historical materialism annual conference 2010 ʻcrisis and critiqueʼ PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 27.10 soas and ulu, 11-14 november
THURSDAY A – 13.30-15.15
G2 G3 G51 G50 116 B102 Theorising the Crisis I The Transformation of Marxist Theories of Finance Georg Lukács and the Energy and Crisis Activism Chinese Marxism and Risk Aspiration Towards Totality Chair: Lucia Pradella Chair: Jamie Allinson Chair: Antigoni Memou Paul Mattick – Cycle and Chair: Norman Levine Chair: Adam Hanieh Chair: Esther Leslie David Schwartzman - Rapid Clarice Kuhling – Assessing Breakdown Wu Xinwei - Critical Theory in Jim Kincaid – Marxist Dan Hartley – Totality in Solarisation Can Drive Anti-G20 Protests and Alain Bihr – Towards a China: A Case of Chinese Theorisation of Finance Lukács' Literary Theory Sustainable Economic Growth Organizing Multidimentional Approach of Gramsci Study James Meadway – Towards a Johan Hartle – Reification and while Preventing Catastrophic Mark Paschal – Student Capitalist Economic Crisis He Ping – On the Marxist Theory of Risk Philosophy: Considerations on Climate Change ("C3") Movements: a Brief History of Phenomenon of "Return to the ʻAntinomies of Bourgeois Les Levidow – Novel Biofuels Occupations Marx" in China Thoughtʼ as a Capital Accumulation Ted Stolze – From Climate Li Dianlai – Political Sara Murawski – Neither Strategy Crisis to Collective Action: An Philosophy and Chinese Immediate nor Merely Jonny Jones – Beyond the Exercise in Normative Marxist Philosophy Potential: Lukács and the Deepwater Horizon: Anatomy Marxism Zhang Meng (discussant) Critique of Populist Ideology of a Disaster
THURSDAY B – 15.45-17.30
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 116 B102 Violence and Non- Dimensions of the Labour and Migration Value and Struggles in The Arts and Capitalist The Politics and Workers, the Union Violence Crisis: History, China Triumphant: American Political Economy of Movement and the Finance, and the Chair: Sara Farris Culture in the 1940s the Media Crisis Chair: Matteo Mandarini Labour Process Chair: Alex Anievas Idris Akkuzu – Economic Domenico Losurdo – Crisis in Turkey and Xinwang Wu, Jin Gao, Chair: Antigoni Memou Chair: Peter Thomas Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Non-Violence: A History Chair: Jim Kincaid International Immigrant Aiyun Liang – Testing Barnaby Harran – The Marko Ampuja – The Peter Brogan – The without Myth Sam Knafo – Liberal workers Marxʼs Theory of the Machines that Broke Current Conjuncture in Spatiality of a Rank-and- Alberto Toscano – The Financial Governance Devi Sacchetto – Rate of Surplus Value America: Conflicts of Media Theory File Union in the Age of Dirty Hands of the and the Making of Globalisation in One and Policy Implications Interests in Pare Des Freedman – ʻBig Purpleʼ: The Battle Dialectic Modern Finance Continent: The Case of to Todayʼs China Lorentzʼs Documentary Moments of Crisis in the Over the Future of the Films US Labour Movement Stathis Kouvelakis François Chesnais – Labour Migration in the Tim Pringle – Industrial Media (discussant) Untouched Power of EU Unrest in China: A Jody Patterson – Mike Wayne – Hans Kim Moody – US Fictitious Capital in the Labour Movement Revolution on the Walls: Magnus Ensenzberger Workers and Unions: Ongoing Crisis Emerges? Modernism and the Left and the Politics of New From Crisis to Recovery Sadi dal Rosso, Fábio During the New Deal Media Technology to Crisis Marvulle, Bueno Aldo, Period Armando Boito and Antonio Azevedo, Perci Warren Carter – The Paula Marcelino – Crisis Coelho – Socio- Artist as Worker: Radical and Decline of Trade- Economic Crisis and Responses to the New Unionism? The Labour Organisation of the Deal Federal Art Projects Movement in Brazil Labour Process: Notes on Theoretical Relationships
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM SEMI-PLENARIES – 18.00-1945
KLT G2 FORGOTTEN SPACE: CAPITALISM AND THE SEA FROM CRISIS TO CRISES: MARXIST PERSPECTIVES ON (SCREENING AND DISCUSSION) LATIN AMERICA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
CHAIR: ALBERTO TOSCANO CHAIR: SEBASTIAN BUDGEN
ALLAN SEKULA NICOLAS GRINBERG AND GUIDO STAROSTA – FROM GLOBAL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION TO VARIETIES OF LIAM CAMPLING CENTRE-LEFTISM IN SOUTH AMERICA
STEVE EDWARDS HONOR BRABAZON – LAND REFORM AND THE ROLE OF LAW IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND CONTESTATION OF IMPERIALISM IN BOLIVIA
