We cordially invite you to two guest lectures at Interdisciplinary study of institutions and society in the 21st century module by Prof. Werner Bonefeld, PhD.
Tuesday, 3 June 2025 at 4:00 PM:
Money and its Power.
The session examines the money form of capitalist wealth. It argues that the satisfaction of needs is secondary to the requirement of making money out of money. In this context, it explores capital as a process of making money out of money, argues that in capitalism time is money, and examines the corporeality of its power. In capitalism money rules – what cannot be exchanged for money is worthless. Why, how, and with what consequence?
Wednesday, 4 June 2025 at 4:00 PM:
Economic Compulsion and the Critique of Suffering.
Marxʼs overriding concern in his critique of political economy is the conceptualization of the capitalist social relations. He asks, »What is necessary and unavoidable in a given production system?« For Adorno, capitalism is most perceptible where it hurts. He turns towards human suffering as the key to comprehending capitalism’s social reality. My concern is not whether Adorno’s turn towards human suffering is core to his negative dialectics and whether Marx is a logician of the capitalist social nature. My concern is rather in reading what Marx calls his ‘critique of the entire system of economic categories’ through Adorno’s determinate negation. The term economic compulsion’ lends itself to this reading.
Both lectures will be held in English in the Gosposka Hall ZRC SAZU, Gosposka ulica 16, Ljubljana.
Werner Bonefeld is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana, Slovenia). He teaches Contemporary Critical Theory in Western Marxian Thought at the University of Peking. Recent book publications include Adorno and Marx, which he co-edited with Chris O’Kane, and A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion (Routledge, 2023). With Chris O’Kane, he is co-editor of Bloomsbury’s Critical Theory and the Critique of Society series.
Welcome!
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Vabimo vas na gostujoči predavanji, ki jih bo na modulu Interdisciplinarni študij institucij in družbe 21. stoletja imel prof. dr. Werner Bonefeld:
V torek, 3. junija 2025 ob 16. uri:
Denar in njegova moč.
Predavanje bo obravnavalo denarno formo kapitalističnega bogastva. Zagovarjali bomo trditev, da je zadovoljevanje potreb drugotnega pomena v primerjavi z zahtevo po ustvarjanju denarja iz denarja. V tem okviru bomo raziskali kapital kot proces ustvarjanja denarja iz denarja, skušali pokazati, da je v kapitalizmu čas denar, in preučili utelešenost njegove moči. V kapitalizmu denar vlada – kar ni moč zamenjati za denar nima vrednosti. Zakaj, kako in s kakšnimi posledicami je temu tako?
V sredo, 4. junija 2025 ob 16. uri:
Ekonomska prisila in kritika trpljenja.
Za Marxa je bila v njegovi kritiki politične ekonomije prednostna skrb razviti konceptualizacijo kapitalističnih družbenih odnosov. Sprašuje se: »Kaj je nujno in neizogibno v danem produkcijskem sistemu?« Na drugi strani je za Adorna kapitalizem najbolj zaznaven tam, kjer boli. Zateče se k človeškemu trpljenju kot ključu za razumevanje družbene realnosti kapitalizma. V predavanju ne bo šlo za to ali je Adornov obrat k človeškemu trpljenju jedro njegove negativne dialektike in ali je Marx logik kapitalistične družbene narave. Zanimalo nas bo branje tega, kar Marx imenuje »kritika celotnega sistema ekonomskih kategorij«, v prizmi Adornove določene negacije. Rekli bomo, da je »ekonomska prisila« ustrezen izraz za takšno branje.
Predavanji bosta v angleškem jeziku v Gosposki dvorani ZM GIAM ZRC SAZU, Gosposka ulica 16, Ljubljana.
Werner Bonefeld je profesor emeritus na Univerzi v Yorku (VB) in pridruženi profesor na Podiplomski šoli ZRC SAZU. Poučuje Sodobno kritično teorijo v Zahodnem Marksizmu na Univerzi v Pekingu. Njegova zadnja knjiga je A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation (Routledge, 2023) in monografijo o Adornu in Marxu, ki je izšla v souredništvu s Chrisom O’Kaneom. S slednjim je tudi sourednik zbirke pri Bloomsbury: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society.
Vabljeni!
