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Propagate Collective presentation for the IWW
Propagate Collective presentation for the IWW
Propagate Collective intends to work with, and alongside to, the diversity of struggles that include, but are not limited to, housing justice, migrants rights, anti-cuts and anti-austerity policies, workers rights, equality, and LGTB rights. Our aim is to stimulate and contribute to collective action to reclaim our city. We know that when we share ideas, […]
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Slack Pussy
Slack Pussy
We are taking a break from the chain. We will be reading Laura Cottingham's "Lesbians Are So Chic". Written in 1996 before queerness hit the mainstream, it is a provocative, polemical essay on the mass-appropriation of lesbianism by the non-lesbian world. For a pdf, please email slackpuss.rg@gmail.com
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PUBLISHING—ART—COMMUNISM Symposium and Book Launch on the Materiality of Experimental Publishing
PUBLISHING—ART—COMMUNISM Symposium and Book Launch on the Materiality of Experimental Publishing
Symposium 12.30pm to 6pm. Book launch for Anti-Book 6.30pm to 8pm Confirmed speakers: NINA POWER, University of Roehampton; series editor at Book Works EVA WEINMAYR, AND Publishing NICK THURSTON, Artists’ Writings and Publications Centre, University of Leeds; Information as Material ANTHONY ILES, Mute Magazine; Anguish Language NICK THOBURN, University of Manchester; author of Anti-Book The […]
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Rethinking Interaction in the Post-Digital: A Roundtable Discussion
Rethinking Interaction in the Post-Digital: A Roundtable Discussion
The notion of interaction has become commonplace in our everyday, as well as extensively experimented with in contemporary art and theorized in the arts and humanities. However, we think it is a concept that is in serious need of questioning and renegotiation given our increasing imbrication within post-digital systems, and complex social and political environments. […]
AltMFA
AltMFA
Nina Power: Against the Future! As part of our programme on The Future, supported by A-N, this month we are hosting Nina Power. Nina will talk about various formulations of the anti-future and the ruins of the present. Nina Power is a philosopher and feminist. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at The […]
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Antiuniversity Now: Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool
Antiuniversity Now: Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool
A workshop exploring the ways in which Inside Film uses popular film in radical ways to raise political consciousness and give people the opportunity to tell their own stories, as most stories of the working class people are told by middle class people, who have no experience of working class life. This project works form […]
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Antiuniversity Now: PDF to Paperback
Antiuniversity Now: PDF to Paperback
A wide range of books are freely available on the internet as pdfs, legally and otherwise. This workshop will give you all the skills you need to print them and bind them into readable and lendable books. Learn how to prepare your documents for printing and how to perfect binding, then design your own cover! […]
Antiuniversity Now: An Inclusive Islam- Gender and Sexuality
Antiuniversity Now: An Inclusive Islam- Gender and Sexuality
Organiser: George Toon In light of rising Islamophobia across the world, we aim to create a safe space to celebrate queer / femme / trans / non binary Islamic and Muslim histories, peoples and culture in all of its diversity. The event will be held during the holy month of Ramadan and we want to […]
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Antiuniversity Now: Oral History as Direct Action
Antiuniversity Now: Oral History as Direct Action
The aim of this workshop is to explore how Oral History, in the form of podcasting, can contribute, assist, and directly engage with political action. Often, the boundaries of possible responses to life events are limited by the narrow forms of public discourse. Oral history as a form of journalism, as an immediate response to […]
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Living Maps Network Reading Groups
Living Maps Network Reading Groups
A reading group on critical cartography set up to supplement the seminars. The group meets monthly. Participants don’t have to know a whole lot about the field –indeed the point is to explore areas we don’t know much about, as well as to share information and engage in lively debate. The group will decide on […]
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Antiuniversity Now: Defending and Re-building the Commons
Antiuniversity Now: Defending and Re-building the Commons
An open discussion introduced by speakers from the New Anarchist Research Group, looking at public libraries, information and the internet, the voluntary sector, mutual aid and the NHS. (the organisers reserve the right to change the programme according to circumstances). The New Anarchist Research Group meets in London for ten months of the year, including […]
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London Housing Struggles Archive Open Meeting
London Housing Struggles Archive Open Meeting
We have recently been awarded a small grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop an archive of radical housing campaigns in London from the past five years, with the hope of contextualising the materials gathered in longer histories of struggle. We are aiming to archive materials in three main areas: social housing campaigns, rent […]
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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
Literature Seminar: Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. Students […]
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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
Philosophy Workshop: Matt Phull- Sovereignty and its limits Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. […]
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America First? – Transatlantic conversations on class reality and revolt
America First? – Transatlantic conversations on class reality and revolt
The going gets tough, but there is loads of inspiring stuff happening in the US at the moment. Things we want to understand and learn from. From prison organising, fightback against anti-abortionists, strikes for higher minimum wages, resistance against deportations and evictions, to struggles in the rural hinterland. Over the next year or so, we’ll […]
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IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
IF Project: Thinking Without Borders
Wrap-Up Workshop and Celebration Thinking Without Borders: A Short History of the Present is a free 10-week course in university-level humanities. It will explore contemporary concerns such as truth and lies, power and freedom, nations and rights, culture and identity as seen from the perspective of writers, historians, philosophers and artists. Students will gain an […]
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MDR Social Friday
MDR Social Friday
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times In these times full of struggle, we think it’s important to try to foster a collective radical culture and to link up acts of resistance. Perhaps the best way to do this is for people to […]