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Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici’s Writing on Lukács’ Aesthetics
Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici’s Writing on Lukács’ Aesthetics
Reading & Event Discussion Series, January - April 2025 DATES 29th January @ 4PM, online 26th February @ 4PM, online 2nd April in London, May Day Rooms, London Silvia Federici is best known as an autonomist feminist and theorist for her groundbreaking work on the intersections of gender, labor, and capitalism. She has been a […]
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
For the first Afb session we will be watching and discussing Johan Grimonprez’s dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, alongside archival videos from MayDay Room’s video archive Activist Media Project. We will explore how video, newsreels, television, and endless streams of moving images on social media of direct action can be archived in ways that create sites of production and can serve as […]
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Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
We are very excited to welcome longtime friends and comrades of MDR, Valeria Graziano, Tomislav Medak and Marcell Mars, to discuss their new book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity, in conversation with Susan Kelly and Janna Graham. In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is under attack […]
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‘FEKS’ performed by New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
‘FEKS’ performed by New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
We are thrilled to welcome The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor back to MDR, following their wonderful performance of The Blue Blouse (Синяя блуза) in 2019. First staged by The New Factory in September 2022, ‘FEKS’ is a small-scale 45 minute work that celebrates the very first production by Fabrika Ekstsentricheskogo Aktera – the original Factory […]
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Listening Event: No Fear! An oral history project on the Student Movement (2010-2012) with MayDay Rooms and On the Record.
Listening Event: No Fear! An oral history project on the Student Movement (2010-2012) with MayDay Rooms and On the Record.
Celebrating our newly trained Oral Historians! Over 8 sessions, the No Fear! cohort were equipped with archival resources and oral history training to build a new archive representing the experiences and insights of historic and current student activists both here in London and abroad. In light of recent waves of protests and encampments across universities […]
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Archiving from Below Discussion Series: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
In All Knees and Elbows, published in 2012 Tom Roberts and Anthony Iles attempted to recover and politically and critically survey the work of historians contributing to practices of reading and writing 'history from below'. If we articulate the 'below' as populated by creatures marked by material processes of differentiation through race, class and gender, then […]
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Archival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
Archival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
When a group of women in the Gay Academic Union founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in the mid-1970s, they did so in explicit recognition that lesbian herstory ‘was disappearing as quickly as it was being made.’ For over fifty years, through many major milestones in LGBTQ+ history, this entirely volunteer-run organisation has quite literally […]
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