BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.16.1//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/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20160313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20161106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20170312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20171105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200617T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200617T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20200225T145441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T150511Z UID:10006699-1592418600-1592425800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Socialism or Barbarism? (and Existential Despair) DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE IN MAY OR JUNE. The June 17 Date Is A Temporary Date SUBJECT TO CHANGE\nA MARXIST EDUCATION PROJECT Roundtable with\nMitch Abidor\, Arielle Angel\, Michael Pelias and Chris Wright\nEarly on in The Junius Pamphlet Rosa Luxemburg cites Engels: “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads\, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” Recently\, the Socialist Project from Toronto posted Chris Wright’s essay “Capitalism\, Socialism and Existential Despair.” \nChris sites the founding document of SDS\, the Port Huron Statement\, which lamented the corruption and degradation of such values as creativity and community: “Loneliness\, estrangement\, isolation describe the vast distance between man and man today. These dominant tendencies cannot be overcome by better personnel management\, nor by improved gadgets\, but only when a love of man overcomes the idolatrous worship of things by man.” Here we are 60 years later with capital threatening survival at numerous tipping points\, some not imagined when SDS was formed. \nThe four panelists will address the existential moment we are all navigating in the face of the multiple crises facing us in the light of Chris’ essay. Following presentations from the four panelists\, the audience is invited to enlarge the discussion with their own questions and comments. \nMITCH ABIDOR is a translator and historian. His latest book is Down With the Law\, an anthology of French individualist anarchist writings and is currently preparing a history of the Bisbee Deportation of 1917. \nARIELLE ANGEL is the editor of Jewish Currents. \nMICHAEL PELIAS teaches Philosophy and film studies at Long Island University-Brooklyn. He is a founder of the Institute for the Radical Imagination and is the co-managing editor of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination. Michael has presented critical studies on The Age of Anxiety and Heidegger’s Being and Time. \nCHRIS WRIGHT has a Ph.D. in US history from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and is the author of Worker Cooperatives and Revolution. His site is wrightswriting.com.. \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialism-or-barbarism-and-existential-despair/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RaoulHaussmannAmalgamation.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200310T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200310T203000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20200203T121021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T121021Z UID:10006696-1583865000-1583872200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Orient: Foucault’s Achilles’ Heel DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Marnia Lazreg\nNon-Western Subjugated Knowledges and Michel Foucault’s Limit Experience\nFoucault was a critic of Western culture and rationality. However\, in his travels in the Orient (Tunisia\, Iran and Japan)\, he claimed these cultures were incomprehensible because they belong to a different rationality. This talk will explore the intellectual sources of Foucault’s anti-humanist approach to non-western cultures as it documents his personal disorientation and struggles in Tunisia\, Iran and Japan. \nMarnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College\, City University of New York. Her research focuses on social theory\, international development\, cultural movements\, colonial history\, and gender in the Middle East. Her recent publications include\, Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference\, From Tunisia to Japan (Berghahn\, 2017); The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question\, 2nd edition (Routledge\, 2018); Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algeria to Baghdad (Princeton\, 2017 paperback). \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-orient-foucaults-achilles-heel/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/foucault-sideBYside.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20191216T162243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200125T040505Z UID:10006106-1579966200-1579975200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hispaniola in Revolt DESCRIPTION:Critical Perspectives on Haiti and Santo Domingo\nwith Mitch Abidor\, Virgilio Oscar Aràn\, France Francois\, Lionel Legros and Amaury Rodriguez\n  \nCome to participate with presentations and discussion on the revolutionary legacies of Hispaniola\, the island shared by both Haiti and Santo Domingo. \nPanelists: \nMITCH ABIDOR has translated many of the key documents and accounts of the Haitian Revolution. His latest book is Down With the Law\, an anthology of French individualist anarchist writings. He will discuss the contradictions of the Haitian revolution. \nVIRGILIO OSCAR ARÁN is the National Field Home Care Organizer with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Arán has participated in different forums to talk about the inhumane conditions Haitian immigrants suffer under in his native country\, the Dominican Republic. He will discuss race and class in the Dominican Republic. \nFRANCE FRANCOIS is the Founder and CEO of In Cultured Company\, an organization that works on conflict resolution and reconciliation between Haitians and Dominicans. She is a multi-passionate writer\, activist\, and change agent transforming communities of color around the globe by redefining the way their stories are told and how we impact their lives. France will also reconsider the Haitian revolts of 1946 and 1986. \nLIONEL LEGROS is a longtime NYC-based activist and educator originally from Haiti. He fought the Duvalier dictatorship and founded L’Heure Haitienne Radio in New York City in the 1960s. He will discuss the current Haitian revolt. \nModerator: AMAURY RODRIGUEZ is a Dominican-born translator and independent researcher. He is a frequent contributor to the Marxists Internet Archives (MIA) and co-author\, with Raj Chetty\, of Dominican Black Studies\, a special issue of The Black Scholar journal. