The Class Matrix, a Social Theory After the Cultural Turn

The new book is about the class matrix, a social theory after the cultural turn. We're gong to mainly discuss your book, but were also going to kind of set the scene and put this in the context of work as a whole. I had a fairly clear idea of what i wanted to do when i entered graduate school, which was i wanted to develop a marxis thought for the global south. In particular, iad wanted to work on the state. The irst book was an attempt to show that the developmental state was an instance of the bourgeois state. And we never get beyond these extraordinarily simple and obvious points in the current left because the current left is so lacking in