Communist University took place August 13-20, 2011 http://cpgb.wordpress.com/ Goldsmiths, University of London Raymont Hall 63 Wickham Road London SE4 1LX Platypus Affiliated Society members presented as follows: Tuesday, August 16, 4:45PM-7PM • Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history: Marxism and the modern philosophy of freedom” audio recording Marx on “becoming” [PDF handout] Friday, August 19, 10AM-12:30PM [...]
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Platypus at the Marxist Literary Group summer 2011 Institute on Culture and Society
June 20–24, 2011 Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago Marxism and the bourgeois revolution Spencer Leonard, “Marx’s critique of political economy: Proletarian socialism continuing the bourgeois revolution?” Pamela Nogales, “Marx on the U.S. Civil War as the 2nd American Revolution” Jeremy Cohan, “Lukács on Marx’s Hegelianism and the dialectic of Marxism” Moderator: [...]
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What is the Platypus Critique?
Spencer Leonard Laurie Rojas Benjamin Shepard Download: http://www.archive.org/details/PlatypusForumWhatIsThePlatypusCritique5111
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The Legacy of Trotskyism
Mike Macnair, Communist Party of Great Britain (Oxford Univ. St. Hugh College) Bryan Palmer (Trent University) Richard Rubin, Platypus representative of the International Socialist Organization (declined to attend) Jason Wright, International Bolshevik Tendency What is the relevance of Trotskyism for the Left today? On the one hand, there is a simple answer: The mantle of Trotskyism is [...]
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The politics of Critical Theory
Chris Cutrone, Platypus (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University) Richard Westerman (University of Chicago) Respondent: Nicholas Brown (University of Illinois at Chicago) Recently, the New Left Review published a translated conversation between the critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer causing more than a few murmurs and gasps. In the [...]
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Marxism and Israel: Left perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Alan Goodman and Richard Rubin Platypus Review 35 | May 2011 [PDF] Last November Platypus hosted a roundtable discussion between Alan Goodman from The Revolutionary Communist Party USA, and Richard Rubin from Platypus entitled “Marxism and Israel: Left Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at Hunter College in New York City. Panelists were asked to speak [...]
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The Idea of Communism: Badiou, Althusser and Lacan (Chicago, 4/12/11): audio
A teach-in by Chris Cutrone Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:30 – 6:00 PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 601 Alain Badiou’s recent book (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Zizek’s work for the last few years, “the communist hypothesis.” Zizek has spoken of [...]
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Platypus at the Left Forum 2011 in NYC: audio
Below are links to download the audio of all the Platypus panels at the Left Forum. (Nota bene: Several of the files begin after the panel was already underway, and others end before the panel concluded.) The Bourgeois Revolution: http://www.mediafire.com/?tiu68g34veevn1i Lenin’s Marxism: http://www.mediafire.com/?pql9pqnx5ziyl8n Luxemburg’s Marxism: http://www.mediafire.com/?4ojav6mcx7c02l1 Lukacs’s Marxism: http://www.mediafire.com/?z116lxdp5z8m6fa Aesthetics in Protests: http://www.mediafire.com/?lycrdpnnc9hyx9l Trotsky’s Marxism: [...]
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Which way forward for sexual liberation?
Gary Mucciaroni, Sherry Wolf, Kenyon Farrow, and Greg Gabrellas Platypus Review 32 | February 2011 [PDF] On November 8, 2010, Platypus hosted a forum entitled “Which Way Forward for Sexual Liberation?” moderated by Jeremy Cohan at New York University. The panel consisted of Gary Mucciaroni, professor of political science at Temple University; Sherry Wolf, author [...]
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The relevance of critical theory to art today
J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted a panel entitled “The Relevance of Critical Theory to Art Today” moderated by Chris Mansour at The New School for Social Research in New York. The panel consisted of Philosophy Professors J.M. Bernstein [...]
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