Overview of all pages with the category #Media Audio

30 Years of 1989: The end of history? (Corvallis, 10.17.19)

October 17, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panelists: Sarah Henderson - Author of Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia Adam Lunceford - Heart of the Valley Democratic Socialists of America GL Morrison - Oregon Communist Party William Smaldone - Author of European Socialism: A Concise History Description: 1989 is largely remembered as a decisive close to the Cold War contest between communism and capitalism—with the victory of the latter casting a seemingly damning verdict against Marxism as a form of politics. [Read More]

Teach-in: Althussers Marxismus (Wien, 11.10.19)

October 11, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Teach-in, veranstaltet von der Platypus Affiliated Society im Café C.I. – Club International in Wien am 11. Oktober 2019. „In den 1980er Jahren verabschiedete sich eine ganze Generation Intellektueller im Zeichen der Postmoderne von jeglicher Utopie. Doch bereits zuvor war die Neue Linke in den 60er und 70er Jahren mit ihrer Rückkehr zu Marx gescheitert. Aus Sicht von Althusser inszenierten die Studenten weltweit 1968 eine „ideologische Revolte”. Sie revolutionierten den kulturellen Überbau, aber nicht die sozialen und politischen Verhältnisse. [Read More]

Sex and the Left (Goldsmiths, 10.10.19)

October 10, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On 10 October, 2019, the Platypus Affiliated Society at Goldsmiths University hosted a panel on \‘Sex and the Left\‘. Panelists: - Jeanie Crystal (Artist) - Peter Tatchell (British Human Rights Campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT movements) - Rachel Holmes (Historian and author of Eleanor Marx: A Life, published by Bloomsbury Publishing) - Zack Murrell-Dowson (Researcher into Trans Liberation) What do we mean by a liberated sexuality? What are the bounds of sexual freedom available to us in capitalism? [Read More]

Teach-in: Mexican Democracy in the 21st Century (Santa Cruz, 10.7.19)

October 7, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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A teach-in at the University of California Santa Cruz. Tracing the decline of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in Mexico, the rise of Neoliberalism, and the election of AMLO, this teach-in asks how the failure of the Left in the past century informs Mexican Democracy in the 21st century.

Does Marxism Need a Theory of Power? @ Marx NU Conference (Copenhagen, 05.10.19)

October 5, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel on \“Power\” at the Marx NU 2019 conference in Copenhagen organised by Selskab for Marxistiske Studier, with an intervention by PAS Aarhus member Victor C. With Michael Rahlwes (The Crisis of Marxism and Marx’s Critique of Politics), Erica Borg & Amedeo Policante (Capital, Biopower and the Anthropocene: Critical Reflections on the Earth Bank of Codes), Victor Sacha Cova (Does Marxism Need a Theory of Power?), followed by questions from the audience. [Read More]

Teach-in: What is the bourgeoisie? (Houston, 10.4.19)

October 4, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Teach-In by Eduardo Silveyra for Platypus Affiliated Society (University of Houston), October 4, 2019

Teach-in -Introducing Platypus: On Surviving the Extinction of the Left (LSE, 2.10.19)

October 2, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Teach-in hosted by Platypus at London School of Economics introducing the Platypus project: “On Surviving the Extinction of the Left”.

Teach-in on Capital in History: Is Marxism still relevant? (Houston, 9.13.19)

September 13, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On September 27, 2019, at the University of Houston, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a teach-in led by Platypus member Michael Woodson on capital in history. What is the development of freedom in human history from the Platypus perspective? In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels famously observed that a \“specter was haunting Europe: the specter of Communism\“. 170 years later, it is Marxism itself that haunts us, while capitalism remains. [Read More]

Interview with David McLellan

September 2, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On 2 September 2019, Stanley Sharpey and Efraim Carlebach interviewed David McLellan in Canterbury for The Platypus Review. David McLellan (born 1940) is an English scholar of Karl Marx and Marxism. McLellan is currently visiting Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths\’ College, University of London.

Ep. 18: On Art & Political Protest at the Whitney, and Artists Today

August 6, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On this episode, Sophia Freeman and Pamela C. are joined by Allison Hewitt-Ward, a New York Platypus member and art critic. They discuss the recent crack-up at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the relationship between art and political protest. In the second segment, Sophia and Pam interview Goldsmiths University’s graduating Masters art students, Alexander Pierce, Lydia Blakeley, Fred Bungay, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif and Sara Rodrigues, about the relationship [Read More]