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SUMMARY:The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance\, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight against fascism. As the characters encounter each other clandestinely to discuss political questions\, they also discuss works of art and question how the art of the past can support their resistance to a horrific present: what can art suggest for a future they may not live to see? \nJust as Weiss’s characters rely upon group discussion\, readers of this trilogy have often formed reading groups to aid their understanding of the novelist’s ambitions. The MEP is joining this leftist tradition. We will read these challenging novels slowly and discuss themes such as strategy and tactics in the fight against fascism\, and the works of art that inspired the characters’ discussions. Familiarity with art history or with Europe in the 1930s is neither required nor expected. \nPublisher’s web pages for The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3\nSecond-hand bookstores\, online resellers\, and public libraries may have copies of these books available. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell and the MEP Literature Group. Jacqueline became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman eight years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, Jacqueline has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/aesthetics-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Fall 25,Gender,Germany,historical materialism,History,Late Capital and Fascism,Literary Studies,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Strategy,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,Spring 2026,War,War Fiction,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary\, with Mitchell Abidor
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 1\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nMitchell Abidor\, author of Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary presents the book in conversation with Jacob Plitman\, former publisher of Jewish Currents. \nToday\, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels\, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man\, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history? An anarchist? A Bolshevik? A Trotskyist? Or did he evolve into something else entirely? In this comprehensive account of Serge’s life\, work\, and political evolution\, Mitchell Abidor rescues his subject\, in all his complexity\, from the constraints of any single label. Painting a portrait of a man whose political ideas shifted continually in response to the major events of his life\, we are introduced to several Victor Serges: the youthful anarchist in Belgium and France; the leading Bolshevik in Moscow; the anti-Stalinist who faced imprisonment and expulsion from the Soviet Union. Examining the lacunae and errors of fact in his memoirs\, Abidor reveals the hidden Serge for what he ultimately was: an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions. \nMitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn\, New York. In addition to his many translation works\, he is the author of May Made Me and I’ll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Abidor is the translator and editor of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings\, Anarchists Never Surrender\, and translated with Richard Greeman Serge’s Notebooks (1936-1947). \nA 30% discount code for Victor Serge and other Pluto Press books by Mitchell Abidor will be provided to all ticket purchasers.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/serge-unruly-revolutionary/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Book talks,communism,Fall 25,featured,France,History,Literature,Marxisms,Poetry,Radical Literature,Russia,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Video Available,War,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim
DESCRIPTION:In her new book\, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property\, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Ranging from the conception of philanthropy devised by the robber barons of the late nineteenth century to ongoing digitization projects\, Kim provides a new history of contemporary art that accounts for the complicated entanglement of race\, capital\, and labor behind storied art institutions and artists. Drawing on history\, theory\, and economics\, Kim challenges received notions of artistic success and talent and calls for a new vision of art beyond the cultural institution. \nEunsong Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her practice spans literary studies\, critical digital studies\, poetics\, translation\, visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. She is also the author of Gospel of Regicide (2017) and\, with Sung Gi Kim\, a translation of Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? (2019). In 2021 she co-founded the journal offshoot\, an arts space for transnational activist conversations.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-collecting-with-eunsong-kim/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Book talks,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Fall 25,Literature,Media Criticism,Poetry,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2\, Witness
DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nA video of this June 21\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains\, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep\,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later\, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. Do we still sleep in Debord’s spectacle\, a world of images\, infinitely consumable and reproducible\, devoid of meaning outside the hollow\, homogenous temporality of the commodity? Or have we entered an age where the audience is more appropriately conceived\, not as isolated onlookers\, but as a network of users–with unprecedented access to digital information while subjected to pervasive forms of control and surveillance? Does “a critical theory of the spectacle” still allow us to make sense of shared sensorial flashpoints\, past and present? And what does it mean to be a spectator–to regard\, to look\, to witness? In two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics\, stadiums to camptowns\, polar expeditions to spring festivals\, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders\, assassinations and squares.  \nThe second panel\, “Witness\,” asks how various spectral presences–of memory\, rebellion\, interiority\, history–demand us to account for spectacle’s reversals\, negations\, and reenactments in mass protests and counter-spectacles. Is the society of the spectacle necessarily also one of bearing witness?  