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HENRI LEFEBVRE AND ADVENTURES WITH ‘PHILOSOPHIES’ REVUE

Posted on November 9, 2026 by Andy Merrifield

Something thrilling arrived in the mail a little while ago—in the snail mail, I mean, the real post: a complete set of the 1920s French revue Philosophies, purchased from a Roman antiquarian bookseller at considerable cost (don’t ask how much!), … Continue reading →

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PARALLEL UNIVERSES

Posted on June 4, 2026 by Andy Merrifield

For a long while, I’ve had a peculiar fantasy of bringing volume two of Marx’s Capital into dialogue with James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. I’ve always thought both books existed in a strange parallel universe, where capital courses alongside the Joycean riverrun, the river … Continue reading →

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GRAMSCI, DEAD AND ALIVE

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Andy Merrifield

The final week in April was a biggie in the Gramsci calendar at Rome’s Non-Catholic cemetery. The 25th was “Liberation Day,” a national holiday here in Italy, commemorating the victory of the nation’s Resistance movement against Nazi Germany and an … Continue reading →

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GRAMSCI AND HIS FRIEND ‘S’

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Andy Merrifield

I was in New York recently, where I once lived, some twenty-years back, there to visit my old friend and mentor, my old university teacher—and now he is old—an 88-year-old David Harvey, the world-renowned Marx scholar. I hadn’t seen him … Continue reading →

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