Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

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 with the first meeting to be held on Zoom on Thursday 4 August, 4:00pm-5:00pm (AEST). To participate, please contact the Past & Present Group sub-convenor: Adam David Morton.

We have just finished our twenty-fourth book in the group, which was Jairus Banaji, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2020) and a commentary on that book will be available soon. As with all the volumes we read, please click on the book titles below for more details:

Ksenia Arapko, on Jairus Banaji, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
Christian Caiconte on Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology
David Avilés Espinoza on Milton Santos, The Nature of Space
Anna Sturman on Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
Arianna Introna on Martha E. Giménez, Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays
Madelaine Moore on Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics;
Austin Hayden on Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition;
Janet Burstall on Moishe Postone, Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory;
Llewellyn Williams-Brooks on Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History;
Riki Scanlan on Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development;
Frank Stilwell on Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production;
Sirma Altun on Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space;
Oliver Mispelhorn on J.K. Gibson-Graham et al., Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities;
Natasha Heenan on Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation;
Mark Kelly on Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition;
Gareth Bryant on Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital;
Joe Collins on Suzanne de Brunhoff, Marx on Money;
Gareth Bryant on Susanne Soederberg, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population;
Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández on Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism;
Martijn Konings on Samuel Knafo, The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard;
Bill Dunn on Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877;
Adam David Morton on Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America;
Claire Parfitt on Costas Lapavitsas, Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All; and
Adam David Morton on Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism.

The set image is Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dulle Griet [1563]

Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography was published in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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