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Fall 2019 COMMA Reading Group, ECO-MARX, Meets Friday, November 8th

November 8, 2019 in /by

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

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

October 25, 2019 in /by

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

October 11, 2019 in /by

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 […]

COMMA Lecture Series: Ben Etherington

October 7, 2019 in /by

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”

Join COMMA Friday, 4/26, to discuss “Geocommunism” & “Marx’s Ecology

April 24, 2019 in /by

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 […]

First COMMA meeting of Spring is (4/12) : Haraway & Agamben

April 24, 2019 in /by

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 […]