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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-06-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210517T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210517T143000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210510T143000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210503T143000
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210425T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210425T130000
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SUMMARY:Health Care\, Technology\, and Socialized Medicine with Pratyush and Pritha Chandra
DESCRIPTION:from Socialist Register 2021—Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nUnlike earlier experiences\, with Covid-19 we see an emergence of the whole world as a stage where the drama unfolds. This is\, of course\, due to the technological shrinkage of time and space in our age – now\, microbes take flight. But the spectacular similitude of crises and responses at this level demonstrates how social structures\, ideologies\, and social values have converged globally. The rhetoric of war and the institution of quarantine\, where everyone is a warrior\, a victim\, and a suspect at the same time\, have mobilized individuals and communities to act out rituals that affirm bellum omnium contra omnes (the war of all against all)\, the foundation of capitalism. \nWhile the immediate task of controlling the current pandemic determines the actions of states\, medical institutions\, and research laboratories\, several critical microbiologists\, virologists\, and political economists have done well to ask the structural question about the metabolic and ecological rifts that have unleashed new dangers for humanity. But for the ecological crisis to become a ground to rethink structural transformation\, it is not enough to locate it in the wreckage that capitalism accumulates. It must be understood as constitutive to capitalist social relations\, having an intimate connection to the robbery of labor. It is in this sense that the particularization of these crises in the form of pathogens and impending diseases becomes crucial. This helps us to understand the ecological rift as central to everyday life and struggle in capitalism\, and also to imagine a transformational class politics. \nTo understand the reality behind and beyond today’s spectacular rituals of salutations for public hospital workers and those in so-called essential services as ‘warriors’\, we need to pay heed to what Norman Bethune meant when he exhorted his medical colleagues to ‘organize ourselves so that we can no longer be exploited as we are being exploited by our politicians’. It was his recognition of the mutual embeddedness of economics and pathology that defined Bethune’s unconventional life and work as a surgeon\, and transformed him into a revolutionary. The practice of socialized medicine\, as he conceptualized it\, was not simply a demand on the state and doctors\, but was\, rather\, a dimension of transforming liberatory politics translated in the field of health care. \nPratyush Chandra is a political activist and writer based in New Delhi. Pritha Chandra is Professor of Linguistics\, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, New Delhi. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay so if you would like to attend this or any other class or lecture at The MEP\, simply write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to obtain entrance to whatever you want to participate in.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/health-care-technology-and-socialized-medicine-with-pratyush-and-pritha-chandra/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Globalization,Healthcare,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Pandemics,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Friedrich Engels with Terrell Carver and Kaan Kangal
DESCRIPTION:MARX\, ENGELS\, MARXISMS SERIES\nFriedrich Engels at 200\n \nEngels Before Marx\nTerrell Carver\nThis book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination\, Observation\, and Vocation. Throughout\, the reader sees the world from Engels’s perspective\, not knowing how his story will turn out. This approach reveals the multifaceted and ambitious character of young Friedrich’s achievements from age sixteen till just turning twenty-five. At the time that he accepted Marx’s invitation to co-author a short political satire\, Engels was far better known and much more accomplished. He had published many more articles on far more subjects\, in both German and English\, than Marx had managed. Moreover\, he had written a critique of political economy from a perspective unique in the German context\, and published his own pioneering and substantial study of working class conditions in an industrializing economy. Offering an innovative approach to a largely neglected period of Engels’s life before meeting Marx\, Carver upends standard narratives in existing biographical studies of Engels to reveal him as an important figure not just in relation to his more famous collaborator\, but a key voice in the liberal-democratic\, constitutional and nation-building revolutionism of the 1830s and 1840s. \nEngels and the Dialectics of Nature\nKaan Kangal\nReading different or controversial intentions into Marx and Engels’ works has been a common but somewhat unquestioned practice in the history of Marxist scholarship. Engels’ Dialectics of Nature\, a torso for some and a great book for others\, is a case in point. The entire Engels debate separates into two opposite views: Engels the contaminator of Marx’s “new materialism” vs. Engels the self-educated genius of dialectical materialism. What Engels\, unlike Marx\, has not enjoyed so far is a critical reading that considers the relationship between different layers of this standard text: authorial\, textual\, editorial\, and interpretational. Informed by a historical hermeneutic\, this book questions the elements that structure the debate on the Dialectics of Nature. It analyzes different political and philosophical functions attached to Engels’ text\, and relocates the meaning of the term “dialectics” into a more precise context. Arguing that Engels’ dialectics is less complete than we usually think it is but that he achieved more than most scholars would like to admit\, this book fully documents and critically analyzes Engels’ intentions and concerns in the Dialectics of Nature\, the process of writing\, and its reception and edition history in order to reconstruct the solved and unsolved philosophical problems in this unfinished work. \n“Why has a text on philosophy and the natural sciences written in the 19th century generated so much controversy for so many decades? Kaan Kangal surveys the battlefield in a thorough\, lively and insightful way. He takes on those who have been there before him and puts forth his own fresh perspective on it all.” (Helena Sheehan\, Emeritus Professor\, Dublin City University\, Ireland) \nTerrell Carver is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol\, UK. He is a co-editor of Palgrave’s Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms series\, and is widely published in this area. His recent publications include a two-volume study of “The German Ideology” manuscripts with Daniel Blank (Palgrave\, 2014). \nKaan Kangal is Associate Professor at the Center for Studies of Marxist Social Theory\, Department of Philosophy\, Nanjing University\, China. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/friedrich-engels-with-terrell-carver-kaan-kangal-and-kohei-saito/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T143000
