Communism, A New Beginning? conference now online
We're pleased to finally post video from our Communism, A New Beginning? conference from back in October in the debut of our incredibly novel YouTube page. It's an interesting look back to a weekend of what was the first month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street; around when Étienne Balibar spoke on "Communism as Commitment, Imagination, and Politics," peaceful protesters just uptown at Times Square were arrested and en route to Central Booking.
Here is a guide to the talks given at this conference:
DAY 1
Alain Badiou: Politics and State, Mass Movement and Terror (presented by Bruno Bosteels)
Frank Ruda: Remembering the Impossible. For a Meta-critical Anamnesis of Communism
DAY 2
Bruno Bosteels: On the Christian Question
Susan Buck-Morss: Communism and Ethics
Adrian Johnston: From Scientific Socialism to Socialist Science: Naturdialektik Then and Now
Étienne Balibar: Communism as Commitment, Imagination, and Politics
DAY 3
Slavoj Žižek: Freedom in the Clouds
Watch all eleven and a half hours of the conference on our playlist here.