On Saturday, October 9, 2021, I’ll be participating on three panels at the Ninth Biennial International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference. The theme this year is “Alternative Futures: Marcuse’s Dialectic of Technology.” While the conference will be held both virtually and in-person at the University of Arizona in Tempe, all panels will be accessible online via Zoom.
“Ecology and Revolution”: Saturday, October 9, 2021, 8:00-9:50am Pacific/local Phoenix Time
Chair: Thais Gobo
- Thais Gobo, “Authentic Ecology and Liberation: The Refusal of the Domination of Nature Against the Apparatus“
- Sergio Bedoya Cortés, “Ecological crisis, capitalism and critique“
- Dan Fischer, “Let Nature Play: Total Liberation from Compulsory Work“
- Myself, “Critical Theory in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home“
“The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the Twenty-First Century”: Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, 10:00-11:50am Pacific/local Phoenix Time
Chair: Javier Sethness
- Myself, “Realism, Egalitarianism, and Internationalism“
- Bill Weinberg, “For Solidarity; Against Dictators and Campism“
- Anner G., “The Responsibility to Protect in Tigray”
“Marcusean Politics Today”: Saturday, October 9, 2021, 3:00-4:50pm Pacific/local Phoenix Time
Chair: Andrew T. Lamas
- Shon Meckfessel, “Anti-Humanism on the Left”
- Rocío Lopez, “Fascism as Bourgeois Reaction”
- Myself, “A Critical Theory of Authority”
We welcome discussion, and hope you can join us!
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