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What’s New – 02nd October 2023 - Historical Materialism
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What’s New – 02nd October 2023

2nd Oct 2023

– One Thousand and One Nights of the Totality: A History and Class Consciousness online Marathon. An online event on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel. Monday 2nd, Tuesday 3rd and Thursday 5th October. 2023 Sessions at 18h-19h30 and 20h30-21h45 (GMT + 1 – UK Time)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1001-nights-of-the-totality-a-history-class-consciousness-marathon-tickets-714863173997

– Next Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory: The Left in China: A Political Cartography, by Ralf Ruckus, Wednesday 11 October, 4-6pm, King’s College London, Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 – BH(S)1.01 and on Zoom

To attend in-person, please book a free ticket through EventBrite: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-left-in-china-a-political-cartography-by-ralf-ruckus-book-discussion-tickets-716063253467?aff=oddtdtcreator
 

To attend online, please register using this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-irrDwuEtCGbQj5JyciZlVjkvGmzFHm#/registration

– New Book: The Well-Dressed Revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings, by Hall Greenland. Out in September 2023. Published by Resistance Books, London.

Pre-Order here:

https://tinyurl.com/pablo-book

– Call for Papers – Special Issue: Urban Neoliberalism in the 21st century: Exclusion and Struggles for the Right to the City. Until November 15, 2023 – new deadline!

https://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/10906

– Now Out: Capital, Race and Space by Richard Saul, in 2 vols:

https://brill.com/display/title/64025

https://brill.com/display/title/64141

Paperback out with Haymarket Books – summer 2024

– Communist Dissidents in Early Soviet Russia: five documents translated and introduced by Simon Pirani. This book is now available as a PDF, free to download, from the People & Nature web site here. There are English and Russian versions.

https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/communist-dissidents/

The printed book (English only) is still available:

https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/history-politics-society/communist-dissidents-in-early-soviet-russia/

– On 11.11.2023 AKUT organises an Online Workshop on Antiauthoritarian Communism and Postmonetary Alternatives with Anitra Nelson, Friederike Habermann, John Holloway and others.

https://commonism.org/conference2023/

Participation link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9195321982?pwd=ygyrZes2ep7DJLIabbbkaOkLLy7KqS.1

– Jeremy Gilbert will be co-hosting a new, free, online seminar series – ‘From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality’, starting in November. co-hosts will be Jason Read and Andrew Goffey; guests will include Etienne Balibar and Tracie Matysik. 
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to-spinoza-affect-ideology-materiality/