Mike Ely

Panel held on March 31st, 2012 at the Fourth Annual Platypus International Convention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Daniel Dulce (Crimthinc) Thodoris Velissaris (Platypus) Nick Kreitman (Platypus, Formerly new SDS) Mike Ely (Kasama) Joshua Moufawad-Paul (Supporter, Parti communiste revolutionnaire - Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada) Description The two decades of the 1990s-2000s form a cycle containing certain common as well as differing concerns. [Read More]

Panel held on November 15, 2011, at the University of Chicago, as part of the international Crisis of the Left panel series. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Mike Ely (Kasama) Roberta Garner (Depaul, science & society) Alexander Hanna (UW-Madison) Moderated by Greg Gabrellas, Description What is the Crisis of the Left? Crisis: Pathol. The point in the progress of a disease when an important development or change takes place which is decisive of recovery or death. [Read More]

Panel discussion at the 3 annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 30, 2011. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone (Platypus) Mike Ely (Kasama Project) Joseph Ramsey (Kasama Project) John Steele (Kasama Project) How does the prominence of Alain Badiou’s approach to communism today speak to the present historical moment and its emancipatory possibilities? [Read More]