Tariq Ali & Slavoj Žižek: The Crisis of Europe /// Subversive festival, Zagreb, 13/05/2012
The opening of the 5th Subversive festival, and the first round table with Slavoj Žižek and Tariq Ali talking about the crisis in Europe, moderated by Srećko Horvat. A very interesting talk, analysing the economic crisis from economic, political, social … |
Manson and Douzinas discuss the crisis and the new social movements
Paul Mason author of Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions and a panel including: Prof Deborah Mabbett (Birkbeck), and Prof Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck) discuss the global Occupy movements, coalition policy on the City and financial regulation and … |
John Holloway – Cracks in Capitalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1xU-3ksOM Crack Capitalism, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of ‘cracks’ in the capitalist system. These cracks are ordinary moments or spaces of rebellion in which we assert a different type … |
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
http://www.thepressproject.gr/external.php?id=12257
Our world is changing dramatically. Social upheaval has followed worldwide economic crisis and the gulf between the haves and the have-nots is widening. In 2011, this profound disconnect found expression in events that we were told had been consigned … |
POPULAR UPHEAVALS, THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM, AND THE MARXIST ANALYSIS OF THE VALUE-FORM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2FrGHX5OA0 Presentation abstract: The “Arab Spring,” the occupation of the statehouse in Madison Wisconsin, the encampments in Spain, the occupation and violent struggle in Syntagma square in Athens, are all responses to the … |
The Making and Unmaking of the Precariat (Loïc Wacquant)
2 videos
Loïc Wacquant, University of California Berkeley In the second part of the lecture, Loïc Wacquant sketches his analysis about the formation of the neoliberal state on the whiteboard.
http://www.rosalux.de/class-in-crisis/class-in-crisis-freitag/the-making-and-unmaking-of-the-precariat.html… |