It was a pleasure to discuss the emergence of a multipolar world on the Activist News Network.
Interview: How the Left Should Analyze the Rise of a Multipolar World, China, Russia & BRICS
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Online Lecture: “Ideology, Art & Class Struggle”
I am honored to have been invited to share my research in the speaker series at The Center for the Study of Theory & Criticism on October 5th (details below).
Interview on Intellectuals and Insurgency
It was a real pleasure to discuss my current research on the podcast “Millennials Are Killing Capitalism.” We talk about the hegemonic promotion of radical recuperators by the global theory industry vs the repression of organic revolutionary intellectuals & much more. The conversation revolves around and further expands my recent article in Monthly Review, “The Myth of 68 Thought & the French Intelligentsia.”
“The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia” in Monthly Review
I am very honored that an article I worked on for years, “The Myth of 1968 & the French Intelligentsia,” was just published in Monthly Review.
Abstract
This article critically examines the widespread assumption that there is such a profound connection between French theory and the political events of 1968 that the former merits the title of “68 thought.” It begins by a materialist analysis of the historical relationship between the most prominent representatives of French theory—ranging from Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida to Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Lacan—and the actual political events unfolding at the time. After demonstrating their distance from the major political mobilizations, which often included an overt rejection of them, the article turns to the larger cultural question of the ways in which the myth of 68 thought was produced, as well as to the issue of its social function in the global theory industry. It is in this light that it proposes an analysis of the historical commodity fetishism around 68, before concluding with a critical assessment of how the presumed radicality of “68 thinkers” serves to police the left border of critique.
Book Launch for Carlos Garrido
It was a real pleasure to participate in the book launch for Carlos Garrido’s “The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism” along with Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman, Thomas Riggins, Gabriel Rockhill, Noah Khrachvik, and Eddie Liger.
Interviewed by “India & the Global Left”
It was a pleasure to speak with Jyotishman Mudiar on “India & Global Left” about my research on the global theory industry, anti-communism, identity politics, fascism, and the international struggle for socialism. The episode is entitled “Prof. Rockhill on Postmodernism, Socialism, Identity Politics & Fascism.”
Interviewed on “American Exception”
It was a pleasure to discuss my research on the global theory industry and the U.S. national security state with Aaron Good. The episode is entitled “Operation Pomo.”
Interview in Georgian for “42 Parallel”
It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Bakar Berekashvili for the journal 42 Parallel (the interview is dubbed in Georgian).
Interviewed on the Barricades
I had a very productive conversation with Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski for “On the Barricades.” We discussed the history of the global theory industry, anti-communist efforts to shore up the compatible Left, the dynamics of cultural imperialism and their relationship to right-wing opportunism, the rise of fascism, the place of China in contemporary geopolitics, the limits of Freudo-Marxism and intellectual syncretism, Žižek’s record of selling out the people for the advancement of his own career, and more.
Interviewed on “The East Is a Podcast”
I had an opportunity to sit down with Sina for an episode of “The East Is a Podcast,” entitled “The People vs. Slavoj Žižek w/Gabriel Rockhill.” The conversation is wide ranging, so we discuss the global theory industry, the star system, intellectual opportunism, Marxism, and much more.
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