JTC writes:

"The Overman:
Nietzschean Art, Science, Politics, and Medicine"
Dr Scott Von
New York City, Jan. 28, 2006

In the wake of the death of God and the end of history, Nietzsche proclaimed the emergence of the Overman. In this scenario, man does not return to his animal state, nor is he destroyed. Rather he is taken up along with nature into pure spirit — or the will to power. During the past century since Nietzsche's death, movements within art, science, politics, and medicine have been propelling us into this future, even as we suffer the shedding of an old skin. It is time for us to take account of our situation and embrace this inevitable becoming.

Scott Von is Director of The New Clinic in New York City where he has pioneered the development of Integral Medicine, and of Analytica — a research and training institute devoted to clinical and cultural analytic practice. He received his PhD in Psychoanalysis from the University of London and his Oriental Medical Degree from Tri-State College of Acupuncture. He has taught as a professor at NYU, CUNY, and Pacific College, is a member of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, and lectures at various training institutes. He is author of the four volume philosophical-poetic work Autopoesis and the forthcoming books Wild Analysis: Chaos and Complexity in Therapeutic Practice and Soma: The Politics of Medicine and the Ecstasy of the Body Arts.

Saturday, January 28h at 7 PM
Mercy Manhattan College
66 West 35th St. Rm. 704 (Broadway/5th)
ADMISSION: $5
http://nietzschecircle.com

For further info, please write us at info@nietzschecircle.com

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Update

Happy New Year! 2006 promises to be a great year for Cirkus spectacle.
This update includes:

* Annual Bindlestiff Family Cirkus New York City Winter Cabaret Season in Brooklyn. Fridays in March and April 2006.

* Bindlestiff's Cavalcade of Youth at Abrons Art Center, Manhattan. March 26 and April 2, 2006.

* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Makor, Manhattan. March 19, 2006

* No Applause, Just Throw Money Book Release events featuring Bindlestiffs. March 2006.

* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, in Association with Magic Hat Brewing Company, summer tour, Eastern United States.

* Seeking Young Variety Acts, under 21 years of age, for Cavalcade of Youth

* Seeking acts for 2006 Winter Cabaret
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* Seeking venues for summer tour. Bring the Cirkus to your town.

* Volunteer and/or intern with the Cirkus

* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus documentary featuring the first ten years of Bindlestiff. Produced by Alan Plotkin.

* Help Support the Variety Arts

Anarchisms Research Group

New York City, Feb. 2, 2006

When: Thursday, Feb. 2nd, 2006 at 6 PM

Where: City University of New York Graduate Center,
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City.
Room 6112, the Sociology Department Lounge on the sixth floor. Directions and maps available here.

CUNY students call for the formation of a new student group to pursue interests in anarchist thought, and to advance its legitimacy in the academy. The new student group, which is applying for incorporation by the Doctoral Student Council at the Graduate Center, has three proposed aims:

1. To promote the analysis of the history, plurality, and trajectory of anarchism as a theory and practice.

2. To facilitate the development of anarchist research and theory at CUNY and in the academy at large.

3. And to promote the study and teaching of anarchism within CUNY and the academy at large.

For more information, please contact anarchisms-request@lists.riseup.net

"Dangerous Times" Left Forum:
Global Resistance and Decline of Empire

New York City, March 10–12, 2006

The annual Left Forum conference wil be held at the Cooper Union in New York City on the weekend of March 10–12, 2006.

The list of confirmed speakers is below.

9th Annual National Conference on Organized Resistance

February 3–5, 2006, American University, Washington DC

NCOR is an annual event that brings together activists from a variety of
issues, struggles, ideologies and backgrounds for a weekend of learning
and reflecting on the state of progressive movements occurring locally,
nationally and worldwide. Through diverse workshops, panel discussions,
skillshares, tabling, and the creation of an open and safe space, NCOR
seeks to promote organized action amongst participants against the
injustices and inequalities that we confront in our daily lives and in the
world. NCOR is held on the main campus of American University in northwest
Washington, DC.

JTC writes:

"Nietzsche & Cinema" Film Series

New York City, Winter, 2006

The NIETZSCHE CIRCLE announces the inauguration of its film and discussion series
NIETZSCHE & CINEMA

NIETZSCHE & CINEMA is a recurring film series which will explore the relationship between Nietzsche’s philosophy and cinema, examining his influence on screenwriters, directors, film theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, as well as the affect of his aesthetic vision on cinema.

Films will be screened which explicitly explore his life or philosophy or which embody the Nietzschean spirit: works in which a transvaluation of values is sought, or similar critiques of culture, religion, art, and politics are being made, while we will also examine the misappropriation, distortion, and abuse of Nietzsche’s ideas. When possible, directors and screenwriters will be invited to discuss their works with noted film critics, cinema historians, and philosophy professors. At the end of each session, a dialogue will be conducted with the spectators. The series will feature classic films, lesser known works, short and experimental films, as well as contemporary cinematic works. When possible, all works will be screened in their original format.

