Annie Spencer

Student Fellow

Annie Spencer is a doctoral candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center where she studies economic geography. She is writing a dissertation on the present-day heroin crisis in the United States in the context of post-industrial economic restructuring. Spencer holds an M.A. in International Trade, Investment and Development Policy from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and has taught undergraduate and MA-level courses in economics, economic geography, and cultural studies at Bates College, the University of Southern Maine, and Hunter College, CUNY. Spencer was a doctoral fellow with the Grad Center’s Mellon Committee for Globalization and Social Change is a recipient of the Graduate Center’s 2016-2017 dissertation award in American Studies.

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?