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SUMMARY:Protective Presence in the West Bank
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nThe only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are protective presence activists. Celeste Marcus and Mitch Abidor have both spent time in the West Bank doing protective presence\, accompanying Palestinians in their fields and with their flocks and confronting settlers who are far less likely to kill and even attack Palestinians if protective presence activists are on the ground. Mitch and Celeste will be discussing their experiences and their new organization\, Protective Presence USA\, which is assisting Americans in joining this effort to fight off the annexation of Palestinian land. \nMitch Abidor is a writer and translator. His latest book is Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary. He’s currently working on an oral history of the Israeli socialist anti-Zionist organization Matzpen. \nCeleste Marcus is the executive editor of Liberties Journal and the author of Chaim Soutine: Genius\, Obsession and a Dramatic Life in Art. She has written widely about settler terrorism in the West Bank.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/protective-presence/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Colonialism,Imperialism,Israeli occupation,Organizing,Palestine,Present Moment,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Special Event,Spring 2026,Video Available,War
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SUMMARY:If We Burn: Mass Protest and Political Strategy for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:What can the last fifteen years of worldwide mass protests teach us about strategy and organization for socialism? Street protests and organizing from Seattle WTO to Occupy and on to George Floyd Black Lives Matter demonstrated new tactics\, new generations of activists\, and new lessons about the future. Likewise\, worldwide protests from the Arab Spring to Latin America\, Europe\, and Hong Kong also struck hard and have brought many important lessons. Join us for reading and discussion probing three connected themes: \n\nMass street protest since Occupy. We will analyze the rich legacy of largely leaderless mass mobilizations as well as new labor struggles\, locally and globally\, over the last fifteen years.\nCrowdsourcing the Revolution: Digital possibilities\, real-world limitations in networked movements. How has digital communications media changed the organizing landscape since the Arab Spring? A critical assessment of the politics and practicalities of digital networking and communication for effective political strategies.\nFrom mass mobilization to accumulating power against capitalism: new long-term strategy for socialism. What remains important and what has changed in connecting strategy and organization?\n\nReadings will include selections from newly published analyses of and theoretical reflection on recent struggles in the United States and globally: \nIf We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution\, by Vincent Bevins (PublicAffairsBooks)\nTwitter and Tear Gas:  The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest\, by Zeynap Tufekci (Yale)\nCommunism and Strategy: Rethinking Political Mediations\, by Isabelle Garo (Verso)\nNeither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization\, by Rodrigo Nunes (Verso) \nBringing direct experience from Brazil\, France\, Turkey\, and the United States\, these authors invite reconsideration of political and organizational strategy in light of the worldwide extent of recent struggles. We will make this a new\, collaborative exercise and add related readings\, multimedia\, and possibly guest talks suggested by participants in the reading group. \nTuesdays\, at 6:30 pm EST; Winter series ends April 30; RSVP for information about coming Spring series.\nPhotos: Occupy Wall Street\, 1 year later (credit Glenn Halog: 2012); Black Lives Matter (credit: Taymaz Valley 2020) \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/if-we-burn-political-strategy-for-21st-century/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Organizing,Political Strategy,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Late Fascism: a Conversation With Alberto Toscano
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 3\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA talk and conversation with Alberto Toscano about his powerful new book Late Fascism: Race\, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Toscano asks\, how should we name\, map and respond to the present state of affairs where the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand? Drawing especially on Black radical and anticolonial theories of fascism\, the book makes clear the limits of associating fascism primarily with the kinds of political violence experienced in past European regimes. Toscano argues we should see fascism as a changing process\, a threat anchored in racial and colonial capitalism\, which continues to evolve in the present day. In the words of Robin D.G. Kelley\, “Late Fascism is brilliant\, incisive\, and right on time.” The book is available from Verso. \nAlberto Toscano teaches at Simon Fraser University and at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the editor of Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Democracy and a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/late-fascism-a-conversation-with-alberto-toscano/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Late Capital and Fascism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Organizing,Race and Class,Repression,Seminars and Talks,State Formation
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SUMMARY:Theodore Allen's 'The Kernel and Meaning': A Strategic Critique of U.S. Labor History
