John Holloway
‘THINK HOPE, THINK
CRISIS’: JOHN HOLLOWAY AT UCL
Professor John Holloway, of the Autonomous University of Puebla (see http://www.johnholloway.com.mx/),
will be giving a public talk entitled "Think Hope, Think Crisis"
at UCL, London, on May 7th.
Professor Holloway is an
internationally renowned radical Marxist theorist whose two most recent books, Change the World Without Taking Power
(2002) and Crack Capitalism (2010)
have had a profound impact in debates over social change in both social
movements and universities worldwide. Holloway argues that we need to rethink
the concept of revolution in the 21st century, away from the idea of taking
power via the state (or indeed any institution) and towards an everyday struggle
to bring together our own "power-to-do".
His talk, which will take
place on Wednesday 7th May, 5-7pm in Room G03, 26 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AP, will
engage with the potentials for social change in a time of crisis (see abstract
below).
For more information please
contact sam.halvorsen.10@ucl.ac.uk
Please note, attendance will be on a first come basis (no tickets). We have a capacity of 120, but please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
Abstract for talk:
"At the beginning of his great work The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch challenged us to learn hope. Now, sixty years later, his challenge is both more difficult and more urgent than ever. How can we think hope, the radical hope of a different world, in the present situation? And how do we relate it to the present crisis of capitalism? The crisis as rupture of capitalist domination should open the world, but it seems to close it. Think hope, think crisis, but how?”
Please note, attendance will be on a first come basis (no tickets). We have a capacity of 120, but please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
Abstract for talk:
"At the beginning of his great work The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch challenged us to learn hope. Now, sixty years later, his challenge is both more difficult and more urgent than ever. How can we think hope, the radical hope of a different world, in the present situation? And how do we relate it to the present crisis of capitalism? The crisis as rupture of capitalist domination should open the world, but it seems to close it. Think hope, think crisis, but how?”
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