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Weaponise the corpse! Anti-Privatisation Struggle at Sussex University

Four accounts written at different moments during the anti-privatisation struggle at Sussex University over the last two weeks

1. A First-hand Account of the National Demo on the Sussex campus, 25 March

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Practice Makes a Master

If images of (certain) women are everywhere, lubricating the sale of product, they are also nowhere when it comes to picturing their acts of heroism or banality. Croatian artist Sanja Iveković has spent years exploring the gap between female invisibility and appearance – review by Nick Gledhill

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Slightly belated announce for a great new feminist journal available here as PDF. Order a print copy: http://liesjournal.bigcartel.com/

Lies: a journal of materialist feminism
Volume 1, 2012

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The dangerous classes represent what has become universal as a dynamic for the proletariat at large: the lumpenisation of the wage relation. There is no longer a ground for a workers’ identity or proletarian community, nothing to be liberated, no craftsmanship or human nature. The ephemeral ‘us’ of the rioters, this transient subject of destructive practices that appears momentarily only to rapidly dissolve, is the impossibility of a permanence of the Subject. The overcoming of the limit of struggles is today the attack on the very existence of the class of proletarians.

Interesting text by Benjamin Noys on connections between communisation and the Situationist Internatlional's critique of art and of work

Reposted from: http://leniency.blogspot.co.uk/

Communisation and Aesthetics

by Benjamin Noys

Presented at 'Situationist Aesthetics: The SI, Now'

University of Sussex

Friday 8th June 2012

The Gender Rift in Communisation

Featured in Current Issue – Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

In a contested 'swerve' in debates around communisation, issues of gender, class and race are coming to the fore. Reviewing key texts in this debate, P. Valentine discusses the material basis of the gender distinction in capitalism, and its centrality to class exploitation

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No Interest But the Interest of Breathing

Featured in Current Issue – Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

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Communisation and its Vicissitudes

Endnotes and Blaumachen are holding a discussion on communisation with a presentation of the journal Sic (International Journal for Communisation).

Rip-roaring Markets and Massive Inequality: An Interview with Paul Mason

Newsnight's engaged economics editor and author of Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, talks to Peter Carty about global revolution, Chinese female biker gangs and ghosts

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

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By admin 13 April 2013

As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness.

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