Friday at 4pm: Søren Mau on "Capitalism's Mute Compulsion"

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From: Patricia Cipollitti Rodríguez <patricia....@GMAIL.COM>

Upcoming event at the CUNY Graduate Center's Center for Global Ethics and Politics:

Capitalism's Mute Compulsion

Søren Mau (Aarhus University)

Friday, October 27, 4:00 p.m. (ET)
GC Room 5200
And online via Zoom
 

The Center for Global Ethics and Politics, in conjunction with the GC Political Theory Workshop, is pleased to welcome political philosopher Søren Mau as our third colloquium speaker of Fall 2023. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the speaker.

This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual participation via Zoom. The in-person talk will be followed by a reception with wine and snacks.

You may download Søren Mau's paper here, if you'd like to read ahead. Pre-reading is optional since he will offer a presentation of the paper at the colloquium. 

If you plan to attend virtually, please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining.
 

Abstract
 

Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchment amidst crisis and unrest, Mute Compulsion offers a novel theory of the historically unique forms of abstract and impersonal power set in motion by the subjection of social life to the profit imperative. Building on a critical reconstruction of Karl Marx’s unfinished critique of political economy and a wide range of contemporary Marxist theory, philosopher Søren Mau sets out to explain how the logic of capital tightens its stranglehold on the life of society by constantly remolding the material conditions of social reproduction. In the course of doing so, Mau intervenes in classical and contemporary debates about the value form, crisis theory, biopolitics, social reproduction, humanism, logistics, agriculture, metabolism, the body, competition, technology and relative surplus populations.

 

Speaker Bio

Søren Mau is a communist philosopher who specialises in Marxist theory. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas at Aarhus University, where he is working on the research project ‘A Philosophical Anthropology for the Capitalocene’, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. He is also a member of the board at the Danish Society for Marxist Studies, an external examiner in Philosophy at Danish universities, and writes for the Danish newspaper Information.