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The thesis is a meta-narrative discourse regarding the subversion in the representation of late capitalist realism. Through a post-humanist Marxist perspective, it connects three video game industry’s favorites with the ultimate question of capitalism: Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium‪‬.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ By looking through the unanimous retrospective paradigm, the thesis starts an exploratory journey analyzing the three games in terms of their narrative and mechanics lineages. Eventually, it wishes to reveal the possibility of genuine alternatives to our late capitalist reality from the late capitalist entertainment industry. By exposing the retrospective and inquisitive obsession of the three games, it reveals the underlying collective political trauma derived from the inability to defeat the late capitalist realism. While the analysis also leads to a potential solution that favors chance and randomness in order to disrupt the insatiable capitalist desire for the assimilation of originality.

[pt] O presente trabalho busca apresentar a influência de Evguiéni B. Pachukanis para o campo do direito penal, uma vez que essa compreensão se faz urgente para uma intervenção política que também compreenda as bases materiais que determinam a nossa forma específica de sociabilidade. Desse modo, como compreendido pelo jurista soviético e pelos marxistas, não seria possível concretizar reformas estruturais de intervenção na realidade, ainda que em favor da classe trabalhadora, que passem pelos mesmos mecanismos e instrumentos que nos são colocados pela classe capitalista, como os jurídicos e os políticos de Estado. Será, ainda, feita uma defesa, no horizonte das lutas populares, por um resgate à tese do fim do Estado, para não nos limitarmos a qualquer espécie de reformismo institucional ou outras concepções a-históricas ou idealistas acerca do direito e de uma suposta função ressocializadora do sistema penal. Será demonstrado como o direito penal exerce papel fundamental na manutenção da ordem capitalista e no controle violento daqueles que historicamente não se adaptam ou não são integrados ao funcionamento ordinário do mercado de trabalho. Nesse sentido, o jurista soviético era, não apenas um abolicionista penal, mas um revolucionário, ao enxergar no fim do direito penal como impossível de ser plenamente concretizado em uma sociedade na qual ainda haja circulação generalizada de mercadorias, dotadas de valor de troca, pois, como o direito é forma do capital, o sistema penal continuaria encarcerando corpos marginalizados em massa. / [en] The present work seeks to present the influence of Evguiéni B. Pachukanis for the field of criminal law, since this understanding is urgent for a political intervention that also understands the material bases that determine our specific form of sociability. In this way, as understood by the Soviet jurist and the Marxists, it would not be possible to carry out structural interventions in reality, even if in favor of the working class, which pass through the same mechanisms and instruments that are placed before us by the capitalist class, such as legal and state mechanisms. A defense will also be made, on the horizon of popular struggles, for a rescue of the thesis of the end of the State, so as not to limit ourselves to any kind of institutional reformism or other ahistorical or idealistic conceptions about law and the supposed resocializing function of the penal system. It will be demonstrated how criminal law plays a fundamental role in maintaining the capitalist order and also in the violent control of those who historically do not adapt or are not integrated into the ordinary functioning of the job market. In this sense, the Soviet jurist was not only a criminal abolitionist, but a revolutionary, seeing the end of criminal law as impossible to be fully implemented in a society in which there is still a generalized circulation of goods, endowed with exchange value, because, as law is a form of capital, the criminal system would continue to imprison marginalized bodies.

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This essay applies a feminist neo-Marxist perspective to analyze the intricate parts of society in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The essay performs an analysis of societal norms and the influence the economy has on individuals with a focus on the character Charlotte Lucas by applying feminist and Marxist frameworks to the character and her choices. The analysis explores how Regency patriarchy influences the lives and choices of individuals such as Charlotte, who has to make decisions within societal constraints in pursuit of a stable future. An introduction to feminist neo-Marxism is made to establish a theoretical understanding of the gender roles and power dynamics in the novel. Interactions between gender expectations, economic factors, and class are highlighted. Regency societal norms and economic pressures are especially analyzed to contextualize Charlotte’s choices. This essay offers insight into the character’s motivations while highlighting what in the way society functions drives them to make the decisions they do, especially as women.

As a Marxist contribution to research on the concept of religious diaspora, this paper seeks to explore whether Muslims can be understood as a nationally oppressed people with an economic basis for organising collectively as a group. Drawing from a Marxist analysis of religion and national struggle, the paper seeks to explore the concept of an ethnicity formation premised on religious affiliation, namely that of the Muslim Ummah, and its organisational potential within a national struggle paradigm. Utilising the Hegelian Marxist concept of Aufhebung, or dialectical return, the study resituates the parameters of anti-colonial struggle beyond nation to the transnational arena, recapturing the economic basis of the Ummah and enabling an understanding of its contemporary emergence within and alongside national struggle mobilisations at both localised and transnational levels.

Black theology and apartheid theology are theologies making use of an epitheton. The use to which the epitheton is put in these theologies is of crucial importance, that is, they are couplet theologies being used in a subjective genitive fashion. The question is whether the couplet becomes a theology of/concerning the epitheton or is it used in an objective genitive fashion. When the epitheton is used in the objective genitive sense it of necessity has to generate an epistemological break in order to distinguish it from orthodox theology. This in turn necessitates a conscientisation of a contextually predicated theology The theology becomes reductive. In this way an epitheton theology forming part of a couplet becomes attenuated and diverges from orthodox theology in the construction of its theology. This can lead to the espousal of heretical teachings. Conclusion: The conclusion arrived at is the objective genitive sense, that an epitheton theology, in for the purpose of advancing a particular secular base or pseudo-theological base for Christian society, once it has gained a life of its own, will lead to heresy unless erroneous or sinful teachings are confessed and repented of. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)

With the rise of the Popular Front during the 1930s, the American Left came together under the symbols of the “people” and “America,” and as its ranks swelled with modernity’s disenfranchised, radicals utilized the structures and discourses of modernity in the name of political struggle against exploitive American capitalism and fascism abroad. Science fiction and its devoted fan community were among these structures and discourses. Though both were largely conservative, entwined with American corporate capitalism, one group of fans embraced Communism and hoped to politicize science fiction and its fandom. The Michelists, as they called themselves, worked through the established channels of science fiction and fandom advocating a unique Marxist understanding of science fiction. This report situates them within the Popular Front, particularly its discourses of science and popular culture, and highlights how the particularities of the genre and its fandom shaped their political beliefs and actions. / text