File:GlobalUprisings Day 2, Part 7 - Closing Plenary - The Visibility and Invisibility of Social-Class Struggle in times of Crisis.webm

debalie.nl/agenda/programma/global-uprisings-day-2 globaluprisings.org/global-uprisings-conference-full-programme Keynotes: Silvia Federici (in absentia), George Caffentzis and David Graeber Discussant: Sabu Kohso This plenary brings together three of the most important social theorists working on the topics of work, debt and resistance to discuss the social composition of the current revolt and different mobilizing factors within the crisis of capitalism. The discussion will deal with the difference between debt and wage struggles, forms of work, domestic labor struggles, the class character of debt, and a review of previous debtors’ movements, their commonalities, and limits. Silvia Federici (who cannot attend in person) will also be present in the form of her paper which will still be read despite her absence. Her paper will explore Immigrant domestic workers and the international production and circulation of feminist knowledge and organization.

David Graeber will delve into the history of how work regimes have come to serve and maintain the power of finance capital through the everyday production of “bullshit” work that has no productive purpose or social value.

George Caffentzis will explore the way invisibility/visibility functions in the debt economy and explore the potential for the formation of a debtors movement in response to the debt economy and its counter-revolution of everyday life.