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Platypus International Convention 2012
The 1990s-2000s: combined legacies of the recent history of the Left for today. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 30 – April 1, 2012 The two decades of the 1990s 2000s form a cycle containing certain common as well as differing concerns. The second decade of the 21st century has begun under the mixed [...]
Platypus at Left Forum 2012
March 16-18, 2012 at Pace University Session 1 W402 Finance Capital and Occupy: Marxist Perspectives Sat 10:00am Session 3 W623 Impossible Occupations: Marxism and Psychoanalysis Sat 03:00pm Session 3 W605 The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement Sat 03:00pm Session 3 W617 Arab Spring into Winter? Challenges to the Left one year on Sat [...]
Forum. The 3Rs: Reform, Revolution and “Resistance”
The Platypus Affiliated Society at U of Toronto presents a public forum on: The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance”: The problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today. Audio link is here: (click here) Wednesday 14 Mar, 7 PM OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) Room 5170, University of Toronto A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A [...]
Platypus Review #44
March 2012 What is the #Occupy movement? A roundtable discussion Late in 2011, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series of roundtable debates on the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. Speakers at the event held on December 9, 2011 at New York University included Hannah Appel (OWS Think Tank Working Group), Erik Van Deventer (NYU), Nathan [...]
Platypus Review #43: Feat. David Graeber on OWS
February 2012 The movement as an end-in-itself? An interview with David Graeber by Ross Wolfe On December 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What follows is an [...]