Bradley J Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 1189140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley J Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley J |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3647-5406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Utopias, Radical Imaginaries, and Political Action
Increasingly, dystopian visions of the future seem to be dominating political discourses, having a particular purchase in a world defined by the catastrophic effects of global climate change, the devastation of wars and the militarization of global life, and the extensive and intensive neoliberal practices of “primitive accumulation” and exploitation. Given the current context, what is the role of utopias and utopian thinking in bringing about ra…
Strategies
Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture, and Politics (1988-2003) was an interdisciplinary journal that drew up upon a variety of differing perspectives within the Western Marxist tradition and the diverse theoretical positions associated with Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism to articulate a broadly Post-Marxist perspective. Strategies originally developed out of an independent and interdisciplinary reading workshop of graduate students at …
Suny Series in New Political Science
Ecology and Revolution
Within the last 15 years, there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship on Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), a central figure associated with the critical theory of the first generation of the F
Adorno and Marcuse at the Barricades
When Marx proclaimed the importance of not just interpreting the world but actually changing it, he initiated an important imperative that has existed within all forms of critical theory up to today. Drawing upon the work of Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, we use their unique way of looking at the theory/praxis couplet as an avenue to rethink the role of critical theory as a form of “scholar-activism.” Theory, to paraphrase Adorno, lives on b…
Traditional and Critical Theory Today
In the famous early theoretical manifesto of the Frankfurt School, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937), Max Horkheimer proclaimed the necessity of rethinking the direction in which theory was moving in the context of the circulating intellectual traditions of phenomenology, sociology of knowledge, neo-Kantianism, and positivism. For Horkheimer, while the theoretical terrain associated with 1930s Europe seemed diverse and possibly open to rad…
Confronting the Anthropocene and Contesting Neoliberalism
William E. Connolly has been at the forefront of debates within contemporary political theory for over 40 years, consistently interrogating the way in which political, economic, and cultural practices have hindered the flourishing of deeper forms of democracy, pluralism, and economic justice. His most recent work brings critical attention to the devastating human and ecological consequences associated with neoliberal capitalism, particularly as i…
Marcuse, States of Exception, and the Defense Society
The Communist Horizon
Jodi Dean London: Verso, 2012, 250 pp It might seem strange to say, but, even today, a specter is haunting us, and that specter is “communism.” Of course, it is no longer embodied in a clear (thoug
Theodor Adorno, Alterglobalization, and Non-identity Politics
While the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School has become an interesting player in recent theoretical attempts to understand the problems of, and potential solutions to, capitalist regimes of globalization, it has been generally limited to the work of Jürgen Habermas and his followers. As seen in the recent work of David Held and Nancy Fraser, Habermas’s notion of the ideal of the public sphere and his conception of deliberative democracy have…
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge and African American Environmental Thought
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge. Edited by Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 270p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. By Kimberly K. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 264p. $29.95. Irrespective of what some students of political theory might claim, transformations within the discipline—especially in terms of concept formation …
Performing Marx
Tarrying with the Multitude
Michael Hardt is Professor in the Program for Literature at Duke University. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Antonio Negri on Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994); Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000); and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004). In an interview conducted by Bradley J. Macdonald, an Associate E…
William Morris and the vision of ecosocialism
A towering figure in the late Victorian cultural and political landscape of England, William Morris (1834–1896) devoted his incredible literary and theoretical skills to promoting revolutionary socialism from 1883 until his death, a commitment that was expressed in his incisive renderings of a future socialist life‐world that was intimately linked to ecological regeneration and sustainability. In this respect, many contemporary scholars note that…
Thinking through Marx
