Category: Stevphen Shukaitis
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Connective Mutations
Connective Mutations: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century A Seminar with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi September 3rd – 6th, 2009 – New York City Organized by 16Beaver & Minor Compositions The concept of the subject is crucial for radical philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. Arguments and debates over the nature of…
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Affective Politics & the Imagination of Everyday Resistance
Affective Politics & the Imagination of Everyday Resistance Recently, “affect” has been a key concept for research in politics, aesthetics, marketing, neuroscience, and sociology. This course seeks to draw together some of the more innovative work within this “affective turn,” focusing on the political composition of subjectivities, especially via cultural practices. After a survey of…
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Strategies of Refusal
Strategies of Refusal: Explorations in Autonomist Marxism Since the publication of Hardt and Negri’s Empire new attention has been brought to a previously ignored current of revolutionary theory and practice, namely that of autonomist Marxism. The attention paid to readings of Negri have tended to neglect the vast wealth of engaged theoretical reflection contained within…