Negritude, Decolonization and the Future of the World

Antonio Negri

NEGRITUDE, DECOLONIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD

Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/humanRights/events/2015/Wilder.aspx

Public Lecture Presented by the  Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 6pm -7.30pm

Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Speaker: Dr Gary Wilder

Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu

Dr Wilder reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets, Césaire and Senghor struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. Wilder invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory, to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life, and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography.

Gary Wilder is Director of the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change, and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His latest book is Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015)

Ayça Çubukçu (chair) is Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Sociology at LSE. She convenes the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group

This event is co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, the Department of Sociology, and the Centre for International Studies at LSE (London School of Economics).

This event is open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served.

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Re-engineering the Future?

Alien Life

RE-ENGINEERING THE FUTURE?

Tate Britain, London

Friday 10 April 2015, 19.30 – 20.30

FREE

All discussions will be held in the Clore Auditorium at Tate Britain 19.30–20.30.

Attendance is free but tickets will be given out on a first-come-first-served basis from 18.00 in the Clore Foyer

Part of the series Speculative Tate

This panel brings together three leading political thinkers, Nina Power, Nick Srnicek (via Skype), Alex Williams and chaired by James Trafford, to consider the ways in which we might think and construct a “future”.

This is surely a task that is an absolute necessity, given, for example, the breakdown of the planetary climate system; increasing wealth disparity, rentier economics; precarity and automation of labour; state bailouts. But at the same time, the future itself seems almost impossible, with the ultimate channeling of thought and action under the axiom of Capitalist Realism: there is no alternative.

The issue raises further concerns regarding “whose” future is under construction? We may rightly ask, for example, if anything can be retrieved from the narrative of “progress” given its alliance with Modernism and Neo-liberalism. On the other hand, the relinquishment of “progress” by the left has arguably left us in a political bind, wherein we have little way of constructing an alternative form of modernisation in a context where increasingly the transformation and automation of labour requires us to think precisely this.

The panel will discuss: Post-work society, automation and Universal Basic Income; How or if it is possible to “think” the future in a democratic way; Whether or not it is possible to restructure the left along the lines of a radical form of modernisation.

Biographies

Nina Power is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and Tutor in Critical Writing in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art. She has written widely on European philosophy and politics.

Nick Srnicek is a political theorist. He is the author of Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics and the forthcoming Inventing the Future: Folk Politics and the Struggle for Postcapitalism (Verso 2015) (both with Alex Williams), and Postcapitalist Technologies (Polity 2016).

Alex Williams is a political theorist, working on the relationship between social complexity and political hegemony. With Nick Srnicek he is the author of the Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics and the forthcoming Inventing the Future (Verso 2015).

See: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/talks-and-lectures/re-engineering-future

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Policy Futures in Education – Volume 10 Number 2 (2012)

Education Crisis

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION – VOLUME 10 NUMBER 2 (2012)

Now available at:
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/10/issue10_2.asp

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 10 Number 2 2012  ISSN 1478-2103

SPECIAL ISSUE
Neoliberal Globalisation and Educational Policy
Editor: MICHAEL A. PETERS

Michael A. Peters. Introduction. Neoliberalism, Education and the Crisis of Western Capitalism

Laura Elizabeth Pinto. Democratic Shortfalls in Privatized Curriculum Policy Production: silencing the ‘potted plants’ and politicizing ‘quick fixes’

Nick Zepke. What of the Future for Academic Freedom in Higher Education in Aotearoa NewZealand?

Marcia McKenzie. Education for Y’all: global neoliberalism and the case for a politics of scale in sustainability education policy

Stephen Clough & Carl A. Bagley. UK Higher Education Institutions and the Third Stream Agenda

Rino Wiseman Adhikary. The World Bank’s Shift away from Neoliberal Ideology: real or rhetoric?

Rodrigo G. Britez. Traveling Policies: mobility, transformation and continuities in higher education public policy

Cristian Cabalin. Neoliberal Education and Student Movements in Chile: inequalities and malaise

CONVERSATION
David Wilson, Bill Cope & Michael A. Peters. The Parable of the Physicist and the Postmodernists

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY IN BRIEF
Alan Cottey. Logarithmic Time: its role in current culture and education

GENERAL ARTICLE
Andy Valeri. WikiLeaks and the Authority of Knowledge

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Rikowski, Ruth (2003) Value – the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1 No.1, pp.160-178:http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

Rikowski, Glenn (2004) Marx and the Education of the Future, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.2 Nos. 3 & 4, pp.565-577, online at:http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=2&issue=3&year=2004&article=10_Rikowski_PFEO_2_3-4_web&id=195.93.21.71

