Moishe Postone, the Mode of Production of Capital and Cuban Agriculture

Ingrid Hanon | September 14, 2021

In my new paper entitled ‘Moishe Postone, the Mode of Production of Capital and Cuban Agriculture’ published in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, I dive into the thought of Moishe Postone as conveyed in his remarkable work Time, Labor and Social Domination to question his ambivalent proposal for [...]

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Special Workshop on ‘Negative Ontology’

Riki Scanlan | Anna Sturman | September 9, 2021

During the Past & Present Reading Group's progress through Kohei Saito's volume Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017), we noticed a lurking, recurring reference to 'negative ontology'. This workshop is an [...]

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The Politics of Permaculture

Terry Leahy | September 7, 2021

Permaculture, it might be said, is notorious on the left for its anti-political standpoint. Mollison’s Global Gardener 1991 documentary TV series shows him strolling across a misty paddock, reflecting on his realisation that political protests achieved little. Instead, he suggests, planting [...]

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Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?

Andreas Bieler | Adam David Morton | August 31, 2021

A sweep through key arguments about the abstracting logic of capital will yield a common emphasis, which is a stress on the “indifference” of capital to those it exploits. For sure, this is evident in some of Marx’s own writings. Witness points in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts on [...]

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Studying Political Economy at the University of Sydney

Joe Collins | August 27, 2021

What is political economy? How is political economy different from conventional economics? Why choose to study political economy? What’s it like to be a political economy student? Where can political economy take you in your life and career?

For Open Day 2021, current and former [...]

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Social Sciences Week 2021 events

Gareth Bryant | August 26, 2021

The School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney is once again proud to partner with Social Sciences Week Australia for an exciting week of public talks showcasing the diversity and relevance of social science research in our community and society.  Our political [...]

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Recycling crisis: Economy in the refuse of production

Kirstin Munro | August 24, 2021

Rebecca: Here, everyone recycles. Now recycling is on the same level as spanking. Orla: The environment and environmental causes were big from a young age in school. The whole Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It is now painful to me to not recycle something. Rob: I do not like packaging waste and [...]

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