Hillel Ticktin, Saul Newman, David Graeber, and James Woudhuysen Platypus Review 55 | April 2013 Last autumn, chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society in New York, London, and Chicago hosted similar events on the theme of “Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis.” The speakers participating in London included David Graeber, Saul Newman, Hillel Ticktin, and James [...]
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Traversing the heresies: An interview with Bruno Bosteels
Alec Niedenthal and Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 54 | March 2013 On October 14, 2012, Alec Niedenthal and Ross Wolfe interviewed Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University and author of such books as Badiou and Politics (2011), Marx and Freud in Latin America (2012), and The Actuality of Communism (2011). What follows [...]
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What is to be done with the actually existing Marxist left? An interview with Jodi Dean
Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 54 | March 2013 On October 13th, 2012, Ross Wolfe of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith College, and author of The Communist Horizon (New York: Verso, 2012). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Ross Wolfe: Your new book, The [...]
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Remembrance of things past: An interview with Boris Groys
Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 54 | March 2013 On December 15th, 2012, Ross Wolfe interviewed Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. His numerous published books include The Total Art of Stalinism (1986), Art Power (2008), The Communist Postscript (2009), and Going Public (2011). What follows is an edited [...]
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For liberty and union: An interview with James McPherson
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 53 | February 2013 Spencer A. Leonard interviewed noted Civil War historian James McPherson, author of the classic Battle Cry of Freedom (1988), to discuss the new Lincoln biopic by Steven Spielberg and the 150 th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The interview was broadcast on January 29, 2013 on the [...]
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The 3 Rs: Reform, revolution, and “resistance”: The problematic forms of “anti-capitalism” today
Costas Gousis, Thodoris Kariotis, Nikolas Sevastakis, and Aris Tsioumas Platypus Review 53 | February 2013 The following are excerpts from the transcript of a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on the problematic forms of anti-capitalism today, organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society in Thessaloniki. The panelists were Nikolas Sevastakis, associate professor at the School of [...]
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10 years after the Iraq War: the inevitability of failure — and of success
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 53 | February 2013 LEADING PUBLIC MEMBER of the Socialist Workers Party of the United Kingdom, Richard Seymour, who made a name for himself with the book The Liberal Defense of Murder (2008), polemicizing against campaigns of “humanitarian” military intervention such as the Iraq War, recently released his book on the late [...]
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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Winter–Spring 2013
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Boston, Chicago, Frankfurt, Graz, London, New York, Thessaloniki, Toronto Saturdays 1–4PM CST School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 University of Chicago (UChicago) Reynolds Club 5706 S. University Ave. 2nd floor South Lounge Chicago Platypus Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/179540438855464/ Saturdays 2–5PM EST Harvard University [...]
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Bookchin’s Trotskyist decade: 1939–1948
Janet Biehl Platypus Review 52 | December 2012–January 2013 MURRAY BOOKCHIN IS KNOWN TODAY as the intellectual originator of radical ecology in the early 1960s. Social ecology, as he named it, was and remains a program for the decentralization of society into small-scale communities that, in confederation, would manage and control a socialized “post-scarcity” economy. The [...]
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Utopia and reality: An interview with Stephen Eric Bronner
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 52 | December 2012–January 2013 On September 21, 2012, Chris Mansour interviewed Stephen Eric Bronner, a professor at Rutgers University and author of Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times (1980), Socialism Unbound (1990), Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists (1994), and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (2004), [...]
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