THOMAS PURCELL – THE LANDLORD-STATE AND ʻSOCIALISM FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYʼ: A MARXIAN CRITIQUE OF CHAVISMO
JEFFERY R. WEBBER (DISCUSSANT)
FRIDAY C – 9.30-11.15
KLT G2 G3 G51 From Crisis of Capitalism to Crisis of the Crisis and Critique of Political Economy Varieties of Capitalism I Walter Benjamin and Anthropological Public Sector (Socialist Register) Materialism Chair: Peter Thomas Chair: Gareth Dale Chair: Colin Leys Jan Hoff – A Form of Critique of ʻTraditionalʼ Jane Hardy – 'Varieties of Capitalism' or Chair: Alberto Toscano Greg Albo – From Rescue Strategies to Exit Marxism: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Combined and Uneven Development: Crisis Jan Sieber – Walter Benjaminʼs Concept of Strategies: The Struggle over Public Sector some New Trends of the German Research and Recession in Central and Eastern Europe ʻSecond Techniqueʼ: An Anthropological Austerity on Marx's Critique of Political Economy Jeffrey Sommers and Janis Berzins – Twenty Materialist Intervention Ursula Huws – Global Value Chains and John Holloway – Crisis and Critique Years Lost: Entropy and Latvia in the Post- Marc Berdet – Phantasmagorias of Capital and Public Sector Restructuring Soviet World Anthropological Materialism Michalis Spourdalakis - Austerity, Resistance Adam Fabry – Hungary and the Current Global and the Greek Left Economic Crisis
G50 116 B102 UH-ULU Commons and Commonwealths Climate Change and Ecological Crisis: Neoliberalism and World Cinema: A Double Marxism and Geopolitics Law, Gender, Technology Take Chair: Robert Knox Chair: Alex Anievas Alexander Keller Hirsch – Commonwealth Chair: Giorgos Galanis Chair: Antigoni Memou Alex Callinicos – Capitalism, Imperialism and without Spinoza, without Lacan: The Larry Reynolds and Bronislaw Szerszynski – Jyotsna Kapur – After Me the Flood: The Spaces of International Rivalry I Cosmopolitical Vision of Danteʼs de Monarchia Technoscientific Innovation as an Imagined Generational Politics of Neoliberal India Gonzalo Pozo-Martin – Capitalism, Solution to the Economic and Ecological Crisis Eileen Meehan – A Legacy of Neoliberalism: Imperialism and Spaces of International Theresa Enright – Metropolitan Bodies: On the of Capitalism Banlieusard and the Production of Space National Amusements, General Electric, and Rivalry II Romain Felli – Climate Refugees, International Global Media Alejandro Colás (discussant) Don Kingsbury – The Tragedy of the Law and the Fetishism of Global Governance Commonwealth? Deborah Tudor – Neoliberal Man Anneleen Kenis and Evie Embrechts – Climate Keith Wagner – Fragments of Labor: Change and the Gendered Politics of Neoliberal Attitudes and Neoliberal Embeddedness Architecture from Park Chan-wookʼs Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy
FRIDAY D – 11.30-13.15
KLT G2 G3 G51 Palestine and Global Justice: Current and Bolshevik History Stasis, Contradiction, Hostility Marx and Critique Historic Challenges for the Left Chair: Matteo Mandarini Chair: Alberto Toscano Chair: Stathis Kouvelakis Chair: Kevin Ovenden Paul Kellogg – The Forgotten Bolsheviks: Benjamin Noys – ʻOn These Rejectamentaʼ: Luca Basso – The Immanent Critique of Abigail Bakan – The ʻJewish Questionʼ: Rediscovering the Mezhrayonka Change, Crisis, Critique Society in the Grundrisse Reconsiderations on Race, Class and Paul Flenley – Economic Crisis and the Fate of Alexi Kukuljevic – Thinking in Grey Tones Robert Jackson – The Young Marx and the Colonialism the Factory Committees in the Russian Evan Calder Williams – Hostile Objects Problem of Subjectivity Rafeef Ziadah – What Kind of Palestinian Revolution Sara Farris – 'On the Jewish Question' for the State in 2011? Neoliberalism Under Ben Lewis – The USPD Halle congress of 21st century Occupation 1920: Zinoviev's Finest (Four) Hour(s)? Mary Jo Nadeau – The Palestine Test: Left Responses to the Silencing Campaign
G50 116 B102 UH-ULU Workers Self-Management and Alternative Varieties of Capitalism II Art in Neoliberalism Theorising the Crisis II Work Organisation I Chair: Gonzalo Pozo-Martin Chair: Gail Day Chair: Sebastian Budgen Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Sam Ashman and Susan Newman – Systems Danielle Child – Dematerialisation, Contracted Alan Freeman and Radhika Desai – Value and of Accumulation and Patterns of Development Labour and Postproduction: The Deskilling of Crisis Theory in the 2008 Recession Dario Azzellini – Workersʼ Control and the Artist in the Age of Late Capitalism Property in the Venezuelan Transition Galip Yalman – Crises as Driving Forces of Michel Husson – Towards a chaotic regulation Neoliberal 'Transformismo' William Roberts – Burnout: Liam Gillick's Post- Immanuel Ness – Migrant Labourer Direct Riccardo Bellofiore – The Capitalist Crisis and Rémy Herrera – The 'Rebirth' of Development Fordist Aesthetics its Recurrence: A Marxian Reading Action in the US: Workersʼ Control Through Factory Occupations (2005-2010) Economics
