The Peter Thomas Moment
Adam David Morton | October 13, 2026
Political theorist and Professor in History of Political Thought, Brunel University of London whose towering The Gramscian Moment defined Gramsci Studies.
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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text
Adam David Morton | September 25, 2026
This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis and starting in October 2026, our next text which is: Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti and Universal History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).
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From Locality to Totality
Chris Hesketh | Adam David Morton | September 21, 2026
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist approaches and why a Marxist notion of open concrete totality should not be marginalised.
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Geoengineering, climate overshoot and the politics of climate repair
Adam David Morton | July 28, 2026
When: 1 September, 12:00-1:30 pm
Where: Room 441, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney
Speaker: Dr Natasha Heenan
Following decades of climate denial, obstruction and delay, we find ourselves in an “overshoot conjuncture” where the absence of a [...]
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2026 Wheelwright Lecture | Geoff Mann | Climates of Uncertainty
Adam David Morton | July 22, 2026
What can the ways we wrestle with uncertain futures—like climate models, prediction markets, high-tech promises, or reactionary revanchism—tell us about a world without a “normal”?
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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text
Adam David Morton | May 11, 2026
Details on the "when" and the "where" for the commencement of our collective reading of Karl Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (Part I), the so-called fourth volume of Capital.
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Invernadero para el Desarrollo: Reordenando la Economía Mixta y el Capitalismo de Estado
David Avilés Espinoza | Adam David Morton | April 7, 2026
¿Qué tienen de malo los enfoques de "economía mixta" y "capitalismo de Estado" para comprender la era del desarrollo estabilizador en América Latina?
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E. H. Carr and F. A. Hayek: the road to international order
Adam David Morton | February 16, 2026
What does Hayek have to say that may interest approaches to the political economy of state formation and thinking on ‘the international’ today?
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