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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 […]

First COMMA meeting of Winter 2019 quarter is Friday, Jan 18th

January 14, 2019 in /by

The first COMMA meting of the Winter quarter is this FRIDAY, Jan 18th, at 3pm in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).In this ongoing Dialectic Plus series we will discuss:1) “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form” by Sergei Eisenstein linked here. 2) Ch. 1 “Separation Perfected” from Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle linked here. 3) “The Culture Industry” by Adorno & Horkheimer linked here.Come Friday, 3pm for food and […]

Fifth COMMA meeting of the Fall quarter, 11/30

November 28, 2018 in /by

At the fifth COMMA meeting of the Fall 2018 quarter, we will discuss: Susan Buck–Morss, “Hegel and Haiti” found here (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/gurminderkbhambra/research/iasproject/2/buck_morss_hegel_haiti.pdf)   C.L.R. James, Chapter 1, “The Property” from The Black Jacobins found here (http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf) Please join us Friday, November 30th 3pm South Hall 2623, The Sankey Room   See you Friday for the fifth discussion in The Dialectic Plus series – all are welcome,   […]