White Ribbon Screening 15 April

Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion (Zagreb)

I will be speaking at this event in Zagreb. Here's the programme:

Program:
21.03.2013
18.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo Bojan Djordjev: What I have Learned about Capitalism – (never ending self) lecture performance
20.00 @ Pogon Jedinstvo BADco.: Is There Life On Stage? – performance

22. 03.2013
11.00 @ mama The research group of Maska’s Seminar for Contemporary Performing Arts: Broken Lecture
12.45 @ mama Nik Wakefield: A Genealogy of Performance Itself: Bergsonian Memory and Documentation
13.15 @ mama Tomislav Medak: Theatre and Totality
17.00 @ mama Sean Cubitt: Visible time -keynote
18.00 @ mama Marie-Luise Angerer: Too Much Time – keynote
19.30 @ mama Bojana Cvejić, Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović (TkH – Walking Theory, Belgrade): Public Sphere by Performance and Yugoslavia, how ideology moved our collective body – book and film presentation

23. 03.2013
11.00 @ mama Karin Harrasser: “There, everybody who stutters, is obliged to limp”. Time-Images in Heiner Göbbels, Alexander Kluge, Samuel Beckett
11.30 @ mama Goran Sergej Pristaš: The Time After (In)Completion
13.00 @ ZPC Marjana Krajač: Manual For Empty Spaces – entering the performance – performance
17.00 @ mama Benjamin Noys: The War of Time: Occupation, Resistance, Communization -keynote
18.00 @ mama Stephen Zepke: Art, Communization and the Biopolitical Event – keynote
19.00 @ Gallery Nova Franck Leibovici: Formes des vie – book presentation
20.00 @ Theatre &TD Saška Rakef: The Debt of Rakef Saška – performance

24. 03.2013
21.00 @ Cinema Tuškanac Nicolas Rey: Differently, Molussia – film screening
This symposium and its topic are a continuation of BADco.’s artistic interest to relate performance and time. More concretely, it was motivated by BADco.’s work on the development of imaging technologies and their application in performative settings, and it revolves around inquiry of images and performances of time in the technologically driven production – both in the capitalist economic production, in the work with technologies on-stage and in the work of dance as an old technology.
The symposium is a part of our participation in the project “TIMeSCAPES – Images and performance of time in late capitalism.” TIMeSCAPES is a long-term artistic research and production platform initiated by five cultural organizations: BADco. (HR), Maska (SI), Walking Theory (RS), Science Communications Research (A) and Film-protufilm (HR). It brings together four organizations, whose internationally renowned artistic and cultural practice is rooted in research, publishing and discourse, with one science-oriented organization developing methodologies of artistic research. The double objective is to research and artistically reflect the transversal issue of time that cuts across economy, society and art: structure of working time in different economic contexts, temporal experience in technologies, performative dramaturgies of time, etc.; while at the same time tackling the issue that has acute resonance in cultural and academic contexts across Europe: what should the models and institutions of artistic research be, given the constraints of time, money and mobility that artists face.

The attendant artistic program is organized in collaboration with the Multimedia Institute/MAMA, Academy of Drama Arts – University of Zagreb, POGON – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, Culture of Change – Student Center, What, How and for Whom/WHW, Zagreb Dance Center and Institut français de Zagreb.

Concept, organization and coordination: Goran Sergej Pristaš, Jasna Žmak & Tomislav Medak
Production: Lovro Rumiha

“Broken Performances: Time and (In)Completion” is part of TIMeSCAPES, Images and performances of time in late capitalism, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), Maska (Ljubljana), Science Communications Research (Vienna), Walking Theory (Belgrade), Film-protufilm (Zagreb) and Academy Of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
The symposium and artistic programme are supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb.

Accelerationism in Lisbon

I'm doing two events in Lisbon, one which is based around 'The Grammar of Neoliberalism' and the second around 'Cyberpunk Phuturism' (this will also form a chapter in the new book on accelerationism.

Monday 11 March
'The Grammar of Neoliberalism: A Discussion', Unipop, @ RDA69.

Tuesday 12 March

10 am 'Cyperpunk Phuturism', 'Movement & Technical Mobilization' Conference

The Weird: Fugutive Fictions/Hybrid Genre CFP

The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genre

A one day research conference in association with the Centre for Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, exploring the weird literary tradition and the many facets of weird writing.

Keynotes: S.T. Joshi / Professor Roger Luckhurst / more TBA

Friday 8th November 2013 / Senate House, London

Until recently weird fiction, if acknowledged at all, was usually considered to be a marginal mode in the already lowly Gothic tradition - less a genre than a particular affect. In the last ten years, however, it has come to be regarded as a separate and distinct form with an increasingly important role to play in the theory of popular genre. The debate has broadened its scope to perceive and explore connections with discourses, literary traditions and cultures not previously associated with the Weird. This call for papers invites contributions that engage with weird fiction in its various aspects, including, but not limited to, the following topics and authors:

• The weird cosmic horror tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and his ‘Weird Tales’ contemporaries

• The recent New Weird advocated by China Miéville and others

• The evolution of the Weird

• The global Weird - weird fiction in translation

• Genre theory and fugitive forms

• Modernism and the Weird

• Weird Philosophy and Weird Theory

Please send 250 word abstracts for 20 minute papers, together with a brief biography, to theweirdconference@gmail.com by 1st August 2013.

Thursday 7th November 2013 (evening event): weird fiction reading (details TBC)

Follow ‘The Weird’ on Twitter: @WeirdConference

This conference is supported by the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck School of Arts, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London.

