MARXIST LITERARY GROUP

the ohio state university june 23-28, 2013

SUNDAY|
9:15-9:30 Welcome! Cunz Hall room 180 11:05-12:20 Immaterial Labor and Communities of Practice Craig Peariso Get Involved: Participation and/as Form Ben Turk The Art Scab ...and How to Pick it Off Lucas Johnson No Room For Class: Learner-Centered Composition, Academic Labor, and the Piece Wage 12:20-1:30 Lunch 9:30-10:45 Globalization and the Spaces of Criticism I Seth Josephson Calm Point in a Storm: Thich Nhat Hanhs Political Praxis as Activism without Resistance Daniel Norford The Cosmopolitan Passion: Digital Media and South Africas Post-National Subjects Brad Freeman Asian American Radical Literatures: Transnationalism, the Proletarian Novel, and the Depression

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1:30-2:45 Reading Group: Introduction to The Grundrisse led by Jaafar Aksikas 3:00-4:15 (Mis)representations: Class, Ethics and the Academy Robert T. Collins Rehabilitating Bakhtin, or, the Use of a Dialectical Theory of Language Melissa Macero The Back Door: Representing Class Differences in Hawthorne and Faulkner Kyle Chalker The Skinny on Pseudo-Activism and Capital 4:30-5:45 Lukacs Relevance Eui Kang Lukcs and Thing Sein Oh Lukcsian Dialectics and Romantic Conflicts: Labor, Class, and the Problem of the Subject

MONDAY|
8:30-9:20 Poetry and Political Potential Yonina Hoffman The Pleasure of Making Sense: Revision, Aesthetics, and Politics in Two Versions of Lyn Hejinians My Life Jen Phillis What Can Lyric Represent? 9:35-10:50 Genre and Literary-Critical Intervention Julie Fiorelli Race Not Erased: The Utopian Novel of the Turn of the Twentieth Century Perry Miller Essaying Imagination through a Comparative Psychoanalytic Reading of Testimonio Resistance Memoirs David Lawrimore The Novelist as Organic Intellectual; Or, Transcoding Early American Studies 11:05-12:20 Representing Capital, Reading Marx Joel Wainwright Reading Capital with Being and Time Bcquer Segun Marxs Spain: Representation, Collective Subjectivity, and the Asiatic Mode of Production Richard Daniels Radical Thought & Action: The Question of Marx 12:20-1:30 Lunch

2013
1:30-2:45 Reading Group: 3-4:15 Violent Ends: Capitalism and Marx and Wertkritik Crisis led by Neil Larsen Neil Larsen Violence, Crisis and De-Societalization: Capital as a Social Death Drive 4:30-5:45 Languages of Capitalism Peter Gardner No Romance without Finance Kanishka Chowdhury 'Tomorrow there Mela Heestand will be more of us': Social Death on the Countering Rights Margins of Capital Discourse in Indra in Bolao's 2666 Sinha's Animal's People Laura Hudson We Need to Talk Matthew Hadley About Violence: David, What Do Allegories of Capital You Have to Say?: in Atwood and Representing the Shriver Service Worker in Ridley Scotts Prometheus, and the Limits to Solidarity

TUESDAY|
10:00-11:15 8:30-9:45 Production and its Aesthetic Form and the Culture Representations Industry Thomas Laughlin Kate Lawless History as Desire: Symbolic Emily Bronts Wuthering Heights Enclosures: Primitive Accumulaand the Birth of tion and the Politics Capitalism of Memory James Duggan Vincent Adiutori Naming the Am I Not System?: RepreI?: Cultural sentation under Real Subsumption Commodities Speaking Ironically Sarah Vitale Jeff Williams Marx and the The Plutocratic Dialectic of Imagination Production and Creation 11:30-12:20 Marxism and Political Strategy Eugene Holland Minor Marxism and the Slow-Motion General Strike Andrew Culp Escape: Toward a Negative Definition of Empire 12:20-2:00 Lunch

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2:00-3:15 Reading Group: Eugene Hollands Nomad Citizenship led by Eugene Holland 3:30-4:45 Subjectivity, Social Relations, and Resisting Capital Jason Read Transindividuality: A Concept for Marxism? 5:00-6:15 Idea of Communism I Barbara Foley Communist Horizons Anna Einarsdottir The Saintly Rebel: From the Subject of Truth to the Proletariat Miriam Tola Always Already More Than Human: Virno, Simondon Gino Signoracci and the Preindividu- Representations of al Common Marxism in an Age of Global Revolt Gabriel Piser Love in a Hopeless Place: Affinity, Precarity, and Political Resistance

