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Category Archives: All blogs
The Madhouse and the Whole Thing There: A Note on Amateurs and Professionals
I’m still tinkering around with this theme of “amateurs” and “professionals.” I’m writing a longer piece, which I’ve filed under my “Work in Progress” rubric, but I wanted to share a little extract here of where my head is currently … Continue reading
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Tagged Althusser, amateurs, Bazarov, Edward Said, Guy Debord, professional ideology, professionals, seven types of ambiguity, the spectacle, William Empson
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Vernacular Values: Remembering Ivan Illich
By Andy Merrifield I’ve been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest who denounced the Vatican, a … Continue reading
James Joyce’s Lifewand
A version of this article was previously published in December 2013 at the antipode foundation By Andy Merrifield “He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak” – James Joyce One of the great humanist visions of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizenship, Finnegans Wake, Here Comes Everybody, James Joyce
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Urban Questions: Personal and Political Interrogations
In 1977, when Manuel Castells’ classic book, The Urban Question, was first put into English, I’d been a year out of high school, in Liverpool. It was five years after its original French publication, four years since an OPEC oil … Continue reading
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Tagged Liverpool, Louis Althusser, Manuel Castells, Margaret Thatcher, social reproduction
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