Adorno's Marxism
University of Chicago Doctoral Dissertation
[abstract]    [Adorno epigraphs: dissertation tasks and project]    [proposal presentation]

Adorno in 1969
Adorno's Marxism and the problem and legacy of the 1960s Left in theory and practice

(approx. 8,000 words)
October, 2006
[Univ. Chicago Social Theory Workshop paper]   [Rethinking Marxism 2006 conference paper]

Adorno and Benjamin's Philosophy of History
The challenge of the history of the Left to the progressive view of history

(approx. 9,000 words)
May, 2008
[abstract]   [Univ. Chicago History of Culture symposium presentation paper]   [Rethinking Marxism 2009 conference paper]

Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
(approx. 5,000 words)
September, 2009
[PDF manuscript] [PDF abridged layout] [HTML The Platypus Review #15 (September, 2009)]
Rejoinder [PDF manuscript] [HTML The Platypus Review #20 (February, 2010)]
Historical Materialism Toronto 2010 conference paper [PDF]

Adorno's Marxism — theory-practice:
Gillian Rose's "Hegelian" critique of Marxism
The origins of Adorno's Marxism
Lenin and Luxemburg in 1917 — Lukács and Korsch in 1923
Adorno and Korsch on Marxism and philosophy

(approx. 16,000 words)
February, 2010
[Univ. Chicago Social Theory Workshop paper]

Book review: Gillian Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology
(approx. 5,000 words)
March, 2010
[PDF manuscript] [PDF layout] [HTML The Platypus Review #21 (March, 2010)]

Adorno and Freud:
The relation of Freudian psychoanalysis to Marxist critical social theory

(approx. 3,000 words)
April/May, 2010
[PDF manuscript] [PDF layout] [HTML The Platypus Review #24 (June, 2010)]

The Failure of the Islamic Revolution
The nature of the present crisis in Iran

(approx. 4,000 words)
August, 2009
International Journal of Žižek Studies 3.4 (2009) [PDF]

The Child with a Lion
The utopia of interracial intimacy

Fictive-autobiographical essay on black/white interracial male homosexuality.
(approx. 15,000 words)
March, 2000
GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies 6.2 (Spring, 2000): 249-285 [HTML] [PDF] [PDF layout]
[5/27/02 discussion notes]

Photography as Art: Art as Photography
The ambiguous legacy of Walter Benjamin's writing on photography

Critical essay on postmodernist appropriation of Walter Benjamin's writings on photography.
(approx. 10,000 words)
November, 1998
University of Chicago Art History Master's thesis

"A Feast of Scraps"
Glenn Ligon's art, photography and the social history of blackness in America

Critical essay on photographic works by black gay visual artist Glenn Ligon.
(approx. 4,000 words)
January, 1996 and April, 2003