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Abstract
This text is essayist, critic and poet Franco Fortini's introduction to the Italian translation of Fredric Jameson's Marxism and Form. Fortini frames his assessment of Jameson in terms of a contrast with the Italian reception of the dialectical criticism assayed in Marxism and Form.

Giorgio Cesarale's book A Sinistra takes for granted the fertility of the encounter between the 'bourgeois revolution' and anti-systemic movements from below. But it is an open question whether a radical 'stretching' of the notion of the 'Left' to encompass, if not to synthesise, sub-altern studies, black radical tradition and anti-colonial indigenous political philosophies, as well as anti-capitalist feminisms, requires rewriting or abandoning the framework of political modernity, especially as crystallised in the short twentieth century.

In this article, we want to think through this articulation of race, property and capitalist abstraction, exploring how attention to the forms of property may permit novel and politically urgent insights into the relationship between capitalism and race, addressing a critical area of social contestation in which processes of racialisation are intensely present, but in which they are also frequently 'disappeared'. We revisit the place of property in Marxist theories of abstraction, to consider whether it can provide us with some of the instruments to think the present conjuncture, but also to explore the ways in which a consideration of the racial logics of property may require us to recalibrate our understanding of the violence of abstraction.

This essay critically approaches the use of "1968" as a periodizing category by contrasting historiographic and political debates on the event and aftermath of the French May with the spatial and temporal unevenness that attaches to Italy's "long" 1968. We explore two interlocking dimensions of the latter: the reprise of the "Southern question" in the midst of this sociopolitical upheaval, on the one hand, and the potent if enigmatic image of an Italian "creeping May," on the other. A political and historiographic reflection on the Italian case suggests the need to dislocate a linear, if punctuated, periodization of 1968, and to move toward an understanding of the crises and movements that cluster around this date through a framework anchored around the notion of rhythm conceived as the site of political and spatial unevenness.

Section I. Ontology is mathematics. 1. Mathematics and philosophy : the grand style and the little style ; 2. Philosophy and mathematics : infinity and the end of romanticism ; 3. The question of being today ; 4. Platonism and mathematical ontology ; 5. The being of number ; 6. One, multiple, multiplicities ; 7. Spinoza's closed ontology -- Sect. II. The subtraction of truth. 8. The event as trans-being ; 9. On subtraction ; 10. Truth : forcing and the unnameable ; 11. Kant's subtractive ontology ; 12. Eight theses on the universal ; 13. Politics as truth procedure -- Sect. III. Logics of appearance. 14. Being and appearance ; 15. Notes toward a thinking of appearance ; 16. The transcendental ; 17. Hegel and the whole ; 18. Language, thought, poetry

"The Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his mode of expression. Through meticulous readings of key passages in Marx's oeuvre, Silva isolates the central elements of his style: the search for an architectonic unity at the level of the text, his capacity to express himself dialectically at the level of the sentence, and, above all, his great gift for metaphor"--