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The Occupation Cookbook
The Occupation Cookbook or the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb Introduction by Marc Bousquet Translated from the Croatian by Drago Markisa The Occupation Cookbook is a “manual” that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences that took place…
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I’m so broke I can’t even pay attention
I’m so broke I can’t even pay attention: Rethinking Social Wealth In & Against Times of Austerity March 27th, 2011, 1PM @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago Tom Waits once quipped that he was so broke that he couldn’t even pay attention. While Waits is not typically thought of as a theorist of crisis, in a…
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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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New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty
New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty by Félix Guattari & Antonio Negri “The project: to rescue ‘communism’ from its own disrepute. Once invoked as the liberation of work through mankind’s collective creation, communism has instead stifled humanity. We who see in communism the liberation of both collective and individual possibilities must reverse that…
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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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Discipline & the Moving Image
Discipline & the Moving Image Presented by Zoe Beloff June 11th, 2010 @ 6:30 PM Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD Obedience, Stanley Milgram, 16mm, 1962, 45 mins Folie à Deux, National Film Board of Canada, 16mm, 1952, 15 mins Motion Studies Application, 16mm, ca. 1950, 15 mins Obedience documents the infamous “Milgram…
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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…
