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Articles by T. J. Clark
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For a Left With No Future
in NLR 74, March-April 2012, pp. 53-75
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
An epistle to capitalism’s immobilized opponents from the author of Farewell to an Idea. Drawing on sources from Bruegel to Nietzsche, Hazlitt to Benjamin, T. J. Clark supplies notes for a rethinking of left politics that would recognize the impasses of the present and the horrific legacies of the past, while abandoning the mirages of futurity.
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Origins of the Present Crisis
in NLR 2, March-April 2000, pp. 85-96
Subjects: Aesthetics , Art
Postmodernism is typically seen as a recent sequel to modernism. T. J. Clark queries Perry Anderson’s account of the break between them, and concludes that there is more continuity of conditions than meets the eye. It may be too soon to judge whether modernism has passed.
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