What is it about?
A reading of the work of the renowned Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawn, who wrote both histories from below, and histories of the totality. This includes a magisterial synthetic history of the 19th and 20th centuries. But he missed the rise of China, the revolution in the forces of production and the coming of the Anthropocene.
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Why is it important?
Looking back on Hobsbawm, we can find a loyalty to the internationalist idea against the claims of parochial history.
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McKenzie Wark is the author of Molecular Red (Verso 2015) and various other things.
McKenzie Wark
The New School
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This page is a summary of: Undeletable Text: Eric Hobsbawm, boundary 2, March 2016, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-3469925.
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