Radical Critical Theory Circle 2023
June 2 - June 7
Mandraki, Nisyros, Greece
https://criticaltheoryplus.com/
June 2 Welcome
2:00 Introduction to the Radical Critical Theory Circle
Participants’ introductions
2:30 – 4:00 The Politics of Wealth and Austerity
Clara Mattei, “Can there be capitalism without austerity?"
4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 6:45 Past and Place
Sara Gebh, “Presentism and the Crisis of Political Imagination: Towards an Archive of ‘Forgotten’ Institutions”
Nasser Abourahme, “The Politics of Inhabitation”
June 3
Session 1 10:30 - 1:00 Challenges from the Right
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare Then and Now"
Paul A. Passavant, “Crises and Conservatism”
Lunch 1:00 - 4:30
Session 2 4:30 - 7:00 The Fact of War
Greg Yudin, “Against Tyranny of Truth”
Alexei Penzin, “The Politics of Facticity”
June 4
Session 1 10:30 - 1:00 Reimagining radical imaginaries
Layla Brown, “Revolutionary Pan-Africanism and the Formation of a Multicentric and Pluripolar World”
Begona Gerling, “Beyond the neoliberal horizon: democratic temporalities and the radical imaginary”
Lunch 1:00 – 4:30
Session 2 4:30 - 7:00 Is responsibility possible?
Hagar Kotef, “The Interrogatee Complaints Comptroller and Bureaucracy’s ‘Democracy Effect’”
Ferdinando Menga, “Haunted by the Future: Tackling the Predicaments of Intergenerational Justice”
June 5 Excursion: Nisyros Volcano
June 6
Session 1 10:30 - 1:00 War and more war
Ana Marinopoulou: Representative democracy versus authoritarianism: or how to avert wars through more democracy
Dmitry Ledbedev, Digital Sovereignty as Ideology of War in Contemporary Russia
Lunch 1:00 - 4:30
Session 2 4:30 - 7:00 Action and responsibility
Enzo Rossi, “Politically Productive Disruption: Notes for a Theory of Legitimate Direct Action”
Maria Chehonadskhi, “The Collective Infrastructure of Even Distribution”
June 7
Session 1 10:30 – 1:00 Critique of capitalism today
Albena, Jodi, Paul, Artemy
Lunch 1:00 - 4:30
Concluding discussion