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Catherine Liu

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Putting the Marxism Back Into “Cultural Marxism”

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By Catherine Liu
| Jacobin Verified
Interview by Ben Burgis Catherine Liu is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. She’s the author of several books, most recently Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class and the forthcoming Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering. In the last few years, she’s emerged as a razor-sharp and compelling critic of identity politics and middle-class liberalism, and a champion of a renewed materialist left politics.
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A Picture of Health

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By Catherine Liu
| Ocula Ltd
Lit by the cold fluorescence of 21st-century institutional medicine, human illness and raw suffering, medical drama The Pitt, which premiered last year, sweeps viewers into the relentless rhythm of an urban emergency room. The television series, set in the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, has garnered most of the major awards and nominations to which prestige television can aspire, including a raft of Emmys and Golden Globes—with more likely to come.
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Womb with a View

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By Catherine Liu
| Ocula Ltd
Who doesn’t love a one-set film with protagonists on doomed missions, trapped in a faulty piece of technology? When my son was aged around six or seven and I was shuttling him around Southern California’s child hotspots, I played the David Bowie song Space Oddity so often that my boy knew almost all the lyrics to a ballad about a junkie floating around in a space capsule, losing touch with “ground control” even as he merges with the cosmos in a drug-induced fever dream.
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