Capitalism

The third edition of an experimental biennial forum for art, knowl­edge and politics – Black Cloud – Kyiv Biennial 2019, taking place on October 11 – November 23, is aimed at developing a consistent understanding of the last three decades in the history of Eastern Europe, largely defined by the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the […]

Austerity measures have more effect on women: primarily because of cuts in the public sector where women are disproportionately employed, and on which, in terms of social protection, they particularly rely on. This is the baseline of the series of reports „Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism After the Crisis” commissioned and published by Rosa Luxemburg […]

One Question is a monthly series in which the leading thinkers are asked to give a brief answer to a single question. This month’s question: What is the Left case for open borders? Tithi Bhattacharya Professor of History at Purdue University. She is the editor of Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Pluto, 2017) and along […]

In Belgrade, for the past month, every Saturday, citizens protests take place and try to express dissatisfaction with the political and economic course, economic perspectives, diplomatic blunders, the increasingly dangerous politics of Kosovo, and the political practice of the current ruling party… This list can certainly be continued and it seems that this list – […]

This is an abbreviated version of a talk given at the Alternative European Summit in Belgium, on the 11th of November 2018. It traces a developing situation: only two weeks before the talk was due, the main stock markets of developed countries briefly crashed around the world. This fueled the discussions on the next global […]

Ankica Čakardić is an assistant professor and the chair of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Gender at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her research interest include Social Philosophy, Marxism, Marxist-feminist and Luxemburgian critique of political economy, and history of women’s struggles in Yugoslavia. She is a member of The Complete Works of […]

Europe has been gripped by crises in recent years that increasingly throw the entire future of the European Union into question. In this first ever ‘live audience’ event, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper are joined by three guests that cross generations and perspectives. They explore the history of the union, the distinctive vision of […]

Year 2018 will remain written in history. Sure, there are many reasons for this. Many of them with a bitter taste, some with a smile, and rare ones full of pride. There are moments in which we tend to release tears without hesitation, with a weird mixture of anger and relief. It seems to me […]

Link to the original article When we embarked on our project to explore Social Reproduction Theory (SRT), at the back of our mind was the phrase from the Marx and Engels’ German Ideology, ‘[human beings] must be in a position to live in order to be able to ‘make history’’.  In class societies, since there lies between […]

With hype around automation and robotisation at fever pitch, many argue that we will soon see mass labour disappear altogether. Sociologist Antonio Casilli begs to differ. Work is not disappearing, he argues in this interview with Lorenzo Marsili, but is being transformed by the giants of the digital economy. Lorenzo Marsili: You claim that fears […]