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56a Infoshop: Nowtopia + Celebrate Peoples History event Sun 5th

56a Infoshop | 31.03.2009 14:33 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

56a Infoshop in South London is presenting an afternoon this Sunday 5th April with Chris Carlsson, the author of NOWTOPIA giving an illustrated talk. We are also using the occasion to open our newest exhibition in the space: Celebrate Peoples History, a selection of the great poster series from the radical art collective Just Seeds.

NOWTOPIA talk with Chris Carlsson
NOWTOPIA talk with Chris Carlsson

JUST SEEDS Celebrate Peoples History Exhibition
JUST SEEDS Celebrate Peoples History Exhibition


Nowtopia:

"Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, even the Burning Man festival, are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that challenges politics as we know it. As capitalism continues its inexorable push to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging that are redefining politics. In myriad ways, people are taking back their time and technological know-how from the market and in small under-the-radar ways, are making life better right now. In doing so, they also set the foundation—technically AND socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life. The social networks thus created, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies and tactics to confront the everyday commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.

Nowtopia uncovers resistance and rebellion amidst fractions of a slowly recomposing working class in America. Rarely self-identifying as mere ‘workers,’ people from all walks of life are doing incredible amounts of work in their “free” “non-work” time. This unpaid work is creating immediate practical improvements in daily life. More interesting still, these myriad initiatives constitute a more thorough-going refusal of politics and economics as usual. In Nowtopia, Marx’s concept of the General Intellect is freshly applied to the disparate initiatives that are percolating largely out of public sight. Building on the investigative methodology developed by autonomist Marxists in Europe and the U.S.A., Carlsson recontextualizes the so-called “middle class” as an example of working class recomposition. The practical rebellions outlined in this book embody a deeper challenge to the basic epistemological underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically-driven politics emerges from below to reshape our assumptions about science, technology and human behavior.

The semi-conscious war between these life-affirming, self-emancipating behaviors and the coercive domination of money, property, and survival amidst contrived scarcity is the core investigation of this book."

 http://www.processedworld.com/carlsson/nowtopia_web/index.shtml


JUST SEEDS: Celebrate Peoples Histrory series-

Justseeds ‘Celebrate People's History’ poster series is an on-going project producing posters that focus around important moments in 'people's history.' These are events, groups, and individuals that we should celebrate because of theirimportance in the struggle for social justice and freedom, but are instead buried or erased by dominant history. Posters celebrate these important acts of resistance, those who fought tirelessly for justice and truth, and the days on which we can claim victories for the forces of freedom.
Justseeds is a decentralized community of artists who believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. Check out their amazing site for some awesome art and texts:

 http://www.justseeds.org/
 http://www.justseeds.org/artists/celebrate_peoples_history/


SUNDAY 5th APRIL
56a Infoshop
56 Crampton St
LONDON
SE17 3AE

3pm Free All Welcome

56a Infoshop
- Homepage: http://www.56a.org.uk

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