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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

TL;DR: The first selection published from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s as discussed by the authors, was the first publication of the Notebooks in the UK.
Abstract: Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935, are the work of one of the most original thinkers in twentieth century Europe. Gramsci has had a profound influence on debates about the relationship between politics and culture. His complex and fruitful approach to questions of ideology, power and change remains crucial for critical theory. This volume was the first selection published from the Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains the most important of Gramsci's notebooks, including the texts of The Modern Prince, and Americanism and Fordism, and extensive notes on the state and civil society, Italian history and the role of intellectuals. 'Far the best informative apparatus available to any foreign language readership of Gramsci.' Perry Anderson, New Left Review 'A model of scholarship' New Statesman
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that fixed capital is inherently political-ecological in its constitution and how it shapes socioecological processes of landscape transformation and can be understood as a produced form of nature tied to the circulation of value and the deployment of social labor.
Abstract: This article, the second of two, argues that conceptualizing the socioecological fix involves understanding how fixed capital, as a produced production force, can transform the socioecological conditions and forces of production while also securing the hegemony of particular social hierarchies, power relations, and institutions We stress that fixed capital is inherently political–ecological in its constitution and how it shapes socioecological processes of landscape transformation Fixed capital necessarily congeals socioecological materials and processes and can be understood as a produced form of nature tied to the circulation of value and the deployment of social labor Fixed capital is therefore inherently metabolic and internalizes and transforms socioecologies We also discuss the fixing of capital within socioecological landscapes as processes involving both the formal and real subsumption of nature We emphasize the dual role of fixed capital formation in shaping the socioecological conditions an

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  • ...Gramsci (1971) wrote, “In the West, there was a proper relation between State and civil society, and when the State trembled, a sturdy structure of civil 1165society was at once revealed....

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  • ...Significantly, Harvey (1976) drew from and credited Gramsci (1971) for identifying the social projects that accompany revolutions in pro1245duction as discussed at length in his notes on “Americanism and Fordism.”...

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  • ...For Gramsci (1971), hegemony involves “bringing about not only a 1290 union of economic and political aims, but also intellectual moral unity, posing all the questions around which struggles rage not on a corporate but a ‘universal plane’” (182)....

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TL;DR: The history of German colonialism can be found in this article, where the author charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia and the Pacific and reveals the colonialist culture which permeated the German nation and its politics.
Abstract: Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia and the Pacific and reveals the colonialist culture which permeated the German nation and its politics. Drawing on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation he highlights the close interactions and shared vocabularies of the colonial powers and emphasises Germany's major role in the period of high imperialism before 1914. Even beyond the official end of the empire in 1919 the quest for Lebensraum and the growth of the Nazi empire in Eastern Europe can be viewed within a framework of colonialism whose effects resonate to the present day.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new critical theory of multiliteracies that encompasses four types of digital engagement is proposed: critical digital consumption, critical digital production, critical distribution, and critical digital invention.
Abstract: The teaching of media and digital literacies has gained increased attention in the 20 years following the New London Group’s landmark publication. From approaches urging the study of popular culture to calls for youth led social media revolution, there is no shortage of approaches. Yet scant attention is offered toward articulating a new and comprehensive theory of pedagogy and production that acknowledges the changing tools and technologies at young people’s disposal, conceptualizes young people as media producers, and applies these developments to today’s complex classroom context. We aim to articulate a new critical theory of multiliteracies that encompasses 4 types of digital engagement: (a) critical digital consumption, (b) critical digital production, (c) critical distribution, and (d) critical digital invention. We make the argument that a new critical theory of multiliteracies needs to account for each of these types of digital engagement but that, ultimately, we must move beyond theorizing our yo...

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  • ...This approach demands a Gramscian analysis of the hegemonic nature of digital media and the symbiotic forces of coercion and consensus that work to maintain the power of the capitalist state (Gramsci, 1980)....

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