[Minorcompositions] November Updates: New books & events

[Minor Compositions]

Greetings,

I can't seem to think of any witty or clever introduction or framing at 
the moment... so in lieu of that (and more importantly), here's an 
update about new books and things going on:

1. Viral Utopias
2. New Books
3. Events with Colectivo Situaciones


*1. Viral Utopias! London November 16*
November 16th - 7PM @ Limehouse Town Hall

Panics, plagues, and politics... countless times the death of politics, 
utopia, neoliberalism, and politics has been proclaimed... and just as 
many times the lumbering remains of our conceptual apparatuses dust 
themselves and trundle on again... mutating their movements in unfolding 
recombinatory patterns.

Come join us to celebrate the release of several new publications 
exploring this overlap between the utopian and the viral, the networked 
and the not-worked: Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks by 
Tony Sampson; Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia by 
Angela Mitropoulos; Open Utopia by Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe; and 
the "Becoming Impersonal" of Mute Magazine.

  **DJS**
Agit Disco DJs
http://www.metamute.org/shop/mute-books/agit-disco

**LIVE BANDS**
Traum - London-based chanson for lovers of Neo-romantisch perverse pop: 
http://soundcloud.com/benephone/whats-my-job-1
&
Hungry Hearts - whisky filled gruff folk punk
http://www.myspace.com/thehungryhearts

Limehouse Town Hall 646 Commercial Road London E14 7HA
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4688544563
http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/mute-issue-launch-and-party-friday-16-november


*2. New books!*
Both of these titles are available for order at a discounted 
pre-official release price

*Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia*
http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=482
Angela Mitropoulos

Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach for understanding 
the complex shifts of post-Fordism and neoliberalism by way of a 
critical reading of contracts, and through an exploration of the 
shifting politics of the household. It focuses on the salient question 
of capitalist futurity in order to highlight the simultaneously 
intimate, economic and political limits to venturing beyond its horizon.

In capitalist history, as well as in philosophy, finance, migration 
politics, and theories of globalisation, contagions simultaneously real, 
symbolic and imagined recur. Where political economy understood value in 
terms of labour, Contract and Contagion argues that the law of value is 
the law of the household (oikonomia).

In this book Angela Mitropoulos takes up current and historical theories 
of affect, intimacy, labour and speculation to elaborate a queer, 
anti-racist, feminist Marxism, which is to say: a Marxism preoccupied 
not with the seizure of opportunity to take power, form government, or 
represent an identity, but a Marxism which partakes of the uncertain 
movements that break the bonds of fate.

"In this stunning reworking of the philosophical fibres of economy, 
Angela Mitropoulos provides an expansive realignment of how risk is 
apportioned and contingency valorised. The result is a febrile politics 
of debt and credit to pre-occupy the movements in and for the future." 
-- Randy Martin, author of Empire of Indifference: American War and the 
Financial Logic of Risk Management

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*Open Utopia*
Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe
http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=487

Open Utopia is the first complete English language edition of Thomas 
More's Utopia that honors the primary precept of Utopia itself: that all 
property is common property. Open Utopia, licensed under Creative 
Commons, is free to copy, to share, to use. But Utopia is more than the 
story of a far-off land with no private property. It is a text that 
instructs us how to approach texts, be they literary or political, in an 
open manner: open to criticism, open to participation, and open to 
re-creation. Utopia is no-place, and therefore it is up to all of us to 
imagine it.

In this volume, and its accompanying website, Utopia is re-imagined and 
brought into the digital age as a participatory technology for 
undermining authority and facilitating new imagination.

"A welcome new intervention into an old text.  Re-read through the lens 
of Duncombe's extensive -- and persuasive -- introduction, More's Utopia 
is revealed as a subversive methodology for approaching utopias, one 
that engages and expands our capacity for political invention and 
imagination. Open Utopia is an infinite demand that splits the subject 
open to new possible worlds rather than giving a closed plan." -- Simon 
Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless


*3. Colectivo Situaciones Tour in North America*
Members of Colectivo Situaciones, authors of 19&20: Notes on a New 
Social Protagonism, are touring across North America and will make 
several stops. Here is information on that:

Between Impasse and Insurrection: Notes on the Crisis of Neoliberalism 
from Argentina 2001 to the Present
With Verónica Gago and Diego Sztulwark of Colectivo Situaciones, Buenos 
Aires, Argentina

he moments of political and economic crisis in Argentina in 2001, 
specifically the 19th and 20th of December do not merely mark an event, 
a day, or even a year. Rather 2001 is an active principle, a key to 
thinking about this past decade from the perspective of the crisis of 
neoliberalism between impasse and insurrection. It is a method, a way of 
looking by seeing the crisis in motion and in time. It becomes a premise 
with its multiple meanings, spaces, and temporalities.

This talk will be given by Verónica Gago and Diego Sztulwark, members of 
Colectivo Situaciones and of the Buenos Aires-based radical press Tinta 
Limón. Colectivo Situaciones is a collective of militant researchers 
based in Buenos Aires. For more than twelve years, they have 
participated in numerous grassroots militant-research projects with 
unemployed workers, peasant movements, human rights groups, neighborhood 
assemblies, and alternative education experiments. Their published works 
include several articles and books, among them Genocide in the 
Neighborhood (Chainlinks, 2010) and 19&20: Notes for a New Social 
Protagonism (Autonomedia/Minor Compositions/Common Notions, 2011).

There are some points---between instability and creation, concern and 
uncertainty, openness and alteration--- that also allow us to map the 
decade: + From unemployment to the "replacement" of labor // + End of 
human rights // + uncontrolled immigration.


/Vancouver /
November 13, 2012 7-9pm, HC 7000, Harbour Centre, SFU Vancouver
http://las.arts.ubc.ca/2012/talk-argentina-as-political-laboratory/

/Toronto /
Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 7:30-9:30pm
Location: RCC 204, Rogers Communications Building Ryerson University, 80 
Gould Street
http://www.infoscapelab.ca/node/732

/New York City/
Tuesday, November 20th 7PM---CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307
With Marina Sitrin
http://globalization.gc.cuny.edu/events/between-impasse-and-insurrection-notes-on-the-crisis-of-neoliberalism-from-argentina-2001-to-the-present/

That is all for now. More updates and information soon.
Stevphen



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