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Which way forward for sexual liberation?

Gary Mucciaroni, Sherry Wolf, Kenyon Farrow, and Greg Gabrellas Platypus Review 32 | February 2011 [PDF] On November 8, 2010, Platypus hosted a forum entitled “Which Way Forward for Sexual Liberation?” moderated by Jeremy Cohan at New York University. The panel consisted of Gary Mucciaroni, professor of political science at Temple University; Sherry Wolf, author [...]

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Kashmir, socialists, and the right to self-determination

Rohini Hensman Platypus Review 32 | February 2011 [PDF] THE BLOODSHED IN KASHMIR beginning in June 2010 gave rise to a heated debate in India concerning the causes of and possible solutions to the conflict. A meeting on 21 October in Delhi organized by the pro-Maoist Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners was entitled [...]

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Platypus Review editorial statement of purpose and submission guidelines

Statement of purpose Taking stock of the universe of positions and goals that constitutes leftist politics today, we are left with the disquieting suspicion that a deep commonality underlies the apparent variety: What exists today is built upon the desiccated remains of what was once possible. In order to make sense of the present, we [...]

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About Platypus

The Platypus Affiliated Society The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today. [PDF] Get connected with the Platypus Yahoo! discussion group and the Platypus [...]

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Platypus introductory readings II

A second series of 10 sessions introducing the raison d’être of the Platypus project.

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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Winter–Spring 2011

II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 University of Chicago (UChicago) The Reynolds Club 2nd floor South Lounge 5706 S. University Ave. New York University (NYU) Puck Building 295 Lafayette St. 4th floor Memorial Room • required / + recommended reading [...]

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Platypus introductory readings

10 sessions of readings introducing the raison d’être of the Platypus project.

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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Fall/Autumn 2010 – Winter 2011

I. What is the “Left?” — What is “Marxism?” Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 University of Chicago (UChicago) The Reynolds Club 2nd floor South Lounge 5706 S. University Ave. • required / + recommended reading A. Sept. 11, 2010 (SAIC only) • Moishe Postone, [...]

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The relevance of critical theory to art today

J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted a panel entitled “The Relevance of Critical Theory to Art Today” moderated by Chris Mansour at The New School for Social Research in New York. The panel consisted of Philosophy Professors J.M. Bernstein [...]

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Book Review: Karin Bauer, ed., Everybody Talks About the Weather—We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008. Quinn Slobodian Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 DON DELILLO BEGINS a short story from 2002 with a woman in a New York museum staring at a painting of Ulrike Meinhof after her suicide. He writes, “She thought of Meinhof, she saw Meinhof as first name only, Ulrike.”[1] Who [...]

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Book Review: Sherry Wolf, Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation.

Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009. Greg Gabrellas and Max E. Katz Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 YOU ARE SEVENTEEN, you enjoy sex with members of your gender, and you have a growing interest in radical politics. What should you believe, what should you do? The socialist position seems practically indistinguishable from mainstream liberalism: support for [...]

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Up in the air: The legacy of the New Communist Movement

An interview with Max Elbaum Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 On October 17, 2010, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che, to discuss the New Communist Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. The interview was aired during [...]

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Rethinking the New Left

Osha Neumann, Mark Rudd, Tim Wohlforth, Alan Spector Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 On November 9, 2010, Platypus hosted the public forum, “Rethinking the New Left,” moderated by Spencer A. Leonard. The panel consisted of Osha Neumann, a former member of the New York anarchist group in the 1960s, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers; [...]

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Lessons from the election

Eric Stoner Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 IN A STRANGE WAY, the debate over whether the American left should support the Green Movement in Iran resembles the arguments that took place in progressive circles before the 2008 presidential elections in the United States, and that reemerged in the recent midterm elections. Those in the [...]

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