Guaranteed Income Conference

Cambridge, UK, April 28, 2007

You are invited to attend a one-day conference on the subject of

"GUARANTEED INCOME:
Theories and practices of workplace remuneration and
resistance in the age of cognitive capitalism"

If you wish to attend the conference, or wish to present a paper, please
write to ed.emery [@] thefreeuniversity.net

The conference is organised under the aegis of Cambridge's "Left Tea Party".

It will be held in the Palmerston Room of St John's College Cambridge, from
10.00am to 5.00pm on Saturday 28 April 2007.

A programme of speakers is being prepared and will be circulated shortly.

The general thesis arises out of the "Immaterial Labour" labour conference
held at King's in April 2006.

The concept of the wage as we knew it under Fordism and Keynesianism has
been surpassed. Guaranteed income is viewed as the framework for the payment
of society's labour in the era of immaterial labour and cognitive
capitalism. A new conceptual formulation of the wage needs to be arrived at,
as the founding basis of a revolutionary concept of movement. This, in order
to match the revolution taking place in capital's productive capacities. The
conference will look at the theory of Guaranteed Income as developed by
various authors. We shall also look at the history of social movements built
around demands for Guaranteed Income. And we shall look at practical
propositions for campaigning in the here and now.

The conference will draw on the work being done in Italy and France by
authors such as Toni Negri, Carlo Vercellone, Antonella Corsani, Andrea
Fumagalli, Stefano Lucarelli and Yann Moulier-Boutang.

Translated texts will be presented at the conference.

Registration is free, but MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE.

Places are limited, so you are recommended to write sooner rather than
later.

With best regards,

Ed Emery

Universitas adversitatis