Sessions, Abstracts and recordings

Interpretations of the crisis 1

John Weeks: Marx’s Theory of Value and the Global Financial Crisis / Moishe Postone: Crisis and Value / Verity Burgmann: The Global Financial Crisis and the Ideas of Antonio Negri

Interpretations of the crisis 2

Joseph Choonara: Marxist Accounts of the Current Crisis / Jonathan Neale: Economic Crisis, Climate Crisis, Ecosocialism and Marxism / Peter Hudis: Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg in Light of Today's Economic Crisis

Marxism between ethics and utopia

Christoph Henning: Karl Marx: Perfectionist? The Ethics of Flourishing in Marxian Theory / Paul Blackledge: Concrete and Abstract Utopias: Marxism’s Ethical Alternative to Capitalism / Mauro Farnesi Camellone: The Science of Hope: Ernst Bloch’s Marxism

Coercion, politics and the economy

Sébastien Rioux: The Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism: A Critique of neo-Smithian Marxism / Funda Hülagü: In Search of a Historical Materialist Approach to the Issue of Physical State Coercion and Coercive Apparatuses of the State

Derivatives

Earl Gammon and Duncan Wigan: Derivatives and Property: Financialisation and the Sovereign Moment / Dimitris Sotiropoulos: Marx, Financialization, and Derivatives: Modern Finance as Discipline and Value-Form Analysis / Dick Bryan: Hold the Policy Solutions: Addressing the Problem of Equivalence

Agency, class, subjectivity

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

Unoism, ecology and crisis

Thomas Sekine: An Unoist View on the Current Economic Crisis / John Bell: Anti-Authoritarian Eco-Communism from Marx to Sekine

The politics of the will

Peter Hallward: Dialectical Voluntarism: A Defence / Frank Ruda: The Will and its Double: Hegel, Marx, Badiou.

Cuban revolution and cuban society

Steve Cushion: The Working Class in the Cuban Revolution / Elizabeth Dore: Talking Politics: Life Histories in the Cuban Revolution / Carrie Hamilton: Sex, Work and Housing in Contemporary Cuba: Towards an Integrated Historical Analysis

On the objects of communism: a hacking panel

Johan Soderberg: Hackers and the Left: Bridging the gap / Toni Prug: The objects of Communism: State-form Hacks

Apocalypse Marxism

Evan Calder Williams: Combined and Uneven Apocalypse / Benjamin Noys: Apocalyptic Tones and Accelerating Crisis / Mark Fisher: Post-Apocalypse Now

Student movements and youth rebellions

Primoz Krasovec: Militarisation of the Faculty of social sciences in Ljubljana and some of its implications regarding current social and economic developments  / Stipe Curkovic: A Different Notion of Democracy? / Panagiotis Sotiris: The December 2008 Greek Youth Rebellion / Clare Solomon: UK University Occupations

New trajectories of capitalism (Rosa Luxemburg foundation)''

Steffen Lehndorff; Dorothee Bohle; Stefan Schmalz: Roundtable

The political aesthetics of realism

Daniel Fairfax: Towards a political aesthetics of the cinema / Gene Ray: Dialectical Realism: On Brecht, Adorno and the Problem of Representing Contemporary Capitalism / Kerstin Stakemeier: On Realism in Art

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: Ecological Crisis and the ambiguous Post-Neoliberalisation of Nature

Labour and the economic subject in contemporary art

John Roberts: Art After Deskilling / Angela Dimitrakaki: Reflections on the ‘Labour Turn’ in Contemporary Art / Marina Vishmidt: Art and Labour as Anti-Matter: Why and Why Not

Slavery and capitalism in the us south

John Ashworth: The Origins of the Civil War / Charles Post: Class Conflict, the Development of Capitalism and the Origins of the US Civil War / Brian Kelly: Slave Emancipation and the Limits of Bourgeois Democracy in the US South, 1860-1880

Dimensions of the global crisis

Bonn Juego and Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt: Neoliberalism, Financial Crises and Authoritarian Liberalism / Ozlem Onaran: From the Crisis of Distribution to the Distribution of the Costs of the Crisis / John Smith: Outsourcing and the Crisis

Politics in the business school? (''ephemera'')

The Ephemera Collective: Theory and Politics in the Business School / Armin Beverungen: Capital and the Business School: Collusion or Collision? / Stefano Harney: Extreme Neo-liberalism

Energy and geopolitics

Alex Colas and Gonzo Pozo: Spaces of Accumulation, Cartographies of Conflict: Marxism and the Geopolitics of Energy / Simon Pirani: Russia's Natural Resources: Curse? Weapon? Both?