Maurizio Atzeni (discussant)
FRIDAY LUNCHTIME – OPEN MEETING WITH THE INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY (IIPPE) (G50)
FRIDAY E – 14.15-16.00
KLT G2 G3 G50 Financial Capital Before and After the Capitalism, Labour, Photography Crisis and Accumulation in Asia Limits of Citizenship and Democracy Crisis (Socialist Register) Chair: Steve Edwards Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Chair: Alberto Toscano Chair: Greg Albo Allan Sekula – Ship of Fools Barbara Harriss-White (paper co-authored with Colin Mooers – Security Fetishism and Patrick Bond – Financial Capital and the Crisis Julian Stallabrass – The Death and Life of Wendy Olsen, Penny Vera and Sanso V. Citizenship in Southern Africa Street Photography Suresh) – The Wall Street Financial Crisis, John Cooper – Étienne Balibar: The Crisis and Adam Hanieh – Financialisation and John Roberts (discussant) Other Crises and their Impacts on South the Faltering Project of European Intervention in the Middle East Indian slums Transnational Citizenship Elmar Altvater – Financial Repression and the Jeff Tan – Running Out of Steam? Massimiliano Tomba – Crisis and Critique of Democratic and Environmental impacts of the Manufacturing and Malaysiaʼs Crisis of Democracy: From Benjamin to Marx financial crisis Accumulation Sang-Hwan Jang – Economic Recovery Policies and Debt Accumulation in South Korea
G51 116 B102 UH-ULU Workers Self-Management and Alternative Between Political Economy and Political Whither Feminism? Marx for Our Times Work Organization II Struggles
Chair: Robert Knox Chair: Matteo Mandarini Chair: Giorgos Galanis Chair: Evan Calder Williams Anne E. Lacsamana – Feminist Theory in Jason Read – Transindividuality as Critique: Bill Dunn – Marxʼs Method of Political Crisis?: Towards a Transnational Historical Spinoza, Hegel, and Marx Gregory Schwartz and Ana Dinerstein – Economy and Explanations of the Current Materialist Feminist Project Vittorio Morfino – Plural Temporalities: Marx, Enterprise Recuperations in Argentina: The Crisis Radical, the Ethical and the Unnamed Laurie Penny – Marx and the City: Real Bloch, Althusser Philippe Lege and Cedric Durand – Over- Feminist Empowerment James Furner – An Interactional Account of Alan Tuckman – Workplace Occupation: Accumulation, Rising Costs and the Lessons from Britain in the 1970s Judith Orr – Marxism and Feminism Today Social Relations of Production Contemporaneity of the Stationary State Issue Jacob Carlos Lima – Workerʼs Self- in Developed Countries Management in Flexible Capitalism: Ioannis Kaplanis – An Economy that Excludes Considerations about the Recent Brazilian the Many and the Rise of the New ʻPrecariatʼ Experience Maurizio Atzeni (discussant)
FRIDAY F – 16.15-18.00
KLT G2 G3 G50 Beyond What Is and Isnʼt to Be Done: The Strategies for Art Today I Theorising the Crisis III Book Launch: Jairus Banaji's Theory as History Question of Organisation Today (Sponsored by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Turbulence: Ideas in Chair: Antigoni Memou Chair: Jim Kincaid Chair: Sebastian Budgen Movement) Kerstin Stakemeier – Entkunstung: Artistic Cyrus Bina and Chuck Davis – Marx's Value Jairus Banaji Models for an End of Art Theory and the Current Crisis of Capitalism Respondents: Chair: Tadzio Mueller Gene Ray – Adorno, Brecht and Situationist Martin Thomas – Antecedents and Sequels of Practice: Three Modes of Resisting the the Crisis Charles Post Ben Trott Capitalist Art System Hillel Herschel Ticktin – Theory of the Present Michael Krätke Frieder Otto Wolf Pei Kuei Tsai – Abstraction and Artistic Capital Crisis and its Outcome Peter Thomas
