Toward collective intellectual labour; or, How seven critical scholars got along with each other and co-authored a journal article

Sirma Altun | Christian Caiconte | Madelaine Moore | Adam David Morton | Matthew Ryan | Riki Scanlan | Austin Smidt | June 7, 2022

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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Travelling with Lukács

Sirma Altun | Christian Caiconte | Madelaine Moore | Adam David Morton | Matthew Ryan | Riki Scanlan | Austin Smidt | May 31, 2022

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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Political Economy in 60 Seconds

Sirma Altun | March 13, 2019

To higher-degree research students within the School of Social and Political Sciences,

We are soon commencing a project launching a series of podcasts on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) and would like to have you as participants of this exciting project!

The aim of [...]

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Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

Sirma Altun | December 6, 2018

What is the unitary theory of space that is awaiting to be discovered in The Production of Space?

“Intellectual labour, like material labour, is subject to endless division”, Lefebvre says. “The aim is to discover or construct theoretical unity between ‘fields’ which are apprehended [...]

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