Ernesto Laclau Archives

Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more

‘The Third Marx’: Review of Marcello Musto’s “The last years of Karl Marx”

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Collectivisation, Ernesto Laclau, India, Leninism, Marx, Post-Marxism, The Russian questionNo CommentsViews:

As usual with Milanovic’s essays, almost every sentence in this review is a seminar topic in its own, problematising Marx’s key texts all the way as against any tendency to consume suc... Read more

ASUU As a Study in Articulatory Politics, Antagonism and Radical Democratic Change in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'Broadcasters, 'Empty signifier', Antagonism, ASUU, CAPP, Ernesto Laclau, NUCNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja For an organisation that was told by a sitting president and Commander-in-Chief, (not President Buhari) that it would be drowned out into irrelevance as soon as he, (the C-in... Read more

The Constitution Goes Digital, Takes on the National Question in Current Edition

Posted By: adminon: October 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Militant particularism', Ernesto Laclau, Marxism, National QuestionNo CommentsViews:

In the very journal dry academic atmosphere in Nigeria today, The Constitution can be rated to be on top of intellectual discourse in Nigeria. The Editor, Sylvester Odion Akhaine, a Professo... Read more

Managing 2021 in Nigeria From Otukpo to Bosnia and Back

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Cold War, Ernesto Laclau, Muhammadu Buhari, YugoslaviaNo CommentsViews:

It was no fun waking up to a Whatsapp photo from an otherwise cool and problem free individual, drawing attention to something that is being scheduled to happen in Otukpo town in Benue State... Read more