RSS FeedRSS FeedYouTubeYouTubeTwitterTwitterFacebook GroupFacebook Group
You are here: The Platypus Affiliated Society/Summer 2013: Late capitalism

Summer 2013: Late capitalism

Chicago, New York

Saturdays 1–4PM CST

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920

Sundays 2–5PM EST

New School University
Eugene Lang College
65 W. 11th St. room 258


Summer 2013

Late capitalism

required / + recommended reading


Week 1. | Jun. 22–23, 2013

• Moishe Postone, "Contemporary historical transformations: Mandel and Bell" (1999)
• Daniel Bell, "Modernism and capitalism" (Foreword to The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, 1978)
+ Postone, "Theorizing the contemporary world: Brenner, Arrighi, Harvey" (2006)


Week 2. | Jun. 29–30, 2013

• Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism (1972) pp. 8-183


Week 3. | Jul. 6–7, 2013

Mandel, Late Capitalism pp. 184-342


Week 4. | Jul. 13–14, 2013

Mandel, Late Capitalism pp. 343-473


Week 5. | Jul. 20–21, 2013

Mandel, Late Capitalism pp. 474-590