Events

Debates about a democratic-socialist planned economy are currently being are being intensified again. The main focus is on the question of how social production should actually be organized after capitalism capitalism: What can a utopia outside of markets, wage labour and markets, wage labor and exploitative relationships? Many of the concepts discussed today refer to the debates that took place back in the 1920s debates on the future vision of a post-capitalist society. post-capitalist society. For January 11, we have invited Samia Mohammed, who in her lecture will explore the question of the extent to which to what extent previous ideas of democratic-socialist planning are fruitful for a progressive overcoming of capitalism and market-based exchange. can be. She traces which models exist for the organization of a organization of a socialist economy exist and what gaps they have. Particularly with regard to natural and gender relations in particular, it quickly becomes apparent that previous approaches to organizing often fail to include these in a sensible include them in a reasonable way. How can these gaps be filled?

Following Charis Thompson’s concept of ‘Ontological Choreography’ (2005) the workshop engages with the production of different subjectivities in the speaker‘s fields of study through shifting the foucauldian idea of the order of the discourse towards a focus on material-discursive practices. This means that not only discourse analytic insights are used to raise questions about political practices and agencies, but also the institutional, material, and social practices of human and non-human actors are understood as a framework to make the production of subjectivity intelligible. Understanding academia as a discipline that is driven by a desire to deconstruct, inform about, and engage with societal distortions and injustices, we want to open up a multidisciplinary dialogue where our methodological practices and analytic concepts are interrogated and also through asking how we open opportunities of engagement and involvement and deal with often contradictive subjectivities and desires.