David Harvey - Smash the Mirror: Imagining a Different System

Program Title: David Harvey - Smash the Mirror: Imagining a Different System
Description: The global health and economic crises are points of opportunity. Arundhati Roy, the great Indian intellectual and writer says, “Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”

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Featured Speakers/Guests: David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books including The Ways of the World and The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles.

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Topic: Politics Type: Speech/Presentation

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