Platypus in NYC with chapters at New York University and The New School
Archive for December, 2011
[Video and Audio] The relevance of Lenin today
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Video (Discussion begins at ~14:00.) Audio Live broadcast: www.livestream.com/platypus1917 Saturday, December 17, 2011 9AM U.S./Canada PST / 10AM MST / 11AM CST / 12PM EST; and 17:00 London / 18:00 Frankfurt and Berlin / 19:00 Thessaloniki / 22:30 Delhi / 02:00 Seoul If you are in Chicago: Saturday, 11am | 17 [...]
Platypus Review #42: Žižek on Occupy, and more!
December 2011 – January 2012 The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today: An interview with Slavoj Žižek On November 5, 2011, using questions formulated together with Chris Cutrone, Haseeb Ahmed interviewed Slavoj Žižek at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation… [...]
[Video] DEC 9: What is the #Occupy movement? pt. 2
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A series of roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society. First roundtable discussion, What is the #Occupy movement? (NYC) | Friday 7pm | October 28, 2011 | Kimmel, room 406 NYU, 60 Washington Square S., NYC. The recent #Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. These concerns are coupled with aspirations for social transformation at an international level. For many, the protests at Wall St. and elsewhere provide an avenue to raise questions the Left has long fallen silent on…
