Daybreak Anarchist Collective writes:

Daybreak 6 Now Out!

Daybreak is a 12 page anarchist tabloid put out from Minneapolis. Issue #6 has been on the streets for a couple weeks but is just now finding its way onto cyberspace. All writings are anti-copyright and can be distributed through independent media. The PDF can also be downloaded and printed out on 11 x 17 paper.

This issue contains articles on transit cuts, the attacks on the Pine Island Bog, DIY advice, record and zine reviews, anti-police info, and the usual low theory you've come to expect from us

Anonymous Comrade writes:

The Foucault Society
Inaugural Symposium and Celebration

In collaboration with the New School Department of Humanities is pleased to announce its inaugural symposium and celebration:

FOUCAULT NOW


Keynote Speaker


Professor Todd May, Dept. of Philosophy/Clemson University

All are welcome for exploration of the contemporary significance of Michel Foucault’s work, open discussion and festivities:

Friday, May 13, 2005

New School, Theresa Lang Community Center

55 W.13th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues), 2nd Floor

Against The Wal Coalition writes:
Protest annual Wal-Mart shareholder's meeting in Arkansas

When: June 2-3, 2005

Where: Fayetteville, Arkansas, University of Arkansas,
Bud Walton Arena (yes, the brother of Sam Walton has an arena named after him on a state school's campus)

Why: Take the heat to Wal-Mart's home territory:
Northwest Arkansas. Meet other progressives, WM activists, and labor folks. Last year, people came
from New York, California, and Canada to greet Wal-Mart's shareholders.

Viva writes:

"Mistaken Identity: Sikhs in America"

Winner of three first prize awards at documentary film festivals "Mistaken Identity: Sikhs in America" is a 9/11 story of the racial profiling, verbal abuse and physical assaults and killing on American Sikhs. Mistaken for terrorists because of the turban and beard, which they wear for religious reasons, Sikhs are being shot and killed to date.

Film was produced by two non-Sikh women, 22-year old Amanda Gesine who hosted and initiated the idea one week after 9/11. She never had a Sikh friend in school or college, and felt that racial profiling was due to "ignorance and fear."

Check out websites: www.cultural-diversity.biz.co.uk, www.mistakenidentity.tv; and www.mi-sia.com where you can review 3 min of film on streaming video and buy VHS/DVD via Pay Pal.

NOT BORED! writes:

"Guy Debord's Letters, 1957–1964"

Not Bored!

I believe that all of the people who prefer personal letters to the [situationists'] journal lack the ability to elevate themselves to the generality of the same problems. Thus, they don't see that it is the same position, the same thing, but more utilizable by more people. Of course, if it is a question of saying, "we are all better than that" (than all writing), this is obvious. It is one of our basic themes. But an epistolary correspondence, even with a friend, even if one is understood, seems to me further away from the importance of living than the most profoundly calculated texts. It is even less satisying. (Guy Debord, Letter of 2 September 1964 to Ivan Chtcheglov)

Despite Guy Debord's reservations about epistolary correspondences, he engaged in a great many of them — so many, in fact, that it's going to take six full-sized volumes for Editions Fayard to publish them all. To date, four of them have come out: Volume 1, 1957–1960 (published in 1999); Volume 2, 1961–1964 (2001); Volume 3, 1965–1968 (2003); and Volume 4, 1969–1972 (2005). It isn't known what will be contained in Volume 5 (1973–1976? 1973–1994?). But it is known that Volume 6 will include the pre-1957 period, plus letters that have been received between 1999 and the conclusion of this immense work.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Support Anarchist Anthropologist David Graeber

After a decision at a meeting convened by tenured faculty at the department of anthropology, Yale University, David Graeber’s [author of 2004 Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology] contract was not renewed.

This is not a situation of David being denied tenure, but rather that the extension of his contract has been denied, and this is an extremely rare situation. In light of his exemplary scholarship and mentoring, many of David’s students and colleagues strongly support his continuing at Yale.

To this end we have created an open petition. As the review process of the decision is going to take place very soon, we request you to support this endeavor by signing this petition as soon as possible. We would also appreciate any other support that you are able to provide. The link of the petition is below. Please feel free to forward this petition to any interested persons or listserves.

http://www.petitiononline.com/dgraeber/petition.ht ml

Thanks,
Durba Chattaraj,
department of anthropology, Yale University;
Devika Bordia,
department of anthropology, Yale University

New Media Education and Its Discontents

Conference, Friday, May 6th, 2005

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

This conference is organized by the Institute for Distributed Creativity
in collaboration with The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Elebash Recital Hall

The Graduate Center

City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Join us for an intensive one-day conference about new media education.
Connect with other new media researchers and educators, present and discuss
urgent topics in new media education, exchange syllabi or swap resources.
The conference will be podcast and live blogged. Bring your USB memory key
and laptop.

Anonymous Comrade writes:
Stephen Wright talks on Use-Value and Art-Related Practice


Where: 16 Beaver Street, 4th floor (directions below)


When: Monday Night 05.02.05 @ 7:30 Pm Who: Open To All

2. The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade: An Essay on Use-Value and Art-Related Practice


Stephen Wright

In a late text, Marcel Duchamp set out to distinguish several different types of readymades. Of particular interest here is the genre which he punningly described as “reciprocal readymades.” Anxious, he claimed, “to emphasize the fundamental antinomy between art and the readymade,” Duchamp defined this radically new, yet subsequently neglected genre through an example: “Use a Rembrandt as an ironing-board.” (1) More than a mere quip to be taken at face value, or a facetious mockery of use-value, Duchamp’s example points to the symbolic potential of recycling art – and more broadly, artistic tools and competence – into the general symbolic economy of everyday life. For in that respect, the reciprocal readymade is the obverse of the standard readymade, which recycles the real – in the form of manufactured objects – into the symbolic economy of art. Historically speaking, the readymade is inseparably bound up with objecthood: it refers to a readymade, manufactured object Yet, it would be reductive to confine the readymade to its objective dimension alone, if only because it provides such a strong general image of the reciprocal logic between art and the real.

Anonymous Comrade writes:
Manhattan Community Board 2 Rebukes Mayor over Repression of Bicyclists

Manhattan CB 2 passed two unanimous resolutions of "profound concern" about violations of the Constitution committed by Bloomberg's administration.
The City's attornies are trying to gag and enjoin bicyclists from participating in the regular Critical Mass bicycle rides. The rides are aimed at "traffic calming" to make automotive drivers more considerate of bicyclists in the city.
This Friday, April 29th at 5:30 p.m. in Union Square South the international group "Still We Speak!" is throwing a press conference to hoot and holler for our rights. The Reverend Billy presiding.

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

1.  Upcoming Talks and Course
2.  Additions to our Pluralism Page

1.  UPCOMING TALKS, April 27 and May 25
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(Donation:  $7-10, sliding scale)

 THE MARXIST CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY: WHAT IT IS, HOW IT WORKS, AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT - ESPECIALLY NOW
Bertell Ollman
Wednesday April 27, 7 pm

 FIGHTING FOR REFORMS WITHOUT BECOMING REFORMIST
Robin Hahnel
based on his new book, _Economic Justice and Democracy_
Wednesday May 25, 7 pm

UPCOMING COURSE, starting May 3
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 TAXATION AND FINANCE
Instructor:  Howard F. Seligman.
Tuesdays, 7:45 - 9:45 pm
8 classes, May 3 - June 21
Tuition:  $88-$115, sliding scale
Course description below.  See our website for syllabus and instructor's
bio: http://new-space.mahost.org/taxation.html