Anonymous Comrade writes:

Roundtable Discussion on Multitudes

New York City, December 5th, 2-5pm, free

Current debates within radical political thought have
once again returned to the question of the
revolutionary subject. Michael Hardt and Antonio
Negri’s provocative claim in Empire that the
Spinozist concept of the multitude best describes the
agent of revolutionary change in today’s society has
become a central topic of discussion within Left
political movements and has engendered a series of
recent interventions by such notable political
theorists as Slavoj Zizek, Alex Callinicos, Ernesto
Laclau, Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou. They have
contrasted the concept of multitude to the concepts of
class and the people have framed the division in terms
of St. Francis versus St. Paul, idealism versus
materialism, and ontology versus event.Join Franco Barchiesi, Peter Bratsis, Heather Gautney,
Bruno Gulli, Andreas Kalyvas, Sandro Mezzadra, Mike
Menser, and Nadia Urbinati on Friday December 5th,
from 2-5 pm, for an open discussion on the concept of
the multitude and its alternatives.

Room 5414

CUNY Graduate Center, New York City

365 5th Ave, between 34th & 35th St

Subway: Herald Square

You do not need to be a CUNY student to get in the
building, but you will have to show a photo ID of some
sort and sign in.

Sponsored by

The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and
Work, Graduate Center, CUNY