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Editorial Collective advancing #LeftMMT, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. moneyontheleft.org/

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We speak with Kester about his multi-decade career, researching and teaching the history of socially engaged art.

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Money on the Left is joined by Dr. Chris Martin to discuss Modern Monetary Theory’s vital importance for the struggle to provide adequate housing for all.

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Tremendous thanks to Chris Martin for joining us on the podcast this month to discuss the political economy of housing for all. Please listen, read, and share!

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Our dialog focuses on Martin's report, “Towards an Australian Housing and Homelessness Strategy: Understanding National Approaches in Contemporary Policy,” co-authored w/Julie Lawsome, Vivienne Milligan, Chris Hartley, Hal Paswon & Jago Dodson. 2/3

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MotL 70 is live! 📢

✨Housing for All w/ Chris Martin✨

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Dr. Chris Martin joins us to discuss Modern Monetary Theory’s vital importance for the struggle to provide adequate housing for all.

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Andrew J. Douglas, political theorist at Morehouse College, joins us to discuss his latest article, “Modern Money and the Black University Concept,” published in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice.

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This episode examines the history of direct job creation programs from the depths of the Great Depression and debates over the Employment Act of 1946 to the War on Poverty and the Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978.

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We discuss Kester’s two recent books published by Duke University Press: The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde & Beyond the Sovereign Self Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art.

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Scott Ferguson is joined on the Superstructure podcast by Ruth E. Kastner, philosopher of physics and research associate at the University of Maryland.

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Graham Hubbs speaks with Scott Ferguson and Andrés Bernal about the relationship between Modern Monetary Theory and philosophy.

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Douglas stages critical encounters between the Black University concept & the Uni Currency Project that aim to activate colleges and universities as sites for radical public provisioning and meaningful political participation.

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Since last night’s #BBCElectionDebate raised the issue of #trust whilst also featuring a question pitting ‘economic growth’ against ‘successful climate policy’, this may be a good time to revisit my bizarre claim that novels can help us think about these matters differently #GND

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Frederic Heine joins Money on the Left to discuss his recent essay, “Performing Hard Money: Monetary Policy, Metaphor and Masculinity in the Making of the EMU.”

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Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson to explore the ins and outs of “postmodernism.”

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Andrew J. Douglas joins us to discuss his latest article, “Modern Money and the Black University Concept,” published in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice.

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In The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, Mell marshals previously untapped primary sources to upend the common historical narrative regarding the role of Jewish moneylenders in the development of the modern economy.

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"It can be such a heavy lift to try to get people to think about money in these sorts of heterodox ways. It requires more than just a casual conversation more than just a 15 minute paper presentation at a conference."

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"One of the most generative ideas that came out of [my] class was ... that all 105 ... HBCUs ... join together in a monetary union & issue of currency that has receivability across campuses to expand the scope of currency as currency."

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Kester affirms what is variously called dialogical aesthetics or socially engaged art, a collaborative sensuous practice in public space, which aims to transform thought and action by forging complex relationships among artists and publics.

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We had a wonderful conversation with @ajdouglas.bsky.social on the @moneyontheleft.bsky.social podcast this month. We speak about his important new article, "Modern Money and the Black University Concept,” published April 19, 2024, in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Check it out!

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@ajdouglas.bsky.social is author of three books, including Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism; W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society; and In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition. 5/

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Proponents of both projects, @ajdouglas.bsky.social argues, stand to gain much through collaboration & close study of each other’s work, with the prospective outcome of a revitalized 21st-century public money-driven Black University movement lingering just within reach. 4/

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... like the Uni Currency Project, that aim to activate colleges and universities as sites for radical public provisioning and meaningful political participation. 3/

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@ajdouglas.bsky.social stages critical encounters between the concept of the Black University–an alternative vision for higher education oriented to Pan-African research & community development–& recent public money-driven proposals ... 2/

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Ferguson and Kastner critique orthodox commitments in both economics and physics to a pre-relational individuality: what medieval theologian John Duns Scotus famously called thisness or, “haecceity.”

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An appreciation of modern money theory and the potential of endogenous credit creation may help to renew the Black University movement in our time.

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We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

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Can novels and, by extension, other works of art help us to think about money and trust in new ways? Could embracing alternative perspectives on trust and money help us to avoid climate catastrophe?

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We talk to Julie Mell, an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University and author of the two volume book, The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender.

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"That term 'socially engaged art' emerges ... in the 1980s ... an engagement that implies this reciprocal or dialogical, back and forth where the artist learns from, and is transformed by as well as exercising and effect on a particular site, or public."

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"[W]hat differentiated this kind of [art] for me is that the engagement implied a reciprocal, in a way, responsibility to site or the audience that involved a kind of a feedback loop ... in which the work wasn’t simply imposed onto a site."

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On Julie Mell’s reading, the prevailing understanding of the medieval Jewish moneylender–common to both antisemitic and philosemetic discourses in the 19th and 20th centuries– has no more basis in history than does the related myth of barter.

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Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester shows how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation.

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We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

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Paradoxically, autonomy in the dominant Western tradition of aesthetics is supposed to secure art’s political dimension by blunting and often deferring any claims to immediate social efficacy.

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We had a fantastic conversation with art historian Grant Kester about his multi-decade career researching & teaching about socially engaged art. We treat a wide-range of topics, but we focus in particular on his two new books from Duke University Press. Check it out!

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MotL 68 is live!

✨Aesthetics after Autonomy w/ Grant Kester✨

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We speak with Kester about his multi-decade career, researching and teaching the history of socially engaged art. 

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