Podcast appearances and mentions of lise vogel

Journée internationale des migrants Amara Makhoul, Rédactrice en chef à France 24, responsable du site InfoMigrants Pierre Henry, président de France Fraternités Lise Vogel, reporter France Info TV, en duplex de la place de la République Loi sur l'immigration : le quinquennat d'Emmanuel Macron en danger? Jean Garrigues, président du comité d'histoire parlementaire et politique, enseignant Daïc Auduit, éditorialiste politique France Info TV

Jonathan Martineau: Algorithmic Capitalism and Social Reproduction: An Exploration The advent of Algorithmic Capitalism has reconfigured capital and labor relations, but also social reproduction. Since studies of the algorithmization of housework are very scarce thus far from a social reproduction perspective, this paper seeks to start a conversation by inquiring into two aspects of this new reality : Smart home technologies, and the population of the household by connected goods. The paper (i) proposes a periodization of three periods of domestic labor (industrial, neoliberal, algorithmic), (ii) inquires into the dialectics of the algorithmic subsumption of domestic work, (iii) examines the commodification of domestic work and the imperative for "domestic data" extraction, and (iv) explores the reconfiguration of affective labor within the household by IA domestic assistant technologies. Sue Ferguson: Social Reproduction Theory: New Challenges With both Covid-19 and the BLM-led uprising in the US dramatically reshaping the current moment, SRT confronts new (and some old) challenges. In this talk I survey questions that the period poses about value, resistance, the state, violence, debt and racism. My hope is to invite a conversation about the gaps within the social reproduction tradition, and openings for addressing the pressing political issues of the day. Hester Eisensten: From Patriarchy to Social Reproduction: Some Theoretical Questions In the early days of 20th century Marxist-Feminist theorizing (in the 1970s) the debate centered on whether patriarchy and capitalism were two separate systems (dual systems theory; cf. Iris Marion Young) or whether they were a unified system (cf. Lise Vogel). In the current era I argue that patriarchy has been in part subsumed under the Social Reproduction Theory framework (cf. Tithi Bhattacharya and Cinzia Arruzza). Yet in an era where international feminist organizing has been called the cutting edge of revolution against capitalism and imperialism, patriarchal norms still threaten women individually and as a group with murder, rape, and annihilation. How do we theorize these manifestations of patriarchal violence as part of or in relation to SRT? PLEASE NOTE: All events for HM Online are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider supporting the Historical Materialism project. Please consider subscribing to the Historical Materialism journal, published by BRILL, who are currently offering a 25% discount on individual subscriptions, valid until the end of the year. To use the offer, quote the discount code 70997 when subscribing at: www.brill.com/hima Also, please consider subscribing to the Historical Materialism book series through Haymarket Books. For $25 per month, this subscription gets you every new title from the Historical Materialism series when it is released (as long as your subscription remains active) plus a 50% discount on *all* Haymarket books titles via our website. Non-US subscribers will be charged an extra $20/month for international shipping. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/894-haymarket-book-club-historical-materialism-series Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/O9T3r59Zd-A Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

In this episode, we talk to Holly Lewis about her book the The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection (http://bit.ly/LewisEverybody). We talk about what Holly means when she argues that “the politics of the fragment should be replaced by an inclusive politics of everybody.” In our interview, we explore some of the debates and discussions around homonormativity, how to build a trans-inclusive feminism, and queer theory. We revisit social reproduction theory and talk about its implications for gender politics and trans liberation. Holly gives a clear overview about the different theoretical approaches to gender politics in Marxism, queer theory and feminist theory and explores the connections between them. Before that, we talk to LA teacher and strike leader Gillian Russom about the LA teachers’ strike. And in our intro, we talk about the controversy surrounding this year’s Women’s March. Most of our discussions barely scratched the surface, so we’ve got lots and lots of links for this episode. Holly Lewis and The Politics of Everybody — Buy Holly’s book: The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection (http://bit.ly/LewisEverybody) — We talk a lot about social reproduction theory. For an accessible introduction, you can check out this article by Tithi Bhattacharya in Socialist Worker (http://bit.ly/TithiSW). If you would like to go deeper, Lise Vogel’s book, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Towards a Unitary Theory, developed this theory and has been re-published by Haymarket Books (http://bit.ly/VogelHaymarket). Tithi Bhattacharya has also edited a collection of essays exploring this topic: Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (http://bit.ly/TithiBook). — Heather Brown’s Marx on Gender and the Family delves more deeply into Marx’s approach to gender and is available from Haymarket Books (http://bit.ly/BrownHaymarket) — Jules Gleeson has written an article on Transition and Abolition: Notes on Marxism and Trans Politics for Viewpoint Magazine (http://bit.ly/GleesonViewpoint). The LA Teachers’ Strike — Socialist Worker is providing ongoing coverage throughout the strike (http://bit.ly/SWLAStrike) — Gillian Russom recently spoke at a solidarity panel in NYC along with an Acero Charter School striker from Chicago and a wildcat striker from Oakland (http://bit.ly/LASolidarity) The Women’s March —Elizabeth Schulte wrote an article for Socialist Worker about the prospects for a new women’s movement as we approach the third annual women’s marches (http://bit.ly/SchulteSW) — Rosalind Petchesky has written a defense of Linda Sarsour and the Women’s March organizers against smears of anti-semitism (http://bit.ly/PetcheskyBOR) Music The Boy & Sister Alma, “Lizard Eyes” (Dead Sea Captains Remix) LUTHI, “Every Body" Roy Ayers Ubiquity, “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” R.E.M., “Everybody Hurts” Dean Martin, “Everybody Loves Somebody” Chance the Rapper, “Everybody’s Something” (feat. Saba and BJ The Chicago Kid) Tears For Fears, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”

