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Over 60 years after the publication of Louis Althusser and Étienne Baliber, eds, Reading Capital, this conference seeks to revisit its intellectual legacy, investigating its contemporary relevance and the polemics around it that have emerged since its publication.
Programme
10.00–11.15 Opening Keynote
Svenja Bromberg (Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
‘What becomes of ‘critique’ after the epistemological break and the late Marx’s entrance to science? — Marx’s method after and beyond Reading Capital’
11.15–11.30 Break
11.30–13.00 Panel 1: Reading Capital
Cooper Francis (CRMEP Alumnus)
‘The Structure of Exchange Society’
Nicole S. Monaghan (CRMEP MA)
‘On the Concept of the Proletariat’
Billie Cashmore (CRMEP PhD)
‘The Appearance of Value in Capital’
13.00–14.00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:30 Panel 2: Reading Reading Capital
Felicia Jing (New School for Social Research/Johns Hopkins University)
‘Science: from Munich to May’
Raphael Kalid (Concordia University)
‘Althusser’s Critique(s) of Hegel and the Turn to Spinoza’
Michael Giesbrecht (Duquesne University)
‘The Work of Concepts: Pierre Macherey on Marx’s “Process of Exposition” in Capital and Materialist Epistemology’
15.30 Break
15.45–17.15 Panel 3: Readings of Capital
Thomas Waller & Sean O’Brien (UC Dublin & University of Bristol)
‘Marx to the Letter’
Anna Beria (CRMEP)
‘Reading Capital and Reading Reading Capital Through the Concept of Life’
Daniel Fraser (UC Cork)
‘Useful Angels: Marxist Modernity in Bolívar Echeverría and Walter Benjamin’
17.15 Break
17.30 Closing Keynote
Peter Hallward (CRMEP)
‘Must the Working Class Die so the Proletariat Can Live?’
18.45 End
Programme:
9:30 – 10:00 – Arrival
10:00 – 11:15 – 1st Keynote:
Brigitte Hart (Sound artist)
"Technologies of Sensitivity: Voice, Rivers, Remnants and Radio Relics" (performance/presentation)
Title: tba
11:15 – 11:30 – Short Break
11:30 – 12:30 – 1st Panel (Chair: Aleksei Ziniuk)
Christian Frigerio (PhD, University of Milan)
"An Ecology of Fragility: Bruno Latour and Gaia’s Politics"
Tiger Liu (PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Kingston University)
"Whoever Speaks of Fragility Speaks of Insurance as well"
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 – 2nd Panel (Chair: Maxim Spivakov)
Serena Massimo (Postdoc, the Alliance Paris Lumières, Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires et Multilingues (CRPM), Paris Nanterre University)
“Fragility as a Paradigm of Dwelling: Italy’s Inner Areas between Crisis, Discomfort and Portance”
Deniz Yenimazman (PhD, University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe)
Online presentation: “Fragility, Individuation, and the Cosmotechnical Conditions of Research”
14:30-14:45 – Short Break
14:45 -15:45:
Anca-Maria Pop in conversation with JuliaSchauerman (open discussion)
15:45-16:00 – Short Break
16:00-17:15 – 2nd Keynote:
Andrew Goffey (University of Nottingham)
Title: tba
Organising Committee: Aleksei Ziniuk (Philosophy, Kingston University), Maxim Spivakov (Royal
Holloway), JuliaSchauerman (University of Arts London), Anca-Maria Pop (Royal Holloway)
