“Jean-Luc Nancy, Politics, Communism” / Jason Smith
“Marxism, the value form, and the unsurpassable contradiction of capitalism” / Alan Milchman
Discussant: Sam Han
Discussion
Chair: Ryan Lee
HMNY2011: The Meaning of Right Wing Populism
NOTE: The first paper, “The Republican Proletariat: The Suburban Style in American Politics”, given by Christopher Wright was not recorded due to technical difficulties, but he does answer questions in the discussion period.
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Tea Party” / Lauren Langman
“What’s Wrong with How We Think about the Right” / Corey Robin
Discussant: Victor Wallis
Discussion
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
HMNY2011: Anti-Anti-Imperialism
Discussion of various contemporary struggles with imperialism.
“The Iranian Revolution and the Anti-Imperialist paradigm: fetters of the past, potential for the future” / Arya Zahedi
“Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of a Reactionary Ideology: The Cases of Turkish Kemalism and the Bolivian MNR” / Loren Goldner
“The Problem of Post Colonial Nationalism and Multiculturalism: Speculations on the Recuperation of the Islamic Right” / Biju Mathew
Discussant: Nagesh Rao
Discussion
HMNY2011: Thinking Against the Crisis: Conditions for Reconsidering the Left
Panel discussion with presentations by Rene Francisco Poitevin, Neferti Tadiar and Annie McClanahan. Discussant Randy Martin introduces and responds to speakers as well as leading discussion.
Introduction by Randy Martin
Rene Francisco Poitevin
Neferti Tadiar
Annie McClanahan
Randy Martin Responds
Discussion
HMNY2011: Reflecting on the Crisis: New Theory and Evidence
“Historical trends and short-term fluctuations of profit rates prior to the current crisis” / Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy
“Notes Towards a Marxian Approach to the Monetary Circuit” / Paulo dos Santos
“Economics, Methodology and the Financial Crisis” / Andrew Brown
Discussion
Chair: Jonathan Cogliano
HMNY2011: Exploitation and Appropriation beyond the Wage-Form
“Marx on the Civil War in Slavery” / Kevin Anderson
“Slavery in Marx’s Capital” / Eric Lott
“The Wages of Slavery: a value- theoretic model of slave prices” / John Clegg
Discussion
Chair: Charles Post
HMNY2011: Uprisings in North Africa, East Asia
“New Middle Eastern Uprisings: Gender, Class and Security Politics in Egypt and Iran” / Manijeh Nasrabadi
“The Diverse Role, Reaction and Tactics of various Bedouin Populations in the ongoing Pan-Arab Revolts and Revolutions” / Nader Hasan
Discussant: Joel Beinin
Discussion
Chair: FTC Manning
HMNY2011: Dimensions of the Crisis and Labor
“The Cry for Jobs: An Absurd and Brutal Affirmation of Labor’s Subordination to Capital” / Geoffrey McDonald
“The “Stagnant Pay” Myth and the Persistent Frailty of Capitalist Production” / Andrew Kliman
Discussion
Chair: Maya Gonzales
HMNY2011: Management & Dispossession of the Human Surplus
“Accumulation, Excess, and Childhood: Towards a Countertopography of Risk and Waste” / Cindi Katz
“The Shifting Spatial Requirements of Indigenous Dispossession in Canada: Primitive Accumulaltion in the Political Economy of White Settler Colonialism” /
Shiri Pasternak
“Land Enclosure, Micro-finance and Witch-hunting in Africa and India today” / Silvia Federici
Discussant: Werner Bonefeld
Discussion
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
HMNY2011: Hegel and the Future of Social Theory
“The Return to Hegel: On Gillian Rose’s Legacy” / Sara Farris
“The Spiritual Animal Kingdom: On Gillian Roses Hegelian Critique of Bourgeois Society” / Harrison Fluss
Comments and Discussion by
Jeanne Schuler
and Patrick Murray
Chair: Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo