THIS EVENT WILL NOW BE HELD ON ZOOM due to in-person activities being cancelled as a result of winter weather.
Speaker:
Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brock University
Talk title:
Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations
Talk Abstract:
In this talk, I examine the ways in which contemporary marxist social thought conceptualizes embodied social relations (e.g., gender, race, and sexuality). I conduct this examination from the vantage point of theoretical methodology. Treating marxist feminist critiques of intersectionality as ideal objects of knowledge, I analyze how two specific strands of contemporary marxist feminism envelop the contents of their critiques in categorical forms. Then, in a moment of negative dialectics, I unseal the conceptual practices of power and history congealed in these objects and reckon with their antinomies. I use the re-cognition of these antinomies to constitute another constellation for understanding embodied social relations through social reproduction. Finally, I conclude by reflecting on space, subject, and society via the conceptual consequences of this new constellation.
Speaker Bio:
Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz is an interdisciplinary scholar of marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and queer thought. Through the theoretical methodology of concept formation, Gökbörü investigates the ways in which embodied social relations (i.e., race, gender, and sexuality) are conceptualized under contemporary late capitalism. He also explores the repercussions of these conceptualizations, particularly how they condition and generate cultural, performative, and political formations. His work is situated at the intersection of sociology, marxist social thought, gender studies, critical race theory, and human geography. Gökbörü has written on a range of diverse topics such as decolonization and marxism, social reproduction, the antinomies of classical sociological theory, protest cultures, the processes of urbanization, and subjectivity formation. What draws all his publications together is an analytical attention to the everyday, embodied, and lived manifestations of social, spatial, and political thought. The overarching focus of his research agenda is an examination of the ways in which subjective human praxis is negotiated through the conceptual practices of power in the process of history making.
This is an online event hosted on zoom.