Rikowski, Ruth (2006) A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.4 No.4: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=4&issue=4&year=2006&article=7_Rikowski_PFIE_4_4_web&id=205.188.117.66

Rikowski, Ruth (2008) Review Essay: ‘On Marx: An introduction to the revolutionary intellect of Karl Marx’, by Paula Allman, Policy Futures in Education,Vol.6 No.5, pp.653-661: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=pfie&vol=6&issue=5&year=2008&article=11_Rikowski_PFIE_6_5_web

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No Future

No Future

NO FUTURE

NO FUTURE: AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Durham University, UK
25-27 March 2011

First Call for Papers

From biblical apocalypse to the nihilism of the late nineteenth century, from the Enlightenment invention of progress to the counter-cultures of the late twentieth century, from technological utopianism to contemporary anticipations of environmental catastrophe, western civilization has been consistently transfixed by the figurative potential of the future. ‘No Future’ seeks to connect and inter-animate these disparate ways of thinking about the future, while at the same time questioning the basis of the various discourses of futurity they have produced, and which have proliferated in recent years. ‘No Future’ thus also implicitly questions what it is – other than the preoccupations of the present – that is invoked when we talk about the future.

The conference aims to stage a series of inter-disciplinary encounters around these different senses of ‘No Future’, and to examine the value and implications of adopting a ‘futurist’ position across and between a range of disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Contributions may take retrospective form, re-assessing significant moments in past discourses of futurity such as apocalypticism, Enlightenment ideas of progress, the persistence of the apparent dialectical unity of utopia/dystopia, the constructions of Modernism and the Historical Avantgarde, the symbolic projections of psychoanalytic theory. Others might examine the disciplinary shifts that have displaced or dispersed avantgardism in postmodernity, opening out onto such themes as transhumanism, post-postmodern reinflections of the dialectic, and various forms of contemporary utopianism. All of these are related to the central question of the ideological and aesthetic implications of any appeal to futurity, at the heart of which lies the tension between the future as rhetorical evasion and the future as the most persistent and deeply embedded of all heuristic devices.

Keynote speakers:
Mikhail Epstein (Emory)
Jean-Michel Rabaté (Pennsylvania)
Patricia Waugh (Durham)

Plenary panels:

Apocalyptic Futures
Lenin and Futurity
Bloch and Utopian Futures

Proposals for individual papers or integrated panels that engage with any aspect of the central theme are invited. Papers should be of 20 minutes duration to allow adequate time for discussion, and proposals for integrated panels should comprise a chair and three speakers.

Proposals that specifically engage with any of the following themes are particularly welcome:

Ontologies of the Future
Forms of Utopia
Dystopian Futures
Aesthetics and Technology
Eco-criticism and Ecotopia
Gendered Futures
Transhumanism
Futurism(s)
Futures of Freud
Dialectics of the Future
The Future of Theory

Proposals should be no longer than 250 words and should be submitted as an attachment to: alastair.renfrew@durham.ac.uk by Friday 2nd July 2010.

Further information will be available in due course at the conference web-site: http://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/research/nofuture

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Tony Benn – A Letter to my Grandchildren

Tony Benn

TONY BENN – A LETTER TO MY GRANDCHILDREN

Tony Benn

Tuesday 15 December 2009

Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BX
7pm
£6

Tickets

Box Office: 0844 357 2625

The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. In his new book, A Letter to my Grandchildren: Lessons for the future, he talks about how each generation has to fight the same battles as their ancestors had to fight, again and again, for there is no final victory and no final defeat. ‘Two flames have burned from the beginning of time – the flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope. If this book serves its purpose it will fan both flames.’

Tony’s book will be on sale and he will be signing copies.

Newham Bookshop in partnership with Stratford Circus

Link: http://www.stratford-circus.com/events/literature/tonybenn.htm

The Future of Capitalism: Alex Callinicos and Martin Wolf

Capitalist Crisis

THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM: ALEX CALLINICOS AND MARTIN WOLF DEBATE

 

The Future of Capitalism: Alex Callinicos & Martin Wolf Debate

Around 300 people attended the debate between Alex Callinicos & Martin Wolf on Monday 2nd November.

The Great Hall was absolutely full, and many more watched via a video to an overflow lecture room.

If you missed out, you can watch the event:

Alex Callinicos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6CZAQvAMaY

Martin Wolf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXKqqgwAIeI

Questions & Answers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYpHLnlUrFg

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