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International Symposium in Visual Culture
Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Faculty of Communications, Department of Photography and Video
May 20-21, 2011
Deadline: 31.3.2011
Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture, the first of a series of international symposia on visual culture to be held at Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul, aims to enable discussion and debate on topics critical in the conceptualization, analysis, evaluation of and intervention in visual culture today.
"The Rebellion of the Poor Comes to Grahamstown"
Xola Mali, Ayanda Kota, Nombulelo Yame
The rebellion of the poor has been spreading from town to town, from
squatter camp to squatter camp, since 2004. Last week it arrived in
Grahamstown.
There is no third force, political party or communist academic behind
our struggle. It is oppression at the hands of the African National
Congress that has driven us into the rebellion of the poor. We are in
rebellion because we are being forced to live without dignity, safety
or hope.
Africa World Social Forum: 'We Don't Want Everybody to Think the Same'
Isolda Agazzi
Dakar — It is only the second time that the World Social Forum (WSF)
takes place in Africa, the first one having been held in Nairobi, Kenya,
in 2007. Since the start of the WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 10 years
ago, the organisers have been building African participation.
The number of people attending the WSF has steadily gone up: from 20,000
to 150,000. In Nairobi it dropped to 70,000, which made some observers
Poster Design Competition for NYC Anarchist Book Fair
What: The NYC Anarchist Book Fair Collective is seeking a poster design for the 2011 NYC Anarchist Book Fair.
When: The deadline to submit a poster design is SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011
How: When you submit your design:
1. send a color poster design as a jpg file (300 dpi - which means 600 x 600 pixel dimensions for a 2” x 2” image) to compassrose[at]riseup[dot]net net BEFORE the final hour of Sunday, February 27th (early submissions will be accepted!);
2. write “poster submission” in the subject line;
3. also include your name, as well as a contact telephone number and e-mail address;
4. on your proposed poster itself, please include the following information:
5th Annual New York City Anarchist Book Fair 2011
Saturday, April 9 - Sunday, April 10
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square, Manhattan
(near W 4th Subway Station)
Childcare on site. Bring your kids!
Booksellers, workshops, film festival, discussions, kids activities, and more!
http://anarchistbookfair.net/
FREE.
Welcome to all! You don’t need to be an anarchist to come! (suggested text)
Poster Selection Show:
All submissions will be printed (by the Book Fair Collective) and displayed at a fundraising party (date at end of Feb/early March and location TBA) at which the poster will be chosen.
The Uprising in Egypt:
Looking Inside the Gender, Class and Military Dynamics
Behind the First Revolution of the 21st Century
A talk and open discussion led by Prof. Paul Amar
Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara
TUESDAY, FEB. 22 – 4-5:30 P.M.
SKYLIGHT ROOM, 9TH FLOOR
GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Prof. Amar has spent years studying the geopolitics, sexual politics, and global policing apparatuses of Cairo and other global cities. As demonstrated in his important recent articles, “Empowering Egypt’s New Pluralism,” “Mubarak’s Phantom Presidency,” and “Why Egypt’s Progressives Win” which appeared first in Jadaliyya Ezine and subsequently on Aljazeera.net, his knowledge of the history and internal divisions of Egypt’s power structure, particularly the military and police, is intricate, as is his understanding of the counter-forces of dissent now exploding throughout the Middle East. His books include Cairo Cosmopolitan (co-edited with Diane Singerman); The New Racial Missions of Policing; and the forthcoming Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism.
Read Paul’s recent article here: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/586/why-egypts-progressives-win
Co-Sponsored by Program in Political Science, Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Program in History and Program in Sociology
America claims to have the most free markets in the world. It also operates a prison-industrial complex on a scale found nowhere else. According to Bernard E. Harcourt, author of the new book, "The Illusion of Free Markets," these two facts have the same ideological origin. Find out how the cult of free markets and the cult of law-and-order and prisons - the most distinctive features of American society today - mutually reinforce each other.
What: A Talk on the Illusion of Free Markets
Who: Bernard E. Harcourt
When: Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 3 pm
Where: Revolution Books, 146 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, (212) 691-1190
Bernard E. Harcourt is Chair of the Political Science Department and Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and author of several other books, including "Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing" (Harvard 2001), "Language of the Gun" (Chicago 2005), and "Against Prediction: Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age" (Chicago 2007).
“Bernard Harcourt’s magisterial book makes a strong and persuasive case for the tight connection of the invisible hand of neoliberal ‘free’ markets and the iron fist of carceral policies. His erudite blend of history, political thought and economic theory lays bare the dark side of neoliberal penality. We ignore his powerful democratic voice and view at our own peril!” — Cornel West
It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and punishing. The result, in this country, has been an incendiary combination of laissez-faire economics and mass incarceration. Today, the United States incarcerates over one percent of its adult population, the highest number and rate in the world. In this book, Bernard Harcourt traces the birth of the idea of natural orderliness in economic thought and its gradual evolution into today’s myth of the free market, and explores how it has produced the largest government-run penal sphere on the globe.
"Falsify the Currency! Foucault and Crisis"
Michael Hardt
Roundtable/lecture
6 p.m., Thursday, February 10, 2011
1 Washington Place, Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Open to the public
Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. His books include Empire (2000), Multitude (2004), and Commonwealth (2009), all co-written with Antonio Negri. He is editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly.
Subjectivation and General Intellect in the Age of Semiocapitalism
Franco Berardi (Bifo)
A Lecture in Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, New York City
6:30 PM, March 4, 2011
Franco Berardi (Bifo) is a writer, and media-activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy. He is the author or co-author of the Autonomedia titles Precarious Rhapsody and Ethereal Shadows. His last book is The Soul at Work. He teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, and is co-founder of the e-zine www.th-rough.eu.
Bifo will speak about the recent European student movements, that have questioned the legitimacy of the European leading ideology, and have started a process of subjectivation of precarious cognitive labour. Read a sample of Bifo's work on this topic here.
International School for Bottom-up Organizing
The International School for Bottom-up Organizing (ISBO) had its first meeting in
October, 2008, with representatives from five countries present.
Ours is an international struggle that must be led by the poorest and
darkest, especially women. We all need the same freedom and equality; we
all have the same oppressors, worldwide. Our movement will work toward an
internationalist, egalitarian world. We foresee a world in which the genius
and creativity of humanity is unleashed, in which all humans share and
Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise 1938–1979
May 10th–29th, 2011
Boo-Hooray presents the rare works of Angus MacLise (1938–79), American artist, poet, percussionist, and composer active in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and Kathmandu in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The exhibition series will unfold with an overview of poetry, artwork, and publications in Chelsea, an audio installation in Chinatown, and a night of film screenings at Anthology Film Archives.
“Angus MacLise was the Velvet Underground's first drummer. He withdrew when he found out that at a paying job he had to start and stop playing when told to. No one told Angus to stop playing. So the job of a working musician was impossible for Angus, and he taught us all a lesson about purity of spirit. Angus was a dream percussionist. A dream person.” – Lou Reed
DREAMWEAPON is curated by Johan Kugelberg and Will Cameron.
Opening party: Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Presented at:
Boo-Hooray
521 W 23rd Street
NY, NY, 10011
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