Tina arrived in Copenhagen before the summit started and left after it ended. She wrote daily about events inside the Bella Center and demos and actions outside on the streets.

She will bring us her reflections from COP15 as well as the climate justice movement.  Tonight’s event will lay out in simple and understandable terms what the Copenhagen Accord includes, what it means, and how it contrasts with the science demands and what other groups of nations, such as the G77, AOSIS and the EU, as well as science calls for. Additionally, we have an opportunity to discuss actions related to the summit, exploring new directions, potentials, limits and the implications of state repression.

On the next evening, Tuesday, JANUARY 12th at 7PM, join Ben Trott, member of the Turbulence Collective, for a presentation and discussion of Issue 5 of their journal, entitled “And Now For Something Completely Different?”

Turbulence: Ideas for Movement is a journal that explores many of the political and strategic directions of the ‘movement of movements’ of the counter-globalization days and into the development of global movements today.  The journal is a key space for debate and investigation into core logics, practices, and visions of an international network of movements.

The current issue discusses the condition of anti-capitalist movements in the wake of various crises: of financial capital, of the doctrines of neoliberalism, of our planetary commons and the environment, of social and political forms of equitable life, and of our movements themselves.

Ben will be presenting the arguments of the collective’s  article “Life in Limbo?” that introduces the new issue as well as the political project of the journal itself.

Both events will take place at 7PM at Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street, NYC 10002. Print copies of the journal will be available to all attendees.  You can find more information about Turbulence here as well as download the entire issue here.

As Stevphen writes, “the task is to explore the construction of imaginal machines, comprising the socially and historically embedded manifestations of the radical imagination. Imagination as a composite of our capacities to affect and be affected by the world, to develop movements toward new forms of autonomous sociality and collective self-determination.”

This event also celebrates the recent militant publishing venture of Minor Compositions, a new project dedicated to inquiry into radical and movement histories, autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and revolutions of everyday life, as forms of research militancy useful to present organizing.  More info can be found on thier website – http://www.minorcompositions.info/

It was written in the 2003-07 period and published in Italy in 2007. It is the first episode of an 18th-century pan-Atlantic trilogy which the authors call “the Atlantic Triptych”. All novels will be set in the 1770s, all across the Atlantic Ocean (North America, Europe, the West Indies and Africa), before and during the American Revolution. A story from the wrong side of history, when everything was still possible. In 1775, at the dawn of the revolution that gave birth to the United States of America, British loyalists and rebels compete for an alliance with the Six Nations of the Iroquois. The Iroquois, the most powerful indigenous tribal group in the Mohawk River Valley, with a constitution hundreds of years old, have coexisted with the colonists for generations. Now they must make a painful decision that gravely endangers the future of their mixed community. Together, English and Indian representatives of that community undertake a long voyage to London, capital of the British Empire, knowing that the road back will be paved with war.

Wu Ming (extended name: Wu Ming Foundation) is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna. In their pre-Wu Ming days, the group wrote the novel Q (first edition 1999). Unlike the open name “Luther Blissett”, “Wu Ming” stands for a defined group of writers active in literature and popular culture. The band authored several novels, some of which have been translated in many countries.  Their books are seen as part of a body of literary works (the “nebula”, as it is frequently called in Italy) described as the New Italian Epic, a phrase that was proposed by Wu Ming themselves.

The seminar will take place at Bluestockings Bookstore every Wednesday 4PM to 6PM, from July 15th to August 26th.  Registration is required prior to the start of the course and is on a sliding scale of $35 to $75 (cash payable in person at Bluestockings).

Please see SUMMER SEMINAR:  AFFECTIVE POLITICS for more info.

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben’s recent work through an investigation of Foucault’s notion of “apparatus” (or dispositif), a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on the singular relation with one’s own time that we call contemporariness. The evening will also offer a sneak peak of “Nudity,” Agamben’s forthcoming book.

The event will take place at Bluestockings Bookstore and is free (suggested donation/purchase the book).

Please see UPCOMING EVENTS for more info.

Team Colors included an article of hers in their 2008 publication ‘In the Middle of a Whirlwind.”  You can find that article here.

Please see UPCOMING EVENTS for more info.

The series emerged out of a 2005 seminar hosted by Bluestockings Bookstore called “Strategies of Refusal” and came into its own throughout much of 2006 and late into 2007, engaging in numerous discussions both formal and informal.  We put together a few more events under the formal title of the series in 2008 before embarking on other projects.  Now in 2009, we find ourselves galvanized by two recent events:  first, the tremendous effort of Team Colors in putting together the “In the Middle of a Whirlwind” journal (May 2008) and second, the increasing urgency in which movements across the world are responding to capitalist crisis and formulating their own ‘exits’ from capitalist command. 

As we reconstitute and look around, we have a lot of questions about the shape of many movements to come.  We hope you will join us and look forward to seeing you at the next event.