# pperesearch.com ## Pages - [Past Events](https://pperesearch.com/index.php/past-events/): In addition to our regular reading group meetings, the collective has convened or presented research at these previous events: Book Launch: Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022 by Caoimhe Mader McGuiness – Birkbeck, 6 February 2026 British Theatre and the Assault on Gaza – Birkbeck Arts Week, 7 May 2025 A.I., Performers, and Work: A Workshop with Equity and the PPE Research Collective – Guild House, 16 May 2025 Historical Materialism Conference – SOAS, 7 November 2024 The Political Economy of Acting Symposium – Birkbeck, 17 April 2024 Historical Materialism Conference – SOAS, […] - [Upcoming events](https://pperesearch.com/index.php/upcoming-events/): Next reading group: Friday 6 March, 4-6pm Queen Mary, Bancroft 1.03. We will conclude our reading on the state with Ellen Meiksins Wood’s essay ‘The separation of the “economic” and the “political” in capitalism’, originally published in NLR in 1981. For more information and to stay updated please sign up for our mailing list using the ‘contact us’ tab. - [Previous reading groups](https://pperesearch.com/index.php/previous-reading-groups/): Here you can find a list of previous texts we’ve read and discussed as a group. 2026 March – Ellen Meiksins Wood, ‘The separation of the “economic” and the “political” in capitalism’ from Democracy Against Capitalism (1995). January – Karl Marx, ‘The Paris Commune‘ from The Civil War in France (1871). 2025 November – David Lloyd and Paul Thomas, ‘The Culture of the Spectacle’ from Culture and the State (1998). October – John Holloway and Sol Picciotto, ‘Towards a Materialist Theory of the State’ from State and Capital: a Marxist Debate (1979) September – Stuart Hall, ‘The State In Question‘ […] - [Research and publications](https://pperesearch.com/index.php/research-and-publications/): Marxist Keywords for Performance “Marxist Keywords for Performance.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 36 no. 1, 2021, p. 25-53. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/dtc.2021.0037. Theatre and performance studies is awash with scholarship that examines performance in relation to its labor processes, modes of management, financial infrastructures, and so forth. But there lacks shared critical understanding of what terms such as value or capital mean and how they can be applied when studying performance. The range of meanings given to such words as commodity, class, or the state reveals more than a slight degree of imprecision or disagreement. It indicates a lack of systematic […] - [Contact us](https://pperesearch.com/index.php/contact-us/): You can get in touch with us by emailing contact@pperesearch.com If you are interested in staying up to date with our events, research, or attending our monthly reading groups, please sign up for our mailing list using the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=PPERESEARCH&A=1 - [About PPE](https://pperesearch.com/index.php/about-ppe/): Performance and Political Economy (PPE) is a loosely structured research collective that first came together in 2018 as a reading group in London. Our initial ambition was to explore how Marxist value theory can be used to study performance. As our numbers grew so too did our scope of interest, expanding out from the specifics of value theory toward a broader critique of political-economic thought in performance studies. Our conversations have covered a wide terrain, including but not limited to such topics as emotional labor, social reproduction, fossil capital, strikes and riots, and the gendered and racialized dynamics of primitive […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)