Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

There are many ways to understand the tendency roiling liberal-democratic politics in recent years, from the outcome of the Brexit vote and the presidency of Donald Trump to the surge in support for ...

For philosophy majors, cultural theorists and anyone interested in a Marxist/Lacanian perspective on popular culture, watching “Zizek!” will be like attending basketball camp led by Michael Jordan.

Throughout the history of what we know as sociological theory, there has been a fundamental tension between the quest for scientifically universal knowledge ...

Key specifics of how it worked with the Tree of Life massacre have been laid out clearly by Adam Serwer at the Atlantic, with a subhead that sums it up succinctly: “The president and his supporters ...

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