In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements A one-off online journal of theory, art, activism and organizing to be released May 15th! www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info Coordinated by: Team Colors (Militant Research Collective) Published by: The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press

Future Promises: The Life and Work of Stanley Aronowitz A Conference Sponsored by the Composition & Commons Co-research Project, School of Business and Management, University of London, Queen Mary May 19th, 2008 – 9:30am – 6pm http://stevphen.mahost.org/futurepromises.html Room 4.24, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, Mile End Road, London This conference celebrates the most important living sociologist in the United States by examining the works and activism of Stanley Aronowitz over the last thirty-five years, beginning with his classic False Promises, through his milestone interventions in education, science and technology, cultural studies, and political theory, and most recent accomplishments such as How Class Works and Left Futures. It will also take in his militant unionism, his standing for Governor of New York, and his continuing importance as a global figure in the struggles against exploitation and injustice. Speakers will take up various of his works in dialogue with the author. An address by Professor Aronowitz will follow the morning and afternoon panels discussing his books.

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7 March 2008 Friends, Team Colors is pleased to announce our partnership with Journal of Aesthetics and Protest to produce a publication titled In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement, and Movements, which will seek to intervene in and around the upcoming protests against the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

Democratic Aesthetics: Actual, Radical, Global Call for papers for a themed issue of the journal Culture, Theory and Critique to be published in April 2009 Since Walter Benjamin equated aestheticized politics with fascism and war, projects to conduct politics aesthetically generally have been regarded as inimical to democracy. Yet, given the role of the US as a hegemonic world power exporting democracy by force of arms, it is timely to re-examine the potential of productive relations between aesthetics and democratic politics. There are many different notions of “aesthetics,” ranging from a philosophical discourse about art (often understood as distinct cultural practices, objects, experiences, perceptions and judgments), to its original broader sense (by Baumgarten) of the study of sensory, bodily aspects of cognitive interactions with the world. Moreover, ongoing processes of globalization generate and intensify tensions among culturally variable ideologies of the aesthetic, even as they problematize the presupposition of democracy’s universal value. It thus becomes at once more difficult and more urgent to think the relation between democracy and aesthetics.

Join us Saturday, March 29th for Just Food's Annual CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in NYC Conference! Come together with over 100 CSA members and regional farmers. Choose from a variety of informative and dynamic workshop topics. Share best-practices. Have your questions answered by our farmer panel. Network at our end-of-day CSA Expo and wine and cheese reception! This is your chance to find out how your farmer grows organically, discover ways to strengthen your existing core group, learn about New York's food system and more! When: Saturday, March 29th

[Originally posted by Marc Garret on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 on NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity] Distant: http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/distant/ Statement about why I am Making Net Art Once More: I have been going through some changes regarding what type of personal, individual artwork that I wish to explore these days. Even though I am involved in various high-tech projects which are mainly collaborations, that are related to larger projects. I wish to return to making Net Art, reconnect to what has always been my favourite form of creativity and

The American economy is in shambles, with a spiraling debt crisis, a vanishing industrial base, and a plummeting dollar. And, as the debacle of the occupation of Iraq continues to demonstrate, the US is finding it increasingly difficult to keep the rest of the world under its hegemonic thumb through military intervention. Giovanni Arrighi's new book, Adam Smith in Beijing, situates this global decline of US power within the context of a epochal shift in the world-system away from North American dominance and towards Asia. Is China the real winner of the "War on Terror"?

The Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies at Loughborough University (GB) invites applications for a fully-funded Faculty Studentship to undertake doctoral research from October 2008 in any area related to the Department's research interests. Dr Ruth Kinna and Dr Dave Berry would like to hear from anyone interested in studying for a PhD in any area related to anarchist history, politics or theory. Ruth Kinna is a Senior Lecturer in Politics. She has published notably on William Morris and Peter Kropotkin, and is the author of 'Anarchism: A