John Batchtell

A panel event held at the University of Illinois, Chicago, on September 24, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Walter Benn Michaels, UIC professor, English John Bachtell, chairman, Communist Party USA Judith K. Gardiner, UIC professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, English Description [After the 1960s, the] underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency… in a historical situation of heightened helplessness… became a self-constitution as outsider, as other… focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the [Fordist/late 20th century] world: it echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital [with the neo-liberal turn after 1973, and especially after 1989]. [Read More]