Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to the streets. Much was made of the vandalism and disruption that occurred, with some arguing it eclipsed the protests’ intentions—but were the students’ demands ever clearly articulated? Did the protestors know what they were struggling for? From pamphlets and theses to journals and zines—the relationship between protest and print goes back a long way and has helped galvanise and articulate dissent, but do radical publishers and radical thinkers still matter today and how do they relate to contemporary protest?
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Theatre, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), The Mall, SW1Y 5AH, London
19 March 2011
Tactics of Struggle
- John Holloway: When capital leaves us, do we beg it to come back or do we tell it to go to hell?
- David Graeber: How to strategize in the beginning of an era whose ultimate nature is entirely unknown
New Public
- Richard Seymour: Toward a new model commune
- Peter Hallward: The dictatorship of the people
- Hilary Wainwright: What is the trasformative role of labour in the creation of a new public?
New Psychic Landscapes
- Franco Berardi Bifo: Poetry finance and the body of the general intellect
- Mark Fisher: Post-capitalist cognitive frameworks
- Saul Newman: Voluntary servitude reconsidered: radical politics and the problem of self-domination
New Economics
- Andrew Simms: The art of rapid transition
- Ann Pettifor: Let ideas and art be international, goods be homespun & finance primarily national
- Milford Bateman: Save local, invest local: towards a new local financial system for sustainable communities
