First Speaker Series on the Capitalist Mode of Power

The First Speaker Series on the Capitalist Mode of Power was sponsored by the York Department of Political Science and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought. Talks were held at York University, Toronto, Canada and the series ran from October to November 2013. Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 Can Capitalists Afford Recovery? Economic Policy […]

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3rd Annual Conference – Capitalizing Power: The qualities and quantities of accumulation

Power from Above, Power from Below — Tim Di Muzio & Jonathan Nitzan No Way Out: Crime, Punishment & the Capitalization of Power — by Jonathan Nitzan New Dynamics of Power — Jeffrey Harrod & Herman Schwartz Restructuring Against Resistance — Joseph Baines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96zCLv25yNM What Happened to the Bondholding Class? — Sandy Hager Capitalist Power, […]

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1st Annual Conference – Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory

Session I: THE VALUE CONTROVERSY, Forum on Capital as Power 2011 Session II: CRISIS OF CAPITAL, CRISIS OF THEORY, Forum on Capital as Power 2010 Session III: SYSTEMIC FEAR, MODERN FINANCE AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM, Forum on Capital as Power 2010 Session IV: CRISIS, Forum on Capital as Power 2010 Session V: METHODS AND INSTITUTIONS, Forum on Capital as Power […]

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No Way Out: Crime, Punishment & the Capitalization of Power

Presentation at the Department of Political Science, York University. 12 November   The United States is often hailed as the world’s largest ‘free market’. But this ‘free market’ is also the world’s largest penal colony. It holds over seven million adults – roughly five per cent of the labour force – in jail, in prison, on parole and […]

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