Fall 2019 COMMA Reading Group, ECO-MARX, Meets Friday, October 25th

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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/

Fall 2019 COMMA Reading Group, ECO-MARX, Meets Friday, October 11

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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/

COMMA Lecture Series: Ben Etherington

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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”