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hispaniola-in-revolt/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Haiti2019Web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191214T183000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20191029T065134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191102T032021Z UID:10006678-1576337400-1576348200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Spectatorship and Embodied Expression DESCRIPTION:A Talk / A Performance / A Surreal Meal\nwith Florence Benichou\, Marija Krtolica and Despina Stamos\n“[C]ritical art is a type of art that sets out to build awareness of the mechanisms of domination to turn the spectator into a conscious agent of world transformation\,” writes philosopher Jacques Rancière in Aesthetics and its Discontents (2004). When as dance artists we decide to work critically with and through the body\, and at the same time enter the contested field of the history of psychiatric diagnosis\, our aim is to initiate spectator’s transformation. The intention is to make him/her into an active observer of the world outside a given theatrical event. For this to occur\, the spectator is asked to remain attentive during a relatively short time of a theatrical event. As artists we incite spectators to interpret\, and construct meanings out of the puzzles and expressive tropes we present in front of their eyes. The dancers find themselves in a unique position\, as their art has traditionally been linked with ephemerality\, poetics and abstraction. Paradoxically\, their medium of expression is the most material in a visceral sense. The medium is the body\, with its acquired skills\, aesthetic values attached to it\, pre-verbal histories\, but mainly its skeletal and muscular structure\, organs\, feelings\, drives\, and sensations. By researching the boundary that separates the avant garde artistic expression from the symptoms diagnosed as mental illnesses\, the dance makers become both provocateurs and witnesses who reproduce the visible bodily manifestations\, and give form to hidden realities of everyday encounters. However\, it is not the dancers who are “responsible” for making the theatrical encounter real. As the philosopher Alain Badiou points out\, the Spectator who enters the theater space is the one who presents “point of the real by which a spectacle comes into being.”—Rhapsody for the Theater: A Short Philosophical Treatise\, 1990. Badiou’s Spectator pays for his/her ticket\, but instead of being lulled into a state of pleasant passivity he/she is forced to “perform” the “real” work. That is\, he/she becomes responsible for developing meaning. In this way\, the spectator gradually gains an ability to transform the “real” world outside the theater. \n \nPRESENTERS/PERFORMERS\nAn introductory talk will be given by dance scholar\, choreographer and dancer MARIJA KRTOLICA\, Ph.D in dance Temple University\, and faculty in dance at Bloomsburg University. Her paper “Expression and Symptom” (published in Fall 2019 by Documenta\, Ghent University) examines the relationship between expression in modern dance\, psychiatric diagnosis\, and critico-theoretical re-interpretation of symptoms of mental illness. Her line of research starts with the nineteenth century hysteria and expands into the questions of dance labor\, artistic production\, and spectatorship in today’s society. As is part of each year’s presentation\, dance will be followed by a meal of the surreal. \nFLORENCE BENICHOU’s expansive repertoire includes site-specific performance – both as dancer and choreographer and voice over as well as acting work. She sees dance as a language and aims to use movement within various media to express individual and social relationships\, limitations\, conflicts and connections. She has worked with a variety of underground New York art and dance companies including Modern Dance Awareness Society\, Human Kinetics Movement Art\, and the Sanctuary of Hope before creating her own projects which were featured at Gallery138 in Chelsea\, New York\, France. \nDESPINA STAMOS is a dancer/choreographer in NYC since 1989. Her work has been presented throughout New York City at such venues as Dance Theater Workshop\, PS122\, PS1\, as well as internationally in Greece\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Austria and Puerto Rico. In 2006\, she initiated and collaborated on the community project\, passTRESpass\, a multimedia performance installation in a former community market place addressing immigration\, in Athens\, with the United African Women’s Organization of Greece. Stamos is founding member of the Modern Dance Awareness Society. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/spectatorship-and-embodied-expression/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Dance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SpectatorshipDec14a_FB3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191005T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191005T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20190930T032756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T032756Z UID:10006671-1570276800-1570302000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commie.con DESCRIPTION:The MEP presents just up the street from the Comic Con this coming weekend a Commie.com\nCo-sponsors:\nBronx Heroes\nOnomatopoeia Art\nCaFa Art Fair \nVendors and Comics available \nPanels\n1:00 pm: The Bronx Heroes & Trumpland\n2:30 pm: How Comic Books Can Change the World\n4:00 pm: Comedians Talking About Comics\n5:00 pm: Clayton Patterson—The Godfather of the Lower East Side\nSEANNE CATEDRAL is a Filipinx-American New Yorker who has been an active member of the introverted artists social club since before it was cool. Having been lucky enough to grow up with NYC as her stomping grounds\, she is continually inspired by the nittiest\, the grittiest\, and also the prettiest that her city has always had to offer. When she’s not drawing\, she spends her time thinking about what to draw\, drinking coffee and whiskey\, deciding what to eat\, and finding new music. \nANDRE LEROY DAVIS is known for his brilliant caricature cartoon drawings “The Last Word” and was a staple of Source Magazine for over 17 years. A graduate of Art & Design HS and SVA\, he has worked on countless publications where he is known for poking fun at some of hip-hop’s greatest talents. \nRAY FELIX is a Bronx native and a graduate of the School of Visual Arts. His comics include\, Bronx Heroes® 1.0: Runaway Slave\, Bronx Heroes® 2.0 : The Greatest Hero Black Power®\, Heavy Traffic™\, Enter: The Roach™ and A World Without Superheroes®. Ray Felix is also the Founder of the community based organization\, Bronx Heroes Comic Con®\, and Co-Founder of Women in Comics Con™\, which promotes literacy and education through the practice of reading and creating comics. \nCATHERINE SHULLER GRUENWALD is a former model and performer and an icon in plus size fashion events and production. Her career spans four decades. Catherine has been a pioneer in plus-size fashion every step of the way. As CEO and Executive Director of Catherine