NYC SPACE, Winter Courses 2006

The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)

Winter 2006 Courses

THE SPIRIT OF UTOPIA

Alex Steinberg

Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

8 sessions: January 25 - March 22

(no class February 8)

Tuition: $90 - $115, sliding scale

MARX'S _CAPITAL_, VOLUMES II AND III

Andrew Kliman

Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

15 sessions: January 25 - May 17

(except for March 22 and April 12)

Tuition: $150 - $180, sliding scale

(Vol. II only: $75 - $100; Vol. III only: $100 - $120)

ERICH FROMM'S ENCOUNTER WITH MARX AND FREUD

Charles Herr

Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

6 Sessions: January 31 - March 7

Tuition: $75 - $100, sliding scale

FROM DADA TO ANTHROPOFFERJISM

Erika Biddle

Alternate Tuesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

6 Sessions: January 31, February 14, 28,
March 14, 28 and April 4

Tuition: $75 - $100, Sliding Scale

See course descriptions below. Please see the New SPACE website for
additional information on courses and registration.

NYC Grassroots Media Conference

Saturday February 11th, 2006

New School University

65 Fifth Ave at Thirteenth St

$20 Adult Pre-Registration, $30 Day Of Conference, $5 Youth (21 and under)

Register now by visiting:
here.

or visiting Bluestockings Bookstore: 172 Allen St at Stanton St in Manhattan

Call Paper Tiger TV at (212) 420-9045 For Information on Group Rates

+Proposal Submissions still being accepted:

Proposals

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Promotions

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Screening:
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”Non-Violent Executions”

Stand-Up Comic Steve Ben Israel Performs His Classic One-Man Show

New York City, Jan. 10, 2006

The January Anarchist Forum

On Tuesday, January 10, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's
Anarchist Forum will present stand-up comic and Obie winner Steve Ben
Israel who will perform his one-man show ”Non-Violent Executions.” Although
it contains both comic and political elements Ben Israel considers the show
to be a séance to contact the living.

Steve made his debut in the Greenwich
Village coffee house Renaissance in 1959 and since has performed often with
the Living Theatre. After the presentation Steve will have an extensive
open discussion with the audience about how performance art can be shaped
around social and political questions.

The event will take place at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street,
Manhattan (between Bank and Bethune streets)
(212-242-4201).

Take an A, C, E, or L train to the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway stop
or take a 1, 2, or 3 train to the 14th Street and 7th Avenue stop.

Everybody is welcome and invited to come and to have their say. Admission
is free for the presentation, but a contribution to aid the LBC is
suggested. If you have questions, contact the LBC /Anarchist Forum,
212-979-8353 or e-mail: roberterler@erols.com

:: Call for Contributions // Presentations // Provocations::

The Future in The Present: Occupying the Social Factory

May 2-4, 2006 - Digby House at Oadby, Leicester, UK

http://www.refusingstructures.net/future.html

From everyday insurgencies to global antagonisms, recent decades have borne witness to multiple and overlapping cycles of social struggle, as well as attempts to incorporate these sources of social wealth and creativity. From transformations in the circuits of global capital to the morphing of state structures, border controls and forms of sovereignty, the development of neoliberal governmentality has constantly run to catch up with our multiplicitous desires to create new forms of self-determining community and sociality. Multidirectional lines of command attempt to recuperate innovations at the level of everyday life, while myriad microrevolutions branch out, weave together new possibilities, and sometimes directly attack the networks of control.

What is the meaning of autonomy today, both as a theoretical category and as a practice? And what can the thought of refusal contribute to the organization of refusals in our daily lives? How can we create forms of antagonism directed against the lines of command that cut across the economic and social fabric, and which seek to incorporate affective, biological, and symbolic processes into forms of production? How can we prevent our antagonism being subsumed into the working of power and turned them against us? Rather than to creating overarching concepts that describe a new historical epoch, what would it mean to look at the specific modulations of how productive forces and regimes of command are changing in response to the social creativity and struggles of political actors? And what possibilities for political and social change are contained within these transformations? This is to start from the multiple inscriptions of power and resistance: from the bare life and bodies of the migrant worker to the precarious temp employee, from the unwaged to laborers in export processing zone archipelagos.

This gathering will attempt to break down the format and constraints of the traditional academic conference as well as forms of theorizing divorced from on-going social struggles and organizing. It will seek to create a living dialogue and encuentro, a series of collisions of bodies and minds, drawing from the history of autonomist politics and organizing, to draw out possible directions for the future buried beneath the weight of the present. Rather than fixing autonomous practices as objects of study it will draw together theorists, organizers, and activists considering questions of what class composition, insurgent sociality, and autonomous political practice could mean today. Possible topics could include but are not limited to:

- The reception of the immaterial labour and biopolitical production concepts.

- The social factory and the new forms of metropolitan strike.

- The refusal of work and the rise of cognitive proletariat.

- Constituent power, exodus, and non-state democracy.

- Gender, libidinal economy and affective labour.

- Formats of resistance: class, movement, multitude, network.

- Strategies of resistance: biopolitical weapons and radical imagery.

- San Precario, the precariat and the Euromayday.

- Digital commons, networked multitudes, knowledge economy.

Proposals for discussions, presentations, and panels of 500 – 1000 words should be sent to futureinthepresent@refusingstructures.net by Friday January 27th, 2006.

There will be an issue of the futureinthepresent@refusingstructures.net or visit http://www.refusingstructures.net/future.html. Registration before January 31st is highly encouraged.

Sponsored by the Autonomedia