BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Marxist Education Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20240310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20241103T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T145655Z CREATED:20260429T163607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260515T145655Z UID:10008398-1780840800-1780848000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 2\, Extremities DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nIn this our second panel we question the socio-spatial manifestations of the limit and its political and property avatars: the border the boundary\, and the zone. Across these contributions\, to think at the extremity is to reevaluate the whole\, querying how limits animate entire systems of thought and distinction. (Panel 1 details here) \nNathaniel LaCelle-Peterson examines the function of infrastructure in the thought of Louis Althusser\, where it appears as substitute for “base” as the opposing category of “superstructure” in his structuralist articulation of the mode of production. Alan J. Alaniz analyzes the built and unbuilt architectural projects of the midcentury Mexico-United States borderlands to illuminate the spatial consequences of geopolitics at the international divide.  Madeleine Han examines the role of contemporary art in the transformation of Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—a geographical and imagined ‘limit’ marked by dreams of deferred reunification—into a visitation site. Javier Porras Madero explores how combined and uneven development along the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands produced newly alienated subjects who became the central social components of twentieth-century nationalisms. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson is a doctoral researcher in Film & Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Alan J. Alaniz is a doctoral researcher in the Yale School of Architecture. Madeleine Han is a doctoral researcher in the Yale American Studies program. Javier Porras Madero is a doctoral researcher in the history department at Yale University. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-extremities/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Immigration,Latin America,Modernity,Political Economy,Present Moment,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Special Event,Spring 2026 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/YaleWGGC-Panel2a.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T160000 DTSTAMP:20260515T145511Z CREATED:20260429T191328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260515T145511Z UID:10008397-1780754400-1780761600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Approaching the Limit: Panel 1\, Thresholds DESCRIPTION:Panel Presentation by the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nBoundary\, border\, threshold\, edge—to approach the limit is to look beyond the familiar landmarks of cultural studies. From geographical borders to epistemological categories\, limits and edges initiate the dialectical moment of thought\, overturning or transcending the axioms and foundations from which it has sprung. Setting limits to the working day (minimums\, then maximums) or to wages (maximums\, then minimums\, as Marx describes in Capital‘s chapters on primitive accumulation’s legislative efforts) are only the tip of the iceberg. So where do we experience the limits—or limitlessness—of our worlds? \nIn two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory\, spatial\, temporal\, social\, cultural\, political. In their geographical and methodological variety\, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword\, and seek to determine the bounds\, so to speak\, of studying\, theorizing and making culture at the limit. \nThe first panel\, Thresholds: Limit Cases\,  takes on the exceptions that determine the rule. These limit cases of sound\, shock\, spirit\, and symbol problematize and contest the generic and ideological frames they operate within. Probing the thresholds of perception\, we address experience that re-taxonomizes the social and sensorial order. (Panel 2 details here) \nSuvij Sudershan asks why the qawwal (a traditional Sufi devotional form that often puts written poetry to music) came to enjoy uniquely prominent position within the global meta-genre of “World Music”? Michelle Chow explores Asian/American transnational ecopoetics\, an the literary\, philosophic\, cultural\, and botanical attempts to contend with the post-nuclear environment\, by centering around one tree\, the gingko. Jane Zhang links the origins of the first aid kit in railway surgery to the broader exchange between emergency protocol and industrial management. Michael Denning takes up Fredric Jameson’s challenge to “political” readings of Marx in the context of recent “republican” re-readings of the political dimension of “Citizen Marx\,” reconsidering the limits of and barriers to\, the political. And Sam Levin charts the shifting limits of belonging on the global far right as it coalesced in the last quarter of the 20th century. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research group that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003 Over the years\, we have presented our collective work at Crossroads in Cultural Studies the Irish Association for American Studies\, the Cultural Studies Association\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Space and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology. A collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Suvij Sudershan is a doctoral researcher at Yale’s Department of English. His dissertation is on the representation of ground-rent and class-formation in 19th and early-20th century novels from Ireland\, England\, India\, and South Africa. Michelle Chow is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s English Literature and Film & Media Studies program\, and a Graduate Fellow of Yale’s Center for the Study of Race Indigeneity\, & Transnational Migration (RITM). Jane Zhang is a doctoral researcher in Yale’s Combined Program in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies. Her research focuses on the intersecting histories of popular literature and vernacular medicine from the 19th century onwards. Michael Denning teaches cultural studies in the American Studies program at Yale University; among his books are Culture in the Age of Three Worlds and Noise Uprising. The Twofold Labors of Marx is forthcoming from Verso. Sam Levin is a doctoral researcher in the American studies program at Yale University. He studies religion and the global far right in the 20th century. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-thresholds/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:_Panel Discussion,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Political Strategy,Republicanism,Seminars and Talks,Special Event,Spring 2026 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/WGGC-Image1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T173000 DTSTAMP:20260202T145354Z CREATED:20251119T160315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T145354Z UID:10008383-1770566400-1770571800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory DESCRIPTION:A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner\, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nBridging political economy and psychology\, we will review Marx’s writings on the structure of social systems that encompass cultural emergents such as religion. As emphasized by Wendy Brown in her Foreword to the Reitter-North translation of Capital\, “Marx developed an understanding of political economy as the distinctive mode through which we build entire worlds through our singular cooperative powers—transforming nature\, elaborating divisions of labor and organizations of ownership\, producing wealth\, creating ways of life\, institutions\, social forms\, subjects\, and subjectivities… Capital brings into being not only particular kinds of markets\, technologies\, and industries\, but classes\, families\, and political structures; race and gender orders; relations with ‘nature’; new formations of space and time; and legal codes and conflicts.” \nTurning to the field of cultural psychology\, we will explore how cultural forms stimulate and organize human psychology. Here we will focus on the work of the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” Vygotsky was a dedicated Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. Vygotsky said\, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science\, how to approach the investigation of the mind.” Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution. \nRegistration for this series is now closed. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-psychology-ratner/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251217T203000 DTSTAMP:20251224T170853Z CREATED:20251117T153043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251224T170853Z UID:10008382-1765998000-1766003400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel\, Marx\, and Capital DESCRIPTION:A video of this December 17\, 2025 event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nAndy Blunden presents insights from two new books on Marx’s use of Hegel’s Logic in the writing of Capital. The Capital/Logic Debate offers a critique of the discourse around the relation between the two thinkers. Previous writers have looked for homologies between the Logic and Capital\, despite the fact that the Logic has no definite content\, while any positive science\, political economy included\, does have definite content originating from some problem or phenomenon with its own logic. In Marx’s Capital: Hegelian Sources\, Blunden explores the three-layered structure of Capital\, where each layer has a basis in Hegel. The distinct ethical strata of Capital – bourgeois society\, productive capitalism\, and finance capital –  parallel Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Marx applies a Hegelian syllogism in which the immediate production of capital (volume 1) and the circulation of capital (volume 2) combine to yield capitalist production as a whole (volume 3). These two synthetic processes are built on 15 “units” – unique products of analysis\, as detailed in the penultimate chapter of Hegel’s Logic\, “The Idea of Cognition.” \nAndy Blunden has long been active on the Left as an activist and educator. Since the early 2000s he has been Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org). Andy has presented courses on Activity Theory\, Marx and Hegel at summer schools at Melbourne University. currently retired from waged work\, he has worked as a teacher\, a technician\, or an engineer\, and has been an active trade unionist throughout. Among his other books are Hegel for Social Movements; Hegel\, Marx\, and Vygotsky; and Concepts: A Critical Approach. All are available from Haymarket Books. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-marx-blunden/ LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Fall 25,featured,Hegelianism,historical materialism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Philosophy,Political Economy,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HegelMarx.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T130000 DTSTAMP:20250714T133753Z CREATED:20250209T000040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T133753Z UID:10008334-1752922800-1752930000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring Hegel for Radicals series introduces what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. 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. As participants in Hegel’s Bacchanalian Revel we will step through such themes as \n\nThe Inverted World\nThe Dialectic of Master and Slave\nThe Cynical Bohemian\nThe Beautiful Soul\nFreedom and Terror\nSpirit Externalized as Nature and History\nThe Absolute\n\nThis journey provides a foundation for Hegel’s dialectic\, which is in turn a key to Marx’s Capital. \nWe recommend the translation by A.V. Miller of the Phenomenology of Spirit\, published by Oxford University Press and readily available as an inexpensive paperback. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar and lifelong socialist who has taught classes in Marxist philosophy\, Hegel\, the dialectics of nature\, Heidegger\, and Nietzsche at the New Space for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education\, The Brecht Forum\, the Marxist Education Project\, and other venues. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. In addition to his scholarly activities Alex has been involved with the governance of WBAI radio\, most recently as Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019 – 2021. \nRegistration for this study group is now closed. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-phenomenology/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 25 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Hegel-Phen_WebImage_2x.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T160000 DTSTAMP:20250926T163308Z CREATED:20250512T162452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T163308Z UID:10008347-1750514400-1750521600@marxedproject.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/spectacle-denning-crop2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250615T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250615T160000 DTSTAMP:20250926T162901Z CREATED:20250512T162306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T162901Z UID:10008346-1749996000-1750003200@marxedproject.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/spectacle-denning-crop.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230513T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230513T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007137-1683975600-1683982800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-05-13/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230506T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230506T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007288-1683381600-1683388800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-05-06/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230506T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230506T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007136-1683370800-1683378000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-05-06/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230429T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230429T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007287-1682776800-1682784000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-29/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230429T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230429T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007135-1682766000-1682773200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-04-29/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230422T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230422T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007286-1682172000-1682179200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-22/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230422T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230422T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007134-1682161200-1682168400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-04-22/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230415T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230415T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