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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;">At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are pleased to host
<b>Prof. James Martel (SFSU)</b>, who will deliver<b> </b>his paper, “Blasting out of History: The Challenge of Inca Communism”.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Here is the abstract:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">In his "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin argues that engaging with the past had a radical effect on the present. This was because each time period had a specific
material reality of its own and each could disrupt the certainties and oppressions of the other, those systems of power that Benjamin calls "mythic violence" and what I like to call archism. In this talk, I will engage with that framework to consider the claim
by the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui that communism lies, not only in the future, but also in the distant past in the form of what he calls "Inca communism." Inca communism was (and remains) a form of societal organization that defied the Incan empire
itself—and actually preceded it. It has survived to the present day in the form of the
<i>ayllu, </i>deeply organized kinship networks that helped the Indigenous communities of the Andean Highlands to survive the Spanish conquest, genocide, the rise of liberal nation states and now neoliberalism. In some sense the ongoing existence of the
<i>ayllu </i>form could be seen as a concrete example of how different historical eras can coexist and disrupt each other. At the same time, the
<i>ayllu </i>has not remained static since its inception. The <i>ayllu </i>is as contemporary as archism and it remains as a challenge and also a political and social model that Western leftists might look to to better understand how to resist and even overthrow
archist power.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;">This event will be held in a hybrid format in the
</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b>Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Meeting Room N301</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;"> at the University of
Sydney and on Zoom on <b>Wednesday, May 6, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne time)</b>. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Here is the time in other locations:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Los Angeles/Vancouver:
<b>Tuesday, May 5, 5:00-7:00 pm</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Chicago/Mexico City:
<b>Tuesday, May 5, 7:00-9:00 pm</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">New York: <b>Tuesday, May 5, 8:00-10:00 pm</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro:
<b>Tuesday, May 5, 8:00-10:00 pm</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Dublin/Belfast/London:
<b>Wednesd<wbr>ay, May 6, 1:00-3:00 am</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Paris/Berlin/Rome:
<b>Wednesday, May 6, 2:00-4:00 am</b> </span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo:
<b>Wed<wbr>nesday, May 6, 3:00-5:00 am</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Beijing/Singapore/Perth:
<b>Wedne<wbr>sday, May 6, 8:00-10:00 am</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Tokyo: <b>Wednesday, May 6, 9:00-11:00 am</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Darwin: <b>Wednesday, May 6, 9:30-11:30 am</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Brisbane:<b> Wednesday, May 6, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon</b></span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" role="presentation">Adelaide: <b>Wednesday, May 6, 9:30-11:30 am</b></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;">We hope to see you there,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;">Tristan Bradshaw (UoW)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;">Ben Brown (USyd) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;">Tom Geue (ANU)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 9.75pt; color: black;">Andy Poe (ACU)</span></p>
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