Roundtable with Michael Hardt and new EDT2.0 article in Digimag
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 in Digimag is out today:
We are Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 – EDT2.0 (http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/EDTECD.html). As a collective, we are already many. As a multiplicity, our goals, hopes and intentions are multiple. Our shared goals include the disturbance of borders: national, gender, genre, disciplinary, fiction/non, through the exploitation and re/performance of technology, poetry and the imaginaries of each…
We create media viruses, dislocative border disturbance technologies and Electronic Civil Disobedience actions in order to imagine and bring about desired futures. We exploit existing media technologies in order to conjure spirits of mayan technologies and queer technologies in the crackle on the line and the dropped packets of neo-liberalism. Our hallucinatory transmissions operate at the refresh rate of dreams.
Also, in April I’ll be on a roundtable with Michael Hardt at UCSD. Hardt and Negri were very influential to me so I’m very excited about this. I feel like the UC Struggle has really died down, at least at UCSD, despite the fact that the situation continues to worsen. Hopefully this will be a good opportunity to talk about why and help to spark some new energy. I also really love talking to Michael Hardt who’s actually a really warm person. It should be a great event.
Roundtable with Michael Hardt
Friday, April 8, 2011
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Literature Building, Room 155 (de Certeau)
This Roundtable Discussion will address the current crisis in higher education, particularly California: its impact on the social sciences, arts, and humanities; and the role of student movements in the larger fight against the privatization of education and its corollaries.
Panelists:
Michael Hardt, Professor, Duke University
Micha Cardenas, Interim Associate Director, Art & Technology Culture, Art and Technology Program, Sixth College, UC San Diego
Roshanak Kheshti, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Luis Martin-Cabrera, Assistant Professor, Literature, UC San Diego
Michael Hardt events co-sponsored by:
Dean’s Opportunity Fund, Division of Arts & Humanities
Dean’s Initiative Fund, Division of Arts & Humanities
Department of Anthropology
Department of Communications
Department of Ethnic Studies
Department of History
Department of Literature
Department of Political Science
Helen Edison Fund
Parking: Parking officers DO CHECK weekdays until 11pm. Parking is $2/hour in the Gilman Parking Structure, closest to the Literature Building. The entrance is at Villa La Jolla Drive & Gilman Drive. Phone – Campus parking office: (858) 534-4223. Campus map: http://maps.ucsd.edu/Acrobat/MainCampus.pdf (see black arrow in the middle showing the Gilman parking structure). Literature is Building #627. Campus map: http://maps.ucsd.edu/Acrobat/MainCampus.pdf (see 7-G) or http://www-act.ucsd.edu/maps/ (use Search tab for Gilman Parking Structure)
To request necessary and reasonable accommodations to enable access and participation for people with disabilities, contact Nancy Daly at ndaly@ucsd.edu or 858-534-4618
We stand in solidarity with Ricardo Dominguez as we sit outside your interrogation
To SVC Burke and all involved in continuing the investigations against Ricardo Dominguez and the bang.lab,
As a member of the bang.lab and of the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), I want to make clear my solidarity for Ricardo Dominguez and to denounce your investigations against him.
It is egregious, and probably criminal, that you are seeking criminal charges against him for the very thing you hired him to do and gave him tenure for.
It is a violation of academic freedom for you to have supported his virtual sit-ins against outside actors such as the government of France and then to react negatively to his virtual sit-in against the UC administration.
As a member of the bang.lab and EDT, I am every bit as guilty as Ricardo Dominguez is of organizing the virtual sit-in. I am the system administrator. I copied the files in place. I helped announce the action, and I, among the thousands of others, joined the action online.
It is clear to me, as it is to our thousands of international supporters, that this investigation is intended to silence dissent against the continuing privatization of the university following the neoliberal agenda, including tuition increases, furloughs, pay cuts and firings.
The fact that you have endless funds to persecute us, and send police after us, like the 3 police I am looking at right now outside of Grant Kester’s office this morning, demonstrates perfectly that there is no budget crisis, only a crisis of priorities.
You cannot stop us. If you succeed in removing Ricardo’s tenure, you can be assured that virtual sit-ins against your administration will spring up all over the world. Electronic Civil Disobedience is decentralized at its core. Penalties against Ricardo will only make the situation worse for you. The thousands of people who joined the action are each capable of and likely to start their own virtual sit-in.
Lecturer in Visual Arts and Critical Gender Studies at UCSD,
micha cárdenas
Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything, a film series
Demand nothing, Occupy everything: a Primer on Neoliberalism and its
Discontents
“Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything” is a film series examining
neoliberalism, one of the roots of the current economic crisis affecting
universities around the world, and the strategies that social movements
have been using to respond to and push back against neoliberalism. The
series considers the possibilities for political action today, as well as
its limitations. The films in the series range from documentation of
political actions to examinations of political theory and fictional
accounts of important moments of political unrest. The topics range from a
historical view of student actions in the 60′s to an international view
considering actions around the world and a selection of recent videos
spread virally through social networks online.
Each film night will begin with a short talk by Micha Cárdenas or a guest
speaker to situate the film in the context of the current social situation
across the University of California, but also at universities around the
world. Specific focus will be given to personal experiences with these
movements, the effects of neoliberalism on education and to efforts to
reimagine what education could be.
