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Perhaps most notably, Stuart took this cultural analysis of politics forward in his collaboration with Martin Jacques and the members of the Marxism Today collective in producing his pathbreaking analysis of the emergence of the form of politics which from the late 1970s came to dominate the Britis…

Many have commented on the perennial warmth of Stuart’s manners, which, in a lived form of the politics of affect, functioned as a complexly articulated complement to his deep intellectual seriousness (as he might perhaps have put it himself). 23 Indeed, for such a rigorous thinker, Hall displayed …

The England that he had previously only encountered through its literature now confronted him as a reality, and he developed a “migrant’s-eye” view of the center from the margins. Thus the erstwhile colonial subject came to develop his own anthropology of the culture of the colonizers. He sought to…

Stanley moved suddenly, sitting up as though to break a spell. He sat rigid on the edge of the bed, clenching his teeth as though to discipline the activity of his mind, which he could hardly stir during the day when he tried to work. How could Bach have accomplished all that he did? and Palestrina…

As the afternoon ended, Otto was walking alone, south, on Madison Avenue, his own face expressing an extreme of the concentration of vacancy passing all around him, the faces of office messengers, typists turned out into the night air, dismally successful young men, obnoxious success in middle age,…