{"id":2047,"date":"2018-10-02T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2018-10-28T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:59:42","slug":"comma-2018-2019-opening-meeting-10-5-the-dialectic-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"COMMA 2018-2019 Opening Meeting, 10\/5, THE DIALECTIC PLUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\"><em>COMMA 2018-2019 OPENING MEETING<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>THE DIALECTIC PLUS<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>FRIDAY OCTOBER 5th\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>1:00-2:00<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>South Hall 2635<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2049\" src=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COMMA-10.5.18-Dialectic-Plus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COMMA-10.5.18-Dialectic-Plus-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COMMA-10.5.18-Dialectic-Plus-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/COMMA-10.5.18-Dialectic-Plus-1-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><em>You are invited to the opening meeting of COMMA, the Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics.\u00a0<\/em>The topic for 2018-2019, in the track of last year&#8217;s very popular &#8220;Marxism in Reverse&#8221; will be <strong>&#8220;The Dialectic Plus.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The questions might include: who has turned to the dialectic since Marx, and how? Whiter dialectical thinking in the era of post- or &#8220;weak&#8221; theory? How can the dialectic be harnessed in resistance? Can the dialectic be useful to Marxist feminism or queer resistance?<\/div>\n<div>Suggestions for our readings welcome.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Come Friday, 1pm for food and good discussion.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Maurizia Boscagli, Director<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Christine Weidner, RA<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMA 2018-2019 OPENING MEETING THE DIALECTIC PLUS FRIDAY OCTOBER 5th\u00a0 1:00-2:00 South Hall 2635 You are invited to the opening meeting of COMMA, the Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics.\u00a0The topic for 2018-2019, in the track of last year&#8217;s very popular &#8220;Marxism in Reverse&#8221; will be &#8220;The Dialectic Plus.&#8221; We will read works by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[77,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}