Editors' Note

Contributors

Translatability, Combined Unevenness, and World Literature in Antonio Gramsci by Stephen Shapiro and Neil Lazarus

Stephen Shapiro and Neil Lazarus interrogate the importance of linguistic theory and translation to Antonio Gramsci’s Marxism and situate these concepts within ongoing debates about the world-literary system. Ultimately, they argue that the translatability of literary or political texts is, or should be, “a matter not of intellectual work, no matter how progressive, but of practical politics.”

Developmental Aspiration at the End of Accumulation: The New International Economic Order and the Antinomies of the Bandung Era by Bret Benjamin

Bret Benjamin takes up the 1974 UN Declaration for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) in an effort to reconsider “the 1970s as a decade of transition in which the sharpening developmental aspirations of G77 nations in the global south come into conflict with structural transformations in the accumulation of capital.” Reading the NIEO as the “last gasp” of the Bandung era, Benjamin argues that the “developmentalist demands of the Bandung era run aground on the contemporaneous systemic crisis of capital.”

Explorations of the Political/Ideological Unconscious: Fredric Jameson and Juan Carlos Rodríguez by Malcolm Read

Malcom Read examines crucial distinctions between the “ideological unconscious” and the “political unconscious,” as they were “developed along very different, even contrasting lines in, respectively, the work of Juan Carlos Rodríguez and that of Fredric Jameson.” Drawing out the differences between how the two thinkers situate their work in relation to Althusser, Read invites us to take a deep dive into the world of structuralist Marxisms.

Accumulated Violence, or, the Wars of Exploitation: Notes Toward a Post-Western Marxism by Sourayan Mookerjea

Sourayan Mookerjea proposes a “Post-Western Marxism,” rooted in the insights of social reproduction and decolonization theory with the aim of thinking historically about exploitation as “the domination of inner and outer nature.” Class politics, he argues, is never immediately available and is thus “mediated by the accumulated violence of proliferating oppressions.”

Book Reviews

Small and Subaltern Cosmopolitanisms by Sofia Cutler

Sofia Cutler reviews the collection Cosmopolitanisms edited by Paulo Lemos Horta and Bruce Robbins.

The Financial Imaginary of the American Middle Class? by Myka Tucker-Abramson

Myka Tucker-Abramson reviews The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction by Alison Shonkwiler.