We regret that it was not possible to record all the sessions of the conference. The blue links below will take you to mp3 recordings of the respective papers and discussions.
7pm to 9pm
Plenary 1:
DIMENSIONS OF THE PRESENT CRISIS
Chair: Francesca Manning
Anna Agathangelou
Aaron Benanav
Silvia Federici
Duncan Foley
Joel Kovel
10:15am to 12:30pm
DESECRATION; REDEMPTION
Chair: Alberto Toscano
Jacob Blumenfeld – All Things Are Nothing to Me: Stirner’s Communism
John-David Scott – Theses on the Realization of History by Means of its Desecration
Liam Sionnach – Redemption and Messianic time
CRITICAL FEMINISMS
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
Hester Eisenstein – Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
Valerie Francisco – Filipina Countertopography: Empire, Migration, and Feminism
Nina Power – One-Dimensional Woman
Discussant (Silvia Federici) and Q&A
ORIGINS OF THE CURRENT CRISIS
Chair: Alberto Handfas
Fred Moseley – The Crisis is far from over
Andrew Kliman – Roots of the Economic Crisis
Simon Mohun – What is the Present Crisis a Crisis of?
Q&A
NEW RADICAL AND ANTICAPITALIST LEFT PARTIES IN EUROPE
Chair: Geoff Bailey
Sebastian Budgen – TBA
Ahmed Shawki – TBA
ENERGY AS CAPITAL
Chair: Steve McFarland
Heather Rogers – The Fuel of Forests
Victor Wallis – Beyond Green Capitalism
George Caffentzis – “Peak Oil” and “Resource Curses” from a Class Perspective
CRITIQUE IN CRISIS
Chair: Francesca Manning
Aaron Benanav – The Brutal Facts: Too Few Jobs for Too Many People
Gopal Balakrishnan – The Politics of the Decline of Capital
Discussant (William Clare Roberts) and Q&A part 1 Q&A part 2
1:30pm to 3:30pm
MILITANCY AND COMMUNIZATION
Chair: Jacob Blumenfeld
Jasper Bernes – Some Militant Topologies Between Production and Reproduction
Sabu Khoso – Issues around Militancy in Japan’s Oppositional Movement
Evan Calder Williams – Communisation and its Discontents
Discussant (Stephanie Wakefield) and Q&A
HOME OWNERSHIP, HOUSEHOLD DEBT AND RACE IN THE POST-WAR US
Chair: Francesca Manning
Maya Gonzalez – On the Housing Question…Again?
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – A Home of Their Own: The Politics of Housing in Urban America
Justin Myers – The Neoliberalization of Everyday Life: Finance Capital’s Debt-Peonage, Debtorʼs Prisons, and the Potentiality of Anti-Debt Movements
Q&A
HERMENEUTICS OF VALUE
Chair: Marina Vishmidt
Neil Larsen – In the Shadow of Second Nature, speculations on the implied presence of a second fetish form in Marx’s mature critical theory
Ken Kubota – The Dialectical Presentation of Capital, A Comparison of the Approaches of Backhaus/Reichelt and Uno/Sekine
Alan Milchman – The Value Form, Reification, and the Consciousness of the Collective Worker
CLASS STRUCTURE IN INDIA AND CHINA
Chair: Jonathan Lassen
Deepankar Basu – Towards a Class Analysis of Indian Society
Richard Smith – China’s Bureaucratic Collectivist Capitalism: class structure and economic development, tendencies, contradictions, and implications
Discussant: Alex Day
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
Patricia Clough – Science and Historical Materialism
William Lewis – Reading Henri Lefebvreʼs Methodologie des Sciences In and Out of Context
Massimiliano Tomba – The Future Now: Interpretations of Marx’s Fragment on Machines
Q&A
NEOLIBERALISM IN CRISIS
Chair: Asher Dupuy-Spencer
Gérard Duménil – Capital Income and Upper Wages in Neoliberalism: From Prosperity to Crisis
Hester Eisenstein – Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Gender
David Laibman – Conflict, Social Evolution, Finance: Perspectives on the Current Crisis
4pm to 6pm
(PRE-) AND (POST-) OPERAISMO
Chair: Laura Silverman
Ben Trott – What Defines the (Post-)Operaist Approach?
