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The Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London
presents:

Modernism After Postmodernism: Is there a future beyond capitalist  
realism?
November 11th 2009
2:00pm - 5:00pm
UEL Docklands Campus
Room EB.1.01
(first floor, main building, turn left upon entering the main square  
after leaving Cyprus DLR
Cyprus DLR is literally situated at the campus)
Free, All welcome

Has the idea of ‘postmodernism’ left any legacy but that of a  
generalised capitulation to the
demands of liberal capitalism? What can contemporary urbanism learn  
from the era of unabashed
‘militant modernism’? Is the most controversial living philosopher,  
Alain Badiou, with his radical
re-conceptualisation of Truth, Event and Subject, to be understood as  
advocating a neo-modernist
programme, or something quite different? Can there be any progressive  
radicalism that does not
ultimately embrace the revolutionising logic of modernism?
Speakers:

Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism, or the Political-Economic Logic Of Postmodernism
Mark Fisher teaches at UEL, the City Lit and Goldsmiths and is the  
author of Capitalist Realism
(Zer0, 2009)

Nina Power
Is Badiou a Modernist?
Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University  
and the author of One-
Dimensional Woman (Zer0), 2009)

Owen Hatherley
They Are Rebuilding The City, Always: Regeneration now and its post- 
war predecessors
Owen Hatherley is a freelance writer, a researcher at Birkbeck and  
author of Militant Modernism
(Zer0 2009)

Jeremy Gilbert
New Times Again: Legacies of Left Postmodernism
Jeremy Gilbert teaches at UEL and is the author of Anticapitalism and  
Culture (Berg 2008)