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Edu-Factory Book Launch and Discussion

Malav Kanuga — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:17:37 +0000

On Sunday, FEBRUARY 28th at 7PM at Bluestockings Bookstore, This Is Forever will be celebrating the release of “Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge and Exodus from the Education Factory,“ recently compiled by the Edu-Factory Collective and published by Autonomedia. Join contributors and collaborators of the Edu-Factory project for an investigation and discussion of the relationships between the crisis of the university and the emergence of an increasingly international and militant student movement.

As this international student and university movement spreads, points on the map of recent mass demonstrations, occupations, and self-organized university initiatives belie a true sense of how the university world-wide is the site of an increasingly militant struggle. Both the geographic, social and analytic scale of this movement requires careful attention in order to understand the implications, connections, and points of divergence of a struggle that seeks to simultaneously transform the present conditions of labor and creativity that circulate through the university as well as create autonomous universities organized as a commons.

Tonight’s discussion aims to circulate political insights and perspectives on this movement as well as connect to organizing efforts for the March 4th Day of Action to Defend Public Education.

The event is also sponsored by Edu-Factory and Autonomedia. Edu-factory is a transnational collective engaged in the transformations of the global university and conflicts in knowledge production. The website of the global network (www.edu-factory.org) collects and connects theoretical investigations and reports from university struggles. The network has organized meetings all around the world, paying particular attention to the intertwining of student and faculty struggles. In addition to English, the collective has published the volume in Italian, as Univerisità globale: Il nuovo mercato del sapere (Manifestolibri, 2008), and in Spanish, as Universidad en Conflicto (Traficantes de sueños, 2010).

Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis on the Politics of Oil

Malav Kanuga — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:06:36 +0000

On Tuesday NOVEMBER 10th at 6:30PM, join Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis as they discuss big oil’s cultural and political violence with Peter Maass, contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the recently published Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.

The event is moderated by Ashley Dawson, Associate Professor of English, The Graduate Center, CUNY. The event will take place at the Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave btwn 34th and 35th (The Skylight Room, 9100)

Ariel Salleh on Eco-Sufficiency with Silvia Federici

Malav Kanuga — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:00:10 +0000

On Wednesday, November 11th at 7:00PM, ARIEL SALLEH will be presenting on a feminist and ecologically integrated politics of the commons, themes central to her recently edited volume, Eco-Sufficiency & Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology (Pluto Press, 2009). She will be introduced by and in dialogue with SILVIA FEDERICI. The event takes place at Bluestockings Bookstore (172 Allen Street, NYC 10002).

For more information, please see the UPCOMING EVENTS and SEMINARS sidebar.

Two Panels at LEFT FORUM on APRIL 18th and 19th

Malav Kanuga — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:56:18 +0000

On Saturday and Sunday, APRIL 18th to 19th, Midnight Notes will be conducting two panels at Pace University (One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038) as part of this year’s LEFT FORUM.

Saturday (10AM to 12PM) will be Capitalist Crisis, Energy and the Commons featuring Iain Boal, Peter Linebaugh, George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici.

Sunday (also 10AM to 12PM) will be Class Struggle and the Crisis: From Workers to Capital and Back Again and will include presentations from George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh, Monty Neill, and Eddie Yuen. This second panel will coincide with the launching of a new publication by Midnight Notes that is a political inquiry into the current capitalist crisis.

NOTE: You can find exact room information in person at the registration table of the conference or at the Bluestockings tables in the Exhibition room.

Please see UPCOMING EVENTS for more info.

Stevphen Shukaitis on “Imaginal Machines”

Malav Kanuga — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:28:09 +0000

On Wednesday, April 1st at 7pm, Stevphen Shukaitis will present his recently completed doctoral thesis entitled “Imaginal Machines, Movements, and Academic Enclosures.” In an effort to reimagine (and reappropriate) the academic processes through which doctoral degrees are granted, Stevphen will be presenting his work as a ‘movement-defense’ of his thesis. Joining him are George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici.

Electronic copies of Stevphen’s research is available here.

The event will take place at 16Beaver. Please see UPCOMING EVENTS for more info.

Two panels at ‘City from Below’ (in Baltimore)

Malav Kanuga — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:11:19 +0000

This is Forever is happy to announce two upcoming panel discussions at the ‘City from Below‘ conference in Baltimore, March 27th to 29th 2009. The discussions will center on urban struggle in the context of the crisis and the question of social reproduction in movement formations. See Upcoming Events for more info!