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Intimate Bureaucracies
Intimate Bureaucracies: A Manifesto dj readies [Craig Saper] Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the future looking backward at the present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York…
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Three Theses on Political Organization
Seminar on Political Organization March 12th March 12th, 4PM-6PM @ University of Essex Room 5N.7.23 Centre for Work, Organization, and Society Rodrigo Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande Do Sul With the Arab Spring, the Spanish indignados, Occupy and so much more, 2011 is likely to go down in history as a very special year…
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Occupy Everything!
Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it’s kicking off everywhere Ed. Alessio Lunghi & Seth Wheeler Penned after the 2010 European student unrest and before what is now commonly referred to as the “Arab spring” began to escalate, BBC Newsnight economist Paul Mason’s “20 Reasons Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere” sought to establish an understanding of…
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Walking Archives
Walking Archives: The Soy Children Eduardo Molinari “Eduardo Molinari has produced a compelling document demonstrating that the process of recombination can be wrenched from capital’s oppressive grip, and put to use to expose and critique its expansion from modern imperialism to a molecular invasion that establishes full spectrum biocolonization. Juxtaposing fragments of political and cultural…
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The El Martillo Project
The El Martillo Project Eclectic Electric Collective In 2010 an inconspicuous looking suitcase was sent from Berlin to Mexico City containing a 39-foot tall inflatable silver hammer. Thus began El Martillo’s odyssey to protest the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancún. El Martillo’s short, but glorious life, climaxed when protesters from Marea Creciente (Rising Tide)…
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19 & 20
19 & 20: Notes for a New Social Protagonism Colectivo Situaciones Translated by Nate Holdren & Sebastián Touza Introductions by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri An 18th Brumaire for the 21st Century: militant research on the December 19th and 20th, 2001 uprisings in Argentina In the heat of an economic and political crisis, people in…
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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…
