Posted in Conferences, Philosophy on May 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Radical Philosophy conference ‘Power to the People’ featured Peter Hallward, Massimo de Angelis, Esther Leslie, Daniel Bensaid, Alberto Toscano, Gayatri Spivak, Etienne Balibar and others.
Verso had planned to be there selling books but wasn’t able to attend due to a sudden staff shortage – apologies to all who planned to purchase from us!
Infinite Thought has written detailed notes on the conference and put them up here.
Posted in Alain Badiou, Communism, Conferences, France, Philosophy, Politics, Socialism on May 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Badiou’s recent and much-discussed The Meaning of Sarkozy (see other posts below for more on Badiou, this book and the recent communism conference) has been reviewed in an article by Martin Puchner in the current issue of Bookforum:
“The Meaning of Sarkozy, then, is not a rueful account of the rightward drift of France but the work of a nonconformist philosopher…we must acknowledge the powerful gesture of his thought. If philosophy is the discipline charged with the construction of alternative worlds, few practice it with more determination and élan.”
Irish Left Review has a thoughtful and extensive engagement with the book here, written by the Paris-based Seanachie:
“The book is well written, wittily abrasive and perfectly readable…its overall rhetorical tone is incantatory…propagating a message, an exhortation to ‘courage’ for the long road ahead is Badiou’s agenda here.”
Posted in Alain Badiou, Communism, Conferences, Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton on April 30, 2009| 5 Comments »
1.) One of the key texts for the Idea of Communism conference was Alain Badiou’s The Communist Hypothesis.
2.) This is an extract from Badiou’s book The Meaning of Sarkozy. The book also contains two chapters that directly take up the issue: Must the Communist Hypothesis be Abandoned? and The History of the Communist Hypothesis and its Present Moment.
3.) Badiou’s book Polemics contains two key texts The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics and The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution?, recently re-published in French in Badiou’s new book L’hypothèse communiste.
3.) Visual and audio:
Badiou on the communist idea
Some more footage from the conference on youtube.
Audio-Files of the conference can be found here
4.) Papers from the conference:
Peter Hallward’s dealt with his area of research on the ‘will of the people’.
5.) Reports on the conference:
Mark Fisher, aka k-punk, has written a report for Frieze .
Infinite Thought’s detailed notes are here: Part 1 and Part 2.
n+1 magazine’s report.
Radical Philosophy report.
Radical Philosophy’s report on the organisation issues of the conference.
Response from Nathan Coombs at lacan.com
Posted in Conferences, Events, Financial Crisis, Human Rights, Left, Paul Mason, Politics, Richard Seymour, Robin Blackburn on April 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Left Forum brings together organizers and intellectuals from across the globe to share ideas for understanding and transforming the world with events throughout the year, and an annual flagship conference that takes place each spring.
LEFT FORUM PANELS:
Amongst the many Left Forum panels, Verso is sponsoring:
Liberalism, Imperialism & the Politics of Human Rights
Richard Seymour, Samuel Moyn and John R. MacArthur
Sunday, 19th April, 12-2pm
On the Financial Crisis
Robin Blackburn, Paul Mason and Doug Henwood
Sunday, 19th April, 3-5pm
For more information visit http://www.leftforum.org
Posted in Book Fair, Conferences on April 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Come and see Tania Palmieri, Foreign Rights, or Rowan Wilson, Sales and Marketing, at the London Book Fair next week on stand N605, and pick up a copy of our latest catalogues.
Don’t worry, it’s just the lighting that makes us look like that! Please stop by for a chat!
Posted in Conferences, Events on April 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This year’s Radical Philosophy Conference will take place on May 09 in Central London. See here for details. The title of the conference is ‘Power to the people’. Speakers include Gayatri Spivak and Verso author Peter Hallward. Fellow Verso authors Peter Osborne and Esther Leslie will be chairing sessions. More details will follow shortly.
Verso will have a stand at this year’s conference, with all books at discounted prices!
Posted in Chris Harman, Communism, Conferences, David Harvey, Events, Ghada Karmi, Karl Marx, Sheila Rowbotham, Slavoj Zizek, Socialism, Tariq Ali, Terry Eagleton on April 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This summer’s ‘festival of resistance‘ will feature a number of Verso authors.
David Harvey, Terry Eagleton, Ghada Karmi and Tariq Ali all have books that will be published by Verso in the coming months; see our Spring 2009 catalogue for details. Slavoj Zizek, Chris Harman and Sheila Rowbotham have just published their highly successful recent books with Verso.
Marxism 2009 takes place in Central London from 2nd-6th July and involves a series of cultural events and courses, as well as talks. Further details will be posted in the future.
Posted in Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, Communism, Conferences, Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj Zizek on March 23, 2009| 1 Comment »
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