Category: Stevphen Shukaitis
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San Precario Network Screening + Discussion
San Precario Network Screening + Discussion December 5th at 7PM 16 Beaver Street 4th floor, New York Over the past fifteen years the idea of precarity has emerged as a key area of social conflict and political organizing. But what is precarity, and what does a focus on it mean for political organizing and social…
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Curating Resistance :: Aesthetics & Ethics in Social Movement
Curating Resistance :: Aesthetics & Ethics in Social Movement :: October 25th, 2010:: University of Essex :: :: Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room :: 1PM – 5PM :: Participants: Paul Halliday (Goldsmiths) // Antigoni Memou (University of East London) // Matthew Poole (Essex) // Stefanie Tan (Glasgow) Abstracts for the seminar are available here.…
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Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations
Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations :: A Drifting Seminar :: Brighton, October 26th, 2010 :: Starting @ the Cowley Club, 2PM The notion of psychogeography (as well as many other ideas of the Situationists) appears frequently within political and artistic discussions. Indeed, they circulate to the point of cliché, in the process becoming almost completely emptied…
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Immanent Singularities
Immanent Singularities: A Minor Compositions Interview with Bruno Gulli As a philosopher and academic worker, Bruno Gulli is nothing if not untimely. In an era when the labor of thought, the work that creates new concepts, finds itself squeezed by an ever-increasing array of restrictions (from journal and publisher limitations to lack of time from…
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This is Forever: A Exploration of Contemporary Autonomist Politics
This is Forever: A Exploration of Contemporary Autonomist Politics An evening with Minor Compositions and the Team Colors Collective. Thursday, 25 March, 7pm Red & Black Cafe – 400 SE 12th avenue (at Oak) Portland, OR Join us for an evening with two autonomist authors and organizers from Portland and London in exploring contemporary politics,…
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Autonomism, Class Composition, and Cultural Studies
Autonomism, Class Composition, and Cultural Studies Berkeley, CA – March 18th (as part of the Cultural Studies Association conference) Organized by Stevphen Shukaitis & Jack Z. Bratich How do cultural studies and autonomism converge and diverge over matters of power, the state, and subjectivity? Come join us for a series of panels (organized by Stevphen…
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Provo, Autonomy, and Ludic Politics
Provo, Autonomy, and Ludic Politics :: December 10th :: The Foundry, 7pm :: :: Foundry, London :: 86 Great Eastern Street :: The legendary Dutch anarchist movement Provo staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday spaces of Holland from 1965 – 1967. The rise and fall of Provo stretches from early Dutch…
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The Atrocity Organization
The Atrocity Organization: JG Ballard & the Technologies of Psychopathology Management :: Tuesday November 10th :: 5PM :: Foundry, London :: 86 Great Eastern Street :: A kind of waiting madness, like a state of undeclared war, haunted the office buildings of the business park. – J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes As a novelist and fiction SF…
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Imaginal Machines
Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life by Stevphen Shukaitis All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But…
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Imperceptible Strategies, Unidentified Autonomous Organizations
Imperceptible Strategies, Unidentified Autonomous Organizations :: A Drifting Seminar :: London, October 23rd,2009 :: Anarchist and autonomous politics are often associated, in a kneejerk way, with a celebration of chaos and disorder: a rejection of all forms of organization. The reduction of radical politics to a cheap joke (‘anarchist organization, what’s that?’) comes to substitute…
