Welcome to season 2 of Cinder Bloc. radio! Today, Will and Kyle speak with Max Fox, Madeline Lane-McKinley, and M.E. O'Brien about the life and work of the late Christopher Chitty. Marrying Marx and Foucault, Chitty's analysis focused on the historical conditions for queer sexuality through the development of capitalism, focusing on relations and practices of solidarity and domination brought about through proletarianization and organizational hierarchy in periods of capitalist crises. Chitty sees the genesis and entrenchment of modern, queer sexualities as having

"... emerged within the interstices of transformed property relations, through the population displacements from the countryside and the subsequent concentration of those workers who were superfluous to agrarian production in urban centers, as well as within the institutions that attempted to manage or capture these surplus populations- factories, workhouses, standing armies, policing, and punitive apparatuses, naval and merchant fleets, and colonial territories."

A collection of Chitty's writing, Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, was released by DUP in 2020. Max Fox edited the collection and is currently working on a second volume of Chitty's writing with Madeline Lane-McKinley.

* At the time of this recording all the way up until our release, workers of Duke University Press have been in a collective bargaining struggle and unionizing against their working conditions with the press management. Listeners can find out more here: https://www.dupworkersunion.org/ *

Max Fox is, among other things, a founding editor of Pinko Magazine, an editor and translator.

On Christopher Chitty 

Mourning and Marginalia: an Interview with Madeline Lane-McKinley 

a Final Straw interview on Sexual Hegemony, sexuality, liberation and class.  

a Rabbles of the World interview on sexual liberation and its legacies 

Sexual Hegemony book launch (w/ Chris Nealon and Tobi Haslett) 

An Infantile Disorder 

Madeline Lane-McKinley is, among other things, a writer and a founding editor of Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry.

Mourning and Marginalia: An Interview with Max Fox 

"Retreat" and the Sick World 

The Year of the Wombat 

Dear Z 

Feeling Good in 'Feel Good' 

Born in Flames: Fictions of Masculinity, After #MeToo 

The Idea of Children 

And We Mother Them Again: Motherhood at the Margins