Schuller Enterprises\, LLC\, she creates and curates events that celebrate diversity in fashion\, including Runway the Real Way\, working to ensure that all sizes\, shapes\, ages\, genders\, heights\, ethnicities\, persuasions\, nationalities are represented in contemporary fashion. She is also the widow of long-time Marvel Exec Mark Gruenwald and manages the foundation baring his name \nDANIEL HORT is a Producer of events including CaFA: The Caribbean Art Fair(www.cafafair.com) in Bridgetown Barbados and At the Breakwater (www.atthebreakwater.com) during Miami’s prestigious Art Basel. He is a proud graduate of NYC’s LaGuardia HS of Music and the Arts. \nJESSE LAMBERT was born in Hudson\, NY and grew up in rural New Hampshire and New York City. He received a BFA from Cooper Union and a MFA in Painting from Hunter College. He has been exhibited in New York City at Front Room Gallery\, as well as other venues nationally and internationally. He lives with his wife and son in Jackson Heights\, NY. https://www.jesselambert.net \nSUMMER ROSE McCLINTON is an independent comic book artist and painter. Since her first Xeric award-winning indie comic Thread (with Emily Benz)\, Summer’s work has gravitated toward comics with a counterculture\, anti-establishment bent. Originally influenced by graffiti and cartoons\, her later collaborations with Harvey Pekar nudged her style toward a folksy graphic realism that she has used ever since. Born in Boulder\, Colorado she moved to New York after college and now lives in the Bronx with her husband and son. http://summermcclinton.com \nCLAYTON PATTERSON is a Canadian-born artist\, photographer\, videographer and folk historian. Since moving to New York City in 1979\, his work has focused almost exclusively on documenting the art\, life and times of the Lower East Side in Manhattan. \nTOM SCIACCA is a Bronx native and has worked for Marvel\, DC\, Heroic Fantasy\, Variety\, and Heavy Metal and wrote the award winning film Just Like Joe. \nBRETT SINGER is a writer\, musician and stand up comic. He produces at Comic Strip Live with Prime Time Comedy and performs at clubs throughout NYC. He has been a geek since the first time they stuck his head in the toilet. \nJ. DAVID SPURLOCK is an award-winning author\, historian\, artist\, Space Cowboy comic book creator\, educator\, creator rights advocate\, documentary filmmaker and associate to star talents Frank Frazetta\, Basil Gogos\, Neal Adams\, Steranko\, Joe Kubert\, Carmine Infantino\, Julius Schwartz\, Wally Wood and is the acclaimed biography of famous leftist artist Margaret Brundage. \nCAROLINE SYCORA teaches Graphic Novels in the NYC Public Schools and is a long practicing comic and zine artist\, along with being active with The MEP. \nJULIAN VOLOJ is a New York based writer and photographer. Born in Germany to Colombian parents\, he is the author of a number of graphic novels including Ghetto Brother (NBM\, 2015)\, Joe Shuster (Papercutz\, 2019) and Basquiat (SelfMadeHero\, 2019) \n$5 donation: No one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commie-con/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ComConSite2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190323T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190323T173000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20190228T095427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190308T213206Z UID:10006533-1553355000-1553362200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Noam Chomsky’s Yugoslavia: Peace\, War\, and Dissolution DESCRIPTION:An afternoon with Davor Džalto on Noam Chomsky’s Yugoslavia: Peace\, War\, and Dissolution\nThe Balkans\, in particular the turbulent ex-Yugoslav territory\, have been among the most important world regions in Noam Chomsky’s political reflections and activism for decades. His articles\, public talks\, and correspondence have provided a critical voice on political and social issues crucial not only to the region but the entire international community\, including “humanitarian intervention\,” the relevance of international law in today’s politics\, media manipulations\, and economic crisis as a means of political control. \nThis volume provides a comprehensive survey of virtually all of Chomsky’s texts and public talks that focus on the region of the former Yugoslavia\, from the 1970s to the present. With numerous articles and interviews\, this collection presents a wealth of materials appearing in book form for the first time along with reflections on events twenty-five years after the official end of communist Yugoslavia and the beginning of the war in Bosnia. The book opens with a personal and wide-ranging preface by Andrej Grubačić that affirms the ongoing importance of Yugoslav history and identity\, providing a context for understanding Yugoslavia as an experiment in self-management\, antifascism\, and mutlethnic coexistence. \nDavor Džalto will address some of the most crucial political and social issues affecting both the Balkans and the international community. He is associate professor and program director at the American University of Rome and president of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Christianity. His research interests include the fields of history and politics of the Balkans\, political theology\, and religious philosophy. He is editor of Yugoslavia: Peace\, War\, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky (PM Press\, 2018). \nNOAM CHOMSKY is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics and Chomsky is one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books\, articles\, and essays on global politics\, history\, and linguistics. His recent books include Who Rules the World? and Hopes and Prospects. \nDAVOR DZALTO is associate professor and program director at the American University of Rome and president of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Christianity. His research interests include the fields of history and politics of the Balkans\, political theology\, and religious philosophy. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/noam-chomskys-yugoslavia-peace-war-and-dissolution/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ChomskyCover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190309T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190309T173000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20190204T021848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190205T031932Z UID:10006520-1552145400-1552152600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Premonitions DESCRIPTION:Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt\nAn afternoon talk and discussion with author AK Thompson\n \nBringing together a decade of AK Thompson’s essays on the culture of revolt\, Premonitions offers an engaged assessment of contemporary radical politics. Inspired by Walter Benjamin and addressing themes ranging from violence and representation to Romanticism and death\, Thompson combines scholarship and grassroots grit to disabuse readers—and rebels—of cherished certainties. Whether uncovering the unrealized promise buried in mainstream cultural offerings or tracing our course toward the inevitable moment of reckoning ahead\, the essays in Premonitions are both practical investigations and prescient provocations. \nAccording to Thompson\, Premonitions are similar to Walter Benjamin’s “illuminations’ and “reflections” in that\, as forms of extrapolative reasoning\, they reveal how a thing or event can be made to alert us to the broader social process from which it derives. The major difference is that\, whereas Benjamin’s concepts placed emphasis on the resolution of accumulated tensions\, “premonitions” direct our attention toward the future that will obtain should present dynamics be left undisturbed. \nBecause of his misgivings with “progress\,” which Benjamin took to be both a central conceit of capitalist culture and an idea that had blunted class hatred among social democrats\, Benjamin urged movements to turn their back on the future and focus more on “the image of enslaved ancestors … than that of happy grandchildren.” Even so\, his work discloses a strong premonitory orientation. The concluding line to Paris\, Capital of the Nineteenth Century (1935)\, for instance\, recounts how “in the convulsions of the commodity economy we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.” \n“A pleasure. “This incendiary little book is also a finely balanced one. It asks the defining questions of our hard moment and shows why the answers are uneasy  ones. One part an elegiac history of recent freedom movements and their quandaries\, one part a caution against any too-easy commitment to nonviolence\, Premonitions teems with insights.”\n— David Roediger\, author of Class\, Race\, and Marxism \n AK Thompson is an activist\, author\, and social theorist. Currently a professor of social movements and social change at Ithaca College\, his publications include Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006)\, Black Bloc\, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010)\, Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution (2017) and co-edited Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (2016). Between 2005 and 2012\, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. \ntickets are sliding scale\nno one is turned away for inability to pay \n  \n  URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/premonitions/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DirectActionNetworkSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190202T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190202T173000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20181222T164750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181222T165306Z UID:10006455-1549121400-1549128600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Last Dance Meets The Last Repast DESCRIPTION:The Politics of the Unconscious: HYSTERIA\, SURREALISM\, & AVANT-GARDE DANCE\nOur Guide: Marija Krtolica\nWinter 2019 Version\nPresentation with discussion\nThe talk examines the historico-political relationships between: the psychiatric transformation of madness into mental illness\, the psychoanalytic discovery of the unconscious\, the surrealist anti-psychiatric art\, and dance-theater’s embodied expression stripped of narrative development. Hysteria as one of the most theatrical of mental illnesses\, presents a point of departure for a discussion of the ways in which since modernism the artists resisted psychiatric diagnosis based on a reductive reading of symptoms. The talk will place the artistic explorations from modernism and post-modernism in a dialogue with the ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis. \nPerformance: Theorizing Symptomatic Expression\nGroup movement improvisation:  Hystero-Grotesque Mode\nIntermission \nA surreal meal à la Dalí will be served \nTheorizing Symptomatic Expression \n“The jaws of my mind are in perpetual motion.\nThe sensual intelligence housed in the tabernacle of my palate\nbeckons me to pay greatest attention to food.\nI only like to eat what has a clear and intelligible form.”\n—Salvador Dali\, Gastro Esthetics \n“The spectacle corresponds to the historical moment at which\nthe commodity completes the colonization of social life.”\n—Guy Debord\, Society of the Spectacle \nMARIJA KRTOLICA (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, PhD\, Dance\,Temple University). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit\, the University of Arts\, Belgrade\, and at the Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-dance-meets-the-last-repast/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/HysterDanceBrunchSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180922T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20180817T124902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T124902Z UID:10006322-1537630200-1537635600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Daniel Campos \nDaniel’s book The End of the Corporations traces the crisis of capitalism since August 2007\, first in the U.S. with the fall of Bear Sterns\, AIG\, Lehman Brothers\, and then with the crisis spreading out to affect the whole world. This book examines the political changes brought to the U.S.\, Europe and the Middle East. It also draws a comparison between the current crisis and the one in 1929\, analyzes the subsequent evolution of capitalism in the twentieth century\, the post-war “boom”\, the rise of multinational corporations\, and the crisis of the ’70s. Globalization\, the emergence of multinational corporations\, the evolution of financial capital\, and the Investment Banks are also evaluated. Finally\, the book shows an analysis of capitalism throughout history\, which suffered major crises and its link to the social and political phenomena. Following the guidelines of Marx\, The End of the Corporations follows the history of capitalism\, from its birth\, in order to examine the facts and laws that explain how it came about and where the current crisis will go. In the face of the magnitude of the historic character of capitalism’s current crisis\, it may be well worthwhile to stop and ask ourselves: Has capitalism ever been through crises of similar importance? In what way have these crises been overcome? What political and social phenomena spawned the crisis? And on the other hand: what political and social phenomena did the crises produce? \nThis presentation will look at the General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation and their relevance to the underlying global economic crisis that took place in 2007 and what tendencies there are for a similar or more profound crisis than that of 11 years ago. \nDaniel Campos was born in Argentina. Previously he was the congressional representative of the United Left Block for the Province of Buenos Aires. Daniel has more than 35 years of uninterrupted