All screenings will take place at the Visual Arts Facility (VAF) Performance Space from 7-9pm.
Tuesday, Jan 12 -
And the War Has Only Just Begun by Tiqqun
Excerpts from La Haine by Kassovitz
Excerpts from If… by Lindsay Anderson
Los Angeles UCLA Student Protest
Student Occupation of New School
UCSC Occupation – Friday Night
ASTRONAUTS SEE UC STRIKE FROM SPACE
Tuesday, Jan 19 -
Excerpts from Un Granito de Arena
The Potentiality of Storming Heaven – on the Greek Student Occupations
Excerpts from Tout Va Bien by JP Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard
UC Berkeley Protests at Wheeler Hall Part 2
UC Berkeley Budget Protest. The Wheeler Frontlines
Occupied Berkeley: The Taking of Wheeler Hall
Tuesday, Feb 2 -
Semiotics of the Kitchen by Martha Rosler
Excerpts from the Fourth World War
Excerpts from The Take
Okupa! by Micha Cárdenas
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? by René Viénet
UCSC Occupation #4 – Kerr Hall – Fri
“Why No Demands?
First, because anything we might win now would be too insignificant. Countless times past student struggles have worked months and years – striking and occupying buildings and mobilizing thousands upon thousands of people – only to win back half of what they had already lost, a half that was again taken away one or two years later… If we set our horizons higher – free education, a maximum salary differential of, for instance, 3 or 5, a university managed by faculty and students and workers – then we must realize, immediately, that nothing short of full-scale insurrection could ever achieve this. And if we were strong enough to bring the existing order tumbling down around us, why would we stop short and settle for the foregoing list?
…This is why we make no demands. Because we want to be in solidarity with all who are oppressed and exploited. We will not say who they are in advance. They will define themselves by rising up and standing with us.”
- Anti-Capital Projects: Questions and Answers
http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/anti-capital-projects/
Organized by Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez
and Elle Mehrmand of the b.a.n.g. lab.
Join the Grade Strike to Drop the Charges
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ucgradestrike/
Please sign the petition if you are willing to participate in a grade strike and pass the word on! In the comment section where it says “I support this petition.” please add your school and title (lecturer, professor, TA, etc)
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We are furious and so, so deeply upset seeing the videos of police brutality from UC Berkeley and UCLA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1PuiY4Go8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI5l2_RghQ
and as if it weren’t enough, now many students are facing felony charges:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183824131771&ref=nf
We are willing to pledge to withhold grades until the charges against students are dropped. If you are too, please sign this petition!
With the current passage of the 32% fee increase on UC students statewide, major cuts to student enrollment, and the ongoing series of
devastating cuts and reductions to campus workers, staff and faculty. We hope that you will sign this petition and pledge to withhold grades to express our anger against the current state of public higher education in California.
We stand in solidarity with students, workers, staff and faculty organizing against the cuts at the CSU and CCC systems, and for us all to unite together in the fight to defend public higher education in California.
By signing this petition, we refuse to be complicit in tuition increases, layoffs, furloughs, the selling off of public education and the criminalization of student dissent!
WHEN YOU SIGN: Please specify YOUR UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION with your name, affiliation (undergraduate student, graduate student, worker, staff, faculty), department, and campus
Thank You!
in solidarity,
The Undersigned
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Also, check out the latest Q&A post from Anti-Capital Projects, the authors of The Necrosocial:
http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/anti-capital-projects/
Why No Demands?
First, because anything we might win now would be too insignificant. Countless times past student struggles have worked months and years – striking and occupying buildings and mobilizing thousands upon thousands of people – only to win back half of what they had already lost, a half that was again taken away one or two years later. But in any case, we are as yet far too small to win anything on a scale remotely close to the mildest of demands – a reduction or freeze of student fees, an end to the layoffs and furloughs. Even these demands would mean only a return to the status quo of last year or the year before – inadequate by any but the most cowardly measure. If we set our horizons higher – free education, a maximum salary differential of, for instance, 3 or 5, a university managed by faculty and students and workers – then we must realize, immediately, that nothing short of full-scale insurrection could ever achieve this. And if we were strong enough to bring the existing order tumbling down around us, why would we stop short and settle for the foregoing list?
UCLA Occupied
just putting my last few tweets here…
- rt @apophantic “We ask nothing. We demand nothing.” Tres Deleuzean http://bit.ly/3hOF01 [statement by ucla occupiers]
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rt @apophantic Police gassing protesters at UCLA outside Regents meeting
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Occupation begins at UCLA, Campbell Hall, http://bit.ly/43ZGYl
A more radical proposal: Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything
Who’s down to join in something more interesting in the next 3 days?
http://theimaginarycommittee.wordpress.com/
A call to those who can hear it:
We call for a wave of occupations and blockades to bring the university to a halt. The proposed fee hikes of 32 percent, to be ratified November 17-19, are only the latest indication that the California university system is bankrupt. We cannot allow it to continue through the end of the term.
University students and workers in California must organize immediately to occupy, blockade and strike on all campuses November 17-19.
Read the call>>