Gramsci reloaded

Derek Boothman and Adam Morton: The 1926 Agrarian and International Theses of the Italian Communist Party: Gramsci's Input / Dhruv Jain: Gramsci Rediscovered: Rethinking ''The Modern Prince''

Knowledge, nature, property

Ozgur Narin: From the ''Origin of Species'' to the Genome Project or the Capitalist Book of the ‘Inventory of Genes’: The Capitalist Appropriation of Species and Genes / Christian Zeller: Knowledge and nature as fields of valorization of (financial) capital

Developmentalism, the state and class formation

Subir Sinha: State, Developmentalism and the Transnational / Tom Barnes: Development and Class Formation in Neo-Liberal India / Aaron Benanav: Structures of Superfluity: A Critique of Mike Davis's ''Planet of Slums''

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’ / Amedeo Policante: Between History and Myth: The Insurrectionary Experience of Time in Furio Jesi’s ''Spartakus''

Science and epistempology in althusser and della volpe

Knox Peden: Recuperating Science, Attenuating Philosophy: The Spinozism of Louis Althusser / Zaira Rodrigues Vieira: Epistemology and Practice: Marxist Dialectic According to Della Volpe and Althusser

Historical materialism and social research

William Lewis: What Makes Social Theory Critical: A Defense of Historical Materialist Assumptions in Social Scientific Research / Alexander Gallas: Neo-Poulantzasianism: A New Type of Marxist Political Analysis? / Michalis Skomvoulis: ‘La Pensée Mai 68’ and the Marxist Theory of Ideology: Debord, Baudrillard, Castoradis

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

Global law and human rights: Marxist reflections

Bill Bowring: How can a political account of human rights avoid Eurocentrism Akbar Rasulov: For Hale and Althusser: An Outline of a Marxist Theory of Global Law

Latin american working classes

Susan Spronk: Neoliberal Class Formation(s): The Informal Proletariat and 'New' Workers' Organisations in Latin America / Ricardo Antunes: The Challenges of Leftist Trade Unions and Socialist Movement in Brazil Today: The Eternal Restart / Lesley Gill: The Limits of Solidarity: Labor and Transnational Organizing against Coca-Cola

Philosophy and communism in the early Marx

Marco Vanzulli: Marx's Philosophical Position Starting Again from the ''Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844'' / James Furner: The Sketch of Communist Society in ''The German Ideology'' / Luca Basso: Singularity and Communism in ''The German Ideology''

Crisis and politics in argentina

Jean Baptiste Thomas: The Cordobazo, a debate within the Argentinean left forty years later / Mariano Feliz: Neo-Developmentalism: Beyond Neoliberalism? Capitalist Crisis and Argentina's Development since the 90s / Steffen Fischer - Development and Crisis: The Argentine Case: How did Global Financial Crisis Impact on the Political Economies of the South?

Commodifying health care in the uk (''socialist register'')

Sally Ruane: Reform and Revalorisation: The ‘Modernisation’ of the National Health Service in England / Jonathon Tomlinson: Capitalism and the Therapeutic Relationship / Colin Leys: How Capital has Subverted the NHS in England

Art and critique in germany between the wars

Giorgos Papafragkou: Weimar Marxism: Between Critique and Utopia / Christopher Chitty: Reading Symptoms and Crises: The Politics of Art and Utopia / Owen Hatherley: 'No Rococo Palace for Buster Keaton': Americanism and Weimar Architecture

Planning, localism and the left

Aram Eisenschitz: Town Planning, Planning Theory and Social reform / Greg Sharzer: The Political Economy of Localism / Jamie Gough: How Can the Class-Struggle Left Use the Local Scale at the Present Time?