militancy as a Marxist and the Argentinian left\, along with a long background of trade union and political struggle\, In addition\, he has written a number of Marxist economic books including The End of the Corporations\, Toward Theory of Crisis and The Imperialism Today. His next book The 21st Century American Revolution will soon be published\, and is also author of diverse articles on politics\, economy and history. Had given lectures and courses in the World Social Forum in Florence (Italy)\, the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil)\, and different workshops in England\, Scotland\, Argentina\, Italy\, Chile\, and Brazil. Currently is member of leadership of Reagrupamiento Hacia el PST de Argentina\, and the Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR). \n“Multinationals are a higher form of accumulation\, containing and outperforming monopolies. With multinationals\, capitalism went from a lower form of accumulation and concentration of capital to a higher one\, but as we saw in Chapter I\, this process was not peaceful. To move from one form of accumulation and concentration of capital to another\, it took 30 years and 2 world wars\, with the balance of millions dead\, razed cities\, and nations and infrastructure destroyed.” (The End of the Corporations\, Chapter V: Forms) URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/general-law-of-capitalist-forms-of-accumulation/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DanInItalySite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180529T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180529T213000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20180426T141046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180505T142036Z UID:10003913-1527622200-1527629400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Small Is Necessary DESCRIPTION:Shared Living on a Shared Planet\nwith author Anitra Nelson \nA presentation and discussion with activist-scholar Anitra Nelson\, whose new book Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto Press) argues for ‘eco-collaborative housing’\, i.e. smaller homes with shared spaces and facilities. \nHouses and apartments in countries like the US\, Canada and Australia grew larger in the 20th century even as household sizes shrank. This has made housing less environmentally sustainable and it contributes to the housing affordability crisis. Since the US mortgage fiasco triggered the Global Financial Crisis many countries have experienced skyrocketing house prices. Meanwhile\, the withdrawal of state support for social and public housing means that private ownership or rental are the only options. \nSmall is Necessary advocates not only for smaller dwellings in compact settlements but for shared spaces and facilities. Anitra presents a range of practical options from co-living in a household to co-housing and eco-villages. She weighs the pros and cons of the tiny house movement and assesses the potential and limits of radical squats along the way. She considers the future of eco-collaborative housing managed by various different drivers—governments\, market developers\, and sharing economy initiatives\, and grassroots communities. \nAnitra has had ten years’ experience living in two different Australian housing collectives\, but her new book is research-based\, especially drawing on ecological footprint studies. \nThe author will sign books at the end of the program. \nAnitra Nelson is an activist-scholar whose research interests focus on housing and community-based sustainability\, environmental justice and non-monetary futures. She is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Research\, RMIT University (Melbourne\, Australia). She was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2016–2017) and was a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research (2012). She is a co-editor of Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011) and Housing for Degrowth: Principles\, Models\, Challenges and Opportunities (forthcoming). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/small-is-necessary/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SmallIs_Cover_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180422T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180422T173000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20180325T190301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T013541Z UID:10003911-1524411000-1524418200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:May Made Me DESCRIPTION:An oral history of the 1968 uprising in France\nWith author Mitch Abidor\nat New Perspectives Studio\n456-458 West 37th Street (near 10th Avenue)/Manhattan \nThe mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting\, dangerous\, creative and influential\, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated\, workers went on general strike\, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its momentum\, the protests brought the entire national economy to a halt. The protests reached such a point that the French and international bourgeoisie feared civil war or revolution. \nFifty years later\, here are the eye-opening oral testimonies of those young rebels. By listening to the voices of students and workers\, as opposed to those of their leaders\, May ’68 appears not just as a mass event\, but rather as an event driven by millions of individuals\, creating a mosaic human portrait of France at the time. \nPublished on the 50th anniversary of those days in the spring of 68\, May Made Me presents the legacy of the uprising: how those explosive experiences changed the individuals who participated and their lives as lived since then. \nMitch Abidor is a translator from Brooklyn whose many translations include A Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès and Anarchists Never Surrender and other works by Victor Serge. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/may-made-me/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/MayMadeMe_FCSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180218T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180218T140000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20180101T163956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180212T055510Z UID:10003877-1518955200-1518962400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Politics of the Unconscious and Surrealist Brunch DESCRIPTION:“If a truth is never communicable as such\, it nevertheless implies\, at a distance from itself\, powerful reshapings of the forms and referents of communication.”