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SUMMARY:Feminism. Art. Capitalism.
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the Scottish launch of Feminism. Art. Capitalism. (Pluto Press) with the author\, Angela Dimitrakaki. Championing Marxist feminism and focusing on the less obvious layers of capitalist hegemony\, the book considers the exploitation of enthusiasm in art’s promise of a self-determined subject\, cases of ideological capture\, the question of class\, the historical context and impact of postmodernism\, and modernity’s attachment to technology as salvation and magic. In thinking about the contradictions that feminism faces in capital’s artscapes\, the book argues for seeing feminism as a complex political effort rather than a success story of contemporary art. \nFor this event Angela will be in conversation with art historian Victoria Horne who specialises in the cultural and intellectual history of Anglo-American feminism. Copies of the book will be available at a reduced price. \nAngela Dimitrakaki is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Victoria Horne is Assistant Professor at the School of Design Arts and Creative Industries\, Northumbria University.
URL:https://material.org.uk/event/feminism-art-capitalism/
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:For Peace!
DESCRIPTION:Britain is currently entering a new cycle of rearmament\, expanding the reach of its nuclear capability\, increasing military spending for NATO\, and continuing to support Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Those opposing this escalation have been met with increasing repression\, through the use of counter-terror legislation\, draconian sentencing of protesters and the proscription of groups engaged in direct action.In this context\, For Peace! revisit the peace movement’s material history\, to try and better understand the diversity of tactics and intersecting movements which have shaped it. We hope that this publication acts as a resource and inspiration for those struggling for a demilitarised world today. \nWe orient the history of the peace movement away from a few well-known campaigns to highlight less-known histories that are nonetheless integral to the struggles for a demilitarised world. For Peace! interweaves historical strands from the workers’ movement\, Women’s Liberation\, anti-colonial\, socialist\, and anarchist movements to address questions of non-violence\, class\, international solidarity\, and the role of liberation struggles. \nFor Peace! is structured around two gestures of the peace movement. Looking Inwards we feature efforts to disarm the British state and remove US bases. Looking Outwards we showcase international networks of solidarity and highlight the colonial legacy of global weapons infrastructure. This publication is based on physical exhibitions at Glasgow Women’s Library and Four Corners Gallery (London) mounted in the Spring/Summer of 2025. \nThe material links to the For Peace! Digital Archive hosted at MayDay Rooms Archive\, where you can explore the full digitised documents. The materials presented draw from archives in the MayDay Rooms\, Glasgow Women’s Library\, the Spirit of Revolt archive\, Statewatch and Four Corners\, as well personal collections of some of the movements and groups represented.
URL:https://material.org.uk/event/for-peace/
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SUMMARY:Abolishing Capitalist Totality
DESCRIPTION:When capitalism feels inescapable\, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone mad. \n Wherever we are we find ourselves choking\, trapped in a world built against us we feel we don’t belong to. A world that is going down the drain. Unable to stop this process as if history has surpassed us\, we seem to have missed our opportunity to take hold of the future. We must ask ourselves: why are fatalistic and totalising narratives so prevalent in our times? What would it take to work against fear\, to restore a sense of agency and critical comprehension over capitalism’s runaway processes? By tracing and uncovering the subterranean history of the Marxist concept of subsumption within the French ultraleft\, Operaismo\, the Frankfurt School and Mexican movements\, as well as through heated debates within communist circles in the last decade\, Abolishing Capitalist Totality offers a profound and critical inquiry into what we understand by capitalist totality and its dominating powers. It addresses radical forms of antagonism: the self-abolition of the proletariat\, of gender and race\, and explores how these relate to other forms of abolition\, thereby opening possibilities for new alliances and constellations. \nAs an integral aspect of interrogating and reorganising the form of the book\, poets and artists have been invited to challenge what we perceive as the totality of this book by intervening into its conventions. Our hope is that readers will be able to grasp not only the concepts presented in the book but also its form\, in a multifaceted and engaged manner. What has been perceived in recent years as an enclosed capitalist totality is\, in fact\, composed of concrete processes that we can act upon: how we understand capitalism determines how we abolish capital. \nIncludes texts and interventions from Anthony Iles\, Mattin\, Andrés Saenz De Sicilia\, Bolívar Echeverría\, Négation\, Federico Corriente\, Roland Simon\, Anne Boyer\, Lisa Jeschke\, Em Hedditch\,
Loss Choi\, Danny Hayward\, Sean Bonney\, Sacha Kahir\, Théorie Communiste\, Ray Brassier\, Neil Gray\, Rob Lucas\, Nadia Bou Ali\, Jessika Khazrik\, Andrei Chitu\, Marina Vishmidt\, Dimitra Kotouza\, and Endnotes.
URL:https://material.org.uk/event/abolishing-capitalist-totality/
LOCATION:Broadside\, 123 Allison Street\, Glasgow\, East Renfrewshire\, G42 8NE\, United Kingdom
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