Our critique of the postmodern, postindustrial, and post-Fordist state is still and always a communist critique—a total, affirmative, Dionysian critique. Communism is the only Dionysian creator. (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) The political and social theory of Antonio Negri is now getting full attention in mainstream news media, activist circles, and academic contexts. With the publication of Empire (written with Michael Hardt) in 2000, all of…
Inaugurating Heterodoxy
(2003). Inaugurating Heterodoxy: Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire and the 'Limit-Experience' of Class Struggle. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 65-75
Revisiting Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire After 150 Years
(2003). Revisiting Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire After 150 Years: Introduction. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 3-3
Multiplying Deleuze
Towards an Ethos of Freedom and Engagement
Marx, Foucault, Genealogy
In contemporary political theory, there has been the continual attempt to paint an opposition between Foucault's work and Marx's theory. Foucault, it has been argued, was continuously critical of Marxism's humanist and totalizing positions; and, for Marxists, Foucault's theory avoided an analysis of political economy and elided a notion of the revolutionary subject. In this essay, I argue that Marx is more central to Foucault's position than prev…
Eco/Theory at the Millennium
Marx and the Figure of Desire
The U.S.-Mexico Border
The Wrapped Reichstag, 1995
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 4, 1997
From the Spectacle to Unitary Urbanism
From the Spectacle to Unitary Urbanism
Adorno and Marcuse at the Barricades
When Marx proclaimed the importance of not just interpreting the world but actually changing it, he initiated an important imperative that has existed within all forms of critical theory up to today. Drawing upon the work of Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, we use their unique way of looking at the theory/praxis couplet as an avenue to rethink the role of critical theory as a form of “scholar-activism.” Theory, to paraphrase Adorno, lives on b…
Traditional and Critical Theory Today
In the famous early theoretical manifesto of the Frankfurt School, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937), Max Horkheimer proclaimed the necessity of rethinking the direction in which theory was moving in the context of the circulating intellectual traditions of phenomenology, sociology of knowledge, neo-Kantianism, and positivism. For Horkheimer, while the theoretical terrain associated with 1930s Europe seemed diverse and possibly open to rad…
Confronting the Anthropocene and Contesting Neoliberalism
William E. Connolly has been at the forefront of debates within contemporary political theory for over 40 years, consistently interrogating the way in which political, economic, and cultural practices have hindered the flourishing of deeper forms of democracy, pluralism, and economic justice. His most recent work brings critical attention to the devastating human and ecological consequences associated with neoliberal capitalism, particularly as i…
Theodor Adorno, Alterglobalization, and Non-identity Politics
While the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School has become an interesting player in recent theoretical attempts to understand the problems of, and potential solutions to, capitalist regimes of globalization, it has been generally limited to the work of Jürgen Habermas and his followers. As seen in the recent work of David Held and Nancy Fraser, Habermas’s notion of the ideal of the public sphere and his conception of deliberative democracy have…
Marx, Foucault, Genealogy
In contemporary political theory, there has been the continual attempt to paint an opposition between Foucault's work and Marx's theory. Foucault, it has been argued, was continuously critical of Marxism's humanist and totalizing positions; and, for Marxists, Foucault's theory avoided an analysis of political economy and elided a notion of the revolutionary subject. In this essay, I argue that Marx is more central to Foucault's position than prev…
From the Spectacle to Unitary Urbanism
The Wrapped Reichstag, 1995
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 4, 1997
The U.S.-Mexico Border
Marx and the Figure of Desire
Eco/Theory at the Millennium
Multiplying Deleuze
Towards an Ethos of Freedom and Engagement
Marx, Foucault, Genealogy
In contemporary political theory, there has been the continual attempt to paint an opposition between Foucault's work and Marx's theory. Foucault, it has been argued, was continuously critical of Marxism's humanist and totalizing positions; and, for Marxists, Foucault's theory avoided an analysis of political economy and elided a notion of the revolutionary subject. In this essay, I argue that Marx is more central to Foucault's position than prev…
Thinking through Marx
Our critique of the postmodern, postindustrial, and post-Fordist state is still and always a communist critique—a total, affirmative, Dionysian critique. Communism is the only Dionysian creator. (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) The political and social theory of Antonio Negri is now getting full attention in mainstream news media, activist circles, and academic contexts. With the publication of Empire (written with Michael Hardt) in 2000, all of…
Inaugurating Heterodoxy
