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PREREGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THE CONFERENCE. HOWEVER YOU CAN COME  
AND REGISTER ON THE DOOR, THURSDAY THROUGH TO SUNDAY

'Crisis and Critique': Historical Materialism Annual London Conference  
2010,

Central London, Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th November*

Provisional Programme Now Available online: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual7


Notwithstanding repeated invocations of the ‘green shoots of  
recovery’, the effects of the economic crisis that began in 2008  
continue to be felt around the world. While some central tenets of the  
neoliberal project have been called into question, bank bailouts, cuts  
to public services and attacks on working people's lives demonstrate  
that the ruling order remains capable of imposing its agenda. Many  
significant Marxist analyses have already been produced of the  
origins, forms and prospects of the crisis, and we look forward to  
furthering these debates at HM London 2010. We also aim to encourage  
dialogue between the critique of political economy and other modes of  
criticism – ideological, political, aesthetic, philosophical – central  
to the Marxist tradition.

In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht projected a journal  
to be called ‘Crisis and Critique’. In very different times, but in a  
similar spirit, HM London 2010 aims to serve as a forum for dialogue,  
interaction and debate between different strands of critical-Marxist  
theory. Whether their focus is the study of the capitalist mode of  
production's theoretical and practical foundations, the unmasking of  
its ideological forms of legitimation or its political negation, we  
are convinced that a renewed and politically effective Marxism will  
need to rely on all the resources of critique in the years ahead.  
Crises produce periods of ideological and political uncertainty. They  
are moments that put into question established cognitive and  
disciplinary compartmentalisations, and require a recomposition at the  
level of both theory and practice. HM London 2010 hopes to contribute  
to a broader dialogue on the Left aimed at such a recomposition, one  
of whose prerequisites remains the young Marx’s call for the ‘ruthless  
criticism of all that exists’.

Themes discussed by the Conference include: Activism * Adorno:  
Philosophy, Aesthetics, Politics * Aesthetics of Crisis * Art and  
Activism * Althusser and the Aleatory Encounter I: Conceptual Aspects  
* Althusser and the Aleatory Encounter II: Philosophical Contrasts *  
Applying Value Theory * Approaching Passive Revolutions * Art in  
Neoliberalism * The Arts and Capitalist Triumphant: American Culture  
in the 1940s * Between Political Economy and Political Struggles *  
Beyond What Is and Isn’t to Be Done: The Question of Organisation  
Today * Biocapitalism * Bolshevik History * Book Launch: Jairus  
Banaji's Theory as History * Capital and the Crisis of Nature *  
Capitalism, Labour, Photography * Centenary of Hilferding’s Finance  
Capital * China: Internal Struggles and External Perceptions * Class,  
Gender, Crisis: The Attack on Public Services and Welfare * Class and  
Nation in the Middle East * Climate Change and Ecological Crisis: Law,  
Gender, Technology * Commodities, Labour and Space * Conjuncture,  
Contingency and Overdetermination * The Contemporary Global Economy  
(Marx and the ‘Global South’ 1) * Crisis and Accumulation in Asia *  
Crisis of Representation: Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics * Crisis in  
Greece, Crisis in the Eurozone * The Crisis this Time * Commons and  
Commonwealths * Commons and Communism, Past and Present * Confronting  
the Right * Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism * Death and Utopia:  
Bloch and Benjamin * Dependency and Exploitation in Latin America *  
Dimensions of the Crisis: History, Finance, and the Labour Process *  
Energy and Crisis * The End of Old and New Labour: What's Left?*  
Eurozone Crisis: Causes and Ways Out * Feminism and the Critique of  
Political Economy * Financial Capital Before and After the Crisis *  
Financialisation: Theory and Practice * Forgotten Space: Capitalism  
and the Sea * Forms of Working-Class Resistance * From Crisis To  
Crises: Marxist Perspectives On Latin America In The Global Economy *  
 From Crisis of Capitalism to Crisis of the Public Sector * Gender,  
Labour and the Future of Feminism * Geographies of Crisis and Critique  
I * Geographies of Crisis and Critique II * German Crises * Georg  
Lukács and the Aspiration Towards Totality * Gramsci * Historical  
Materialism, Universal History, and East Asia * Histories of Workers’  
Struggles * The Ideology of the ‘Big Society’ * Imperialism: History  
and Theory * Intellectuals, Public Discourse and Education *  
International Relations, Militarism and Modes of Foreign Relations *  
Japanese and Western Marxism * Korsch, Lefebvre and Hegelian Marxism *  
Labour and Migration * Labour Power and the Marxian Analytics of  
Crisis * Latin America, Resistance and Political Economy * Legacies of  
Bolshevism * Lenin, Luxemburg and the Russian Revolution * Limits of  
Citizenship and Democracy * Managing Crisis: Fair Trade, Cooperatives,  
Degrowth * Marx Against Eurocentrism (Marx and the ‘Global South’ 2) *  
Marx and Critique * Marxian Investigations * Marxism and Geopolitics *  
Marxism and International Law * Marxism and Politics Today * Marxism  
and Theories of Politics * Marxist Theories of Finance and Risk *  
Marxist Theory and Cultural Politics * Marx for Our Times * Marx,  
Normativity, Justice * Marx’s Capital and the Development of  
Capitalism Today * Music and Resistance * Neoliberalism and World  
Cinema: A Double Take * Palestine and Global Justice: Current and  
Historic Challenges for the Left * Poetics, Painting, Politics *  
Political Ecology in a Time of Crisis * Political Economy and Value  
Theory * The Politics and Political Economy of the Media * The  
Politics of Housing * Profit and the Crisis * Radicalism in  
Contemporary Art and Literature * Red October: Left-Indigenous  
Struggles in Modern Bolivia * Rethinking the State * Rosa Luxemburg  
and the Critique of Political Economy * Screening: Comuna Under  
Construction * Servicing the Crisis * Sex in Crisis * Slavery and  
American Capitalism * Stasis, Contradiction, Hostility * Strategies  
for Art Today I * Strategies for Art Today II * Theorising the Crisis  
I * Theorising the Crisis II * Theorising the Crisis III * The  
Transformation of Chinese Marxism * Ultra-Leftism, Insurrection, and  
the City * Useless But True: Economic Crisis and the Peculiarities of  
Economic Science * Value and Struggles in China * Varieties of  
Capitalism I * Varieties of Capitalism II * Violence and Non-Violence  
* Walter Benjamin and Anthropological Materialism * Walter Benjamin  
and the Critique of Violence * Whither Feminism? * Who Rules the  
World? Contemporary Views on Ruling and Capitalist Classes * Workers,  
the Union Movement and the Crisis * Workers’ Self-Management and  
Alternative Work Organisation I * Workers’ Self-Management and  
Alternative Work Organization II * The Working Class after  
Neoliberalism: From the World to the East End of Glasgow * The Work of  
Daniel Bensaid *


