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Falshfasad: Disavowed Infrastructure and Everyday Mate-realism in Wild Capitalist Moscow

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How can an architectural or infrastructural project be “fake”? How, in particular, does the (un)reality of architecture play out in Putin-era Russia, a society which critics (both scholars and commentators) frequently caricature as suffused with “post-truth” artifice and devoid of substantive foundations? This article explores the above questions with primary reference to Zaryadye Park – nicknamed “Putin’s Paradise” by its…

New Political Economies of the French Empire, 19th and 20th centuries

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. While the cultural, political, legal and social aspects of French colonialism have received much attention over the past 30 years, the political economy of the French colonial empire has been largely neglected. This conference will bring together a new generation of historians and economists whose work engages with the nature and workings of French colonial…

The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism: Oliver Nachtwey in Conversation

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

Join German sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and Ajay Singh Chaudhary for a conversation on how neoliberalism is causing a social crisis in Germany and the rest of Europe. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children…