Abolition Geography, Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore is out now in paperback. The book brings the history of sexuality in general into male homosexuality in particular into a Marxist framework. Tracing practices of male same-sex eroticism and its policing and punishment from early modern northern Italian city-states to the contemporary United States. Sexual hegemony raises important questions about the historical contingency of sexuality under capitalism.
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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