Thinking Beyond Capitalism

The conference is central part of the week of lectures, round tables and open discussions on capitalism in contemporary world. As clearly there is no consensus whether the financial crisis which culminated in 2007-2008 should be seen as a symptom of the structural crisis of neoliberal capitalism only or of capitalism in general, the conference aims to bring influential thinkers from all over Europe to discuss capitalism with all its aspects. Should we understand the crisis merely as the means for restructuring the existing system, or as the beginning of an irreversible demise of the current mode of production? Is it possible that the crisis has actually enabled the exact preservation of the status quo, and has prevented any change? Or was the crisis, on the contrary, the crucial catalyst for the politicization of the otherwise depoliticized actors within late capitalism? If capitalism thus emerges as the actual constitutive framework of our thought, how do we begin to think beyond capitalism?