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A Reading List for #Occupy - Part III

Paolo Mossetti — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:29:47 +0000

Edited by Paolo Mossetti

After the Occupy Wall Street "People's Library" was brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the library's shelves.

This is the third selection of answers I collected.

A Reading List for #Occupy - Part II

Paolo Mossetti — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:39:03 +0000

Edited by Paolo Mossetti

After the Occupy Wall Street "People's Library" was brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the library's shelves.
This is the second part of the answers I collected.

A Reading List for #Occupy - Part I

Paolo Mossetti — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:38:05 +0000

Edited by Paolo Mossetti

Cover by Kaf & Cyop. Image courtesy of the artist

While the Occupy Wall Street "People's Library" was being brutally dismantled by the police, last November, I asked some officers why they were seizing those books and throwing them into trash cans.

Only one of them replied by saying, simply, "I don't know."
Then I decided to ask some of my favourite writers, activists, and academics to help me compile a list of books that would recreate, though only virtually, the OWS library.

Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it’s kicking off everywhere

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:40:42 +0000

TODAY #3

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:24:25 +0000

TODAY #3: a publication by Through Europe.

Featuring articles by Franco Berardi Bifo, Federico Campagna, Amador Fernandez Savater, Paolo Mossetti, Aaron Peters, Robert Prouse.

Cover: Anna Galkina.

In English, Italian, Spanish. Freely available here.

Il Trasloco - Moving out the Future

administrator — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:19:29 +0000

On Italian television in 1991, immediately after the news broadcast of Mikhail Gorbachev declaring that the Soviet Union was finished a small independent film directed by Renato de Maria was screened called ‘Il Trasloco’. It depicted the moving out of a house in Bologna that acted as the headquarters or central point of left-wing activist groups and individuals that would be referred to as Autonomia.

San Marino - the first conference of SCEPSI

administrator — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:48:28 +0000

SCEPSI
European School of Social Imagination San Marino

Radical Publishing: What Are We Struggling For? - Videos

administrator — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:07:00 +0000

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?

Radical Publishing: What Are We Struggling For?

administrator — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:16:15 +0000

Theatre, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), The Mall, SW1Y 5AH, London
19 March 2011

Theo Turpin, Weight of the World

Update: videos of the conference are now available here.

From Tute Bianche to the Book Bloc - italian transcript

administrator — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:52:34 +0000

Questo è il testo dell'intervento "From Tute Bianche to the Book Bloc: the Italian movement and the coming European insurrection". [english version]
by Francesco Raparelli*

Dalla stagione politica delle Tute bianche sembra trascorso un secolo, eppure si tratta di poco più di dieci anni. Dieci anni in cui moltissime cose sono cambiate. Nonostante le fratture epocali che hanno segnato quest'ultimo decennio, però, gli studenti rivoltosi di Roma e di Londra hanno deciso di fare propria (lo scorso autunno) la pratica di conflitto inventata dalle Tute bianche: scudi e caschi a protezione dei propri corpi; violazione delle zone rosse, del potere politico asserragliato nei palazzi e privo di rapporto democratico con la società.