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ASIDES DAVID ARDITI ON THE IDEOLOGY OF GETTING SIGNED Director of the Center for Theory, Dr. David Arditi, recently spoke on “That Creative Industries Podcast” about his upcoming book The Ideology of Getting Signed. MARXIST SOCIOLOGY BLOG The Marxist section of the American Sociological Associationstarted a new blog in the Fall of 2018. They have been posting some great posts about…Continue Reading MARXIST SOCIOLOGY BLOG

The Sociology program at the University of Texas at Arlington will offer a new theory course this Fall (2019) entitled “Social Theory Through Popular Culture.” The course is open to all UTA students. Sociology students can take this in lieu of Sociological Theory (but students can take both theory classes, too!). The idea is to read original theorists (from…Continue Reading SOCIAL THEORY THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE

VOL 1, NO 2 (2005) FAST CAPITALISM 1.2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Full Issue PDF Front Matter PDF Editorial Board PDF About the Authors PDF THE SIXTIES AT FORTY Where in the World Are We? Elections, the Color Line, the Decline of Empire and FirefliesBernardine Dohrn PDF Killing the Field of Dreams: George W. Bush, Empire…Continue Reading ARCHIVE – FAST CAPITALISM 1.2

Two faculty associated with the Center for Theory have praxis projects – i.e. putting theory to work. First, Dr. Jennifer Millerhas a blog (RaiseThemRighteous) about the role cultural texts, like picture books, play in shaping how we perceive ourselves, the world, and all the people in it (and the animals, environments, ideas, etc.). Dr. Miller regularly blogs about…Continue Reading PRAXIS PROJECTS

An important part of UTA’s Center for Theory is the administration of Fast Capitalism. After hosting the journal on an HTML website since 2005, we are making a big move. We partnered with the UTA Library to develop the website on the Open Journal System (OJS) platform. OJS allows us to bring the journal in-line with other online journal platforms. This…Continue Reading FAST CAPITALISM 1.1 ON NEW SITE