Queens Platypus http://queens.platypus1917.org - Sat, 21 May 2011 20:20:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Platypus Review Issue #35 Now Available http://queens.platypus1917.org/platypus-review-issue-35-now-available/ http://queens.platypus1917.org/platypus-review-issue-35-now-available/#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 20:18:54 +0000 editor http://queens.platypus1917.org/?p=39
The May 2011 edition of the Platypus Review is now available in print and on the web. Of particular interest to the Canadian Left is Andony Melathopoulos’s interview with Left labour intellectual, Sam Gindin.

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Which Way Forward for Sexual Liberation?
A transcript of a panel held at New York University on the possibilities for sexual liberation today. Panelists were Gary Mucciaroni, professor of Political Science at Temple University, Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism and organizer for the International Socialist Organization, Kenyon Farrow, executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, and Greg Gabrellas of Platypus.

Kashmir, Socialists, and the Right to Self-Determination
Rohini Hensman
A critique of the Left’s understanding of the problems in Kashmir today through a historical analysis of Marxism, nationalism, and the “right to self-determination.”

Platypus Review Editorial Statement of Purpose and Submission Guidelines

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Link to Winter 2011 syllabus.

]]> http://queens.platypus1917.org/reading-group-winter-2011/feed/ 0 Issue #31 of Platypus Review is out! http://queens.platypus1917.org/issue-31-of-platypus-review-is-out/ http://queens.platypus1917.org/issue-31-of-platypus-review-is-out/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:16:18 +0000 admin http://queens.platypus1917.org/?p=20 In this issue:

A transcript of a recent panel discussion about art’s relationship to “critical theory,” social theory grappling with aesthetic experience that took off as a project of Marxism in the wake of the early 20th century. Not everyone agrees though…

A review of  an edited collection of Red Army Faction radical, Ulrike Meinhof that looks at New Left print culture in West Germany and Meinhof’s importance in this milieu…

And a review of Sherry Wolf’s Sexuality and Socialism: what is the relationship of Leftists, and Marxists to demands for sexual freedom–and what does this have to do with current LGBT politics?

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