(2003). Inaugurating Heterodoxy: Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire and the 'Limit-Experience' of Class Struggle. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 65-75
Revisiting Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire After 150 Years
(2003). Revisiting Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire After 150 Years: Introduction. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 3-3
William Morris and the vision of ecosocialism
A towering figure in the late Victorian cultural and political landscape of England, William Morris (1834–1896) devoted his incredible literary and theoretical skills to promoting revolutionary socialism from 1883 until his death, a commitment that was expressed in his incisive renderings of a future socialist life‐world that was intimately linked to ecological regeneration and sustainability. In this respect, many contemporary scholars note that…
Performing Marx
Tarrying with the Multitude
Michael Hardt is Professor in the Program for Literature at Duke University. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Antonio Negri on Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994); Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000); and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004). In an interview conducted by Bradley J. Macdonald, an Associate E…
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge and African American Environmental Thought
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge. Edited by Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 270p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. By Kimberly K. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 264p. $29.95. Irrespective of what some students of political theory might claim, transformations within the discipline—especially in terms of concept formation …
Theodor Adorno, Alterglobalization, and Non-identity Politics
While the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School has become an interesting player in recent theoretical attempts to understand the problems of, and potential solutions to, capitalist regimes of globalization, it has been generally limited to the work of Jürgen Habermas and his followers. As seen in the recent work of David Held and Nancy Fraser, Habermas’s notion of the ideal of the public sphere and his conception of deliberative democracy have…
Marcuse, States of Exception, and the Defense Society
The Communist Horizon
Jodi Dean London: Verso, 2012, 250 pp It might seem strange to say, but, even today, a specter is haunting us, and that specter is “communism.” Of course, it is no longer embodied in a clear (thoug
Confronting the Anthropocene and Contesting Neoliberalism
William E. Connolly has been at the forefront of debates within contemporary political theory for over 40 years, consistently interrogating the way in which political, economic, and cultural practices have hindered the flourishing of deeper forms of democracy, pluralism, and economic justice. His most recent work brings critical attention to the devastating human and ecological consequences associated with neoliberal capitalism, particularly as i…
Traditional and Critical Theory Today
In the famous early theoretical manifesto of the Frankfurt School, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937), Max Horkheimer proclaimed the necessity of rethinking the direction in which theory was moving in the context of the circulating intellectual traditions of phenomenology, sociology of knowledge, neo-Kantianism, and positivism. For Horkheimer, while the theoretical terrain associated with 1930s Europe seemed diverse and possibly open to rad…
Adorno and Marcuse at the Barricades
When Marx proclaimed the importance of not just interpreting the world but actually changing it, he initiated an important imperative that has existed within all forms of critical theory up to today. Drawing upon the work of Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, we use their unique way of looking at the theory/praxis couplet as an avenue to rethink the role of critical theory as a form of “scholar-activism.” Theory, to paraphrase Adorno, lives on b…
Ecology and Revolution
Within the last 15 years, there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship on Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), a central figure associated with the critical theory of the first generation of the F
Strategies
Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture, and Politics (1988-2003) was an interdisciplinary journal that drew up upon a variety of differing perspectives within the Western Marxist tradition and the diverse theoretical positions associated with Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism to articulate a broadly Post-Marxist perspective. Strategies originally developed out of an independent and interdisciplinary reading workshop of graduate students at …
Suny Series in New Political Science
Utopias, Radical Imaginaries, and Political Action
Increasingly, dystopian visions of the future seem to be dominating political discourses, having a particular purchase in a world defined by the catastrophic effects of global climate change, the devastation of wars and the militarization of global life, and the extensive and intensive neoliberal practices of “primitive accumulation” and exploitation. Given the current context, what is the role of utopias and utopian thinking in bringing about ra…
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