Interactivist Info Exchange | A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org@import "/modules/aggregator/aggregator.css";@import "/modules/node/node.css";@import "/modules/poll/poll.css";@import "/modules/system/defaults.css";@import "/modules/system/system.css";@import "/modules/user/user.css";@import "/sites/all/modules/event/event.css";@import "/sites/all/themes/slash/slash_blue/style.css";@import "/sites/all/modules/jstools/activemenu/activemenu.css";Drupal.extend({ settings: { "jstools": { "cleanurls": true, "basePath": "/" }, "activemenu": { "#block-menu-1": "activemenu/menu", "#block-menu-2": "activemenu/menu", "#block-user-1": "activemenu/menu" } } }); A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.orgAnalysisAnnouncementsNewsReviewsEventsSearch NavigationAnalysisAnnouncementsCreate contentNewsRecent postsReviewsNews aggregatorUser login Username: * Password: * Create new accountRequest new passwordRecent commentscoauthorstevphen08/17/2008 - 14:07Alan Moore writes:jim08/06/2008 - 15:51Also note the action camps in Hamburg, Germanyjim04/23/2008 - 08:52More on the Kurtz Dismissaljim04/22/2008 - 08:44Is that all? (and some history)amanda04/22/2008 - 08:02Panels, Workshops Set for 2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfairjim03/28/2008 - 09:19BBC Report on US Federal Appeal Court's Mumia Abu-Jamal Decisionjim03/27/2008 - 20:11Brian Holmes on Wafaa Bilaljim03/10/2008 - 13:42Dr. John Morgan Video, "Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized"Autonomedia02/28/2008 - 10:20New York Sun Obituary for Dr. John Morganjim02/28/2008 - 10:14Upcoming eventsReading Ed Sanders' "Life and Poetry of Allen Ginsberg"(1 day) moreEvents« October 2008 » SunMonTueWedThuFriSat 1234 567891011 12131415161718 19202122232425 262728293031 Recent blog postsMale Sex Trade WorkerCommunities resisting UK company's open pit coal mineTHE ANARCHIC PLANETThe Future Is AnarchyThe Implosion Of Capitalism And The Nation-StateAnarchy as the true realityGlobalization of Anarchism (Anti-Capital)Making Music as Social Action: The Non-Profit ParadigmMay the year 2007 be the beginning of the end of capitalism?The Future is Ours AnarchicmoreReading Ed Sanders' "Life and Poetry of Allen Ginsberg"Submitted by jim on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 10:54.Start: 10/12/2008 - 20:00End: 10/12/2008 - 22:00Timezone: Etc/GMT-5A reading of Ed Sanders’ epic poem The Life and Poetry of Allen GinsbergSunday, October 12, 8 pmAt the Living Theater, 21 Clinton Street, 10002(Between Houston and Stanton, near F train, 2nd Avenue stop)212-729-8050Add new commentRead moreCalendarAutonomy, Composition, and the Radical Imagination Seminar Vilnius October 9-10Submitted by stevphen on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 17:49.Tags: EventsTheoryAutonomy, Composition, and the Radical ImaginationSeminar with Stevphen Shukaitis, Vilnius Free University (Laisvasis Universitetas)October 9th – 10th, 2008Thursday October 9th, in gallery “Kaire-Desine” (Left-Right), Latako Street 3, Vilnius. 6pm.Friday October 10th, in Contemporary Art Centre, Vokieciu Street 2, Vilnius. 6pm.What is the nature of the radical imagination? Drawing from autonomist and anarchist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde arts, this seminar will explore the emergence, functioning, and constant break down of the resistant social imaginary: the continual cycles of composition, decomposition, and recomposition of the potentiality of struggles composed by capacities created within social movement. It is these cycles of composition, the circulation of struggle, which compose the revolutions of everyday life. To invoke the imagination as underlying and supporting radical politics, over the past forty years, has become a cliché. A rhetorical utilization of ideas that are already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process of circulation. But what exactly is radical imagination? And more specifically, what are the compositional capacities created by the emergence, transformation, mutation, and decomposition of collective imagination within social movements? Imagination is not something that is ahistorical, derived from nothing, but an ongoing relationship and material capacity constituted by social interactions between bodies. While liberatory impulses might point to a utopian (no)where that is separate from the present, it is necessary to point from somewhere, from a particular situated imagining. The task of a radical politics is one of understanding and renewal of forms of self-organization and the imagination. These are questions fruitfully approached through a renewal of militant research, workers inquiry, and class composition analysis, which will be explored.This seminar will investigate the construction of imaginal machines, that is, the socially, historically embedded and embodied manifestations of the radical imagination. Imagination, not as something possessed by individuals, but rather the composition of capacities to affect and be affected by the world developed movements toward creating forms of autonomous sociality and collective self-determination. What does it mean to invoke the power of the imagination when it seems that the imagination has already seized power (through media flows and the power of the spectacle)? Does any subversive potentiality remain, or are we left with simply more avenues for the rejuvenation of questionable fields of power and rearticulating regimes of accumulation? Perhaps it is only honest to think in terms of a temporally bounded subversive power, one that like the mayfly has its day in the sun. It might be that imaginal machines, like all desiring machines, only work by breaking down. That is, their functioning is only possible, paradoxically, by their malfunctioning. By reopening the question of recuperation, the inevitable drive to integrate the power of