Jason Barker is professor of English at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is the writer-director of the German documentary Marx Reloaded and author of the novel Marx Returns. He is the editor of LARB's forums on Louis Althusser and Karl Marx.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Rousseau’s State of Pure Nature
Althusser’s reading of Rousseau takes us to the very heart of questions on the management of our natural world in the age of the Anthropocene....
The World Is Not Enough
Jason Barker reviews "A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx."...
“Young Marx” at the Bridge Theatre London: An Interview with the Writer Clive Coleman
Jason Barker speaks to Clive Coleman, co-writer with Richard Bean of “Young Marx,” a play about Marx and his family’s early years in London....
Althusser’s Philosophical Disorder
“Philosophy,” as Althusser writes, “is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”...
