THE DISPLACEMENT

The Displacement Tumblr by Connie Mendoza is a compilation of documents, films, books, images and diverse material for the ongoing project "The Displacement. Drama in three acts and climax based on the "screenplay" (sic) "Capital" by Karl Marx." Link to the project: http://bit.ly/1JHvQrp

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Review: Young Marx

The new play Young Marx is an affectionate and funny account of Karl Marx’s early life as an impoverished émigré in Victorian London, says Keith McKenna. Rory Kinnear played by Karl Marx. Photo by Manuel Harlan. The revolution will be fun, at least if playwrights Richard Bean and Clive Coleman have anything to do with it. Their Young Marx, which inaugurates the new Bridge Theatre on London’s…

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Capitalism's life source: the domestic and social basis for exploitation

US-based socialist Tithi Bhattacharya responds to questions from rs21 on her new book about social reproduction theory.

US-based socialist Tithi Bhattacharya responds to questions from rs21 on her new book about social reproduction theory. For someone who hasn’t come across the term before, what is social reproduction theory? Social reproduction theory (SRT) sounds quite intimidating, but the (rather grandiose) anthology of big words masks a relatively simple question: if capitalist production is fundamentally the…

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Kostas Axelos: Introduction to a Future Way of Thought

“Technologists only change the world in various ways in generalized indifference; the point is to think the world and interpret the changes in its unfathomability, to perceive and experience the difference binding being to the nothing.” Anticipating the age of planetary technology Kostas Axelos, a Greek-French philosopher, approaches the technological question in this book, first ...It’s Open Access! Check it out!

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Mary Burns: “Behind ev'ry great man, there had to be a great woman” #Creative50 installation supported by Manchester International Festival #MaryBurns This is our film celebrating the life of Mary Burns as part of Manchester International Festival's #Creative50 digital training programme. There is the old phrase that ‘behind every great man there is a great woman’ and this we feel is true for Friedrich Engels’ story, as Mary Burns who he lived with in Manchester, who was a working class Irish woman, it has been agreed by many of his biographers was the one who took Engels around Manchester to the deprived areas, such as Angel Meadow and Little Ireland, and without her he would have never been able to document Manchester's slums, the working class and write his book. We had an idea for a collaborative artistic response to the Ceremony event and the Friedrich Engels statue being installed in Manchester. We researched how Engels lived in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution of Victorian England. He was a friend of Karl Marx and he ran a mill in Salford for his father whilst at night he studied the working classes for his book he was to write entitled ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’, which would later inspire the Communist manifesto. Mary Burns for all the time she was with Engels has largely been forgotten from history and her legacy stands ‘behind’ his and very little is known about her (not even a photograph survives), so to highlight her story and remember her connection to Manchester and Engels we created an installation inspired by our #Creative50 training with Manchester International Festival. This idea is our response to #MIF17's Ceremony event on the 16th July 2017. The name of the piece is inspired by one of the lyrics from the Eurythmics 1985 feminist anthem song "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" featuring Aretha Franklin which reused the old phrase and turned the traditional slogan into a different more female positive response. Fabricator: Nicola Ellis Textile dyer: Natalie Linney Sculpture designer: Jasmine Walne Poetry: Ella Otomewo and Kofi Gyamfi Artist films/projections: Jamie Starboisky Composition/cello: Chris Lyon Recording/sound design: Manoli Moriaty Installation filming: Christian Payne Sculpture Lately we have been made aware that the only statue of a woman in Manchester is the one of Queen Victoria in Piccadilly Gardens, and whilst there will be the one of Emmeline Pankhurst we are keen to create another one. Our 5 foot statue fabricated in steel by Nicola Ellis from the Creative50 is not a real likeness of Mary - as not much is known about her, so is more abstract human shape designed by Jasmine Walne to represent her independent politicised and feisty character, and Natalie Linney will utilise her skill in dying and textiles to create a dress for her using a traditional Victorian nightdress. Artist films, sounds, sonics and poetry Our installation was on display as a one-day pop-up in the Servant's Hall at Elizabeth Gaskell House, on Wednesday 12th July, as Mary herself was a domestic servant, as an immersive journey showing artist films that mix images, photos, video and sounds linked to Mary’s life, her relationship with Engels, Manchester at the time featuring the working classes and industry. The six artist films created by Jamie Starboisky would include six poetry verses responding to key parts of Mary’s life that were written by Ella Otomewo and Kofi Gyamfi from Young Identity, and narrated by Manchester based Irish woman Bridie Breen. Bridie's voiceover was recorded in a radio studio at the University of Salford, with sounds and sonics by Manoli Moriaty and cello music by Chris Lyon specially made as a musical bed. Filming of the installation was done by Christian Payne. About Creative50 Creative50 is a three-month training and development programme supporting 50 aspiring and emerging creatives from Greater Manchester to experiment with new digital tools, technologies and platforms, with an emphasis on doing something new within their artistic practices. The Creative50 are given access to mentoring and support from leading digital practitioners and creative producers as they make two creative responses to the MIF17 programme. These will then be shared on Manchester International Festival's networks and on BBC Live during the festival, to amplify the artists’ reach beyond their established audiences. Creative50 is delivered by MIF and supported by the Arts Council’s Ambition for Excellence programme and Bruntwood. #MIF17 (Mary's relationship with Engels could be perceived today as a "partner/girlfriend/common-law wife" - they never married as they did not believe in marriage and our piece simply aims to highlight that they were close and were together a long time.)

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BBC - All Work and No Play by Jamie Woodcock

How Engels can help us understand the nature of work in the 21st century.

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BBC - Austerity is Over by Nina Power

What can Engels’ assessment of 19th-century workers tell us about British austerity today.

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Manchester has a Soviet statue of Engels. Shame no one asked the city’s Ukrainians | Kevin Bolton

The monument is a piece of propaganda. Efforts to celebrate it have ignored the voices of all those Mancunians who suffered under communism• Kevin Bolton is an archives consultant living in Stockport

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Phil Collins: why I took a Soviet statue of Engels across Europe to Manchester

Friedrich Engels spent two decades in Manchester. The horrific conditions he saw in the cradle of industrialism forged his great works. But the city has never commemorated him – until now

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Friedrich Engels – philosopher, writer, radical thinker – is coming back home. Turner Prize-nominated artist Phil Collins is returning Engels […]

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Preface and Table of Contents for Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

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Peter Osborne, ‘Marx after Marx after Marx after Marx’ (2016)

Harry Harootunian, Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism, Columbia University Press... | radical philosophy 200 (Nov/Dec 2016)

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Putting the critique of political economy back into the critique of society | radical philosophy 189 (Jan/Feb 2015)