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FeaturedAnimals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsA five-session study group on nonhuman animals' relationship with capital as living, breathing, "commodified" beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. In this study group, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism.
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Planetary Crises: Capital vs. the ‘Free Gifts’ of Nature
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group reconvenes this fall and welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a number of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, the status of freedom with respect to environmental constraints, and related topics. The recently published books ... Read more
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