Istiván Mészáros - The state's conundrum and Lukács' concept of dialectic

Professor Istiván Mészáros was in Goiânia/Brazil on November 2013 doing a lecture for his book's premiere in Brasil (Lukács' concept of Dialectic, originally released on 1972), but discoursing mostly about his recent research object, that is: The State. About this he has a six-years-long project - of which he already did three - articulating a grave critic of the state.

The following video is a non-complete recording of the lecture, but have most of that.
He talks large part of the time in English, but how it was in Brasil, you'll have to deal with the
simultaneous translation, but it worths.

  

Žižek, Assange and the cyber-activism

Žižek talking about the experience that he had when meet Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder; about the persecution suffered by Assange; about the perspectives of socialization of information with the internet; and about cyber-activism in general.

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The congregation's disbelief and the sunset of a cult. Löwy about the capitalism's dynamic and the protests

The French-Brazilian thinker Michael Löwy, grounded in the theories of Marx and Walter Benjamim, among others, does an analysis about the contemporary capitalistic global conjuncture linking this with the protests in Brazil and Europe. (the text is in Portuguese)

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Europe - Page with news about the Europian continent

A Facebook page that brings news and analysis about the Europe, specially crises, uprisings and its relations with the social-political situation of the continent

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World Protests 2006-2013

A great study about the protests and uprisings that occurred in the world since 2006 was elaborated by Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada and Hernán Cortés. The study embraces 843 protests, in 87 countries, which means about 90% of the global population. The material can be accessed in the following link

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David Harvey - Totalitarian Democracy

The British geographer David Harvey talking about the actuality of his book, the limits of capital, released thirty years ago, and also talking about the economic crises and its relation with the riots of last year. (the interview is in Portuguese)

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students' strike in Canada

The following link leads to an interesting book review dedicated to the students' strikes in Canada on 2012 as remarkable anti-austerity struggles.

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