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Old Materialism: making gold and performing money in pre-modern London and Venice

Name: Old Materialism: making gold and performing money in pre-modern London and Venice
Start: 2026-06-26T16:30:00+00:00
Location: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

South Wing, Wilkins Building, Gower St, London

Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Alison Wright (UCL). Her paper questions the adequacy of new materialist ethics in the face of the all-too-human assertion and coercion at play in ‘making’ gold.