Red May 2017 Schedule


Week 1

May 3  
Post-’68 Apocalypse Film Series:
Punishment Park (Dir. Peter Watkins, 1971)
8:00 pm
Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

May 4
6 pm–8 pm     
Red Flag Ramble through First Thursday

May 5
7:30 pm–9:30 pm
Luxury for All  
Nick Srnicek, Nisi Shawl, Jason E. Smith
Moderator: Minh Nguyen
Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave

May 6
10 am–5:30 pm   
MARX-A-THON 1 (CAPITAL ON CAPITOL HILL)

10 am–11:30 am 
Marx on Technology
Nick Srnicek
The “Fragment on Machines”  
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

12 pm–1:30 pm
Alternate Economies and Post-Capitalist Politics
Charu Charusheela   
St John’s Bar and Eatery, 719 E Pike St

2 pm–3:30 pm
Why is Capital like a Werewolf?
Jason E. Smith   
The Cloud Room, 1424 11th Ave

4 pm–5:30 pm   
The Commodity
Andrew Ryder
St John’s Bar and Eatery, 719 E Pike St

7:30 pm–9:30 pm
Left Futurism
Nick Srnicek interviewed by Jason Adams, The New Centre for Research & Practice
Elliott Bay Bookstore, 1521 10th Ave

May 7
1 pm
From the California Ideology to Platform Capitalism 
Nick Srnicek, Jason Smith
Moderator: Philip Wohlstetter
Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St

7 pm
Capitalist Realism: Mark Fisher and the CCRU
Petra Io Kendal, Louis Chude Sokei, Nick Srnicek
Moderator: Jason Adams
INCA Institute, 2 W Roy St


Week 2

May 10   
8:00 pm
Post-’68 Apocalypse Series:
Glen and Randa (dir. Jim McBride, 1971)
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

May 11
7:30 pm
The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization
Jasper Bernes
INCA Institute, 2 W Roy St

May 12
7:30 pm–9:30 pm   
Dispatches from an Undeclared Civil War
Joshua Clover, Jasper Bernes, Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh 
Moderator: Pete Knutson
Seattle Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave #140

May 13    
10 pm–5:30 pm
MARX-A-THON 2

10 pm–11:30 pm
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Joshua Clover     
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

12 pm–1:30 pm
Capital Personified
Anna Kornbluh
12th Ave Arts (Pike Pine Room), 1620 12th Ave

2 pm–3:30 pm
Commodity Fetishism
Chris O’Kane, Sianne Ngai 
The Cloud Room, 1424 11th Ave

4 pm–5:30 pm
The Value Form
Jasper Bernes
St John’s Bar and Eatery, 719 E Pike St 

7:30 pm  
Poetry and Communism or Else
Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover
Elliott Bay Bookstore, 1521 10th Ave

May 14  
1 pm–3 pm    
Capitalism and Climate Change
Beyond Capitalism group of 350.org
Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St

4 pm–6 pm
Our Aesthetic Categories
Sianne Ngai    
The Alice, 6007 12th Ave S

7:30 pm
The ‘What is Capitalism?’ Contest
Judges: Chris O’Kane, Andrew Ryder, Jasper Bernes, Charu Charusheela
Union Bar – Hillman City, 5609 Rainier Ave S

Week 3

May 17
8:00 pm
Post-’68 Apocalypse Series:
Ice (dir. Robert Kramer, 1969)
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

May 18
7 pm–9 pm
Marshall Plan Modernism Book Launch
Jaleh Mansoor
Glass Box Gallery, 831 Seattle Blvd S

May 19
7:30 pm–9:30 pm
(Re)Production Struggles in the Age of Trump
Asad Haider, Jaleh Mansoor, Jason Read
Moderator: Andrew Ryder
Seattle Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave #140

May 20
10 am–5:30 pm
MARX-A-THON 3

10 am–11:30 pm
Introduction to the Grundrisse
Asad Haider
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

12 pm–1:30 pm
Primitive Accumulation
Jason Read
12th Ave Arts, 1620 12th Ave

2 pm–3:30 pm
Cooperation
Michael Hardt   
The Cloud Room, 1424 11th Ave

4 pm–5:30 pm
The Working Day
Kathi Weeks 
St John’s Bar and Eatery, 719 E Pike St

7:30 pm–9:30 pm
Neoliberalism: Vampire or Zombie?
Steven Shaviro, Jason Read, Eva Cherniavsky, Catherine Liu
Moderator: Philip Wohlstetter
Wycoff Auditorium, Seattle University, 900 Broadway

May 21
12 pm
Socialism and Feminism 
Kathi Weeks, Charu Charusheela, Jaleh Mansoor
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S

4 pm–6 pm
Red Planets: the Left Turn in Science Fiction 
Steven Shaviro, Nisi Shawl, Tom Foster, Jason Read  
Moderator: Jason Adams
Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St

7:30 pm–9:30 pm
Philanthropy Against Teachers  
Wayne Au, Jesse Hagopian, Catherine Liu, Asad Haider
Moderator: Vancouver Institute For Social Research
Wycoff Auditorium, Seattle University, 900 Broadway


Week 4

May 24
8:00 pm
Post-’68 Apocalypse Series:
Idaho Transfer (dir. Peter Fonda, 1973)
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

May 25
2 pm
A Political Economy of the Senses
Anita Chari
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, UW Campus, E Stevens Way NE #132

7:30 pm
OCTOBER: The Revolution of 1917
China Mieville    
Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave

May 26
5 pm
In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution
Geoff Mann
University Book Store, 4326 University Way

8 pm
In the Moment of General Assembly
Michael Hardt, Eva Cherniavsky, Anita Chari, Philip Wohlstetter
Moderator: Vancouver School For Social Research 
Wycoff Auditorium, Seattle University, 900 Broadway

May 27
10 pm–5:30 pm
MARX-A-THON 4 

10 pm–11:30 pm 
Primitive Accumulation
Chris Chen, Glen Coulthard
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave

12 pm–1:30 pm
The Abode of Prediction
Ivan Ascher
12th Ave Arts, 1620 12th Ave

 2 pm–3:30 pm
The Spell of Capital 
Samir Gandesha   
The Cloud Room, 1424 11th Ave

4 pm–5:30 pm
Mode of Production
Geoff Mann       
St John’s Bar and Eatery, 719 E Pike St 

7:30 pm–9:30 pm
No More Frontiers, Please!
Iyko Day, Glen Sean Coulthard, Chris Chen
Moderator: Chris Nealon
Wycoff Auditorium, Seattle University, 900 Broadway

May 28
12 pm–2 pm
TIME, WORK, DOMINATION
Chris Nealon, Kathi Weeks, Chris O’Kane, Iyko Day
Moderator: Samir Gandesha
Wycoff Auditorium, Seattle University, 900 Broadway

3 pm–5 pm
Reading Money
Geoff Mann, Ivan Ascher
Autonomous University
INCA Institute, 2 W Roy St, Seattle, WA 98119

7:30 pm–9:30 pm
The Current Moment or WTF Trump??!!??   
Union Bar, 5609 Rainier Ave S