Radical Critical Theory Circle 2022
June 3 - June 8
Mandraki, Nisyros, Greece
https://criticaltheoryplus.com/
June 3 Welcome
5:00 Introduction to the Radical Critical Theory Circle
Mayor’s greeting
Participants’ introductions
6:00 Discussion: Imperialism, War, and the Challenge of Critique
Dmitry Lebedev, “Cruel Media: Russian Propaganda and the Spectre of Fascism”
June 4 Radical Critique in the Twenty-First Century
Session 1 10:00 - 1:00
Albena Azmanova, "Thinking capitalism in the 21st century: the tasks of radical critique"
Darin Barney, “The Canadian Traveller and the Canadian Salesman: Logistics, Innovation and the Material of Politics”
Lunch 1:00 - 3:00
Session 2 3:00 - 6:00
Enzo Rossi, “Ideology Critique Without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach”
Artemy Magun, “The Political Theology of Sortition”
Break 6:00 - 6:15
Session 3 6:15 - 7:45
Thomas Telios, “Towards a Constellative and Pluriversal Understanding of Leadership”
June 5 Order and the State
Session 1 10:30 - 1:30
Kai Heron, “Capitalist Catastrophism and Eco-Apartheid”
Carmen Ilizarbe, “Extractive regimes: authoritarian enclaves within democracy
Lunch 1:30 - 4:30
Session 2 4:30 - 7:30
Shiri Pasternak, “What is anti-colonial settler state socialism?: Reconciling theories of abolition”
Paul Passavant, “Police Abolition and the Question of the State”
June 6 Excursion: Nisyros Volcano
June 7 Platform Problems: Leadership and Labor
Session 1 10:30 - 1:30
Mathijs van de Sande "Communalism and Distributed Leadership: Debating the Meaning and Legacy of the Paris Commune"
James Muldoon, “Platform Socialism and Social Ownership of the Digital Economy”
Lunch 1:30 - 4:30
Session 2 4:30 - 7:30
Paul Apostolidis, 'Microwork and Marx: Platform Labour, Social Reproduction and the "Working Day"'
Jodi Dean, “What the Grundrisse tells us about Uber”
June 8 Democracy in a Time of Oligarchs
Session 1 10:30 - 1:30
Begoña Gerling, "Radical temporal imaginaries: rethinking democracy in times of political closure"
Greg Yudin, “Plebiscitarian origins and temptations of liberal democracy"
Lunch 1:30 - 4:30
Session 2 4:30 - 7:30
Mauricio Domingues, “Oligarchy, Democracy, and Plebeianism”
Andreas Kalyvas, “Oligarchimachia”