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Holden Taylor writing for @cosmonautmag.bsky.social
ICYMI: @shaneburley.bsky.social 's interview with @jamesstout.bsky.social is still live on our website.
In his critique of China Miéville's "metaphysical materialism," Spectre editor Joshua Nicholas Pineda @likableeveryman.bsky.social warns against a return to forms of mystification that modern scientific theory-and Marxism in particular-has long sought to overcome.
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Sometimes I get to write my own stuff.
In this one I try to articulate a nonreductive conception of materialism in response to China Miéville's argument for metaphysical idealism, which appeared last October in Salvage.
Ho-Fung Hung writing for @newleftreview.bsky.social .
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"[W]hile authoritarian regimes can be electorally displaced, the socioeconomic conditions that sustain them—dependency on capital, inequality, and weakened social infrastructures—pose far more durable constraints, making democratic restoration without material transformation inherently unstable."
In response to China Miéville's argument for metaphysical idealism, Joshua Nicholas Pineda articulates an antireductionist and naturalistic view of materialism.
In his critique of China Miéville's "metaphysical materialism," Spectre editor Joshua Nicholas Pineda @likableeveryman.bsky.social warns against a return to forms of mystification that modern scientific theory-and Marxism in particular-has long sought to overcome.
spectrejournal.com/naturalized-...
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Read @jamesstout.bsky.social talking about his book project for Against the State ( @akpress.org ) with @shaneburley.bsky.social .
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In response to China Miéville's argument for metaphysical idealism, Joshua Nicholas Pineda articulates an antireductionist and naturalistic view of materialism.
From Spain to Rojava to Myanmar, James Stout argues that the fiercest struggles against oppression don't just resist power—they build new ways of living together.
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Looking back at Orbánism, Anita Zsurzsán analyzes both the dangers and political opportunities for the Hungarian left in the wake of Orbán's defeat.
