A Discussion with Alastair Davidson, Andrew Wells, and Peter Beilharz

What’s the fuss about Gramsci? Or, how is Gramsci still relevant today? Gramsci remains an influential, if not auratic figure for marxism, critical theory and cultural studies, including the postcolonial. Ideas like hegemony have become standard, alongside Fordism, historic bloc, interregnum, the Southern Question and so on. Yet our worlds have changed substantially since Gramsci developed this vocabulary in the thirties; and the question of how Gramsci should be situated, Italian or Sardinian, and interwar, may be less exercised.