Wednesday, 24 October 2012

A systemically dark and stormy night: The Crises of Capitalism, by David Harvey

Petros Giannakouris/AP  pixtale.net

David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, gave a talk on the crises of capitalism at the RSA on 26 April 2010; this talk stands out as a substantial contribution to an understanding of the current economic situation. David Harvey questions conventional genres of explanation, and provides a clear, insightful, and much needed, reading of the crisis as a systemic condition of contemporary capitalism. The first video includes his full speech, as well as his answers to questions, while the second one is an example of RSA's production of animated videos of excerpts from the talks it holds. 



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