Marxism & Sciences 2023
A Symposium of Nature, Culture, Human and Society
Marxism in the Age of Total Crisis
14-17 September 2023
Bilimler Köyü, Foça, Izmir, Turkey
PROGRAM
14.09.2023 | ||
Crisis of Politics/Identity | ||
10.00-12.00 | Arrival | |
12.30-13.45 | “Conspiracy Theories, Fetishism, and the Spiritual Crisis: Marx on Religion Revisited” | Siyaveş Azeri |
13.45-15.00 | Lunch | |
15.00-16.15 | “The ascendance of Right-Wing Populism: Israel in Comparative Perspective” | Yaov Pled |
16.15-16.30 | Coffee Break | |
16.30-17.45 | “The Speech of Objects: Black Marxism(s) Revisited” | Xindi Li |
15.09.2023 | ||
Crisis of Techno-Economy
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10.00-11.15 | “Dehumanization and Techno- Fetishism: A Marxist Critique of Transhumanism” | P. M. Duc, N. A Tuan and D. T. Dung |
11.15-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
11.30-12.45 | “Degrowth and Post-Capitalism” | Yakup Atamer Aykaç |
12.45-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-15.15 | “(Mis)Reading Grundrisse” | Devin Wagnert |
15.15-15.30 | Coffee Break | |
15.30-16.45 | “Computation and Capitalism: How Can We Find a Link between Turing Machines and Marxism” | Bruce Robinson (online) |
16.09.2023 | ||
Crisis of Theory (Complexity and Dialectics)
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10.00-11.15 | “Function and Totality: The Methodical Confrontation of Historical Materialism and Holism” | Joost Kircz |
11.15-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
11.30-12.45 | “Reducing Uncertainty by Marxist Abstractions in a Time Crisis” | Erzsebet Pasztor |
12.45-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-15.15 | “Theories of Crisis, Complexity, Nonlinearity, and Marxism: Understanding the Interconnectedness of Economic and Environmental Crises.” | Ari Ofengenden |
15.15-15.30 | Coffee Break | |
15.30-16.45 | “Symptoms of Asymptotic Knowledge: An Ecological Leninist Critique of the Mechanistic Worldview” | Cameron Gamble and Kenny Knowlton, Jr. (online) |
17.09.2023 | ||
Crisis of art and and Education
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10.00-11.15 | “Music in Crisis and the Crisis in Ethnomusicology: Towards a Marxist Theoretical Framework for the Holistic Study of Music in the Age of Total Crisis” | Ali Cenk Gedik and Duygu Aralan |
11.15-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
11.30-12.45 | “Machines of Dialectical Vision: Systemic Imagination in John Akomfrah’s Multichannel Installations” | Peter Lesnik |
12.45-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-15.15 | “On Political Epistemology: Revisiting Fact and Value in Science and Society” | Sascha Freyberg and Senthil Babu D (online) |
15.15-… | Evaluation, open discussion and farewell | |