Friday, February 5, 2016 at 6:00pm
Starr Foundation Hall, The New School University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York
The Heilbroner Center and the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research present Jason W. Moore in conversation with Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky about his book Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015). The conversation will be moderated by Christian Parenti.
Jason W. Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, where he teaches world history and world-ecology. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016). He writes frequently on the history of capitalism, environmental history, and social theory. Moore is presently completing Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism, an environmental history of the rise of capitalism, and with Raj Patel, Seven Cheap Things: A World-Ecological Manifesto – both with the University of California Press. He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Network (https://worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com). Many of his essays can be found on his website:www.jasonwmoore.com.
Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor at the New School for Social Research and Professor II at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo. She also holds the Chair in «Global Justice» at the Collège d’études mondiales, Paris. Her most recent books are Domination et anticipation : pour un renouveau de la critique, with Luc Boltanski (2014); Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: Nancy Fraser debates her Critics (2014); and Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (2013). Fraser’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and was cited twice by the Brazilian Supreme Court (in decisions upholding marriage equality and affirmative action). The recipient of 5 honorary degrees, she is currently working on a book called, “Capitalism, Crisis, Critique: A Critical Theory for the 21st Century.”
Eli Zaretsky is Professor of History at the New School. His works include: Political Freud (2016), Why America Needs a Left (2012), Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis(2004), and Capitalism, The Family and Personal Life (1974).
Christian Parenti has a PhD in sociology (co-supervised in geography) from the London School of Economics and is a professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. His latest book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011), explores how climate change is already causing violence as it interacts with the legacies of economic neoliberalism and cold-war militarism. The book involved several years of travel and research in conflict zones of the Global South.