Margaret Power

Panel event held at Loyola University, Chicago, on November 4 2015. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Margaret Power Yasmin Nair Brit Schulte Description Named for Juliet Mitchell’s 1966 essay, this panel will explore the long history of the struggle for women’s liberation from the vantage point of the Left today. Mitchell critiques bourgeois feminist demands such as the right to work and equal pay to posit the need instead for equal work. [Read More]

The opening plenary of the Platypus International Convention VII. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois, Chicago) Toby Chow (University of Chicago) Donald Parkinson (Communist League of Tampa) Margaret Power (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago) Moderated by Pam Nogales. 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]