[Autonogram] Libraries on Wheels! Post-anarchism! Books!
Hello, Autonomaniacs; here's a late-August update on stuff going on, shiny new books, and the such -- * * * 1. Autonomadic Bookmobile rolling into Brooklyn and Manhattan 2. Saul Newman speaking on Post-Anarchism at ABC No Rio 3. New Book: Sarai Reader 3, Reshaping Technology * * * 1. The much-celebrated Autonomadic Bookmobile, which has eschewed fossil fuels altogether and in fact is run on a powerful combination of pure mirth and squatter funk, will be showcasing their wares, their how's and their why's, here in New York City over the next week. On AUGUST 23, they'll be performing at Galapagos Arts Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (North 6th St between Wythe and Kent) at 7:30pm -- that's this Saturday! Then next FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, they'll be at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street in Manhattan, at 8pm. $5 will get you in at either show. For those who might not have been paying attention, the Autonomadic Bookmobile Roadshow is a two-person infoshop and radical bookshop on wheels, operating in the mode of the 19th-century tent-revival / snake-oil show. They combine old-timey sideshow acts with hard-edged critique, and if you're lucky, they might demonstrate exactly how many Baudrillard's can successfully balance on the head of a pointy sword. I've heard tell of a Zerzan vs Bookchin Punch & Judy act, but it may just be delicious rumormongering... For more on the bookmobile and a full tour schedule, don't hesistate to visit http://www.autonomedia.org/bookmobile/bookmobiletour2003.html * * Speaking of welding together the philosophical and the political, post-anarchist hotshot Saul Newman will be kicking off a new anarchist theory lecture series this Tuesday the 26th at ABC No Rio. Newman's work struggles to articular modes of resistance to power that don't rely on the moral and rational norms which reinforce implicit systems of domination. He argues instead for non-essentialist forms of resistance to power, and will be speaking on the philosophical and political contours of such resistance. For more information on Newman, the following articles are available online: The Politics of Postanarchism: http://www.anarchist-studies.org/article/articleview/1/1/1/ On the Future of Radical Politics: http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0207/newman.html And, by the way, Saul Newman has a chapter in the forthcoming Autonomedia book on Nietzsche and anarchism, "I am not a Man, I am Dynamite!", which should hopefully be out by the end of the year. Saul Newman at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, Manhattan, 7:30 pm, Tuesday August 26th, $5 suggested donation. This event is sponsored by Autonomedia, the Center for Culture, Technology and Work (at the CUNY Graduate Center), and the freeCUNY collective * (by the way, these are jam-packed days, events-wise: be sure to check our events calendar online at http://www.autonomedia.org/pcgi-bin/suite/calendar/calendar.cgi (though you may find it easier to just click on the link from our front page, good ol' autonomedia.org, and be sure to check the info exchange while you're there -- there's always new and provocative material for your inspection.) * New on our shelves this week is the third volume in the Sarai Reader series, "Shaping Technologies." The Sarai New Media Initiative is a Delhi-based cultural center aiming at critical interventions into the urban fabric, largely through new/old media practices, workshops and seminars, arts, and education. They've got a website at http://www.sarai.net with a full description of their many activities. Among these is the annual production of a thematic journal, the Sarai Reader, which supports new writing from South Asia with a view towards rigorous critical discussion around media practice, theory, and popular culture in South Asia. The new issue, "Shaping Technologies", concerns itself not only with new communications and software technologies, but with the whole gamut of relations between people and machines -- "from mobile phones to kerosene lamps," as the web site puts it. There's a full table of contents and downloadable pdfs of the entire book at the web site (sarai.net -> Reader -> Reader03), and if, after you've looked at these, you need to buy the book, we've got copies available for sale at our web site -- http://www.autonomedia.org/newbooks/index.html should get you most of the way there, though an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is always welcome as well. * * * That's it for today, chummies; as usual, if you need to absent yourself from this list, please do so gently, via the links at the top of this email; likewise, if you know someone who would benefit from the stuff I send out, by all means feel free to forward responsibly! bests, Ben at Autonomedia c/ ********************************** se arrivi ad un bivio...prendilo!! ********************************** http://materialiresistenti.clarence.com ___________________________________________ http://rekombinant.org http://rekombinant.org/media-activism