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The next MARCUSE SOCIETY conference will be held October 7-10, 2021 at Arizona State University, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. 
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May 2021  /  No. 26
Critical Highlights
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Alternative Futures: 
Marcuse's Dialectic of Technology

October 10-13, 2021

International Herbert Marcuse Society

Ninth Biennial Conference
 
Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona, USA
 
https://na.eventscloud.com/website/23723/

 
MARCUSE SOCIETY Conference 2021
Arizona State University
  • Featuring both in-person and virtual conference sessions.
This professional and scholarly gathering will feature presentations by an international community of Marcusean scholars, students, and activists as well as critical theorists from a variety of disciplines. We invite scholars from all disciplines and career pathways to contribute—graduate students, early career/contract faculty, and senior/established scholars to the meeting.

The conference theme is centered around Marcuse’s theorization of technological rationality, broadly construed. We encourage an expansive approach to this theme with a wide range of papers, from neoliberal authoritarianism to psychoanalytic theory, and from one-dimensionality to utopian imagining. Technological rationality is a unique theoretical touchstone to Marcusean thought as it provides the basis not only for the external means of production and how it shapes social relations, but how it explains the stabilizing social forces that register at the level of thought and subjectification.
 
If you have any questions,
please contact the conference organizers at:
ihms.2021.asu@gmail.com
 
We look forward to seeing you in the Fall! 

--Taylor Hines, Nicole Mayberry, and Robert Kirsch
International Herbert Marcuse Society
2021 Conference Organizers
Prosperity Marxism – Episode 14: 
"Who’s Afraid of Herbert Marcuse?"                                                                                                                  
Institute for the Radical Imagination
New York / March 28, 2021
 
Dr. Michael Pelias and Dr. Peter Bratsis respond to journalist Matt Taibbi’s recent attack on Herbert Marcuse -- and to some of the Left responses to the piece -- and, they speculate on the reasons for “why Marcuse now?”  

“For journalist Matt Taibbi, Herbert Marcuse is a pseudo-intellectual at fault for much of what ails the contemporary left. But the real Marcuse was a serious thinker who remained committed to socialism and working-class struggle.”
Arnold L. Farr
Professor of Philosophy
University of Kentucky

Dr. Arnold Farr received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Kentucky in 1996.  He became a member of the philosophy department at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia PA, where he was tenured in 2002.  After 12 years at St Joseph's, he was hired by the University of Kentucky, where he presently teaches.  His research interests are German idealism, Marxism, critical theory, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy.  He has published numerous articles and book chapters on all of these subjects. In 2000, he co-edited Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture.  In 2009, he published Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies.

Dr. Farr founded the International Herbert Marcuse Society in 2005, in Philadelphia. 
For archives of fascinating material on HERBERT MARCUSE, visit the website 
curated by Prof. Harold Marcuse (University of California, Santa Barbara).

You are also invited to visit the MARCUSE SOCIETY website for past newsletters and more information.
The Marcuse Society welcomes your thoughts on our future direction as well as your participation in moving things forward.

If you have ideas or questions about the Marcuse Society, please do not hesitate to contact:
  • Terry Maley <maley@yorku.ca>,
  • Imaculada Kangussu <lekangussu@gmail.com>, or
  • Andy Lamas <ATLamas@sas.upenn.edu>.
 
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