The
Summer Institute is a
working community of younger scholars, who share an intellectual and
personal history at Duke University, Swarthmore College, and other
institutions, and a commitment to Marxist and materialist theory.
In addition to their annual summer discussions, they have collaborated
on panel sessions at national and international conferences and on
essay collections.
They also very much like to hike and cook.
June 2001, Keene Valley, New York
Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History,” “What is Enlightenment?”
GWF Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra
June 2002, Acadia, Maine
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
José Bové and François Dufour, The World is Not for Sale
June 2003, Crescent Beach, Florida
Rey Chow, The Protestant Ethnic
Michel Beaud, A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000
Antonio Negri, “Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo”
April 2004, Durham, North Carolina
“A Sort of Anticipated Utopia: The Ethics and Politics of Collectivity”
Alain Badiou, Ethics
Agnes Heller, “The Frankfurt School”
June 2005, Keene Valley. New York
David Harvey, The New Imperialism
June 2006, Keene Valley, New York
Retort, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'
July 2009, Kiwassa Lake, New York
Enrique Dussel, Twenty Theses on Politics
Russell Banks, The Darling
July, 2010 Au Sable Forks, New York
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth
July, 2012 Mazama, Washington
T.J. Clark, "For a Left with No Future"
Susan Watkins, "Presentism?"
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Declaration
They also very much like to hike and cook.
June 2001, Keene Valley, New York
Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History,” “What is Enlightenment?”
GWF Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra
June 2002, Acadia, Maine
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
José Bové and François Dufour, The World is Not for Sale
June 2003, Crescent Beach, Florida
Rey Chow, The Protestant Ethnic
Michel Beaud, A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000
Antonio Negri, “Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo”
April 2004, Durham, North Carolina
“A Sort of Anticipated Utopia: The Ethics and Politics of Collectivity”
Alain Badiou, Ethics
Agnes Heller, “The Frankfurt School”
June 2005, Keene Valley. New York
David Harvey, The New Imperialism
June 2006, Keene Valley, New York
Retort, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'
July 2009, Kiwassa Lake, New York
Enrique Dussel, Twenty Theses on Politics
Russell Banks, The Darling
July, 2010 Au Sable Forks, New York
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth
July, 2012 Mazama, Washington
T.J. Clark, "For a Left with No Future"
Susan Watkins, "Presentism?"
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Declaration
The Participants:
Liz Blasco
Susan Hegeman
Caren Irr
Carolyn Lesjak
Chris Pavsek
Michael Rothberg
Rob Seguin
Phil Wegner
Yasemin Yildiz
Die Nachgeborenen:
Sophie
Owen
Nadia
Mia
Lonso
Claire
Madeleine
Contact us: Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida
Last updated 7/27/09
Liz Blasco
Susan Hegeman
Caren Irr
Carolyn Lesjak
Chris Pavsek
Michael Rothberg
Rob Seguin
Phil Wegner
Yasemin Yildiz
Die Nachgeborenen:
Sophie
Owen
Nadia
Mia
Lonso
Claire
Madeleine
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The principle advantage we derive from things outside us--apart from the experience and knowledge we acquire from observing them and changing them from one form into another--lies in the preservation of our body. That is why those things are most useful which can feed and maintain it, so that all its parts can perform their function properly. For the more the body is capable of affecting, and being affected by, external bodies in a great many ways, the more the mind is capable of thinking. But there seem to be very few things of this kind in Nature. So to nourish the body in the way required, it is necessary to use many different kinds of food. Indeed, the body is composed of a great many parts of different natures, which require continuous and varied food so that the whole body may be equally capable of doing everything which can follow from its nature, and consequently, so that the mind may also be equally capable of conceiving many things. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics |
| When we contemplate this
display of passions, and consider the historical consequences of their
violence and of the irrationality which is associated with them (and
even more so with good intentions and worthy aims); when we see the
evil, the wickedness, and the downfall of the most flourishing empires
the human spirit has created; and when we are moved to profound pity
for the untold miseries of individual human beings--we can only end
with a feeling of sadness at the transcience of everything. . . . But
even as we look upon history as an altar on which the happiness of
nations, the wisdom of states, and the virtue of individuals are
slaughtered, our thoughts inevitably impel us to ask: to whom, or to
what ultimate end have these monstrous sacrfices been made? G.W.F. Hegel, "The Philosophical History of the World"  |
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Contact us: Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida
Last updated 7/27/09