名家讲坛第198期  人文基金讲座第106期

南京大学“薛君度讲座教授”聘任活动之一

演讲人：国际著名地理学家、英国剑桥大学博士、
          美国纽约城市大学特聘教授、杰出教授

          David Harvey 大卫•哈维

讲座题目： 价值实现危机与日常生活政治
             REALIZATION CRISES AND THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
  
主持人：南京大学高研院院长 周 宪 教授

时间：2016年6月7日（周二）晚 19：00—20：30
地点：仙林校区国际学院C308报告厅


ABSTRACT

Marxist scholarship has been historically weighted towards the study of the production of value and to the class relations that underpin the appropriation of value by capital at the expense of labour.  The factory and factory labourhave  hithertoplayed a central role in defining the nature of class struggles that have shaped the history of capitalism.

But at the end of the very first section of Capital Marx argues that value is contingent on the wants, needs and desires for commodities within populations, without which there can be no value.  The production of new wants, needs and desires has therefore played a vital role in the history of accumulation. The primary site of such struggles is in the household or community and the vast array of urban social movements testifies to the importance of the realization of value as a site of contestation. With rapid urbanization, the urban has become a central locus of struggle and the right to the city a primary demand.

If, as Marx argues, the contradictory unity of the production and realization of value lies at the center of his concept of capital, then that contradictory unity also brings  together work-based struggles with struggles over the politics of everyday life in the city.