Labour beyond the factory

Emily van der Meulen: Reframing Sex Work as Sexual and Emotional Labour / Mislav Žitko: The University and the Class Structure: A Reexamination / Ferruccio Gambino: Migration and Labour Turnover

Utopias, dystopias and socialist biopolitics

Caroline Arscott: William Morris, ornament and the coordinates of the body / Sheila Rowbotham: Edward Carpenter: Body and Soul

Empire and imperialism

Lucia Pradella: Empire, State and Accumulation on a World Scale in Marx's ''Capital'' / John Rees: Patterns of Imperial Economy / Radikha Desai: The Short ‘American Century’

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

Capitalism, culture and the recuperation of dissent

Julian Stallabrass: The Fracturing of Globalisation / Peter Fleming: Trotsky at Saatchi's: Designer Resistance and Mapping the Limits of the Corporation / Nicola Livingstone: Beyond a Heterotopia: The Spectacle of Charity-Retailing under British Capitalism

Alterglobalization movements and korea

Seongjin Jeong: Ideas of Alterglobalization Movements and Marxism / Sang-Hwan Jang: European Radical LeftParties in the Alterglobalization Movements / Eui-Dong Kim: The Achievements and Limitations of Attac in Alterglobalization Movement

The right: race, nation, identity

Juan Grigera: Right-wing Social Movements? The Argentinean 'Development Model' in Question / Juliane Edler: Volk as 'Race': German Unification, Cultural Reservoir and the Law

Money

Jean-Guy Loranger: The Market Value of the US Dollar and the Financial Instability Crisis / Iren Levina: Interest-Bearing Capital, Loanable Capital, and Dialectic of the Circuit of the Money-Form of Capital

Research on Marx

John Clegg: On the Obsolescence of the Critique of Ideology / Xiaoping Wei: The Recognition of Theory in Historical Materialism / Michael Wood: Hal Draper on Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution / Pinar Bedirhanoglu and Galip Yalman: Coping with the Crisis in the South: With or Without the IMF / Maria Ivanova: Consumerism and the Crisis: Wither the ‘American Dream’?

The turn to ethics and the critique of capitalism

Kelvin Knight: Alasdair MacIntyre, Marx, and the Critique of Capitalism / Bob Cannon: Towards an Ethical Critique of Capitalism / Paul Reynolds: Marxist Theory and the Ethical Turn

Political economy of work (IIPPE)

Gary Slater: The Political Economy of Work in Modern Britain / Bruno Tinel: The Positive Contribution of Braverman on the Labour Process to Understanding Today’s Capitalism. / Andreas Malm: Class Struggle in the Air: Revisiting the Origins of Global Warming in Early Capitalist Development

Finance, politics and the state

Randy Martin: Beyond Risk and Remorse: Politics After Financialisation / Anush Kapadia: Monetary Materialism: Value, Credit, and the State / Costas Lapavitsas: Financialisation: What it is and How to Analyse it

Marxism outside the west

Peter Alexander: South Africa's Rebellion of the Poor / Craig Brandist: Marxism and Orientalism in Early Soviet Russia / Kevin B. Anderson: Marx at the Margins

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 Victimization and Economization of Migrants

Ecological crisis (''Rosa Luxemburg foundation'' )

Erik Swyngedouw: Ecology as the New Opium of the People / Tadzio Müller: Green New Deal and New Fields of Capital Accumulation / Ewa Charkiewicz: Climate Justice

Energy, waste and capitalism

Daniel Tanuro: Marxism, Energy and Ecology: The Moment of Truth / Jesse Goldstein: Human Waste Management and the Survival of Capitalism / Tim Cooper: Waste and the Political Ecology of Victorian Capital / POSTNEOLIBERALISM II: A LEFT PROJECT: TRANSFORMING THE STATE? (''ROSA LUXEMBURG FOUNDATION'' ) / Bob Jessop: The state and neoliberalism / Hilary Wainright: Restructuring of public service / Ed Rooksby: Towards a ‘Revolutionary Reformist’  Strategy - Within and Against the State

Union struggles

Gregory C. Flemming: Onitsha? It's Always Like that in Onitsha: CUPE 3903 on Strike / Monica Clua Losada: Menage a trois: the ITF, the TGWU and the Liverpool Dockers / Ellen Rosen: Wal-Mart Joins The Union

Eastern central europe from transition to EU enlargement: change and continuity in the global political economy

Stuart Shields: Populism, Regressive Nationalism and Labour in the 'New' Europe / Hugo Radice: Marxism in Eastern Europe: From Socialist Dissidence to Liberal Restoration / Vlad Mykhnenko and Adam Swain: Ukraine's Diverging Space Economy: Post-Soviet Development Models and Regional Trajectories 1990-2009 / Adam Fabry: Reflecting Unevenness: Hungary, the World Economy, and the Current Economic Crisis

Workers and struggle today

Demet Dinler: The Ontological Problem of the Worker / Sara Motta: ‘We are the Ones we have been Waiting For’: The Feminisation of Resistance in Venezuela / Alan Sears: Rebuilding the Infrastructure of Dissent

