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Category Archives: David Harvey
Harvey visualizes capital at Oxford
Here’s the video of Harvey’s talk at Oxford a couple of weeks ago, again focusing on his ‘Marx project’ and related adventures in the theory of value. Although his presentations are frequently based on implicit conceptual diagrams it’s relatively rare … Continue reading
David Harvey and Robert Brenner discuss Trump, finance and the end of capitalism
Here is the video of the debate between David Harvey and Robert Brenner last week at the CUNY Graduate Center, with the title ‘What now? The roots of the economic crisis and the way forward’. Don’t miss the discussion about … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Crisis, David Harvey, Donald Trump, Finance, Keynesianism, Middle class, Neoliberalism, Robert Brenner
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David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 1: Capital as Value in Motion
David Harvey’s new series of talks on Marx and Capital at CUNY will be available on YouTube. Here is the first lecture, delivered a few weeks ago.
Harvey at Harvard | Valorization and municipalism
David Harvey visited the Harvard Graduate School of Design last week. As a Senior Loeb Fellow, he participated in a number of events, in what a colleague at the Urban Theory Lab here defined as ‘Harvey-palooza’ (!). Here is the … Continue reading
Martin Wagner and the politics of capitalist urbanization
It’s been almost a month since I arrived in Cambridge to conduct a research on the work of Martin Wagner at Harvard during his appointment as a professor at the Graduate School of Design. Wagner —an engineer and planner, head … Continue reading
Posted in Arquitectura y crítica, Comunes, David Harvey, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Martin Wagner, Neil Brenner, Sin categoría, Urban politics, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Architecture and Politics, Commons, Gentrification, Graduate School of Design, GSD, Harvard University, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern urbanism, Modernism, Neoliberal urbanism, Planning, Political economy, Politics, Walter Gropius, Weimar Republic
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The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey
Here is the video of the event held at the LSE last month, on the occasion of David Harvey’s honorary degree, including a conversation with Jane Willis, Murray Low and Michael Storper. Questions such ‘What makes and idea powerful?’ provide … Continue reading
Building Power | Free inaugural issue of ROAR collective’s magazine
The ROAR Collective has launched a new website along with ROAR Magazine, a ‘quarterly journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for real democracy.’ The inaugural issue, entitled ‘Building Power’, is available … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis, David Harvey, Derecho a la ciudad, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Marxismo, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Politics
Tagged Ada Colau, Amador Fernández-Savater, Ayuntamientos del cambio, Carlos Delclós, David Harvey, John Holloway, Michael Hardt, Podemos, ROAR collective, ROAR magazine, Spanish radical municipalities
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Harvey on the contemporary composition of the working class and the project of fusing Marxism and anarchism
In an excerpt from a recent debate in Brazil, David Harvey discusses the configuration of contemporary working class and latent forms of revolutionary organization on an urban basis, suggesting the potentialities of fusing the anarchist and Marxist traditions to shape … Continue reading
Harvey sobre su ‘Marx Project’
David Harvey comenta extensamente sobre su Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism —que califica como su “libro más peligroso”—, contextualizando el trabajo en su ‘Proyecto Marx’ de la última década y el conjunto de su carrera. Cada vez más … Continue reading
Harvey y la crisis de la urbanización planetaria
Harvey discute los procesos de resistencia urbana y las contradicciones de la urbanización planetaria en una visita reciente a Curitiba. El sonido es algo deficiente pero el contenido, como siempre, interesante. Más información sobre el evento en su página web, … Continue reading
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