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Marxism in Reverse – Reading Group

You are invited to the last COMMA reading group of Spring 2018!!     Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf    Yannis Varoufakis, “Marx Predicted Our Present Crisis–and Points the Way Out” https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto    Friday June 1, 3:00pm   SH 2635 – note change in location See you then!     Maurizia Boscagli, Director […]

Marxism in Reverse – Lecture Series

COMMA Lecture Series– Spring 2018   You are invited to a talk by Professor Allison Carruth   Department of English, UCLA   ‘FORAGED CUISINES, CULINARY LABS”   Friday May 18 3:00pm The Sankey Room, English Department   Maurizia Boscagli, Director   Leah Norris, RA

Marxism in Reverse – Lecture Series

COMMA Lecture Series: You are invited to a talk by Professor Jennifer Wicke: “Dirty Modernism”   Friday May 11 3:00pm   The Sankey Room South Hall, Second Floor.   We hope to see you there. Maurizia Boscagli, Director Leah Norris, RA

Marxism in Reverse – Reading Group

Second COMMA reading group meeting of Spring 2018.   Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844  (First and Third Manuscript) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdf Karl Marx, Comments on James Mill https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/ Friday April 27 The Sankey Room 3:00   We hope to see you all there!   Maurizia Boscagli, Director Leah Norris, RA

Marxism in Reverse – Reading Group

Welcome back to the first COMMA meeting of Spring quarter. Reading group: Karl Marx, Value Price and Profit https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf and Capital Vol.I, Chapter 1″The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof” https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf   Friday April 13, 3:00 The Sankey Room   We hope to see you there! Maurizia Boscagli Director Leah Norris, RA  

Marxism in Reverse – Lecture Series

COMMA Winter Quarter 2018 Lecture Series: Professor Glyn Salton-Cox, English Department “Lumpen London: Engels, Margaret Harkness, and the “Passively Rotting” Mass” Friday, March 16, 3:00 South Hall The Sankey Room Maurizia Boscagli, Director Leah Norris, RA

Marxism in Reverse – Visiting Speaker

As the next installation of our series Marxism in Reverse, COMMA invites you to a talk by                                               SILVIA FEDERICI    “GLOBALIZATION, CAPITAL ACCUMULATION, AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: AN INTERNATIONAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE”   South Hall 2635, […]

Marxism in Reverse – Reading Group

COMMA invites you to the first reading group of Winter Quarter: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” from The Dialectic of Enlightenment https://web.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/files/pdf/adorno_culture_industry.pdf   Walter Benjamin, “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” ‘Expose’ of 1935 from The Arcades Project http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/paris%20capital.pdf  Friday February 2, 3:00pm in South Hall, the Sankey Room.   Refreshments will be served, we […]

Marxism in Reverse – Talk

  You are invited to a talk by Professor Patrice Petro, Film and Media Studies and Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB   DISPOSSESSION, ACCUMULATION, HOARDING: AUSTERITY MEDIA   Please read in advance: “Introduction” and “Media Austerity”, from Kennan, Ferguson and Patrice Petro, eds., After Capitalism. Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship, Rutgers University Press, 2016   We […]