Sven Beckert’s talk at The New School on February 5 was recently made available online. Sponsored by the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, the talk covered Professor Beckert’s new book, Empire of Cotton, and was recorded by CSPAN. The video is available below. http://www.c-span.org/video/?324267-1/book-discussion-empire-cotton
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William “Sandy” Darity: Does Racism Make You Sick?
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College 65 West 11th Street Room B500, New York, NY 10003 William “Sandy” Darity will present “Does Racism Make You Sick?” at SCEPA’s Annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of
Sven Beckert: Empire of Cotton
Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall, Room i205, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, will present his new book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Professor Beckert will relate the epic story of the
Orit Halpern’s Book Published: “Beautiful Data”
Duke University Press has recently published New School Professor Orit Halpern’s book, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945.” Part of the Experimental Futures Series, the book, which can be found here, tells “both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second
Julia Ott delivers plenary at Histories of American Capitalism Conference
Our very own Julia Ott delivered the plenary at Cornell University’s recent Histories of American Capitalism Conference. Held on November 6-8, 2014 at the ILR School’s Conference Center in King-Shaw Hall in Ithaca, NY, the inaugural Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism offered panels and papers that connected the diverse historiographic subfields of the
Manufacturing Victory
by Vince Carducci read original post at publicseminar A review essay on A. J. Blaime’s The Arsenal of Democracy September 25th, 2014 | No responses These days people generally think of Detroit — with its vast expanses of abandoned real estate that have given rise to the photographic genre known as ruins porn — as the place where modernity went
The Capitalism of Affects
by Cinzia Arruzza read original post at publicseminar In her groundbreaking book about emotional labor, The Managed Heart, Arlie Russell Hochshild suggests that emotions are not simply stored in us waiting to be expressed: they are also produced and managed. The notion and practice of affects management, both privately and socially, are not specific to capitalism. Hellenistic
The Plight of Greek Higher Education
by Panagiotis Sotiris read original post at publicseminar Greek higher education has been, for the past four years, under a double attack, both by crippling austerity-induced budget cuts and by an attempt to accelerate the imposition of aggressively neoliberal reforms towards an entrepreneurial model of higher education. To understand the importance of these processes, we must
The Politics of the Sharing Economy
by Trebor Scholz read original post at publicseminar If you’ve heard about companies like Airbnb, Zipcar, Skype, Uber, Getaround, and Lyft, and you know a bit about crypto-currencies, you get the picture. The “sharing economy” is just as exhilarating and vexing as the Web 2.0 meme was nine years ago. I am all there with Arun Sundararajan, professor at Stern School of Business
Guy Standing: A Precariat Charter
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 80 Fifth Ave., room 529, New York, NY 10011 Guy Standing’s immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights – political, civil, social and economic – have been denied to the