G51 116 B102 Crisis of Representation: Philosophy, Imperialism: History and Theory Historical Materialism, Universal History Politics, Aesthetics and East Asia Chair: Alex Anievas Chair: Matteo Mandarini Ed Rooksby – British Imperialism in Cyprus Chair: Lucia Pradella Tzuchien Tho – Being and the Generic: Ken Olende – Narratives of Kenya's Mau Mau Owen Miller – Pyatchiki vs Aziatichki in Badiouʼs Reinvention of Representation War Chosen: The Asiatic Mode of Production and Colonial Korea Pietro Bianchi – Eisensteinʼs Dream: Luke Cooper – Theorising Necessity and Capitalism, Representation and the Production Contingency in Social Change: The Potential Jamie Allinson – The Japanese Capitalism of a Body of ʻCritical Realismʼ for the Law of Uneven and Debate: East Asian Historiography Through Samo Tomsic – Representation and the Combined Development the Prism of Uneven and Combined Development Science of the Real Vladimir Tikhonov – Soviet Historians of the 1960s-80s and the ʻAsiatic Mode of Productionʼ Conundrum: In Search of a Universal Marxist Model of World History
FRIDAY – 18.15-20.00
ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER PRIZE LECTURE
KHALILI LECTURE THEATRE
BEN FINE AND DIMITRIS MILONAKIS USELESS BUT TRUE: ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE PECULIARITIES OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE
SATURDAY G – 9.00-10.45
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 Financialisation: Theory and Lenin, Luxemburg and the Labour Power and the Marxian Histories of Workersʼ Struggles German Crises Russian Revolution Practice (sponsored by Research Analytics of Crisis in Money and Finance) Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Chair: Esther Leslie Chair: Dhruv Jain Chair: Jamie Allinson Görkem Akgöz – Diverging Paths of Caroline Edwards – Refunctioning Chair: Costas Lapavitsas Lars Lih – The Lifelong Unity of Lenin's Outlook: Findings of a New Gavin Walker – The Politicality of the Early Trade Union Movement in Archaic Shadows: Ernst Blochʼs Iren Levina – Financialisation and Biography Forcing and the Labour-Power Turkey: Political Possibilities, Critique of Vulgar Marxists and the Financial Profit: Profit upon Commodity Discursive Strategies Analysis of Fascism Alienation and Profit from Production Lea Haro – Myth-Making After the Russian Revolution: Interpretation Yutaka Nagahara – The Nigh- Alexis Wearmouth – Giorgos Sagriotis – Phantasmagoria Duncan Lindo – A Political Economy and Misrepresentation of Rosa (im)possibility of the Industrialisation, Imperialism And of Crisis: The Culture Industry of Theory of Derivative Dealers Luxemburg's Political Thought Commodification of Labour Power Crisis: The Development of Jute Politics Elif Karacimen – Financialisation of Kosuke Oki – The Rational and the Manufacturing in Colonial Calcutta Christiane Ketteler – Germanyʼs Seongjin Jeong – Leninʼs During Two Depressions, 1873-96 Workersʼ Income in Turkey: An Economics: A Marxian Critique Irrational in Capitalism: Why Did Uno Cultural Nationalism at the Outset of Exploratory Study Refer to the Commodification of and 1929-1937 Crisis
John Weeks – The Theory and Labour Power as ʻmuriʼ? Keith Flett – The Crisis and Really Useful Knowledge Empirical Credibility of Commodity Money VENUE-ULU B102 B104 B111 UH-ULU Marxʼs Capital and the Gramsci Managing Crisis: Fair Trade, International Relations, Militarism Strategies for Art Today II Development of Capitalism Today Cooperatives, Degrowth and Modes of Foreign Relations Chair: Peter Thomas Chair: Steve Edwards Chair: Sebastian Budgen Nicola Fusaro – Gramsciʼs Analysis Chair: Adam Hanieh Chair: Gonzalo Pozo-Martin Marina Vishmidt and Anthony Iles – Alex Callinicos – TBA of International Relations, Ian J. Seda-Irizarry – Is the Pepijn Brandon – Military Investment The Creative-Destructive Character: David McNally – TBA Hegemony at the International Level, Cooperative Model a Solution to and the Rise of Capitalism: The Art and Labour in Terms of and their Relation to the Organic Capitalism's Crisis? A Marxian Look Case of the Dutch Republic Communisation Lucia Pradella – TBA Crisis Ian Hussey – Fair Trade and` Daniel McCarthy – A Privilege or a Kirsten Forkert – Can Artists Be Michele Filippini – The Gramscian Empire Problem? Technology, Uneven and Anything Other than Shock Troops Concept of Crisis Gareth Dale – The Degrowth Debate Combined Development, and of Gentrification? International Politics Craig Brandist – Gramsci's Theory of Oxana Timofeeva – Break the Hegemony and Soviet Debates on Faruk Yalvaç – Neoliberal Vicious Circle: Contemporary Art Language and Culture in the 1920s Transformation and Turkish Foreign between Religion and Politics Policy: Strategic Depth or Hegemonic Depth?