In “Delineating Specters\,” Javier Porras Madero considers how the conjuration and nationalization of specters deepened the contradictions of border formation in the decades following the Mexican Revolution. In “Spectacles of Sympathy\,” Morgan E. Freeman analyzes human interest stories produced in the age of polar exploration to consider this genre as a vehicle for mythologies of the bourgeoisie. In “Spectacular Reversal\,” Damanpreet Pelia reflects on the spectacle of political violence by tracking the spectral presence of the bāz (from the Persian for hawk) in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh in 1984. In “The Spectacle of the Mass Demonstration\,” Michael Denning reflects on Marx’s account of mass demonstrations and universal suffrage in the wake of a decade of occupations: citizens in the streets and elected populists as the religion of everyday life. In “Detouring the US Military Camptown\,” Madeleine Han explores tourism as memory work toward remembering the US military’s legacy and ongoing occupation of Korea. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research collective that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented our work at the Left Forum\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text‘s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Our current members are: Damanpreet Pelia (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research interests include religion\, sovereignty\, and empire); Henry Zhang (doctoral researcher in English; research focuses on the aesthetics of post-war memory and post-socialist transition in East Asia and its diaspora during the long cold war); Jane Zhang (doctoral researcher in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies; research focuses on the intersecting history of medicine\, consumer culture\, and notions of selfhood); Javier Porras Madero (doctoral researcher in Latin American history; research focuses on revolution and border formation); Jess Cruz (doctoral researcher in History; research focuses on the history of Miami\, Florida as a center for the Latin American Right across the 1980s-1990s); Madeleine Han (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research focuses on US militarism\, cold war cultures\, and overlapping imperialisms in Asia); Michael Denning (professor of American Studies; research focuses on labor\, critical theory\, and social movements); Morgan E. Freeman (doctoral researcher in American Studies; her research focuses on the contemporary art and visual cultures of Black and Native practitioners as it relates to belonging and place specificity); Sofia Cutler (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research traces the cultural and political history of last-mile delivery–or the last-leg of a product’s long journey across supply chains to a customer’s front door; and Suvij Sudershan (doctoral researcher in English and Film; research focuses on 19th and 20th century global anglophone\, francophone\, and South Asian vernacular literature\, the development of the novel\, ideas of realism and modernism\, and the depiction of peasant revolt and rural modernization).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-2025-2/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,American Imperialism,Art and politics,Asia,Colonialism,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,Imperialism,Marxisms,Modernity,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Spring 25,Urbanism,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1\, Oversight
DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nA video of this June 15\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains\, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep\,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later\, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. Do we still sleep in Debord’s spectacle\, a world of images\, infinitely consumable and reproducible\, devoid of meaning outside the hollow\, homogenous temporality of the commodity? Or have we entered an age where the audience is more appropriately conceived\, not as isolated onlookers\, but as a network of users–with unprecedented access to digital information while subjected to pervasive forms of control and surveillance? Does “a critical theory of the spectacle” still allow us to make sense of shared sensorial flashpoints\, past and present? And what does it mean to be a spectator–to regard\, to look\, to witness? In two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics\, stadiums to camptowns\, polar expeditions to spring festivals\, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders\, assassinations and squares.  \nThe first panel\, “Oversight\,” considers the dual meanings of oversight: as surveillance – “watching over” – and as that which is missed – “overlooked.” In “That Superficial\, Theatric Sense\,” Suvij Sudershan opens by exploring the resonances of spectacle and speculation in reflections on revolutions from Edmund Burke to Lukács. In “Roving Eyes: The Stereoscopic Vision of War\,” Jane Zhang examines the production and marketing of optical lens to offer an alternative history of stereoscopic vision. In a pre-history of our contemporary era of Amazon last-mile delivery and e-commerce\, “From Errand to Spectacle\,” Sofia Cutler follows the delivery drivers who serviced elite white women shopping at early 20th-century department stores to show how their labor transformed shopping. In “Vita Contemplativa: Beijing Coma and China’s Modern Constitution\,” Henry Zhang explores Ma Jian’s anatomy of the student movement and its aftermath. In “Arenas of Conflict” Jess Cruz traces the unexpected uses of Miami’s stadiums and their links to the city’s multigenerational devotion to anti-communism and transnational right-wing politics. