HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2013 Presents CONFRONTING CAPITAL From Through FRI. th SUN. th APRIL26 APRIL28 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 31 WASHINGTON PLACE Silver Center CONFRONTING CAPITAL Welcome to critical investigations into the present moment quickly reveal that the current crisis of shows no sign of abating. The failure of austerity to restore growth has sent ruling class politicians scrambling, as the assault of capital on all fronts of life— ecological, economic and social—grows exponentially.

HISTORICAL This is not without resistance however. From the ongoing Arab revolution, to Occupy and Greece, confrontations of capital and regimes of power continue to proliferate, push forth new political horizons and sustain influence on a global scale.

HMNY 2013 is an intervention into the present to provide a theoretical MATERIALISM space for debate and discussion, urgently needed on the left at this juncture. Moments like this are especially fertile for new looks at old debates, from the history of capitalism to new modes of resistance. HMNY 2013 will be a venue where figures representing the breadth of current leftist thought will convene to exchange ideas.

NYC 2013 Historical Materialism (HM) is one the foremost journals of Marxian theory. HM’s London-based conferences have long drawn hundreds of scholars from around the world. Since 2006, North American HM conferences have been organized in Toronto and New York City (which will now alternate with bi-annual Spring conferences). HMNY 2013 will begin with an opening plenary on the evening of Friday April 26th, and will continue April 27th-28th at New York University in downtown Manhattan. All participants are encouraged to stay for the whole duration of the conference. 7:00 Opening Plenary 9:00 A CONVERSATION on SOCIALIST PLANNING

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POST- POLITICAL ECONOMY GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY LENINIST LINEAGES and the SPECTER of ART and the US WORKING CLASS of CAPITAL lars lih ruth jennison radhika desai Book Talk Two Cheers 29-73-08: International Monetary vivek chibber for Lev Kamenev tariq ali Poetic Form Reform in the 20th michael schwartz and the Limits to Capital Century: The Imperatives paul le blanc anwar shaikh and the Options Leninism in History pablo bustinduy Chair: and Practical Politics Fiction and Communism lee sustar adaner usmani The Remaking joel geier ben davis of the US Working Class The Politics Art and Inequality: of Zionvievism The Transformation alan freeman SAT. th of Visual Art The Rate of Profit paul kellogg APRIL Under Neoliberalism in the Presence Substitutionism versus 27 of Financial Markets Self-emancipation: The Chair: Theory of the Offensive, Discussant: soyoung yoon the Russo-Polish War doug henwood of 1920 and the German Chair: March Action of 1921 asher dupuy-spencer Chair: johann jaeckel HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2013: CONFRONTING CAPITAL SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH, 2013

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CITY, CRIMINALITY, HISTORICAL MATERIALISM, LEFT MUSIC THEORY LAW and PUNISHMENT CONSTITUENT POWER COMMUNITY CINEMA* GENDER and SEXUALITY in MARXIST THEORY and the LATIN AMERICAN and COMMUNISM; ben laude FUTURE: THE CASES of COMMUNISM evan calder williams chris chitty Business in the Front, robert knox VENEZUELA and BOLIVIA without COMMUNITY A Chase Scene A Marxist Turn Art in the Back: Law, Spectacle Book Talk Too Scratched to Follow: in Queer Theory the Rise of the Artist and the Production sami khatib Rent, Circulation, Entrepreneur of Imperial Violence george Community, Body Politics, nicole whalen and Style in ciccariello-maher and Profrane Illumination. Abolish Gender? the Cinematic Century stephan hammel daniel loick We Created Chavez: Reading Walter Benjamin Historical vs. Cultural Accounting for the Will ‘But Who Protects Us maryam A People’s History of with Jean-Luc Nancy Materialisms from You?’ Police: monalisa gharavi for Form: Aesthetics after the Venezuelan Revolution in Contemporary Towards a Theory of the Mexican Revolution Towards an Abolitionist stacy douglas Feminist Debates Criminality in Cinema Critique jeffrey webber The Exigency of the jarek ervin Red October: Interruption: Towards an maya gonzalez james manos kartik nair Marxism and Popular Left-Indigenous Struggles Anti-Colonial Communism The Work of Art in the Between Liberation The Production Music Studies in Modern Bolivia Age of Family Planning: and Communization: of Social Disinvestment: massimiliano tomba Periodizing feminism from Video Spectatorship Chair: The Political Economy Chair: Beyond the Modern and Sterilization Primitive Accumulation simon frisch of Puni christy thornton Political Form: Rethinking in 1980s India to the Present Moment the Idea of Justice camila gripp Chair: Chair: Incarceration to Manage alan milchman max fox cinzia arruzza the Poor: Notes on the Communization and *Thanks to The New Inquiry Work of Loïc Wacquant the Abolition of Labor

