Schedule:
PART II - October 2005 (20th-23rd)
PART I - September 2005 (12th-18th)
Part
II of Continental Drift is in October (20th-23rd):
Summary
Thursday
October 20
3:00
PM – Introduction by Brian Holmes
5:30 PM – Break for food
7:00 PM-- Kolya Abramsky w/ Brian Holmes - "Disentangling the
Future from the Past: Internationalism, World revolution and World
War." Read this paper beforehand - click here:guest
presentation
Friday October 21
3:00 PM – Mackenzie Wark -- guest presentation
Parallel Public Spheres of the American Right -- presentation
5:30 PM – Break for food
7:00 PM -- Maribelle & Sebastian -- Research Riots (or when the
Naked City really starts to cut loose)
8:15 PM -- Emily Roysdon
9:30
PM-- Dinner Event
Saturday October 22
1:00PM Zizek on Multitudes – reading discussion
2:00PM Rozalinda Borcila -- presentation
3:00PM Peter Walsh/Marty Lucas -- Public Art and Political resistance
-- presentation
4:00PM Richard Gabri / Rene Gabri -- Some Notes on Television and
the Gulf War 2.0
5:00PM Brian Holmes -- Network Maps, Energy Diagrams -- presentation
Sunday October 23
2:00PM Jim Costanzo -- Data Map -- presentation
3:00PM Claire Pentecost -- Plastic Greenhouses by the Sea/BH: The
Urbanization of Blindness -- presentation
4:00PM Open Slot
5:00PM Brian Holmes -- The Artistic Device (some more reflections
on activism & art) -- presentation
8:00PM Closing Debate Everyone
Invited Guests:
Thursday
Kolya Abramsky, who is working at the Fernand Braudel Institute
for world-systems theory in Ithaca, and whom I know from activist
circles in Europe, is going to come on Thursday to discuss his paper
"Disentangling the Future from the Past: Internationalism, World
revolution and World War." It's a long but extremely interesting
text and I encourage you to read it. We will then be able to have
the discussion that we did not have last time, on the usefulness and
limits of the Marxist language (because Kolya is not tied to this
kind of language, in fact, he has worked much more with contemporary
social movements). We will also no doubt take a further look at the
debates over the concepts of Empire and Multitudes. The text is in
a PDF at www.u-tangente.org in the Continental Drift section (16 Beaver
sesssions), or directly at the address below (please don't hesitate
to write me if you have any difficulties downloading it):
http://ut.yt.t0.or.at/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=265&Itemid=125
Friday
Mackenzie Wark, whom many of you know, the author of the
Hacker Manifesto and of a thousand great things you can find on the
web, is going to develop an extremely interesting idea of his, which
is an analysis of the way that the US right wing -- what I would call
the hegemony of the military-industrial complex and the fundamentalist
Christians -- has created a parallel public sphere of media and institutions,
culminating in the mind-pollution of Fox News. This may likely end
up a kind of idea-generating session, so bring everything you know
about right-wing think tanks, Christian political militancy.
Rozalinda
Borcila
1.questions related to visibility -- and (esp in art practice)
our assumptions linking visibility 1.questions related to visibility
-- and (esp in art practice) our assumptions linking visibility with
agency
2. questions related to Eastern Europe -- current debates and the
struggle around understandings of the
"left" i will try to bring into our conversation a few possible
reference points for further investigation along the above lines.
this will not be a formal presentation of finished research , rather
(hopefully) a point of departure for a discussion, as well as for
future analysis and work together -- if you have ideas, references,
perspectives, research you would like to offer, please bring them
in -- i will speak only for 30 min and am looking for as much discussion
as possible. .
Part
I took place in Sept. (12th-18th)
Summary
Monday September 12
7:30PM -- Introduction -- Conversation with Brian
Thursday September 15
3:00 PM -- Participant Introductions (with Greg Shotette)
4:30 PM -- Talk by
Greg Shotette
6:30 PM -- Session 1
Friday September 16
3:00 PM -- Meetings -- Participant Introductions II
6:30 PM -- Session 2 -- (with David Harvey)
9:30 PM -- Dinner Event
Saturday September 17
1:00PM
-- Session 3
6:00PM -- Social TBA
Sunday September 18
1:00PM -- Session 4 (with Claire Pentecost)
6:00PM -- Social TBA
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PLEASE NOTE BELOW YOU WILL FIND:
ON
THE LEFT, THE ANNOUNCED SCHEDULE
ON THE RIGHT, TEXTS RELATED TO WHAT ACTUALLY WAS PRESENTED
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Monday, September 12 (7:30pm)
Dialogues with Brian Holmes
Questions about
the work so far, collaborations, Tangent University, etc.
Readings: basically the website at www.u-tangente.org
In the BH archive (left of the page) are two coherent groups of essays
in English:
Hieroglyphs of the Future (2002)
Unleashing the Collective Phantoms (forthcoming)
Three turning points could be found in "The
Flexible Personality," "Unleashing
the Collective Phantoms," and
"Transparency
& Exodus."
