Nancy Fraser: Cannibal Capitalism

To celebrate Nancy Fraser’s recent book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet-and What We Can Do About It (Verso Books, 2022), 3CT hosted a New Book Salon with Nancy Fraser and Ryan Cecil Jobson, and 3CT co-director Lisa Wedeen as moderator.
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy.
What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital-and starve it to death.
This event was presented by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
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Recorded February 9, 2023. All rights to the words and ideas expressed in this video are retained exclusively by their authors. If you would like to reuse a segment of this video, please contact the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory to request permission.