Tuesday 24th of October 2023 from 5:30PM till 7:00PM in the Ernie Abbott room (bottom floor) of the Wellington Trades Hall (124 Vivian Street).
Our October session convened by Jackson from the Wellington Socialist Society saw a lively discussion on organic intellectuals, their role, and the crisis’ in the Universities across Aotearoa and the world. As many of those present were students, with a number also staff at a variety of tertiary institutions, the group discussed the variety of cuts facing the sector. The following texts are the readings that were required for the session.
Primary:
(1). Antonio Gramsci, ‘The Formation of Intellectuals’ in Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Translated and Edited by Q. Hoare and G. N. Smith. (New York: International Publishers) pp. 3-23
Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (marxists.org)
(2). Neil Valllely, ‘The Fictitious University’ Counterfutures Vol. 14 pp. 10-18
Recommended:
(3). Steve Fraser, ‘How American Universities Turned Red’ Jacobin, June 14, 2023
(4). How American Universities Turned Red (jacobin.com)
All readings can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ohNPC7-LhqnBDqWwLa0iHCcqwqnWVspD2qyHn7vGxmw/edit#heading=h.gg44g4pxr42k
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