One focus of the academic feud between marxist and postmodern or poststructuralist theorists is the issue of representation. Marxists like Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, and Frederic Jameson have said that literary texts do represent the world -- not (as had been claimed by representatives of the humanist traditions) in the sense of any simple mimesis, but in complex, ideologically-charged ways. New radical skeptics like Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard have argued that all representation is misrepresentation, even that there is no "world" (as object or totality) to represent. Feminist theorists, meanwhile, have taken a variety of positions on the issue, some of which take the work of marxists like Macherey or Lukacs as starting points, and some of which are inspired by postmodern or poststructuralist approaches. This feud has thus far hardly involved anarchists, who are scarcely represented in the academy (although in the discourses of literary theory the words "anarchist" and "anarchy" are occasionally brandished as symbols or hurled as epithets, there is no widely-recognized discourse that could be called "anarchist literary theory"), and who have historically involved themselves with literary questions far less often than their marxist or feminist counterparts -- indeed, only sporadically. How might anarchist literary theory position itself with regard to this issue, in relation to these interlocutors? Drawing on many of the texts from this list (and on other critical or literary texts as necessary), write 20 pages in pursuit of (but not necessarily in answer to) this question.

Marxism

• 1.) Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory.

• 2.) Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment.

• 3.) Walter Benjamin, Illuminations

• 4.) Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle.

• 5.) Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism.

• 6.) Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne, eds., Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader.

• 7.) Antonio Gramsci, The Modern Prince and Other Writings.

• 8.) Ken Knabb, ed., The Situationist International Anthology.

• 9.) Herbert Marcuse, The Aesthetic Dimension.

• 10.) Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology.

• 11.) Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age.

• 12.) Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature.

  Feminism

• 13.) Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.

• 14.) Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics.

• 15.) Lydia Sargent, ed., Women and Revolution.

• 16.) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Sex and History in The Prelude", "Unmaking and Making in To The Lighthouse."

  Poststructuralism/Postmodernism

• 17.) Jacques Derrida, Positions.

• 18.) Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogical Imagination.

• 19.) Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production.

• 20.) Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader.

• 21.) --The History of Sexuality, vol. 1.

• 22.) Jean-François Lyotard, "Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?"

• 23.) Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics.

• 24.) Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle.

  Anarchism

• 25.) Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism.

• 26.) John Clark, The Anarchist Moment.

• 27.) Joff, "The Possibility of an Anti-Humanist Anarchism."

• 28.) Andrew M. Koch, "Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism", "Max Stirner: The Last Hegelian or the First Poststructuralist?"

• 29.) Todd May, The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism.

• 30.) John Moore, "Fredy Perlman and the Literature of Subversion", "Anarchism and Poststructuralism."

• 31.) Rolando Perez, On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis.

• 32.) Andre Reszler, "Bakunin, Marx, and the Aesthetic Heritage of Socialism", "Peter Kroptkin and His Vision of Anarchist Aesthetics."

• 33.) Rudolf Rocker, Nationalism and Culture.

• 34.) Marshall Shatz, The Essential Works of Anarchism.

• 35.) David Weir, Anarchy & Culture.