Since the global economic crisis of 2008, the trajectory of capitalism has been transformed by a series a series of political, economic, environmental, and humanitarian crises, which signal the need for developing critical tools and strategies that bring the analysis of colonial, racial, and cisheteropatriarchal subjugation to the centre of the critique of global capital.

The objective is to set up a conversation which will provide the elements for a consideration and assembling of a global feminist critique of capital. Toward doing so, this two-day workshop brings scholars in postcolonial studies, black studies and political economy, to engage in discussion of a framework and approach to the critique of global capitalism that address these crises through reflection on the analysis of colonial and racial violence advanced by the anticolonial political philosopher Frantz Fanon and by three leading contemporary feminist theorists, political theorist Silvia Federici, black critical theorist Hortense Spillers, and postcolonial literary theorist Gayatri C Spivak.

Following the keynote conversation, the workshop is organized around three sessions, in which the participants will be asked to reflect on how Fanon’s, Spivak’s, Federici’s, and Spillers’ contributions help them to advance their own work on themes that have become key to critical thinking about capitalism in the past 15 years.