Tag: 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 to see him using actual slides and graphs as he does here. So much to…
-
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 Trump, especially in the last third of the footage.
-
#ResisteHabitat3 | Final alternative ‘Declaration in defense of our territories’
Following up on my previous post about Habitat 3, here’s the alternative manifesto of Resistencia Habitat III, one of the local movements in Quito that have been organizing parallel events, challenging dominant narratives about urbanization and the UN new urban agenda in the last few months with the help of activists and thinkers around the…
-
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 video of his main talk on Monday. Most of the content will be familiar to…
-
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 the space for an informal reflection on the role of research and theory and Harvey’s…
-
Waldheim | Landscape as Urbanism
Charles Waldheim presents his book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The talk includes an interesting discussion about the discursive constitution of disciplines. Waldheim draws on Harvey’s notion of ‘spatial fix’ to identify particular moments in the history of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism…
-
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 them. Harvey had a fiery exchange with Simon Springer back in the summer about the…
-
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 pedagógico y directo: I am anti-capitalist for purely rational reasons. [Capitalism] has … become too…
multipliciudades 