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
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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
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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
