Direct Action Seminar

Speakers
Jo Williams, Victoria University lecturer in education
Van Rudd, artist & political acivist
Lisa Farrance, Socialist activist & PhD Candidate (Victoria University)
Lea Campbell, Research coordinator in educational disadvantage
The question of ideology and its reproduction has always been an issue of much discussion and debate among left activists and in Marxist and socialist theory. The colossal power of ideas and the overwhelming machinery for their production and reproduction in media, education and the arts, provides modern capitalism with one of its most powerful guarantees. This seminar will provide an opportunity to discuss how capitalism "manufactures consent" and what spaces can be explored that may provide counter-hegemonic currents in theory and cultural and pedagogical action.