2018 – COMMA

Fifth COMMA meeting of the Fall quarter, 11/30

November 28, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Enda Duffy

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,

Maurizia Boscagli, Director

Christine Weidner, RA

Fourth COMMA meeting of the quarter, 11/16

November 20, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Enda Duffy

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

COMMA meeting Fri. Nov 2nd, 3pm

October 28, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Enda Duffy

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!

Second COMMA meeting of Fall Quarter, Fri., Oct. 19, 3pm

October 14, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Enda Duffy

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 to 66.

Find the link to the reading below and attached to this email –

http://xenopraxis.net/readings/jameson_valences.pdf

Come Friday, 3pm for food and good discussion – all are welcome!

Maurizia Boscagli, Director

Christine Weidner, RA

COMMA 2018-2019 Opening Meeting, 10/5, THE DIALECTIC PLUS

October 2, 2018/in Programming /by Enda Duffy

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 Hegel, Marx, Engles. Luxembourg, Adorno and Horkheimer, Benjamin, Lukacs, as well as recent interventions by Teresa Ebert, Antonio Negri, Moises Postone, Vivek Chebber, and Paolo Virno.

The questions might include: who has turned to the dialectic since Marx, and how? Whiter dialectical thinking in the era of post- or “weak” theory? How can the dialectic be harnessed in resistance? Can the dialectic be useful to Marxist feminism or queer resistance?

Suggestions for our readings welcome.

Come Friday, 1pm for food and good discussion.

Maurizia Boscagli, Director

Christine Weidner, RA