Missing Marcuse: On gentrification and displacement

Marcuse & Habermas on New Science

Marx's meaning of materialism as well as the extent of Hegel's influence on his thought has been in the center of controversy among Marxists ever since the publication in 1923 of Lukdcs' History and Class Consciousness and Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy with the Frankfurt school, including Marcuse, embracing the Hegelian interpretation. The controversy has resurfaced within the Frankfurt schoo...

The Impact of Construction and Gentrification on an Outdoor Trans Sex Work Environment: Violence, Displacement and Policing.

The objective of this study was to investigate how environmental and structural changes to a trans outdoor work environment impacted sex workers in Vancouver, Canada. The issue of changes to the work area arose during qualitative interviews with 33 trans sex workers. In response, ethnographic walks that incorporated photography were undertaken with trans sex workers. Changes to the work environ...

Interview with Marcuse

T h is interview first appeared in Dev Spiegel on Ju ly 28, 1969 u n d er the title Revolution out of Disgust. I t began w ith the following ed itorial note: Herbert Marcuse is the only philosopher of his generation w ho unconditionally embraces the protest m ovem ent of the students; his “concrete philoso­ phy,’’ influenced by Freud and Heidegger, tries to adapt M arx’s theory of revolution to...

Marcuse: the Dialectics of Hopelessness

ECAUSE Marcuse did not surface as a semi-popular social critic till the 1960s during the time of mounting and, for awhile, hopeful social protest, he is often assumed to be a spokesman for the protestors. Indeed, some of his writings in the sixties (most notably his Essay on Liberation) directly addressed the protest movement. Moreover, as protest in the U.S. subsided in the seventies, Marcuse ...

Rethinking Reification: Marcuse, Psychoanalysis, and Gay Liberation