You are invited to the Fourth Fall COMMA meeting later today: Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach” (www.marxists.org/theses) Cyril Smith, “Science and Humanity: Hegel, Marx, and Dialectic” (www.marxists.org/smith) Yannis Varoufakis, “Marx Predicted Our Present Crisis and Points the Way Out” (The Guardian, 2018) Please join us Friday, November 16th 3:00-5:00pm South Hall 2623, The Sankey Room
Third COMMA meeting of the quarter: FRIDAY, NOV. 2nd 3pm South Hall 2623 (Sankey Room) We will be discussing the following pieces in our ongoing discussion series, The Dialectic Plus: Hegel’s “Lordship & Bondage” http://planetarities.web.unc.edu/files/2015/01/hegel-lordship-and-bondage.pdf Alexandre Kojève’s “In Place of an Introduction” https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/5/25851/files/2016/02/KOJEVE-introduction-to-the-reading-of-hegel-zg6tm7.pdf Come for good food & discussion, all are welcome!
You are invited to the second COMMA meting of the Fall quarter: FRIDAY Oct. 19th Sankey Room (South Hall 2623) 3pm In The Dialectic Plus series, our second discussion is on the first 70 pages of Frederic Jameson’s “Valences of the Dialectic.” The most important sections to note are the introductory pages along with pages 49 […]
COMMA 2018-2019 OPENING MEETING THE DIALECTIC PLUS FRIDAY OCTOBER 5th 1:00-2:00 South Hall 2635 You are invited to the opening meeting of COMMA, the Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics. The topic for 2018-2019, in the track of last year’s very popular “Marxism in Reverse” will be “The Dialectic Plus.” We will read works by […]
Please join us for COMMA’s next event of the 2016-17 series, Modernist Energies, with a screening of Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes (2009) on Friday, May 5th at 1:00 in South Hall 2714. Lourdes is a sober film shot through with miracles, hope, and events inexplicable to the modern sensibility. Sylvie Testud stars as Christine, a reluctant pilgrim […]
On Friday, April 21st we will be meeting in South Hall 2623 to discuss the Fredric Jameson’s “An American Utopia.” “Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge […]
Continuing our series on “Modernist Energies,” COMMA is pleased to announce the first event in our Spring calendar. Dr. Sarah Kennedy (Cambridge) we deliver a talk from her forthcoming book, T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2017) on Monday, April 10th at 3:00 in South Hall 2623 (Sankey). “T.S. Eliot and the […]
Please join us for COMMA‘s next event in our “Modernist Energies” program with a screening and discussion of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 dystopian comedy, The Lobster, on Friday, March 17th at 1:00 in South Hall 2635. Yorgos Lanthimos’s dystopian comedy centers on the frantic search for love and meaning in a strictly hierarchized world in which failure to find companionship […]
On Friday, February 17th we will be meeting in South Hall 2623 to discuss the Diana Fuss’s Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy (2013). “In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied […]
Please join us for COMMA’s next event of the 2016-17 series, “Modernist Energies.” We will be screening Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze (2007) on Friday, Jan. 27th at 1:00 in South Hall 2635. Friday, January 27th at 1:00 in South Hall 2635Yung Chang’s first full length film documents the hope and despair attending the construction of […]