Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | September 23, 2021

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Milton Santos, The Nature of Space, trans. Brenda Baletti (Duke University Press, 2021).

Our discussions will commence with the first meeting to [...]

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Franklin Obeng-Odoom (PhD, Sydney) wins Joan Robinson Prize

Frank Stilwell | September 21, 2021

It has just been announced that the recipient of this year’s prestigious international award, the Joan Robinson Prize, is Franklin Obeng-Odoom who completed his PhD in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. The prize is awarded annually by the European Association for Evolutionary [...]

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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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