Chris Chitty takes this as a kind of historical rubric for looking at what he discovers are kind of regular moments of state repression. He's very careful not to call it homosexuality at the beginning because that isn't quite the categories for that to be meaningful aren't there yet. Some of what Max just outlined around this phase shift from profitable investments in productivity reaching a limit due to contradictions capital always faces. The day will come when they will allow us to produce the things that produce surplus value that forwards profit. How it goes.
Featuring Max Fox and Chris Nealon on the late Christopher Chitty's book Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System.
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Further reading:
libcom.org/article/after-fall-communiques-occupied-california
viewpointmag.com/2012/09/12/towards-a-socialist-art-of-government-michel-foucaults-the-mesh-of-power
thenewinquiry.com/blog/in-love-and-memory
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