Christopher Chitty

was a theorist and activist. He played a pivotal role in student struggles at the University of California and the Occupy movement.

Reassessing Foucault: Modern Sexuality and the Transition to Capitalism

Christopher Chitty April 20, 2017

Are the premises of queer theory really antithetical to a historical materialist understanding of the origins of capitalism? Considering Foucault’s something of the patron saint of queer theory, we might perhaps discover the error of the whole formation in the thought of its founder.

Towards a Socialist Art of Government: Michel Foucault’s “The Mesh of Power”

Christopher Chitty September 12, 2012

Foucault’s thought about power must first be situated within his conjuncture and our own if we want to articulate his conceptual problems and grasp their stakes. These contextual moves will help us unlearn the way his thought was received and reconstructed.