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Travels with 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...
Historical Materialism 2015, Sydney, Call for Papers
The call for papers for Historical Materialism Australasia, to be held in Sydney on 17 & 18 July 2015, has just been released. Abstracts are due by 15 May. I'm particularly excited as Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving will both be speaking, as part of a series of...
Neoliberalism and the Accord: 3CR podcast
The 14th Biennial National Labour History Conference, 'Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century’ was held at Queen's College, University of Melbourne, 11-13 February 2015. My paper on 'The Accord after Thirty Years: Corporatism in the Neoliberal...
Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism
We live in anti-political times. After a twentieth century in which Western societies experienced the rise and entrenchment of mass representative institutions, where hundreds of millions of people accepted that politics was the main way to have their social interests...
Call for papers: Gramsci workshop for research students
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....
Anti-politics, movements & the practical critique of the state
In November I co-organised (with Tad Tietze) a panel discussion on ‘Anti-politics, social movements & the practical critique of the state’ at the London Historical Materialism Journal conference. It featured three papers (abstracts below) and you can hear the...
‘Abolishing the present state of things’
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...
Reply to Callinicos on anti-politics & social struggle
Tad Tietze and I originally wrote “Anti-politics: Elephant in the room” on Left Flank just over a year ago, and we were trying to summarise the changes in our thinking over the causes and consequences of the “crisis of representation” that the blog had been focused on...