Global Changemakers Book Club:
Conversation with Dr. Todd McGowan on Capitalism and Desire
Thursday, February 24, 2022 | 3:00-4:30 PM CST
Capitalism’s parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism’s defenders characterize it. Join us as we deconstruct this psychic strategy with Dr. McGowan to explore the relationship between capitalism and our desires.
- Dr. Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Universality and Identity Politics, Emancipation After Hegel, Only a Joke Can Save Us, Capitalism and Desire, and other works. He is the coeditor of the Diaeresis series (with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston) at Northwestern University Press and editor of the Film Theory in Practice series at Bloomsbury. He is also the co-host of the Why Theory podcast.
Navigate to this link to register for this Zoom event:
https://uark.zoom.us/j/2761205702?pwd=dUdKREluSWh0Q3psdk8xcnJ5Vy9Qdz09
