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Greetings,<br>
<br>
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:<br>
<br>
1. Viral Utopias<br>
2. New Books<br>
3. Events with Colectivo Situaciones<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>1. Viral Utopias! London November 16</b><br>
November 16th - 7PM @ Limehouse Town Hall<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
**DJS**<br>
Agit Disco DJs<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.metamute.org/shop/mute-books/agit-disco">http://www.metamute.org/shop/mute-books/agit-disco</a><br>
<br>
**LIVE BANDS**<br>
Traum - London-based chanson for lovers of Neo-romantisch perverse
pop: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://soundcloud.com/benephone/whats-my-job-1">http://soundcloud.com/benephone/whats-my-job-1</a><br>
&<br>
Hungry Hearts - whisky filled gruff folk punk<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.myspace.com/thehungryhearts">http://www.myspace.com/thehungryhearts</a><br>
<br>
Limehouse Town Hall 646 Commercial Road London E14 7HA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4688544563">http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4688544563</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/mute-issue-launch-and-party-friday-16-november">http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/mute-issue-launch-and-party-friday-16-november</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<b>2. New books!</b><br>
Both of these titles are available for order at a discounted
pre-official release price<br>
<br>
<b>Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=482">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=482</a><br>
Angela Mitropoulos<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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).<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
“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<br>
<br>
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<b>Open Utopia</b><br>
Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=487">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=487</a><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
“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<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>3. Colectivo Situaciones Tour in North America</b><br>
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:<br>
<br>
Between Impasse and Insurrection: Notes on the Crisis of
Neoliberalism from Argentina 2001 to the Present<br>
With Verónica Gago and Diego Sztulwark of Colectivo Situaciones,
Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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).<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<br>
<i>Vancouver </i><br>
November 13, 2012 7-9pm, HC 7000, Harbour Centre, SFU Vancouver<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://las.arts.ubc.ca/2012/talk-argentina-as-political-laboratory/">http://las.arts.ubc.ca/2012/talk-argentina-as-political-laboratory/</a><br>
<br>
<i>Toronto </i><br>
Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 7:30-9:30pm<br>
Location: RCC 204, Rogers Communications Building Ryerson
University, 80 Gould Street <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoscapelab.ca/node/732">http://www.infoscapelab.ca/node/732</a><br>
<br>
<i>New York City</i><br>
Tuesday, November 20th 7PM—CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 <br>
With Marina Sitrin<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://globalization.gc.cuny.edu/events/between-impasse-and-insurrection-notes-on-the-crisis-of-neoliberalism-from-argentina-2001-to-the-present/">http://globalization.gc.cuny.edu/events/between-impasse-and-insurrection-notes-on-the-crisis-of-neoliberalism-from-argentina-2001-to-the-present/</a><br>
<br>
That is all for now. More updates and information soon.<br>
Stevphen<br>
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