Category: Stevphen Shukaitis
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Adventures in Sound & Music with John Gruntfest
Adventures in Sound & Music Broadcast on Resonance FM with John Gruntfest & Stevphen Shukaitis Minor Compositions editor Stevphen Shukaitis is hosting a radio show on the work of free jazz saxophonist and poet John Gruntfest. The show will broadcast Thursday April 7 from 9-10:30PM on Adventures in Sound & Music produced by music magazine The Wire,…
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Occupation Culture Event London June 26
Occupation Culture 12 – 7PM, June 26 @ MAYDAY ROOMS 88 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH, United Kingdom How has squatting contributed to the production of art and culture? During times where the cost of rent and living rises well beyond the ability of cultural workers to support themselves in the metropolis, squatting has played an…
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Fuel to Fight DS30: Test Dept Film & Book Event
Fuel to Fight DS30: Test Dept Film & Book Event June 13 @ 6PM, firstsite, Colchester Followed by party at the Waiting Room The legendary London industrial noise musicians Test Dept are presenting a special screening of their film DS30 at the firstsite on the 13 June. Marking 30 years since the 1984-5 miners’ strike,…
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Mayday Screening: 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 May 2-3
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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The Metropolitan Factory: Worker’s Inquiry & Creative Labor Today
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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Lessons of 2011: 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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12/12 Seminar: 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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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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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…
