<nettime> Seminar on Political Organization Essex March 12th

[Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen@autonomedia.org>]

Seminar on Political Organization Essex March 12th

Essex Centre for Work, Organization and Society Seminar

Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Political Organization
Rodrigo Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande Do Sul
March 12th, 4PM-6PM @ University of Essex Room 5N.7.23

With the Arab Spring, the Spanish indignados, Occupy and so much more, 
2011 is likely to go down in history as a very special year – perhaps 
even the beginning of something. But what would that something be? This 
presentation attempts to draw some conclusions about the present state 
and future of politics and organization by examining the practices of 
the movements that erupted in the last year. Thinking beyond their usual 
representation by the media, trying to avoid either describing them as 
something entirely new and unheard of or as manifestations of an 
ultimately non-political culture, what can be the lessons of 2011?

Bio: Rodrigo Nunes is a post-doctoral fellow at (Pontifical Catholic 
University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil, with a PNPD/CAPES grant. He has 
a PhD in philosophy from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and 
is a member of the editorial collective of Turbulence 
(www.turbulence.org.uk). His writing, on philosophy, art and politics, 
has appeared in such publications as Radical Philosophy, Deleuze 
Studies, Transform, Mute, ephemera, The Guardian, Z and others.

--
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info

"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created
through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To
become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of
separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming
difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts
the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources,
and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with
a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing
these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that
subverts the domination and hegemony of the master's rule." - subRosa
Collective


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