[Usyd_Classics_Events] Critical Antiquities Workshop – Sara Brill

[Andrew Poe]

Dear all,



At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are very excited to host *Prof.
Sara Brill (Fairfield University)* for her paper, “From the womb of capital
itself: Commodity Fetishism, Reproductive Fantasy, and the Use of Birth”.



This event will be held in a hybrid format in the Vere Gordon Childe Centre
Boardroom at the University of Sydney and on Zoom on *Wednesday, March 4,
09:00-11:00am (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne time)*.



Here is the time in other locations:



   - Los Angeles/Vancouver: *Tuesday, March 3, 2:00-4:00pm*
   - Chicago/Mexico City: *Tuesday, March 3, 4:00-6:00pm*
   - New York: *Tuesday, March 3, 5:00-7:00pm*
   - Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: *Tuesday, March 3, 7:00-9:00pm*
   - Dublin/Belfast/London: *Tuesday, March 3, 10:00pm-12:00 midnight*
   - Paris/Berlin/Rome: *Tuesday, March 3, 11:00pm-1:00am*
   - Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: *Wednesday, March 4, 12:00 midnight- 2:00am*
   - Beijing/Singapore/Perth: *Wednesday, March 4, 6:00-8:00am*
   - Tokyo: *Wednesday, March 4, 7:00-9:00am*
   - Darwin: *Wednesday, March 4, 7:30-9:30am*
   - Brisbane: *Wednesday, March 4, 8:00-10:00am*
   - Adelaide: *Wednesday, March 4, 8:30-10:30am*



*To register*, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing
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Here is the abstract:



Near the end of the third volume of Capital, Marx deploys a telling image
to describe the fantasy-world building of commodification, whereby
productive powers and social relations are transferred from labor to
capital, “and seem to issue from the womb of capital itself.” This trope,
in which the womb is figured as both productive and destructive, both natal
and mortal, both natural and unnatural, was available already to Aristotle,
who used it to examine critically the nature of business expertise and the
accrual of interest through the figure of the *tokos*, both ‘child’ and
‘interest.’ Their shared concern about the nature of money and the
psycho-political effects of limitless acquisition and exchange invites a
genealogical approach in assessing the possibilities of Marxist critique
for a variety of contemporary critical theories. In this paper, I take up
the invitation and explore the subterranean conceptual formations
connecting an alienated approach to the material conditions of human birth
with the dictates of neoliberal global capitalism.



We hope to see you there,



Tristan Bradshaw (UoW)

Ben Brown (USyd)

Tom Geue  (ANU)

Andy Poe (ACU)



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