the skinny malinky

Chris Caruso, whom I know through the Tech Fellow program of which we are both part, has put together an amazing web project. Chris coordinated a team of people to videotape the weekly lectures from David Harvey’s “Reading Marx’s Capital” course last fall. Now the 55 hours of tape are edited, and Chris is putting up one video lecture a week (podcasts coming soon). I took this course with Harvey a few years ago, and it was one of the highlights of my graduate student career. If you don’t know his work, he’s considered one of (the?) contemporary experts on Marx, and the course offers a close reading, chapter by chapter, of Volume One of Capital. He’s a great and patient lecturer, and he makes beautiful work of Marx’s methodology, which I think is as important as anything, as a tool for reading to understand. When I read Marx now, I hear the soothing sound of Harvey’s British lilt in my head. Now you can too — Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey.