Waiting for the Revolution, or How to Smash Capitalism while Working at Home in Your Spare Time

JK Gibson-Graham

This paper has a surplus of titles. The authoritative title is “Rethinking Capitalism,” affirming a connection with Rethinking MARXISM and with the larger movement to “rethink” received concepts; indeed, to question the entire epistemic foundation that has rendered such concepts prevalent and effective. The querulous title is “Why can feminists have revolution now, while marxists have to wait”?

Thinking with Marx For a Feminist Postcapitalist Politics

Ceren Özselçuk
Esra Erdem
J.K. Gibson-Graham

The article discusses the theoretical openings accorded by the recognition of economic difference and contingency within the Marxist tradition, exploring their potential contributions towards imagining and enacting a postcapitalist politics of economic transformation and experimentation.

Enjoyment as an Economic Factor: Reading Marx with Lacan

Ceren Özselçuk
Yahya M. Madra

This paper takes issue with economic discourses that present excessive greed as the central cause of economic crises. We argue that this focus on greed as the catalyst (when harnessed or the enemy of social order keeps the public debate from deliberating on the particular modes of enjoyment, which both shore up and destabilize the dynamics of production, appropriation, distribution and consumption under capitalism.