LABOUR AND CAPITAL IN SUPERMODERN CAPITALISM1
An anniversary session of the Institute for Critical Theories of Supermodernity, Sofia, 29 June – 1 July, 2018
PROGRAMME
Friday, 29 June
16.30-17.00. Official opening: Petar–Emil Mitev, Martina Mineva – chair: Darin Tenev
Session 1: Critical theory and supermodern capitalism – chair: Liliana Deyanova
17.00-18.30. Rastko Močnik, “What can Marx teach us about the restoration of capitalism?” (introductory plenary session)
18.30-18.40. coffee break
Session 2: The enigmas of the political structure of mediation – chair: Andrey Raychev
18.40-19.20. Andrey Bundjulov, “The political, politics, and political power“
19.20-20.00. Arto Arinian, “The political structure of supermodern capitalism (theoretical improvisations)”
20.00-21.30. The 40th anniversary of Marx’s Seminar (going back before 1989 with white wine, fruits, a cake with 40 candles, etc. 🙂
Saturday, 30 June
Session 3: – Marx’s theory of surplus value: contradictions of inheritance, 1 – chair: Tania Orbova
10.00-10.50. Deyan Deyanov, “Labour, capital, and surplus value (Schumpeterizing Marx, Marxicizing Schumpeter)” (plenary session)
10.50-11.10. Stiliyan Yotov, critical comment to the presentation of Deyanov
11.10-11.20. Deyan Deyanov, answer to the critical comment
11.20-12.00. Sava Stefanov, “The technological division of labour and the problem of innovations “
12.00-12.10. coffee break
Session 4: Labour as a problem before the theory of structures of mediation: contradictions of inheritance, 2 – chair: Georgi Medarov
12.10-12.50. Tania Orbova, “Three forms of labour – Marx’s theory of labour meets the theory of structures of mediation“
12.50-13.30. Martina Mineva, ”Practical logic of abduction and the problem of subjectness in innovative labour“
13.30-14.30. Discussions over pizza and a glass of wine
Session 5: To the problem of crises of supermodern capitalism: contradictions of inheritance, 3 – chair: Darin Tenev
14.30–15.20. Georgi Medarov, „Towards rewriting Marx’s theory of crises during supermodern capitalism”
15.20–16.00. Ognian Kassabov, „Wolfgang Streeck on the tensions between labour and innovations in supermodern capitalism”
16.00–16.50. Summary debate on the contradictions of the inheritance of Marx’s critique of political economy
16.50-17.00. coffee break
Session 6: Marx and Foucault: economy and politics, 1 (joint session with the Institute for Critical Social Studies) – chair: Todor Hristov
17.00-17.50. Momchil Hristov, „Foucault reads Marx: the political technologies of capital accumulation”
17.50-18.30. Liliana Deyanova, „Normalizing time: ‘turning the time of life into a work power’ (Foucault), ‘capitalization of time’ (Marx)”
18.30-21.30. The third anniversary of the Institute for Critical Theories of Supermodern Capitalism (this too is a party invitation, only the candles on the cake won’t be 40 🙂
Sunday, 1 July
Session 7: Marx and Foucault: economy and politics, 2 (joint session with the Institute for Critical Social Studies) – chair: Momchil Hristov
10.00-10.40. Todor Hristov, „Biocapitalism and the problem of surplus population”
10.40-11.20. Svetlana Sabeva, „Grievable and ungrievable lives: time in death in the era of biopower”
11.20-12.00. Summary debate on the staged dialogue between Marx and Foucault on economy and politics
12.00-12.10 coffee break
Session 8: Supermodern technologies, labour and nature – chair: Ognyan Kasabov
12.10-12.50. Darin Tenev, „The nature–technology nexus in supermodernity: transduction and transindividuality”
12.50-13.30. Konstantin Kaburov, „Improvement and enhancement: the working man”
13.30-14.30. Discussions over pizza and a glass of wine
Session 9: The ontology of time in the mirror of the nonclassical logic of the dialectical – chair: Martina Mineva
14.30-15.20. Andrey Raychev, Kancho Stoychev, „Ontology of Time (an interim recapitulation)” (plenary session)
15.20-15.40. Deyan Deyanov, critical comment to the presentation of Raychev and Stoychev
15.40-15.50. Andrey Raychev, Kancho Stoychev, answer to criticisms
15.50-16.30. Summary debate on the chances for the ontology of time, the logics of the dialectical, and the theory of structures of mediation
16.30–17.00. Official closing – Rastko Močnik, Darin Tenev, Deyan Deyanov – chair: Andrey Bundjulov
After 17.00. Chatting over a glass of wine
1 Every speaker distributes his or her time between the presentation and its discussion.