To attend the 2024 public lectures,
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Monday, June 17
David harvey: the story of capital
The Grundrisse is a difficult but foundational text for understanding Marx’s innovative approach to political economy. I will extract some of his most important findings and show their relevance for understanding some of the present dilemmas of endless accumulation, environmental degradation (climate change in particular) and current geopolitical conflicts.
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Tuesday, June 18
susan buck-morss: planetary politics
We are seeing a planetary politics unroll before our eyes - when Jewish Voices for Peace occupy Grand Central Station in New York City, when South Africa brings legal charges against Israel, the UK and the US for violating international law, when Yemen, a non-sovereign country, wages war on global trade, we experience planetary entanglements. “Scaling down” to the local is not an option.
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This lecture will consider – not against but still outside of the statistical limits of a certain historico-geographical determination of the modernist “poetics of indeterminacy” – what Du Bois offers for a possible reading of and for the depths of the entanglement of blackness and poetry. This will give us a chance to listen to Amiri Baraka, Duke Ellington, William Shakespeare and Wallace Stevens. Fun may well be had by all!
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