Matthew Lau
Faculty Fellow
Matthew Lau is assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His writings have appeared in Comparative Literature, The International Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Lana Turner, and on the website Lacan.com. He is researching a biographical project on Stephen Jay Gould.
Participating Years
2016–2017
Consciousness and Revolution
The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?