DESCRIPTION:“The South\, after the war\, presented the greatest opportunity for a real national labor movement which the nation ever saw or is likely to see for many decades. Yet the labor movement\, with but few exceptions\, never realized the situation. It never had the intelligence or knowledge\, as a whole\, to see in black slavery and Reconstruction\, the kernel and meaning of the labor movement in the United States.” –W.E.B. Du Bois\, Black Reconstruction \nBefore Theodore W. Allen turned to his magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race\, he drafted an essay “The Kernel and Meaning: A Contribution to a Proletarian Critique of U.S. Historiography.” In it\, he assessed how the industrial bourgeoisie successfully overturned plantation capital’s rule while assuring its own ascendancy over the proletariat. Allen reviewed six commonly held explanations as to why\, despite favorable objective conditions\, the U.S. left and workers movements failed to establish socialism or even a permanent working-class party. Inspired by Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction\, Allen introduced an extended critique of the “white blind spot” in Marxist-oriented historiography as a key source of the failure to develop a proletarian strategy. Subsequent chapters highlight Du Bois’s emphasis on the central role of the fight against white supremacy in the class struggles of that era and the defeat of Black-white solidarity during Reconstruction\, the 1877 railroad strike\, the Black Exodus\, the Redeemer-Populist struggles in the 1880s\, and the rise of Jim Crow. \nParticipants in this six-session group will read and discuss the original\, 160-page typescript of Allen’s unpublished essay\, written in the 1970s and accessible through the Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. \nFacilitated by David Slavin. David has taught US and world history at the college level for 30 years and written two books on French anti-imperialist movements and race. In the 1970s he was a construction worker and labor troublemaker in NYC and\, in the mid-1980s\, research director of District 1199\, the NYC hospital workers union. He grew up in the Bronx\, has lived in Atlanta for the past twenty years\, and just finished an essay on “Redlining the Working Class: The Social Security Act of 1935\, the New Deal\, and the Nationalization of Jim Crow.”
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kernel-and-meaning/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,History,Labor History,Left Populism,Multi-session Classes,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Solidarity,Syndicalism,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T140000
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SUMMARY:Worn Out: Retail Workers vs. Digital Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:A video of this April 29\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nWith Author Madison Van Oort\nBeneath the success of fast fashion\, a grimmer story is told by Madison Van Oort in Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back. Going undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City\, she observed firsthand how data and surveillance shape the lives of the people who do the actual producing and selling. Van Oort’s interviews with dozens of front line workers and labor activists show how workers are fighting back\, and her research exposes the exploitative reality of retail labor as digital tools lubricate the shift toward just-in-time retail by collecting real-time data on not only customer behavior but also worker performance. Automated scheduling platforms\, biometric time clocks\, and cashier metrics increase these workers’ already heightened insecurity. One of the first ethnographies of this “thriving” industry\, Worn Out pulls open the curtain between production and consumption and reveals the real cost of fast fashion. \nMadison Van Oort is a researcher based in Minneapolis. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2018\, and her academic writing has appeared in the journals Critical Sociology\, Ethnography\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society as well as the anthology Captivating Technology: Race\, Carceral Technoscience\, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Worn Out is her first book. \nWorn Out is available from the publisher\, MIT Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/worn-out/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Precarity,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women
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SUMMARY:Arise: Power\, Strategy and Union Resurgence
DESCRIPTION:with author Jane Holgate\nIn Arise\, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organizing experience\, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice\, leadership and union democracy to politics\, tactics and the agency afforded to the majority of union members. \nIn the midst of a neoliberal era of economic crisis and political upheaval\, the labor movement stands at a crossroads. Union membership is on the rise\, but the ‘turn to organizing’ has largely failed to translate into meaningful gains for workers. There is much discussion about the lack of collectivism among workers due to casualization\, gig work and precarity\, yet these conditions were standard in the UK when workers built the foundations of the 19th-century trade union movement. \nDrawing on history and case studies of unions developing the effective use of power\, Jane Holgate’s book lays out strategies for moving beyond the pessimism that prevails in much of today’s union movement. By placing power analysis back at the heart of workers’ struggle\, the chapters of Arise demonstrate that transformational change is not only possible\, but within reach. \nJANE HOLGATE is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca 2012) and has held a number of positions in the trade union movement as an NGA “mother of chapel”\, Unison branch chair and regional council delegate\, UCU caseworker and secretary of Hackney Trades Union Council. She has worked closely on research projects with trade unions\, including the GMB\, TGWU\, CWU\, Bectu\, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress. \nDiscount code for purchasing from Pluto: MEP \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/arise-power-strategy-and-union-resurgence/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of Detroit
