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Our working groups serve to develop insurgent scholarship and cultivate communities of thinkers committed to transforming how we understand political, social, and material life. These groups function as both intellectual incubators and recruitment grounds for positions press, fostering the kind of rigorous, boundary-crossing scholarship that challenges dominant academic and political orthodoxies.
We convene scholars, artists, activists, and independent thinkers to engage in sustained collective study that moves beyond disciplinary silos. Our reading practice treats texts not as static objects but as living resources for developing new theoretical frameworks adequate to our current conjuncture of crisis and possibility. Through close reading and sustained dialogue, participants develop shared conceptual vocabularies while maintaining space for productive disagreement and intellectual risk-taking.
reading themes
Our groups center scholarship that interrogates the intersections of capitalism, empire, and social reproduction, examining how systems of domination operate through intimate spheres of life—family, sexuality, care work, and affective labor. We prioritize work that reveals the gendered and racialized dimensions of political economy while exploring alternative forms of social organization.
Critical attention to the life sciences appears through our interest in scholarship examining how biological knowledge intersects with systems of power, from the biopolitics of reproduction to environmental racism to the commodification of life itself.
In social theory and political philosophy, we prioritize work that centers materialist analysis while remaining attentive to questions of subjectivity, affect, and embodied experience. We seek scholarship that bridges theoretical sophistication with concrete political engagement.
Past Events
From Socialist Feminism to Social Reproduction Theory
Marxist Feminism Reading Group, Fall 2024
A six-week exploration examining the evolution from socialist feminist frameworks to contemporary social reproduction theory, featuring key texts by Nancy Fraser on socialist feminism in China, foundational works by Marx and Engels in dialogue with feminist theory, and critical engagements with scholars like Federici, Dalla Costa, and Weeks on domestic labor and capitalist reproduction.