Jacob Cayia

How does Marxism still matter? A teach-in led by Jacob Cayia on September 25, 2012, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels observed, in the Communist Manifesto, that a specter was haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. A century and a half later, it is Marxism itself that continues to haunt the Left, while capitalism remains. [Read More]

Panel organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society presented at the 2011 Naturfreundejugend (Friends of Nature) Berlin Herrschaftskritisches Sommercamp, held in August 2011. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Omair Hussain Jerzy Sobotta Pam Nogales Jacob Cayia. Description What is Platypus? We will present on the recent history of the Left in the U.S. through the history of the emergence and activities of our new student organization, the Platypus Affiliated Society. [Read More]

Panel organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society given at the 2011 annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association in Chicago, IL on Thursday, March 24, 2011, at Columbia College, Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Benjamin Shepard - Independent Scholar (Los Angeles), Platypus Affiliated Society Jacob Cayia - University of Illinois - Chicago Omair Hussain - School of the Art Institute of Chicago [Read More]