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research collective that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented our work at the Left Forum\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text‘s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Our current members are: Damanpreet Pelia (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research interests include religion\, sovereignty\, and empire); Henry Zhang (doctoral researcher in English; research focuses on the aesthetics of post-war memory and post-socialist transition in East Asia and its diaspora during the long cold war); Jane Zhang (doctoral researcher in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies; research focuses on the intersecting history of medicine\, consumer culture\, and notions of selfhood); Javier Porras Madero (doctoral researcher in Latin American history; research focuses on revolution and border formation); Jess Cruz (doctoral researcher in History; research focuses on the history of Miami\, Florida as a center for the Latin American Right across the 1980s-1990s); Madeleine Han (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research focuses on US militarism\, cold war cultures\, and overlapping imperialisms in Asia); Michael Denning (professor of American Studies; research focuses on labor\, critical theory\, and social movements); Morgan E. Freeman (doctoral researcher in American Studies; her research focuses on the contemporary art and visual cultures of Black and Native practitioners as it relates to belonging and place specificity); Sofia Cutler (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research traces the cultural and political history of last-mile delivery–or the last-leg of a product’s long journey across supply chains to a customer’s front door; and Suvij Sudershan (doctoral researcher in English and Film; research focuses on 19th and 20th century global anglophone\, francophone\, and South Asian vernacular literature\, the development of the novel\, ideas of realism and modernism\, and the depiction of peasant revolt and rural modernization).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-2025-1/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,American Imperialism,Art and politics,Asia,Colonialism,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,Imperialism,Marxisms,Modernity,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Spring 25,Urbanism,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Darkest Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Film Noir\, Greed\, and Corporate Graft in LaLa Land\nA five-session reading group with novelist and scholar Dennis Broe\, presented by the Institute for the Radical Imagination and co-sponsored by the MEP\, LA Progressive and People’s World\nOrson Welles once called Los Angeles “a bright\, guilty place\,” and that is as true today as it was in the 1940s when Welles coined this description. Dennis Broe leads a group reading of his five Los Angeles novels* set in the film-noir period of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The contradictions we will unearth in that postwar period\, the period of crime films that visually documented this seedy reality\, have never been resolved\, only continually papered over\, and so they resound today. We will look at five industries and moments in this period with a view toward explaining how the postwar period set the tone for what was to follow\, leading to the present era of a vast income disparity and frequent “natural\,” though totally avoidable\, disasters. \n*The novels – Left of Eden\, A Hello to Arms\, The Precinct with the Golden Arm\, The House That Buff Built\, and The Dark Ages – are detailed in this syllabus. They are available from various online booksellers. \nDennis Broe is a professor\, journalist and novelist whose books include: Film Noir\, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood; Class\, Crime and International Film Noir: Globalizing America’s Dark Art; and Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception. He has taught at The Sorbonne and is the Parisian correspondent for Arts Express on The Pacifica Network. Dennis also writes for LA Progressive\, People’s World\, Crime Time\, Culture Matters\, the British daily Morning Star and Monthly Review Online. His series of five novels is continuing with his latest\, Pornocopia\, about the corporate takeover of Las Vegas and the porn industry. Dennis has also just launched a new podcast\, Culture and Barbarism\, with Toby Miller. \nRegister for this class series at the Institute for the Radical Imagination
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/darkest-los-angeles/
LOCATION:Institute for the Radical Imagination\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,American Literature,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Cultural Resistance,Film and television,History,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Reading Group,Repression,Spring 25,Urbanism
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SUMMARY:Bertolt Brecht's Anti-Capitalist Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:A video of this February 22\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nPresenting Bertolt Brecht’s Adaptations and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today\, a new book by Anthony Squiers. The author will provide an overview of Brecht’s revolutionary Marxist aesthetic and examine its usefulness as a weapon in today’s struggles. \nSquiers’s book\, published by Brill\, examines Brecht’s theory and method of adaptation\, using four key Brechtian concepts: Fabel\, gestus\, estrangement effects\, and historicizing. Using that framework\, it analyzes four Brechtian adaptations: The Tutor\, Don Juan\, “Socrates Wounded\,” and Kriegsfibel\, concluding that Brecht is useful for anti-capitalist aesthetics today because through him one can foster a new consciousness which enables the creation of better social conditions. The book is of value to theatrical practitioners\, artists\, and theorists. \nAnthony Squiers is a faculty member at AMDA College of the Performing Arts and co-editor of E-CIBS\, the performance journal of the International Brecht Society. He is author of An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/bertolt-brechts-anti-capitalist-aesthetics/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Cultural Resistance,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Winter 25
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T203000
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-08-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-08-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-08-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230807T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230807T183000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
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SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-08-07/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230803T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230803T203000
DTSTAMP:20230626T160923Z
CREATED:20230615T135643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T160923Z
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-08-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230731T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230731T183000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
