<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG><FONT size=5>Iran Secular Society</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG><A href="http://www.iransecularsociety.com/"><FONT size=5>www.iransecularsociety.com</FONT></A></STRONG></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><A href="http://www.galha.org/"><FONT size=5>www.galha.org</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><A href="http://www.ethicalsoc.org.uk/"><FONT size=5>www.ethicalsoc.org.uk</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><FONT size=5><A href="http://www.conwayhall.org.uk">www.conwayhall.org.uk</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">============================================================</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG> <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"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG>Spring 2008 University of London, Queen Mary</STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><A
href="http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1203078334_0><FONT color=#003399><STRONG>http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><FONT color=#003399><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG>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> </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> </SPAN>The seminar will conclude with a special two-day event in September on the cultural industries.</STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG>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> </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.</STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG>Seminars will feature presentation from the speakers followed by structured discussion and questions and answers</STRONG>.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG>All the seminars are free and all are welcome</STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cochin"><STRONG>All seminars (except for February 29<SUP>th</SUP>) 16:00-18:00 Room 4.08 Francis Bancroft Building, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1203078334_1 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Queen Mary University of London</SPAN>, Mile
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