Yhteiskunnallisen opiston aktiiveja vieraili marras-joulukuun vaihteessa 2009 Lontoon “Sixth Historical Materialism annual conference 2009: Another World is Necessary: Crisis, Struggles and Political Alternatives” -konferenssissa. Nauhoitimme suuren osan konferenssin keskusteluista.
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
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