SATURDAY H – 11.00-12.45
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 Centenary of Hilferdingʼs Finance Red October: Left-Indigenous Class, Gender, Crisis: The Attack Poetics, Painting, Politics Marxism and Politics Today Capital Struggles in Modern Bolivia (book on Public Services and Welfare roundtable) Chair: Antigoni Memou Chair: Paul Reynolds
Chair: Jairus Banaji Chair: Robert Knox Tim Dayton – ʻIf the Poets were Paul Blackledge – A Miliband for the Michael R. Krätke – Rewriting Chair: Sebastian Budgen Bruno Tinel and Muriel Pucci – Trueʼ: Longfellow, Whitman, and Twenty-First Century: Rereading Finance Capital Jeffery R. Webber Public Debt and Tax Cuts: A Matter Marx Ralph to Point Beyond Ed (and Elmar Altvater - Rereading Hilferding Respondents: of Class Esther Leslie – The Poetics of Terror David) Jan Toporowski – Marx and Minsky James Dunkerley Ozlem Ingun – Reading the Avigail Moss – Outside the Frame: Aaron Benanav – The Withering of Privatizations of Public Services in The Politics of Painting Today Workerism Ben Selwyn the Context of Womensʼ Labour in Katja Diefenbach – Im/potential Sara Motta Turkey Politics: Political Ontologies in Negri, Tania Toffanin – The Role of Agamben, Deleuze Neoliberal Capitalism in Reproducing Gender Inequality
VENUE-ULU B102 B104 B111 UH-ULU Class and Nation in the Middle Walter Benjamin and the Critique The Politics of Housing Rethinking the State Crisis in Greece, Crisis in the East of Violence Eurozone Chair: Alberto Toscano Chair: Alex Anievas Chair: Adam Hanieh Chair: Benjamin Noys Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – Umut Bozkurt and Nicos Chair: Giorgos Galanis Anne Alexander – Crisis, Revolution Sami Khatib – Towards a Politics of Racism, Riots, and Real Estate: The Trimikliniotis – Beyond Stavros Tombazos – The Centrifugal and Catastrophe: 1948 in the Middle ʻPure Meansʼ: Walter Benjamin, HUD Housing Crisis Exceptionalism: Re-conceptualizing Eurozone East Slavoj Žižek and the Question of Mislav Zitko – The Financialisation the Cypriot State Formation(s) Panagiotis Sotiris and Spyros Uri Ram – Marxism in a National Violence of the Household: a Post-Socialist George Tomlinson – Historical Time Sakellaropoulos – Postcards from Context: Class and Nation in Israel Andrew McGettigan – Why did Perspective and the Capitalist State the Future: The Greek Debt Crisis, Sebnem Oguz – The Turkish Labour Walter Benjamin Abandon the Douglas Murphy – The Failed the Struggle Against the EU-IMF Movement in the Era of Late Project of ʻCritique of Violenceʼ? Modern Dwelling: Housing in Britain Austerity Package and the Open Neoliberalism: From Proletariat to Lori Turner – Walter Benjaminʼs post-1997 Questions for Left Strategy Precariat? Politics in Historical Context Kampagiannis Thanassis and Nikos Lountos – The Left in Greece Facing the Crisis, or Why Ideas Count
SATURDAY LUNCHTIME – OPEN MEETING WITH HM JOURNAL AND BOOK SERIES EDITORS, ALL WELCOME (G50)
SATURDAY I – 13.45-15.30
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 Approaching Passive Revolutions Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique Sex in Crisis Servicing the Crisis Applying Value Theory (sponsored by Capital and Class) of Political Economy: A Roundtable Chair: Paul Reynolds Chair: Alberto Toscano Chair: Giorgos Galanis
Chair: Alex Anievas Ceren Ozselcuk and Yahya Madra – Tara Atluri – Knee Deep in Christoph Hermann – Money Before Adam David Morton Chair: Sebastian Budgen Psychoanalysis Beyond Economism: Capitalism: Washroom Attendants Value: A Marxist Framework for Neil Davidson Riccardo Bellofiore Subjective Dynamics of Capitalism and Undocumented Immigrant Understanding the Commodification and Crisis Labour of Public Services Chris Hesketh Lutz Brangsch David Fernbach Christopher Chitty – Sexual Steve Vallance – Cleaning-Up in the Por-Yee Lin – The Logics of Peter Thomas Liberation's Unfinished Business Crisis: The Struggle to Defend 'Educational Exploitation': A Marxist Ben Fine Alex Callinicos Oishik Sircar – Two Histories of Cleaning Workers in the City of Labour Theory of Value Critique of Peter Hudis Desire: Who Speaks for ʻIndianʼ London Skilled Labour Sexualities? Christina Rousseau – A Wage for Heesang Jeon – The South Korean Housework: Race, Sex and Debate on the Value and Price of Reproducing the Working Class Information Commodities within the Service Industry
