by Elizabeth Humphrys | Aug 4, 2018 | Anti-politics, Gramsci
I was most pleased to see our special issue of Thesis Eleven — On ‘heroic fury’ and Antonio Gramsci — published this week. Edited by Ihab Shalbak and myself, it has articles by Peter Thomas, Phil Roberts, Andreas Bieler, Adam Morton, as well as ourselves....
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 13, 2017 | Anti-politics, Gramsci
The following is the text of a presentation I gave this week, as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series ‘History Now’. This week’s topic was ‘The History of Class Now’. *** If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer ‘leading’...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 4, 2017 | Anti-politics, Australian History, Events, Gramsci
Next week I am speaking at the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar, as part of their History Now series. The topic is ‘The History of Class Now’. Speaking chronologically are Hannah Forsyth (ACU), Terry Irving (University of...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 19, 2015 | Gramsci
This post was first published at Progress in Political Economy, the blog of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Click here for the audio of my talk on Soundcloud. *** Some paths to an event seem particularly labyrinthine, which only adds...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jan 28, 2015 | Events, Gramsci
I am currently helping to organise a graduate workshop at the University of Sydney, exploring the work of Antonio Gramsci. All research students, whether based in Australia or overseas, are welcome to submit an abstract for a paper. The call for papers follows below....
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Dec 8, 2014 | Anti-politics, Gramsci
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now...