The Communist Horizon
The Communist Horizon
Talk @ No-Space, July 28, 7:30 pm
With Jodi Dean
Focusing on her book-in-progress THE COMMUNIST HORIZON, this seminar mounts a provocative response to the economic and social crises that define our time. From the extremes of corporate bonuses to the attacks on public sector unions, the antagonism that cuts across capitalist countries is increasingly apparent.
Democracy is no panacea, Dean argues. Extreme inequality is not inevitable. Politics are not dead. Communism didn’t end in 1989. Instead, the communist horizon is our horizon.
Come to discuss the potential of communism as the contemporary name for left political and economic aspiration. What possibilities does it open up? What aspects of our current conjunction suggest the continued force of communism as a universal and egalitarian ideal?
BIO
Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She has authored or edited ten books, including, most recently, ‘Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies’ (Duke 2009), “Blog Theory’ (Polity 2010), and ‘Zizek’s Politics” (Routledge 2006). She is the co-editor of Theory & Event.
Date
July 28, 2011
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