3/8 | ONLINE | Abolitionist Economics: Moving Beyond Carceral Capitalism

Monday, March 8, 2021 6 PM EST | Online This event will gather scholars and activists to share their knowledge and wisdom about the political economy of the carceral state and campaigns to redirect resources away from prisons and police and toward BIPOC communities. In response to the summer of unrest, a public conversation has

11/11 | Online | Jackie Wang on Writing Carceral Capitalism: The Praxis of Autotheory | Anthropology Lecture

Jackie Wang is a Heilbroner Center Fellow and Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School’s Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (2018), a book on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the U.S. carceral state.  Her forthcoming book manuscript, tentatively titled Vectors of Control, examines how, during

11/9 | ONLINE | Book Launch: Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism

The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country’s fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt’s emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and

2/4 Paul Dourish: Examining AI and Data Platforms through the Lens of Digital Materialities

Tuesday, February 2, 2020 | 5:30 PM Klein Conference Room A510, 66 West 12th Street, New York Digital materialities extend beyond the “brute materiality” of wires, servers, and heat. Software elements have their materialities too, and examining the material configurations of computation and representation shows how their constraints are entwined with computational practice. I will

11/18 | New Materialisms: Sayler/Morris & Arts of Political Ecology

7:30–8:30 PM Kellen Auditorium (N101), Sheila Johnson Design Center, 66 5th Ave RSVP on Facebook Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) will discuss their work in the Museum of Capitalism exhibition and their recently released book, Water Gold Soil, in conversation with Maris Moran Jahn, whose current work explores complex historical and personal relationships between

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12/12 | Challenges to overcoming inequality in Brazil: A conversation with Nelson Barbosa, former Minister of Finance of Brazil

The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, SCEPA, and the Reconvexo Collective invite you to: “Challenges to overcoming inequality in Brazil: A conversation with Nelson Barbosa, former Minister of Finance of Brazil” With Nelson Barbosa and Marcelo Medeiros After many years of decreasing income inequality and poverty levels, Brazil is again facing a worsening