Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Past Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
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If you haven’t read this essay on why paternity testing Olivia Rodrigo’s new music misses the point completely, what are you doing? It’s Sunday! Read it now!
“money is no object; money happens”
It’s #ModWrite Monday! Let us know what you’re working on (while hopefully keeping cool) 📖☀️
That one time he let the cat out of the bag.
Check out Vol 1, No 1 of Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice
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If you haven’t read this yet, fix that as soon as possible: it’s a beautifully crafted response to a great album. And if you teach literature, you might want to consider using the second and third paragraphs as an example of how close reading works.
The "barter myth," as Jakob Feinig explains in his introduction to this translation, "allows value to be conceived as prior to monetary institutions, creating the conditions for modern theories of value grounded in labor, utility, or scarcity."
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"[T]he barter myth is a theoretical coup de force against prior, openly political, conceptions of social life."
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By Rob Hawkes Last year, I gave a talk on literature, money, and trust in George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) which the MotL Editorial Collective kindly shared as a podcast. Gissing’s novel tel…
