Foucault and Marx. Ambivalences, Legacies and Future Struggles

Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles University of Vienna 18-19 October 2024 The international symposium "Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles" aims to explore the tense relationship between Foucault and Marx and, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault's death in 2024, to put it into perspective with regard to Foucault's intellectual legacy. Foucault is generally perceived as a harsh critic of Marxism, both in terms of its analytical possibilities and political dangers. This contrasts strongly not only with Foucault's repeated emphasis on the centrality of Marx, but also with clear theoretical parallels. The subject of the symposium is therefore the question of how this ambivalence is to be understood, what it means for possible continuations of the Foucauldian project and to what extent the Foucault-Marx connection can be made fruitful for current and future questions. No pre-registration, no fees. More Info and abstracts: https://foucaultmarx40.univie.ac.at/   Program Friday, 18 October 2024, 3D (NIG)
09:00-09:15 Arrival, coffee, tea
09:15-09:30 Welcome and introduction to day 1 by Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Eva Jägle, Jonas Oßwald

09:30-10:00 Matteo Polleri: "Family Resemblances: An Epistemological Reassement of the Marx-Foucault Relationship"
10:00-10:30 Joe Grant: "Witnessing Revolution: The Philosophical Journalism of Marx and Foucault"
10:30-11:00 Phoebe Braithwaite: "Shards of Ice: Identity, Subjectivity and Obliquity in Marx, Foucault and Stuart Hall"

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-11:45 Adam Takács: "Historical Totality and Social Agency: Lukács's History and Class Consciousness in a Foucauldian Perspective"
11:45-12:15 Rosa Martins: "Marx with Foucault: Human Agency and the Motor of History"
12:15-12:45 Théo Favre Rochex: "Foucault and Marxism: The Case of Ideology"

12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:15 Chiara Stefanoni/Francesco Aloe: " The Queer 'Viewpoint of Reproduction': De Lauretis as a Reader of Althusser and Foucault"
14:15-14:45 Antonio Cerquitelli: "'Biopolitics' and Power in Marx"
14:45-15:15 Friederike Beier: "The Biopolitical Governing of Reproductive Labor: A Feminist Foucauldian and Marxist Perspective on Social Reproduction and the State(s)"

15:15-15:30 Break

15:30-16:00 Yari Lanci: "Time and the Political Synthesis of Labor Power: On the Limits of Foucault's Critique of Marx's Anthropology"
16:00-16:30 Johann Szews: "The Domination of Time: Marx, Foucault and Moishe Postone"

16:30-16:45 Break

16:45-17:15 Judith Bastie/Isabel Jacobs: "Vegetal Epistemologies: Foucault, Lysenko and (Soviet) Marx"
17:15-17:45 Atila Lukić/Gordan Maslov: "As the Earth Falls into the Sun: Foucault, Marx, and the Problem of Destruction"

18.30: Film screening and drinks at DEPOT (Breite Gasse 3)

Saturday, 19 October 2024, 3D (NIG)
10:00-10:15 Arrival, coffee, tea
10:15-10:30 Welcome and introduction to day 2 by Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Eva Jägle, Jonas Oßwald

10:30-11:30 Roberto Nigro: "Foucault's and Marx's Heretical Neo-Marxism"
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Isabell Lorey: "Vagabondage and Indiscipline: Stealing with Marx and Foucault"

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Isabelle Garo: "Biopolitics, between Marx and Foucault: A Strategic Confrontation" 15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:15 Alex Demirović: "Silent Coercion or Swarm of Discourses: On Foucault's Extension of Marx's Theory" 16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Johanna Oksala: "The Future of Left Thought: Marx and Foucault on Power"

18:30 Closing with drinks at Café Afro (Türkenstraße 3)

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