On Monday September 8th, ICI’s Mark Fraizer moderated a talk by Arif Dirlik on the predicament of global modernity. Professor Dirlik has published extensively on the formation of the Chinese Communist Party, the history of Chinese anarchism, and post-colonial globalism. Some of his published works include: Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937, University of California Press; Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution, University of California Press; Postmodernism and China, Duke University Press; and Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Gloal Capitalism, Paradigm Press. For your viewing (and reading) pleasure, please check out the below video and peruse Professor Dirlik’s presentation here.