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SUMMARY:Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge)
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DESCRIPTION: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.\n
 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). \n
 Image:  The anarchist cat emblem "Sabby-Tabby" of the Industrial Workers of the World's and this image is from the 1913 'Sabotage' pamphlet \n
LOCATION:Arts Building, Room 439
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