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END THE CRIMINALISATION OF PROTEST: THE CASE OF TRENTON OLDFIELD
UPDATE. TRIBUNAL - THIS MONDAY 9 Dec https://www.facebook.com/events/562353533817807/ JOIN US IF YOU CAN 09:15 | Taylor House | 88 Rosebery Ave | EC1R 4QU Trenton Oldfield – Anti Olympics, austerity...
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Wandering Abstraction
Developing a presentation given at the Accelerationism symposium in Berlin December 2013, Ray Brassier draws upon the divergent theories of 'accelerationism' and 'communisation' whose mutual...
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Value-Form and Avant-Garde
The theory of programmatism describes the struggle of labour to affirm itself as a class within and against capital. Here Daniel Spaulding explores the intimate relation between this politics and the...
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The Technical Composition of Conceptualism
If the last four decades of protracted crisis stem from the increasing productivity of capitalist technology, how does culture index this and how (else) might poets respond to the rise of the machines?...
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Liverpool's Docks, Dust and Dirt
While recycling is promoted as universally positive the material processes associated with recycling itself are potentially dangerous. Essays by Brian Ashton, Steve Tombs & David Whyte, together...
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Pyramid Dead - The Artangel of History
The Heygate Estate has stood partially empty for several years, a living monument to the expulsion, AKA ‘regeneration’, of working class populations from the centre of London. Chris Jones reports on...
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The Maid and the Money-Form
Capital is going on around us all the time and yet, like gravity, we cannot see it except in its effects. A promising hypothesis, but Isaac Julien’s glossy video piece, Playtime, only reiterates the...
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LESSONS FROM THE FUTURE
Post-fordist visions of flexible, personalised, and life-long learning have grown even leaner and meaner post-2008. The student body is increasingly viewed as a pool of consumer data and low-to-no-wage...
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MOOCs - Herding education to the slaughter?
Massively open online courses (MOOCs) have been sold as the future of higher education but there is more than a whiff of ‘primitive accumulation’ at the new frontier. Dominic Pettman examines the...
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Notes on Normcore
Written in a (normcore-appropriate) low fever, reading these notes over they seem mad enough to make some sense. A response to the great Tom Frank's analysis of normcore, and matters arising At a...
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Continuing Business By Other Means: Egypt's Military Economy
While much analysis has emphasised the flexible, precarious and improvisatory subjectivities of neoliberal ‘post-fordist’ society, the post-crunch period demonstrates that militarism, graft, and...
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Irational.org’s Traum
Irational.org’s Traum a Psychoarchaeologist’s DramaturgyBy V.M.Series editors: Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles & Oliver Lerone SchultzPublished in association with Post-Media...
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Pedunculated Fandango
Acknowledging the trends of a new cultural-topological turn Jonathan Kemp reads Sha Xin Wei’s recent book on poiesis, enchantment and topology, inside out I teach you the friend and his overflowing...
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Nymphomaniac: Sex Against Gender
Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac considers the feasibility of love with men, and whether heterosexual fucking – or abjuring it – can be women’s self-propulsion into the making of history. This is what...
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SIC, International Journal for Communisation, No. 2
The 2nd issue of Sic, with texts that develop new concepts and analyse recent struggles (2011-13), including Occupy Oakland, the riots in the UK and events in Greece and France.Dates: Tuesday, 10 June,...
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The Difficult Theory of a Mad World
From its central question, what does critical theory have to do with the critique of political economy?, Werner Bonefeld’s new book, reviewed here by Chris Wright, develops a deep engagement with the...
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The Path to Freedom - Alexei Gaskarov's Statement
'If the path to freedom lies through prison, then we are ready to take it.' Here is the closing statement of Alexei Gaskarov, sentenced to four years in prison for political protest in Russia. Some...
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Review of Organisation of the Organisationless
Dave Mesing reviews Rodrigo Nunes' Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action after Networks, part of the PML Books series, a collaboration between Mute and Post-Media Lab October 1st,...
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Victory to Focus E15 Occupation
Good news for the E15 occupation today in court Reposted from: https://www.facebook.com/pages/E15-Open-House-Occupation/1630838387142657?fref=tsPRESS RELEASE: Victory to Focus E15 OccupationThe fight...
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A Rough Passage to Navigate
Stefan Szczelkun reviews Everard M. Phillips, The Political Calypso: a sociolinguistic process of conflict transformation For Everard M. Phillips recent Trinidadian political calypso is something as...
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