Book Launch with Author John Holloway: “Hope in Hopeless Times”

Name: Book Launch with Author John Holloway: “Hope in Hopeless Times”
Start: 2024-10-16T18:00:00-07:00
Location: 515 West Hastings Street , Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6B 5K3

Schedule

Wed Oct 16 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

515 West Hastings Street , Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6B 5K3 | Vancouver, BC

Room 1700, SFU Harbour Centre
Note: this is a pre-event for the “Fascist Neo-liberalism and the Fate of Radical Democracy” Conference (https://www.facebook.com/events/869074578106434/)
AUTHOR JOHN HOLLOWAY IN CONVERSATION WITH CAMILA BARRAGÁN
At a low point for the left, one of the world’s leading Marxist philosophers demonstrates the grounds for revolutionary hope.
Hope lies in our richness, in the joy of our collective creativity. But that richness exists in the peculiar form of money. The fact that we relate to one another through money causes tremendous social pain and destruction and is dragging us through pandemics and war towards extinction.
Richness against money: this battle will decide the future of humanity. If we cannot emancipate richness from money-capital-profit, there is probably no hope. Money seems invincible but the constant expansion of debt shows that its rule is fragile. The fictitious expansion of money through debt is driven by fear, fear of us, fear of the rabble. Money contains, but richness overflows.
In this final part of his ground-breaking trilogy, John Holloway expertly fuses anti- capitalism and anti-identitarianism, and brings hope into the critique of political economy and revolutionary theory, challenging us to find hope within ourselves and channel it into a dignified, revolutionary rage.
SPEAKERS
John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, the Zapatista movement andnew forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has sparked international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a recognized classic. His latest book, Hope in Hopeless Times(2022), is the last part of this trilogy. He is currently Professor of Sociology at theInstituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.
Camila Barragán is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She previously worked as a climate mitigation policy consultant within the field of international cooperation. Her academic interests focus on Frankfurt School critical theory, political ecology and feminism.