DESCRIPTION:with authors Mark Jay and Philip Conklin\n \nRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile\, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services\, water shutoffs\, mass foreclosures\, and violent police raids. In A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit’s history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism’s mandates. \n“Jay and Conklin work backward before working forward. The authors first offer a people’s history of Detroit’s present\, subverting chronology to read the resurgence narrative of Detroit against the grain and reveal the erasure of Black Detroit via the myth of Detroit’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’30s\, ’40s\, and ’50s. This allows them\, and therefore us\, to understand the systemic problems facing contemporary Detroit first\, and then uncover their prehistory second\, instead of the other way around.” — Hannah Zeavin\, Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/hannah-zeavin/ \n\n\n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\,A People’s History of Detroitimagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\, Public Books \n\nMark Jay received his PhD in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara.\nPhilip Conklin is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nThey are coeditors of the literary and political magazine The Periphery. \n  \n  \nBOOKS AVAILABLE\nDUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Fordism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Labor under Neoliberal Authoritarianism\nEditors Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Mehmet Erman Erol joined by contributors Cosku Celik\, Ertan Erol\, and Elif Hacısalihoğlu\nA comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey\nDecades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change\, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life. This presentation will look at the historical and current outcomes brough about by the authoritarian\, militarized civil life for Turkish workers. What will be the long term consequences for workers in Turkey? \nMoving beyond the headlines and personalities\, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews\, this book offers cutting-edge analyses of workplace struggles\, trade unionism\, the AKP’s relationship with neoliberalism\, migration\, gender\, agrarian change and precarity\, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on workers. This volume also brings together a broad range of Turkish activists and scholars who consider what the dynamics and contradictions of working-class resistance against Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime have become; worker self-management\, organized labor\, and class struggles in rural areas are examined. \nÇağatay Edgücan Şahin is an Associate Professor of Labor Economics at the University of Ordu\, Turkey. He has published various books including Human Capital and Human Resources: A Critical Approach (2011).\nMehmet Erman Erol is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge\, UK. He has contributed to journals and books on Turkish & Middle East political economy and labor market restructuring.\nCosku Celik (York University\, Visiting Assistant Professor). Her chapter entitled ‘The Making of the Rural Proletariat in Neoliberal Turkey’\nElif Hacısalihoğlu (Trakya University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor). Chapter ‘A View of Precarization from Turkey: Urban-rural Dynamics and Intergenerational Precarity’\nErtan Erol (Istanbul University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor) Chapter ‘Burden or a Saviour at a time of Economic Crisis: AKP’s ‘Open-Door Migration Policy’ and its Impact on Labor Market Restructuring in Turkey \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able  to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-turkey/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Organizing,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Parade of the Old New with artist/author Zoe Beloff
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion of Booklyn’s important new accordion fold-out 40-panel book with painter and author Zoe Bellof\n \nA discussion by Zoe Beloff about her new 40-panel accordion book that reproduces\, Parade of the Old New\, an epic panorama on cardboard panels\, a 40 meter long  allegory of the American body politic. The title is taken from a 1938 poem by Bertolt Brecht that inspired the theme of this work; now more than ever\, we are not finished with the past and the past is not finished with us. The project was launched with Trump’s inauguration and continued until he was defeated at the ballot box. It begins with the president’s triumphal entry into Washington DC. Beyond stretches a country where the Mexican border walls meets Japanese internment camps from the 1940s at a vanishing point. It chronicles the desecration of public lands for profit\, the battle of Charlottesville\, the arrest of undocumented workers across the country and the detention of asylum seekers at the border. It illustrates the toll of COVID 19\, the work of the nurses\, the breadlines\, young people painting Black Lives Matter mapping a road ahead\, the storming of the Capitol and finally the flickering light of what might be a new beginning. Zoe will also talk about her essay also included in the book “The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World” in which she explores how painters have explored themes of social justice. She brings the writing of both Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to bear on how we can think through the representation of history and lived experience. \nZOE BELLOF is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. She aims to make radical art that educates\, entertains\, and provokes discussion. Most importantly\, as her work attests\, she believes protest should be vibrant\, humorous and colorful\, a carnival of resistance to light the way in dark times. Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues include the Whitney Museum\, Site Santa Fe\, the MHKA museum in Antwerp\, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. However she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. These have included in New York City; The Coney Island Museum\, Participant\, Momenta and The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been awarded fellowships from. The Graham Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at Queens College CUNY. \nBOOKLYN\, INC.  is a non profit organization founded in 1999 and located in Sunset Park\, Brooklyn. Their mission is to promote artists’ books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting\, exhibiting\, and distributing their artwork and archives. They specifically assist artists and organizations committed to environmental and social justice.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/parade-of-the-old-new-with-artist-author-zoe-beloff/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Emancipation,Insurgency,Labor Organizing,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Poetry,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Revenge Capitalism with Max Haiven
