Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge)

Centre for the Study of North America

Come and hear about the history of Western capitalism told through the cat, revealing a heretofore unrecognized animality at the heart of Marx's critique and that of Western Marxism more generally.

Leigh Claire La Berge is a Professor of English at BMCC CUNY and a 2021-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. She is author of Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (2014) and Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art (2019) as well as the co-editor of Reading Capitalist Realism (2014). 

Image:  The anarchist cat emblem "Sabby-Tabby" of the Industrial Workers of the World's and this image is from the 1913 'Sabotage' pamphlet