Christian Siener
Student Fellow
Christian Siener is a doctoral student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center where he studies urban political economy. His dissertation will focus on the politics, history, and infrastructure of New York City’s extensive homeless shelter system. Christian received an MA in geography at Hunter College.
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?