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Articles by Christopher Chitty
The Dutch Disease of Homosexuality
This is an excerpt from Christopher Chitty's new book Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. Read editor Max Fox's introduction to it here.
Duke University Press - Sexual Hegemony
Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System Share Book Pages: 240 Illustrations: 5 illustrations Published: August 2020 Subjects Gender and Sexuality > Queer Theory, Theory and Philosophy > Marxism In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality.
Reassessing Foucault: Modern Sexuality and the Transition to Capitalism
Caravaggio, The Cardsharps In love and memory of Chris Chitty, our dear friend and brilliant comrade, who read this paper aloud at Historical Materialism New York four years ago. Are the premises of queer theory really antithetical to a historical materialist understanding of the origins of capitalism?
Foucault’s Addendum - The New Inquiry
Eugène Atget, Masque Antique, 1910 Finally published, Foucault's lecture notes from 1970–71, his first year teaching at the Collège de France, demolish the caricatures of his thought On the first page of the lecture notes of January 27, 1971, Michel Foucault scrawled "incomplete" in his notoriously undisciplined hand.
Towards a Socialist Art of Government: Michel Foucault’s “The Mesh of Power”
Introduction | Translation | Original How surprising the events of May 1968 must have seemed to Michel Foucault is suggested by a remark made to his life-long partner Daniel Defert in January of that year, following his nomination for a faculty position at the University of Paris Nanterre. “Strange how these students speak of their relations with profs in terms of class war.”1 Interpretations of this remark will reveal a lot about one’s received image of the late philosopher.
Scenes from Occupied Oakland
via Reuters, Stephen Lam A street-eye view of the clashes between protesters and police Keith Shannon was the picture of American pride and courage in his sailor’s whites. As plumes of tear gas and police projectiles streamed around him, he alone held the line, standing almost at attention, gripping a “Veterans for Peace” flag with his left hand while extending a copy of the U.S. Constitution—open to the First Amendment—with his right.
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