Marxist Cultural Studies Materials

Handouts and Readings
"What do Socialists Say about Human Nature?"
              By Elizabeth Terzakis
"The Evolution of Capitalism and the Concomitant Development in the Arts"
              Adapted by W. Burling from Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of late Capitalism
Marxist Literary Theory Quick Start Sheet
              By W. Burling
"The Work of Art as Commodity"
               Adapted from Adorno, Brecht, and Benjamin by W. Burling
A Beginner's Guide to the Problem of Form
               By W. Burling

Essays in Word Format
"The Theoretical Foundation of Utopian Radical Democracy in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Blue Mars"
              By W. Burling [Utopian Studies 16 (2005): 75-96.]

Essays in Adobe Reader Format
"The Author as Producer"
               By Walter Benjamin (Password=Burling [case sensitive]); cf., "The Work of Art as Commodity" (above)
"What is Art?"
               By Leo Tolstoy
"Symposium: Marxism and Fantasy"
               By China Miéville
"Reading Time: The Ideology of Time-Travel in Science Fiction"
               By W. Burling
"Radical Fantasy"
               By Fredric Jameson
"Rematerializing Feminism"
               By Teresa L. Ebert
"A Note on the Dialectic" [Preface to Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution]

Shaikh, "Capital as Social Relation" [Excellent, very short overview for understanding capitalism's inherent social logic.]