“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: 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: 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: Left-Indigenous Struggle: Possibilities and Contradictions
“Indigenous Rights and historical materialism” / Peter Kulchyski
“Does Antagonism exist in the process of primitive accumulation? The Miyako Island Peasantry Movement” / Wendy Matsumura
“From Red October to Evo Morales: Rebellion and Reform in Contemporary Bolivian Politics” / Jeffrey R. Webber
Discussion
Chair: Shiri Pasternak
HMNY2011: Apocalyptic Capitalism: Japan after the Tsunami
“What is Happening in Japan? From the Perspective of the Anti-Atomic-Capistalist Struggle” / Sabu Kohso
Wendy Matsumura
“An Invisible Warfare in Japanâfrom Disaster Capitalism to Apocalyptic Capitalism” / Go Hirasawa
Hari Harootunian
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
HMNY2011: Creative and/or Insurrectionary Practices
“Break the vicious circle: contemporary art between religion and politics” / Oxana Timofeeva
“The Creative-Destructive Character: Art and Labour in Terms of Communisation” / Marina Vishmidt & Anthony Iles
“How to Dance a Riot: On the Aesthetics of Struggle” / Olive McKeon
“Zones of Insurrection: The Subversive Hegemon, Transgression, Transcendence and the Public Space” / Stuart Smithers
Discussants : Dara Greenwald and Lindsay Caplan
HMNY2011: Racialized, Gendered Working Class Struggle
“Gendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Poor and Working Class Women in the 20th Century, USA” / Mimi Abramovitz
“Local Food: Marginalization, Social Reproduction and the Politics of Work” / Justin Myers
“Redeeming Some ‘Promissory Notes’ ” / and George Caffentzis
Discussion
Chair: Anastasia Gomes
HMNY2011: Strategy / Movement / Organization (5/8/2011)
*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
Discussion
Chair / John Boy
HMNY2011: Carceral Capitalism
“The Gendered Relations of Carceral Capitalism” / Genevieve LeBaron and Adrienne Roberts
“Revisiting State and Capital: The State as (the) Police” / Guillermina Seri
“Waged Debt- Peonage: Mortgage Debt, Deproletarianization and the United States, 1970s through Today” / Justin Myers
Discussion