Be a part of us for this session of HM On-line 2021: Cultural Resistance Underneath Put up-Human Capitalism
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Covid-19 has introduced late capitalism’s exterminist impulse into sharp aid. Globally, experiments on the a part of each capital and the state — a few of which might have been unthinkable earlier than the pandemic — goal to find out simply how a lot of the working-class is important and the way a lot of it may be tossed apart. Even states which have intervened strongly within the welfare of their citizenry appear keen to interact on this darkish calculus to some extent. The growing dominance of cybernetic and algorithmic applied sciences continues to form and work together with human subjectivity even nicely in need of its elimination. Increasingly more we’re compelled to reckon with the potential of a political and cultural panorama of a vicious and reactionary post-humanism.
As others have argued, the one means out isn’t round, however via; not a rejection of myriad cultural applied sciences however a reimagination of radical subjectivity and temporalities in relation to them. This panel goals to look at what this implies for modern methods of emancipatory cultural resistance. It coincides roughly with the launch of Imago, a brand new annual journal devoted to exploring questions of essential irrealism, printed by the Locust Arts & Letters Collective. Topics addressed will embody the influence of on-line life on Brechtian alienation impact, surrealist critique of the currently-very-trendy genres of cyberpunk and synthwave, and the way the left ought to perceive the regroupment of the far-right on varied on-line platforms.
Towards a Brechtian Cybernetics
Adam Turl
Androids Leaping: What Had been (and Are) Cyberpunk and Synthwave?
Alexander Billet
Slouching In the direction of Bethlehem (Once more): Digital Retrenchment of the US Far Proper and Fascists After the January sixth Putsch
Tish Turl
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This occasion is co-sponsored by Historic Materialism and Haymarket Books. Whereas all occasions for HM On-line are free to register, the organizers ask comrades who’re in a position to please contemplate making a donation, which might assist enormously in protecting the prices of placing collectively this programme of occasions. Like all left organisations, HM had a really powerful interval from the start of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and financial institution stability is sinking on a regular basis, with little or no income coming in. If you may make a contribution to assist maintain us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
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