InterCcECT

Is critical theory equipped to evaluate the promise of geoenginnering? What is real cause for hope about the near future and what is real fantasy? InterCcECT continues hot ecomarx summer with Andreas Malm’s recent two part series The Future Is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering.

Join us Tuesday 20 June, 4pm, Half Sour.

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Mark your calendars for a visit from special guest Christian Sorace, 21 Sept! Would-be visitors please get in touch; InterCcECT hosts lectures, mini seminars, works-in-progress, and dinner/overnights.

As a complement to our last session, we’ll roll towards summer with selections from Soren Mau’s Mute Compulsion. What is in us more than us? What are the modes of repetition in social reproduction, and are those evidence of a capitalist trieb?

Join us Monday 15 May, 4pm, at The Red Lion (Red Line: Fullerton).

Contact us for PDFs. Aim for all of Part I, but focus on Intro and Chapters 1 and 2.

We’ll also be moving towards more summer plans, so bring your reading lists and field trip itineraries!

After a too long interval powered by too good things, InterCcECT reconvenes! Chicago winter has hardly transpired – one of many burning signs that we’re already living the unevenly distributed collapse of the ecosphere. What does the Marxan corpus uniquely offer to the explosion of ecotheory in para- or non-marxist idioms in recent years? Find out with Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene! We’ll read the intro and chapter one (and optionally the rest of part one) for Thursday 30 March, 4pm, Map Room.

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Often the simplest questions are the most theoretically fruitful. Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? works as both an introduction to psychoanalysis and an expert tour of its distance from competing (anti)philosophies. Join us for a special reading session led by Lakshmi Padmanabhan, on the new school holiday 8 November. We’ll read the intro, chapter 1, and chapter 4, and meet at 4pm at The Red Lion (Red Line: Fullerton).

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How do we get out of this place? Why is geography the home discipline for one of the most powerful theorists of abolition? What do we build instead? Join us to discuss Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s new essay collection Abolition Geography. We’ll read the editor’s intro and chapter 1, and aspire to chapter 2.

Thursday 4 August

4pm

Moody’s Pub (Red Line: Thorndale)

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Also mark your calendars now for an event with special guest Alex Galloway, Tuesday 27 September!

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Successive viral waves, unrelenting loss, and the cumulative strain of semester 5 at Pandemic University have discombobulated InterCcECT too much in recent months, but it is now time to resuscitate! The authoritarian surge warrants more fighting, and also some more thinking. Join us for a discussion of Lauren Berlant’s *America, “Fat,” The Fetus* and all things bodily, genderly, nationcraftly – and mourningly. We’ll meet Monday 13 June, 4pm, outdoors at Pilot Project (Blue Line: Western). And fire up your summer reading lists, as we’ll be making plans for many future sessions.

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