Politics with and through the body: Presenting the nanopolitics Handbook
Wednesday March 5th @ 3-5PM, Room 5B.202, University of Essex
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ebs/news_and_seminars/seminarDetail.aspx?e_id=6275
The invention of new modes of sensibility is vital to enriching and
sustaining political engagements, labours and lives in the situated
contexts of urban collectivity. The nanopolitics handbook investigates
the neoliberal city and workplace, the politics of crisis and austerity,
precarious lives and modes of collaboration – through bodies and their
encounters. Starting from the exploration of what bodies can do – with
curiosity, courage and care – nanopolitics is a proposal for producing
new collective subjectivations. Based on the experiments and experiences
of the nanopolitics group, this book proposes exercises, concepts and
ideas as little maps and machines for action. Drawing on social
movements, grassroots organizing, dance, theatre and bodywork, the
reflections and practices here present strategies for navigating and
reconfiguring the playing field of ‘nanopolitics’, activating its
entanglement with the major politics of our time.
In this session the group will present the handbook, drawing on its
texts and exercises.
Sponsored by the Centre for Work, Organization, and Society
This seminar is part of an ongoing workshop series on artist collectives.
For more information contact Stevphen Shukaitis: [log in to unmask]
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Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://www.minorcompositions.info
"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master’s rule." - subRosa Collective
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