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SLAVERY and CAPITALISM SYRIZA STRUGGLES FINANCE, EMPLOYMENT, zachary sell and the STRATEGIC in the NEAR EAST and POWER Slavery Beyond CHALLENGES in the NEOLIBERAL ERA of the GREEK LEFT taryn fivek a Boundary: American Atomization as develop- ramaa vasudevan Plantation Overseers despina lalaki ment in the West Bank: Managerial Capitalism, and the Production The Crisis in Greece Introducing Rawabi Finance and of Cotton in British India and the Left Response: the Contradictions nolan rampy john clegg Successes, Failures of the Neoliberal Palestinian Liberation Land, Slaves, and Credit: and High Expectations Phase of Capitalism and the Arab Working Class Rethinking the Origins peter bratsis sandy hager of Capitalism in the US ali behran ozcelik The Impossibility Public Debt and Corporate Configuration of the Leftist Discussant: of Reform: Revolution Power: Mapping the New Parties in Parliament charles post or Servitude? ‘Aristocracy of Finance’ SAT. th as Turkey Drafts APRIL Chair: costas panayotakis a New Constitution anwar shaikh 27 shana russell Mainstreaming the Reserve Syriza’s Dilemmas: The Chair: Challenges of Political Army of Labor: From Karl adaner usmani Realignment at a Time Marx to Milton Friedman of Economic Crisis Chair: iannis delatolas jon cogliano Greece and the Eurozone After Cyprus

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7:00 Saturday Plenary 9:00 The POLITICS of FEMINISM

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4 session four: 10:00–12:00 10:00 12:00 A B C D silver 408 silver 411 silver 401 silver 414 WHAT TO DO BLACK LIBERATION COLONIALISM, LANDSCAPES with the LABOR THEORY STRUGGLES COMMERCE and the of MODERN FINANCE of VALUE? TRANSITION to CAPITALISM and REGULATION paul le blanc duncan foley Jobs and Freedom: mario diaz-perez: jeremy green Labor and Value: The March on Washington Max Weber and Anglo-American Productive Labor and the Freedom Budget the Origins of Capitalism Development and Surplus Value and the Euromarkets: brian jones laura martin From Bretton Woods to roberto veneziani Radicals and Colonial Labor, Financial Exploitation Radicalization in the Capitalism, as the Unequal Civil Rights Movement and the Williams Debate erik van deventer Exchange of Labour: Acquired Immunity: patrick madden An Axiomatic Approach matthew nichter What Does Regulation Radicals, Repression, Marxist Historiography Mean to Banks that SUN. th david laibman and the Long Civil Rights and the Origins Cannot Be Prosecuted? APRIL Value, Labor, Movement of Capitalism 28 and the Scientific Moment ajkuna hoppe matt lau in Marxist Inquiry Chair: The Opaque Thicket david calnitsky Some motifs of Regulation at the Chair: in Wordsworth: Enclosure Margins: EU Standards jon cogliano Acts, Urban Modernity, and Financialization and Social Solidarity in Kosovo under Capitalism Chair: Chair: ihsan ercan sadi david lau HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2013: CONFRONTING CAPITAL SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH, 2013

