Malcolm K Read

Biographic Data

ID990468
NAMEMalcolm K Read
GIVEN NAMESMalcolm K
FAMILY NAMERead
SIGNATUREREAD M K
AFFILIATIONSStony Brook University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • British Marxism and Juan Carlos Rodríguez: The Ideological Unconscious Revisited

    Open AccessMalcolm K ReadARTICLERethinking Marxism2020Cited by: 1

    In contrast to an Althusserian tradition that, through the work of Juan Carlos Rodríguez, has advanced the concept of the ideological unconscious, British Marxists have proved to be characteristically resistant to “unconsciousness” per se and even repressive of Althusserian variations on the theme. In essence, two traditions of Marxism find themselves in opposition: the first takes as its point of departure the notion of a social formation, artic…

  • The Psychoanalytic Paradox and Capitalist Exploitation: Slavoj Žižek and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

    Open AccessMalcolm K ReadARTICLERethinking Marxism2019References: 1

    The libidinal unconscious, as theorized by Slavoj Žižek, takes the form of a transhistorical "real kernel" that returns as the force of desire, with subversive consequences for the discursive structure of language; individual praxis is cast accordingly as the genetic origin of social structures and the main dynamic in the transformation of society. In contrast, the ideological unconscious, as formulated by Juan Carlos Rodríguez, is "secreted" by …

  • Towards a Notion of the Ideological Unconscious: Marx, Althusser, Juan Carlos Rodríguez

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHistorical Materialism2017Cited by: 1References: 7

    In the context of the recent economic crisis, scholars have once again felt compelled to revisit the work of Louis Althusser, to reconsider some of his seminal insights, if only to repeat earlier criticisms. Regretfully, however, they remain unable to come to terms with the crucial Althusserian notion of ideological unconsciousness , which they insist on viewing through the prism of the libidinal (Lacanian) unconscious. Perforce, the latter conce…

  • On the Radical Historicity of Literature: Althusser versus Bhaskar

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2016

    The present article takes as its point of departure the recent tributes to Bhaskar published on the occasion of the latter's death. Laudable and understandable though it was to prioritize the career trajectories of younger scholars, one of the unforeseen consequences was to marginalize those of their more mature colleagues. The latter perforce arrive upon the scene of critical realism already burdened with their own overdetermined legacies, which…

  • Educating the Educators: Critical Realism and the Ideological Unconscious

    Malcolm K Read, Malcolm ReadARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2013

    While for Louis Althusser ideology was very much an affair of the unconscious, it fell to his Spanish student, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, to fully articulate the concept of the ‘ideological unconscious’ per se, the latter understood as secreted by the relations of production operative respectively within the various modes of production. Rodrí-guez elucidates the workings of this unconscious through the associated notion of an ideological matrix, with…

  • Further thoughts on the history of the unconscious: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEJournal of Iberian & Latin…2013References: 2

    While feminist Hispanists of recent decades have justifiably broken with some of the broad patriarchal assumptions that have long characterized their discipline, in order to instate Sor Juana de la Cruz within a reconfigured literary canon, they have accepted unquestioningly the key bourgeois concept of the “free subject,” together with its associated ideological problematic, through which to press the relevance of this same writer to “modernity.…

  • María de Zayas and her critics: Notes toward the history of the unconscious

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEJournal of Iberian & Latin…2010Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Hispanic colonial studies: On the Renewal of Marxism

    Malcolm K Read, Malcolm ReadARTICLEJournal of Latin American…2006References: 4

    In normal circumstances, we would expect Maria Del Mar Campos's El caballo y el jaguar, as a recently published text (2002),1 to be received, however critically, by British and North American Hispa

  • The Idealist Origins of Postmodern Colonial Studies: The Early Work of Walter Mignolo

    Malcolm K Read, Malcolm ReadARTICLEBulletin of Hispanic Studies2005Cited by: 1References: 1

    El presente articulo repasa, desde una perspectiva critica y teorica, la 'semiotica de Cultura' que el destacado colonialista Walter Mignolo construyo en sus primeras obras. Estas combinan el estructuralismo clasico, que promueve un acercamiento objetivo a la literatura, con su contrapunto invertido e igualmente positivista, la hermeneutica, en la cual se destaca el papel del sujeto. Ambos proyectos se derrumban cuando tropiezan con la existencia…

  • Racism and commodity character structure: The case of sab

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEJournal of Iberian & Latin…2004References: 2

    Proceeding from the basis of what she believes to be the key specular relationship between Sab's eponymous hero and its author, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Doris Sommer argues that “[t]he produc

  • Ideologies of the Spanish Transition Revisited: Juan Huarte de San Juan, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, and Noam Chomsky

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2004Cited by: 1References: 1

    Research Article| May 01 2004 Ideologies of the Spanish Transition Revisited: Juan Huarte de San Juan, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, and Noam Chomsky Malcolm K. Read Malcolm K. Read Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (2): 309–344. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-34-2-309 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Malcolm…

  • From Feudalism to Capitalism: Ideologies of Slavery in the Spanish American Empire

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHispanic Research Journal2003

    It is commonly claimed that racism is both deeply embedded in European culture and, alternatively, found only belatedly, in modern social formations. Both views fail to locate the exact nature of racism insofar as they are insufficiently attentive to the historicity of the relevant categories, notably that of 'slavery'. The latter is always an ideological, historically localized notion, which is secreted by prevailing relations of production that…

  • From Feudalism to Capitalism: Ideologies of Slavery in the Spanish American Empire

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHispanic Research Journal2003

    It is commonly claimed that racism is both deeply embedded in European culture and, alternatively, found only belatedly, in modern social formations. Both views fail to locate the exact nature of racism insofar as they are insufficiently attentive to the historicity of the relevant categories, notably that of 'slavery'. The latter is always an ideological, historically localized notion, which is secreted by prevailing relations of production that…

  • Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors: Or, Notes towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism

    Marina Martín, Malcolm K ReadARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1994

  • Language, Text, Subtext: A Critique of Hispanism

    E Friedman, Edward H Friedman et al.ARTICLEHispania1994

  • Language, Text, Subject. A Critique of Hispanism

    Noël Valis, Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHispanic Review1994Cited by: 2

    The central concern of this radically innovative study is to offer a critique of traditional Hispanism in the light of its assumption of a transcendental subject and its corresponding insistence on the autonomy of the literary text. Rereading canonic Spanish texts from Renaissance humanism to modernist literature, Read deploys a theoretical basis of post-structuralist thinking and brings Kristeva, Foucault, Althusser, Eagleton, and other importan…

  • Visions in Exile: The Body in Spanish Literature and Linguistics: 1500-1800

    Daniel S Whitaker, Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHispanic Review1992

  • Visions in Exile: The Body in Spanish Literature and Linguistics, 1500-1800

    James Allan Parr, Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHispania1991

  • Language and the Body in Francisco de Quevedo

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEModern Language Notes1984

    IThe neglect of Francisco de Quevedo, particularly in comparison with the current enthusiasm for G6ngora, is rapidly becoming an embarrassment to Hispanic scholarship.' The basic reason for this neglect is not difficult to discern: Quevedo is a 'repulsive writer', whose 'coarseness offends',2 and who is altogether 'too pungent'.3 Of course, such critical evaluations constitute, in some respects, a definite advance, to the extent that they presupp…

  • The Birth and Death of Language: Spanish Literature and Linguistics: 1300-1700

    Elias L Rivers, Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHispania1984

  • Linguistic Theory and the Problem of Mutism: The Contributions of Juan Pablo Bonet and Lorenzo Hervas Y Panduro

    Malcolm K ReadARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica1977Cited by: 4References: 3

    Spain in the Renaissance witnessed a growth of interest in the methods of teaching the deaf and dumb to read and write, and, in cases, to speak. This practical activity continued alongside more philosophical speculation concerning the phenomenon of mutism. In this paper the author has tried to show how in the work of Juan Pablo Bonet (1579-1633) there was considerable interaction between the theoretical study of language and the consideration of …