This week on Too Long 4 Twitter, we're following up on last week's ep about feminism and taking a deeper dive into a theory of gender oppression and getting into social reproduction theory, aka: how we as worker's reproduce ourselves. Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, and Recentering Oppression. Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labor, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399881/social-reproduction-theory/ Tithi Bhattacharya on Doug Henwood's podcast Behind the News: https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/30374357/behind-the-news-what-social-reproduction-theory-offers-us/ Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis Wages Against Housework by Silvia Federici https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/federici-wages-against-housework.pdf Music by False Priest @false_priest

First published in 1983, Lise Vogel's Marxism and the Oppression of Women - toward a unitary theory  is regarded as one of the founding texts of Marxist Feminism.  It has now been relaunched, and Pod Academy was at the relaunch. Lisa Vogel was joined on the platform by Dr Tithi Battacharya, Purdue Liberal Arts University, in US, Dr Sue Ferguson, Laurier Brantford University in Canada  and Kate Davison, Melbourne University Tithi Battacharya said she had first read the book in the early 1990s, when 'Marxism was not common parlance in academia', and she kept going back to it for several reasons.  Firstly, it was a book that was explanatory rather than descriptive.  To her, Lise Vogel's book was one of the clearest explanatory texts to speak of the relationship between the capitalist system as a whole and the oppression of women. Secondly, Battacharya said the word 'unitary' had resonance for her - it countered the growing view at the time that patriarchy was a system of oppression that was independent of capitalism -  the view that there was capitalism, and then there was racism and sexism etc.  Vogel's book uses the word 'unitary' to reject this notion of autonomous tracks of social relations, Vogel asserts that capitalism is a unitary system and we need to explain it.  She also suggested that 'unitary' was a fantastic word to use in an age of the celebration of 'the fragment', 'the cult of the particular' [see also our podcast on Beyond the Fragments here]. In that age the book brought thinking back to a unitary way of thinking. Tithi Battacharya said that Lise Vogel restored to prominence the role of the family within the system as a whole. The book explored why the family is a source of oppression within its role in capitalism.  It theorised the role of the family in capitalism, at the level of production, rather than simply at the level of exchange. Vogel, she said, takes some of Marx's insights in Capital, and builds on them, exploring the gaps and silences. She looks at what labour power is, how it is regenerated, and what it means to labour under capitalism. Thirdly, in Tithi Battacharya's view, this thinking is of strategic importance because it looked outside the workplace.  This is particularly important, she said, now that 40 years of neoliberalism has denuded the labour movement.  She suggests we will see much struggle starting outside the workplace (such as that in Ferguson), and to misunderstand these struggles as not class struggle would be a strategic error for this generation of the left. Next up was Kate Davison who started by saying she had felt star struck when she realised who else would be on the panel, 'But', she added to laughter, 'I dealt with it!'  Quoting Sue Ferguson, she described the ideas put forward by Lise Vogel as 'The path not taken', and said that had they known, in the 1980s, about Vogel's work, feminists might have avoided 'much blood letting'.  At that time, she said, if you had been able to stick with the label 'socialist feminist' and brave the attacks from adherents of identity politics, you nevertheless often developed distrust of Leninism and by extension of Marxism altogether.  A small group turned towards socialism or anti-capitalist politics at the end of the 1990s, and undertook a re-evalutation of identity politics, eventually abandoning it in favour of the uniting power of the working class or the anti capitalist movement.  Kate said that she herself has dropped the 'feminist' from Marxist-Feminist when describing herself. She went on to say that the book is being re-published at a time of the re-emergence of struggles around sexual and gender based violence (eg the Slut Walks), sexism etc.  But many activists and revolutionary Marxists, she said, have little knowledge or understanding of these debates.  While some of the issues have come up around gay and lesbian issues (eg the campaign for equal marriage rights),

First published in 1983, Lise Vogel's seminal work, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Towards a Unitary Theory, was seized on by a generation of feminists who called themselves Marxist feminists, but were finding the fragmentation of socialism and feminism difficult to navigate.  Now republished, it was launched (or, rather, re-launched) at the Historical Materialism Conference in London in late 2014.  Pod Academy was at the launch, and recorded the platform speakers:     Lise Vogel,   Professor (retired) of Sociology at Rider University and the author of numerous books and articles. Before becoming a sociologist, she had an earlier career in art history. Dr. Tithi Battacharya. associate professor at Purdue Liberal Arts University in the US, Kate Davison, of Melbourne University Dr  Sue Ferguson, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Journalism at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, who co-wrote, with David McNally, the introduction to the new edition of the book.   This bookpod has been made possible by a grant from the Amiel Melburn Trust You may also be interested in our recording of the Beyond the Fragments event held in London in 2013.