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Articles by Max Fox
Publishing and Political Culture
Newsboys on a stoop, Wilmington, Delaware (1910) | Lewis Wickes Hine via trialsanderrors / CC BY 2.0 DEED On February 16, 2024, The New School’s Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism (CPCJ) and Woodbine Research Center presented a discussion on the role of radical politics in publishing.
Free the Children
An ominous political coalition has emerged in recent years, orchestrated by the reactionary right. This coalition has mobilized fascists and liberals alike to defend a vision of sex and society that many liberals imagine they might reject if it were stated plainly. As of April, more than 494 bills have been introduced in 47 states to restrict access to medical resources needed for youth transition or to compel schools to out trans children.
The Club Q Massacre and the New Culture of Lynching
In July 1920, the editorial page of The Washington Progress, a North Carolina newspaper, took up the problem of lynching and laid the blame squarely on Black people.
The Traffic in Children — Parapraxis
In Texas earlier this year, the governor told the Family Protective Services department to investigate and threaten with child abuse prosecution any parents who sought gender-affirming care for their children.
Learning From the “Bad Gays” of History
Along with the historic rate of youth LGBTQ+ identification—20.8 percent of Gen Z respondents answered a Gallup poll affirmatively last year—a remarkable feature of the contemporary sexual order is the ready availability of popular histories of queer activism. This arms present conflicts over gender and sexuality with a sense of how long the fight has been prepared for, and a lineage of dignified predecessors in struggle to join.
Cashed Out | Max Fox
The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán. Elliott & Thompson, 320 pages. In 1950, still new to Rome, the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was on the Ponte Garibaldi when he encountered a boy selling roasted chestnuts.
The history of patrolling sex in public
The history of patrolling sex in public Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall BY Anna Lvovsky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 360 pages. $35. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon AN AWFUL DISCOURSE now heralds spring.
Mourning and Marginalia: Editing the Work of Christopher Chitty
NOVEMBER 26, 2020 IN SEXUAL HEGEMONY, the late Christopher Chitty (1983–2015) writes a 500-year history of sexuality under capitalism. The book represents the scope and rigor of Chitty’s nearly complete dissertation, edited by his friend and comrade Max Fox in the years after Chitty’s suicide in 2015. In the process of editing the manuscript, Fox worked with another of Chitty’s close friends, Madeline Lane-McKinley, and together they are currently producing a second anthology of Chitty’s writings.
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.
Glycomine Lands $33 Million for Trials of Therapy for Rare Genetic Disorder
With a goal to stamp out a rare disease that takes the lives of about one-fifth of the children it affects, biotechnology company Glycomine is finding deep-pocketed support from investors including Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk.
Global Tax Chiefs Increase Crypto Enforcement Efforts to Nail Tax Cheats
In a sure sign that cryptocurrency is close to becoming mainstream, governments around the world are stepping up efforts to make sure they get their cut of the action. The tax enforcement agencies of the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands — the so-called Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement — are cracking down on tax evasion among cryptocurrency holders.
For Calvert, It’s 2007 All Over Again as Securitization Returns to Microfinance Deals
Calvert Impact Capital veered off the beaten path with its latest impact investment — buying a stake in a $175 million pool of loans made to fund microfinance borrowers. Calvert, part of Eaton Vance Corp., bought the stake in the loan securitization, also known as a collateralized loan obligation, sold by responsAbility Investments AG. The $175 million will provide capital to 26 microfinance institutions and small and medium enterprise banks in emerging markets.
In Search of Brooklyn’s Queer Past
When I moved to New York, it was to Brooklyn, like a good millennial queer, in part in search of a sexual community I felt I was missing. But the job I’d found was in Manhattan and I began to explore the city for signs of entry. It struck me as strange, as I walked from one bar in the West Village to another in the East, how the community I was seeking seemed only to exist in a few institutions between these few avenues, and from there had radiated across the world to call me to it.
Max Fox presents Guy Hocquenghem's "The Amphitheater of the Dead"
In conversation with Todd Shepard, JHU scholar of imperialism and sexuality. The Amphitheater of the Dead is a lightly science-fictionalized memoir by the French thinker Guy Hocquenghem, written in the last months of his life with the intention of prolonging it. “Writing saves,” he writes. “Each time that I started work on a book, I knew I would get to the end.
Old Bones - The New Inquiry
Paleontology was crucial to the settlement of the American West Anna Zett’s videos handle the absurdity of science, technology, and history with a deadpan gravity that can make their subject’s tragicomedy even more striking when you catch it. Zett’s reverence for her objects of inquiry—the afterwords and underworlds of modernity, in her words—extends to treating them playfully.
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In Memory, Chris Chitty
Our brilliant friend Chris Chitty passed away in his home in Santa Cruz, California, yesterday. He was a comrade, a theorist, and a loving presence in many lives. He will be deeply missed. Towards a Socialist Art of Government: Michel Foucault’s “The Mesh of Power”
Enigma Deviations
Two years ago, Gareth Williams was found naked and decomposing, padlocked inside a duffel bag in the bathroom of his London apartment. He had been employed as a codebreaker for the Government Communications Headquarters (Britain’s NSA counterpart), so the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service met with the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police before investigations into his death began to ensure that any of the sensitive materials he’d had access to wouldn’t be compromised.
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