WEDNESDAY|
8:30-9:20 Representing Gender and Race Joel Woller Red Feminism, Popular Education, and the United Electrical Workers at Mid-century Jonathan Pimenthel Representing Race as an Irrational Commodity 9:35-10:50 11:05-12:20 12:15-1:30 Globalization Representing Lunch and the Spaces Communism of Criticism II Adam Carlson Maria Elisa Representing Cevasco Pure Tolerance: The Uses of for a Marcusian Cultural Theory Approach to Neoliberal Regina Martin Intolerance Not Your Friendly Family-Owned Donald Hedrick Capitalism: The Slogan: Finance Vulgar Discursive Capitalism, the Self-RepresenInvestor-Owned tation Corporation, and the Modernist Grover Furr Poetics of Recent Conrads Developments Nostromo in the Katyn Massacre: What Tahseen Kazi Do We Know, On Confronting What Do We Not Biopolitical Know, and How Global Do We Know It? Governance 3:00-4:15 1:30-2:45 Reading Group: Finance, Speculation and Politics Communisation led by Joe Ramsey and Brent Kevin Floyd Finance, Bios, Ryan Bellamy and the Practice of Abstraction

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4:30-5:45 Representing Revolution 6:00-7:15 Room: Psychology 02 Paul Smith Flowback: The End of Globalization as They Know it Matt Applegate Guerrilla Seeing: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Mediatization Michael Swacha in Emile de Speculating on Antonios Labor-power: Underground Considerations on the David Janzen Revolutionary Crises, Riots and Potential of the the Dialectics of Capitalist/Worker Excess Relationship Norman Mack Ricky Crano Bloom Hero: Self-Representa- Badiou, Tiqqun, tion in the Cast of and the Subject Homo Financius: of Politics Remarks on Gary Beckers (Post)human Capitalist

THURSDAY|
8:00-8:50 Rethinking Situationism Brett Zehner The Schizo Stroll: Updating Psychogeography in the Age of Demetrius Noble Semiocapitalism Django and the Black Critic Matt Brenn Thinking Outside Stephen a Box with No Ferguson Borders: Late Slave Revolt or Capitalism, Black Revenge Spectacle, and Fantasy? Transgression Reading Django as a Political Film Pat Keeton Representing the Enemy Within: Homeland, The Americans, and the Need to Justify Increased Domestic Surveillance 9:05-10:20 Argo Fuck Yourself: Controversy, Ideology and the Academy Awards 10:35-11:50 Value Criticism and Beyond Jeff Diamanti Capital Projects After Public Works. Bret Benjamin Reflections on the Wertkritik Translations: Class, Nation, Value Elmar Flatshcart The Commodity and its Other 11:50-1:00 Lunch

2013
4:20-5:45 Room: Psychology002 Idea of Communism II Joe Ramsey Towards a Portable Communism: Reflections on Verso's 'Pocket Communism' Series. Bruno Bosteels TBA 6-7:15 Room: Psychology 02 Michael Hardt An ABC of Communism Mathias Nilges The Work of Art in the Age of the Economys Cultural Regulation or, Aesthetics and Politics After Autonomy Emilio Sauri Autonomy after Autonomy, or Literature and Posthegemony Daniel Stout Aesthetics and the Novel

1:00-2:15 2:30-4:05 Reading Group: Aesthetics, Autonomy and Wertkritik the Presence led by Elmar of the Artwork Flatschart and Mathias Nilges Bev Best Rethinking a Marxian Critique of Ideology

FRIDAY|
8:30-9:45 Green Marxism Bill Sacks and Gregory Meyerson Beyond Green Dogma: Rethinking Nuclear Power Hyeseon Jeong Homo Sacer under Construction: the Contested Landscape of the Jeju Naval Base 10-11:15 11:30-12:20 Science Fiction, Transcoding Utopia and Lukacs History Oded Nir Myka Immanent TotalTucker-Abramson ization: Lukacs Looking for Labor and Spinozist in the 1950s Marxism Brent Bellamy Valences of the Residual Brittany Murray Subjects Interrupted: a Marxist Theory of Mark Soderstrom Trauma Red Planets: The Politics of Work in Modern Speculative Fiction 12:20-1:30 Lunch

2013
1:30-2:45 Business Meeting 3-4:15 Cultures of Oil Michael Poindexter Oil, Space and National Imaginaries: Discursive productions by Standard Oil New Jersey post-WWII Ericka Beckman Oil-Rubber-Banana: The commodity in Latin American Fiction 4:30-5:45 Room: Psychology 02 Fredric Jameson The Aesthetics of Singularity BBQ