhabit,
and as an inspiration to human potential and practical action.


'Historical Materialism demonstrates that Marxist analysis is not merely
alive, but thriving again as the contradictions of globalisation generate
economic, social and cultural tensions which mainstream analysis cannot
account for.'
- - John Weeks

'Historical Materialism is an excellent journal providing a unique forum for
serious intellectual work about every aspect of Marxism. The quality of the
first issues surpassed expectations. The journal is essential reading for
anyone with an interest in this field.'
- - Sean Sayers


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