Forum Building Digital Commons and Collaborative Communities
29th–30th October 2011, Barcelona, Catalonia & Online
http://www.digital-commons.net
Building Digital Commons and Collaborative Communities is a new initiative aiming to bring together individuals, collective and organizations from different Free and Open Collaborative Communities, Digital Commons Initiatives and Researchers in the area to identify ways to support and learn from each other and collaborate in order to promote together digital commons.
Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’
Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig (eds)
London: mayfly 2011, 234 pages
Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old myths of creation and creators – the hallowed labors and privileged agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical world-makers and self-fashioning artist-geniuses – are back underway, producing effects, circulating appeals. Much as the Catholic Church dresses the old creationism in the new gowns of ‘intelligent design’, the Creative Industries sound the clarion call to the Cultural Entrepreneurs. In the hype of the ‘creative class’ and the high flights of the digital bohemians, the renaissance of ‘the creatives’ is visibly enacted. The essays collected in this book analyze this complex resurgence of creation myths and formulate a contemporary critique of creativity.
Massive Dutch Protests Planned Against Obliteration of Cultural Funding
Culiblog
Imagine this: you’re an internationally recognised Dutch cultural institution of art/design/media culture. You have a substantial collection; media art, landscape art, but also paintings/ sculptures/ installations/ photography/ film/ design objects/ and artist-activist works in the public space that regenerate your city’s ill-planned urban areas. In short, you host a platform for innovation representing the entire gamut of your discipline. Over the past decades you have made substantial cultural impact in your field and thus you are considered to be a driver of culture. The artists/designers/architects whose works comprise your collection and fill your programming are also recognized internationally, and they often represent the Netherlands all over the world, in biennials and important exhibitions.
And then one day you receive a letter from the new Dutch Ministry of Culture that your funding will be completely withdrawn as of January 1, 2013. What do you do with your collection? Your staff? Your buildings? Your publications? The rest of the year’s programming? What will the artists/activists/designers/architects and your engaged public do, now that they no longer have access to your platform?
LSD Pioneer Owsley Stanley Dies in Australian Car Crash
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Sunday, his family said. He was believed to be 76.
The renegade grandson of a former governor of Kentucky, Stanley helped lay the foundation for the psychedelic era by producing more than a million doses of LSD at his labs in San Francisco's Bay Area.
"He made acid so pure and wonderful that people like Jimi Hendrix wrote hit songs about it and others named their band in its honor," former rock 'n' roll tour manager Sam Cutler wrote in his 2008 memoirs "You Can't Always Get What You Want."
"Eric Hobsbawm's Marx"
Terry Eagleton
How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011
by Eric Hobsbawm
Little, Brown, 470 pp, £25.00, January 2011, ISBN 978 1 4087 0287 1
In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most of them no longer felt that way. What had happened in the meanwhile? Were these people now buried under a pile of toddlers? Had Marxism been unmasked as bogus by some world-shaking new research? Had someone stumbled on a lost manuscript by Marx confessing that it was all a joke?
International Symposium in Visual Culture
Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Faculty of Communications, Department of Photography and Video
May 20-21, 2011
Deadline: 31.3.2011
Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture, the first of a series of international symposia on visual culture to be held at Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul, aims to enable discussion and debate on topics critical in the conceptualization, analysis, evaluation of and intervention in visual culture today.
"The Rebellion of the Poor Comes to Grahamstown" Xola Mali, Ayanda Kota, Nombulelo Yame
The rebellion of the poor has been spreading from town to town, from squatter camp to squatter camp, since 2004. Last week it arrived in Grahamstown.
There is no third force, political party or communist academic behind our struggle. It is oppression at the hands of the African National Congress that has driven us into the rebellion of the poor. We are in rebellion because we are being forced to live without dignity, safety or hope.
Africa World Social Forum: 'We Don't Want Everybody to Think the Same'
Isolda Agazzi
Dakar — It is only the second time that the World Social Forum (WSF)
takes place in Africa, the first one having been held in Nairobi, Kenya,
in 2007. Since the start of the WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 10 years
ago, the organisers have been building African participation.
The number of people attending the WSF has steadily gone up: from 20,000
to 150,000. In Nairobi it dropped to 70,000, which made some observers
Poster Design Competition for NYC Anarchist Book Fair
What: The NYC Anarchist Book Fair Collective is seeking a poster design for the 2011 NYC Anarchist Book Fair.
When: The deadline to submit a poster design is SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011
How: When you submit your design:
1. send a color poster design as a jpg file (300 dpi - which means 600 x 600 pixel dimensions for a 2” x 2” image) to compassrose[at]riseup[dot]net net BEFORE the final hour of Sunday, February 27th (early submissions will be accepted!);
2. write “poster submission” in the subject line;
3. also include your name, as well as a contact telephone number and e-mail address;
4. on your proposed poster itself, please include the following information:
5th Annual New York City Anarchist Book Fair 2011
Saturday, April 9 - Sunday, April 10
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square, Manhattan
(near W 4th Subway Station)
Childcare on site. Bring your kids!
Booksellers, workshops, film festival, discussions, kids activities, and more!
http://anarchistbookfair.net/
FREE.
Welcome to all! You don’t need to be an anarchist to come! (suggested text)
Poster Selection Show:
All submissions will be printed (by the Book Fair Collective) and displayed at a fundraising party (date at end of Feb/early March and location TBA) at which the poster will be chosen.
The Uprising in Egypt:
Looking Inside the Gender, Class and Military Dynamics
Behind the First Revolution of the 21st Century
A talk and open discussion led by Prof. Paul Amar
Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara
TUESDAY, FEB. 22 – 4-5:30 P.M.
SKYLIGHT ROOM, 9TH FLOOR
GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Prof. Amar has spent years studying the geopolitics, sexual politics, and global policing apparatuses of Cairo and other global cities. As demonstrated in his important recent articles, “Empowering Egypt’s New Pluralism,” “Mubarak’s Phantom Presidency,” and “Why Egypt’s Progressives Win” which appeared first in Jadaliyya Ezine and subsequently on Aljazeera.net, his knowledge of the history and internal divisions of Egypt’s power structure, particularly the military and police, is intricate, as is his understanding of the counter-forces of dissent now exploding throughout the Middle East. His books include Cairo Cosmopolitan (co-edited with Diane Singerman); The New Racial Missions of Policing; and the forthcoming Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism.
Read Paul’s recent article here: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/586/why-egypts-progressives-win
Co-Sponsored by Program in Political Science, Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Program in History and Program in Sociology
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