« Je pense que les peuples ont pris conscience du fait qu’ils avaient des intérêts communs et qu’il y avait des intérêts planétaires qui sont liés à l’existence de la terre, des intérêts que l’on pourrait appeler cosmologiques, dans la mesure où ils concernent le monde dans son ensemble ».
Pierre Bourdieu (1992)


vendredi 9 septembre 2011

video: Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias

Envisioning Real Utopias


WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Policy: Spring 2010


Presented by Erik Olin Wright
Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
April 26, 2010 
University of Washington
Co-sponsored with the UW Department of Sociology

TALK ABSTRACT
Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there has been a global retreat by the Left: on the assumption that liberal capitalism is the only game in town, political theorists tend to dismiss as utopian any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations. As Fredric Jameson first argued, it is now easier for us to imagine the end of the world than an alternative to capitalism.
Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. Building on a lifetime’s work analyzing the class system in the developed world, as well as exploring the problem of the transition to a socialist alternative, Wright has now completed a systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors.
Envisioning Real Utopias aims to put the social back into socialism, laying the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging, this will become a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first century.

TALK SLIDES

See the slides from this presentation here




Erik Olin Wright
Envisioning Real Utopias
Verso
2010

Présentation de l'éditeur
Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task—most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is utopian. Erik Olin Wright’s major new work is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. A systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors, Envisioning Real Utopias lays the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging, this will become a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents
Selected Chapters from the pre-publication typescript

    Preface
 Introduction
 Part I. Diagnosis and Critique
     Chapter 3. What’s so bad about Capitalism? 
 Part II. Alternatives
     Chapter 4. Thinking about Alternatives to Capitalism
 Part III. Transformation
     Chapter 9. Ruptural Transformation
     Chapter 11. Symbiotic Transformation
Conclusion


Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the editor of the Real Utopias series, which includes his Deepening Democracy (cowritten with Archon Fung), and is the author of many other books, including Class Counts, Interrogating Inequality, The Debate on Classes and Classes.

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