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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…
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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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Precarious Rhapsody
Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and…
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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…
