Near the concluding sections of Talks at the Yenan Forum of Literature and Art, Mao speaks of political positions which prevent communist cadre from fully engaging in the critical-artistic practice. He says that since they are still confused or uneducated, they tow an incorrect line of engagement. Mao makes many solvent points. Moreover, the points he…
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Abstract-1: Talks at the Yenan Forum for Art and Literature
In Talks at the Yenan Forum for Art and Literature, Mao asks the audience to examine their relationship between the artistic fields and revolutionary work. Ultimately, he speaks of attitude and remarks that “The problem of attitude. From one’s stand there follow specific attitudes towards specific matters. For instance, is one to extol or to expose? This is…
Abstract-0: Introduction to Red Criticism
As someone with an interest in literature and criticism, but also as someone who is a revolutionary communist, Marxist criticism, and theory, specifically in the Humanities, plays a major role in my thought. Or, one would at least think that it would play a major role. Truthfully, I have spent the last few years since…
On Gaming: A Revolutionary Perspective on Modern Gaming
This was the second major piece I had written for the now-defunct Kasama Project. I enjoyed writing this piece since it enabled me to come further into textual criticism at a time when it was still new to me. The piece deconstructs the reactionary, and sometimes progressive, elements of modern video games while positing a…
Postmodernity Ahoy! (PT14)
Chapter 14: “Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” by Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson represents the other side of the postmodern coin: he is a Marxist who, in true dialectical fashion, emphasizes the good and the bad within any given scenario or development; to this end, while critiquing postmodernism he places his critique…
Origin of the Negative Dialectic by Susan Buck-Morss (Short Review)
Dialectics is a tricky subject. Why? Because it is a dense philosophical subject. Plato, after all, may have invented the concept but Hegel and Marx popularized it and from this popularity sprouted off-shoots which, as off-shoot often do, build on, invert, and complicate the theory until it takes a megamind to comprehend the structure. Enter…
The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
As it may be gleamed from Eagleton’s political affiliation, he is no friend to non-materialist ideological discourses. So “postmodernism/ postmodernity” is pinned to his shit-list like you or I hold onto our grocery list. The prose of his 1996 short book, The Illusions of Postmodernism, attest to this fact; fiery language intermixes with an unrelenting,…
The Pop Culture Coup 