From Barthes to Foucault and Beyond – Cycling in the Age of Empire Martin Hardie
May 2009
'Whilst the onomania lasted, bickerings and divisions endured.'
Barthes is right in that he tells us that there is an onomastics of the Tour.
Cape Town Militant Mzonke Poni Goes to Trial on Tuesday 29 September 2009 on a Charge of 'Public Violence'
Mzonke Poni, Chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, is scheduled to stand trial on the charge of public violence on Tuesday 29 September 2009. The charge relates to a protest organised in opposition to state criminality against the Macassar Village Land Occupation. He has written this essay on 'public violence' in response to the charges levelled against him.
Public Violence
New School Anarchists Shut Down Tom Ridge Homeland Security Talk
Class Wargames Communique 7
Peter Linebaugh's New Introduction to the Works of Thomas Paine
Machine Project book launch for Julia Bryan-Wilson's ART WORKERS: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era
On the week of the University of California Faculty walkout, the Journal editorial collective is proud to participate in;
Event Launch: Saturday September 26 • 8:00 p.m. Machine Project Los Angeles CA http://machineproject.com/events/2009/09/26/jbw-book-release/
The event will include a reading by Julia and work related music by DJ George Baker. Current and former Journal editors will lead a performative reading of Lee Lozano's Art Worker's Manifesto.
PRECARIOUS UNITED for CLIMATE ACTION
Fighting for Social and Climate Justice. Because Climate Change Make All Precarious.
Surveillance Camera Players in Brazil
Contra Ordem E Progresso surveillance camera players in Brazil http://www.notbored.org/brazil.html
Tom Hayden Talks on Endless War, New York City, Oct. 2, 2009
A conversation with Tom Hayden - Does U. S. foreign policy in Iraq, Afghansitan and Pakistan mean Endless War? Friday, October 2, 7:30pm Park Slope United Methodist Church, 6th Ave. and 8th St., Brooklyn
Q and A will follow the talk Free Admission, donations gratefully accepted Reception follows the event.
CFP Affinities #4 – What is Radical Imagination: Horizons beyond “The Crisis” Edited by Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven
The social crises of neoliberalism, so evident and provocative throughout the rest of the world, have finally come "home" to the global North in the form of a cataclysmic financial crisis wreaking havoc on the lives of people, workers and communities, intensifying already intolerable injustices and inequalities and justifying the intensification of surveillance, policing and militarization.