social insurgency back into the working of capital and the state, we create possibilities for exploring a politics continually reconstituted against and through the dynamics of recuperation, to keep open an antagonism without closure that is continually recomposed. To develop tools necessary in resisting the continual subdivision and suburbanization of the radical imagination.Add new commentRead moreStarbucks to Require Employee Availability Around the Clock and Cut Workforce in Major National InitiativeSubmitted by stevphen on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 05:38.Tags: NewsWorkStarbucks to Require Employee Availability Around the Clock and Cut Workforce in Major National InitiativeThe Starbucks Coffee Co. is in the process of an extreme revamping of its workforce policies according to company documents obtained by the Starbucks Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World. The initiative, dubbed "Optimal Scheduling", will require employees to make themselves available to work essentially around the clock to obtain so-called full-time status. Even for workers able to make the extraordinary sacrifice to obtain "full-time" status, no work hours are guaranteed- identical to Starbucks' current system of part-time status for all retail hourly workers. In addition, Starbucks will lay off workers who cannot meet minimum availability requirements. As baristas learn of the new program, discontent is rising."I've had to make myself available each week from Tuesday to Sunday starting at 4:45am until 11pm in the hopes of possibly getting 32 hours of work but not being guaranteed a single hour," said Liberte Locke, a Starbucks barista in New York and member of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union. "It's impossible for me to get a second job now even though I need one and impossible to have a life outside of work."Under the new system, baristas who opt for pseudo full-time status have to make themselves available to work 70% of the total hours their store is open during the week. In an example given in the company documents, a store open 115 hours per week requires a barista to be available to work 80.5 hours each week - over double the standard work week. Week-to-week Starbucks can then schedule workers anywhere within that availability. In addition, workers who cannot make themselves available for at least three shifts a week will be fired, absent a "compelling reason" which Starbucks has not defined. Weekend workers must be available for at least 16 hours to avoid termination.Add new commentRead moreTURN*ON Artivistic 2009 Call for ParticipationSubmitted by stevphen on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 15:34.Tags: AnnouncementsCultureCall for participationTURN*ONArtivistic 2009 (Fall)Montreal, Canadahttp://artivistic.orgThe world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and freedom. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply irresistible.New movements are arising at the intersections of sex, politics and technology. These movements are inspired by, as well as critical of, the long traditions of struggle they stem from, remixing gender bending, sex work (and play), and media activism. From body hacking to the implosion of the service economy, where are we today and what new possibilities can we envision and nurture?For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. Discussing, questioning, and imagining the past, present, future, and infinite possibilities of sex. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently.Add new commentRead moreJohn Gray, "Era of U.S. Dominance Is Over"Submitted by amoore on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 15:48.Tags: Analysis & PolemicRantsA Shattering Moment in America's Fall from PowerJohn Gray, The Observer Sunday September 28 2008The global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down. The era of American dominance is over. Our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably. The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World War, is over.Add new commentRead moreMalatesta, "Hank Paulson and the State of Exception"Submitted by malatesta on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 22:46.Tags: Analysis & PolemicEconomy "Hank Paulson and the State of Exception"Malatesta,The "bad loans" i.e. the tender of high interest money to people who could not make the payments, have caused a banking crisis and Henry "Hank" Paulson seeks to take complete control to impose decades of austerity on main street America; nationalize the insolvent companies and give a handout to the banks of "treasury" money. Hmmmm....first off, wouldn't nationalizing a profitable company like an oil company make the money available and hurt far fewer people? Well, besides the obvious there is an amazing Constitutional crisis and a time for boiling anger. I wonder where and when some protests will erupt?Add new commentCommonplaces of Transition Screenings with Joanne RichardsonSubmitted by stevphen on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 11:53.Tags: AnnouncementsEvents*Commonplaces of Transition*Screening and talk by Joanne Richardson, D Media, RomaniaWed, 24 Sept, 7pm - 9pmMute, Main Hall, The Whitechapel Center, 85 Myrdle Street, London E1*Films*In Transit (30 min, 2008)Precarious Lives (excerpt, 43 min, 2008)Two or Three Things about Activism (excerpt, 73 min, 2008)On the following night 'Two or Three Things about Activism' will be screened at RampArt, see http://therampart.wordpress.com/Commonplaces of Transition is a collaborative project between D Media (Romania), Ak-Kraak (Germany), Interspace (Bulgaria) and K:SAK (Moldova) that has produced 8 videos about the remapping of borders, the transformation of labour and the evolution of activism. Joanne Richardson will screen In Transit (30 min, 2008), Precarious Lives (excerpt, 43 min, 2008) and