13th January 2017

Jayati Ghosh, Erik Reinert and Rainer Kattel | Demolishing Neoliberal Development Myths | Tuesday, 17 January, 5-7pm | SOAS, Senate House North Block, ALT (Room 110)

Demolishing Neoliberal Development Myths

Professor Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), Professor Erik S. Reinert (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Professor Rainer Kattel (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)

Tuesday, 17 January, 5-7PM

13th January 2017

'Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres' by Jamie Woodcock

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS:

Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres

By Jamie Woodcock

Available here: http://bit.ly/2f7MZ34

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'A sharp reminder of the difficulties faced by call-centre workers' – Financial Times

13th January 2017

Extension of Deadline for HMNYC conference CFP

Due to the overwhelming response, and more than a few plaintive requests that appealed to our warm-hearted natures, the organizers of the New York Historical Materialism Conference have decided to EXTEND THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS until JANUARY 22ND.  See below for the call for papers.

9th January 2017

Anti-Inauguration, Live Jan 20 from Washington DC

The Anti-Inauguration:

Why Trump won, what he'll do, and how we can fight him.

with Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal and Owen Jones.

Livestreamed inauguration night, January 20,from the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC.

Sponsored by Jacobin Magazine, Haymarket Books, and Verso Books.

9th January 2017

MARX'S CAPITAL AT 150 YEARS- 22 January, Culver City

MARX'S CAPITAL AT 150 YEARS

 

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2017 

 

6:00-8:30 PM

Westside Peace Center

3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd. (free parking in rear)

Suite 101-102, press #22 at door to get into building

Culver City (LA area)

 

SPEAKERS:

Stephan Hammel

Kevin B. Anderson

 

9th January 2017

The London Realist Workshop – 2016/17 agenda

The London Realist Workshop – 2016/17 agenda

 

The London Realist Workshop (LRW) discusses contentious issues in realist approaches to science and philosophy. These include, among other things, challenges to realist approaches, critical engagements with the applications of realism to various fields, and dialogues with other philosophical traditions.

 

9th January 2017

Using Gramsci: A New Approach - By Michele Filippini

Using Gramsci: A New Approach

By Michele Filippini

Pluto Press

2016

 

9th January 2017

New from Brill's Historical Materialism Book Series - The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

Reiner Tosstorff, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Translated by Ben Fowkes.

 

http://www.brill.com/products/book/rilu

8th January 2017

New! Spherical Book - Culture as Organization in Early Soviet Thought

Spherical Book – goes beyond the traditional book form

 

Book goes interactive! Sergei Eisenstein's historical idea of the Spherical Book is revived and applied to a conference anthology about early Russian dynamicists and art. There is no general book outline, but it is subjectively constructed in the perspective of each reader.