Toby Chow

A moderated panel discussion held at the Seventh Annual Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Toby Chow (University of Chicago) Brandon Johnson (Chicago Teachers Union) August Nimtz (University of Minnesota) Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania) Moderated by Brendan Finucane. Description Beneath a consensus of avowed anti-racism, the American Left remains conflicted about whether and how to politicize race. [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]