The Sixth International Conference Rethinking Marxism 2006 26-28 October University of Massachusetts Amherst Conference Schedule Version Thursday 26 October 2006 Oct. 16 1:00-3:00 Concurrent Sessions [A] 3:30-5:30 Concurrent Sessions [B] 7:30-9:30 Plenary Session The Power of the Left Media [Student Union Ballroom] Friday 27 October 2006 9:30-11:30 Concurrent Sessions [C] 1:00-3:00 Concurrent Sessions [D] 4:00-6:30 Art Event Setting in Motion [Flavin Auditorium] 8:00-10:00 Plenary Session Imperialism and the Fantasies of Democracy [Student Union Ballroom] Saturday 28 October 2006 9:30-11:30 Concurrent Sessions [E] 1:00-3:00 Concurrent Sessions [F] 3:30-5:30 Concurrent Sessions [G] 7:30-9:30 Plenary Session Rethinking Communism [Student Union Ballroom] An Index is available at the end of this document. All sessions except noted will take place in Campus Center. NB If you submitted a paper or panel proposal for RM06, and you do not see it listed on the conference program, please contact Vin Lyon-Callo at <mailto:[email protected]> immediately. [A] Thursday 1:00-3:00 Patrick Hayden (University of Limits of Stretching? The Yoga A1 [163C] RM/AESA Book Oregon) “Social Forums, Social Industry and Corporate Social Session on Liberating Movements and the Old New Responsibility at Work” Economics: Feminist Left” Discussant: Paul Mazzocchi (York Perspectives on Families, Work, University) and Globalization by Drucilla A3 [168] Natality, Action, Barker and Susan Feiner Violence: Arendt and Benjamin A5 [911-915] Allegories of Capital: Chair: Suzanne Bergeron and the Time of the Political Rethinking Jameson through (University of Michigan-Dearborn) Chair: Catherine Kellogg (University Genre Film and Television Carole Biewener (Simmons College) of Alberta) Chair: Jason Cato (University of Eiman Zein-Elabdin (Franklin and Catherine Kellogg (University of Texas) Marshall College) Alberta) “Arendt and the Political: Mikel Parent (Brandeis University) Ulla Grapard (Colgate University) After Sovereignty” “Sam Peckinpah’s New Western Respondents: Drucilla Barker Charles Barbour (University of and the New Imperialism” (Hollins University) and Susan Alberta) “Arendt and Benjamin on Jason Cato (University of Texas) Feiner (University of Southern the Time of the Political” “The Horror of the Hills: Maine) Amy Swiffen (University of Alberta) Urbanoia, the ‘Hillbilly Horror’ “Action and Violence in a Non- Film, and Racialized Class A2 [917] The Other Side of moral Sense” Formation” Globalization Daniel Worden (California College Chair: Heather Brown (Purdue A4 [805-809] Apologists for of the Arts) “Neoliberalism, University) Capital? Exploring Corporate Sovereignty, and Circulation in Balmurli Natrajan (William Patterson Social Responsibility as a “New” HBO's ‘Deadwood’” University) “Is Caste Cultural Mode of Governance Identity? Rethinking Caste as Chair: Megan Dombrowski (York A6 [803] The Production of Process” University) Inequality in Contemporary Heather Brown (Purdue University) Simon Enoch (Ryerson University) Capitalism “Multilinearism, Contingency, “A Greener Potemkin Village? Chair: J. Andres Ramirez (University and Revolutionary Subjectivity: CSR & the Limits of Growth” of Massachusetts-Amherst) Reevaluating Marx on Historical Ryan Foster (Queen’s University) Jason L. Mallory (Estrella Mountain Development in Non-Western “The Political Economy of 'Divide College) “Panopticism and Mass Societies” and Sponsor': Wal-Mart, Incarceration” Sooenn Park (Washington Corporate Social Responsibility, J Andres Ramirez (University of University) “The ‘Human’ in the and Labour Market Discipline in Massachusetts-Amherst) “Leave Making: Politics of Human Rights Low-Wage America” No Mistake Behind: Determinism without ‘the Human’ Foundation” Sandra Ignagni (York University) in Current U.S. Literacy Policy” “Stretched to the Limits or the Elizabeth Ramey (University of Xueping Zhong (Tufts University) “A A11 [176] Materialism Reloaded Massachusetts-Amherst) Critical Response to ‘Dark-Age Chair: Norman Levine (Institute of “Poverty in Plenty: Class and the Memoir Literature’” International Policy) Industry of Agriculture” Norman Levine (Institute of A9 [174] On the 200th Anniversary David Black (Bristol University) International Policy) “The of Hegel's Phenomenology of “Expedient Exceptions: Philosophic Presuppositions for Spirit: Can His Power of Neoliberal Penality and the the Renewal of Marxism” Negativity Speak to Today's Strategic Production of ‘Bare Frieder Wolf (Free University of Reality? Life’” Berlin) “Spinoza’s Contribution to Chair: Ron Kelch the Philosophic Presuppositions A7 [162] Revisiting “Lost” Ron Kelch “Harris’s Paradox and of a Marxism of the 21st Century” Marxisms Dunayevskaya’s New Beginning: Jean-Francois Filion (University of Chair: Brian