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Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2025 Series
Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2025 Series
The continuing 2025 Gramsci Study Sessions will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political Writings Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts. Participants may join in at any time. We share a vast archive of articles and secondary sources on ... Read more
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Historical Roots of American Fascism: Gilded Age to WWI and the First Red Scare
Historical Roots of American Fascism: Gilded Age to WWI and the First Red Scare
Take part in the Political Strategy Study Group’s sweeping look at the history and political significance of the major waves of struggle and counter-revolution in the United States. In June, we will read and discuss selections on the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Howard Zinn's classic classic People's History of the United States and ... Read more
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Hegel for Radicals: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel for Radicals: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Over 16 Saturdays, beginning March 8, we will read and discuss one of the most influential books of all time, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. This massive retelling of humanity defies traditional divisions between history, philosophy, comedy, and tragedy.
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Literary Echoes of Vietnam’s 1975 Victory:
Literary Echoes of Vietnam’s 1975 Victory:
While the bombs were falling, only a stone wouldn't be terrified. If the Americans noticed movement in the forest, they would eliminate the forest. Who knows how much money was spent? American taxpayers' money. If a cluster of napalm bombs were dropped, the jungle would turn into a sea of fire. Can you imagine a ... Read more
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Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1, Oversight
Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1, Oversight
“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. 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.
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Reading Death of the Author by Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor
Reading Death of the Author by Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor
"To build a better future, we have to envision it first." Reading science fiction, discussing it together, and reading it politically, offers one tool for "envisioning" a future worth building. We continue our explorations of diverse points of view of social conflict and resolution, possible and imagined just worlds, here on Earth and perhaps afar.
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Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2, Witness
Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2, Witness
“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. 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.
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Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
Trotsky in New York Walking Tour
Join Alex Steinberg and Daniel Lazare for a historical walking tour of Lower Manhattan as we explore some of the places where Leon Trotsky visited and worked during his nine week stay in New York in early 1917.
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Aristotle, Hegel, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue
Aristotle, Hegel, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue
Join us for a dialogue on philosophical themes featuring the authors of two forthcoming books. Michael Lazarus is the author of 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx,' and Jensen Suther is the author of 'True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom.'
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