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We cordially invite you to a meeting with Przemysław Wielgosz about the book "Game of Races". Grażyna Bochenek will talk to the author.
About the book:
We are used to interpreting racism as a set of stereotypes and prejudices. Przemysław Wielgosz proposes a much deeper analysis of this phenomenon, searching for its roots in the long history of the birth and expansion of capitalism. In a fascinating book, he combines two perspectives, rarely considered together: the local one, related to serfdom and the subsequent "racialization" of the popular class in our part of Europe, and the global one, related to the development of slavery and the "invention of race" in the North Atlantic basin. Moving freely between history and modernity, referring to research in the field of philosophy, sociology and economic sciences and - what makes the book more nerve-wracking - to well-known film images, the author shows how capitalism "divides and rules", producing hierarchies and identity oppositions, and how he antagonizes groups that could potentially oppose him together. On a global scale, this role is played, according to the author, by Eurocentrism - in its various guises and guises: theft of history, Enlightenment philosophy, orientalism, colonialism and culturalism.
About the author:
Journalist, publisher and curator. Editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of "Le Monde diplomatique" and the book series: "Le Monde diplomatique" Library and the Economic Alternatives Library. At the RM publishing house, he is the substantive editor of the People's History of Poland series. He published, among others, in "Wiadomości Kulturalne", "Trybuna", "Przekrój", "Pisma", "Guardian", "Aspen Review" and "Freitag". It is, among others, author of the books "The Opium of Globalization" (2004) and "Welcome to Harder Times" (2020), editor and co-author of the books "The End of Europe as We Know It" (2013), "TTIP - the Transatlantic Trap" (2015), "The Dictatorship of the Debt" (2016) ), “Real capitalism. “Around the theory of monopoly capital” (2018), “The pandemic of capitalism” (2021), “Economics of the future” (2021). Curator of the series Economies of the Future at the Warsaw Biennale, Folk History of Poland in the Free Speech Zone and Stories of People Without History at the Teatr Ósmego Dnia.
The event is organized by Wydawnictwo Karakter and Rzeszowskie Piwnice