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With Astra Taylor, Sarah Jaffe, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Raphaële Chappe.
The 2008 financial crisis shook to the core not only the global economy, but also prevailing myths about the efficiency of markets, the possibility of endless profits and growth, and the inviolability of capitalism.
Documentarian Astra Taylor and journalist Sarah Jaffe join BISR faculty Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Raphaële Chappe for a wide-ranging panel discussion of the causes and contexts of the crash, as well as its lasting, overwhelming consequences for policy, politics, and culture.
Filmed at Verso Books in Brooklyn on September 27, 2018. Co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR).
(Some portions of the event are unavailable due to technical problems.)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
ASTRA TAYLOR is a writer, documentarian, and organizer. Her films include “Zizek!” and “Examined Life,” a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Peter Singer, and others. Taylor’s writing has appeared in The Nation, the London Review of Books, n+1, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She is the editor of “Examined Life,” a companion volume to the film, and the coeditor of “Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America” (Verso 2011). Most recently she is the author of the book “The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age,” winner of a 2015 American Book Award. She helped launch the Rolling Jubilee campaign and co-founded the Debt Collective.
SARAH JAFFE is a Nation Institute fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, the Week, the American Prospect, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s “Belabored” podcast, as well as an editorial board member at Dissent and a columnist at New Labor Forum. “Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt” is her first book.
AJAY SINGH CHAUDHARY is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. His research focuses on social and political theory, Frankfurt School critical theory, political economy, media, religion, and post-colonial studies. He has written for the The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Quartz, Social Text, Dialectical Anthropology, The Jewish Daily Forward, Filmmaker Magazine, and 3quarksdaily, among other venues. Ajay is currently working on a book of political theory for the Anthropocene.
REBECCA ARIEL PORTE holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research, which centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements in British and American poetry, concentrates on crossings between early analytic philosophy and modern theories of poetics and aesthetics. Reviews and essays have appeared in the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and io9, among other publications.
RAPHAËLE CHAPPE holds a PhD in Economics from The New School for Social Research, an LL.M from New York University School of Law, a Master’s degree in Comparative Business Law from the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France, and an LL.B in Law and French Law from King’s College London. Her research interests include the link between financial markets and wealth inequality; political economy and the history of economic thought; and the philosophical foundations of microeconomics.
With Astra Taylor, Sarah Jaffe, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Raphaële Chappe.
The 2008 financial crisis shook to the core not only the global economy, but also prevailing myths about the efficiency of markets, the possibility of endless profits and growth, and the inviolability of capitalism.
Documentarian Astra Taylor and journalist Sarah Jaffe join BISR faculty Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Raphaële Chappe for a wide-ranging panel discussion of the causes and contexts of the crash, as well as its lasting, overwhelming consequences for policy, politics, and culture.
Filmed at Verso Books in Brooklyn on September 27, 2018. Co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR).
(Some portions of the event are unavailable due to technical problems.)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
ASTRA TAYLOR is a writer, documentarian, and organizer. Her films include “Zizek!” and “Examined Life,” a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Peter Singer, and others. Taylor’s writing has appeared in The Nation, the London Review of Books, n+1, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She is the editor of “Examined Life,” a companion volume to the film, and the coeditor of “Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America” (Verso 2011). Most recently she is the author of the book “The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age,” winner of a 2015 American Book Award. She helped launch the Rolling Jubilee campaign and co-founded the Debt Collective.
SARAH JAFFE is a Nation Institute fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, the Week, the American Prospect, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s “Belabored” podcast, as well as an editorial board member at Dissent and a columnist at New Labor Forum. “Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt” is her first book.
AJAY SINGH CHAUDHARY is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. His research focuses on social and political theory, Frankfurt School critical theory, political economy, media, religion, and post-colonial studies. He has written for the The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Quartz, Social Text, Dialectical Anthropology, The Jewish Daily Forward, Filmmaker Magazine, and 3quarksdaily, among other venues. Ajay is currently working on a book of political theory for the Anthropocene.
REBECCA ARIEL PORTE holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research, which centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements in British and American poetry, concentrates on crossings between early analytic philosophy and modern theories of poetics and aesthetics. Reviews and essays have appeared in the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and io9, among other publications.
RAPHAËLE CHAPPE holds a PhD in Economics from The New School for Social Research, an LL.M from New York University School of Law, a Master’s degree in Comparative Business Law from the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France, and an LL.B in Law and French Law from King’s College London. Her research interests include the link between financial markets and wealth inequality; political economy and the history of economic thought; and the philosophical foundations of microeconomics.
