°1973

July 7, 2008

My friend Steve, who blogs less than I would like him to - so I’m going to cutnpaste here - sends me this in the midst of the tumult, and I appreciate it, not least because it converges some preoccupations of mine (the Ford Strike, queer politics, the emergence of activism as a phenomena, the sense of the archive and a city). The notes on fordism/arousal are here [ 1 2 3 ], and one on activism here. So, I share Steve’s remarks along.

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°borders 2.0 - future, tense

June 3, 2008

The first paragraph, in late-running final draft, of a collaborative text-image project with Bryan of subtopia (and it may explain something more of this recent cryptic post):

Filed under: Laboratories + Borders + Escape
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°view -> message source

March 16, 2008


Since it’s almost time for the next season of Battlestar Galactica, and I’m impatient, given I’ve a penchant for doing theory mashups of BSG and net-worked labour, and since the human-cylon hybrid (or one of them) promises to be a significant figure in the next season (see here for a previous post on the hybrid), I particularly enjoyed these three bits of automatically-generated spambody that dropped in my inbox this morning. I append some of the code, remove the html, bold the poetry … The hybrid speaks. Enjoy.

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°Contract, teleology, anthropology

January 30, 2008

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°Experiri

August 2, 2007

Here are some excerpts from Melinda Cooper’s “Experimental Labour — Offshoring Clinical Trials to China”, in which she argues, among other things, that participation in clinical trials should be considered as a form of labour, turning around the question of how this has recently played out in the context of neo-liberalist developments which oscillate between the imperatives of labour fluidity and incarceration.

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°edu-factory 01

February 22, 2007

A group from the Roman social centre ESC Atelier Occupato hosts edu-factory - “a series of transnational web-based discussions on the condition of the university today.” The first series (Feb-Apr 2006) is titled “Conflicts in the Production of Knowledge” - on the “conflicts of knowledge produced on the (always more porous) boundary between the university and society” and “the ambivalence of oppositional knowledges as challenges to the institution and processes of domestication.” The site is still being put together, but the schedule for the first series is as follows:

22-28 feb: Catedra Autonoma Rosario - Brian Holmes - Marc Bousquet | 1-4 mar: Patrick Bond and Ashwin Desai | 5-11 mar: Gordon Lafer - Denis Brutus - Amit Basole - KK Surendran | 12-18 mar: Sunil Sahasrabudhy - Nigel Gibson | 19-25 mar: Eileen Schell - Claire Pentecost | 26 mar -1 apr: Angela Mitropoulos - Melinda Cooper - Jon Solomon | 2-8 apr: Carlo Vercellone - Randy Martin - Mike Hayes - Kaushik Sunder Rajan | 9-15 apr: Michael Goddard - Dmitry Vilensky - Lin Chiming | 16-22 apr: Stephen Shukaitis - Gordon Mathews - Pablo Ortellado | 23-29 apr: Jeffrey Williams - Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma - Avinash Jha | 30 apr-6 may: Andrew Ross - Jie-Hyun Lim - Chandra Mohanty | 7-13 may: Gary Rhoades | 14-22 may: Conclusion |

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°The Machine is Us/ing Us

February 6, 2007

Apropos the machine … a somewhat utopic take.

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