Category: Study Sessions
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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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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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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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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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Curating Resistance
Curating Resistance :: Aesthetics & Ethics in Social Movement :: October 25th, 2010:: University of Essex :: :: Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room :: 1PM – 5PM :: Participants: Paul Halliday (Goldsmiths) // Antigoni Memou (University of East London) // Matthew Poole (Essex) // Stefanie Tan (Glasgow) Abstracts for the seminar are available here.…
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Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations
Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations :: A Drifting Seminar :: Brighton, October 26th, 2010 :: Starting @ the Cowley Club, 2PM The notion of psychogeography (as well as many other ideas of the Situationists) appears frequently within political and artistic discussions. Indeed, they circulate to the point of cliché, in the process becoming almost completely emptied…
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Discipline & the Moving Image
Discipline & the Moving Image Presented by Zoe Beloff June 11th, 2010 @ 6:30 PM Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD Obedience, Stanley Milgram, 16mm, 1962, 45 mins Folie à Deux, National Film Board of Canada, 16mm, 1952, 15 mins Motion Studies Application, 16mm, ca. 1950, 15 mins Obedience documents the infamous “Milgram…
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This is Forever
This is Forever: A Exploration of Contemporary Autonomist Politics An evening with Minor Compositions and the Team Colors Collective. Thursday, 25 March, 7pm Red & Black Cafe – 400 SE 12th avenue (at Oak) Portland, OR Join us for an evening with two autonomist authors and organizers from Portland and London in exploring contemporary politics,…