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Articles by Dominick Knowles
Nothing is over; everything ends: in memory of Joshua Clover (1962-2025)
Unlike so many writers who have memorialized Joshua over the past few months, I cannot lay claim to intimate friendship. I have no moving stories about him stealing transphobic TPUSA signs or confronting Oakland PD at a demo, no firsthand experience with his extraordinary organizing and pedagogical capabilities, no cherished memories from Marx Camp. Despite our having, at minimum, a dozen mutual friends, Joshua and I never even met in person.
Class War: A Conversation with Mark Steven
Class War: A Literary History is now available from Verso Books. ♦♦♦ Dominick Knowles: To my mind, one of the most important features of Class War is how it explodes the category of what counts as “literature” to include letters, slogans, field manuals, etc. from various revolutionary movements. Obviously, that kind of re-imagining has been done before in scholarly, popular, and creative texts—I think here of Virginia Jackson’s Dickinson’s Misery and M.
A Spectre in Every Street: George Oppen and the Poetics of Communism
Robert Duncan, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and Carl Rakosi Communist Verse Just after publishing his first book, Discrete Series (1934), the American modernist George Oppen abandoned poetry and joined the Communist Party. The significance of this abandonment – the apparent antagonism it implies – raises difficult questions about the social utility of poetry, troubling the intersection of literature and politics.
Viewpoint Magazine
Just after publishing his first book, Discrete Series (1934), the American modernist George Oppen abandoned poetry and joined the Communist Party Pianist, composer, poet, philosopher Cecil Taylor turned sound outside in, gathering influences far and wide, reassembling them into the ever-changing grammars that defined his career and inspired others.
Somethin’ Slick Goin’ On: The Proletarian Funk of Johnny “Guitar” Watson
In 1976, Johnny “Guitar” Watson emerged from a stagnant blues career to release his first gold record, and Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics. The latter of these two events prefigured a permanent change in the American political and economic order, a symbol of the New Deal’s demise and the subsequent institutionalization of American neoliberalism. The former barely registers as a blip on our cultural radar.
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