DTSTAMP:20210415T194520Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210123T150000
DTSTAMP:20210119T065023Z
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SUMMARY:Marina Sitrin on Pandemic Solidarity with Colectiva Sembrar
DESCRIPTION:Pandemic Solidarity:\nMutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis\nedited by Marina Sitrin with Colectiva Sembrar\nMarina Sitrin (editor) joins key contributors Eleanor Finley and Lais Gomes Duarte (Colectiva Sembrar) to speak on activist solidarity\, horizontalism and autonomy expressed through the constitution of this riveting collection of real-life stories. Chaired by FireWorks series editor — Anitra Nelson (MSSI\, University of Melbourne\, Australia). Collective \nPandemic Solidarity collects first-hand experiences of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. In times of crisis institutions of power are laid bare and people turn to one another. Underneath the media’s narrative of selfish individualism and runs on supermarkets\, we find an opposing story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions\, including India\, Rojava\, Taiwan\, South Africa\, Iraq and North America\, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture\, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present\, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like\, and reflect the existing skills and relationships to create it\, challenging institutions of power in all their fragility. \nThis ticket is for admission to the event along with the book with shipping included (US and Puerto Rico only). \nTickets are sliding scale. We do not deny admission to events or classes for an inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the url of the zoom link to attend if you cannot afford to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/pandemic-solidarity-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Pandemics,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200527T201500
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200520T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200520T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
UID:10006732-1589999400-1590005700@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200513T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200513T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
UID:10006731-1589394600-1589400900@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200506T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200506T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
UID:10006730-1588789800-1588796100@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200429T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200429T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
UID:10006729-1588185000-1588191300@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200422T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200422T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
UID:10006728-1587580200-1587586500@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200415T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200415T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
UID:10006727-1586975400-1586981700@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200408T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200408T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
UID:10006726-1586370600-1586376900@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200312T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200312T193000
DTSTAMP:20200129T031249Z
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
UID:10006091-1584036000-1584041400@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-03-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2020-TechSciCapSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200305T193000
DTSTAMP:20200129T031249Z
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
UID:10006090-1583431200-1583436600@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-03-05/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2020-TechSciCapSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200227T193000
DTSTAMP:20200129T031249Z
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
UID:10006089-1582826400-1582831800@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-02-27/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2020-TechSciCapSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200220T193000
DTSTAMP:20200129T031249Z
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
UID:10006088-1582221600-1582227000@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-02-20/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2020-TechSciCapSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200213T193000
DTSTAMP:20200129T031249Z
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
UID:10006087-1581616800-1581622200@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-02-13/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2020-TechSciCapSite.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200206T193000
DTSTAMP:20200129T031249Z
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
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SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-02-06/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200130T193000
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UID:10006085-1580407200-1580412600@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-01-30/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200123T193000
DTSTAMP:20200129T031249Z
CREATED:20191210T140455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T031249Z
