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Start: Oct 25 2009 6:30 pm
End: Oct 25 2009 7:30 pm
Reclaim the Imagination! Aesthetic Politics in Social Movement :: Sunday October 25th :: London :: 6:30-7:30pm :: Main Hall in the Kobi Nazrul Centre As part of the This is Not a Gateway Festival Autonomous politics have a long and rich relation with artistic production and movements. From Dada through Reclaim the Streets, aesthetic politics have been essential in expanding the collective imaginations of revolutionary movements, turning social resistance into joyful encounters, communicating rage at injustice with poetry and beauty. Come join us to celebrate the release of two books that explore the ongoing relation of radical aesthetics and politics: Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today by Josh Macphee (PM Press), a major new collection of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking, and Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life by Stevphen Shukaitis (Autonomedia / Minor Compositions), an philosophical inquiry into the formation of collective imagination in social movement organizing. Josh and Stevphen will present and discuss their books while engaging in a broader conversation about art and politics with Anja Kanngieser.
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Start: Oct 26 2009 7:00 pm
End: Oct 26 2009 9:00 pm
John Holloway on "Crack Capitalism" 7-9pm, Monday 26th October, London At the height of the anti-capitalist movement, John Holloway’s book Change The World without Taking Power provoked an international debate*. Eight years later, after the failure of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined with the failure of the capitalist economy, anti-capitalism is back on the agenda. John Holloway will introduce his forthcoming book, Crack Capitalism, followed by a discussion on how we can change the world without repeating the tragedies of twentieth century socialism.
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Start: Oct 29 2009 12:00 am
First International Forum on Free Culture and Knowledge Accessibility Barcelona, October 29 to November 1 2009 Join online at http://www.fcforum.net The International Forum on free culture and knowledge will take place from October 29 to November 1st 2009 in Barcelona. This event is a unique opportunity to bring together under the same roof the main organizations and active voices in the world of free culture and free knowledge; a meeting point to sit down and work together setting common agendas and strategies, and also to reflect, from a critical point of view, on the different views, dangers and contradictions of free culture. At the same time, the forum is an opportunity to give more visibility to alternative conceptions of knowledge, culture and creativity, different from the ones that the entertainment industry and universities insist on imposing.
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First International Forum on Free Culture and Knowledge Accessibility Barcelona, October 29 to November 1 2009 Join online at http://www.fcforum.net The International Forum on free culture and knowledge will take place from October 29 to November 1st 2009 in Barcelona. This event is a unique opportunity to bring together under the same roof the main organizations and active voices in the world of free culture and free knowledge; a meeting point to sit down and work together setting common agendas and strategies, and also to reflect, from a critical point of view, on the different views, dangers and contradictions of free culture. At the same time, the forum is an opportunity to give more visibility to alternative conceptions of knowledge, culture and creativity, different from the ones that the entertainment industry and universities insist on imposing.
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First International Forum on Free Culture and Knowledge Accessibility Barcelona, October 29 to November 1 2009 Join online at http://www.fcforum.net The International Forum on free culture and knowledge will take place from October 29 to November 1st 2009 in Barcelona. This event is a unique opportunity to bring together under the same roof the main organizations and active voices in the world of free culture and free knowledge; a meeting point to sit down and work together setting common agendas and strategies, and also to reflect, from a critical point of view, on the different views, dangers and contradictions of free culture. At the same time, the forum is an opportunity to give more visibility to alternative conceptions of knowledge, culture and creativity, different from the ones that the entertainment industry and universities insist on imposing.
Start: Oct 31 2009 12:00 pm
End: Oct 31 2009 2:00 pm
Marcel van der Linden: Working Class History from Below Saturday, October 31st @ 12PM – 2PM 16 Beaver Group 16 Beaver Street, 4th fl. New York, NY 10004 Marcel van der Linden will be presenting research from his book, “Workers of the World, Essays Towards a Global labor History,” which builds the foundations of a global history of capitalism from below: a history freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, van der Linden provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery, indentured labor, and subsistence labor; and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world.
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