VENUE-ULU B102 B104 B111 UH-ULU Marxism and Theories of Politics Dependency and Exploitation in Hegelian Marxisms Cultural Contradictions of Eurozone Crisis: Causes and Latin America Capitalism Ways Out (sponsored by Research in Money and Finance) Chair: Sara Farris Chair: Matteo Mandarini
Besnik Pula – Friend, Fellow- Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Giorgio Cesarale – Karl Korsch and Chair: Robert Knox Traveller or Foe? Weber's Reading Andy Higginbottom – the Hegelian Dialectic Mike Haynes – Capitalism, Crime Chair: Sam Ashman of Marx and Marxist Critiques of Underdevelopment as Super- Chris OʼKane – Hegelian Marxism and Corruption: From ʻOldʼ to ʻNewʼ Ozlem Onaran – Fiscal Crisis in Weber Exploitation: Mariniʼs Political- Minus Lukacs? Henri Lefebvre, the Forms of Crime and Corruption? Europe or a Crisis of Distribution? Olivier Jelinski – The Order of the Economic Thought Commodity-Form, Critique, and John Michael Roberts – Why We Engelbert Stockhammer – Greek Event: Rethinking the Event with Amanda Latimer – The Free Trade Politics Need the Bourgeois Public Sphere Debt and German Wages: Some Hegel Area of the Americas in the Long David Michalski – Abstract Taste Utopian Lessons for Economic Nick Dyer-Witheford – Multitude or Crisis of Brazilian Labour: Lessons and the Crisis of Value Policy in the Euro Area for Building North-South Responses Global Worker?: Reconsiderations Costas Lapavitsas – Debt and within Autonomist Marxism to the Current Crisis Austerity in the Eurozone Joseph Choonara – Value, International Exchange and the Critique of Dependency Theory
SATURDAY J – 15.45-17.30
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 The End of Old and New Labour: Gender, Labour and the Future of Japanese and Western Marxism Commodities, Labour and Space Music and Resistance What's Left? (sponsored by Feminism Socialist Register and Red Pepper) Chair: Alberto Toscano Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Chair: Alejandro Colás Chair: Antigoni Memou Nik Howard – The Origins and a Ben Selwyn – Global Commodity Ben Watson – Music Versus the Nina Power – Rethinking Emotional Few Deviations of ʻMarxismʼ in Chains, Labour and Development Concept Chair: Colin Leys Labour from a Marxist-Feminist Japan: The Case of Kōtoku Shūsui Greg Sharzer – Why Local Activism Aude de Caunes – Music as Radical Seumas Milne Standpoint and Co. Needs Marxist Political Economy Politics? Cultural Resistance and Leo Panitch Angela Dimitrakaki – Sex and Katsuhiko Endo – A Unique Jamie Gough – The Social and Symbolic Appropriation in Hilary Wainwright Capitalism: Women's Work through, Tradition of Materialism in Japan Spatial Dynamics of Labour Postcolonial France and as, Contemporary Art Robert Stolz – Ishikawa Sanshiro's Processes: A Systematic Lindsey German – 21st Century 'Dynamic Social Aesthetics' Comparative Approach
Feminism: A Manifesto
UH-ULU B102 B104 B111 Slavery and American Capitalism The Working Class after Conjuncture, Contingency and Marxian Investigations Neoliberalism: From the World to Overdetermination the East End of Glasgow Chair: Steve Edwards Chair: Paul Reynolds
Charles Post – The American Road Chair: Dhruv Jain Denis Mäder – Was Marx a to Capitalism Chair: Sebastian Budgen Juha Koivisto – Conjuncture Perfectionist? Robin Blackburn – The American Neil Davidson – Ideologies of Class Mikko Lahtinen – Contingency Bue Rübner Hansen – Marx's under Neoliberalism Crucible Mark Silverman – Capital and the Concept of John Clegg – Marx on Slavery: A Colm Breathnach - Mapping the Overdetermination, Causation and Differentia Specifica Reinterpretation Global Working Class Constitutivity: An Appraisal of Wesley Baxter – The Unexamined John Ashworth (discussant) Patricia McCafferty - Glasgow: Past, Marxian Epistemology Character of the Wage Slave in Present and Future of the Western Marx's Capital Working Class
SATURDAY – 18.00-19.45
SOCIALIST REGISTER 2011 LAUNCH
KHALILI LECTURE THEATRE
THE CRISIS THIS TIME
LEO PANITCH (Chair) RICCARDO BELLOFIORE BEN FINE SUSAN NEWMAN MICHAEL MORAN
SUNDAY K – 9.15-11.00
