Tuesday:
Experimental Geography Panel Discussion
With curator Nato Thompson, artists Lize Mogel and Trevor Paglen, and David Harvey
The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, New York
July 20, 2010 6:00 PM
Free, but reservation required

Interview:
Of human greed: Laurie Taylor interviews David Harvey for The New Humanist

Book Review:
The Enigma of Capital And the Crises of Capitalism reviewed by Bob Lloyd at Blog Critics Books.

Article:
“A financial Katrina? Geographical aspects of the financial crisis” in World Social Science Report 2010: Knowledge Divides by the International Social Science Council (ISCC) and UNESCO. Based on this lecture.

Introduction to A Companion to Marx’s Capital (135k PDF)

Thanks to Verso for making the chapter available. A Companion to Marx’s Capital is now available on Amazon and in your local bookstores.

“David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals. Read this book…” Naomi Klein

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars.

Based on his recent online lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.

“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…”

Update: Read a review of A Companion to Marx’s Capital by Charles Mudede in the Seattle Stranger titled ‘The Crystals of Capital‘

From RSA Animate

Watch original lecture.

Debating David Harvey

David Harvey,
Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition (pp 243 – 261) [PDF]

Responses:

Willie Baptist,
A new and unsettling force: the strategic relevance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign (pp. 262 – 270) [PDF]

AK Thompson,
“Daily life” not a “moment” like the rest: notes on Harvey’s “Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition” (pp. 271 – 286) [PDF]

Benjamin Shepard,
Responding to Harvey: it’s all about organizing (pp. 287 – 297) [PDF]

Laurence Cox,
“The interests of the movement as a whole”: response to David Harvey (pp. 298 – 308) [PDF]

Anna Selmeczi,
Educating resistance (pp. 309 – 314) [PDF]

Marcelo Lopes de Souza,
Which right to which city? In defence of political-strategic clarity (pp. 315 – 333) [PDF]

Inspired by the overwhelming interest in the Volume I lectures, which according to Google Analytics have logged over 700,000 page views from 10,884 cities in 187 countries since June 2008, we are happy to announce the next stage of this project.

Professor Harvey is planning on teaching a semester class on Capital Volumes II and III in the Spring of 2011. With your help, we plan to film, edit, and post a new set of free online videos to this site. To do this, we need to raise our budget of $10,000.

Support this project by making a tax-deductible donation today.

The Enigma of Capital was released in the UK on April 15th by Profile Books, and is currently available from Amazon UK. It has been reviewed by The Independent and the Financial Times.

Professor Harvey went on a speaking tour of London in support of the book.  You can watch several of his lectures online:

• The RSA April 26
• London School of Economics April 26
• King’s College April 27

Professor Harvey also gave several press interviews which you can watch or listen to here:

• BBC News Hard Talk May 5
• BBC World Service The Forum May 2
• BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed April 28
• The Guardian ‘The Business’ Podcast April 28

Update July 15: Classes 7-12 are now being streamed via Vimeo, while classes 1-6 and 13 remain with Blip.tv. All classes are again accessible via streaming video.

“Professor David Harvey on the need to think of alternatives to capitalism as endless growth is no longer a possibility. ”

Watch trailer | Watch in UK | Watch outside of UK: (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)