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October 16, 2004 - 12:42pm -- jim
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"Biofeedback:
Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!"

A Benefit for Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble

New York City, Oct. 21, 2004

Featuring Tony Conrad / HangedUp, Christian Marclay / Dj Olive / Dj North Guinea Hills, Tyondai Braxton, New Humans, Dub Trio, Talibam and others T.B.A.

Thursday October 21, 8pm, $12 (two floors of music)

Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street (between Rivington and Delancy)

CONTACT: Dion Workman, 212-358-7501

The Benefit

"Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!" is an energetic round-up of musicians, entertainers and visual artists who are creating loud and clear feedback in support of Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). This benefit will help raise money for Kurtz's legal fees in a case of FBI harassment and silencing dissent. To date, the CAE Defense Fund has raised an impressive $30,000, but the total costs are estimated at $150,000. There is still hope that the court will realize the absurdity of the case and dismiss Kurtz of charges in December; if this does happen, the fund will be used to help others who may find themselves under similar political scrutiny.

October 8, 2004 - 7:25am -- jim
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Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization:

An International Conference on Literature by Women of
African Ancestry

NYU, Kimmel Center for University Life

60 Washington Square South

Organization of Women Writers of Africa

October 12-16, 2004

It's a small world after all, as the growing buzz
surrounding the concept of globalization makes clearer
by the day. However, the people of the African diaspora
have experienced its beauty and ugliness for centuries,
chronicled in Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka's tragic
tales of British colonialism, Alain Locke and Frantz
Fanon's scrutinies of blackness on a world stage, and
the lives of Richard Wright and James Baldwin, expats
criticizing a culture that rejected and humiliated
them. With few exceptions, males have dominated this
early examination of blackness on a global scale.

October 6, 2004 - 8:31am -- jim
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"Old Bottles, New Wine:

Renewing the Anarchist Tradition"

Will Weikart


Anarchists today are relatively united by our dual commitment to anti-capitalism and anti-statism and the general feel that both are necessary in themselves but also insufficient in themselves.

October 5, 2004 - 10:49am -- jim
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Anonymous comrade writes: "35 years after Stonewall, queer youth of color still fight police brutality...
THE REBELLION IS NOT OVER!"

"Fierce" Rebellion and Ball

New York City, Oct. 16, 2004

October 5, 2004 - 10:11am -- jim
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"Black Marxism" Symposium

Santa Barbara, Nov. 5–7, 2004

in honor of the 20th anniversary of Cedric J. Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center will be hosting a "Symposium on Cedric J. Robinson's Radical Thought: Toward Critical Social Theories and Practice." It will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on November 5-7, 2004.


The Symposium will provide a forum for dialogue about the historical legacy and future development of the Black radical Tradition in the academy as well as an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the important contributions made to that tradition by Professor Robinson's long record of activism and committed scholarship.

October 5, 2004 - 9:55am -- jim
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Cultural Production and the State

San Diego, March 23–26, 2005

Papers are currently being accepted for the National Popular Culture &
American Cultural Association’s Joint Conferences being held in San Diego March 23–26, 2005.


This year a new Area has been developed entitled “Cultural Production and
The State.” This Area has been created to explore the ways in which
cultural production reproduces and/or undermines the State.

This Area is currently seeking new and provocative papers that illustrate
the critical role popular culture assumes in constructing our collective
understandings of the political landscape(s) in which we live.

October 5, 2004 - 9:30am -- jim
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"Capital, Empire and Revolution"

London, Oct. 9–10, 2004


As part of the preparation for the London European Social Forum, the journals Historical Materialism and Socialist Register, as well as the Isaac and Tamara Deutcher Memorial Prize Committee invite you to a two-day conference on ‘Capital, Empire and Revolution’ on Saturday 9 October–Sunday 10 October 2004, at Birkbeck College, London (Malet Street, Russell Square and Goodge Street Underground Stations).

October 5, 2004 - 8:15am -- jim
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"Doubletalk and Doublethink"

David Levi Strauss on Abu Ghraib and Images


Autonomedia author and critic David Levi Strauss is participating in four New York City area events in the next few weeks concerning Abu Ghraib prison and the media politics of the image.


The schedules of these events is below:

October 5, 2004 - 7:54am -- jim
Events
Events

Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!

A Benefit for Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble

Featuring Tony Conrad / HangedUp, Dj Olive / Toshio Kajiwara / Markus Miller / Dj North Guinea Hills, Tyondai Braxton, Services, New Humans, Dub Trio, Talibam, Martha Wilson


Thursday October 21, 8pm, $12 (two floors of music)

Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street (between Rivington and Delancy)

Contact: Dion Workman, 212-358-7501

The Benefit

"Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!" is an energetic round-up of musicians, entertainers and visual artists who are creating loud and clear feedback in support of Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). This benefit will help raise money for Kurtz's legal fees in a case of FBI harassment and silencing dissent. To date, the CAE Defense Fund has raised an impressive $30,000, but the total costs are estimated at $150,000. There is still hope that the court will realize the absurdity of the case and dismiss Kurtz of charges in December; if this does happen, the fund will be used to help others who may find themselves under similar political scrutiny.

October 4, 2004 - 2:53am -- jim
Reviews
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"Fragility, Body, Love:

A Practical Lexicon for the Italian Effect, a
Conference in Sydney on the Influence of Radical Italian Thought over the
Past Decade"

Britt Neilson & Ida Dominijanni

[The following reviews of the Italian Effect conference (9–11 September
2004) were published in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto on 28
September, 2004. These are collaborative translations, written after discussion between the
authors. The first is Britt Neilson's translation of Ida's piece in Il Manifesto. The
second is the English version of Neilson's piece, which has been slightly altered
after reading Ida's translation for Il Manifesto. They are both archived in Italian here and here.]

"From the Italian Laboratory of the 1970s

To the Global Laboratory of a
Politics Opposed to the Forms of War"

Ida Dominijanni

There is an effect of globalisation that neither its most enthusiastic
advocates nor its most apocalyptic critics manage to specify exactly; that
is, what it provokes on the plane of thought. As in other fields,
technology here tells us a lot but not everything. What we confront is not
simply improved ease of communication and the diffusion of ideas, sources,
and texts. With the exchange of experiences and direct contact with people,
contexts, places, times, and other seasons comes a different mode of
production of thought. Contrary to common belief, this effect is neither
one of bland homogenisation nor easy contamination. Rather there is a risky
but fruitful displacement that changes perspectives, alters dimensions,
adds importance to neglected particularities, forces a rough confrontation
with unfamiliar forms of otherness, and liberates mental associations that
have been held under the surface. In Sydney, in the course of an
international conference dedicated to the 'Italian effect' on radical
political thought, all of this occurred, thanks partly to the welcoming
environment of a 'global city' in which multicultural exchanges and
translations (linguistic, political, and artistic) are at once an everyday
necessity and a virtue.

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