The idea is to situate a certain number of past approaches and get
ready to move ahead.
Self-Presentation
THE
FULL TEXT OF THIS SESSION CAN BE READ BY CLICKING HERE
Tuesday, September 13
Lecture at Cooper Union
Thursday, September 15 (2 parts)
Session I
part 1(3:00-5:00)
(Optional) Short presentations by Seminar Participants
with
special guest Greg Scholette
part
2 (6:30-10:30)
Speed,
Scale, Subjectivity
Towards a cartography of contemporary social relations
General introduction to the project of mapping the crisis in social
relations, using the continental blocs as the basic framework of analysis.
Cartography theory: the violence of flat representation; mapping the
conflicting projections; three-dimensional articulations of resistance.
The projection of American economic structures across the world in
the postwar period; emulation and rivalry within the world system;
towards the crisis of US hegemony. Guattari’s models for the
self-organization of complex systems: towards a collective articulation.
Previous work by BH that could be interesting:
"Imaginary Maps, Global Solidarities" (version 1):
http://ut.yt.t0.or.at/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=251&Itemid=110
Some readings:
–Rana Dasgupta, “The House of the Frankfurt Map-Maker,”
in Tokyo Cancelled
–David Harvey, The New Imperialism
–Suely Rolnik, “Politics
of Flexible Subjectivity”
–Felix Guattari, Chaosmosi
Departure
Points: Continental Drift
Or, the other side of neoliberal globalization
THE
FULL TEXT OF THIS SESSION CAN BE READ BY CLICKING HERE
Friday,
September 16 (2 Sessions)
Session II
part 1(3:00-5:00)
(Optional) Short presentations by Seminar Participants
with
special guest Greg Scholette
part
2(6:30-10:30)
with special guest David Harvey
Let Them Eat Networks
Neoliberal theory and the de/construction of NAFTA
The Internet as Imperial infrastructure: hierarchy and constitutional
dynamics; liberalism and the control of environments. The Pentagon’s
new map: a program for the symbiosis of financially led development
and military power. Plan Puebla-Panama: constructing connectivity.
NAFTA and the Zapatista rising: history and poetics; theory of swarming;
subversion and capture. From NAFTA to CAFTA. Ricardo Basbaum: Towards
a diagram of the swarm. Questions about the first phases of resistance
to continental integration.
Some
readings:
–Gilles Deleuze, Foucault
–Thomas Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map
–Subcomandante Marcos, Ya Basta
–J. Arquila and D. Ronfeldt, The Zapatista “Social Netwar”
in Mexico, at:
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/
David
Harvey on Neoliberalism
THE
FULL TEXT OF BRIAN'S REVIEW OF DAVID's BOOK
Saturday,
September 17
Session III
part 1(1:00-5:00)
part 2(social event)
European Norms of World Construction
The EU and its two peripheries
The TransEuropean Picnic: a quizzical day on the outside. The map
of European Norms. Neoliberal state-transformation: the Mild West
and the Wild East; the social-democratic “core” and the
neoliberal1 “new Europe.” Building blocs: Civilization
IV (the corporation). The coded utopia of Makrolab.
Previous work by BH that could be interesting:
Interview with Kuda.org, “Looking
out from the Margins,” also at www.transeuropicnic.org ("txts"
section)
(also at u-tangente.org, BH archive, "Meteors" section)
Some readings:
–Bureau d’Etudes, “European Norms of World Construction,”
cover text:
http://ut.yt.t0.or.at/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=220&Itemid=117;main
map:
main map:
http://ut.yt.t0.or.at/site/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=83&func=download&filecatid=39
–John
Pinder, The European Union: A Very Short Introduction
–Bob Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State
–Eastwood Group, “Civilizaton IV,” www.eastwood-group.org
–Makrolab project, http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/current***
Artistic
Activism in Argentina
THE
FULL TEXT OF THIS SESSION CAN BE READ BY CLICKING HERE
Sunday,
September 18
Session
IV
part
1(1:00-5:00)
part 2(possible social event)
Neolib Goes Neocon
Pastoral power and the bid for empire
George Bush and Billy Graham: born again for a new Cold War. Genealogy
of the neocons, 1945-2005. Foucault’s analysis of pastoral power;
the role of “value intellectuals” and media in the 1960s;
the revenge of the believers. Totalitarianism of economic rationality;
overextension of the postwar system; collapse of neoliberalism. Timeliness
of Polanyi’s crisis theory. Perspectives for an oppositional
culture.
Previous work by BH that could be interesting:
"Deflation anyone?", at
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0207/msg00115.html
Some
readings:
–Sara Diamond, Not By Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence
of the Christian Right
–G. Burchell, C. Gordon. P. Miller, eds., The Foucault Effect:
Studies in Governmentality
–Trilateral Commission Report, The Crisis of Democracy (1975)
– Wendy Brown, “Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal
Democracy,” Theory and Event 7.1
–Giovanni Arrighi, “The Rough Road to Empire,” at:
http://www.nu.ac.za/ccs/files/Arrighi%20PEWS%202003%20revised%20_1_.pdf
– Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
