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Introduction to Continental Drift | ||
Invited Guests Include: Kolya
Abramsky, who is working at the Fernand Braudel Institute
for world-systems theory in Ithaca, and whom I know from activist
circles in Europe, is going to come on Thursday to discuss
his paper "Disentangling the Future from the Past: Internationalism,
World revolution and World War." It's a long but extremely
interesting text and I encourage you to read it. We will then
be able to have the discussion that we did not have last time,
on the usefulness and limits of the Marxist language (because
Kolya is not tied to this kind of language, in fact, he has
worked much more with contemporary social movements). We will
also no doubt take a further look at the debates over the
concepts of Empire and Multitudes. The text is in a PDF at
www.u-tangente.org in the Continental Drift section (16 Beaver
sesssions), or directly at the address below (please don't
hesitate to write me if you have any difficulties downloading
it): Mackenzie Wark, whom many of you know, the author of the Hacker Manifesto and of a thousand great things you can find on the web, is going to develop an extremely interesting idea of his, which is an analysis of the way that the US right wing -- what I would call the hegemony of the military-industrial complex and the fundamentalist Christians -- has created a parallel public sphere of media and institutions, culminating in the mind-pollution of Fox News. This may likely end up a kind of idea-generating session, so bring everything you know about right-wing think tanks, Christian political militancy. Rozalinda
Borcila Additional
Presentators included Maribelle & Sebastian, Emily Forman,
Peter Walsh & Marty Lucas, Richard Gabri & Rene Gabri,
Brian Holmes, Jim
Costanzo, Claire Pentecost |
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