Capital’s overaccumulation and postlabor
Friday, April 8th, 6 pm
The Monetary Policy of Negative Interest Rates and Capital’s Crisis of Profitability. Progressive quantitative easing, helicopter money, minimum income. Technological Postcapitalism.
Texts:
- Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, Inventing the Future. Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, cap. 5, 6
- Paul Mason, Postcapitalism. A Guide to Our Future, cap. 10
- Michael Roberts, Paul Mason and Postcapitalism: Utopian or Scientific?
- Michael Roberts, Helicopter money and the Chicago plan
- Michael Roberts, From ZIRP to NIRP: The Last Throw of the Dice
Coordinators: Florin Poenaru & amp; Alex Cistelecan
Neuroexit (euroexit)!
Thursday, April 28th, 7 pm
Or, the economic crisis from the perspective of a theory of affects:
(1) The academic marketing and the market ideology of neuroeconomy;
(2) The economic rehistoricization of affects;
(3) Indignation – an electoral product of neocapitalism?
Texts:
- Daniel Kahneman, Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion (2006).
- Paul J. Zak, Values and Value: Moral Economics, in Moral Markets, Princeton University Press, 2008.
- Fréderic Lordon, Mobilisation joyeuse et aliénation marchande, in Capitalisme: désir et servitude, 2010; Philosophie et sciences sociales: vers une nouvelle alliance?, in La société des affects, 2013.
- Michel Clouscard, Une nouvelle civilisation, in Capitalisme de la séduction, 1981/2009.
Coordinator: Claudiu Gaiu