John Holloway talks on 'Crack Capitalism' at the University of Brighton

John Holloway is one of the leading theorists of autonomism, a new and increasingly influential movement whose political practices can help explain a number of recent political developments including the recent Occupy phenomenon, with its global scope and forward momentum. His contribution to autonomism is most clearly developed in the 2002 title, Change the World Without Taking Power, which drew on the activity of the Zapatistas in Mexico in the 1990s, and argued for an understanding of revolution as the struggle against power, not for power.
Holloway will present from his most recent publication, Crack Capitalism, which explores the 'cracks' that are emerging within contemporary capitalism, and appropriate political responses.
John Holloway is Professor at the Benemerita Unversidad Autonoma de Puebla in Mexico, and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Leeds. He has also edited a number of collections, including Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Action (2008), Zapatista!: Reinventing Revolution in Mexico (1998), Open Marxism: Emancipating Marx (1995), Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money (1995) and Post-Fordism and Social Form: A Marxist Debate on the Post-Fordist State (1991).


Friday, 25th November
18.30, Room G7
University of Brighton at 10-11 Pavilion Parade
(next to Marlborough Theatre)

Please come between 18.00 and 18.30, no late arrivals will be admitted.

Organised by the Cowley Club Bookshop and the Critical Studies Research Group, School of Humanities, University of Brighton

John is also talking the day before up at the University of Sussex.
That talk is entitled 'Rage Against the Rule of Money'
 http://www.sussexstudent.com/events/index.php?page=event&event_id=662443