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12/12 Seminar: Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society
Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society A seminar with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation Monday December 12th at 2pm in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room Centre for Work, Organization and Society, University of Essex Many observers argue that the change induced with the internet is on a par with at least the effects of the…
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Communization and its Discontents
Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles Edited by Benjamin Noys Can we find alternatives to the failed radical projects of the twentieth century? What are the possible forms of struggle today? How do we fight back against the misery of our crisis-ridden present? ‘Communization’ is the spectre of the immediate struggle to…
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Revolutions in Reverse
Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination David Graeber Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason…
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Undressing the Academy
Undressing the Academy, or The Student Handjob University of Strategic Optimism The weary student handbook genre is in need of a belligerent mauling. This is our crack at the job. We don’t want to talk down to anyone, but neither do we want to chat them up, so this is an attempt at thinking out…
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Markets Not Capitalism
Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political…
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Six Impossible Politics Before Breakfast
Six Impossible Politics Before Breakfast: A Discussion on Art & Politics in an Age of Austerity Wednesday July 6, 7:30 PM @ Post-Museum 107+109 Rowell Road S209033 ‘Be realistic, demand the impossible’ is one of the most famous slogans to come out of the May 1968 student movement. It marked a shift away from a…
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Spectacular Capitalism
Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy by Richard Gilman-Opalsky Despite recent crises in the financial system, uprisings in Greece, France, Tunisia, and Bolivia, worldwide decline of faith in neoliberal trade policies, deepening ecological catastrophes, and global deficits of realized democracy, we still live in an era of “spectacular capitalism.” But what…
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A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible
A Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those…
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Reconsidering Commodities & Markets
Seminar: Reconsidering Commodities & Markets Wednesday May 4th, 2011 @ 1pm University of Essex Room 3.108 Seminar presentations by: Cecelia Cassinger (Essex), Emma Dowling (Queen Mary), Stephen Duncombe (NYU), George Tsogas (Cass) What would commodities say if they could speak? Marx’s question can seem playful in some registers. And yet, objects voice themselves not only…
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New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Occupation
New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Occupation May 30, 2011, 7PM @ xero, kline, & coma 258 Hackney Road London E2 7SJ At the dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the defeat of the autonomous movements of the 1970s, Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri embarked on an extraordinary collaboration to rescue communism…
