Historical Materialism New York City
*Note: The audio footage for presentations by Alberto Toscano and Matteo Mandarini are unfortunately not included here due to very poor quality recordings.
“Militant Subjects and Organizational Form” / Matteo Mandarini
“Is There Revolution Without Reform? : Of Transitional Programmes and Intransitive Politics” / Alberto Toscano
“Die Organisationsfrage as regulative idea?” / Peter Thomas
Chair / John Boy
Panel discussion on subsumption and social reproduction under capitalism. Includes presentations by Aaron Benanav and Maya Gonzalez (Programmatism, A History), Matt Huber (The Real Subsumption of LIfe Under Capitalism: Energy, Machines and Every Day Life), Marcel Stoetzler (…the Revolution that will End Capitalism might fail to usher in communism, and what this means for our strategic priorities). Discussion chaired by John Boy.
“Programmatism, A History” / Aaron Benanav and Maya Gonzalez
“The Real Subsumption of LIfe Under Capitalism: Energy, Machines and Every Day Life” / Matt Huber
“…the Revolution that will End Capitalism might fail to usher in communism, and what this means for our strategic priorities” / Marcel Stoetzler
Discussion
Chair: John Boy
Financial Crisis in the US
Housing Provision and Financialization / Mary Robertson
Queering Marxist Gender Theory Capitalism
On The Woman Question
/ Emma Heaney
Queer Nations in the Imperialist Heartland
/ Alan Sears
Gender Performativity and Capital Performativity
/ Cinzia Arruzza
Discussant / Kevin Floyd
Book Panel: The American Road to Capitalism
Charles Post
Vivek Chibber
Chair / John Clegg