Sara R. Farris – Italian Heterodox Marxism: on Mario Trontiʼs Weberianism
Nina Power – Feuerbach for the 21st Century
Q&A
SEXUALITY AND MARRIAGE
Chair: Cathy Borck
Chris Chitty – Late Capitalism and the Antinomies of Sexual Discourse
Dana Cloud – Marriage Equality and the Left
Justin Gilmore – Communization and the Negation of Sexual Identification
Discussant (Jen Gieseking) and Q&A
CRISIS THEORY
Chair: John Clegg
Duncan Foley – Notes on Capitalist Crisis and Social Change
Max Gasner – There is No Such Thing as an Economic Crisis
Tony Smith – Beyond the Keynes Solution
Q&A
NEO-LIBERALISM IN PRACTICE
Chair: Banu Bargu
Ozgur Ozturk – Global Crisis and the ‘New’ Imperialism: Turkish Finance Capital in the 21st Century
Melda Ozturk – The Impact of the Global Crisis on the Accumulation Process in Turkey : Rethinking the Capitalist Crisis in the Context of Late Development
Aylin Topal – Neoliberal State Restructuring and Decentralization in Mexico and Turkey
Discussant (Banu Bargu) and Q&A
OIL AND WATER
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
Mathew T. Huber – Enforcing Scarcity: Oil, Violence, and the Making of the Market
Gideon Fink Shapiro – Incomplete Revolution: Architecture, Landscape, and Labor in the Tennessee Valley 1936-1945
Enrique Lanz-Oca – The Ecological Industrial Complex: Federal-Corporatism and Hydro-Militarism behind the Elwha Dam River Restoration Project
Discussant: George Caffentzis
DIALECTICAL METHODS
Chair: Arya Zahedi
Bertell Ollman – The Role of Marx’s Dialectical Method and Theory of Alienation in His Economic Theories (or Why Marxist Economists Have So Much Difficulty Understanding Marx’s Economics)
Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo – Wayward Dialectics: on Frederic Jameson
Discussant: Stanley Aronowitz
7pm to 9pm
Plenary 2:
LINEAGES OF THE PRESENT CRISIS
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
Yves Smith – ECONNED: How Unenlightened Self Interest Caused the Global Financial Crisis
Anwar Shaikh – The First Great Depression of the 21st Century: Causes and Implications
Gérard Duménil – Neoliberalism Adrift: A Historical Perspective
Q&A
Plenary 3:
CRISIS AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
Chair: Geoff Bailey
Peter Thomas – Confronting the Crisis: Gramsci and the Politics of Hegemony [clipped]
Alberto Toscano – Democracy and Catastrophe
Paul Blackledge – Ethics and Anti-capitalism: Crisis, Revolution and the problem of Organisation
Discussant (Banu Bargu) [clipped]
10:15am to 12:15pm
THE COMMONS
Chair: Francesca Manning
Jason E. Smith – Communism, Common, Commune
Jason Read – Figures of the Common: Species Being, Transindividuality, Virtual Action [clipped]
Sylvia Federici – Women, Computers and Potatoes: feminist reflections on the discourse of the common/s.
Discussant (Hasana Sharp) and Q&A
THE AESTHETICS OF PRACTICE
Chair: John-David Scott
Jeff Kinkle – Neoliberalism as Horror: Wolfen and the Political Unconscious of Real Estate
Marina Vishmidt – Imperative degeneration of how: The Congealment of Labour and Art
Q&A
MONEY, FINANCE AND FICTITIOUS CAPITAL
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
Ted Winslow – Marx on “Monetary Crises”: The “historical materialist” approach to financial crises.
