Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Greenpepper Magazine

"Information" Issue Call for Contributors

GREENPEPPER is an Amsterdam-based environmental and social justice magazine
focusing on direct and autonomist action. To co-incide with the World Summit on the Information Society to be held in
Switzerland in December 2003, the theme of the next issue of the magazine is
INFORMATION.

"Edging Away from Anarchy:

Inside the Indymedia Collective,

Passion vs. Pragmatism"

Gal Beckerman, Columbia Journalism Review, September 17, 2003

"Who wants to be design coordinator this week?" The question comes from
Nandor, a red-bearded trollish man moderating an evening meeting of New York
City's all-volunteer Independent Media Center. He is composing the table of
contents for the next issue of the collective's biweekly newspaper, the
Indypendent.

hydrarchist writes

WSIS? WE SEIZE!

Over the past months, activists and artists with different backgrounds
ranging from indymedia centers to the noborder-networks, from the Free
Software movement to community media, from grassroots campaigns to hacker collectives, have been discussing how to intervene in, outside of, counter to, or as an alternative to the agenda and organisation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) from December 10th to 12th in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dear friends and comrades,

The Swedish Communist journal, riff-raff, has got a
new website and a new URL: riff-raff

We have tried and will continue to try to translate
our texts into English. So far we have only managed to
translate a few texts and the titles.

In the coming issue (probably released within three
weeks) we publish Swedish translations of the troploin
texts "Whither the World" and "To Work or Not to Work,"
and also a translation of the Wildcat text "War Against
the Oil Proletariat" together with a discussion on war,
proletariat and oil rent.

yours,

the riff-raff collective

NWD writes

"You Can't Always Get What You Want"

Jason Lubyk

Anyone who has studied the recent imperial crusades, peeking around the blue screen curtain of Caesar's News Networks, will notice that the current manifestation of the politico-corporate complex is undergoing a self-inflicted thermodynamic. Recent adventures to convert by the sword and IMF brown-skinned, heathen countries to the free-market pro-western-axis religion have been undertaken at the behest of free-market fanatics and neocon cultists, and their attempts to impose peculiar reality-tunnels (which they mistakenly believe to be in alignment with the universe, an entity so complex and mysterious to ever be fully comprehended or understood by Donald Rumsfeld or I) have tended to produce results opposite intent."

Full story: NWD

hydrarchist writes:

MetalloMediaLab

For the European Social Forum in Paris which will be held during November 11th-16th 2003, an area with workshops including experimentations and comparative discussions between the european alternative media will be open at "la Maison des Métallos", which is the former and historical stealworkers's trade union center.

The MetalloMediaLab laboratory wants to be an opportunity for activists of independent media to present their work, to confront themselves with other similar experiments, to meet other activists, to exchange know-how and expertise, but also to discuss about the current european situation and to release from the prospects for actions and common initiatives.

hydrarchist writes:

"The Italian Foucault: Subjectivity, Valorization, Autonomia"

Mark Coté

What powers must we confront, and what is our capacity for resistance, today when we can no longer be content to say that the old struggles are no longer worth anything? And do we not perhaps above all bear witness to and even participate in the ‘production of a new subjectivity’?
— Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, p. 115

I want to seek a productive space between cultural studies and political economy by remembering autonomia, a theoretical and political tendency of the Italian radical left, developed ‘from below’ in the 1960s. Autonomia emphasised the self-organizing capacity of labour and everyday practices, in decentralized, nonhierarchical structures. It also strongly rejected not only the Soviet model, and the Stalinist party with its centralized leadership, but by and large representational politics. By the 1970s, autonomia had become a heterogeneous grouping of students, labour, women, and the marginalized. In some strands of autonomia—it has always been a diffused and contested movement —there was an increasingly strong influence of French poststructuralist thought, especially by Foucaultian microphysics of power and Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the inherent productivity of desire and subjectivity. These influences are manifested perhaps most clearly in the autonomist concept of the ‘social factory’ which sees power and productivity as dispersed, emanating as much in subjectivities, everyday life, and cultural practices as in traditionally-defined ‘factory labour.’
My longer-term interest is in the complex relationship between subjectivity, autonomy, and capitalist reproduction. For now, I want to take a figure well known in cultural studies—Michel Foucault—and remake him, in order to introduce what myself and others have taken to calling the ‘communication school’ of autonomist thought. To do so, I am following the Foucauldian impulse of ‘fabrication.’ That is, I want to construct all the necessary travelling documents in order to take Foucault on a spatial and temporal journey to a particular Italy—to make up the ‘Italian Foucault.’ In constructing the ‘fiction’ of the ‘Italian Foucault’ I am not willfully misconstruing an historical and theoretical narrative; rather, I am seeking lines of affinity in order to stimulate the imaginary in terms of what might be done—in terms of scholarly pursuits between cultural studies and marxist political economy; and in terms of our practices in everyday life. Thus, this paper will give Foucault the credentials of a particular kind of ‘marxist’, and take him through some foundational automonist texts before setting him down in the Bologna, first circa 1977, and then today.

tomobedlam writes:

Endpage Text Archive has gotten a makeover, and has many additional goodies. See if you can guess the orgin of the design..."

Anonymous Comrade submits:

The first issue of the e-journal "tripleC. cognition, communication,
co-operation" (edited by the Unified Theory of Information research group)
is now online at
http://triplec.uti.at

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