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nanopolitics handbook
nanopolitics handbook the nanopolitics group How to think politics with and through the body? The invention of new modes of sensibility is vital to enriching and sustaining political engagements, labours and lives in the situated contexts of urban collectivity. The nanopolitics handbook investigates the neoliberal city and workplace, the politics of crisis and austerity, precarious…
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Artpolitik
Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation Neala Schleuning Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach…
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The Undercommons
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Introduction by Jack Halberstam In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique. Today the general wealth…
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The Condition of the Working Class
Screening May 1: The Condition of the Working Class @ Wivenhoe 7:30 PM, May 1st @ Nottage Maritime Institute The Quay Wivenhoe Colchester CO7 9BX A new documentary feature film by Michael Wayne & Deirdre O’Neill There will be a Q&A with the directors after the screening. Everything changes and yet everything stays the same.…
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The Politics of Workers’ Inquiry Conference
The Politics of Workers’ Inquiry Conference May 2-3, 2013 @ University of Essex Workers’ inquiry is an approach to and practice of knowledge production that seeks to understand the changing composition of labor and its potential for revolutionary social transformation. It is the practice of turning the tools of the social sciences into weapons of…
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Squatting in Europe
Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles Edited by the Squatting Europe Kollective Squatting offers a radical but simple solution to the crises of housing, homelessness, and the lack of social space that mark contemporary society: occupying empty buildings and rebuilding lives and communities in the process. Squatting has a long and complex history, interwoven…
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Contract & Contagion
Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia Angela Mitropoulos Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach for understanding the complex shifts of post-Fordism and neoliberalism by way of a critical reading of contracts, and through an exploration of the shifting politics of the household. It focuses on the salient question of capitalist futurity in order…
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Open Utopia
Open Utopia Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe Opinion polls, volatile voting patterns, and street protests demonstrate widespread dissatisfaction with the current system, yet the popular response so far has largely been limited to the angry outcry of No! But negation, by itself, affects nothing. The dominant system doesn’t dominate because people agree with it; it…
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The Metropolitan Factory
Minor Compositions is launching a workers’ inquiry into the shaping of creative, cultural, and artistic labor in the metropolis. We are currently searching for accomplices and comrades to take part and further develop this investigation. Description and more information below. The Metropolitan Factory: making a living as a creative worker Short survey on creative labor
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Punkademics
Punkademics Edited by Zack Furness The basement show in the ivory tower… In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade ‘zines and three chord…