Riccardo Bellofiore – From Marx to Minsky. The Universal Equivalent, Finance to Production and the deepening of the Real Subsumption of Labour to Capital in Money Manager Capitalism
Geoffrey McDonald – The Fetishism of “Fictitious Capital”: On the Economic Might of Illusionary Wealth
Discussant: Duncan Foley
IMPERIALISM
Chair: Alex Aneivas
Gayatri Spivak
Hamid Dabashi [clipped]
Q&A
Room 6496
THE POLITICS OF OIL
Chair: Mathew T. Huber
Michael Schwartz – Oil in Iraq and the War without End
Deepa Kumar – Saudi Arabia and 9/11: The History of a “Special” Relationship and its Contradiction
BOOK LAUNCH: THE GRAMSCIAN MOMENT
Chair: Joel Wainwright
Benedetto Fontana
Geoff Mann
Jan Rehmann
Peter Thomas
1:15pm to 3:15pm
THE HUMAN AND MATERIALISM
Chair: Kate Perkins
Joel Wainwright – Gramsci’s Conception of the World
Hasana Sharp – Liberating Ontology? Spinoza, Nature, and Normativity
William Clare Roberts – Aristotle’s Communism: Paolo Virno on the Political Animal
Discussant (Peter Thomas) and Q&A
GLOBALIZATION – panel sponsored by the journal Critical Sociology
Chair: Sara Farris
Marko Ampuja – Globalization Theory, Media-Centrism and Neoliberalism: a Critique of Recent Intellectual Trends
Mi Park – Analyzing Competing Visions of Another World: Alternatives to Global Capitalism
Nicole Trujillo-Pagan – Hazardous Constructions of Mexican Immigrant Masculinity
THEORIES OF EXPLOITATION
Chair: Jonathan Cogliano
Gary Mongiovi – On the Concept of Exploitation in Marxian Economics
Nancy Holmstrom – Exploitation: Marxist and Other Theories
Discussant (Duncan Foley) and Q&A
THE PARTY, THE NATION, AND “THIRD WORLD” MARXISM
Chair: Geoff Bailey
Noaman Ali – Africa and Marxism: Toward an intellectual history of the political thought of the Mozambique Revolution
Dhruv Jain – Badiou and Mazumdar: On the Problem of Democracy and Organization
Nagesh Rao – Marxism, Nationalism, and Third Worldism
Q&A
CAPITALISM, SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR
Chair: John Clegg
August Nimtz – Marx and Douglass versus Progressive Skeptics of Lincoln and the Civil War
Paul Heideman – Walter Johnson, Marxism, and the History of Slavery
Charles Post – Democracy Against Capitalism in the Post-Civil War United States
Q&A
3:30pm to 5:30pm
NEO-BARBARISMS
Chair: Francesca Manning
Christopher Wright – Nightmare Without End?: Notes from the Vanguard of Revanchism
Alberto Toscano – Fanaticism in and Against History
Q&A
CRISIS OF VALUE
Chair: John Clegg
Paul Mattick – Does Marx’s Theory Explain the Current Crisis?
Sander – Crisis of Value
José A. Tapia Granados – Economists, Profits, and Explanations for Economic Crises
FINANCIAL IMPERIALISM
Chair: Jesse Goldstein
Ramaa Vasudevan – Dollar hegemony, Finance and Imperialism
Karl Beitel – The End of Neoliberalism? The Current Crisis in Historical Context
Geoff Mann – Hobbes Redoubt: Money, Monetary Policy and the Reign of Value
MACHIAVELLI
Chair: George Shulman
Banu Bargu – The Problem of the Republic in Marx and Machiavelli
Gopal Balakrishnan – The Problem of Historical Time in Machiavelli
Robyn Marasco – Passion and Revolt: Machiavelli and the Meaning of Politics
LEGACIES OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL
Chair: Aaron Hess
John Riddell – The Comintern Women’s Movement
Paul Le Blanc – Radical Labor Sub-Culture and Revolutionary Organization
