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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor
DESCRIPTION:Final session\, December 16 \nA 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. A vibrant discourse is currently emerging around the question of nonhuman labor and the ways in which non-waged forms of labor contribute to value accumulation under capitalism. 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. We will consider how harnessing and enhancing the metabolic labor of nonhuman animals is connected to fields such as waste management\, biomedical research\, big data\, and the reproduction of the human labor force. \nConvened by Gizem Haspolat and Terike Haapoja. Gizem holds a PhD in Anthropology and specializes in critical animal studies\, animal geographies\, and human-nonhuman animal relations. In her dissertation research\, she explored live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital\, through an investigation of live cattle imports in Turkey. Her current research project examines the application of ‘smart’ technologies and artificial intelligence in industrial agricultural settings. Terike is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings\, and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world. Her current research on animal labor and multispecies anticapitalist struggle\, with an extensive open bibliography\, can be found on animalcapitalism.org.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/metabolic-labor/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital Studies,Fall 25,featured,Labor Process,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Science and Technology,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T190000
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SUMMARY:Animals\, Capitalism\, Marxism:   A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the authors of two major works on animals and capitalism for an event exploring the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Alex Blanchette bring to the Marxist Education Project an ongoing conversation they have been conducting this spring as Visiting Fellows at the Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program. Wadiwel is the author of Animals and Capital and Blanchette is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm. Both books have recently been featured in MEP reading groups. \nDinesh Wadiwel is Associate Professor in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at The University of Sydney. He has been active in anti-poverty and disability rights movements. Previous books include The War against Animals and\, as co-editor\, Foucault and Animals (Brill\, 2016). \nAlex Blanchette is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Tufts University. He also co-edited How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet\, which analyzes how non-human beings are enlisted into capitalist work regimens. His current research addresses the politics of quitting meatpacking\, based on ethnographic interviews with ex-workers from across the United States. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-capitalism-conversation/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,featured,Food and politics,Labor Process,Marx,Marxist Method,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Solidarity,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T140000
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SUMMARY:Marx for Cats with Leigh Claire La Berge
DESCRIPTION:A video of this February 24\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n“All history is the history of cat struggle.” In Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary\, our guest speaker Leigh Claire La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory\, its colonialist and imperialist ages\, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism\, and the communist revolutions that opposed it. Attending to myriad archival appearance of lions\, tigers\, wildcats\, and other felines\, La Berge argues that these creatures have been central to Marxist understandings of the economy and politics. Asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis\, La Berge joins current debates about ecosocialism. This playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration. \nThis event is held in conjunction with the MEP’s reading group Multispecies Marxism where we are discussing the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, historically and today. \nLeigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, and author of Marx for Cats as well as Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art. \nRegister for the Zoom event and you will receive a 40% discount code to purchase Marx for Cats from Duke University Press. Participants are encouraged to read some or all of the book beforehand.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-for-cats/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,communism,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T130000
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SUMMARY:Multispecies Marxism: Reading and Reflecting on Animals and Capital
DESCRIPTION:An eight-session reading and discussion group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, historically and today. Led by anthropologist Gizem Haspolat and visual artist Terike Haapoja\, this class continues our successful sessions on animals and capitalism in 2022 and 2023\, this time looking through a multispecies lens at key concepts of Marxism\, such as ‘value’\, ‘primitive accumulation’\, ‘species being’\, ‘circulation’\, and ‘resistance.’ We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. The main reading will be Animals and Capital (2023) by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (available in paperback and eBook formats from various online outlets). Participation in previous sessions is not required. \nGizem Haspolat is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Rice University. Her areas of interest are critical animal studies\, animal geographies\, and human–nonhuman animal relations. In her ongoing research\, she explores live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital\, through an investigation of Turkey’s live cattle imports. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings\, and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world. Her current research on animal labor and multispecies anticapitalist struggle\, with an extensive open bibliography\, can be found on animalcapitalism.org.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/multispecies-marxism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Food and politics,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T120000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T120000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T133000
DTSTAMP:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T133000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T133000
DTSTAMP:20230307T154318Z
CREATED:20230307T154017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T133000
DTSTAMP:20230307T154318Z
CREATED:20230307T154017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T180000
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UID:10007244-1675526400-1675533600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Mutant Ecologies in the Age of Genomic Capital
DESCRIPTION:The interconnected fields of genomic science\, genome editing\, and biotechnology have emerged over the past half-century as a revolution in the production of new life forms that have been eagerly adopted by agriculture\, pharmaceuticals\, textiles\, and other business sectors. While many – including the Nobel Committee – have heralded this as a “new epoch” of limitless possibilities for positive transformation\, In Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital\, Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante show how genetic science has been deeply intertwined from its beginning with the raw imperatives of capital accumulation. “Genomic capital\,” the authors’ term for the use of genetic materials in industrial production\, has literally altered many of life’s metabolic processes in service to capital’s demands. Within a socio-historical context defined by the iron rules of competition and exploitation\, capital no longer contents itself with simply appropriating the living bodies of plants and animals but purposefully designs their internal metabolism\, and in that way it redesigns the countless living vectors that constitute the global biosphere. This biological revolution will ripple through the everyday lives of people everywhere. Erica and Amedeo will present Mutant Ecologies and Ariel Salleh and  Stuart Newman will discuss the book and initiate the conversation. \nBook available from the publisher\, Pluto Press. \nErica Borg is a geographer and political ecologist based at King’s College\, London. Their research focuses on the relations between capitalism\, colonialism\, patriarchy and ecological crisis. \nAmedeo Policante is a Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. His writings interrogate the nexus of extraction\, exploitation and expropriation that fuels the contemporary world market. He is the author of two books: The Pirate Myth and The New Mercenaries. \nAriel Salleh (discussant) is the author of Ecofeminism as Politics and numerous other books and essays on political ecology as an emerging study of humanity-nature relations. Her “embodied materialist” approach emphasizes the centrality of reproductive or regenerative labour in the world system. At present she is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities\, Nelson Mandela University\, South Africa. \nStuart Newman (discussant) is professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College and a leading scientific critic of the use of developmental biology to modify human species identity\, including cloning and germline genetic manipulation. Among his numerous books and publications\, Stuart is the co-author with Tina Stevens of Biotech Juggernaut: Hope\, Hype\, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mutant-ecologies-in-the-age-of-genomic-capital/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Covid and Capital,Evolutionary biology,Healthcare,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220420T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220420T183000
DTSTAMP:20220309T225413Z
CREATED:20220209T022323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z
UID:10006332-1650474000-1650479400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-04-20/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220413T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220413T183000
DTSTAMP:20220309T225413Z
CREATED:20220209T022323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z
UID:10006331-1649869200-1649874600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-04-13/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220406T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220406T183000
DTSTAMP:20220309T225413Z
CREATED:20220209T022323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z
UID:10006330-1649264400-1649269800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-04-06/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220330T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220330T183000
DTSTAMP:20220309T225413Z
CREATED:20220209T022323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z
UID:10006329-1648659600-1648665000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-03-30/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220323T183000
DTSTAMP:20220309T225413Z
CREATED:20220209T022323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z
UID:10006328-1648054800-1648060200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-03-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220316T183000
DTSTAMP:20220309T225413Z
CREATED:20220209T022323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T225413Z
UID:10006327-1647450000-1647455400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-03-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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