Futuring Critical Theory, Keynote 4: Verónica Gago

15.09.2023 - Videos

»How to change Everything. A Feminist Critical Reading of the Present« Verónica Gago (University of Buenos Aires)

Section 4 – Recomposing Critical Theory, Keynote 4 International Conference »Futuring Critical Theory«

I intend to analyse the growth of the feminist movement in recent years and how it has transformed the perspectives and strategies developing in the struggles through the problematization of those elements in terms of a process of really broad social change. The discussion will address the following questions: In what sense does our movement confront capitalism and how is doing anti-capitalist politics, or is it undoing capitalism? What is the impact of our critical reading of capitalism threatening social reproduction and intensifying extractivism, and how does it affect the ways we confront it? What is the role of academic theorizing for the recent feminist movement in particular - and for the emancipatory social movements of our times in general? The feminist movement, that emerged in the latest cycle from the South, has taken on some of the most fundamental issues against capitalist enclosures of life in new forms of financial exploitation and extractivism. In the discussion of these matters, I seek to find the pattern that connects the different struggles as a concrete form of political transversality that would enable us to raise awareness and think in terms of a multilevel scale of articulation.

Futuring Critical Theory Friday, 15 Sep 23 Campus Westend, Casino Building Goethe University Frankfurt

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