What has the ‘market’ in capitalist society ever done for us? Is the ‘market’ an enabling force in our everyday lives, that unleashes prosperity, entrepreneurialism, unlimited economic growth, and asset inflation by way of offering choice and opportunity? Or, is there a concealed role to the [...]
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Presenter: Professor Alf Nilsen (University of Pretoria) hosted by the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney
Title: ‘Making the Neoliberal Hindu Nation: The Politics of Accumulation and Legitimation in Modi’s India’
Date: 18 August, [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is:
Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory (Haymarket Books, 2009).
Our discussions will commence [...]
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Through the Past & Present Reading Group we have experienced an organic, collective strategy of reading and writing that makes collective intellectual labour a little easier, and much more fun. This has come to the fore most recently in both our collective reading of György Lukács’ History and [...]
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We have travelled with Lukács. Despite the global pandemic conditions of lockdown induced by Covid-19, as a group of scholars forged through collective intellectual labour, we each picked up György Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness and travelled, at least intellectually. Based in [...]
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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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What if a longstanding monument or a building can slice through history (time) and geography (space) to provide past and present insights on the construction of place? Essentially this has been a question explicitly carried throughout one aspect of my ongoing research on spatial political [...]
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This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from Antonio Gramsci’s column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916.
Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.
That’s why I hate these New Years that fall like [...]
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