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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…
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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…
