Study and engagement network with a particular focus on Disability Politics and Marxism(s). We hold monthly talks and will be launching other activities soon.
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ALT "The UK has been on this trajectory since Thatcher’s neoliberal reforms of 1979 and the logic of privatisation and austerity intersects with and intensifies the logic of social murder. Descriptions of it as “slow” or “structural” or “bureaucratic” violence belie how widespread and relentless and effective this form of mass extermination of surplus populations truly is. We suggest what these phrases capture most of all is how tolerated this form of violence is; the social murder of the surplus class is demonstrably not objectionable enough to have been opposed by the proletariat, perhaps because its victims are so Othered: abject non-Subjects composed by various minoritised identities (read: non-white, non-male, non-cishetero, disabled, non-citizens, etc.), not the proper working class."
ALT Book cover with floral patterns from a William Morris part-finished sketch. It features large, curvaceous stylized flowers and twisting acanthus leaves - set against a background of smaller, entwined vines and leaves. The title "Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism, and Disablement" by Ioana Cerasella Chis is displayed on a yellow rectangle.
ALT Poster with the list of all the events, written in white and yellow on a black background.
ALT Abstract: This paper investigates how the digitalisation of work reconfigures the understanding of workers, their labour, and their value. Drawing on technoableism theory, which foregrounds how technologies establish new normative, disabling standards of capability, we analyse the shifting ontology of the worker in digitally intensive workplaces. We base our study on extensive qualitative data collected with managers, workers, trade union representatives, technology providers, labour market intermediaries, and local authorities across 12 warehouses in three European logistic hubs. Our analysis shows how warehouse workers are problematized as fallible, defective productive resources through systematic comparison with digital technologies, and how these latter are conversely constructed as necessary to enhance, fix and “save” them. In this way, a negative ontology of the human as disabled, generic labour power, holding at best residual “soft” skills
ALT Poster for the event featuring a tarot card with pieate carers, the invitation to join the event and the logos of the collectivee supporting the event - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto books
ALT Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC+0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
ALT Call for Papers – Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism
ALT For graphic accessibility: Alt text: (Image is on black background with light Green Text Text reads Balls To The Spring Statement with image of a football next to text Photo is of a lady sitting in mobility scooter facing a line of police officers with balls being thrown at them Text underneath picture says Join DPAC and protest the Spring Statement Wednesday 26th March 2025 11am Meet outside Downing Street Whitehall, London SW1A 2AA Then March to Parliament and lobby your MP #WelfareNotWarfare
ALT March 2025 – Tré Ventour-Griffiths: Cosmic Afterlives: Black Psychogeography Through Marvel’s Looking Glass As a Black person and a disabled person, I am not afforded the amnesia to forget the violent process of chattel enslavement that made so many British institutions. The ghosts of those human traffickers live in the walls, including universities and pubs. Further, as many as twenty-nine National Trust country estates have successful links to slave compensation (National Trust, 2020: 5). This paper is one of six using Marvel’s infinity stones as metaphors for how racial microaggressions (capitalist byproducts) operate beyond human perception. ‘Cosmic’ focuses on spirit of spaces and place via the soul stone allegory.
![‘Cosmic’ uses my personal experiences of provincial Britain to show a Black Disabled Psychogeography and how such locales affect me, specifically my local country house Delapré Abbey in Northamptonshire, UK. In the words of sociologist Sara Ahmed (2006), the past is “…living rather than dead, [it] lives in the very wounds that remain open in the present” (p33). The Marvel Universe helped frame my own experiences of Black disability, while offering alternative ways of thinking about white spaces and places.
Bio: Tré Ventour-Griffiths is a cosmic sociologist-historian, creative, writer, journalist, theorist, and public speaker who speaks/writes on subjects broadly contained within UK Black town and rural histories, pop culture, neurodivergence, and insurgent politics. He is currently finishing a PhD in creative writing about Northamptonshire’s Caribbean history post-1945.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GktMfsBXwAAxpuz.png?name=orig)
ALT ‘Cosmic’ uses my personal experiences of provincial Britain to show a Black Disabled Psychogeography and how such locales affect me, specifically my local country house Delapré Abbey in Northamptonshire, UK. In the words of sociologist Sara Ahmed (2006), the past is “…living rather than dead, [it] lives in the very wounds that remain open in the present” (p33). The Marvel Universe helped frame my own experiences of Black disability, while offering alternative ways of thinking about white spaces and places. Bio: Tré Ventour-Griffiths is a cosmic sociologist-historian, creative, writer, journalist, theorist, and public speaker who speaks/writes on subjects broadly contained within UK Black town and rural histories, pop culture, neurodivergence, and insurgent politics. He is currently finishing a PhD in creative writing about Northamptonshire’s Caribbean history post-1945.