007285-1681567200-1681574400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-15/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230415T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230415T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007133-1681556400-1681563600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-04-15/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230408T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230408T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007284-1680962400-1680969600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-08/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230408T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230408T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007132-1680951600-1680958800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-04-08/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230401T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230401T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007283-1680357600-1680364800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-04-01/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230401T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230401T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007131-1680346800-1680354000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-04-01/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230325T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230325T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007282-1679752800-1679760000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-03-25/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230325T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230325T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007130-1679742000-1679749200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-03-25/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230318T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230318T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007281-1679148000-1679155200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-03-18/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230318T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007129-1679137200-1679144400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-03-18/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230311T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230311T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007280-1678543200-1678550400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-03-11/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230311T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230311T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007128-1678532400-1678539600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-03-11/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230304T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230304T160000 DTSTAMP:20230203T142739Z CREATED:20230203T142617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T142739Z UID:10007279-1677938400-1677945600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit DESCRIPTION:A 10-week course with Alex Steinberg that will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. \nIt has often been said that that Marx “turned Hegel on his head.”  In this series we will explore the meaning of that phrase and its implications for those of us who are confronting problems of a world on fire.  The problems we face today in this epoch of the decay of capitalism\, imperialism\, war\, a global pandemic\, economic crisis\, the return of fascism\, climate change are unprecedented. \nThis class series is a continuation of the series from the Fall of 2022 where we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book\, The Phenomenology of Spirit.  No prior experience with studying Hegel is expected or required.  We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time. \nTo accommodate new students and to re-acquaint continuing students the first sessions will consist of a review in which we will summarize the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the first four chapters\, on Sense Certainty\, Perception\, the Understanding\, The Master-Slave Dialectic\, and Stoicism\, Skepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness. \nWe will be reading Terry Pinkard’s translation of the Phenomenology\, published by Cambridge University Press. A free version is available online. \nAlex Steinberg is an independent scholar. He has taught on topics such as the Philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and Humanism\, and Hegel’s Philosophy of History at various alternative educational institutions and informally. He was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. Alex has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2019–2021. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-iii/2023-03-04/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,French Revolution,Hegelianism,History,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230304T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230304T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007127-1677927600-1677934800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-03-04/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230225T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230225T130000 DTSTAMP:20230223T233716Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T233716Z UID:10007264-1677322800-1677330000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7-2023-02-25/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230218T130000 DTSTAMP:20230109T195246Z CREATED:20220403T022414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T195246Z UID:10007126-1676718000-1676725200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx's Grundrisse: Notebook VII DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, Grundrisse \nKarl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in the notes of 1857-58\, published posthumously as the Grundrisse (approximately translated as “rough draft”). Written during the first global economic crisis but undiscovered for nearly 50 years\, only a few copies reached the West from a limited 1939-40 USSR edition. The work was finally published in English in 1973 as Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. \n“The enormous manuscript should be taken for what it is: a frenetic\, and genial\, intellectual note-taking…. The Grundrisse can be seen as a veritable ‘laboratory’ in which we can observe Marx in the very process of unfolding his dialectical investigation of the movement of capitalist social and economic forms. It is thus an ideal text for stimulating a discussion about the articulation and development of the Marxian critique of political economy.”  —Ricardo Bellofiore et al.\, In Marx’s Laboratory \nWe meet weekly to conduct a careful\, page by page reading of the text\, with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. During the winter and spring 2023 we will be reading the final notebook\, number VII\, which begins with the widely discussed “Fragment on Machines.” \nThe MEP’s CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP have been reading together for six years. Newcomers are encouraged to join – prior knowledge of Capital and related works is helpful but not required. A complete video archive of prior Grundrisse sessions is available for review by participants. For more information email info@marxedproject.org \n  \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-notebook7/2023-02-18/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Grundrisse,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/machinery.png ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR