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Red May 2025 Schedule
There must be some way out of here

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Some Way Out of Here?
Friday, May 9, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTube

Michael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

Beacon Cinema: The Encampments (2025)

dir: Michael T. Workman &
Kei Pritsker

Sunday, May 11, 5:00 PM

(This is an In-person event)

Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech & Planetary Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTube

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni, Nick Srnicek, Kyle Kubler (mod)

Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
Friday, May 16, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTube

Sarah Jaffe, Nica Siegel

Delmore Schwartz: Marxism & the Modernist Poet
Saturday, May 17, 11:00 AM PDT  @YouTube

Alan Wald, David Lau, Roy Skodnick, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

Beacon Cinema: Why It Happened Here
Sunday, May 18, 5:00 PM
(Film showing with discussion)

(This is an In-person event)

David Shields, Tommy Swenson, Philip Wohlstetter

The West and the Rest: Capital & Power in a Multipolar World
Tuesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTube

Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson, Kyle Kubler (mod)

Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx’s Thought
Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTube

Bruno Leipold, Camila Vergara, Michael Hardt, Alyssa Battistoni

American Constitutional Collapse
Thursday, May 22, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTube

Aziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

TERFs

Enemy Feminisms: , Policewomen & Girlbosses
Sunday, May 25, 7:00 PM PDT 
@Elliott Bay Books

(This is an In-person event)

Sophie Lewis, Emi Koyama (mod)

Beacon Cinema: Fragment of an Empire (1929)
dir: Fridrikh Ermler

Monday, May 26, 7:30 PM

(This is an In-person event)

De-reification and Art Now
Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube

Jaleh Mansoor, Matt Browning, Anita Chari, Minh Nguyen (mod)

Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect, Capitalism Was a Joke
Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube 

Leigh Claire la Berge, Jason Read, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sarah Jaffe

Whatever Happened to Revolution?
Thursday, May 29, 7:00 PM PDT @TownHall

(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Colleen Lye, Nikhil Pal Singh, Idris Robinson

What Just Happened, America?
Friday, May 30 5:00 PM PDT  
@Vermillion

(This is an In-person event)

Colleen Lye, Idris Robinson, Michael Hardt, Jamie Merchant, Kathi Weeks, Jasper Bernes, Nikhil Pal Singh

Endgame: Economic Nationalism & Global Decline
Saturday, May 31, 12:30 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books

(This is an In-person event)
Jamie Merchant, Nikhil Pal Singh (mod)

The Future of Revolution 
Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM PDT @Elliott Bay Books

(This is an In-person event)

Jasper Bernes, Idris Robinson (mod)

 

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Red May | Announcing our 2025 Schedule

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I just started reading this today and I’m already liking the critique of the new Left and folk politics at the beginning.

#universalincome #NickSrnicek #AlexWilliams #postcapitalism #FolkPolitics

S02E27 - Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism

Nick Dyer-Witheford on biocommunism, "a communism emerging from the catastrophes capital now inflicts throughout the bios, the realm of life itself".   Future Histories International Find all English episodes of Future Histories here: https://futurehistori...

Is There Any Point to Protesting?

... In “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work” (Verso), a book published in 2015, then updated and reissued this past year for reasons likely to be clear to anyone who has opened a newspaper, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams question the power of marches, protests, and other acts of what they call “folk politics.” These methods, they say, are more habit than solution. Protest is too fleeting. It ignores the structural nature of problems in a modern world. “The folk-political injunction is to reduce complexity down to a human scale,” they write. This impulse promotes authenticity-mongering, reasoning through individual stories (also a journalistic tic), and a general inability to think systemically about change. In the immediate sense, a movement such as Occupy wilted because police in riot gear chased protesters out of their spaces. But, really, the authors insist, its methods sank it from the start by channelling the righteous sentiments of those involved over the mechanisms of real progress....

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting

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Is There Any Point to Protesting?

We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.

The New Yorker

Book Review: Inventing the Future

Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ illuminating and radical new book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work is as ambitious and global as its title implies. It looks at the political left’s ‘emancipatory visions’ to date with the notion of technology as a liberating tool. It notes the changes brought about in democracy through the internet and social media giving voice to individuals around the world, but still maintains that this democracy is ‘in disrepair’. ...

http://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/features/book-review-inventing-the-future/

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Book Review: Inventing the Future - The State Of The Arts

Rich Jevons reviews the book 'Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work' before the authors' talk at Bradford's 1 in 12 Club.

The State Of The Arts