Red May 2021 Schedule
SATURDAY MAY 1
11:00 AM PDT
New Marxist Approaches to Literature and Art
Colleen Lye, Christopher Nealon, Ericka Beckman, Leigh Claire La Berge, Marijeta Bozovic, Rossen Djagalov
SUNDAY MAY 2
1:00 PM PDT
Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute
Daniel Andres Lopez, Esther Leslie, Andrew Feenberg, Diego Arrocha Paris (mod)
WEDNESDAY MAY 5
11:00 AM PDT
Yesterday’s Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future
Bini Adamczak, Michael Hardt
THURSDAY MAY 6
11:00 AM PDT
Real Abstraction: In the Mind but Not from There
Gean Moreno, Jaleh Mansoor, Sven Lütticken, Johanna Gosse (mod)
4:00 PM PDT
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
David Correia, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Chris LaTray (mod)
FRIDAY MAY 7
11:00 AM PDT
Survival and Resistance: Mutual Aid in Disastrous Times
Naomi Klein, Dean Spade, adrienne maree brown, Klee Benally, Chandan Reddy (mod)
3:00 PM PDT
What We Talk about When We Talk about Marx
Jason Smith, Paul Mattick Jr.
SATURDAY MAY 8
11:00 AM PDT
The Political Impact of Marx’s Form Analysis
Michael Heinrich
5:00 PM PDT
A Red Deal with the Humble People of the Earth
Melanie Yazzie, Orien Longknife, Elena Ortiz, Demetrius Johnson, Cheyenne Antonio, Malav Kanuga (mod)
SUNDAY, MAY 9
10:00 AM PDT
Black Liberation, Brown Liberation, and Workers’ Autonomy
Paul Buhle, Nico Pizzolato, Andrew Anastasi, Kevin Van Meter, Scott Kurashige
TUESDAY, MAY 11
11:00 AM PDT
Class Power on Zero Hours: Strategies for the Current Moment
Angry Workers Collective
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
11:00 AM PDT
Post-Work Horizons
Kathi Weeks, Will Stronge, Julian Siravo, Kate Aronoff
THURSDAY, MAY 13
11:00 AM PDT
Transgender Marxism
Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O’Rourke
6:00 PM PDT
Thinking with James and Grace Lee Boggs
Stephen Ward, Cedric Johnson, Colleen Lye, Matt Birkhold (mod)
FRIDAY, MAY 14
11:00 AM PDT
Covid, Climate, Chronic Emergency: Antinomies of the State
Alberto Toscano, Anselm Jappe, Andreas Malm
6:00 PM PDT
Fighting for Their Own Servitude
Jason Read, Robyn Marasco, Warren Montag, Asad Haider
SATURDAY, MAY 15
11:00 AM PDT
Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg, Laleh Khalili, Tithi Bhattacharya, Annie McClanahan, Jon-David Settel, McKenzie Wark (mod)
6:00 PM PDT
Thank You for Your Service (Work)
Gabriel Winant, Sarah Jaffe, Jason Smith, Priscilla Murolo (mod)
SUNDAY, MAY 16
11:00 AM PDT
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Connor Habib, Cassandra Troyan, femi babylon, Heather Berg, Kathi Weeks (mod)
5:00 PM PDT
Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Internationalism
Nick Estes, Sarah Raymundo, Immanuel Ness, Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn, Lubna Alzaroo (mod)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19
11:00 AM PDT
Beyond Oppression and Exploitation
Ashley Bohrer, Michael Hardt, Chandan Reddy, Iyko Day (mod)
5:00 PM PDT
The Asset Economy and the Logic of Speculation
Martijn Konings, Lisa Adkins, Steven Shaviro, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
THURSDAY, MAY 20
11:00 AM PDT
Marx: Producing Subjects
Sandro Mezzadra, Jason Read
6:00 PM PDT
How to Weaponize (or Defuse) a Constitution
Aziz Rana, Camila Vergara, Richard Kreitner, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
FRIDAY, MAY 21
3:00 PM PDT
LUX: What Just Happened??? Part 1
Sarah Leonard, Marian Jones, E. Tammy Kim, Cheryl Rivera, Sharanya Durvasula
6:00 PM PDT
Theorizing the Present: The Revolutionary Foresight of Black Communist Women
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Jodi Dean, Ashley Farmer (mod)
SATURDAY, MAY 22
11:00 AM PDT
Spectre Presents: The Paris Commune, 150 Years On
Stathis Kouvelakis, Carolyn Eichner, Zachary Levenson (mod)4
3:00 PM PDT
Translating Marx
Paul North, Paul Reitter
SUNDAY, MAY 23
11:00 AM PDT
We (Still) Want Everything
Maria Teresa Carbone, Rachel Kushner, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Jasper Bernes (mod)
5:00 PM PDT
Value, Capitalism, and Communism
Jasper Bernes, Cordelia Belton. Kailash Srinivasan
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26
11:00 AM PDT
Destituent Communism
Hugh Farr
5:00 PM PDT
Marx/Asia/History
Rebecca Karl, Gavin Walker, Ken Kawashima, Asad Haider (mod)
THURSDAY, MAY 27
11:00 AM PDT
Critical Theory in the 21st Century
Amy De’Ath, Chris O’ Kane, Werner Bonefeld, Christian Lotz (mod)
5:00 PM PDT
Counterinsurgency Policing
Omedi Ochieng, Paul Passavant, Stuart Schrader, Tavis T. Harris, Page May, Samantha Pree-Gonzalez (Stinson), Charmaine Chua (mod)
FRIDAY, MAY 28
11:00 AM PDT
Debt After Graeber: Collection and (re) Possession
Max Haiven, Cassie Thornton, Radhika Desai, Leigh Claire La Berge, Andrew Ross
3:00 AM PDT
What Just Happened??? Part 2
Joshua Clover, Jodi Dean, Thea Riofrancos, Idris Robinson, Nikhil Pal Singh, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
SATURDAY, MAY 29
10:00 AM PDT
Neither Settler nor Native
Mahmood Mandani, Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, Samera Esmeir, Ted Swedenburg (mod)
SUNDAY, MAY 30
11:00 AM PDT
Rethinking the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Alessandro Russo, Andrea Piazzaroli Longabardi, Chris Connery, Asad Haider
5:00 PM PDT
Feminist International: How to Change Everything
Verónica Gago, Michael Hardt, Kathi Weeks
MONDAY MAY 31
11:00 AM PDT
Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary
Leigh Claire La Berge
6:00 PM PDT
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgement and Capitalist Form
Sianne Ngai, Christopher Nealon