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 [...]
August 13th, 2011 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAudio
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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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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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 [...]
April 23rd, 2011 | admin | 5 comments | Continued
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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Rethinking the New Left forum (Chicago, 11/9/10) audio
http://www.archive.org/details/RethinkingTheNewLeftchicago11910 Public forum of the Platypus Affiliated Society TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH 6:00 PM UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL HOUSE ASSEMBLY HALL 1414 EAST 59TH STREET SPEAKERS: Mark Rudd Alan Spector Osha Neumann Tim Wohlforth MODERATOR: Spencer A. Leonard The memory of the 1960s, which has long kindled contestation and debate on the means and ends of [...]
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Which way forward for sexual liberation? (New York, 11/8/10) audio
A roundtable discussion hosted by Platypus NYU with speakers: Kenyon Farrow, Queers for Economic Justice Greg Gabrellas, Platypus Gary Mucciaroni, Political Science, Temple University Sherry Wolf, International Socialist Organization This event was hosted by Platypus NYU on Monday, November 8th, 2010 http://newyork.platypus1917.org http://www.archive.org/details/WhichWayForwardForSexualLiberationARoundtableHostedByPlatypusNyu With roots in earlier radical traditions, movements that sought to radically redefine [...]
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Which Way Forward for Palestinian Liberation? – Audio
On February 23, Platypus hosted an event entitled Which Way Forward for Palestinian Liberation? in which Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism and frequent commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and Hussein Ibish, political analyst and senior fellow at The American Task Force on Palestine, answered questions posed by Richard Rubin of Platypus. An edited transcript [...]
April 4th, 2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Workers in a Time of War (public forum)
Pakistan and the Crisis of the International Labor Movement Sunday December 6th at 2pm International House, University of Chicago 1414 E. 59th Street A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A bringing together three leading figures of the Pakistani labor movement to talk about workers rights, women’s rights, the struggle to organize in the shadow of [...]
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