{"id":1354,"date":"2025-01-10T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:39:22","slug":"totality-and-feminist-life-reading-silvia-federicis-writing-on-lukacs-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Totality and Feminist Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici\u2019s Writing on Luk\u00e1cs\u2019 Aesthetics<\/strong>
\nReading & Discussion Event Series January \u2013 April 2025<\/em><\/p>\n

Silvia Federici is best known as an autonomist feminist and theorist for her groundbreaking work on the intersections of gender, labor, and capitalism. She has been a leading voice in the global feminist movement, particularly in articulating the role of reproductive labor in sustaining capitalist economies, and as one of the founders of the Wages for Housework movement. Federici’s seminal work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation<\/em> (2004), examines the historical subjugation of women during the rise of capitalism, linking the witch hunts of early modern Europe to the broader exploitation of women’s unpaid labor.<\/p>\n

For this series of events we will engage an underappreciated aspect of her work, namely her work on Luk\u00e1cs\u2019 aesthetics, which she carried out for her PhD. Her dissertation, The Development of Luk\u00e1cs’ Realism<\/em>, examines the philosophical evolution of Georg Luk\u00e1cs thought, focusing on his conception of realism. Federici challenges the conventional division of Luk\u00e1cs’ intellectual life into distinct phases, neo-Kantian idealism, Marxist-Hegelianism, and “diamat” aesthetics, arguing instead for the continuity of his work. Luk\u00e1cs’ philosophy is shown to revolve around realism as an ontological belief in an objective reality, evolving from subjective idealism to objective idealism, grounded in his lifelong effort to reconcile idealism and Marxism.<\/p>\n

What resonances can we find between Federici\u2019s philosophical and aesthetic analysis and her better known work on social reproductive labor and feminist politics? And what might be able to learn from this work in the context of reading it today?<\/p>\n

The first two of these events will take place online via Zoom. The final event will be held in person at MayDay Rooms.<\/p>\n

Session 1: Introduction and Chapter I (Sections 1 & 2)
\n29th January @ 4PM, online<\/p>\n

Session 2: Chapter 1 (Sections 3-6)
\n12th February @ 4PM, online<\/p>\n

Session 3: Chapter 2 (Sections 1-2)
\n26th February @ 4PM, online<\/p>\n

Session 4: Chapter 2 (Sections 2-3)
\n12th March @ 4PM, online<\/p>\n

Section 5: Chapter 3 (Sections 1-2)
\n26th March @ 4PM, online<\/p>\n

Session 6: Chapter 3 (Section 3), Conclusion, and Overall Discussion
\n2nd April at May Day Rooms in London @ 3-8PM<\/p>\n

Organized by Minor Composition<\/a>s & the University of Essex COVER Research Centre<\/a><\/p>\n

To register and obtain the readings email coveres@essex.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici\u2019s Writing on Luk\u00e1cs\u2019 Aesthetics Reading & Discussion Event Series January \u2013 April 2025 Silvia Federici is best known as an autonomist feminist and theorist for her groundbreaking work on the intersections of gender, labor, and capitalism. She has been a leading voice in the global feminist movement, particularly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}