The ambivalence of the current German student movement Stefan Dietl “DIESER HÖRSAAL IST BESETZT!” (“This lecture hall is occupied!”) In November and December 2009, signs bearing such slogans were found on doors at over 60 German universities. For the second time that year, a broad student movement managed to gain public attention for its demands. [...]
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Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
my dialogue with Kliman on Chicago Political Workshop, Principia Dialectica and Marxist Humanism
[Andrew Kliman wrote:] Reply to Chicago Political Workshop, Chris Cutrone, and Principia Dialectica Posted: May 27th, 2009 | Author: Andrew Kliman | Filed under: Organization, Philosophy | Tags: concreteness, plagiarism, Postone | On plagiarism, Postone, and “the” present May 27, 2009 Dear Comrades, 1. First, I want to respond to the charge that I plagiarize [...]
Platypus NYC screening: TOUT VA B!EN (1972)
TOUT VA B!EN (1972)
A Film by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
Running Time: 96 minutes (In French w/ English Subtitles)
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
8:00 p.m.
435 Grand Ave # 2F
Brooklyn, NY
Why the U.S. stimulus package is bound to fail
David Harvey Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent and more violent crises of the sort that have been occurring since [...]
Can Neo-liberalism continue after the crisis?
Observations on the Ideological Recovery in France and the United States Ashleigh Campi It has been noted that the current economic crisis is of a scale unprecedented in the history of advanced capitalism. Today, three decades since the first stages of a transition of world markets through the expansion of finance capital, we face the [...]
Remarks on Chris Cutrone’s ‘Iraq and the election: the fog of “anti-war” politics’
Tuomas Nevanlinna I was intrigued to find in The Platypus Review #7 a commentary by Chris Cutrone on the U.S. role in world politics. I found it more sophisticated and original than anything I had previously come across in the mainstream media either here or in Europe. Before launching my machine, I would like to [...]
Platypus NYC Marxist reading group
Platypus NYC meets Sundays 2-4PM
New York University
295 Lafayette St. 4th floor
contact: pam.nogales@gmail.com
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
After the recent discussion of Luxemburg’s pamphlet on Reform or Revolution? (1900/08), there might be some confusion regarding the relationship between Luxemburg’s formulations and the raison d’etre of Platypus as an organized project today. — What is the point of reading Luxemburg today? Whereas Luxemburg was critiquing Eduard Bernstein and other “revisionists’” arguments that the [...]
Read and Discuss January 18 texts: gender, sexuality and revolution (Mitchell and D’Emilio)
Participants of SAIC, MIT, NYU, and University of Chicago reading group should post summaries/reflections of their discussions on the following readings:
· Juliet Mitchell, “Women: the Longest Revolution” (1966)
· John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity” (1973)
Quintin Hoare, “On Mitchell’s ‘Women: the longest revolution’ “ (1967)
Mitchell, reply to Quintin Hoare (1967)
Clara Zetkin and V. I. Lenin, “My Recollections of Lenin: an interview on the woman question” (interview 1920)
Lynne Segal, “Psychoanalysis and Politics: Juliet Mitchell then and now” (2000)
Five questions to the student Left
Pam C Nogales, Benjamin Shepard An interview with SDS member Rachel Haut published in the September issue of this publication provoked widespread comment in radical circles. (1) We welcome the discussion but worry that it remains ensconced within the sterile jargon and petty antinomies of the actually-existing- Left. More fundamental questions exist than, say, the [...]
