[LAF] Art of Rent Seminar Series Spring 2008 London

[stevphen shukaitis]

The Art of Rent

Spring 2008 University of London, Queen Mary
http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm

As part of an ongoing collective project, the organisers of this  
seminar series seek to promote a discussion on the rise of rent as a  
form of capitalist appropriation and the way that new levels of  
association in the arts and culture, in information and  
communication, in public taste and ambience have made this rise  
possible, and from the perspective of private accumulation,  
necessary.   To this end, the seminar brings together various  
perspectives on the Art of Rent taking in analysis of cognitive  
capitalism, of the financialisation of the quotidian and the bodily,  
of gentrification and the metroversity, of new international division  
of labour and of governance.  The seminar will conclude with a  
special two-day event in September on the cultural industries.

Behind this series is the sense that the Art of Rent is a reaction to  
a new collective power among bodies assembled to labour and a  
capacity for ensemble in the social individual, all provoked by the  
migrations of work into culture, language, and affect and the work of  
migrations into these registers of life.  For those who work in the  
university, in the arts, and in politics long seeking to subvert the  
relationship between innovation and wage, the rise of the  
relationship between innovation and rent calls not for subversion but  
sabotage of the creative process.

Seminars will feature presentation from the speakers followed by  
structured discussion and questions and answers.

All the seminars are free and all are welcome

All seminars (except for February 29th) 16:00-18:00 Room 4.08 Francis  
Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End.


Friday February 29th, 2008
The Art of Rent

16:00 – 18:00 Room 602 Physics Building, Queen Mary University of  
London, Mile End

• Carlo Vercellone, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Matteo Pasquinelli, Queen Mary University

Friday March 28th, 2008
Crisis and Financialization

• Christian Marazzi, University of Southern Switzerland
• Randy Martin, New York University
• Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS London

Thursday May 15th, 2008
New international division of labour

• Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna
• Xiang Biao, Oxford University

Thursday June 5th, 2008
Governance, resistance, production of common

• Judith Revel, Sorbonne University, Paris
• Stefano Harney, Queen Mary University

Space is limited; those planning to attend to should send a message  
to artofrent at gmail.com

http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm

For further information please email artofrent at gmail.com
  
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