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 China: Internal Struggles and Latin America, Resistance and Profit and the Crisis Legacies of Bolshevism Commons and Communism, Past External Perceptions Political Economy and Present Chair: Lucia Pradella Chair: Matteo Mandarini Chair: Sebastian Budgen Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Murray E.G. Smith and Jonah Paul Heideman – Banquo's Ghost: Chair: Evan Calder Williams Rebecca Karl – Crisis and Critique: Brian Whitener – Post-Neoliberal Butovsky – Profitability Crisis and The New Negro and the Russian Oliver Feltham – The Levellers China and the Contemporary Capital in Latin America the Roots of the Global Crisis: Revolution versus Hobbes and Locke: Inventing Conjuncture Ozgur Orhangazi – Contours of Trends in the Organic Composition Felicita Reuschling – The Family is Political Action during the Crisis of Charlie Hore – From Tiananmen Alternative Policy-Making in of Capital and the Role of Unproductive Under Communism the 1640s Square to Tibet: Twenty Years of Venezuela Unproductive Capital in the USA and Eoin Flaherty – Primitive Canada Simon Pirani – A 21st century View Resistance in China Sara Motta – Notes Towards of Russian Bolshevism Communism in Nineteenth-Century Prefigurative Epistemologies John Rees – Marxʼs Falling Rate of Ireland: Theoretical Insights and Profit and the Current Crisis Contemporary Applications
Simon Mohun – The Current Crisis Toni Prug – Commons and in Historical Perspective Commodity-Form in the Space-Time Void: Google, Facebook, iPhone and Other Contradictions of Emancipation in Capitalism
B102 B104 B111 116 Aesthetics of Crisis Geographies of Crisis and Althusser and the Aleatory Marx, Normativity, Justice Critique I Encounter I: Conceptual Aspects Chair: Alberto Toscano Chair: Dhruv Jain Chair: Paul Reynolds Beverley Best – Marx, Method, and Chair: Alex Anievas Agon Hamza – The Critique of Bob Cannon – Remoralising the Aesthetics of Political Economy David Featherstone Ideology in the Light of Aleatory Capitalism and De-Commodifying Materialism Shane Deckard – Spectral Sharad Chari Labour Panagiotis Sotiris – How Can We Aesthetics: Economic and Ecological Sara Gonzalez Mark Kelly – Marx as Non-Normative Crisis in the Global Novel Think About Lasting Encounters? Critical Theorist Rethinking the Intellectuality of Michael Niblett – The ʻIrreparable Politics Francisco Ojeda – Elements Around Riftʼ: Ecology, Imperialism, and the Justice in Marx Aesthetics of Crisis Thomas Carmichael – Class and Contingency: Figuring Struggle and its Limits in Althusserʼs Underground Current
SUNDAY L – 11.15-13.00
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 The Work of Daniel Bensaid Marxist Theory and Cultural Forms of Working-Class Althusser and the Aleatory Feminism and the Critique of Political Politics Resistance Encounter II: Philosophical Economy Contrasts Chair: Peter Thomas
Sebastian Budgen – Daniel Chair: Esther Leslie Chair: Jeffery R. Webber Chair: Sara Farris Bensaid and the ʻStrategic Maria Elisa Cevasco – The Sao Ahmet Öncü – Crisis and Class Chair: Matteo Mandarini Heather Brown – The Dialectics of Hypothesisʼ Paulo Fraction: Lineaments of a Struggle as Revolutionary Critique: Dhruv Jain – Aleatory Encounters, Nature, Culture and Gender in Marx Stathis Kouvelakis – The Concept Cultural Formation On the ʻFestivalʼ-Like ʻResistance of Revolution and Taking Hold: M.A. Gonzalez and F.T.C. Manning – of Time in Daniel Bensaid: A Nick Lawrence – World Literature: Tekel Workersʼ in Turkey Althusser and Badiou Value's Constitutive Division Reading of Chapters 5 to 8 of Marx Combined and Uneven Sheila Cohen – A Minority Amrit Heer – Young and Mature Giovanna Vertova – Class and Gender in For Our Times Development Movement: The Political Meaning of Althusser?: Considering the the Crisis: A Framework for Analysis Trade Union Action Necessity and Significance of the Paul Reynolds – ʻEnds Never Andrew Milner – Using Bourdieu: Finish Ending. History Strikes Science Fiction and the Literary Aleatory in Althusser and in Backʼ: A Meditation on Daniel Field Relation to Deleuze Bensaid's Marx for Our Times Ken Kawashima – The Necessity of Crisis and Aleatory Materialism: An Encounter between Uno Kozo and the Late Althusser
