Week of Events
Weekend Special Pass: Austin, Gordon, Marx
2 events and a visit to our ongoing Capital Saturday study session in between.
Capitalism: Causes, Conditions, Consequences … and Beyond
Capitalism: Causes, Conditions, Consequences … and Beyond
Join us for a close reading of Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals.
Globalization and Writing
Globalization and Writing
Unwilling, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the their countries of origin.
Dread Poetry and Freedom
Dread Poetry and Freedom
What is the relationship between poetry and social change?
Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing happen'.