Via Mute:::: ///Next week///
Viral Utopias November 16th -- 7PM til 1AM @ Limehouse Town Hall Come join us to celebrate the release of several new publications exploring this overlap between the utopian and the viral, the networked and the not-worked: Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks by Tony Sampson; Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia by Angela Mitropoulos; Open Utopia by Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe; and the current issue of Mute Magazine, 'Becoming Impersonal' Vol.3 #3. DJS Agit Disco DJs http://www.metamute.org/shop/mute-books/agit-disco LIVE BANDS Traum - London-based chanson for lovers of neo-romantisch perverse pop http://soundcloud.com/traumatica/whatsmyjob Hungry Hearts - whisky filled gruff folk punk: http://www.myspace.com/thehungryhearts VENUE Limehouse Town Hall 646 Commercial Road London E14 7HA FREE / RSVP ESSENTIAL http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4688544563 ///This week at Historical Materialism a Mute Panel and some highlights/// Friday 9 November 16.15-18.00 Generalised Nonequivalence, or, Marxism and Capitalism Beyond Pure Abstraction A discussion convened by Mute Magazine Speakers Loren Goldner -- Money, capital & non-equivalence: fictitious capital and social non-reproduction today Gail Day -- All that's solid melts into air? Beyond the story of abstraction Melanie Gilligan and Benedict Seymour -- On the culture and politics of generalised nonequivalence Chair: Marina Vishmidt Historical Materialism 2012 Room: KLT -- Khalili Lecture Theatre, basement School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) * Friday 9 November 9.45-11.30 Work, work, work! Value, Technology, Ideology Stevphen Shukaitis -- Inside the Garden of Bifurcations: Technologies of Composition, Recuperation, and the Space of the Soul in Neoliberalism Peter Fleming, André Spicer and Carl Cederström -- The Ideology of Exit in the Contemporary Capitalist Labor Process Armin Beverungen, Steffen Böhm and Chris Land -- The value of Marx: free labour, rent and 'primitive' accumulation in Facebook Chair: Gregory Schwartz Room: KLT -- Khalili Lecture Theatre, basement School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) * Saturday 10 November K 15.45-17.30 Work, Energy, Climate George Caffentzis -- Work or Energy?: The Limits to Capitalist Accumulation Razmig Keucheyan -- Catastrophe Bonds: Finance, Insurance, and Natural hazards Daniel Tanuro -- The Impossibility of Green Capitalism Chair: Alberto Toscano Room: KLT -- Khalili Lecture Theatre, basement School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) * Sunday 11 November 16.30-18.30 HISTORICAL MATERIALISM PLENARY GENDER, WORK AND REPRODUCTION IN THE CRISIS Silvia Federici Occupy Reproduction: Movements, Commons and the Grand Domestic Revolution Kathi Weeks Feminist Politics, Social Reproduction, and Life after Work David McNally Labour-Power and Social Reproduction: From Capital to the Current Crisis Chair: Adam Hanieh Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Full HM Programme: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual9/HM2012Grid.pdf
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