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SUMMARY:Jonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities\, and recognizes contemporary culture\, driven as it is by electronic digital computing\, as something like digital culture 2.0. Rather than seeing this shift strictly as a break\, we might consider it as one result of an overall intensification in the practices of quantification. Thus\, if capitalism was already a digital computer\, then “the invisible hand\,” as the non-subjective\, social summation of the individualized practices of the pursuit of private gain\, was an early expression of the computational unconscious. With the broadening and deepening of the imperative towards quantification and rational calculus posited then presupposed during the modern period by the expansionist program of Capital\, the process of the assignation of number to all variables first discernible in the commodity-form\, whereby every use-value was also an exchange-value\, entered into our machines\, rendering first the rationalization of production in the assembly line and then modern computing. Today\, as could be well known from everyday observation if not from media theory\, computation arguably underpins all productive activity\, and particularly significant for this argument\, activities that stretch from image-making\, to writing\, and therefore to thought. The contention here is not simply that capitalism is the unconscious of computation\, it is that the unconscious itself\, as the domain of the unthought that organizes thought\, is computational. Therefore\, not only is consciousness a computational effect\, but all the structural inequalities endemic to capitalist production – often appearing under variants of the ostensibly analog categories of race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, nation\, etc.\, but just as importantly and as often disappeared into our machines – inhere in the logistics of computation\, and consequently\, in the real-time organization of language\, which is to say\, our thought. \nJonathan Beller is Professor of English and Humanities and Critical and Visual Studies\, Pratt Institute. He is one of the foremost theorists of the visual turn and the attention economy. He works on the history of cinema and the way in which the screen-image has altered all aspects of social life. These alterations range from the lived experiences of gender\, sexuality and race\, to the socio-economic reorganization of peoples\, governments and the environment. His research and pedagogy is undertaken with a commitment to those struggling for social justice in what he calls “the world-media system.” Books and edited volumes include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle; Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality\, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System; and Feminist Media Theory (a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online). His current book projects are entitled The Rain of Images and Computational Capital. Beller also serves on the Editorial Collective of the internationally recognized journal Social Text\, and is the current director of The Graduate Program in Media Studies. He teaches Mediologies I and a variety of electives. \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Colloquium Series\n\n\nApril 8\, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”\n\nApril 15\, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling\, Secular Religion\, and the Anthropocene Blues”\n\nApril 22\, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”\n\nApril 29\, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”\n\nMay 6\, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”\n\nMay 13\, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars\, Sepoys\, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila\, 1762-4)”\n\nMay 20\, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”\n\nMay 27\, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-beller-the-computational-unconscious-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Neferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is a meditation on remaindered life\, the unsubsumable\, indivisible yet every-diminishing leftover of life-making practice for those who live in proximity to a social state of utter valuelessness. Drawing on diverse yet connected social contexts of redundant or superfluous populations\, including undocumented immigrants\, refugees\, guest workers\, and criminalized black and brown men and women\, in a global\, post-Fordist economy where all life bears the potential to serve as a direct means and source for the extraction of capitalist value\, the talk explores the significance of lives lived on the perpetual verge of being nothing not only to offer an alternative account of the current globopolitical order. Tracing the constitutive elements of slavery and colonialism in this global present\, the talk also reflects on the petty social currencies of small-time living as a speculative exercise on what is to be done next. \n\n  \nPODCAST: \n \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neferti-tadiar-next-to-nothing-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150209T160000
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SUMMARY:Ching Kwan Lee: "Buying Stability in China: Markets\, Protests and Authoritarianism”
DESCRIPTION:This talk outlines China’s trajectory of commodification and the counter-movements by state and society in the past quarter century. Unpacking the class specific dynamics and experiences of precarization\, I discuss how the commodification of land\, labor\, housing and the environment has triggered collective struggles by farmers\, workers and the middle class. To maintain social stability\, the Chinese state has responded\, on the one hand\, with new social protection policies of uneven effectiveness\, and on the other\, a practice of “buying stability” which unwittingly commodifies state authority and citizen’s rights\, sowing seeds of precariousness in the regime’s authoritarian governance. \nChing Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She obtained her PhD in Sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Michigan before moving to UCLA. Her publications have focused on labor\, social activism\, political sociology and development in China and the Global South. \nLee is author of Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007)\, and Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998). Her edited and co-edited books include From the Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets\, Workers and the State in a Changing China (2011); Reclaiming Chinese Society: New Social Activism (2009)\, Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China (2007) and Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (2007). \nShe is currently working on two book manuscripts. One is on forty years of state and society relation in China\, and the other on Chinese investment in Zambia. \n  \nEVENT PODCAST:\n \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-research-cluster-ching-kwan-lee-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steve Wright seminar: “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo"