Speakers include: Greg Albo * Bueno Aldo * Görkem Akgöz * Idris Akkuzu  
* Donatella Alessandrini * Anne Alexander * Jamie Allinson * Elmar  
Altvater * Marko Ampuja * James Anderson * Kevin Anderson * Alex  
Anievas * Caroline Arscott * Sam Ashman * John Ashworth * Tara Atluri  
* Maurizio Atzeni * Antonio Azevedo * Dario Azzellini * Abigail Bakan  
* Jeff Bale * Jairus Banaji * Laurent Baronian * Luca Basso * Amita  
Baviskar * Wesley Baxter * Dave Beech * Riccardo Bellofiore * Aaron  
Benanav * Marc Berdet * Janis Berzins * Beverley Best * Brenna Bhandar  
* Alain Bihr * Cyrus Bina * Robin Blackburn * Paul Blackledge * Joost  
de Bloois * Iain Boal * Roland Boer * Armando Boito * Patrick Bond *  
Bill Bowring * Chris Boyd * Umut Bozkurt * Honor Brabazon * Craig  
Brandist * Pepijn Brandon * Lutz Brangsch * Colm Breathnach * Peter  
Brogan * Heather Brown * Sebastian Budgen * Jonah Butovsky * Alex  
Callinicos * Liam Campling * Bob Cannon * Thomas Carmichael * The  
Carrot Workers Collective * Warren Carter * Noel Castree * Aude de  
Caunes * Maria Elisa Cevasco * Giorgio Cesarale * Sharad Chari *  
Matthew Charles * François Chesnais * Danielle Child * Christopher  
Chitty * Joseph Choonara * John Clegg * Perci Coelho * Sheila Cohen *  
Alejandro Colás * Nathan Coombs * John Cooper * Luke Cooper * Gareth  
Dale * Neil Davidson * Chuck Davis * Tim Dayton * Shane Deckard *  
Radhika Desai * Li Dianlai * Katja Diefenbach * Angela Dimitrakaki *  
James Dunkerley * Bill Dunn * Cedric Durand * Nick Dyer-Witheford *  
Caroline Edwards * Steve Edwards * Evie Embrechts * Katsuhiko Endo *  
Theresa Enright * Adam Fabry * Mauro Farnesi Camellone * Sara Farris *  
David Featherstone * Romain Felli * Oliver Feltham * David Fernbach *  
Michele Filippini * Ben Fine * Eoin Flaherty * Paul Flenley * Keith  
Flett * Kirsten Forkert * Des Freedman * Alan Freeman * James Furner *  
Nicola Fusaro * Jin Gao * Lindsey German * M.A. Gonzalez * Sara  
Gonzalez * James Goodman * Jamie Gough * Nicolas Grinberg * Agon Hamza  
* Adam Hanieh * Bue Rübner Hansen * Jane Hardy * Lea Haro * Barnaby  
Harran * Barbara Harriss-White * Johan Hartle * Dan Hartley * Mike  
Haynes * Amrit Heer * Paul Heideman * Christoph Hermann * Chris  
Hesketh * Andy Higginbottom * Jan Hoff * John Holloway * Charlie Hore  
* Nik Howard * Peter Hudis * Ian Hussey * Ursula Huws * Anthony Iles *  
Ozlem Ingun * Robert Jackson * Dhruv Jain * Sang-Hwan Jang * Anselm  
Jappe * Olivier Jelinski * Heesang Jeon * Seongjin Jeong * Jonny Jones  
* Jyotsna Kapur * Marina Kaneti * Ioannis Kaplanis * Elif Karacimen *  
Rebecca Karl * Ken Kawashima * Alexander Keller Hirsch * Mark Kelly *  
Anneleen Kenis * Paul Kellogg * Christiane Ketteler * Sami Khatib *  
Jim Kincaid * Don Kingsbury * Stathis Kouvelakis * Sam Knafo * Juha  
Koivisto * Stathis Kouvelakis * Michael R. Krätke * Clarice Kuhling *  
Alexi Kukuljevic * Anne E. Lacsamana * Mikko Lahtinen * Ishay Landa *  
