<nettime-ann> The new international division of labour (The art of rent

the art of rent #3:

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR

Thursday 15 May

5pm to 7pm

JANE WILLS (Queen Mary University)

XIANG BIAO (University of Oxford)

SANDRO MEZZADRA (University of Bologna)

room 4.08

Francis Bancroft Building

Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End

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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. 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. The seminar

will conclude with a special two-day event in September on the

cultural industries.

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. 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.

Seminars will feature presentation from the speakers followed by

structured discussion and questions and answers. All the seminars

are free and all are welcome.