thomas waller
@thomaswaller.bsky.social
writer & academic | research: art, marxism, psychoanalysis | author: genres of transition | editor: roberto schwarz & world literature | co-editor: understadning lacan, understanding modernism
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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
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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...
Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil
This seminar reinterprets the trajectory of the short-lived Brazilian art movement known as “Neo-Concretism” Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Thomas Waller.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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...
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
@histmat.bsky.social conference this week in London
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Speaking on a couple of panels at the
@histmat.bsky.social conference this week in London
@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...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan...
Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism
Presents the most wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the influence of modernist art and literature on Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the valences of Lacanian…
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October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism, edited by myself and @maybenansi.bsky.social, is out now with Bloomsbury!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan...
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_...
Sérgio Ferro’s Design and the Building Site | The Brooklyn Rail
The field of architectural history has remained largely uninterested in the construction site as an object of analysis. The recently translated writings of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro enjoin us t...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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...
July 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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...
Bad Object — Parapraxis
Errant Marxist-Lacanian ideology Thomas Waller
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April 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
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April 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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_...
Irene V. Small’s The Organic Line | The Brooklyn Rail
Despite its epochal importance in the trajectory of modern art, the organic line has hitherto been excluded from official histories, which have tended to rely on categories like the grid, the monochro...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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_...
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I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Vale in Marx’s Capital.
Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
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Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social
endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
February 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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...
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
Opinião - Mario Sergio Conti: Um livro britânico sobre Roberto Schwarz fala em urdu da China e Beethoven
O livro é bom não só por realçar os feitos de um pensador brasileiro, mas pelo que traz sobre a literatura mundial
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January 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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/
December 30, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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!
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September 9, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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...
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/
February 13, 2024 at 12:21 PM
@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...
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...
Stably Unusual: Artistic Labor and Aesthetic Autonomy
Abstract. This article critically compares two recent approaches to the problem of aesthetic autonomy: Dave Beech’s Art and Value and Nicholas Brown’s Autonomy. By recentering the differences betw...
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December 29, 2023 at 4:44 PM
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...
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...
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First instalment in the new series on Marx & the Climate Crisis now up at the 87. www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...
Marx and the Climate Crisis #1: Marx and Nature by Sean O’Brien — the87press
This four-part lecture series asks what we can learn from Marx about the
climate crisis: its origins, its impacts, and what possible solutions we
might seek in the face of increasingly inadequate go...
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November 20, 2023 at 6:38 PM
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!
November 9, 2023 at 10:43 AM
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.
September 25, 2023 at 11:27 AM
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...
'Toll' and 'Or Eternity' | Waller | Postcolonial Text
'Toll' and 'Or Eternity'
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September 24, 2023 at 9:44 AM
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).
September 15, 2023 at 12:51 PM
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).