Costas Lapavitsas * Amanda Latimer * Nick Lawrence * Philippe Lege *  
Emanuele Leonardi * Esther Leslie * Alex Levant * Les Levidow * Iren  
Levina * Norman Levine * Ben Lewis * Aiyun Liang * Lars Lih * Jacob  
Carlos Lima * Por-Yee Lin * Duncan Lindo * Nicola Livingstone * Alex  
Loftus * Domenico Losurdo * Nikos Lountos * David Mabb * Denis Mäder *  
Yahya Madra * F.T.C. Manning * Paula Marcelino * Fábio Marvulle *  
Pierre Matari * Paul Mattick * Patricia McCafferty * Daniel McCarthy *  
Andrew McGettigan * David McNally * James Meadway * Eileen Meehan *  
Antigoni Memou * Zhang Meng * David Michalski * China Miéville * Owen  
Miller * Seamus Milne * Andrew Milner * Dimitris Milonakis * Gautam  
Mody * Simon Mohun * Kim Moody * Colin Mooers * Michael Moran *  
Vittorio Morfino * Adam David Morton * Avigail Moss * Sara Motta *  
Tadzio Mueller * Sara Murawski * Douglas Murphy * Mary Jo Nadeau *  
Yutaka Nagahara * Immanuel Ness * Susan Newman * Michael Niblett *  
Stephen Norrie * Benjamin Noys * Sebnem Oguz * Francisco Ojeda * Chris  
O’Kane * Kosuke Oki * Ken Olende * Ozlem Onaran * Ahmet Öncü * Ozgur  
Orhangazi * Judith Orr * Reecia Orzeck * Ceren Ozselcuk * Leo Panitch  
* Giorgos Papafragkou * Rose Parfitt * Mark Paschal * Jody Patterson *  
Laurie Penny * He Ping * Simon Pirani * Charles Post * Nina Power *  
Gonzalo Pozo-Martin * Lucia Pradella * Tim Pringle * Toni Prug *  
Muriel Pucci * Besnik Pula * Thomas Purcell * Sam Putinja * Uri Ram *  
Gene Ray * Jason Read * John Rees * Oliver Ressler * Felicita  
Reuschling * Larry Reynolds * John Roberts * John Michael Roberts *  
William Roberts * Ed Rooksby * Sadi dal Rosso * Christina Rousseau *  
Giorgos Sagriotis * Spyros Sakellaropoulos * Gregory Schwartz * David  
Schwartzman * Ian J. Seda-Irizarry * Ben Selwyn * Richard Seymour *  
Greg Sharzer * Greg Shollette * Jan Sieber * Oishik Sircar * Murray  
E.G. Smith * John Smith * Jeffrey Sommers * Panagiotis Sotiris *  
Michalis Spourdalakis * Kerstin Stakemeier * Julian Stallabrass *  
Guido Starosta * Engelbert Stockhammer * Robert Stolz * Ted Stolze *  
Kendra Strauss * Bronislaw Szerszynski * Jeff Tan * Keeanga-Yamahtta  
Taylor * Kampagiannis Thanassis * Tzuchien Tho * Martin Thomas * Peter  
Thomas * Peter Thompson * Hillel Herschel Ticktin * Vladimir Tikhonov  
* Oxana Timofeeva * Bruno Tinel * Tania Toffanin * Massimiliano Tomba  
* Stavros Tombazos * George Tomlinson * Samo Tomsic * Jan Toporowski *  
Alberto Toscano * Nicos Trimikliniotis * Ben Trott * Pei Kuei Tsai *  
Alan Tuckman * Deborah Tudor * Lori Turner * Alexej Ulbricht * Steve  
Vallance * Giovanna Vertova * Marina Vishmidt * Keith Wagner * Hilary  
Wainwright * Gavin Walker * Andrew Warstat * Ben Watson * Michael  
Watts * Mike Wayne * Alexis Wearmouth * Jeffery R. Webber * John Weeks  
* Brian Whitener * Evan Calder Williams * Frieder Otto Wolf * Xinwang  
Wu * Wu Xinwei * Galip Yalman * Faruk Yalvaç * Eddie Yuen * Rafeef  
Ziadah * Mislav Zitko *