Globalization
Events
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Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic
FeaturedVideo available: https://youtu.be/FlJYh3VDWNU
William I. Robinson's new book Global Civil War provides a big-picture account of how the coronavirus pandemic and new digital technologies have drastically transformed capitalism and the entire global economy and society. Analyzing the concentration of power and control in the hands of corporate conglomerates, tech giants, megabanks, and the military-industrial complex, the book documents the extent of unprecedented global inequalities as the mass of humanity faces violent dispossession and uncertain survival. The book issues a dire warning against the emergence of a dystopic digitalized dictatorship but also finds great hope and inspiration in the burgeoning social movements of the poor and the dispossessed as humanity descends into global civil war.$5.00 – $12 -
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From Austerity to Fascism: The Capital Order
Recording available on YouTubeIn The Capital Order, Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital-and indeed capitalism - in times of social upheaval from below. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy, she offers a damning account of the rise of austerity - and of modern economics - at the levers of contemporary political power. Mattei reveals how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated top-down economic policies that elevated owners, smothered workers, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across societies.
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Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
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Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
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Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
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The New Power Elite: C. Wright Mills Revisited
POSTPONED - to be rescheduledDue to circumstances beyond our control, this event is postponed. Contact info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com to be notified of the new date when rescheduled.
Heather Gautney, author of 'The New Power Elite,' offers a contemporary companion to C. Wright Mills's work through a fresh critique for the new millennium. She takes up the problems that Mills addressed and echoes his outrage over the injustices and ruin brought by today's elites.
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Arise! The Mexican Revolution’s Global Impact
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Mexican Revolution catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Christina Heatherton's book Arise! reveals how activists around the world found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico.
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The Fallout of War: Chronologies of Conflict
FeaturedRecording available on YouTubeIn the first of two linked sessions, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture presents their collective research on a keyword of contemporary cultural studies - war - and investigates its many valences as lived reality and as metaphor. Taking account of war as constitutive of the present, the working group explores war's myriad meanings.
Free – $12.00