MARXIST SPECTRES
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Marxist Spectres is a course that results from four different four-session processes in The Portal relevant to contemporary Marxist and post-Marxist theory. In Marxist Spectres you will be exposed to Chris Cutrone’s Marxism and Politics, Revol Press’s Gothic Capitalism, Michel Bauwens notion of the Commons and P2P, as well as Michael Downs post-Marxist technological singularity. The four processes will expose you to a wide diversity of thought relevant to politics, aesthetics, society, and futurism.
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This is a series of sessions organised from The Portal around Marxist themes, including Marxism and Politics, Capitalism and Art, Commons Networks, and the Political-Economy of Technological Singularity.
Philosophy Portal is an online education platform opening space for the next generation of great thought, and cultivation of future philosophical mind. Philosophy Portal members get access to The Portal live event spaces, free access to courses. Couples are encouraged get a 2 for 1 deal. All Sales Final.
Meet Your Seminar Guides
Chris Cutrone
Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. Born in 1970 and raised in Valley Stream on Long Island near New York City, Cutrone is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (since 2004) and instructor at the Institute for Clinical Social Work (since 2018). He was a longtime lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago (2002-2018), where he completed the PhD in the Committee on the History of Culture (2013) and MA in Art History (2005). He received the MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1996) and the BA from Hampshire College (1993). His doctoral dissertation is on Adorno’s Marxism (2013).
Revol Press
Revol Press is a new author-run and oriented publisher dedicated to putting out solid left wing theory. Our goal is to revive countercultural dreaming alongside incisive materialism, emphasizing quality over ‘edgy’ content and hot takes, putting out considered yet incisive reflections in a timely manner. We aim to support established writers and discover new talent, prioritizing fair royalties, ongoing dialogue, and an emphasis on quality essays and books that promote formal and theoretical innovation. Our writers are part of a collective effort in publishing, taking a percentage of profits from all other books we produce and sell, as well as from their own. Revol is here to reassert the creative opposition of the author, as a community. Where once you paid lip service to the revolution and were considered credible, now you can build something revolutionary without compromise. In this seminar series members of Revol Press include Mike Watson, Bram E. Giben, and Adam C. Turl.
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens is a Belgian theorist in the emerging field of peer-to-peer (P2P), a writer, and a conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. Bauwens founded the P2P Foundation, a global organization of researchers working in open collaboration in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has authored a number of essays, including his thesis The Political Economy of Peer Production. Bauwens regularly lectures internationally on P2P theory, the commons and their potential for social change. Bauwens was research director with the FLOK Society (Free Libre Open Knowledge) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies of Ecuador (IAEN), and has helped municipalities in Europe and South America engage in integrated Commons Transition Plans. Bauwens has written for Open Democracy and Al Jazeera, and has been mentioned by the New York Times, De Morgen, and Living Green Magazine.
Michael Downs
Michael Downs is a Militant Proletarian Snake-Handler, author of The Dangerous Maybe blog, as well as author of Capital vs. Timenergy: A Zizekian Critique of Nick Land. Downs works on the philosophy of “fault-line theory” which seeks to think with the tensions and antagonisms of contemporary underground theory, specifically at the intersections of the work of Nick Land and Slavoj Zizek. Downs interests at this specific fault-line orbit the relationship between Land’s notion of artificial intelligence and theory of technological singularity informed by an analysis of capitalism; and Zizek’s notion of the subjectivity as operating at the level of the Freudo-Lacanian death drive. Throughout Downs work his philosophy seeks to analyse the tension between capital-AI and subjective death drive in order to rethink issues in Marxism, psychoanalysis, and contemporary politics of capitalism around the notion of timenergy.
Process 1: Marxism and Politics
Process 2: Gothic Capitalism
Process 3: The Commons
Process 4: Land, Zizek, Singularity
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Two ways to access: purchase the course as a stand-alone seminar, or join The Portal as a monthly/yearly member
This is a series of sessions organised from The Portal around Marxist themes, including Marxism and Politics, Capitalism and Art, Commons Networks, and the Political-Economy of Technological Singularity.
Philosophy Portal is an online education platform opening space for the next generation of great thought, and cultivation of future philosophical mind. Philosophy Portal members get access to The Portal live event spaces, free access to courses. Couples are encouraged get a 2 for 1 deal. All Sales Final.