[SustainableTompkins] Cornell conference: Between Primitive Accumulation and the New Enclosure

[Anthony Ingraham]

Upcoming Conference Cosponsored by MITWS, at Cornell

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/FMSresearch/events.html (scroll down a little to see the full description)
Between Primitive Accumulation and the New Enclosures

March 30 & 31, 2007
Modernity is many things. Secularization is one of them, and speed-up, and the cult of technics, and disenchantment of the world, and false orientation to the future. But right at the heart of capitalist modernity, we would argue, has been a process of endless enclosure. The great work of the past half-millennium was the cutting-off of the world's natural and human resources from common use. Land, water, the fruits of the forest, the spaces of custom and communal negotiation, the mineral substrate, the life of rivers and oceans, the very airwaves--capitalism has depended, and still depends, on more and more of these shared properties being shared no longer, whatever the violence or absurdity involved in converting the stuff of humanity into this or that item for sale. Enclosure seems to us the best word for the process's overal logic.
-Retort, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/FMSresearch/events.html  (scroll down a little to see the full description)