What I like in Tamas is how easily he can switch from writing an essay on ruins, the fragmentary, Marx rewriting the Capital. High modernism and impersonal authority and then gauge the speed of capital and slowness of labour, it's garish bermuda pants & wide t-shirts as the uniform of late Fordism.
Stefan Tiron#longread #mustread #bestread #history An article from years back written by the indispensable G M Tamas. It's also probably one of the most comprehensive articles I've read about nationalism, modernisation, centralisation and Habsburg multiculturalism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/g-m...