Capitalism: Concept & Idea

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University London

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<P>As a counterpoint to the retreat of the concept of communism from history to 'idea', this conference will mark the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Karl Marx's <EM>Capital: A Critique of Political Economy </EM>by asking the question of the meanings of 'capital' and 'capitalism' today as at once (explanatory structural-historical) concepts and (political) ideas. <BR><BR>In particular: What is the current standing of the different philosophical interpretations of Marx's <EM>Capital</EM>? What light do they thrown on capitalism today? How have historical developments since Marx's day changed the concept of capitalism? Has 'neo-liberal' capitalism rendered the concept of crisis redundant, for example? Is capitalism governable? Or is capital itself now the main form of governmentality? What is the precise character of <EM>Capital</EM> as a text - in terms of theory and in terms of literature? What does it mean to be 'against capitalism' today?</P>
<H2>Speakers</H2>
<P>Éric Alliez (CRMEP, Kingston University/University of Paris 8) <BR>Cinzia Arruzza (New School for Social Research, NY)<BR>Leigh Claire La Berge (CUNY) <BR>Tithi Bhattachary (Purdue University)<BR>Werner Bonefeld (University of York)<BR>Boris Buden (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)<BR>Michael Heinrich (Prokla, Berlin) <BR>Anselm Jappe (Academy of Fine Arts, Sassari) <BR>John Kraniasukas (Birkbeck, University of London) <BR>Elena Louisa Lange (University of Zurich) <BR>Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris)<BR>Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University, NY)<BR>Antonio Negri (Paris) <BR>Peter Osborne (CRMEP, Kingston University)<BR>Judith Revel (University of Paris 10) <BR>Gayatri C. Spivak (Columbia University, NY) <BR>Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex)</P>
<H2>Sessions</H2>
<P>Capital and Capitalism 1: Value-form and Politics<BR>Capital and Capitalism 2: <EM>Capital</EM>, Science and Ecology<BR>Capital, Feminism and Social Reproduction<BR>Capitalism and Freedom<BR>Subjectivation and War (Marx and Foucault)<BR>Poetics of <EM>Capital</EM>/Capital<BR>Capital's Destinerrance: Event and Task<BR>Marxian Ontology, Today</P>
<H2>Please note changing venues:</H2>
<P>The Friday event will be held at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL<BR>The Saturday event will be held at the Old Lecture Theatre, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE</P>
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<P>For further information about this event:</P>
<P><STRONG>Contact:</STRONG> Eric-John Russell<BR><STRONG>Email:</STRONG> <A HREF="mailto:k1543754@kingston.ac.uk" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">k1543754@kingston.ac.uk</A></P>
<H2><EM><STRONG>Some one-day-only tickets will become available in mid-September, if there are still places remaining.</STRONG></EM></H2>
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