Tessera
Folgen

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)

@marxdisability.bsky.social

Study and engagement network with a particular focus on Disability Politics & Marxism(s). We hold monthly talks. To join the mailing list, check out our contact page: https://marxismdisability.wordpress.com/Contact

157 Posts480 Follower30 Folgt
Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looking forward to attending the Historical Materialism conference & hosting the Marxism & Disability Stream in November! 5-8 Nov, SOAS, London www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

Twenty-third Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London *DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ...

historicalmaterialism.org

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friday next week! Join the book launch jointly organised with CAPPE (University of Brighton)

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friday, 19th June, 3pm BST Book launch: Communist Ontologies by Bruno Gullì and Richard Gilman-Opalsky This event is co-organised/co-hosted by MDN and the University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friday, 19th June, 3pm BST Book launch: Communist Ontologies by Bruno Gullì and Richard Gilman-Opalsky This event is co-organised/co-hosted by MDN and the University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/

Online monthly events of The Marxism & Disability Network

To receive the links for the events below, please subscribe to the MDN mailing list. Coming up in 2026: On the first Tuesday of the month (usually) at 6.30pm BST/GMT Friday, 19th June, 3pm BST: Boo…

marxismdisability.wordpress.com

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Don't forget - this event will be taking place on Tuesday, 2nd of June from 6:30pm BST! Join us.

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our next (June) MDN event will take place on Tue, 2nd June from 6:30pm BST. Join us! Capital, Ability, and Education: A Marxist Critique of Inclusion for Divyangjan in India - Pallavi Sanil marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/j... #Marxism #Disability

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Deadline for proposals extended! Marxism & Disability Stream at the Annual Historical Materialism Conference (new deadline, Tursday 26 May) marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/d...

Deadline for proposals extended! Marxism & Disability Stream at the Annual Historical Materialism Conference (new deadline, Tue 26 May)

Deadline for proposals extended! Deadline: Tue 26 May 2026 The Marxism & Disability Network (MDN) looks forward to hosting the first designated stream related to Marxism & Disability at the…

marxismdisability.wordpress.com

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Call for Abstracts [15 May deadline] – Marxism & Disability Stream at the Annual Historical Materialism Conferenc marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/c...

Call for Abstracts [15 May deadline] – Marxism & Disability Stream at the Annual Historical Materialism Conference

The Marxism & Disability Network (MDN) looks forward to hosting the first designated stream related to Marxism & Disability at the 2026 Historical Materialism London conference (5-8 Novembe…

marxismdisability.wordpress.com

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our next (June) MDN event will take place on Tue, 2nd June from 6:30pm BST. Join us! Capital, Ability, and Education: A Marxist Critique of Inclusion for Divyangjan in India - Pallavi Sanil marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/j... #Marxism #Disability

June 2026 – Pallavi Sanil: Capital, Ability, and Education: A Marxist Critique of Inclusion for Divyangjan in India

Abstract: This paper critically examines inclusive education for Divyangjan (children with disabilities) in India through the lens of Marxist ideology, offering a materialist reinterpretation of ed…

marxismdisability.wordpress.com

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This collective discussion will be taking place today from 6:30pm BST!

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For the 5th May MDN session (from 6:30pm BST), the Steering Committee are inviting MDN members to a collective discussion about: * The Disability Stream at the HM Conference * MDN–Notes from Below Issue on Disability & Work * MDN–SLSA Special Issue * Pamphlets * Other activities #Marxism #Disability

Ellie Munro@elmunro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I love this in its own right, but also because it reminds me of when I started a non-serious campaign against time as an undergrad because I had an essay due too soon, and then spent the years after journeying through a crip[/]time awakening.

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Missed the April MDN event with Sofia Righetti Nottegar? Here's the video recording of the event: youtu.be/SgmO8jR55VQ?... Crip Time and Pedagogy of Resistance under Capitalism #Marxism #CripTime #Disability #Disablement #DisabilityStudies

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Call for Abstracts - submit by 15 May Marxism & Disability Stream at the Historical Materialism conference 2026 MDN looks forward to hosting the first designated stream related to Marxism & Disability at the HM London conference (5-8 Nov) Details here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

Twenty-third Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Fr...

historicalmaterialism.org

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thank you to everyone who attended our event today! The May MDN event will take place on the 5th of May from 6:30pm BST Sibin Eldhose: Excluded from Power: Disability and the Political Economy of Civic Worth

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our April MDN event Tuesday, 14th April, 6:30pm BST: Sofia Righetti Nottegar: Crip Time and Pedagogy of Resistance under Capitalism The abstract is available here: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/a... #Marxism #Disabilty

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our April MDN event Tuesday, 14th April, 6:30pm BST: Sofia Righetti Nottegar: Crip Time and Pedagogy of Resistance under Capitalism The abstract is available here: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/a... #Marxism #Disabilty

April 2026 – Sofia Righetti Nottegar: Crip Time and Pedagogy of Resistance under Capitalism

Abstract: The contribution analyses crip time as a critical category and as a political practice capable of interrogating the temporal regimes of contemporary capitalism. From a Marxist perspective…

marxismdisability.wordpress.com

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Missed our event yesterday? Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni – The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing The video recording is now available on our Youtube Playlist/the HM Channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Yd...

The Machinistic Production of the ‘Defective Worker’ (with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni)

YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

youtube.com

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Starting in 40 minutes! Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 5mo ago

24th March 2026, 6:30pm UK time – Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...

Abstract: This paper investigates how the digitalisation of work reconfigures the understanding of workers, their labour, and their value. Drawing on technoableism theory, which foregrounds how technologies establish new normative, disabling standards of capability, we analyse the shifting ontology of the worker in digitally intensive workplaces. We base our study on extensive qualitative data collected with managers, workers, trade union representatives, technology providers, labour market intermediaries, and local authorities across 12 warehouses in three European logistic hubs. Our analysis shows how warehouse workers are problematized as fallible, defective productive resources through systematic comparison with digital technologies, and how these latter are conversely constructed as necessary to enhance, fix and “save” them. In this way, a negative ontology of the human as disabled, generic labour power, holding at best residual “soft” skills, is established, within which any claim to the value generated is pre-emptively undermined. Our study shows that technoableism offers a powerful theoretical lens to interrogate and demystify the worker empowerment trope at the core of Industry 5.0.
Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Reminder - the March MDN event with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni will take place on Tuesday next week from 6:30pm GMT! #Disability #Marxism

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 5mo ago

24th March 2026, 6:30pm UK time – Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...

Abstract: This paper investigates how the digitalisation of work reconfigures the understanding of workers, their labour, and their value. Drawing on technoableism theory, which foregrounds how technologies establish new normative, disabling standards of capability, we analyse the shifting ontology of the worker in digitally intensive workplaces. We base our study on extensive qualitative data collected with managers, workers, trade union representatives, technology providers, labour market intermediaries, and local authorities across 12 warehouses in three European logistic hubs. Our analysis shows how warehouse workers are problematized as fallible, defective productive resources through systematic comparison with digital technologies, and how these latter are conversely constructed as necessary to enhance, fix and “save” them. In this way, a negative ontology of the human as disabled, generic labour power, holding at best residual “soft” skills, is established, within which any claim to the value generated is pre-emptively undermined. Our study shows that technoableism offers a powerful theoretical lens to interrogate and demystify the worker empowerment trope at the core of Industry 5.0.
Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks to everyone who joined us today! Once the recording becomes available, we'll share it here Our next event will take place on 24 March from 6:30pm GMT with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni – The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’ marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...

March 2026 – Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing

Abstract: This paper investigates how the digitalisation of work reconfigures the understanding of workers, their labour, and their value. Drawing on technoableism theory, which foregrounds how tec…

marxismdisability.wordpress.com

Marxism and Disability Network (MDN)@marxdisability.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us on March 3, 7pm GMT for an online discussion of Pirate Care by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak This event is supported by various collectives & will launch a book review forum published in the Postdigital Science & Education Journal link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Poster for the event featuring a tarot card with pieate carers, the invitation to join the event and the logos of the collectivee supporting the event - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto books
Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

HM Newsletter Number 5 has just gone out. If you want to be a subscriber, sign up here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/newsletter/. N.B. We will be gradually decommissioning the old email list.

Subscribe to the HM Newsletter - Historical Materialism

For over 28 years Historical Materialism has been disseminating critical Marxist thinking through the Journal, the Book Series, the historicalmaterialism.org website, the international network of Hist...

historicalmaterialism.org