what I learnt from a seminar on Post-Marxism

I attended this seminar on 3rd October at Nottingham University’s Future Students Centre. In the spirit of learning and contributing to discourse, here are five things I took away.

Laclau & Moffe in a sentence

Most of the seminar covered the thought of two Post-Marxist thinkers from the Essex School: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.

If you are interested, this 15-minute pre-seminar video sent to us actually covers their thought well. For me, I’m going to try summarise everything in a single sentence:

Goodbye class struggle, hello permanently shifting temporary coalitions.

theory, practice & the transcendent

the beauty and limits of human theorising

language creates worlds, we just live in them

create spaces, over and over