2nd Brighton-Sussex Postgraduate Colloquium Day in Critical Thought

2nd Brighton-Sussex Postgraduate Colloquium Day in Critical Thought

hosted by the Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, and the Critical Studies Research Group, University of Brighton

June 21st, 2012
10.30 – 11.30 Panel 1:
Ian Sinclair (Brighton): ‘Reading Rancière’
Toby Lovat (Brighton): ‘Meillassoux on contingency and the absolute’

11.30 – 13.00 Panel 2:
Tim Carter (Sussex): ‘Love and its objects: Thoughts on a passage from Adorno’
Birgit Hofstaetter (Brighton): ‘Thinking with the movement of language: Adorno on music and philosophy’
Aidan Simpson (Sussex): ‘Ernst Bloch, utopia and activism’

13.00 -14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Panel 3:
Jaakko Immonen (Brighton): ‘Merleau-Ponty and Adorno as materialist thinkers’
Alex Elliott (Sussex): ‘Punching Adorno in the face, epistemologically: Possible problems with physical experience in Negative Dialectics’
Dimitri Kladiskakis (Sussex): ‘Social origins and subjectivity: a critique of the state of nature’

16.00 – 17.00 Keynote:
Gordon Finlayson (Sussex): ‘30 years on: Habermas’s Critical Theory and the Problem of Normative Grounds’

All talks will take place in Fulton 203, University of Sussex

Postautonomia

The Anomie of the Earth – CFP

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 3-5, 2012

@ The Institute for the Arts and Humanities/Global Education Center in collaboration with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and NWO

The conference The Anomie of the Earth is a follow-up to the Post/autonomy conference held in Amsterdam in May 2011.

While the Post/autonomy meeting focused on the European dissemination of autonomist thought, the second conference will build on its American location and explore a plurality of notions and practices of cultural-political autonomy. Though privileging the context of North and South America, the conference will also address European, African and Asian perspectives.

A presupposition of the conference is that what Carl Schmitt has defined as the Western “nomos of the Earth” – i.e. the political, legal, and spatial configuration of a Euro-Atlantic modern global order – is currently being shaken by intense endogenous and exogenous forces. By discussing the potentials and limits of autonomy/autonomia within our actual conjuncture, the conference will address the emerging nomos and its new constellations of life and knowledge.

More specifically, the conference will thematize the intersections of autonomy/autonomia with four lines of research that have reframed current debates in the humanities and social sciences:

* radical conceptualizations of life, labor, sovereignty, borders, precarity, migrations, communities and commons, multitude;
* spatial, affective, ethical and ecological forms of resistance to neoliberal capitalism;
* critical trends taking place at the edges of contemporary epistemologies; such as vitalisms, geo-philosophies, biopolitics, political anthropologies, new materialisms, political ontologies and ecologies, subaltern studies, embodiment and emergence theories;
* decolonial studies and new theorizations of post-capitalist, non-liberal and non-statist modes of knowledge and political practice; decolonial feminisms.

These broad themes should be focalized through a specific engagement with autonomy/autonomia.

We welcome the submission of papers in English. Accepted papers will be posted online on the conference website. For the panels, speakers will be asked to make short (10-15 minutes) presentations addressing the main topics of their papers.

Please send your paper, together with a short abstract, by March 1 to the.anomie.of.the.earth@gmail.com. Given the limited size of the conference, only a small number of papers will be accepted. Conference organizers will send acceptance notifications by March 21.

For further information, please contact the.anomie.of.the.earth@gmail.com

This conference is the second of a series within the project Precarity and Post-autonomia: the Global Heritage funded by NWO (Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research).

Confirmed participants
Giuseppe Bianco (University of Warwick/CIEPFC)
Jodi A. Byrd (University of Illinois)
Gustavo Esteva (Universidad de la Tierra)
Silvia Federici (Hofstra University)
Michael Hardt (Duke University)
Timothy S. Murphy (University of Oklahoma)
Benjamin Noys (University of Chichester)
Catherine Walsh (Universidad Simon Bolivar)
Gareth Williams (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

and the planning committee:
Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, Wilson Kaiser (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),Vincenzo Binetti (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

in collaboration with, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Samuel Amago, Yusuf Al-Bulushi, Emilio del Valle Escalante, Arturo Escobar, Diana Marcela Gomez Correal, Lawrence Grossberg, Michal Osterweil, Michael Palm, Alvaro Reyes
and the NWO partners: Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University/Erasmus University Rotterdam), Joost de Bloois (University of Amsterdam), Silvia Contarini (Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense), Monica Jansen (Utrecht University)

Sponsors
NWO, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), and the Center for Global Initiatives, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Center for European Studies, The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, Department of Geography, Program in Comparative Literature, Department of Anthropology, Department of Communication Studies, Cultural Studies@UNC (UNC-Chapel Hill), Department of Romance Studies (Duke University)

The Great University Gamble event

The Theory Research Group presents

Andrew McGettigan, ‘The Great University Gamble: money, markets and the future of HE’

Thursday 2 February, 5-7pm, University of Chichester, Cloisters.

Dr Andrew McGettigan is a freelance writer, speaker and researcher based in London. He writes on philosophy, the arts and education. He blogs at Critical Education, and has been a key figure in the analysis and critique of the current government's changes to the system of Higher Education in the UK (see paper here). He is currently writing a book for Pluto press on this subject.

For further details of the event please contact Dr Benjamin Noys, Reader in English, The University of Chichester.