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PR #51: The Election Issue
November 2012 Election 2012: An interview with Jill Stein Spencer A. Leonard with Edward Remus On November 3, 2012, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed 2012 Green Party candidate Jill Stein. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Spencer Leonard: You have written that, “It is time for the Left to be realistic about how [...]
11.15.12 Platypus Review № 50 release party
Join the Facebook event page. Download a larger flier for the event. NYU Kimmel Center, Room 805 60 Washington Square South Manhattan, New York 10011 Thursday // 11.15.2012 // 7:00-9:00 PM The Platypus Review recently celebrated the publication of its fiftieth issue. Come join members of the Platypus Review at a launch party to celebrate this momentous [...]
Platypus Review #50
October 2012 “These Petrified Relations Must be Forced to Dance”: An Interview with Dick Howard by Douglas La Rocca and Spencer A. Leonard On August 22, 2012, Douglas La Rocca and Spencer A. Leonard of Platypus interviewed Dick Howard, professor emeritus at Stony Brook University and the author of The Specter of Democracy: What Marx [...]
Platypus Review #46
May 2012 Marx and Liberalism: An interview with Domenico Losurdo Pam C. Nogales C. and Ross Wolfe On March 17, 2012, Ross Wolfe and Pam Nogales of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed Domenico Losurdo, the author, most recently, of Liberalism: A Counter-History (2011). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation… Changes [...]
Platypus Review #44
March 2012 What is the #Occupy movement? An roundtable discussion Late in 2011, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series of roundtable debates on the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. Speakers at the event held on December 9, 2011 at New York University included Hannah Appel (OWS Think Tank Working Group), Erik Van Deventer (NYU), Nathan [...]
Platypus Review #43: feat. David Graeber on OWS
February 2012 The movement as an end-in-itself? An interview with David Graeber by Ross Wolfe On December 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What follows is an [...]
Platypus Review #42: Žižek on Occupy, and more!
December 2011 – January 2012 The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today: An interview with Slavoj Žižek On November 5, 2011, using questions formulated together with Chris Cutrone, Haseeb Ahmed interviewed Slavoj Žižek at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation… [...]
Platypus Review #41
Letter from Greece: Brief notes on Revolt and Crisis in Greece and the Greek situation Review of Antonis Vardis and Dimitris Dalakoglou, eds., Revolt and crisis in Greece: Between a present yet to pass and a future still to come (Oakland: AK Press & Occupied London, 2011), by Thodoris Velissaris… Black nationalism and the [...]
Platypus Review #40
The Marxist turn: The New Left in the 1970s On May 19, 2011, Platypus invited Carl Davidson, formerly of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Guardian Weekly, Tom Riley of the International Bolshevik Tendency, and Mel Rothenberg, formerly of the Sojourner Truth Organization, to reflect on “The Marxist turn: The New Left in [...]
Platypus Review #39
The antinomy of art and politics: A critique of art as “cultural resistance” August 31st, 2011 • Related • Filed Under Chris Mansour Platypus Review 39 | September 2011 [PDF] At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University between March 18–21, Platypus hosted a conversation on the theme of Aesthetics in Protests. Panelists Stephen Duncombe (Reclaim the Streets), Marc Herbst (Journal of Aesthetics [...]
Platypus Review #36
After Hegel: An interview with Robert Pippin Omair Hussain On March 14, 2011, Omair Hussain publicly interviewed Robert Pippin, on behalf of Platypus, at an event titled On the Possibility of What Isn’t at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Robert Pippin is a professor on the Committee on Social Thought and in [...]
Platypus Review issue #35
The May 2011edition of the Platypus Review is now available in print and on the web. Unionism, austerity, and the Left: An interview with Sam Gindin Trotsky’s Marxism: “The point, however, is to change it” Marxism and Israel: Left perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Lenin’s Marxism Articles in the Platypus Review will typically range [...]
The Platypus Review Issue 30
The Platypus Review Issue 30 is now available for your reading pleasure. This month we have: Up in the Air: The Legacy of the New Communist Movement Spencer Leonard interviews Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che, on the turn to “Marxism-Leninism” in the New Left. [...]
PR 28: October 2010
The Platypus Review Issue 28 | September 2010 History and possibility: An interview with Noam Chomsky Vaughn A. Cartwright and Emmanuel J. Tellez On July 29, 2010, Vaughn Cartwright and Emmanuel Tellez interviewed Noam Chomsky, prolific author and activist, on behalf of the Platypus Review, to discuss the history of the Left and the state [...]
PR 27: September 2010
The Platypus Review Issue 27 | September 2010 Ideology and the student left Will Klatt, Luis Brennan, Aaron Petcoff, and Ashley Weger A transcript of a panel hosted by Platypus at the U.S. Social Forum in June of this year, on the nature of student politics and the role of ideology in organizing on campus. With [...]
Platypus Review #19
Ian Morrison interviews Homayoun Pourzad, a representative for the Network of Iranian Labor Unions, on the current crisis and the effects of “anit-imperial” ideologies on understanding the character of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Benjamin M. Blumberg discusses the history of the American Left and the still unmet challenge of theorizing and abolishing race and [...]
The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century : Toward a Theory of Historical Regression
The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century : Toward a Theory of Historical Regression A Platypus Review Special Edition (issue 17: November, 2009) Based on a panel discussion held by Platypus at Pace University last year, The Platypus Review traces in this special issue the slow death of the Left in our time, precisely [...]
Hot off the press: Platypus Review #16
Recall how Red Chicago was, a book review of Randi Storch’s new history. Read about (and listen to) drone music. Smell your way to Rosa Luxemburg’s corpse and the decaying left in Germany. Learn about Unite Here’s recent civil disobedience action in downtown Chicago. And check out a review of a new take on Adorno’s philosophy and intellectual life.
Contributors to this issue’s stories: Ashley Weger, Bret Schneider, Jerzy Sobotta, Laurie Rojas, and Haseeb Ahmed