Reading series “Transformations of late capitalism” – Third edition (IIGG)

The first meeting will be held on Friday, August 14th at 5:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room. The second meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 19th at 6:00 p.m. in Room 1 of the Gino Germani Research Institute. The invitation is open to the public. For more information and inquiries, please write to [email protected].

The series brings together research groups to discuss contemporary capitalism based on shared readings. The 2024 and 2025 editions featured discussions of texts by Rebecca Carson, Joseph Vogl, Robert Kurz, Bernard Stiegler, Benjamin Bratton, George Caffentzis, and Yannis Varoufakis.
This year, the series will feature two sessions. The first proposes a dialogue between Matteo Pasquinelli – “Machinic Capitalism and Network Surplus Value / Notes on the Political Economy of the Turing Machine” – and George Caffentzis – “A Critique of Cognitive Capitalism” and “The End of Work or the Renaissance of Slavery? A Critique of Rifkin and Negri.” The second will address current critical approaches to platforms and artificial intelligence: “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?” by Shoshana Zuboff (selection: “Prologue,” “Our Accidental Dystopia,” and “Fourth Foundational Stage”); and “Digital Dependency Theory” by Cecilia Rikap (selection: “Introduction. Pole of Artificial Intelligence?”, “Centers,” and “Progress”).