Bluestocking Feminist Bookstore in NYC Will Live On!

My friend Hitomi and I recently decided to take over the leadership of Bluestockings Bookstore. We had been planning to start an activist resource space his coming fall? but upon hearing of Bluestockings? closing, we decided to go for it now.

jim writes
"E-Poetry 2003
An International Digital Poetry Festival

West Virginia University, Morgantown

April 23-26, 2003

It is our pleasure to announce E-Poetry 2003: An International Digital Poetry Festival, the second event in the acclaimed E-Poetry series inaugurated in Buffalo in April 2001. E-Poetry is a series, directed by Loss Pequeño Glazier from the University at Buffalo, which provides an artist and practitioner-oriented series of events in the spirit of some of the early poetry festivals, such as the Vancouver Poetry Festival, 1963, and the Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965. The series allows artists the opportunity to engage the state of their art and to advance its possibilities through dialog, performance, and peer interaction.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Species Traitor #3 Available

Green Anarchist Gathering Planned for Central Pennsylvania, July 10-13, 2003

        The primary section in this issue is on symbolic culture. We feel very strongly about the subject and feel that it remains a kind of academic or fringe obscurity while it is central to understanding the existence of civilization. It seems that any act of liberation will require a turn on this totalistic world view that we’ve been domesticated to.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"The Praxis Research and Education Centre

International research-practical conference

The anti-totalitarian left,

past and future

Moscow, 21-22 June 2003

This conference is being organised to coincide with the re-opening of
Moscows library of democratic and libertarian socialism, the Victor Serge
Library.
The purpose of the conference is to discuss the historical experience of,
and perspectives for development of, the social, political and intellectual
tendencies comprising the anti-totalitarian left in Russia and
internationally.

Anonymous Comrade writes "The Franklin Furnace announces Activist Art Teacher Training Intensives (March 15-16,
April
12-13, or May 10-11)

Intensive two-day workshops focusing on the following issues: How to
work
with audiences and communities who are starting from very different
places;
various strategies for activist art: working in teams
(non-hierarchical
artist collaboratives) working alone in the studio, working within
grass
roots movements, working with community doing cultural animation;
Action
Research and other hands on projects; various forms of evaluation and
feedback; working within mainstream institutions vs. creating programs
elsewhere; fundraising; and lots of discussion about the urgency of
doing
this work right now.

Slide packages and many other resources will be available.
Registration deadline for March workshop is March 1st
For more details and information about costs, housing, etc. please
contact
Beverly Naidus

The State of the Real



An Interdisciplinary Conference



Glasgow School of Art, UK



21-22 November 2003



Keynote address: Prof. Linda Nochlin, New York University *



"How real can you get?"

The conference organisers propose a debate on the subject of 'the real' in
aesthetic philosophy, criticism and practice.

"When is representation not real?"

Recent years have seen notions of reality discussed in the open. What
relationship do current views developed by this discourse have with those
tenets of realism and representation that once provided the foundation for
aesthetic study? What are the philosophical consequences of the introduction
of technologies that increasingly blur the boundaries between art and
popular culture? What is the effect of aesthetic culture on Realpolitik?
What has happened to the notions of social realism, verisimilitude, and the
imaginary? Are they still relevant, and how have they been changed, if at
all?

"Reclaiming the real."

The organizers are also interested in how notions of reality are affected
by, and continue to affect, aesthetic practice in the fields of art, design,
and media production. With the popularity of haptic technologies, what has
happened to ^real haptics? How do practitioners and academics view older
technologies in the light of their electronic avatars? With the development
of notions of virtual space, what has happened to our understanding of the
body, the mind, and corporeal space?

The organisers particularly welcome proposals on, or dealing with, the
following related subjects:

Reality and realism in Art & Design History; New media technologies
Virtual Reality, CGI photography and cinema, the Internet, haptic
technologies; Modernity and Post-modernity/Modernism and Post-modernism;
Philosophies on ^the real in popular culture; Philosophy and art/design and
cultural practice; Reality television, realism in film.

Proposals for panels (no more than three papers) and workshops are also

welcomed.



Deadline for abstracts: 22 April 2003



Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to:

'The State of the Real',

Dept. of Historical and Critical Studies,

Glasgow School of Art,

167 Renfrew St,

Glasgow,

Scotland, UK.

G3 6RQ.



Abstracts may be sent by email to real@gsa.ac.uk.

Anonymous Comrade writes "Comrades of SIL,

Here is the latest information on the Meeting of Autonomous People's
Organizations:
Circular of the Organizing Committee of the 1st Latin American Meeting of
Autonomous People's Organizations

Comrades

Our meeting is on the horizon we want to share some information about how
the preparations are going. .

Anonymous Comrade writes "[Here is the founding declaration of
United States Labor Against the War,
a new american pacifist syndicalist
organisation. Communicated by the
postal service union people from
NEFAC - North Easy Federation of
Anarcho Communists]

Over 100 unionists from across the country met in Chicago this
weekend to form the organization to promote antiwar sentiment
and organizing throughout the labor movement.
They approved the following statement of unity:

jim writes "The Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research And Development
(BASTARD) will be holding the 3rd Annual Anarchist Conference on March
30th (the day after the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair).

The theme of this years conference is Anarchist economics. We request
workshop proposals on economics, economic related issues, and general
anarchist theory. The event will be held at New College again this year,
777 Valencia St. in San Francisco, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

BASTARD Website http://sfbay-anarchists.org/

conference email address conference@sfbay-anarchists.org"

Anonymous Comrade writes

The nascent Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere, the
Department of English, and the Marxist Reading Group presents:

Born of Desertion: Singularity, Collectivity, Revolution

March 20-22 at the University of Florida, Gainesville

Keynote Speakers: Michael Hardt and Kristin Ross

Where is the Left now? How do we materialize collective
formations, and enact a justice in their name? How do we do this
at a moment when the world market and the right-wing body politic,
prodigiously engineering and rewriting the global imaginary, have
appeared as the frightening answer to certain strains of a
communal impulse so crucial to the Left?