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MARXIST LEGACIES WOMEN CAPITAL CULTURE and the CRISES ASIA’S UNKNOWN TEMPORALITIES in US LITERATURE and the LEFT and the ECOLOGICAL of CAPITALISM: UPRISINGS* and CRITICISM IMPERATIVE EXPERIMENTATION and neil larsen jen roesch POLITICAL ORGANIZATION george kastiaficas A Future with no Future: scott mclemee Women and the Left: dan boscov-ellen Asia’s Unknown on the Temporalities The Ecocommunist Results and Prospects Après Moi marcos soares Uprisings of Crisis and Fictional Hypothesis: Kenneth le Déluge: Marx Marxism, Crisis Capital hester eisenstein sabu kohso Burke on the Metabiology and Ecological Crisis and Militancy in the Globalization, Eros Effect marcia klotz of Capitalism Cultural Field Patriarchal Resurgence sophie lewis and Solidarity—Recent Messianic Temporality anthony dawahare and the ‘War on Women’: The Commons marcos fabris Exchanges Between and the Dialectical Theory and a Marxist-Feminist and Nature Political Praxis and Japanese and Korean Financialized Globe US Proletarian Literature Perspective as Accumulation Strategy Artistic Experimentation Anti-capitalist Movements dave mesing in Photo Journalism nayma qayum james smethurst ninotchka rosca anthony lioi Possessing the Future Demystifying Shahbag: Remembering Nat Historical Signification What’s Left of Ecology? ana paula pacheco in Advance: Strategy Past and Present Turner: Black Left Artists and Transnational Women Haraway’s Politics Political Praxis Contra Threat of Symbiosis and Historical Memory, and the Dialectics maia ramnath Chair: 1935-1955 Chair: of Artistic Forms: richard smith aaron jaffe nancy holmstrom The Brazilian Novel in Chair: Capitalism Chair: a Global Crisis Scenario eddie yuen paul heideman and the Destruction *Thanks to PM Press of Life on Earth: 6 Theses Chair: and Common Notions on Saving the Humans conor tomás reed

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OCCUPY: DYNAMICS, QUEER THEORY PATHS OUT OF CRISIS: RENT and the LEGACIES, FUTURES and MARXISM SELF-ORGANIZATION HOUSING QUESTION and the STATE in MARXIST THEORY penny lewis cinzia arruzza francis fox piven Gender as Social paul blackledge mary robertson jan rehmann Temporality: Butler Left Reformism Marxist Rent Categories (and Marx) and the State in an Urban Setting – Discussant: Some thoughts on the doug henwood chris chitty richard wolff UK Housing Problem Reassessing Foucault: Capitalism’s Crisis Chair: Modern Sexuality and the + Workers Co-ops fabian balardini jordan somers Transition to Capitalism = New Strategy The Theory of Rent and Oil Prices drucilla cornell david calnitsky & stephen seely in Marxian Economics: Basic Income in a Small There’s Nothing A Critique Based on Marx’s Town: Findings on the SUN. Revolutionary Theory of Market Value th Effects on Crime About a Blowjob APRIL28 and Violence, Wages, chris wright james penney and Gender Politics The City After Urbanism Queer Marxism: Discussant: Radical Future Chair: allin cottrell or Oxymoron sean broesler Chair: Chair: ellis scharfenaker emma heaney HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2013: CONFRONTING CAPITAL SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH, 2013

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BLACK RADICALISM SEXUAL VIOLENCE ENVIRONMENT AMERICAN POWER THE COMMUNE NOW STATES of REASON in US LITERATURE and NEOLIBERALISM and ENERGY and the DECLINIST DEBATE bruno bosteels jonathan pickle barbara foley tithi battacharaya glen pine sean starrs The Mexican Commune The Needs of History Communism All You Need is Sex: Energy Insecurity: American Power Hasn’t and the Historicity of Needs, jodi dean and Anticommunism Revisiting Social Renewables, Fossils, Declined—It Globalized! or On the Kantian Something About in the Making of Ralph Reproduction Theory and the Forces Behind Summoning the Data Summum Bonum the Party Ellison’s Invisible Man and Neoliberalism U.S Energy Policy and Taking Globalization Seriously joshua clover PJ gorre shana russell silvia federici paige sarlin Commune and Program “I’m for the union too”: Neoliberalism, Vulnerable Accumulation: james parisot harrison fluss A Marxist Analysis of The New Enclosures Accounting ‘Emerging Powers’ Chair: Spinoza avec Sade: Sexual and Reproductive and the Return for Occupy Sandy and Global Capitalism: john clegg On Horkheimer’s Critique Labor in William Attaway’s of Witch-Hunting In and Against of Objective Reason chris williams Blood on the Forge the American Empire jen roesch Marxism Chair: anna dawahare Neoliberalism, stephen maher and the Commons aaron jaffe The Word Made Flesh: The Backlash Against American Hegemony: The Christian Matrix Women and Today’s Chair: Decline in the Middle of Richard Wright’s New Rape Myths sophie lewis East? Communism Chair: Chair: Chair: erin schell ihsan ercan sadi paul heideman SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH, 2013 Session 29

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