This Is Forever » Subjectivation http://www.thisisforever.org From Inquiry To Refusal Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:49:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Stevphen Shukaitis on ‘Imaginal Machines’ http://www.thisisforever.org/archives/462 http://www.thisisforever.org/archives/462#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:12:24 +0000 Malav Kanuga http://www.thisisforever.org/?p=462 Our first TIF event in the new year and quite a celebration: At Bluestockings on Friday, JANUARY 8th at 7PM there will be a release party and book discussion for Stevphen Shukaitis‘ recently published Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life.  Stevphen explores the limits and possibilities of collective imagination in the age of spectacular recuperation.  In what ways has ‘the power of imagination’, a radical bulwark for over forty years, been seized and corrupted by the image-commodity?  Attending to this problem, Stevphen explores and mutates various autonomist political traditions with subversive avant-garde movements and many instances of self-organization in everyday life.  In order to reorganize our radical imaginaries such that they (and we) remain a terrain of conflict and antagonism to capitalist subsumption, Stevphen invites us to think of our collective struggles as machines – ones that perhaps work best when paradoxically breaking down.

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/

]]> http://www.thisisforever.org/archives/462/feed 0 Four Day Seminar with Franco “Bifo” Berardi http://www.thisisforever.org/archives/272 http://www.thisisforever.org/archives/272#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:56:59 +0000 Malav Kanuga http://www.thisisforever.org/?p=272 The recent militant publishing project Minor Compositions and 16 Beaver are organizing a four-day seminar with Bifo, from Thursday, September 3rd to Sunday, September 6th. “Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of Post-Alpha Generation,” Bifo’s most recent book will be available for free to all seminar participants.  

The seminar will take place at 16 Beaver: Thursday schedule will be from 5pm  - 8pm.  Friday will be from 12:00pm to 10pm. Saturday, and Sunday will go from 11:00am to 10pm. A sliding scale fee of $25-50 is requested to help defray costs associated with bringing Bifo to NYC, as well as covering food for the 4 days.

Updates and readings are available at the 16 Beaver website here and other queries can be directed to subject [AT] 16beavergroup [DOT] org.

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