Abstraction Conference

Marx and Philosophy Society

Seventh annual conference

Abstraction, Universality and Money Saturday

5th June 2010, 9.30am - 6.00pm

Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London

Richard Seaford (Exeter) Money, Abstraction, and the Genesis of the Psyche

Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths) The Dead Pledge of Society: Methodological Problems and Political Consequences of 'Real Abstraction'

Christopher Arthur Abstraction, Universality and Money

Graduate panels:

Jan Sailer (Freiburg) Securities: The Purest Form of Abstract Wealth

Nick Gray (Sussex) Abstraction, Universality, Money and Capital

Marina Vishmidt (Queen Mary, University of London) Art in and as Abstract Labour

Brian Fuller (York, Toronto) Materialism and Dialectic: Reading Marx after Adorno

Tim Carter (Sussex) Alienation and Domination in Marx and Wittgenstein

Chris Allsobrook (Sussex) The Ideological Normative Grounds of Immanent Critique

£15 waged, £10 unwaged (provides annual membership of the society)

To reserve a place in advance please email David Marjoribanks