Two or Three Things about Activism (excerpt, 73 min, 2008), and discuss the connection of the project to video activism and counter-documentary.'In Transit' is a diary of a journey through space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present, childhood memories and recycled fragments of the past. While traveling across Romania in the year of its EU accession, the monologue reflects on the meaning of transition, the re-writing of history and the relation between images and memory. Multiple layers of signification emerge in references other films by Guy Debord, Chris Marker and Peter Forgacs.Joanne Richardson is living and working in Cluj as a theorist, artist and program director of D Media ( http://www.dmedia.ro ). She is the editor of a webzine ( http://subsol.c3.hu ) and two books on digital culture, has written essays on the radical left, video activism, tactical media, copyleft and has made videos on issues ranging from globalization, to nationalism and postcommunism.Add new commentOtonom, "The Social Factory"Submitted by Anonymous Comrade on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 05:44.Tags: Analysis & PolemicArticlesTheory"The Social Factory"Otonom“Meanwhile, and incidentally, there opened up for us the prospect, which cannot be sharply defined yet at this point, of a specific relation of capital to the communal, general conditions of social production, as distinct from the conditions of a particular capital and its particular production process.” (Marx, Grundrisse Notebook V, 1973)1This emphasis by Marx which has mostly remained unrealized among the lines of Grundrisse has not been paid attention and reflected upon by Marxists in general except Negri. Even if it may have been reflected upon, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the implications of such a reflection have been very few in political theory and practice. This is not a problematic which is disregarded intentionally. As Marx has already said, this is related to the insufficient historical and social development of the specific relation of capital to communal, general conditions of social production, which is a prospect for us that cannot be defined yet at this point.Add new commentRead moreShift, "The Climate Camp at Kingsnorth"Submitted by Anonymous Comrade on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 11:26.Tags: Analysis & PolemicEcology"The Climate Camp at Kingsnorth"Shift MgazineThe Climate Camp at Kingsnorth was great! These were our initial thoughts on arrival at the first German climate camp in Hamburg, which took place just one week after Kingsnorth. The Hamburg camp seemed less organised, there were far fewer people and the lack of a clear neighbourhood structure meant that we aimlessly walked around the site for a good half hour before finally pitching the tent in the ‘anti-barrio’ barrio.Add new commentRead moreAlbanie Marcossy, "Corruption in Tanzania"Submitted by Anonymous Comrade on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 02:50.Tags: Analysis & PolemicThe State"Corruption in Tanzania"Albanie Marcossy, Dar es salaam, TanzaniaUnder the Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP), the local government authorities, including the sub-council level authorities, are undergoing the following reforms: (i) Capacities enhancements to either provide the services directly or facilitate their delivery through other actors and players. (ii) Restructured and re-organized to become more efficient in carrying out their new functions. (iii) Acquiring more legal and administrative powers and freedom, in formulating their plans, budgets, activities and in managing their human and financial resources. (iv) Acquiring powers to mobilize their own resources.Add new commentRead more123456next ›last » News SectionStarbucks to Require Employee Availability Around the Clock and Cut Workforce in Major National InitiativeEmily Forman, "I-Witness Video From DNC/RNC Protests"Antiwar Activists Win $2 Million Settlement from NYCKittichai Restaurant Stops Serving Wild Edibles Seafood Over Workers' Rights ConcernsLetter from Steve Kurtz to SupportersGenoa Cops Convicted for 2001 G8 BrutalityHomeless People Shut Out of Sapporo Bus Terminal in Run-up to G8 SummitmoreAnalysis SectionJohn Gray, "Era of U.S. Dominance Is Over"Malatesta, "Hank Paulson and the State of Exception"Otonom, "The Social Factory"Shift, "The Climate Camp at Kingsnorth"Albanie Marcossy, "Corruption in Tanzania"moreAnnouncementsAndrew Kliman, "Worse Than They Want You to Think: A Marxian Analysis of the Economic Crisis"TURN*ON Artivistic 2009 Call for ParticipationCommonplaces of Transition Screenings with Joanne RichardsonNew Documentary on Oaxaca - "From the Edge of the Blade" Artists Soldier for Democracy at the Park Avenue Armory 9/21-27moreReviewsKevin Keating reviews "FARE STRIKE! San Francisco 2005: First-Hand Accounts"Dan Clore, Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy for LibertariansRob Myers on "Abstract Hacktivism"Alan Moore on "Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority"Richard Pithouse on Mike Davis, "Planet of Slums"moreA-infos(en) Venezuela: Anarchist journal - El Libertario # 52, Editorial - Against (B)oligarchy, demagogy and corruption. Autonomous struggle from the ground up!(en) Palestine-Israel, Three years of persistent joint struggle against the separation fence and occupation(en) Britain, Monday March 3rd at 2pm sees anarchist Class War's picket of Foxtons in Islington,(en) US, Infoshop Forums: Discussion Forums for Anarchists and Anti-authoritarians(en) US, Philadelphia, Defenestrator* issue 40 IV.moreMetamuteAll Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the MassesDoing it for the KidsArt Stripped Bare by Post-Autonomists, EvenCorporate InhospitalityI Don't Sell My Body Anymore Because I Can Sell Drugsmore |
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