UID:10006084-1579802400-1579807800@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Technology\, Science and Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:An 8-week study \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nThis eight-week study group will consider the place and role of science and technology in the history and development of capitalism\, addressing such questions as What is technology? Does technological change drive social change? Is technology independent of social relations? What are the consequences of “technological progress” under capitalism? What constraints does capitalism place on such progress? We will also examine current debates on labor and automation\, digital information technology and “communicative capitalism\,” and the role of science and technology in confronting climate change and other crises of the Earth system. \nOnline participation by Zoom teleconferencing can be arranged for mobility-challenged participants or those outside the New York City area. \nFRED MURPHY and STEVE KNIGHT have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialism Study Group since 2016. Both are active in DSA’s climate justice work. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. Steve reviews books for Marx & Philosophy and is active in a faith-centered environmental justice group.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/technology-science-and-capitalism/2020-01-23/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170203T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170203T213000
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SUMMARY:Biology as Means of Production and Ideology
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Stuart A. Newman\, New York Medical College \nBiological science is simultaneously the hegemonic narrative for understanding the living world in industrial societies and the basis for potential technological transformations of the biosphere and our own species. The 20th century notion of the gene as the primary determinant of living systems has supported rampant privatization of food production and medical and natural resources. With the increasing precision of gene alteration by the CRISPR DNA editing technique\, genetic determinism is now generating proposals for ecological engineering and eugenicist manipulation of future humans. This talk will report on the current biotechnological landscape and describe challenges to its enabling genetic determinist ideology from dialectical and multi-causal explanatory modes within the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology. \nStuart A. Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College\, Valhalla\, New York. He has contributed to several scientific fields\, including biophysical chemistry\, developmental biology\, and evolutionary theory. He has been a critic of genetic determinism in biology and an opponent of eugenic applications of biotechnology since his student days in the 1960s. Newman was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and is a columnist for Capitalism Nature Socialism.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/biology-as-means-of-production-and-ideology/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Evolutionary biology,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20160614T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20160614T213000
DTSTAMP:20160328T023637Z
CREATED:20160328T023637Z
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SUMMARY:Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project is delighted to host the launch of Rob Wallace’s new book\, Big Farms Make Big Flu (Monthly Review Press). \nIn Big Farms Make Big Flu\, a collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking\, Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations. With a precise and radical wit\, Wallace juxtaposes ghastly phenomena such as attempts at producing featherless chickens with microbial time travel and neoliberal Ebola. Wallace also offers sensible alternatives to lethal agribusiness. Some\, such as farming cooperatives\, integrated pathogen management\, and mixed crop-livestock systems\, are already in practice off the agribusiness grid. \nWhile many books cover facets of food or outbreaks\, Wallace’s collection is the first to explore infectious disease\, agriculture\, economics\, and the nature of science together. Big Farms Make Big Flu integrates the political economies of disease and science into a new understanding of infections. \n“If you’ve missed the wit and brilliance of Stephen Jay Gould\, here’s consolation: holistic\, radical science from the frontlines of the battle against emergent diseases. Using the wide-angle lens of political ecology\, Rob Wallace demonstrates the central roles of the factory-farming and fast-food industries in the evolution of avian flu and other pandemics that threaten the entire planet. Bravo to Monthly Review Press for publishing this landmark collection of essays.” —Mike Davis\, author\, Monster at Our Door and Planet of Slums \n“These essays put you in the company of a delightful mind. Wallace is filled with curiosity\, deep learning\, and robust skepticism. In his company\, you’ll learn about phylogeography\, clades and imperial epizoology. He can also weave a mean story\, with the kinds of big picture analysis that puts him alongside minds like Mike Davis’s. Who else can link the end of British colonial rule in China or the devaluation of the Thai Baht to the spread of bird flu? This collection is a bracing innoculant against the misinformation that will be spewed in the next epidemic by the private sector\, government agencies and philanthropists. My copy is highlighted on almost every page. Yours will be too.” —Raj Patel\, Research Professor\, University of Texas at Austin\, author\, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System \nRob Wallace was born and raised in New York City. He is an evolutionary biologist presently visiting the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Global Studies. His research has addressed the evolution and spread of influenza as it relates to the economics of agriculture\, the social geography of HIV/AIDS in New York City\, the emergence of Kaposi’s sarcoma herpes virus out of Ugandan prehistory\, and the evolution of infection life history in response to antivirals. Wallace is co-author of Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process (Springer) and blogs at ‘Farming Pathogens.’ He has consulted on influenza for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wallace lives in St Paul\, Minnesota\, with his daughter.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/big-farms-make-big-flu/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Evolutionary biology,Science and Method
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