Home
Sixth Historical Materialism Annual Conference 2009 PDF Tulosta Sähköposti
18.12.2009 19:05

Opiston aktiiveja vieraili marras-joulukuun vaihteessa Lontoossa konferenssissa "Sixth Historical Materialism annual conference 2009: Another World is Necessary: Crisis, Struggles and Political Alternatives". Nauhoitimme suuren osan konferenssin keskusteluista.

Nauhoitteet ovat ladattavissa mp3:na opiston sivuilta. Klikkaa alla olevaa linkkiä.

Lähiaikoina Yhteiskunnallisen opiston sivuille on tulossa lisää äänitteitä.


SESSION I

Interpretations of the Crisis 1:

Verity Burgman - The Global Financial Crisis and the ideas of Antonio Negri
John Weeks - Marx's Theory of Value and the Global Financial Crisis

 

Agency, Class, Subjectivity

Robert Jackson - Subjectivity in Marx's Capital
Sheila Cohen - Left Agency and Class Action: The Paradox of Workplace Radicalism
Alexander Zevin - 1968: Workers, Students, Lessons

 

SESSION II

Interpretations of the Crisis 2

Joseph Choonara - Marxist Accounts of the Current Crisis
Peter Hudis - Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg in Light of Today's Economic Crisis
discussion


Art Against Capitalism

Tim Dayton - Love and Arms and Song: Romantic Anticapitalism in the Poetry of Alan Seeger
Rob Heynen - "We Are the Eyes of Our Class!": Class, Gender and Revolutionary Politics in Weimar Photography
Maria Elisa Cevasco - Art against Barbarism

 

SESSION III

Social Movements in Latin America: The Present Conjuncture

Thomas Purcell - Ground-rent and Chavismo: a Critique of the Bolivarian Revolution
Andreia Galvao and Jose Marcos Novelli - Is Neo-Liberalism Under Attack in Brazil? Lula's Response to the Economic Crisis
Leandro Vergara-Camus - The MST and the EZLN: The Meaning of Autonomy
discussion

 

The Political Aesthetics of Realism

Kerstin Stakemeier - On Realism in Art
Daniel Fairfax - Towards a Political Aesthetics of the Cinema
Gene Ray - Dialectical Realism: On Brecht, Adorno and the Problem of Representing Contemporary Capitalism

 

SESSION IV

Postneoliberalism (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)

Birgit Sauer - What About Gender Relations? The Slow Transformation of Gender Inequality
Gregory Albo - The Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Impasse of the Union Movement
Ulrich Brand - The Ambiguous Postneoliberalising of Nature: The Case of Agrofuels

Capitalism and Beyond

Riccardo Bellofiore - The Grundrisse after Capital, or how to re-read Marx backwards
Massimiliano Tomba - Interpretations of the 'Fragment on Machines'
John Holloway - Crack Capitalism


SESSION VI

Marxism and Time

Sami Khatib - Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin and the Spectre of the Messianic: Is There a Materialist Theory of Time?
Blair Ogden - Cycles, Lines and Exceptions: Elucidating the Ideology of Progress in 'On the Concept of History'

 

SESSION VII

Ecological Crisis (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)

Erik Swyngedouw - Ecology as the New Opium of the People
Tadzio Müller - Green New Deal and the New Fields of Capital Accumulation
Eva Charkiewicz - Climate Justice
discussion

Student Movements and Youth Revolts

Stipe Curkovic - A Different Notion of Democracy?
Primoz Krasovec - All Anti-Communists are Paper Tigers: Student Uprisings in Croatia in the Light of Struggle Against Revisionism
Clare Solomon - UK University Occupations
Panagiotis Sotiris - The December 2008 Greek Youth Rebellion

 

SESSION VIII

HM Book Series Launch: Mikko Lahtinen's Politics and Philosophy: Niccolò Machiavelli and Louis Althusser's Aleatory Materialism

Mikko Lahtinen
Panagiotis Sotiris
Gal Kirn
Peter Thomas


SESSION IX

Morbid Symptoms: Health under Capitalism - The Socialist Register 2010

Colin Leys - Capitalism, Health and Health Care
Julian Tudor Hart - Mental Health in a Sick Society: What are People for?
Robert Albritton - Between Obesity and Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry
Meri Koivusalo - Shaping Global Health Policy: From the WHO to the Gates Foundation

 

SESSION X

Migration

Jane Hardy - State, Labour and Capital: Migration in an Enlarged Europe
Ilker Atac - Discussing Migration in the Light of the Economic Crisis: Beyond the Victimisation and Economisation of Migrants

 

SESSION XI

Empire and Imperialism

Lucia Pradella - Empire, State and Accumulation on a World Scale in Marx's Capital
John Rees - Patterns of Imperial Economy
Radhika Desai - The Short American Century
discussion

Feminism and Socialist Strategy

Maria Kyriakidou - Another World is Possible as Long as It is Feminist Too: Leftist Feminists as Dissidents in the Anti-Globalization Struggle
Hester Eisenstein - Strategies for Socialist Feminists in the Age of Obama
Lindsey German - Women, War and Modern Feminism

 

SESSION XII

Turbulence: Ideas For Movement - New Issue Launch

Ben Trott, David Harvie, Tadzio Müller, Keirn Milburn, Angela McRobbie & John Holloway

Cognitive Mapping, Totality and the Realist Turn

Alberto Toscano - The Poetics of Containerisation
Jeff Kinkle - Mapping Conspiracy: Parapolitics and Totality
Gail Day - Critical Realisms of Contemporary Art

 

SESSION XIII: Historical Materialism plenary

Fredric Jameson - Representing Capital: A New Reading Hypothesis About Volume 1 of Marx's Capital
Peter Osborne
Maria Elisa Cevasco
Peter Thomas
Jamesonin vastaus
loppukeskustelu