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On Your Marx: Futurity & Consumption

Join NYU Professors Lisa Daily, Dean Saranillio & Jerome Whitington for a conversation on climate change and global capitalism.

“On Your Marx” is a 2-week festival of art and ideas in celebration of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday, from Oct 17-28 at NYU. This festival isn’t Marx 101; instead, artists and scholars put Marxist theories and ideas to work in 21st century contexts. Learn more about all the events in the Marx festival here: https://nyuskirball.org/events/karl-marx-festival/

Free and open to the public.

Lisa Daily’s interests focus on media, commodity culture, global capitalism, humanitarianism, and in/justice. Her current work critically analyzes an ongoing movement within capitalism to make it “better”—more conscious, caring, and ethical. Examples of this abound—from the recent passing of Benefit Corporation legislation throughout the US, to organizations such as Conscious Capitalism™ to consumer-activism and commodities that vow to “do good” with every purchase. Daily serves on the governing board for the Cultural Studies Association where she also acts as chair for the Visual Culture Working Group. Prior to joining Gallatin, Daily managed several grant-funded creative writing and cultural exchange programs at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and taught Global Affairs, Cultural Studies, and humanities courses at George Mason University and the University of South Florida.

Dean Itsuji Saranillio is an assistant professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His teaching and research interests are in settler colonialism and critical Indigenous studies, Asian American and Pacific Island histories, and cultural studies. His book titled Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2008) shows that U.S. statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism.

Jerome Whitington is an anthropologist of climate change at NYU who researches carbon markets and other private sector responses to global climate change. His work has spanned concerns with environmental justice, the effects of quantification and financialization, and the importance of neoliberalism for the management of global environments.











When: Tue., Oct. 23, 2018 at 5:30 pm
Where: NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl.
212-998-4941
Price: Free
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Join NYU Professors Lisa Daily, Dean Saranillio & Jerome Whitington for a conversation on climate change and global capitalism.

“On Your Marx” is a 2-week festival of art and ideas in celebration of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday, from Oct 17-28 at NYU. This festival isn’t Marx 101; instead, artists and scholars put Marxist theories and ideas to work in 21st century contexts. Learn more about all the events in the Marx festival here: https://nyuskirball.org/events/karl-marx-festival/

Free and open to the public.

Lisa Daily’s interests focus on media, commodity culture, global capitalism, humanitarianism, and in/justice. Her current work critically analyzes an ongoing movement within capitalism to make it “better”—more conscious, caring, and ethical. Examples of this abound—from the recent passing of Benefit Corporation legislation throughout the US, to organizations such as Conscious Capitalism™ to consumer-activism and commodities that vow to “do good” with every purchase. Daily serves on the governing board for the Cultural Studies Association where she also acts as chair for the Visual Culture Working Group. Prior to joining Gallatin, Daily managed several grant-funded creative writing and cultural exchange programs at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and taught Global Affairs, Cultural Studies, and humanities courses at George Mason University and the University of South Florida.

Dean Itsuji Saranillio is an assistant professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His teaching and research interests are in settler colonialism and critical Indigenous studies, Asian American and Pacific Island histories, and cultural studies. His book titled Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2008) shows that U.S. statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism.

Jerome Whitington is an anthropologist of climate change at NYU who researches carbon markets and other private sector responses to global climate change. His work has spanned concerns with environmental justice, the effects of quantification and financialization, and the importance of neoliberalism for the management of global environments.

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