Agustin Arosteguy

Visiting Scholar

Agustin Arosteguy is a PhD student in Leisure and Societies at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Master in Direction of Leisure Projects at University of Deusto, Spain and degree in Administration at University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Since October 2010, member of the Urban Management and Cultural Policy of City Forum of the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers (ENCATC). Since April 2014, participates in the research group OTIUM and LUCE at Federal University of Minas Gerais. Has participated in many conferences all over the world: United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, Brussels, Argentina and Brazil.

Participating Years

2016–2017

Consciousness and Revolution

The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?