thomas waller
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writer & academic | research: art, marxism, psychoanalysis | author: genres of transition | editor: roberto schwarz & world literature
london/dublin
Joined May 2019
My piece on Marx and Lacan is now up on @Parapraxis_Mag
“Is there something inherent to Lacanianism itself that leads towards a politics of reaction?” -@thomasowaller writes on errant Marxist-Lacanian ideologies in Issue 05
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Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil, with Thomas Waller (@thomasowaller) Friday 12th December, 2025 5.30-7.30pm @UCL_IAS Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT https://t.co/DbpdnO4wNc
ucl.ac.uk
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.
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About to go on @LacanInScotland for a talk on Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism with @thomasowaller. Feel free to join and share your thoughts, too.
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Very happy to hear that my essay on Freud and mourning is a joint winner of the 2023-2024 Paragraph prize. The piece is available to read for free via the link below: https://t.co/AHdKgIi3Sd
euppublishing.com
This article rereads the aporia in Freud's theory of mourning as a problem for representation and aesthetics. Drawing a parallel with Kant's account of the disinterested nature of aesthetic judgeme...
🎉Paragraph Prize Winners🎉 The editors are delighted to announce 2 joint prize-winners of the 2023-24 prize: Tobias Barnett (@TobiasLDBarn) and Thomas Waller (@thomasowaller) Both prize-winning articles are free to read - links in the next message (downthread). 1/2
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Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism, edited by myself and @maybenansi, is out now with Bloomsbury!
bloomsbury.com
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I reviewed the latest translation of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro's writings for this month's @TheBrooklynRail @MACK_books
https://t.co/0rIbZ5n8u7
brooklynrail.org
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...
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For @e_flux, I wrote about Jaleh Mansoor’s new book and Marx’s metaphor of “universal prostitution” https://t.co/9TuwOHW4P9
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.@thomasowaller on Jaleh Mansoor’s “Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction” up now at @efluxcriticism:
e-flux.com
Thomas Waller probes a new book that links the artwork of Francis Picabia to the Marxian concept of “universal prostitution.”
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For the new @NewLeftReview, I translated this interview with Brazilian giant Roberto Schwarz on his neo-Brechtian play about the strange rise of the right: https://t.co/6ax0rlw8SX
newleftreview.org
Interview with the Brazilian critic and theorist on the literary and political ideas informing his epic play, Queen Lira. A volatile cacophony of voices disputing his country’s path, from Dilma’s...
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The psyche is structured like the commodity or Is the automatic subject of value in the room with us right now? By Luke Manzarpour https://t.co/pgicHzf9zq
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Thanks to the editors, and in particular @enoughformethx, for being such generous and attentive readers
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Some reflections on the new Gillian Rose lectures for @CriticalInquiry
https://t.co/quVDqBuEeZ
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I've got a short review of Irene Small's great new book on Lygia Clark and modernism in this month's issue of @TheBrooklynRail. Check it out here:
brooklynrail.org
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...
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I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital (@VersoBooks). Up now at @endnotesjournal. https://t.co/zbL54C5ALr
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The first review of Roberto Schwarz and World Literature, by Mario Sergio Conti for the Folha de S.Paulo (@folha): "Um livro britânico sobre Roberto Schwarz fala em urdu da China e Beethoven"
folha.uol.com.br
O livro é bom n��o só por realçar os feitos de um pensador brasileiro, mas pelo que traz sobre a literatura mundial
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Please order the book for your libraries, but feel free to get in touch if you'd like to read but don't have access to a copy 7/
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Finally, in Leandro Pasini's chapter, there is an engagement with Schwarz's poetry collection Corações Veteranos (Veteran Hearts) and his play A Lata de Lixo da História (The Dustbin of History), which are little-known if discussed at all in the anglophone world 6/
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The book also includes one of the first English translations (by myself and @emiliomsauri) of the work of Paulo Eduardo Arantes, an influential Brazilian Marxist thinker, a scholar of Hegel, and a long-time interlocutor of Schwarz's writing 5/
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