Recent Keynotes
Imagining Alternative Futures 'from Below'
This keynote focuses on ‘plebeian ethics’ and the imagining of norms, rules, and institutions emerging from the socio-political actions by common people in the Global South.
Right to Housing
This talk explores housing as a human right and the long history of housing commons activism in Chile, from occupation of land to tenants and workers co-ops, as well as the recent attempt to constitutionalise the right to housing in the 2022 draft constitution.
eco-Kelso, the almost socialist
This keynote for the Kelso Institute Europe explores the ideas of the corporate and financial lawyer Louis Kelso on employee stock options (ESOP) as alternative finance for ecological sustainability.
War, Oligarchy & the Destruction of
Nature
This public lecture addresses ‘systemic corruption’ as the root cause of the republican failure to achieve peace. It traces the connection between oligarchy, war, and the undermining of republican liberty in Ancient Rome, Renaissance Florence, and contemporary United States, showing the emergence of a new tech- financial-military complex, and the total takeover of representative institutions by an ethnonationalist oligarchy.
Past EVENTS 2023-2024
2023 August Los Angeles-oakland
American Delusion
The evening event will be an intriguing mashup of law (elevating rights of nature), culture, movements (advocating for community rights), corporate power (abolitioning corporate rights), and how the innate desire for a grassroots, community-led democracy emerges when we practice dignity and disobedience.2023 September Lake Como, Italy
Critical Theory summer school
Classes on critical eco-legality and council democracy against extractivism2023 September British Library, London
Beyond the Coup: Chile 50 years later
A discussion on the legacies of the Chilean military dictatorship, 50 years after the 1973 coup. Roundtable conversation with writer-activist Ariel Dorfman and researcher Richard Smith.2023 September Cambridge, UK
European Human Rights Law Conference
I propose to establish a European Human Rights Ombudsman that, through its role as protector of socio-economic human rights, could spearhead an anti-oligarchic process to achieve a progressive de-commodification of life and bridge the gap between the few and the many.2023 October Grenoble, France
1973-2023 Résistance/ Mémoire
Conversation with Franck Gaduichaud about the legacies of the reistance to the dictatorship in Chile.2023 november SOAS London
historical materialism conference
The panelists go back to materialism and praxis to explore the different vertical and horizontal forms that can be combined, mobilised, and spread for politically challenging oligarchy and fostering new radical civic and economic relations.2023 December Rome, Italy
International Machiavelli Society Conference
Inaugural meeting of the International Machiavelli Society in Rome2024 January Cambridge, UK
Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Conference
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