Friday, December 6th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).
Please join our discussion of the following readings:
Dimitris Papadopolous, “Insurgent Posthumanism”
Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis, “Commons Against and Beyond Capitalism”
You are all invited to attend the third meeting of the COMMA Reading Group:
Friday, November 8th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).
Please join our discussion of the following readings:
From Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature:
“Introduction”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch01.htm
“Dialectics”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch02.htm
“Basic Forms of Motion”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch03.htm
“The Measure of Motion–Work”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch04.htm
“The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1876/part-played-labour/index.htm
Friday, October 25th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623):
Please join our discussion of the following readings:
John W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life, “Introduction” (12-41): http://geopolitica.iiec.unam.mx/sites/default/files/2019-08/Moore-CapitalismInTheWebOfLife.pdf
John W. Moore (interview with Kamil Ahsan), “Capitalism in the Web of Life”: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2015/09/28/capitalism-in-the-web-of-life-an-interview-with-jason-moore/
Friday, October 11th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623)
Please join our discussion of the following readings:
John Bellamy Foster, “Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition”: https://greattransition.org/publication/marxism-and-ecology
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, “Marx’s Ecology and the Left”: https://monthlyreview.org/2016/06/01/marxs-ecology-and-the-left
John Bellamy Foster, “Marx’s Ecology and the Ecological Revolution,” an interview with Aleix Bombila (optional): https://mronline.org/2010/02/24/marxs-ecology-and-the-ecological-revolution/
The first COMMA event of the 2019-2020 school year is Friday, October 7th, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in South Hall 2635 (“the fishbowl”).
Ben Etherington, Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sidney University, will give a talk, “WORLD LITERATURE AS A SPECULATIVE TOTALITY: Veselovsky, Auerbach, Said, and the Critical Humanist Tradition”
Thank you to all who joined us on Friday, May 24th to celebrate another great year of COMMA programming!
We honored our talented graduating seniors with many warm wishes and we extended a special, heartfelt congratulations to those who graduated with the undergraduate COMMA major specialization! This year was also the first full year of programming for the student-run undergraduate COMMA reading group that started last Spring when a few passionate undergraduates took the initiative to begin their own COMMA. This group is entirely student run & we are grateful and proud of all the hard work students put into programming and planning!
A thank you to our Center Director, Maurizia Boscagli, & the 2018-19 Center RA, Christine Weidner
~Stay tuned for more COMMA starting in the Fall when we welcome the incoming COMMA RA, William Collins~
Thank you to all those who joined us on Friday, May 24th, to celebrate a great year of COMMA programming during this academic year! With warm wishes and many congratulations we were able to honor the UCSB seniors graduating with the COMMA major specialization. Alongside their peers, this talented group of undergraduates helped develop an undergraduate COMMA reading group programmed entirely by the undergraduates themselves. Bravo! We thank them, as well as Center Director Maurizia Boscagli & Center RA Christine Weidner, for their hard work as this group continues to grow.
Stay tuned for the next year of COMMA programming with COMMA’s new RA, William Collins!
Join COMMA this Friday, April 26th, at 3pm in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623) in our ongoing series The Dialectic Plus as we discuss the two texts below:
1) Arun Saldanha, “Geocommunism: Is There Life after Man?” (from Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman, Claire Colebrook et al, eds.)
2) Brett Clark & John Bellamy Foster’s, “Marx’s Ecology in the 21st Century”
Join us Friday, 3pm in the Sankey Room for good snacks and discussion!
Join COMMA in the Sankey Room (SH 2623) at 3pm on Friday, April 12th to discuss the following readings:
We will discuss two pieces from Biopolitics: A Reader :
1) Giorgio Agamben, “The Politicization of Life” (Chapter 6)
2) Donna Haraway, “The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse” (Chapter 14)
*click here for the web hyperlink: Biopolitics: A Reader (eds. Campbell & Sitze)