scholarly journals INTELLECTUAL SHORTAGE AND THE CRISIS OF THE CAPITALIST WORLD-SYSTEM

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Petar-Emil Mitev
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Capitalist World

The Capitalist World-System and the Making of the American Working Class

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 421 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Geschwender ◽  
Lucie Cheng ◽  
Edna Bonacich
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
World System ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
American Working Class

Photography and the Development of Radical Poetics

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-64
Author(s):  
Sarah Ehlers
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
World System ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
James Agee ◽  
Visual Objects ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines Langston Hughes’s overlooked archive of photographs and scrapbooks from his 1931 trip to Haiti, arguing that Hughes’s photographic encounter with Haiti is part of the construction of a transnational vision that starts in the Caribbean and moves through the U.S. South and Mexico. Photography becomes fundamental to Hughes’s attempts to map the connectedness of persons and locales in a capitalist world system and to imagine the formation of political communities. The chapter begins by considering how Hughes’s experience of taking photographs, along with organizing them in albums and scrapbooks, generated questions about the politics of representation in his subsequent political poems. The chapter then extends these considerations to Hughes’s interwar radical verse, showing how Hughes’s encounters with visual objects continue to influence his poetry during the 1930s. The chapter closes by demonstrating how Hughes’s contemplation of the relationship between photography and writing opens up new readings of James Agee and Walker Evans’s foundational documentary text, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). Hughes’s engagements with photography place him in a developing documentary modernist tradition that pushes beyond New Deal initiatives and employs documentary in the shaping of an international public sphere.

Primitivism and Philo-primitivism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Etherington
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
World System ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

Chapter 2 advances the historical side of the argument by drawing a distinction between “philo-primitivism” and “emphatic primitivism.” It finds that the philo-primitivist ideal of the “noble savage” was the product of earlier periods of European colonial expansion when there yet existed social worlds beyond the perimeter of the capitalist world-system. As the “primitive accumulation” of noncapitalist societies accelerated, so the ideal of the primitive became entirely speculative and utopian. Emphatic primitivism’s emergence coincides with the period that political economists at the time labeled “Imperialism,” a concept explored with reference to the work of Rosa Luxemburg in particular. The chapter ends with a discussion of the notion prevalent at this time that the “primitive” was in fact the product of “civilized” sublimation. Other writers and artists discussed include John Dryden, George Catlin, Charles Darwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Peasants, States, and the Capitalist World System

1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Risto Alapuro
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Capitalist World
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