Waddell (University of Can Hegel’s Method Shape a Quebec-Montreal) “The Material Connecticut) New Unity of Theory and Effectivity of Symbolic Forms: Clyde Barrow (University of Practice” Outline of a Dialectical Critique of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) “The Urszula Wislanka “Hegel’s Dialectic Materialism” Poulantzas-Althusser Debate: and Feminism” Eric Pineault “Prolegomena for a State Theory and the Franklin Bell “Christopher Arthur’s Cultural Critique of Advanced Epistemologies of Structuralism” New Dialectic and the ‘Absolute Capitalism: Revisiting Marx's Bradley J. Macdonald (Colorado Historicism’ of Marx’s Social Theory of Value” State University) “Marcuse and Humanism” the Triumph of the Warfare Eugene Gogol (Independent A12 [903] Culture Industry in Late State” Scholar) “Dialectics of Capitalism William Niemi (Western State Organization and Philosophy” Chair: Julia Nevarez (Kean College) “Revisiting the Lost University) A10 [164] Reassessing Frantz Marx: Politics, Praxis, and Roshanak Keshti (University of Democracy” Fanon California Berkeley) Discussant: Brian Waddell Chair: Aisha Karim (Saint Xavier “Differentiating the Expressive (University of Connecticut) University) Cultural Laborer: The Making of a Anthony Garavente “The Wretched Fetish Economy” A8 [905-909] In Defense of Mao of the Earth as the Marxist Anna Feigenbaum (McGill and the Chinese Revolution: Revolutionary Vanguard” University) “Nakkid Revolutions? Critical Responses to Mao, the Noah De Lissovoy (University of Alienated Labor and Unknown Story, and “Dark Age Texas San Antonio) “‘Stretched Alternapornagraphy” Memoir Literature” Dialectic’: Recovering a Fanonian Julia Nevarez (Kean University) Chair: Raymond Lotta (Set the Materialism” “Obscure Signification: Record Straight) Nigel Gibson (Emerson College) Ideologies and Counter- Dongping Han (Warren Wilson “The Damned Translation and Aesthetics of New Left Art and College) “The Unknown Cultural the Reduction of Fanon” Media” Revolution: Its Impact on Rural Aisha Karim (Saint Xavier Aras Özgün (New School for Social Development” University) “Frantz Fanon and the Research) “Creative Industries: Raymond Lotta (Set the Record Problem of Postnationalism” Neo-Liberalism as Mass Straight) “A Maoist Critique of Deception” Mao: The Unknown Story” 3 Heather Fielding (Brown University) “The Mechanics of the Dancing Table: Commodities and Technology in Capital” A13 [811-815] Film: Black Gold: Your Coffee Will Never Taste the Same Again (A Film by Nick and Marc Francis) 4 [B] Thursday 3:30-5:30 Contemporary Culture’s Critique B1 [803] Rethinking Marxism: B3 [805-809] Towards a New of Capitalism” Meet the Editors Economics of the Commune: David F. Ruccio, Editor (University Aristotle, Marx, Lacan B5 [905-909] Critical Perspectives of Notre Dame) Chair: Kenan Erçel (University of on Network Centric Warfare: Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia, Massachusetts-Amherst) Political Economy, Ideology, Art (University of Massachusetts- Philip Kozel (Rollins College) Theory Amherst) “Communities and Commodities” Chair: Brian Murphy (Niagara Jack Amariglio, art/iculations Yahya Madra (Gettysburg College) University) (Merrimack College) “The Axiom of Communism” Brian Murphy (Niagara University) Richard Wolff, Remarx (University Maliha Safri (Knox College) and “A Geo-Political Economy of of Massachusetts-Amherst) Ceren Özselçuk (University of Network Centric Warfare” Joseph Childers, Reviews Massachusetts-Amherst) “The Ian Roderick (Wilfrid Laurier (University of California- Ambivalence of the Gift” University) “Automated Riverside) Stephen Healy (Miami University Grammar: How Robots Save Ohio) “Health Care Reform and Lives and Sell War” B2 [163C] What is Critical About the Ethics of Non-All” Mary Sterpka King (University of Sociology (Sponsored by Critical Massachusetts-Amherst) Sociology) B4 [172] Contradiction and “Topographic Representations of Chair: David Fasenfest (Wayne Cultural Critique: Dialectics and Network Warfare” State University) Rethinking Rhetorical Marty Oppenheimer (Rutgers Possibilities B6 [168] Materialism Before University) “A Critical Look at the Chair: Danika M. Brown (University Althusser, After Althusser Contradictions of the Immigration of Texas-Pan American) Chair: Hasana Sharp (McGill ‘Problem’” Danika M. Brown (University of University) Lauren Langman, (Loyola University Texas-Pan American) “Negative Bill Martin (Depaul University) Chicago) “Capitalism, Character, Dialectics: Rethinking Rhetoric” “Spirit in the Material World: and the Escape from Reality” MJ Braun (University of West Spinoza, Kant, Marx” Paul Paolucci (Eastern Kentucky Florida) “Dialectics and Ancient Richard A. Lee (Depaul University) University) “Uncovering Marx’s Political Economic Moral Codes”