Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil, with Thomas Waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social Friday 12th December, 2025 5.30-7.30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Speaking on a couple of panels at the @histmat.bsky.social conference this week in London

Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism, edited by myself and @maybenansi.bsky.social, is out now with Bloomsbury! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan...

I reviewed the latest translation of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro's writings for this month's issue of The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/10/art_...

For @eflux.bsky.social, I wrote about Jaleh Mansoor’s new book and Marx’s metaphor of “universal prostitution” www.e-flux.com/notes/678337...

For Parapraxis, I wrote about Marx and Lacan. “Is there something inherent to Lacanianism itself that leads towards a politics of reaction?” www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bad...

Some reflections on the new Gillian Rose lectures and the question of style for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/thomas_walle...

I've got a short review of Irene Small's new book on Lygia Clark and modernism in this month's issue of The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/04/art_...

I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Vale in Marx’s Capital. Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...

There is a review of Roberto Schwarz and World Literature in today's Folha de S.Paulo (@folha.com): "Um livro britânico sobre Roberto Schwarz fala em urdu da China e Beethoven" folha.com/74xygd1e

Roberto Schwarz and World Literature is now out in hardback with Palgrave Macmillan, marking the first book-length engagement in English with Latin America's foremost dialectician and one of the all-time great Marxist literary critics 1/

For next year's (virtual) ACLA, I'm organising a seminar with Carson Welch on 'Hegel and World Literature'. Please do consider sending in an abstract to us, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.acla.org/hegel-and-wo...

@seanobrien.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue of CLCWeb entitled 'Keywords for Value and Culture'. The aim is to bring together short essays that explore the dialogue between value-form theory and Marxist cultural studies. Details in the CFP below! docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb_cfp/1/

I've got an article out in the latest issue of Qui Parle on art, autonomy, and subsumption. It's called 'Stably Unusual: Artistic Labor and Aesthetic Autonomy', and you can check it out here: read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/ar...

First instalment in the new series on Marx & the Climate Crisis now up at the 87. www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...

For anyone attending the Historical Materialism conference in London this weekend, I’ll be speaking on the roundtable ‘Keywords for Value and Culture’. If you’re free on Saturday morning 11:00-12:45, be sure to come along for the discussion!

I'm giving a talk on Roberto Schwarz and Henry James tomorrow at the University of Lisbon. If anyone's in the city and wants to attend, feel free to get in touch! Details are on the poster.

I've got two poems out in the latest issue of Postcolonial Text: 'Toll' and 'Or Eternity'. Both dealing with southern African themes, they're dedicated to the great Mozambican author Orlando Mendes and anti-apartheid activist/scholar Ruth First. www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pc...

New Penguin Classics/Companhia das Letras edition of Roberto Schwarz's writings to be published in Portuguese in November. Seems like it will include some of his early stuff, like the 1964 essay on Fellini's 8 1/2 (a banger).