Combined lecture and masterclass by prof. Marina Vishmidt 
Dates: February 4, 2022  (15.30-17.30)
Location: Online (University of Amsterdam) 
Registration: j.l.overwijk@uu.nl

Part of Externalities of Value 2021-2021

Combined lecture and masterclass by prof. Marina Vishmidt 

Dr. Vishmidt joined the Centre for Culture Studies in 2016 and the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths in 2017, having taught primarily in European art academy contexts till then. Her research is mainly concerned with the nexus between art, value and labour, with an emphasis on the speculative relations that link processes of financialisation and subjectivation. Her work overall draws on disciplines including continental philosophy, aesthetics, political economy, feminist theory and black studies.

Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81138138696 

Public lecture in  the series: 

Externalities of Value 2021-2022

Capitalism is a system that requires the continuous valorisation of an “outside”, or what economists call “externalities”. Rather than being the mark of “market failure”, the production and exploitation of these externalities are integral elements in the governing logic of capitalist reproduction. In theorising the capitalist economy, we thus need an outward looking gaze that allows us to understand how external forms of wealth and bounty are funneled into the official capitalist sphere of value-production, and then exorcised again as value-less “waste”. This means that, as Yann Moulier Boutang writes, ‘political economy has no choice but to deal with this relation it has to its own outside’. This lecture series confronts this outside, or rather its various outsides, and the strange ways in which they are related to the capitalist economy in myriad areas, like ecology, social reproduction, contemporary forms of work, art and the commons.

Format

In a total of six, each public lecture is accompanied by a master class for students, PhD-candidates and staff. Additionally, we will invite one specialist respondent to the speaker of the masterclass.

NICA

is the Dutch national research school dedicated to the academic study of contemporary culture from an interdisciplinary, theoretical, and critical perspective. The school offers graduate courses for research master and PhD students, and serves as a professional network for affiliated scholars. Presently based at the Leiden University, the school welcomes the participation of scholars and students of all Dutch universities.