A New Institute for Social Research

toward a ruthless critique of all that exists

Contributions

• The Struggle Within the Struggle
• My Pseudo-Life
• Little Tent
• A Note on Concepts of Abstract Labor
• Malfeasance and Appearance
• Crisis and Cracks
• Theses on the Council Concept
• The Casteless Class Society
• Enemies of Art for the Sake of its Realization
• This Party Sucks
• The Overaccumulation of Human Capital?
• Coming of Age
• Critical Theory versus All That Exists
• A Conversation Against Identity
• No More Coats and No More Home
• Postone and Class Theory
• Adorno for Angry Workers
• On the Concept of Right
• What Was the Left?
• Capitalism or Capital?
• Lukács Beyond Lukács
• French Hegelianism and Human Time
• The Supreme Point
• Class Composition and the Organization of Pessimism
• ‘The Personal is Political’ or the Revolution of Everyday Life?
• Reification and the Depressive Absolute
• Back to the Futures Past
• The Political Practice of Postmodernism
• Toward the Total Human
• On the Total Eclipse of August 2017

Translations

• ¿Qué era la izquierda?
• Amadurecimento
• Sur l’éclipse totale d'août 2017

Courses

• Mattick and Council Communism in Miserable Times: Critique Between Defeat and Crisis (2021)
• Late Adorno and After and Us: Exchange, Abstraction, Identity, and the Objective Appearance of Society (2020)
• Reading The Society of the Spectacle: A Reconstruction of Debord’s Revolutionary Theory of Time (2019)

References

• Griffiths & Gleeson: Kinderkommunismus
• G.M. Tamás: Communism on the Ruins of Socialism
• Werner Bonefeld: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Economic Objectivity
• Friends of the Classless Society: 28 Theses on Class Society
• Robert Kurz: The Crisis of Exchange Value
• Moishe Postone: Necessity, Labor, and Time
• For Ourselves: The Negation of the Negation
• Theodor W. Adorno: A few reflections on society
• Herbert Marcuse: A Note on Dialectic
• I.I. Rubin: Abstract Labor & Value in Marx's System
• Georg Lukács: The Phenomenon of Reification
• Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle
• Paul Mattick: Spontaneity and Organisation
• Karl Korsch: Nature and Society
• Jean Hyppolite: Studies on Marx & Hegel
• Alexandre Koyré: Hegel at Jena
• G.W.F. Hegel: First Philosophy of Spirit
• Henri Lefebvre: Twelve Theses on Logic and Dialectic

ISR Recommends

• Communists in Situ
• Kosmoprolet
• Internationalist Perspective
• Endnotes
• Ultra
• Chuang
• Ill Will Editions
• Ritual
• Commune
• SIC
• International Council Correspondence Archive
• Situationist International Online
• Cured Quail
• A Contrary Little Quail
• Damage
• Notes From the Sinister Quarter
• How sickly seem all growing things
• Nilpotencies
• reificationofpersonsandpersonificationofthings
• The Charnel-House
• Break Their Haughty Power
• Insurgent Notes
• Capital & Class
• Common Sense
• Grundrisse
• Gegen Kapital und Nation
• Krisis
• Mute
• Datacide
• Angry Workers of the World
• prole.info
• Aufheben

Contact ISR

• Email: theinstituteforsocialresearch@gmail.com
• Twitter: @totalcritique