'What are we struggling for?' - seminar at ICA, London

Dear friends, colleagues and comrades,

On Saturday 19th March 2011 (12pm-5pm), one week before the great demonstration called by British unions, the ICA will host some of the UK’s most exciting radical thinkers, published by British radical publishers such as Verso, Zed Books, Zero Books, Pluto Press , AK Press and Red Pepper to grapple with utopian, practical and radical issues, such as:

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Dear friends, colleagues and comrades,

On Saturday 19th March 2011 (12pm-5pm), one week before the great demonstration called by British unions, the ICA will host some of the UK’s most exciting radical thinkers, published by British radical publishers such as Verso, Zed Books, Zero Books, Pluto Press , AK Press and Red Pepper to grapple with utopian, practical and radical issues, such as:

12pm
■Tactics of Struggle:
- John Holloway: 'When capital leaves us, do we beg it to come back or do we tell it to go to hell?'
- David Graeber: 'How to strategize in the beginning of an era whose ultimate nature is entirely unknown.'

1pm
■New Public:
- Richard Seymour: ‘Toward a new model commune’
- Peter Hallward: ‘The dictatorship of the people’
- Hilary Wainwright: 'What is the trasformative role of labour in the creation of a new public?'

lunch break

3pm
■New Psychic Landscapes:
- Franco Berardi Bifo: 'Poetry finance and the body of the general intellect'
- Mark Fisher: 'Post-capitalist cognitive frameworks'
- Saul Newman: 'Voluntary servitude reconsidered: radical politics and the problem of self-domination'

4pm
■New Economics:
- Andrew Simms: 'The art of rapid transition'
- Ann Pettifor: 'Let ideas and art be international, goods be homespun & finance primarily national'
- Milford Bateman: 'Save local, invest local: towards a new local financial system for sustainable communities'

This event is organised as a collaboration between the ICA and Through Europe (http://th-rough.eu), with special thanks to Associate producer Federico Campagna.

WHERE: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, W1Y 5AH, United Kingdom

WHEN: Saturday 19th March 2011, 12pm to 5 pm

TICKETS: £5 students and ICA members under 26, £10 ICA members, £11 concessions, £12 general.

MORE INFO: to book tickets and for more informtion pleas visit: tp://www.ica.org.uk/28063/Talks/Radical-Publishing-What-Are-We-Struggling-For.html

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