| Event Name: | Marx Reloaded: Blue or Red Pill? |
| Description: | To coincide with the UK cinema release of Marx Reloaded, this debate considers themes from the film with speakers including Robin Blackburn (Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us), Paul Mason (Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions), Laurie Penny and Jason Barker.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world," Karl Marx wrote famously. "The point, however, is to change it."
As popular resistance to the global economic and financial crisis grows, could it be that the "change" has finally arrived? The new #occupy phenomenon may suggest the desire for a world beyond capitalism. But how realistic is the communist, or "red pill", alternative being advocated by philosophers like Slavoj Žižek?
For Žižek, Alain Badiou, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, communism is an antidote, not just to a crisis-ridden economy, but to a bankrupt ideology and whole way of life dominated by the "rights" of property and profit. But why should we be convinced that social and economic alternatives to capitalism are preferable to the crisis currently engulfing the globe? Is humanity standing at a crossroads where a decision - and by whom or in whose name? - for "another world" must be taken? |
| Type of Event: | Discussions - Talks - Debates - Lectures |
| Event Agenda: | £12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members |
| Event Location: | Institute of Contemporary Arts |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Cultural Center |
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| Directions: | The nearest tube stations are Charing Cross (Northern and Bakerloo lines) and Piccadilly Circus (Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines).
To reach the ICA from Charing Cross exit the station and follow the signs for Trafalgar Square. Once at the Square head through Admiralty Arch near the south west corner, on to The Mall. We're located approximately 50 metres down on the right hand side.
To reach the ICA from Piccadilly Circus head straight down Lower Regent Street and into Waterloo Place. The entrance is located at the bottom of The Duke of York steps, on the left hand side.
Rail
The nearest railway station is also Charing Cross.
Bus
The following buses stop in nearby Trafalgar Square or Cockspur Street: 3,6,9,11,12,13,14,15,19,22,23,24,29,38,77a,88,91,139,159 and 176.
Please note that there are no bus services operating on The Mall. |
| Event Start Date | 15-Feb-12 |