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Just as the right is doing (see our previous articles on Red Toryism), the left is also rethinking it’s theories in the light of the meltdown and concurrent crisis of neoliberalism; and the emergence of network (p2p) dynamics.
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Graduate Center geographer David Harvey, author of Rebel Cities; Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City; and Seth W. Pinsky, former president of the NYC Economic Development Corporation, debate the economic realities of New York's creative and knowledge-based industries. Adam Davidson, host of NPR's Planet Money, moderates.
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The vast majority of people in the industrial world, and now a majority of the world's peoples altogether, live in or near large cities. Some are mega-cities, caused by crises and a source of suffering. Under any rational order, they would not exist . Others are treasures, centers of culture and learning. Most are somewhere in between. In any case, they are the locus of politics and the struggle for change. All matter relation to them, from urban design to community organizing, will be the focus of this department.
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David Harvey: The analysis of capitalism suggests that there are significant and foundational contradictions. Periodically those contradictions get out of hand and they generate a crisis. We’ve just been through a crisis and I think it’s important to ask, what were the contradictions that led us into it? How can we analyse the crisis in terms of contradictions? One of Marx’s great sayings was that a crisis is always the result of the underlying contradictions. Therefore we have to deal with those themselves rather than their results.
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DAVID HARVEY (born in Gillingham, Kent, England) is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of THE CENTER FOR PLACE, CULTURE AND POLITICS and author of numerous books, including SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY, THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY, THE LIMITS TO CAPITAL, A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM, SPACES OF HOPE, A COMPANION TO MARX´S CAPITAL, THE ENIGMA OF CAPITAL and REBEL CITIES.
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David Harvey talks to ECF about the Princess Margriet Award laureates, Teatro Valle Occupato and Teodor Celakoski about the role of culture in building a more democratic engagement with the urban environment. Harvey speaks about the need for traditions of commoning to grow and an insistence that neither the state nor private interests should stop citizens from exercising democratic rights in their city.
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Marquee Geography Edward J. Taaffe Colloquium presents David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, Earth and Environmental Sciences City University of New York. David is a leading social theorist of international standing. Widely influential, he is among the top 20 most cited authors in the humanities. In addition, he is the world's most cited academic geographer (according to Andrew Bodman, see Transactions of the IBG, 1991,1992), and the author of many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. His work has contributed greatly to broad social and political debate, most recently he has been credited with helping to bring back social class and Marxist methods a serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism, particularly in its neoliberal form
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David Harvey, the Marxist geographer, is working on a new book, The Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism. He has a illuminating interview on this theme in Red Pepper, the UK political magazine. Several of his exchanges with the interviewer deal with key concerns of commoners, including the importance of protecting use value over exchange value, and the need for cultivating a “postcapitalist imagination.”
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