<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">The Art of Rent</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">Spring 2008 University of London, Queen Mary<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><a href="http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm">http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The seminar will conclude with a special two-day event in September on the cultural industries.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">Seminars will feature presentation from the speakers followed by structured discussion and questions and answers.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">All the seminars are free and all are welcome<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">All seminars (except for February 29<sup>th</sup>) 16:00-18:00 Room 4.08 Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><b>Friday February 29<sup>th</sup>, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><i>The Art of Rent<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">16:00 18:00 Room 602 Physics Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Carlo Vercellone, University of Paris I Panthιon-Sorbonne<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Matteo Pasquinelli, Queen Mary University<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><b>Friday March 28<sup>th</sup>, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><i>Crisis and Financialization<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Christian Marazzi, University of Southern Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Randy Martin, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS London<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><b>Thursday May 15<sup>th</sup>, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><i>New international division of labour<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Xiang Biao, Oxford University<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><b>Thursday June 5<sup>th</sup>, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><i>Governance, resistance, production of common<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Judith Revel, Sorbonne University, Paris<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> Stefano Harney, Queen Mary University<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">Space is limited; those planning to attend to should send a message to <a href="mailto:artofrent@gmail.com">artofrent@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"><a href="http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm">http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin">For further information please email <a href="mailto:artofrent@gmail.com">artofrent@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Cochin"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </body></html>