Gant Roberson

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Gant Roberson |Federico Finchelstein |Joseph Matthews |Evangeline Riddiford Graham

11th Anniversary Celebration of El Maizal Commune (2020) | Katrina Kozarek / Venezuela AnalysisIn the central western region of Venezuela, a vast scenery of fertile land blends with the llanero(herdsman) culture of the people of Simón Planas township. Adults make use of children’s bicycles (received as Christmas gifts from the government) to meet the exigencies of day-to-day life, evoking “a forgotten episode in a magical realist novel,” in the words of author Chris Gilbert.

Dec 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Gant Roberson |William Roberts |Teresa Ghilarducci |McKenzie Wark

“The poor people of the world gather together!” (1920) | Unknown artist, Azerbaijan Press Center / CC BY-SA 4.0In the fall of 2024, Princeton University Press published a new English translation of the first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital. The edition’s afterword was written by William Clare Roberts, an associate professor of political science at McGill University and author of Marx’s Inferno: A Political Theory of Capital (Princeton, 2016).