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    The History and Afterlife of Marx’s ‘Primitive Accumulation’
    Historical Materialism 1-28. forthcoming.
    This paper develops ‘primitive accumulation’ prior to and then in Karl Marx’s œuvre. By exploring the concept in Adam Smith and Sir James Steuart the paper highlights early influences on Marx’s evolving constructions. Marx’s construction in the Grundrisse begins with a logical determination much like Smith’s and moves, by drawing on Steuart, towards a socio-historical determination of a transitional violence. In Capital, ‘primitive accumulation’ still retains its transitional structure and delim…Read more
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    Social Reproduction Theory and the Form of Labor Power
    Comparative Literature and Culture 22 (2). 2020.
    Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) centers the production and reproduction of labor power under capitalism. This power to labor is determined individually, socially, and in relation to the totality of capital. These powers are produced and reproduced in and through social relations that, while capitalist, have tremendously diverse local conditions and histories. SRT provides a framework to think through the oppressive logics shaping the production, reproduction, and potencies of labor powers under…Read more
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    How can we use Social Reproduction Theory to inform political strategy?
  • The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center (edited book)
    with Edward P. Comentale
    . 2014.
    "They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society's fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy, feasting on tender minds and hurling rot across our intellectual landscape. It is time to unite in common cause, to shore up defenses, firm up critical and analytical resources, and fortify crumbling lines of in…Read more
  • Andrzej Gąsiorek, Alice Reeve-Tucker, and Nathan Waddell, eds., Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (review)
    Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 42 (3): 420-424. 2012.
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    Gene therapy for children with cystic fibrosis--who has the right to choose?
    Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (6): 361-364. 2006.
    It may be unethical to deny children with cystic fibrosis access to ethically approved clinical trials from which they might benefitDespite advances in nutritional management, aggressive antibiotic usage, and physiotherapy, cystic fibrosis remains a life limiting illness with high morbidity that imposes considerable burdens on children and families.1 Although survival to 40 years is predicted for children born in 1990s, the median age of death in 2003 was 24.2 years .The pathophysiological featu…Read more
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    Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings and cascading side effects, _The Way Things Go_ offers a thesis demonstrated via a century-long countdown of stuff. Modernist critical theory and aesthetic method, it argues, are bound up with the inhum…Read more
  • The Year's Work in Zombie Studies (edited book)
    Indiana University Press. forthcoming.
  • Modernist Cultural Studies (review)
    Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 39 (3): 416-419. 2010.