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http://t.co/8LH0ENRR is an online peer-reviewed quarterly journal of scholarship in the humanities, plus poetry, editorials, reviews, visual art and more.

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The Uses and Abuses of Manet’s Olympia

The Uses and Abuses of Manet’s Olympia

Manet’s art is about challenging what we think we know about the world: about what makes a finished picture as well as about what constitutes a politics of class, gender, and race. And doesn’t the …

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The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy

The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy

It is assumed that “thinking globally” is a moral imperative within the humanities. Is it? Among other things, it presumes a neutral space from which to expand one’s geographic purview, as though c…

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The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to BlackRock

The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to BlackRock

The central argument we make in the book, contrary to the received wisdom on the left, is that the rise of capitalist finance in the current period cannot be understood as a cause or symptom of the…

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The Theory of Immediacy or the Immediacy of Theory?

The Theory of Immediacy or the Immediacy of Theory?

At a crucial juncture in her reconstruction of Marx’s account, Kornbluh claims that “labor makes things useful, while exchange and its hypostasis in the concept of value and the medium of money is …

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Issue #48: American Finance, the Global Market for Art, and the Need for Speed

Issue #48: American Finance, the Global Market for Art, and the Need for Speed

This issue is structured around contemporary political and aesthetic debates focused on three books: The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From JP Morgan to BlackRock by Stephen Maher and Scott Aq…

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The Wrong Durée: The Politics of Cedric J. Robinson’s Racial Capitalism

Instead, a race-essentialist understanding of epistemology lies at the heart of both Robinson’s notions of racial capitalism and the black radical tradition. In the former, we find racism intrinsic…

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We absolutely do not need to figure out how to make anti-racism anti-capitalist. We need to figure out how to start trying to build a mass movement around appealing to the material needs of the broad working-class. nonsite.org/why-black-lives-…

Why Black Lives Matter Can’t be Co-opted

We absolutely do not need to figure out how to make anti-racism anti-capitalist. We need to figure out how to start trying to build a mass movement around appealing to the material needs of the bro…

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Every time a white student at Wharton checks his privilege, a venture capitalist gets her wings. Walter Benn Michaels nonsite.org/checking-your-pr…
Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Undoubtedly, economic inequality is an enormous problem in a democratic society where citizens claim to value egalitarian norms. But this puzzling juxtaposition misses some fundamental points. The …

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using “white privilege” to denote “economic privilege,” white privilege scholars sidestep questions of economic justice and focus on the well-being of rich nonwhites, ignoring poor and working-class people of color. Hadass Silver nonsite.org/checking-your-pr…
Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Undoubtedly, economic inequality is an enormous problem in a democratic society where citizens claim to value egalitarian norms. But this puzzling juxtaposition misses some fundamental points. The …

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Suggesting that attending to identity politics is what keeps us from fighting growing inequality is just barking up the wrong tree. Ashley Jardina nonsite.org/checking-your-pr…
Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Undoubtedly, economic inequality is an enormous problem in a democratic society where citizens claim to value egalitarian norms. But this puzzling juxtaposition misses some fundamental points. The …

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Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity nonsite.org/checking-your-pr…
Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Checking Your Privilege? Perspectives on the Politics of White Identity

Undoubtedly, economic inequality is an enormous problem in a democratic society where citizens claim to value egalitarian norms. But this puzzling juxtaposition misses some fundamental points. The …

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Of course we understand that "decolonize" in “decolonize your syllabus” is metaphorical, that it means diversify or “decenter,” but that does little to allay the fact that formally, rhetorically, it collapses the distinction between colonizer and colonized nonsite.org/deneocolonize-yo…

Deneocolonize Your Syllabus

It hardly needs saying that the term “decolonize” once meant something wholly different than it does now. To put it not a little too bluntly, in the heyday of the anticolonial movement it was the c…

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The NFL is Banking on Biological Racism: It is important to recognize that the NFL’s apparent use of race-based criteria for denying access to settlement compensation is a textbook example of the way that the ideology of race is designed to work in society nonsite.org/betting-on-the-g…
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Some recent coverage of the open letter to the SFUSD about their plans to destroy a WPA mural. google.com/amp/s/news.artnet… google.com/amp/s/news.artnet…
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Please consider adding your name to the letter of protest. nonsite.org/editorial/open-l… nonsite.org/editorial/open-l…
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New to nonsite, issue #27: The Nineteenth Century, Part 2, edited by Bridget Alsdorf and Marnin Young. Alex Potts, Social Theory and the Realist Impulse in Nineteenth-Century Art Hollis Clayson, The Ornamented Eiffel... nonsite.org/issues/issue-27-…

Issue #27: The Nineteenth Century (Part Two)

This is the second in a series of issues featuring new scholarship on nineteenth-century art. Edited by Bridget Alsdorf and Marnin Young. Editorial Assistant: Luke Naessens.

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New to nonsite, Adolph Reed's "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like." nonsite.org/editorial/what-m… nonsite.org/editorial/what-m…
What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like

What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like

There is no singular, transhistorical “Black Liberation Struggle” or “Black Freedom Movement,” and there never has been. Black Americans have engaged in many different forms of political expression…

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New to nonsite, issue #26: The Nineteenth Century, Part 1, edited by Bridget Alsdorf and Marnin Young. What Hegel Would Have Said About Monet, T. J. Clark Cézanne Photographic, Richard Shiff The Medical Portrait: Resisting the Shadow... nonsite.org/issues/issue-26
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Issue #25 is here, Authorship/Anti-Authorship: Legal and Aesthetic. nonsite.org/issues/issue-25-… Michael Schreyach, and his book Pollock's Modernism, enters The Tank with responses from Harry Cooper, Eva... nonsite.org/issues/issue-25-…
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New to nonsite: Issue #24, The Neoliberal Coup. Articles on the Coup in Brazil, on Theaster Gates and the current terms of artistic production, on defamiliarization, and new poetry by Brandon Kreitler. nonsite.org/issues/issue-24 nonsite.org/issues/issue-24

Issue #24: The Neoliberal Coup

Inside the issue You May Also Like Issue #20: Political and Aesthetic Post-Mortem

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