\n(L’ethique: Essai sur la conscience du Mal (1993)\, Alain Badiou) \nThe Politics of the Unconscious and a Surrealist Brunch\nMarija Krtolica \n“If a truth is never communicable as such\, it nevertheless implies\, at a distance from itself\, powerful reshapings of the forms and referents of communication.” (L’ethique: Essai sur la conscience du Mal (1993)\, Alain Badiou) \nOver brunch\, the political meanings of Dadaist and Surrealist art\, film and poetry will be discussed along with the grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era)\, and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). We will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchicalization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and art makers. We will investigate ways of synthesizing the critical writings on capitalism and schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze\, 1972) and the politics of aesthetics (Jacques Rancière\, 2004). There may even be a performance event. \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. Recently\, she presented papers at CUNY at Graudate Center conference Approaching Dance\, NCSA Caucus in Charleston\, the Department of Visual Arts conference at UCSD (2015)\, ACLA 2015 in Seattle\, a Graduate Conference of the Department of English at the University of Chicago (2014)\, and Choreography Symposium at the University of Cologne (2014)\, At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit (2015)\, the University of Arts Belgrade (2015)\, and at the Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France (2016). Marija has worked with the lecture/performance mode of examining elusive boundaries between practice and theory. Marija has published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009 and 2011)\, and The Journal of Arts Theory and History (2013). She has written articles and conducted interviews for the Belgrade dance publication Orchestra. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/politics-of-the-unconscious-second-sessions-2018-02-18/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SurrealBrunch_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180211T140000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20180101T163956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180101T163956Z UID:10003876-1518350400-1518357600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Politics of the Unconscious: Second Sessions DESCRIPTION:“If a truth is never communicable as such\, it nevertheless implies\, at a distance from itself\, powerful reshapings of the forms and referents of communication.”\n(L’ethique: Essai sur la conscience du Mal (1993)\, Alain Badiou) \nThe Politics of the Unconscious:\nHysteria\, Surrealism\, and Avant-Garde Dance\nWith a Surrealist Brunch on Day Two\nMarija Krtolica\nTwo Sundays \nStarting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière\, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology\, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated. We will first engage Freud and Lacan on hysteria\, and then consider feminist and other critical re-readings of their work. This will bring us to look at the images of the mental patients of this period\, many of which challenge the boundary between artistic representation and medical documentation. In light of day one\, during the following Sunday\, over a Surrealist Brunch\, the political meanings of Dadaist and Surrealist art\, film and poetry will be discussed along with the grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era)\, and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). We will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchicalization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and art makers. We will investigate ways of synthesizing the critical writings on capitalism and schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze\, 1972) and the politics of aesthetics (Jacques Rancière\, 2004 )\, with a performance event. \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. Recently\, she presented papers at CUNY at Graudate Center conference Approaching Dance\, NCSA Caucus in Charleston\, the Department of Visual Arts conference at UCSD (2015)\, ACLA 2015 in Seattle\, a Graduate Conference of the Department of English at the University of Chicago (2014)\, and Choreography Symposium at the University of Cologne (2014)\, At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit (2015)\, the University of Arts Belgrade (2015)\, and at the Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France (2016). Marija has worked with the lecture/performance mode of examining elusive boundaries between practice and theory. Marija has published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009 and 2011)\, and The Journal of Arts Theory and History (2013). She has written articles and conducted interviews for the Belgrade dance publication Orchestra. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/politics-of-the-unconscious-second-sessions/2018-02-11/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Hysteria_4Panel_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171210T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171210T160000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20171006T014643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171016T041705Z UID:10006234-1512914400-1512921600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain DESCRIPTION:Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain: An insurgent mapping workshop \nSupply chains justify their increasing reach into our daily lives by claiming that they provide us with critical necessities when we most need them. But do they? What are the unseen forms of violence\, dispossession and exploitation that are concealed in the objects we buy with a simple click of the check-out button? Is there ethical consumption under capitalism? Does an ethical purchase at one site travel through multiple other sites of violence? How have logistical systems grown\, developed\, and shaped our spaces? Who funds them? Whose lives are considered expendable in their construction? This workshop will map the global supply chain through tracing the passage of everyday commodities from their point of production to your doorstep. In doing so\, we will examine the infrastructure and ‘externalized costs’—human\, economic\, social and environmental—of the international flow of things. We will explore the potential for our own insurgent mapping projects\, seeking to understand how supply chains are resilient yet vulnerable and fragile—and to identify where working-class solidarity has the greatest possibility to spread up and down the chain\, across sectors\, borders–and even oceans. \nCharmaine Chua is a member of the Empire Logistics collective and Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. Her work examines the rise of logistics and containerized shipping in the context of the transPacific supply chain\, and seeks to uncover how supply chains that claim to provision life actually distribute inequality\, containment\, and ‘vulnerability to premature death’.