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Start > Masterprogramm Humanities & Social Sciences: Kulturwissenschaften - Culture, Arts and Media [ab Studienbeginn WS 13/14] (M.A.) -> Minor Kulturtheorie -> Globalisierte Kulturen: Kritik und Reflexion

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Contemporary Conceptions of Capitalism (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2019 - 31.01.2020 | C 14.006 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Stuart Hall once described Cultural Studies as “a political project,… a way of analyzing postwar advanced capitalist culture”, one that was “intimately connected with the birth of the New Left” and its subsequent development. The advancement of this project came to involve the production of prescient analyses and theorisations of the political economic, social, and cultural transformations that shaped an increasingly globalised capitalism in the decades following the uprisings of 1968. These were variously described as involving the move to a “post-Fordist”, “post-Keynesian”, “post-Taylorist”, “post-industrial” – and later, “post-socialist” and “post-ideological” – era. For some, the global political economic crisis of 2007/8 represented the first great crisis of this new era. For others, it has been the geopolitical “crisis of multi-polarity” – following the events of September 11, 2001 – that has most marked the breakdown in the modes of regulation and accumulation regimes of the global era. For others still, it is the growing global ecological crisis of the so-called “capitalocene” that best defines our present. This seminar explores the ways in which capitalism’s global present (and its ongoing transformations) have been conceptualized, both by those working in Cultural Studies and related fields, and by those critically engaged with the contemporary (or newest) Left. In this seminar, students can expect to engage with notions of: platform capitalism, capitalocene, the logic of “expulsions” and of primitive accumulation today, racial capitalism, productive and reproductive labour, logistics, financialisation, extraction, “globalism”, debt and indebtedness, homo-capitalism, and progressive neoliberalism. The seminar will engage with the work of, among others: Gargi Bhattacharyya, Silvia Federici, Nancy Fraser, David Graeber, Donna J. Haraway, Rahel Jaeggi, Maurizio Lazzarato, Jodi Melamed, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, Jason W. Moore, Rahul Rao, Cedric J. Robinson, Saskia Sassen, Quinn Slobodian, Nick Srnicek, Kathi Weeks.