https://thomas-waller.com Thomas Waller Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:36:07 +0000 https://thomas-waller.com en https://thomas-waller.com/Front-Page-2 Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:17:34 +0000 Thomas Waller https://thomas-waller.com/Front-Page-2 Thomas WallerAboutWritingTalks Twitter Bluesky InstagramContact ©2026 https://thomas-waller.com/Writing Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:19:57 +0000 Thomas Waller https://thomas-waller.com/Writing Selected Publications Books <img width="683" height="1024" width_o="683" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcd9f8c1f9ea530a8ec944cdee2b7b12c6da96ad912b0f3dbbed33d5929111f8/1755453332235-97a8d619-95be-4146-9a29-3f0e1ab19c47_1.jpg" data-mid="250710357" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/683/i/fcd9f8c1f9ea530a8ec944cdee2b7b12c6da96ad912b0f3dbbed33d5929111f8/1755453332235-97a8d619-95be-4146-9a29-3f0e1ab19c47_1.jpg" /> Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism. Bloomsbury, 2025. Criticism‘Ana Mendieta’s Ecological Politics,’ The BREAK—DOWN (August 2026).&nbsp; ‘Sérgio B. Martins’s&nbsp;Borderless Painting as Borderless Art,’ Brooklyn Rail (July/August 2026). ‘Fever Pitch: On Bourgeois Coldness by Henrike Kohpeiß,’ e-flux Notes&nbsp;(February 2026). ‘Mute Thought:&nbsp;On Lygia Clark at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin,’ Los Angeles Review of Books (December 2025). ‘Sérgio Ferro’s Design and the Building Site,’ Brooklyn Rail (October 2025). ‘Universal Substitution: Review of Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction by Jaleh Mansoor,’ e-flux Notes&nbsp;(July 2025).‘Irene V. Small’s The Organic Line,‘ Brooklyn Rail (April 2025).‘Bad Object:&nbsp;Errant Marxist-Lacanian Ideology,’ Parapraxis (January 2025).‘Ben Ware’s On Extinction,’ Marx &amp; Philosophy Review of Books (August 2024). &nbsp; Articles (with Sean O’Brien) ‘Introduction: Reading Marx,’ &nbsp;CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 27.1-2 (2025). ‘Dead Loss: Freud and the Aesthetics of Mourning,’ Paragraph 47.2 (2024). ‘Stably Unusual: Artistic Labor and Aesthetic Autonomy,’ Qui Parle 32.2 (2023). ‘Subjects of Exchange: Between Lacan and the Neue Marx-Lektüre,’ Rethinking Marxism 35.2 (2023). ‘Spectrality, Marxism and the Critique of Value,’ Critique 49.1-2 (2021). ‘Translatability and the “African Modern” in Mozambican Contemporary Art,’ The Contemporary Journal 1 (2019). Reviews‘The Long Farewell: Review of Those Passions, by T.J. Clark,’ Radical Philosophy 220 (2026). ‘Marxist Modernism, by Gillian Rose,’ Critical Inquiry 52.1&nbsp;(2025). Other ‘Diary from the Third Millennium,’ Wasafiri (June 2020). https://thomas-waller.com/Talks Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:36:07 +0000 Thomas Waller https://thomas-waller.com/Talks 2026(with Sean O’Brien) ‘Marx to the Letter,’ at the Reading Capital 60 Years On conference, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University (June 2026). 2025 ‘Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil,’ in the Marxism in Culture seminar series, University College London (December 2025). ‘Importing Abstraction: Neo-Concretism and Historical Avant-Garde,’ at the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS University, London (November 2025). ‘The Modernist Lacan,’ in the Lacan in Scotland seminar series (October 2025). ‘After Abstraction: The Brazilian Avant-Garde in the Rightward Turn,’ at the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (June 2025). (with Carson Welch) ‘Hegel and World Literature,’ at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (May 2025).‘Thinking the Absolute: From Dialectical to Speculative Method,’ at the Questions of Methodology in Literary Studies roundtable, University of Campinas, Brazil (March 2025). 2024 ‘Absolute Style: Gillian Rose's Speculative Philosophy,’ at the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS University, London (November 2024). ‘Peter Bürger at the Margins,’ at the annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies, University of Copenhagen (October 2024).‘Lacan's Modernist Stécriture,’ at the Lacan Today conference, University of Ghent (October 2024).‘Introduction to Kuxa Kanema,’ at the Anti-Colonial Film Club, King’s College London (August 2024).‘Torn Halves: Adorno, Political Economy, and the Aesthetics of Race,’ roundtable at&nbsp;the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society, Saint James United Church, Montreal (June 2024). ‘The Peripheral Avant-Garde: Neo-Concretism and the Time of Revolution,’ at the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society, Saint James United Church, Montreal (June 2024).‘Art, Exception, Subsumption,’ at the&nbsp;Aesthetics and/or Politics symposium, University of Campinas, Brazil (April 2024). 2023 ‘Keywords for Value and Culture,’ roundtable at the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS University, London (November 2023). ‘The House of Fiction: Roberto Schwarz, Henry James, and the Politics of Form,’ at the Representations of Home Open Seminar, University of Lisbon, (September 2023).‘Tarsila do Amaral and the Aesthetics of Nature,’ at the annual British and Irish Lusitanists conference, University College Cork (September 2023).‘Roberto Schwarz and Dialectical Criticism,’ reading group organised for the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society, University of Massachusetts Boston (June 2023).‘A City Called Mirage: Kiluanji Kia Henda and the Spectre of Growth,’ at the Growing Pains symposium, University College Dublin (June 2023). 2022 ‘Roberto Schwarz and World-Literature,’ panel organised for the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS, University, London (November 2022). ‘Brazilian Modernism and the Blue Cultural Fix,’ in the Environmental Humanities Virtual Talks series, University College Dublin (June 2022).‘Roberto Schwarz and the Aesthetics of Formal Subsumption,’ at Dispossessed: A Symposium on Marxism, Culture, Extraction, and Enclosure, University of Warwick (May 2022). ‘The Energy Unconscious: Jameson, Braudel, and Geological Time,’ at the&nbsp;Directions in Energy Humanities symposium, University of Warwick (April 2022).