Catherine Liu

Recording of the opening plenary of the 9 Annual International Platypus Convention, at the University of Chicago, April 7, 2017. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element An edited transcript was published in Issue #98 of the Platypus Review Panelists Chris Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society Greg Lucero, Socialist Party USA Catherine Liu, University of California Irvine Description The long anticipated outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election — the coronation of Hillary Clinton — was dramatically derailed by the twin “populist” insurgencies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. [Read More]

Recording of a panel hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Illinois, Chicago, April 6, 2017. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Danny Jacobs Reid Kane Catherine Liu Pam C. Nogales C Daniel Rudin Description Leftists today lament the strength of neoliberal hegemony. The use of “hegemony” underlines the ideological dimension of the neoliberal order; it suggests that mass ideological legitimacy — and not the triumph of pure force or of back-door machinations — has made neoliberalism politically possible. [Read More]