B102 B104 B111 116 3CD-ULU Art and Activism Death and Utopia: Bloch and Ultra-Leftism, Insurrection, and Marxism and International Law Geographies of Crisis and Critique II Benjamin the City Chair: Steve Edwards Chair: Robert Knox Chair: Adam Hanieh Greg Shollette – Dark Matter: Art Chair: Gonzalo Pozo-Martin Chair: Alberto Toscano Reecia Orzeck – The Difference Alex Loftus and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Roland Boer – Marxism and Death Alex Levant – Reframing that Scale Makes: Domestic and Kendra Strauss Ultraleftism International Law through a Marxist Dave Beech – Twice Political Matthew Charles – Walter Noel Castree Benjaminʼs Dreams of Catastrophe: Joost de Bloois – Shoplifters of the Lens The Carrot Workers Collective – Carrots, Promises and Organising ʻUtopian Studiesʼ, Political Crisis World, Unite and Take Over: Rose Parfitt – Critical Otherwise and Dialectical Critique Tiqqun, Crisis and Crime Methodologies and the Assumption of Sovereign Equality Peter Thompson – Brecht, Jason Smith – Taking Leave of the Benjamin, Bloch: Materialist City Chris Boyd – From Marx to Miéville: Theology and the Return of Examining the Contemporary Left's Religion Account of (International) Law
SUNDAY M – 14.00-15.45
KLT G2 G3 G51 G50 Radicalism in Contemporary Art The Contemporary Global Biocapitalism Who Rules the World? The Ideology of the ʻBig Societyʼ and Literature Economy (Marx and the ʻGlobal Contemporary Views on Ruling Southʼ 1) and Capitalist Classes Chair: Alex Anievas Chair: Robert Knox
Chair: Steve Edwards Donatella Alessandrini – Regulating Nicola Livingstone – Charity- David Mabb – Utopia Reconstructed Chair: Lucia Pradella Financial Derivatives: The Chair: Adam Hanieh Retailers and their Volunteers: The China Miéville – ʻInspirationʼ, ʻVisionʼ John Smith – Value Theory and the Ecuadorian Proposal for a Regional Gautam Mody – How Autonomous is Capitalist Wolf in Sheepʼs Clothing? and Cultural Production: Marxist World Economy Monetary Agreement and the Indiaʼs Bourgeoisie? Marina Kaneti – Radical Exclusion Speculations on some Embarrassing Pietro Basso – Immigration, State Challenge of Financial Uncertainty Laurent Baronian and Pierre Matari and Social Entrepreneurship: The Categories Racism and Accumulation Brenna Bhandar – Debt as a – Institutional Investors and Slippery Slope Between Caroline Arscott (discussant) David McNally (discussant) Technology of Economic Violence: Management: Contemporary Forms Emancipation and the New Spirit of Biocapitalism in Indian Agriculture and Contradictory Relations between Capitalism Capital as a Property and Capital as Richard Seymour – Thoroughly a Function Modern Tories? From 'One Nation' to 'The Big Society
B102 B104 B111 116 3CD-ULU Adorno: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Ecology in a Time of Confronting the Right Intellectuals, Public Discourse Screening: Comuna Under Politics Crisis and Education Construction Chair: Giorgos Galanis Chair: Alejandro Colás Chair: Esther Leslie James Anderson and James Alexej Ulbricht – Antinomies of Chair: Paul Reynolds A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Giorgos Papafragkou – On Adorno Goodman – Crises of Capitalism and Multiculturalism: The Generation of Stephen Norrie – Intellectuals, Ressler and Pessimism Ecology: Capitalismʼs Three Racist Backlash Philosophy and Marxist Political Contradictions and Conflicting Theory Andrew Warstat – Violence, Ecological Responses Sam Putinja – The Land Without Aesthetics and Ugly Revolutions Strikes: Corporatism, Class Nathan Coombs – Beyond Left and Patrick Bond – Ecosocialist Politics Formation and Right-Wing Populism Right? Corporatism in British Public Bill Bowring – A Tale of Two and Climate Justice Dialectics: Adorno and Bhaskar in Austria Intellectual Discourse Emanuele Leonardi – The Ishay Landa – Anti-Liberal Fascism? Jeff Bale – Tongue-Tied: Imperialism Environmental Side of the Current Individualism as a Case Study and Second Language Education in Economic Crisis: Toward an the United States Ecological Critique of Neoliberalism
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM SUNDAY SEMI-PLENARIES – 16.00-18.00
BGLT KLT
CAPITAL AND THE CRISIS OF NATURE (RETORT) MARX AGAINST EUROCENTRISM (MARX AND THE ʻGLOBAL SOUTHʼ 2) CHAIR: STEVE EDWARDS CHAIR: PETER THOMAS MICHAEL WATTS – A TALE OF TWO GULFS KEVIN ANDERSON – MARX AT THE MARGINS AMITA BAVISKAR – BULLETIN FROM INDIA JAIRUS BANAJI – MARX AND THE TRIBUTARY MODE OF EDDIE YUEN – ON THE ORIGIN OF EXTINCTION PRODUCTION
IAIN BOAL – THE GREEN SPECTACLE LUCIA PRADELLA – MARXʼS CAPITAL AND HIS WRITINGS ON COLONIALISM
HEATHER BROWN – MULTILINEARISM, CONTINGENCY, AND RESISTANCE: REEVALUATING MARX ON HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRECAPITALIST SOCIETIES