DESCRIPTION:Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire\, the Demons of Capital\, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts\nA presentation with discussion with author Max Haiven\n“Max Haven retraces the roots of the current regression\, of the reactionary trend that is driving the world toward a new darkness. These roots are humiliation and revenge. In my opinion this book is of strategical importance.” —Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi\, author of Futurability The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility \nCapitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of “ordinary” structural violence\, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration\, climate chaos\, unpayable debt\, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life. \nIn Revenge Capitalism\, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today\, he examines the opioid crisis in the US\, the growth of ‘surplus populations’ worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts – both as reparations owed\, and as a methodology of oppression. Revenge Capitalism offers no easy answers\, but Max has made a powerful call to the radical imagination: “When you live in someone else’s utopia\, all you have is revenge. We live in capitalism’s utopia\, a world almost completely reconfigured to suit the needs of accumulation. And the world’s alight\, and ours is an age of vengeance. It is vengeance\, sadly\, that is usually directed at those who least deserve it and which leaves those whose actions led to the current state of affairs\, or who benefit from it\, free or even more empowered.”  —Max Haiven\, from his introduction to Revenge Capitalism \nMAX HAIVEN is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in Culture\, Media and Social Justice. His most recent books are Art after Money\, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018) and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire\, the Demons of Capital\, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020). Max also edits VAGABONDS\, a series of short\, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University\, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL). \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revenge-capitalism-with-max-haiven/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Labor Organizing,Organizing,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Everyone a Legislator with author Michael Denning
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Gramsci’s work for the 21st Century: A presentation and discussion with Michael Denning\n“Perhaps Gramsci’s political science is … a “necessary expression of his time\, the short twentieth century\, an era now ended\, the ae of three words divided between Fordist capitalism\, bureaucratic communism and the post-colonial settlements of decolonization. If this is true\, is there a future for Gramsci’s legacy?” —Michael Denning \nIn the introduction to the May/June\, 2021 New Left Review is this summary of Michael Denning’s essay\, “Everyone a Legislator”: “What is the principal legacy today of Gramsci’s writing on politics. Often taken to be a theory of the party as a “modern prince” derived from Machiavelli\, can this still be so in an epoch when political parties are everywhere in decline? This year in the May June issue of New Left Review\, Michael Denning reasons that what now matters in Gramsci’s work is his theory of organizing and a premonitory form of democratic legislation.” \nThe essay is available online at https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii129. \nThe image used here\, Verso la città futura (toward a future city)\, was painted on the side of an apartment complex on via Canova in Florence by artist Jorit. Underlying the painting\, inscribed into the 213 meter wall is the following from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: “Even when everything is or seems lost\, one must calmly get back to work\, starting from the beginning…The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old dies and the new cannot be born”. \nMichael Denning is the author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2015); Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997); Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987). Michael teaches American Studies at Yale University\, where he coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/everyone-a-legislator-with-author-michael-denning/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Marx,Marxisms,Neo-fascism,Organizing,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy
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SUMMARY:The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon with Alessandro Delfanti
DESCRIPTION:“Delfanti has done here what more critics of Amazon should — listen carefully to the people whose work makes the corporation function. Those of us fighting for a better future than Amazon’s dystopia have much to learn from this book”.  — Dania Rajendra\, Inaugural Director\, Athena Coalition \n‘Work hard\, have fun\, make history’ proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon’s warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance\, aggressive anti-union tactics and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early industrial capitalism\, the hundreds of thousands of workers who help Amazon fulfil consumers’ desire are part of an experiment in changing the way we all work. \nIn this book\, Alessandro Delfanti takes readers inside Amazon’s warehouses to show how technological advancements and managerial techniques subdue the workers rather than empower them\, as seen in the sensors that track workers’ every movement around the floor and algorithmic systems that re-route orders to circumvent worker sabotage. He looks at new technologies including robotic arms trained by humans and augmented reality goggles\, showing that their aim is to standardize\, measure and discipline human work rather than replace it. \nDespite its innovation\, Amazon will always need living labor’s flexibility and low cost. And as the warehouse is increasingly automated\, worker discontent increases. Striking under the banner “we are not robots”\, employees have shown that they are acutely aware of such contradictions. The only question remains: how long will it be until Amazon’s empire collapses? \nALESSANDRO DELFANTI teaches Digital Media at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (Pluto\, 2013). \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-warehouse-workers-and-robots-at-amazon-with-alessandro-delfanti/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Fordism,Globalization,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx,Organizing,Seminars and Talks
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