DESCRIPTION:Steve Wright will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Revolution from Above? Money and Class Composition in Italian Operaismo\,” recently published in Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth\, Beyond Marx: Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century (Brill\, 2013). \nParticipants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. \nThe text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/037e976xsu37xzv/Steve%20Wright%2C%20Revolution%20from%20Above.pdf?dl=0 \nThis seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures\,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research\, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature\, Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Politics Departments; Stevenson\, Cowell\, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research. \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steve-wright-seminar-revolution-from-above-money-and-class-composition-in-italian-operaismo-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steve Wright: "The Political: Some Experiences from the Italian Operaismo of the 1960s and 1970s"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will critically examine debates around ‘the political’ amongst the Italian workerists. While championing new understandings of class composition that challenged the traditional leninist separation of economic and political struggles\, the workerists of the 1960s and 1970s nonetheless struggled to formulate an agreed approach to theorising and practicing ‘the political’. The talk will seek to explore the ways in which this tension played itself out\, from early debates concerning the traditional institutions of the workers movement\, to efforts to develop organizational projects outside the existing parties and unions. Along the way\, attention will also be paid to the contributions of those (such as the editors of Collegamenti and Le operaie della casa) who\, despite the incisiveness of many of their contributions\, found themselves situated largely on the margins of the workerists’ debates as these unfolded at the time. \nSteve Wright teaches in the Faculty of Information Technology\, Monash University\, and is the author of Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press\, 2002). His current research is focussed on the creation and use of documents amongst the Italian workerists of the 1960s and 1970s. \n\n  \nPRESENTATION SLIDES:\n“The Political:
 Some Experiences from the 
 Italian Operaismo of the 1960s & 1970s” \n  \n\n  \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nEVENT PODCAST:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-research-cluster-steve-wright-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Warren Neidich on "Cognitive Capitalism"
DESCRIPTION:Warren Neidich is an artist and critic\, editor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (Archive Books\, 2013). He will be speaking in Warren Sack’s lecture course\, and interested parties are invited to attend. Those who would like to participate in a further discussion with Neidich that afternoon should email wsack@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/warren-neidich-on-cognitive-capitalism-2/
LOCATION:Oakes College\, Room 105\, Oakes College\,‎ 150 Heller Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141209T120000
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SUMMARY:Franco Berardi\, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
DESCRIPTION:Franco “Bifo” Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization\,” an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. \nThe text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax682ecxgn4jtzi/Franco%20Berardi%2C%20Aesthetic%20Genealogy%20of%20Globalization.pdf?dl=0.\n  \nThis seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures\,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research\, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature\, Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Politics Departments; Stevenson\, Cowell\, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research. \n  \nPODCAST: \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/franco-berardi-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Franco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
DESCRIPTION:The subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements\, and their inability to put an end to the financial aggression. Focusing on the main actors of the Occupy process – the precarious cognitive workers\, embodying the Marx’s concept of “general intellect” – the lecture will seek to grasp the possibilities that this social force has brought about. \nFranco “Bifo” Berardi is an Italian political theorist and activist. He is the founder of the legendary magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice\, the first free radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970s\, he fled to Paris where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. During the 1980s he contributed to the magazines Semiotext(e) (New York)\, Chimerees (Paris)\, Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milan). In the 1990′s he published Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa\, 1993)\, Cibernauti (Rome\, 1994) and was the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org. In the last decade he has published\, among others: The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Semiotext(e)\, 2012)\, Félix (Palgrave McMillan\, 2008) and The Soul at Work (Semiotext(e)\, 2010). His forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End will be published by n-1 Publications at the end of 2014. \nThis talk is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures\,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research\, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature\, Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Politics Departments; Stevenson\, Cowell\, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research. \n\n  \nPODCAST: \n \n  \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-research-cluster-franco-berardi-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pritam Singh: "Spatial Shift and Ecological Crisis: An Eco-Socialist Perspective”
DESCRIPTION:A spatial shift has been taking place in global capitalism in the last few decades\, in the form of declining importance of the older advanced capitalism and the rising importance of “emerging economies.” The most dramatic representation of this shift is that China has recently overtaken US as the largest economy in the world. For the first time\, capitalism is expanding into countries with very large populations such as China\, India and Indonesia. The rising consumption in these economies is sharpening the global ecological crisis. \nPritam Singh has a doctorate in economics from University of Oxford and is currently a Professor of economics at Oxford Brookes University\, Oxford. He focuses on the sustainability implications of global capitalism\, and Indian capitalism with emphasis on decentralization and human rights. His two most recent books are Federalism\, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy\, and Economy\, Culture and Human Rights: Turbulence in Punjab\, India and Beyond. \nThis talk is part of the series “What is To Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures\,” organized by:\nThe Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research\, with the cosponsorship of the Literature\, Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Politics Departments; Stevenson\, Cowell\, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research. \nPoster image: photo via fortes.com \n\n  \nPODCAST:  \n \nEVENT PHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-research-cluster-pritam-singh-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: "After the Post-Cold War"
DESCRIPTION:Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 \n \nWe are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua\, who will be on campus for a series of events\, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics\, and her writing on cinema\, feminism\, Marxism\, revolutionary movements of the sixties\, class\, and intellectual politics have been enormously influential in China and internationally. Self-described as a communist\, a feminist\, and an internationalist\, she provides original critical perspectives on current configurations of contemporary capitalism–in the cultural\, gender\, political\, social\, and economic spheres–and its possible alternatives. Her work has been translated into many languages\, and has been published in journals such as Positions\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, and Social Text. An English translation of an essay collection–Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua–was published in 2002 at Verso. A second collection of translated essays is in preparation. \nSeminar Readings (English)   Seminar Readings (Chinese)\n \nSchedule:\nI. Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Conference\, April 18 and 19\nProfessor Dai is a panelist on “China and the Future of Global Capitalism”\, Friday April 18\, 2:30 to 5:00 PM\, and is also a panelist on the closing roundtable discussion\, “Ending Capitalism: Speculations and Prospects”\, Saturday April 19\, 3:45-6:00 PM. \nII. Public screening of Still Life\nMonday\, April 21\, at 7PM\, in Humanities I\, room 210.\nThere will be no lecture/discussion at the screening. All are welcome. \nIII. Seminar on Still Life\, directed by Jia Zhangke.\nTuesday\, April 22\, 4:00-6:00 PM\, Humanities I\, room 202. Refreshments will be served.\nStill Life is one of the most important films to come out of China in years\, and Professor Dai’s analysis treats recent mutations in subjectivity\, spatiality\, and socio-economic change\, both in the Chinese context and in relation to international cinema. Prior to the seminar\, participants should view Still Life and read Professor Dai’s essay\, “Temporality\, Nature Morte\, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life“\, either in the original Chinese or in English translation. \nIV. Lecture: After the Post-Cold War\nThursday\, April 24\, 4:00PM\, Humanities I\, room 210.\nWhere in time is China\, now that the Cold War is over and China seems to have joined a unified “world history”? How does China stand in relation to possible futures\, including a post-capitalist future? What place does the legacy of the Chinese revolution have in these figurations and imaginings? Dai Jinhua’s analysis makes clear that the question of the future of China is a central question for all of our futures.\n  \nProfessor Dai’s visit is made possible primarily by funds from the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment \, the Department of Literature\, and the IHR. Additional support comes from the Departments of Anthropology and History. Principle Organizers: Christopher Connery\, Literature; Lisa Rofel\, Anthropology; Gail Hershatter\, History\, Asad Haider\, History of Consciousness.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-april-18-april-24-lecture-after-the-post-cold-war-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
DESCRIPTION:Michael Perelman is a professor of economics at California State University\, Chico. He is an American economist and economic historian and writes extensively in criticism of conventional or mainstream economics. Perelman has written 19 books\, including Railroading Economics\, Manufacturing Discontent\, The Perverse Economy\, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest project is\, The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Control Undermines the Economy by Stunting Workers\, under contract with Stanford University Press. The basic theme is the way that capitalism is structured to be incapable of efficiently managing the labor process and that capitalism’s efforts to control the labor process create serious social and economic damage. \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series: \nJan 16\, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”\nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster.Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-perelman-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and   Postwork Imaginaries”
DESCRIPTION:Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory\, feminist theory\, Marxist thought\, the critical study of work\, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP\, 2011) and Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell UP\, 1998)\, and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell\, 2000). \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series:\nJan 16\, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”\nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kathi-weeks-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140116T183000
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SUMMARY:Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
DESCRIPTION:Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature\, English Department\, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s\, especially Louis Althusser\, as well as on literature and philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Descartes\, Hobbes\, Spinoza\, Locke\, Swift\, and Adam Smith. His most recent book is Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke University Press\,2013)\, and he has also published translations of Althusser\, Pierre Macherey\, and Étienne Balibar. His forthcoming book\, co-authored with Mike Hill\, is “The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention\, Commercial Society and the Birth of Necro-Economics” (Stanford University Press). \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series:\nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”\nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/warren-montag-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131203T170000
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Critique
DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nTo inaugurate a year of events\, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism research cluster is holding a panel which follows two interrelated threads. The first is the analysis of capitalism as a system\, from its origins to its contemporary transformations. This analysis extends across disciplines and theoretical orientations\, and one goal of this interdisciplinary panel is to represent the wide range of approaches that UCSC faculty are taking in their research into capitalism. The second thread is the reexamination of Marxist theory. Throughout its history Marxism has extended into a range of fields\, from sociology to literary criticism\, and has remained a crucial reference point for theory which seeks to understand social life historically. This panel will extend the historical analysis to Marxism itself\, critically reexamining its evolution and its engagement with its changing social and political context. \nPanelists include: \n\nMiriam Greenberg\, Associate Professor of Sociology: “Crisis-Driven Urbanization and Contemporary Capitalism”\nJonathan Beecher\, Professor Emeritus of History: “David Riazanov and the Marx-Engels Institute”\nTyrus Miller\, Professor of Literature\, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies: “Theaters of History: Drama\, Action\, and Historical Agency in the Work of György Lukács\nNeda Atanasoski\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies: “Revolutions and Networks: Technology and the Social Body after Socialism”\nModerated by Gopal Balakrishnan\, Associate Professor of History of Consciousness\n\n  \nUpcoming event series: “The Origins of Civil Society” \nThe development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nJan 16\, 2014 – Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market” \nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries” \nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n[/vc_column_text]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-capitalism-and-marxist-critique-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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