\n\nLaurel Mei-Singh serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies at Princeton University. Her research interests include land and militarization\, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war\, and the Pacific. She is writing a book on military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Hawai’i. \nTickets are sliding scale: no one turned away for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/counter-cartographies-of-the-global-supply-chain/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Immigration,Labor History,Marxist Method,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SupplyChainSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171210T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171210T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006212-1512903600-1512910800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-12-10/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171203T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171203T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170902T210741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170902T210741Z UID:10006229-1512313200-1512320400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Extreme Cities DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Ashley Dawson\nco-host: NYC DSA Climate Justice \nJoin us as climate-justice activists engage in a dialogue with Ashley Dawson\, author of Extreme Cities \nAshley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change\, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere\, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. He offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities\, describing the efforts of Staten Island\, New York\, and Shishmareff\, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. \nAs Dawson sees it\, our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls but in urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. \nAshley Dawson is a professor of English at the City University of New York\, and also the author of Extinction: A Radical History. \nNo one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/extreme-cities/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ExtremeCitiesSite2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171203T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171203T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006211-1512298800-1512306000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-12-03/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171126T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171126T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006210-1511694000-1511701200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-11-26/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171119T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171119T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006209-1511089200-1511096400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-11-19/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171112T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006208-1510484400-1510491600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-11-12/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171105T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171105T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170902T162650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170902T162650Z UID:10006228-1509894000-1509901200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties DESCRIPTION:Presentation and discussion with author Thomas Grace \nIn Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties\, Thomas M. Grace details how the National Guard killings of antiwar students at Kent State University on May 4\, 1970\, were not a mere tragic anomaly. Rather they were grounded in a tradition of student political activism that extended back to Ohio’s labor battles of the 1950s. The vast expansion of the\nuniversity after World War II brought in growing numbers of working-class enrollees from the industrial centers of northeast Ohio\, members of the same demographic cohort that eventually made up the core of American combat forces in Vietnam. As the Vietnam War’s rising costs came to be felt acutely in their home communities\, Kent’s students joined the growing antiwar movement and clashed with the university administration and the political conservatives who dominated county and state government in Ohio. The battle over the memory and meaning of May 4 has continued to the present day. \nTHOMAS M. GRACE is adjunct professor of history at Erie Community College. A 1972 graduate of Kent State University\, he earned a PhD in history from SUNY Buffalo after many years as a social worker and union representative. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kent-state-death-and-dissent-in-the-long-sixties/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ThreeAgainstKentState_site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171105T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006207-1509879600-1509886800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-11-05/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171029T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171029T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006206-1509274800-1509282000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-29/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171022T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171022T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006205-1508670000-1508677200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-22/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171015T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171015T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006204-1508065200-1508072400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-15/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171008T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171008T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006203-1507460400-1507467600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-08/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T160000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170927T030226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170927T030853Z UID:10006230-1506866400-1506873600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Dance/Last Supper DESCRIPTION:The Politics of the Unconscious: Hysteria\, Surrealism\, and Avant-Garde Dance\nThe Last Dance meets the Last Repast\nPresented by Marija Krtolica \nSurreal Meal à la Dalí \nSchedule:\n2 p.m. Arrivals\n2:15 a surprise improvisational event\n2:45 discussion time\, preparation for the meal\n3-4 pm food is served\, reflected on\, and consumed\n4 pm bye bye \nThe event investigates the embodied self as a site of personal and cultural memories evoked through sense based experiences. It proposes a conscious engagement with the aesthetic dimension of viewing\, hearing\, consuming\, and digesting happenings\, thoughts\, and nutrients. \nOn the one hand\, we will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and makers. On the other\, we will open up the concept of the unconscious and re-create it through imaginative practices. \nMottos for a Sunday Afternoon: \nThe jaws of my mind are in perpetual motion.