CREATED:20230623T130650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131928Z
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SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-07-31/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230727T203000
DTSTAMP:20230626T160923Z
CREATED:20230615T135643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T160923Z
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-07-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T183000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
CREATED:20230623T130650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131928Z
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SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-07-24/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T203000
DTSTAMP:20230626T160923Z
CREATED:20230615T135643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T160923Z
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-07-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230717T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230717T183000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
CREATED:20230623T130650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131928Z
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SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-07-17/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230713T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230713T203000
DTSTAMP:20230626T160923Z
CREATED:20230615T135643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T160923Z
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-07-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T183000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
CREATED:20230623T130650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131928Z
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SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-07-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230706T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230706T203000
DTSTAMP:20230626T160923Z
CREATED:20230615T135643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T160923Z
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SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-07-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230703T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230703T183000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
CREATED:20230623T130650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131928Z
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SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-07-03/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T203000
DTSTAMP:20230626T160923Z
CREATED:20230615T135643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T160923Z
UID:10007318-1688065200-1688070600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Summertime … and the Living Ain't Easy: Black Noir
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project’s Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society – and\, in our selected books by Black writers – corruption in the workplace\, in unions\, and among workers. “Mystery fiction written by Black authors is\, not surprisingly\, often very different from work in that broadly defined genre written by white writers.” –Black Noir \nWe will read these four books:\nIf He Hollers\, Let Him Go by Chester Himes\nA Red Death by Walter Mosley\nBlack Water Rising by Attica Locke\nThe Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher Jr. \nFull book descriptions and a reading schedule are available here. \nConvened by Jacqueline Cantwell\, who became involved with the MEP’s Literature Group because of her love of Victor Serge’s novels. Participating in an MEP reading group led by Serge translator Richard Greeman seven years ago\, Jacqueline found a community of readers eager to be challenged by the ambitions of international writers devoted to the creative potential of political fiction. Since the death of Michael Lardner\, who hosted and organized the Literature Group for so many years\, she has taken the lead in furthering the group’s goals of exploring international fiction and encouraging thoughtful conversation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-noir/2023-06-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Alienation,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T183000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
CREATED:20230623T130650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131928Z
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SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-06-26/2/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T170000
DTSTAMP:20230623T131928Z
CREATED:20230623T130650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T131928Z
UID:10007453-1687766400-1687798800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:"We're Going on an Adventure": Summer Visionary Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin this summer.  The catchphrase\, “We’re going on an adventure\,” signals the novel’s overlapping themes of contemporary significance–desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth\, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere\, and the varieties and the social significance of artificial intelligence. \nAbove all\, the book continues the author’s exploration of empathy between his characters and with us\, his readers: “I wanted to write sections from the point of view of an octopus.” \nAs befits summertime reading\, we will add other selections as we go\, meshing these themes with the interests of the group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/were-going-on-an-adventure-summer-visionary-fiction/2023-06-26/1/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Classes/Events,Evolutionary biology,Literary Studies,Literature,Multi-session Classes,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction,War Fiction
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T210000
DTSTAMP:20230314T141634Z
CREATED:20230314T135857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T141634Z
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-05-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:The Fallout of War: Metonyms of Militarism
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 13\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nYale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nSecond of two parts. Part One \nWar: what is it\, and what is it good for? War might seem like a foregone conclusion or a state of exception; in either case it is an archetype of crisis. In two linked sessions\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture presents their collective research on a keyword of contemporary cultural studies – war – and investigates its many valences as lived reality and as metaphor. Trade wars can become militarized\, and hot wars can look cold\, depending on your vantage point. The race war\, Twitter tells us\, is impending; but in an age of US forever war(s)\, understanding war as punctuating the flow of history seems to be entirely insufficient. War is\, some argue\, a way of life\, a structuring condition that shapes our examinations of the history of the present. The war on drugs\, the war on poverty\, the war on COVID\, the war on Christmas – war is also a ubiquitous metaphor\, a self-righteous idiom that announces moral panic and articulates racial logic in otherwise terms. But metaphors of war have also influenced various radical traditions and social movements\, including anti-war activism and Gramsci’s deployment of metaphors of war in his theorizing of hegemony. Taking account of war as constitutive of the present\, the working group explores war’s meanings as event\, analytic\, and metaphor. \nPanel II Presentations:\nAanchal Saraf theorizes nuclear fallout in the Pacific as war itself moving through the landscapes\, bodies\, and generations of the Marshall Islands and its peoples.\nJavier Porras Madero explores “Dirty Wars” in Latin America for their classed\, raced\, and gendered dimensions as well as their implications for how we may understand conflict\, violence\, and the global Cold War.\nMadeleine Han’s presentation focuses on the Han River both as the face of South Korean postwar economic development (referred to as the “Miracle on the Han”) and as a repository of submerged cold war memories.\nMaru Pabón examines the dominant genres and styles of two poetic projects that emerged out of anticolonial/anti-imperial struggles in Palestine and Cuba\, shiʿr al-muqawama and coloquialismo\, in relation to the distinct temporalities of the two conflicts.\nMonique Flores Ulysses considers U.S. cultural texts seemingly disconnected from war but nonetheless imbricated in war-making during the early years of the Global War on Terror.\nMichael Denning chairs this panel. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University for two decades. Over the years\, we have presented work collaboratively at numerous cultural studies conferences as well as at the Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. The current members—Aanchal Saraf\, Damanpreet Pelia\, Javier Porras Madero\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Lucero Estrella\, Madeleine Han\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, Monique Flores Ulysses\, and Salonee Bhaman—work in American studies\, history\, Latinx studies\, literary criticism\, African-American studies\, Asian American studies\, comparative literature\, and womens\, gender and sexuality studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/wggc2023-2/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Imperialism,American Literature,Anti-colonialism,Art and politics,Asia,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Poetry,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,State Formation,War,War Fiction,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T190000
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-05-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230504T210000
DTSTAMP:20230314T141634Z
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-05-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T210000
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SUMMARY:Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
DESCRIPTION:I speak from the deep end of night.\nOf end of darkness I speak.\nI speak of deep night ending.\n – From “The Gift” by Forugh Farrokhzad\nThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran. We have compiled a reading list from an essay by Niloufar Talebi\, “100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction\,” published on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop website. As we read\, one question we will keep in mind is that posed by Talebi: How does the publishing market limit Americans’ understanding of Iranian efforts? \nOver eight weeks we will read novels set in the period since the 1979 revolution. More information… \nEveryone is welcome!
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/iran-awakening-ii/2023-04-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Gender,Literature,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Poetry,Radical Literature,Repression,Revolutions,Social Reproduction,War Fiction,Women
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SUMMARY:Arise! The Mexican Revolution's Global Impact
DESCRIPTION:With Author Christina Heatherton\nThe Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Christina Heatherton’s book Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution reveals how activists around the world found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico. Heatherton traces the paths of Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett\, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy\, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón\, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi\, Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai\, and other key figures. From art collectives and farm worker strikes to prison “universities\,” Arise! reconstructs how radical organizers found new ways to fight global capitalism and forge an anti-racist internationalism from below. \nChristina Heatherton is the Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College. With Jordan T. Camp she edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter and Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond. She currently codirects the Trinity Social Justice Initiative and is co-host and co-producer of the SJI’s podcast Conjuncture. \nArise! is available from the publisher\, University of California Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/arise-mexican-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-colonialism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,History,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Latin America,Mexican Revolution,Modernity,Revolutions,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women,Working Class History
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