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Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City

Zachary Levenson | May 17, 2022

I’ve just released a book with Oxford University Press (Global and Comparative Ethnography series) that seeks to provide micro-foundations for a properly dialectical reading of Antonio Gramsci. As it is typically understood, civil society is the private sphere beyond the purview of the state, [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | May 12, 2022

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is  Jairus Banaji, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2020).

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Unravelling the Social Formation in Turkey

Akif Avcı | May 10, 2022

The collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s, and the integration of China into the word trade system have transformed the social relations of production across the world. This transformation in global capitalism has also transformed global value chains, dividing the process [...]

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Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology

Christian Caiconte | May 5, 2022

The Past & Present Reading Group commenced 2022 by reading Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s Intellectual and Manual Labour. In my view, engaging with the book meant a rare and valuable opportunity to stop and reflect on the link between epistemology and Marxist theorising, a theme that had been haunting [...]

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For a Progressive Arts and Cultural Policy Agenda in Australia

Reset Arts and Culture | May 3, 2022

ARTS AND CULTURAL POLICY is in a deep crisis in Australia. And it’s not just because of the pandemic or years of cuts. The fundamental basis of this crisis is generally accepted and is not of the arts and cultural sector’s making. For decades governments have imposed a logic of market [...]

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Teaching Material: Symposium on The Pedagogy of Political Economy in Australian Law Schools

Ntina Tzouvala | April 28, 2022

Australia’s political and economic system is built on exploitation. From the violent foundational occupation of Indigenous lands, to the ongoing denial of Indigenous sovereignty over those lands; from the destructive extraction of natural resources, to the profound devaluation of the care work [...]

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Heller on Needs, or How to Think Radically in a Quantified World

Christian Caiconte | April 26, 2022

This post is written jointly by the Value, Health and Radical Needs Reading Group, a collective of activists, early career researchers and PhD candidates interested in the study of the contemporary social condition (Value), its costs (Health) and its possible transformation (Radical [...]

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Does the Kishida cabinet mean the death of neoliberalism in Japan?

Luciano Carment | April 19, 2022

The ascendency of Prime minister Kishida and his new focus on economic inequality has many wondering whether Japan has reached the final death knell of ‘economic reform’ – a euphemism for the kind of neoliberal policies that may be able to make a dent in the government’s enormous debt. [...]

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