Join Fred Block as he discusses his new book, Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion. Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics
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Material Political Economies
A ‘material political economy’ is an ordering of the material world that is economically consequential and to which there are actual or potential alternatives. After motivating this idea by drawing on the work of the medieval historian Marc Bloch, Professor Donald MacKenzie will explore the contours of two important current material political economies: ultrafast high-frequency trading,
3/7 | AUDIO | Michael Dawson and Nancy Fraser discuss race, capitalism, and the neoliberal racial order
On Heilbroner Center and colleagues present a conversation between Michael Dawson (The University of Chicago) and Nancy Fraser (The New School), in which they discuss race and capitalism. They will debate Dawson’s “Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order” and Fraser’s “Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism.” Fraser perceives capitalism as an institutionalized social order,
Conference: The Future of the Left in the Americas
Join Dissent magazine and the New School for two days of discussion with scholars, activists, and journalists from across the Americas about the challenges and opportunities for left politics in the region today. Across Latin America, the “pink tide,” which saw a range of left governments come to power over the last two decades, is in retreat.
Courage Before the Break
Courage Before the Break Agnes Heller’s Theory of “Radical Needs” Revisited by Max L. Feldman This article was first published on Public Seminar. See the original posting here. “Good persons exist, how are they possible?” With this question, inimitable Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller outlines her philosophical territory. As readers of critical theory, it is hard to
4/25 | Mia White: Rebellion and a Spatial Theory of Love
Please join our colleagues Mia C. White and the Tishman Environment and Design Center for their upcoming Lunch and Learn, “Rebellion and a Spatial Theory of Love.” The event will take place on Wednesday, April 25th, 2018, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, in Room 1605, 79 5th Avenue. Mia Charlene White is Assistant Professor of
Collective Imaginations of Capitalism: A Graduate Student Symposium
Please join us for The Heilbroner Center’s annual graduate symposium, coming up on April 13th, 2018, in the Wolff Conference Room, 6 E. 16th Street. This year’s theme is Collective Imaginations of Capitalism. The conference is organized and presented by the Heilbroner Center’s graduate fellows. The schedule is as follows: 11:00 AM: Breakfast 11:30 AM:
Spring 2018 Sociology Lecture Series
Please join our colleagues at NSSR’s Sociology department for their upcoming Spring 2018 Lecture series! All lectures will be held in the Wolff Conference Room, 1103, 6 East 16th Street. See you there!
Race and Capitalism: Michael Dawson and Nancy Fraser in Conversation, March 7th, 2018
Please join the Heilbroner Center and our colleagues at the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Culture, and Politics, for a conversation on “Race and Capitalism” between Nancy Fraser (The New School) and Michael Dawson (The University of Chicago). The debate will center around two different conversations, “Black Politics and the Neoliberal
Slam Precarious Work — February 14th, 2018
Wed, Feb 14, 2018, 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Nothing to do on Valentine’s Day? How about joining us for an unconventional celebration of the publication of Precarious Work (edited by Alyson Cole and Faculty Fellow Victoria Hattam), WSQ (Vol. 45, Nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 2017)? Inspired by Kathi Weeks’s article in the issue, “Down With Love,” we