\nThe sensual intelligence housed in the tabernacle of my palate beckons me to pay greatest attention to food.\nI only like to eat what has a clear and intelligible form.\n—Salvador Dali\, Gastro Esthetics \nThe spectacle corresponds to the historical moment at which the commodity completes the colonization of social life.\nGuy Debord\, Society of the Spectacle \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious-last-dancelast-supper/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dali_lunchSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T160000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170719T134217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170927T030529Z UID:10006193-1506866400-1506873600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Session DESCRIPTION:Hysteria\, Surrealism\, and Avant-Garde Dance\nMarija Krtolica\nOctober 1\, 2017\, 2:00 to 4:00 pm \nThrough theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière\, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology\, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated. On September 17 we will look at the images of the mental patients of this period\, many of which challenge the boundary between artistic representation and medical documentation. Next\, we will examine the political meanings of Dadaist and Surrealist art\, film and poetry and discuss grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era)\, and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). On the one hand\, we will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and makers. On the other\, we will open up the concept of the unconscious and re-create it through imaginative practices. Performance practices will be related to the texts by Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière. \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. Recently\, she presented papers at CUNY at Graudate Center conference Approaching Dance\, NCSA Caucus in Charleston\, the Department of Visual Arts conference at UCSD (2015)\, ACLA 2015 in Seattle\, a Graduate Conference of the Department of English at the University of Chicago (2014)\, and Choreography Symposium at the University of Cologne (2014)\, At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit (2015)\, the University of Arts Belgrade (2015)\, and at the Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France (2016). Marija has worked with the lecture/performance mode of examining elusive boundaries between practice and theory. Marija has published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009 and 2011)\, and The Journal of Arts Theory and History (2013). She has written articles and conducted interviews for the Belgrade dance publication Orchestra. \nFees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Hysteria_4Panel_Site-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171001T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006202-1506855600-1506862800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-10-01/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170924T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170924T130000 DTSTAMP:20260513T163206 CREATED:20170814T043506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T050444Z UID:10006201-1506250800-1506258000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Is Another World Really Possible? DESCRIPTION:A Collaborative Reading and Writing Project\nConvened with Richard Greeman\n12 Weeks\, September 24 through December 10\nStated admissions are for the entire course. Single admission are $10. No one is turned away for inability to pay. \nNew York participants should join us at New Perspectives Theatre (458 W. 37th St) at 10:45 am on Sunday\, 9/24 (tomorrow). The theater is accessible from the 34th St/Hudson Yards stop on the #7 train\, or from Penn Station. Coffee\, tea and cakes will be available. \nIf you plan to watch online\, the URL is\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eHTpHxoTc \nPrepare by reading Richard Greeman’s Then and Now at\nhttp://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=then_and_now \nand/or by watching Immanuel Wallerstein’s “Utopistics” lecture at\n \n2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful\, egalitarian\, democratic society on a damaged\, but stabilized\, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here — today’s capitalist death-spiral to there — a livable\, sustainable\, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly\, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones (including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris) with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. \nWorld-wide participants as of September 1: MAELLA DOQUIN\, Paris\, activist since 1968 • ALEXEI GUSEV\, Moscow\, Historian of Russian Oppositions\, Chair of Praxis Center for Research and Eduction • JULIA GUSEVA\, Moscow\, translator of Victor Serge\, anarcho-syndicalist\, co-founder of Praxis Center • HARRY HALPIN\, Paris\, Internet revolutionary and activist\, team member World Wide Web Consortium\, author: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web • JASON HICKS\, NYC transit worker\, union activist\, DSA member\, philosopher • PETER HUDIS\, Chicago\, Marxist-humanist philosopher and activist. Author: Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism\, Franz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades • GEORGE KATSIFIACAS\, Athens/Seoul\, revolutionary historian (‘the Eros Effect”) and lifelong activist. Author: Asia’s Unknown Uprisings • MAATI MONJIB\, Rabat Morocco. Historian of Africa and press freedom activist\, currently facing 5 years in prison on trumped-up treason charges • WAYNE PRICE\, NYC\, libertarian socialist writer and activist (theanarchistlibrary.org) • ANNA REBRIL\, Ukraine/NYC\, student and activist • GERARDO RENIQUE\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico/NYC\, prof of Latin American Studies at CCNY and longtime activist • DAVID SCHWARTZMAN\, Washington\, D.C.\, geo-chemo-biologist\, Green Party activist\, author: Solar Communism\, Life\, Temperature\, and the Earth • BRIAN TOKAR\, Vermont\, Institute of Social Ecology\, activist\, teacher in the movement\, author: Toward Climate Justice • RAOUL VICTOR\, Paris\, veteran Marxist writer and activist • VICTOR WALLIS\, Boston\, Ecosocialist\, activist\, editor\, Socialism and Democracy \nCo-sponsored by The Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation \nRichard Greeman\, longtime internationalist\, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/is-another-world-really-possible/2017-09-24/ LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GreeWave.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR