The recent financial crisis would seem to present precisely the opportunity that the left has been waiting for: a moment of reckoning when failure is undeniable and injustice unconcealed. Yet crisis has not proven to be so ready or willing an object to think with. Financiers continue to take crisis as their opportunity, while misery continues to be spread around. How the left might see itself if crisis is taken as its mirror? <a href="http://socialtextjournal.org/blog/2011/03/2011-left-forum-dont-take-the-bait-the-left-and-crisis-a-social-text-roundtable.php". Read more
Category: Conferences
Affective Tendencies: Bodies, Pleasures, Sexualities
Social Text CollectiveOctober 7th – 9th
ST Collective members David Eng and Jasbir Puar will be among the Keynote Speakers.
It is Already Limited
Biella ColemanWould you hit it? *(by which I mean would you go to this conference?). The title is Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy and check out the list of speakers. Oh wait a minute… are there just two, 2, dos, deux women listed out of 27 (fyi 7.4%)?
From Copenhagen to Cochabamba
Ashley DawsonBefore everything else, the Cochabamba conference was remarkable for bringing together a large group of radical activists from all around the world. The social connections and sense of possibility that resulted from the exchanges that unfolded in this setting were … Continue reading “From Copenhagen to Cochabamba”
Report from ‘Innovation and the American Metropolis’ conference
Social Text CollectiveRecently, collective member Ashley Dawson live blogged from “Innovation and the
American Metropolis” organized by the Regional Plan Association. You can read the transcript here.