A workshop on the Against Equality collective by Yasmin Nair, at the 9th annual Platypus International Convention, on April 8, 2017. Moderated by Nunzia Faes.
Women: The Longest Revolution at Loyola University Chicago
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.
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Art and Commodity Form
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Panel at SAIC
Panelists: Yasmin Nair
Lisa Vinebaum
Keith Brown
Conrad Bakker
If it is true that the ‘commodity-structure’ (Lukács) is the defining feature of modern capitalism down through the present, then it stands to reason that it has no less impacted the way art is produced, consumed, circulated, and exchanged. This shift in art’s character happened both objectively (e.g., as in an article produced for exchange on the market), and subjectively (i.
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