*Viral Utopias! London November 16* November 16th - 7PM @ Limehouse Town Hall Panics, plagues, and politics... countless times the death of politics, utopia, neoliberalism, and politics has been proclaimed... and just as many times the lumbering remains of our conceptual apparatuses dust themselves and trundle on again... mutating their movements in unfolding recombinatory patterns. Come join us to celebrate the release of several new publications exploring this overlap between the utopian and the viral, the networked and the not-worked: Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks by Tony Sampson; Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia by Angela Mitropoulos; Open Utopia by Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe; and the "Becoming Impersonal" of Mute Magazine. **DJS** Agit Disco DJs http://www.metamute.org/shop/mute-books/agit-disco **LIVE BANDS** Traum - London-based chanson for lovers of Neo-romantisch perverse pop: http://soundcloud.com/benephone/whats-my-job-1 & Hungry Hearts - whisky filled gruff folk punk http://www.myspace.com/thehungryhearts Limehouse Town Hall 646 Commercial Road London E14 7HA http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4688544563 http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/mute-issue-launch-and-party-friday-16-november -- About the Publications Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks - Tony Sampson http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virality Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia - Angela Mitropoulos http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=482 Open Utopia - Thomas More & Steve Duncombe http://theopenutopia.org/ Mute, 'Becoming Impersonal', Vol.3 #3 http://www.metamute.org/editorial/magazine/current-issue----mute-vol.-3-no.-3-becoming-impersonal -- 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