[LAF] Studies in Transversality: Militant Research London October 13-14

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

Studies in Transversality: Militant Research
hosted by Micropolitics Research Group

Tuesday October 13th
PUBLIC LECTURE by Colectivo Situaciones (Buenos Aires)
17.00 – 19.00
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College

Wednesday October 14th
PUBLIC SEMINAR with A Traversad por la Cultura (Madrid), Colectivo  
Situaciones (Buenos Aires), Euromayday Hamburg, S.a.l.e. (Venice),  
Universidad Nomada (Barcelona),  and many others.
14.00 – 19.00
RHB room 342 (in red brick main building), Goldsmiths College

Studies in Transversality is a series of encounters between  
researchers, cultural workers, and organisers who are concerned with  
the contexts and consequences of their practices beyond their  
respective fields of specialisation, and who wish to open new lines of  
subjectivation.  This session is the first of the year and brings  
together the practices of Colectivo Situaciones (Argentina), and a  
number of groups who are researching and organising around questions  
of creative labour, knowledge production and contemporary social  
movements in the UK and Europe today. Working through the notion of  
militant research, the session aims to examine the separations between  
university based academic research, cultural workers, and activists,  
the reason why these separations exist, and to share the working  
methods of these groups.

About Militant Research
Militant research is a concept-tool that works on the premise that all  
interpretation of the world is linked to some kind of action. Related  
to practices of co-research and institutional analysis, militant  
research proposes that all new knowledge production affects and  
modifies the bodies and subjectivities of those who have participated.  
Rather than use research as a tool to categorise and separate  
knowledge from practice, militant research operates transversally,  
becoming part of the process that organises relationships between  
bodies, knowledge, social practices and fields of action.

See Marta Malo de Molina’s two recent articles on militant research at:
http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0406/malo/en#redir
http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0707/malo/en

Colectivo Situaciones is a collective based in Buenos Aires. Emerging  
from Argentina’s radical student milieu in the mid 1990s, they have  
developed a long track record of intervention in Argentine social  
movements, including work with the unemployed workers’ movement of  
Solano, HIJOS, the organization of the children of the disappeared  
during the dictatorship and Creciendo Juntos, an alternative school  
run by militant teachers. Their books and pamphlets are dialogues with  
social movements, activists and many other groups, and explore the  
question of power, tactics of struggle, and how to think about  
revolution today. In addition to their publishing work, they are also  
working in a collectively run, alternative school. In a note printed  
on the back of many of their books, they describe their work as follows:

…we intend to offer an internal reading of struggles, a phenomenology  
and a genealogy, not an “objective” description. It is only in this  
way that thought assumes a creative, affirmative function, and stops  
being a mere reproduction of the present. And only in this fidelity  
with the immanence of thought is it a real, dynamic contribution.

For published texts in Spanish and English, see:
http://www.situaciones.org
http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0406/colectivosituaciones/en
http://info.interactivist.net/node/5490,
http://www.constituentimagination.net
http://www.commoner.org.uk/index.php?p=15

About Micropolitics Research Group
The Micropolitics Research Group investigates the forces and  
procedures that entangle artistic production and the flexible  
subjectivities of its producers into the fabric of late capitalism.   
Based primarily in London, the group carries out analysis of issues  
ranging from the production of subjectivity in creative work,  
diplomacy, institutional analysis, radical pedagogy and concrete  
situations of free labour, 'carrot work', and creative industry.

Directions:
Goldsmiths College, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross SE14  
6NW
New Cross or New Cross Gate RAIL, or buses: 21, 53, 453, 171, 172, 36,  
436
Directions and Campus Map: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media/campus-map.pdf

This event is supported by: London Centre for Arts and Cultural  
Exchange, Goldsmiths Department of Art Research Support Award, and  
Goldsmiths College Research and Knowledge Transfer Award


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Stevphen Shukaitis
http://stevphen.mahost.org
www.minorcompositions.info
www.ConstituentImagination.net
www.autonomedia.org
http://info.interactivist.net

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