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Historical Roots of American Fascism: Howard Zinn’s People’s History
Historical Roots of American Fascism: Howard Zinn’s People’s History
Take part in the Political Strategy Study Group’s sweeping look at the history and political significance of the major waves of struggle and counter-revolution in the United States. Our June reading will focus on Howard Zinn's classic People's History of the United States. You may have read this in the past; we will rely here ... Read more
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Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1, Oversight
Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1, Oversight
“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. In two linked panels, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics, stadiums to camptowns, polar expeditions to spring festivals, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders, assassinations and squares.
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Reading Death of the Author by Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor
Reading Death of the Author by Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor
"To build a better future, we have to envision it first." Reading science fiction, discussing it together, and reading it politically, offers one tool for "envisioning" a future worth building. We continue our explorations of diverse points of view of social conflict and resolution, possible and imagined just worlds, here on Earth and perhaps afar.
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Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2, Witness
Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2, Witness
“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. In two linked panels, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics, stadiums to camptowns, polar expeditions to spring festivals, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders, assassinations and squares.
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Aristotle, Hegel, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue
Aristotle, Hegel, Marx: A Philosophical Dialogue
Join us for a dialogue on philosophical themes featuring the authors of two forthcoming books. Michael Lazarus is the author of 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx,' and Jensen Suther is the author of 'True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom.'