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Conference Grants Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM) 20th Annual Conference http://societyphenmedia.wix.com/socphenmedia#!info Wednesday, March 14 to Friday March 16, 2018 University of Akureyri Akureyri, Iceland The Society of Phenomenology and Media is offering four grants of $500 (US) each (and the waiving of membership and conference fees) to qualified applicants. These awards are intended for

Registration for HM London Conference now online Revolutions Against Capital, Capital Against Revolutions? https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/hmlondon/annual14   One hundred years ago, hailing the Russian Revolution, Antonio Gramsci characterised the Bolsheviks’ success as a ‘revolution against Capital’. As against the interpretations of mechanical ‘Marxism’, the Russian Revolution was the ‘crucial proof’ that revolution need not be postponed until

These articles are now available online at the Brill Historical Materialism website: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/1569206x   After Marx, the Deluge Author: Jacob Blumenfeld   Research Article The Rise of Capitalist Manufacture in the Ancien Régime Author: Henry Heller   Research Article Thinking Through Balibar’s Dialectics of Emancipation Author: Svenja Bromberg   Research Article The Development of a Marxist Author: Karl Kautsky  

1917-2017 CENTENARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 27 October 2017 FREE ADMISSION All Welcome Queen’s Lecture Theatre Emmanuel College Cambridge CB2 3AP DEPARTMENT of SOCIOLOGY Schedule  9.45 Arrival and Registration 10.00–11.30 The October Revolution, Russia and the USSR Chairman: Jeff Miley (Cambridge) David Lane (Cambridge), October Revolution: Overview John Barber (Cambridge), October Revolution and the Second

SYMPOSIUM: LOUIS ALTHUSSER: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE Rethinking Marxism, vol. 2, 2017 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrmx20/29/2

As you probably know, a decolonial internet broadcast – Paroles d’honneur! (PDH) – exists for a year. This broadcast, hosted by Louisa Yousfi, is a very important step in the building of an autonomous decolonial force in France. In order to finance Season 2 of PDH, we have set up a fund raising through the website “kiss kiss

If anyone has any recordings from sessions at the 2016 Historical Materialism Conference in London, it would be appreciated if they could forward them to historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk  Please do not reply to this email address as it is not monitored. 

T H E O R Y in F O R M S SERIES EDITORS: Nancy Rose Hunt | Achille Mbembe | Juan Obarrio THEORY IN FORMS welcomes manuscript submissions by scholars and creative writers working on global and transnational spaces, whether in “Africa,” the Global South, or beyond. We are committed to publishing the very

ON THE FORMATION OF MARXISM: KARL KAUTSKY’S THEORY OF CAPITALISM, THE MARXISM OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL, AND KARL MARX’S CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY JUKKA GRONOW   NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FROM HAYMARKET BOOKS   Karl Kautsky was, for three decades before the First World War, the main authority on the intellectual heritage of Marx and

The books for review list has been updated and more books are being added.  If you are interested in reviewing a book, please read the Guidelines for Book Reviews.  

 MARX AND THE EARTH: AN ANTI-CRITIQUE PAUL BURKETT AND JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER   Over a decade ago Foster and Burkett introduced a revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx’s thought, demonstrating that Marx’s concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much of modern systems ecology. In this volume,

The MHI has new articles published in their web journal. Read their announcement below:  We hope you’ll read the new articles in our web journal, With Sober Senses.  In them, MHI and others address the horrors we face today, and explore the ideas which, when seized by mass movements, can overcome them.                                                                                    Our new editorial,