The direction of the movement does matter: A response to Fabio Vighi

About the Authors Yahya M. Madra is an associate professor of economics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and a member of the editorial collective of Rethinking Marxism. He has published and coauthored articles on neoliberalism in economics and on matters of subjectivity in Marxian political economy and Lacanian psychoanalysis in journals such as Antipode, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal of Economic Issues, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Rethinking Marxism, and Subjectivity as well as in edited volumes in English, Turkish, and Italian. Currently, together with his long-time collaborator Ceren Özselçuk, he is working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Sexuating Class: A Psychoanalytical Critique of Political Economy. Ceren Özselçuk is an assistant professor of sociology at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Her research fields include post-Althusserian theories of political and political economy, psychoanalysis and subjectivity. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Rethinking Marxism where she has also worked as a managerial editor since 2012. Her work has appeared in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Rethinking Marxism, Subjectivity, Theseis (in Greek) and Toplum ve Bilim (in Turkish) as well as in edited volumes in English, Turkish, and Italian. She is currently working, together wth Yahya M. Madra, on a book manuscript titled Sexuating Class: A Psychoanalytical Critique of Political Economy.