The arts and capitalist crisis: the new deal experience (sponsored by the ''Marxism in culture ''seminar)

Warren Carter: The Artist as Worker: Radical Responses to the New Deal Federal Art Projects / Jody Patterson: Revolution on the Walls: Modernism and the Left during the New Deal period / Barnaby Harran: The Machines that Broke America: Conflicts of Interests in Pare Lorentz’s Documentary Films

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

Capitalism, citizenship and crisis

Colin Mooers: Citizenship, Fetishism and the Financial Crisis / Kathryn Dean: Post-capitalist Citizenship and the Cognitive Division of Labour: An Aristotelian-Marxian Approach / Neil Davidson: Neoliberalism, Citizen-Consumers and the Persistence of the Nation-State

Class and conflict in ancient greece

Frantz Gheller: War in Ancient Greece / Tobias Reichardt: Social Domination in Greek Philosophy

Historicizing historical materialism

David Parker: Marxism and Absolutism / Jairus Banaji: Reconstructing Historical Materialism: Some Key Issues

Ecologies and geographies of capitalism

Romain Felli: Climate Change, International Law, and Capitalist Accumulation / Ayesha Hameed: Vectors of The Global Border

The crisis of the nation-state and the limits of anti-imperialism

Halil Berktay: Absolute Anti-Imperialism: A Senile Disorder / Nicos Trimikliniotis: Cypriot Communism: Facing the Crisis of Anti-imperialism and the Challenges of Rapprochement in Resolving a National Question

Capitalism and beyond

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

Lineages of neoliberalism

Kevin Doogan: Left Wing Harmonies in the Neoliberal Chorus? / Mike Geddes: Contesting the Neoliberal State in Latin America

Extending the minerals-energy-complex (IIPPE)

Lotta Takala-Greenish: The MEC and Policy Space / Sam Ashman and Susan Newman: State Intervention in South Africa: The Evolution of the Minerals Energy Complex Since 1994 / Nicolas Pons-Vignon: The Forestry Sector in South Africa: A Case of MEC-itis

Abstraction and philosophy

Alex Levant: Towards a History of “Creative” Soviet Marxist Theory / Giacomo Borbone: Marxian Abstraction as Idealization in Leszek Nowak's View / Bue Hansen: Capital as Power and Abstraction

Dimensions of the food crisis

Patricia Howard: Can We Govern the Ungovernable? Meat, Biofuels and Land Use Change with Peak Oil / Robert Albritton: Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity

Althusser and philosophy

Thomas Carmichael: Thinking Crisis Through Aleatory Materialism: The Becoming Necessary of Contingency in the Late Althusser / Ozren Pupovac: ''It ''is necessary to change it: Althusser without the subject? / Panagiotis Sotiris: Can We Really Oppose the Dialectic of the Conjuncture and the Dialectic of the Structure in Althusser's Work?

Urban politics, finance and the housing question

Fletcher Baragar: Profits from Production and Profits from Exchange: Financialization, Household Debt and Profitability in Twenty-First Century Capitalism / Maya Gonzalez: The Housing Question... Once Again / Michael Romandel: The Urban Problematic, State Theory and the Bolivarian Revolution

The politics of value

Andy Higginbottom: The Third Form of Surplus Value Increase / Colin Barker: Force and Value: A Preliminary Contribution to Marxist State Theory / Christina Rousseau: Reframing Surplus Value: Unwaged Labour and the Reproduction of Capital

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

Learning from past crises

Hillel Ticktin: The Downturn as a Depression, Leaving Capital without a Strategy / Keith Flett: Marx and the British Banking Crises of the 1840s and 1850s / Ebru Deniz Ozan: Class Struggle and the Capitalist Response to the Crisis in Turkey, 1977-1980

Historical materialism and late capitalist development

Ben Selwyn: Trotsky, Gerschenkron and the Political Economy of Late Capitalist Development / Mike Haynes: Rationality, Gerschenkron and the Soviet Model

Class, crisis, distribution

Engelbert Stockhammer: Income Distribution and the Causes of the Present Crisis / Simon Mohun: What is the Current Crisis a Crisis of? / Serdal Bahçe and Ahmet Hasim Kose: Class Composition within and between the Class Distribution of Income in Turkey, 2002-2006: Who is ''Primus Inter Non Pares''?

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