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Programme
for the Conference on
IMMATERIAL LABOUR, MULTITUDES AND NEW
SOCIAL SUBJECTS: CLASS COMPOSITION IN
COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
to
be held on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th April 2006
in
the Keynes Hall, King’s College,
University
of Cambridge
with
additional events in other venues on Friday 28th April
Website: http://www.geocities.com/ImmaterialLabour
A public
seminar on
“THE POLITICAL MEANING OF THE RECENT EVENTS IN FRANCE”
This event
is open to the general public at no cost. It will include speakers, video
materials and general discussion. Our intention is to read the events in France
through the lens of the concepts and terminologies that will inform our
Conference.
The
afternoon will include reports on various projects of militant research which
have been established recently in Europe.
VENUE No.
1: From 12.00pm to 3.00pm in the McCrum Theatre, Bene’t Street, Cambridge
(located about 300 yards from King’s College)
VENUE No.
2: From 3.00pm to 5.30pm in the Meeting Room, Queen’s College, Silver Street,
Cambridge
12.00pm to 12.15pm Introduction: ED
EMERY
Thereafter various speakers,
beginning with:
YANN MOULIER BOUTANG
[Univs. Compiègne and
VENUE: Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge
A public
lecture by TONI NEGRI entitled
“J.M.
Keynes, Guaranteed Minimum Income and the Recent Events in France” [Full paper]
[UPDATE:
Due to the indisposition of Toni Negri, this lecture was delivered by ANDREA FUMAGALLI of the University of
Pavia]
VENUE: Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE SHALL START PROMPTLY
9.45 am
REGISTRATION
11.00am to 11.30am YANN MOULIER BOUTANG [Univs. Compiègne and
11.30am to
11.45am COFFEE BREAK
11.45am to 12.15pm EMMA DOWLING [Birkbeck
College, London]: “Formulating new social subjects? An enquiry into the
realities of a (hyper)-affective worker” [Abstract] [Full Paper]
12.15pm to
12.45pm VASSILIS TSIANOS [University of Hamburg] and DIMITRIS
PAPADOPOULOS [University of Cardiff]: “Precarity: A savage journey to
the heart of embodied capitalism” [Abstract] [Full paper]
12.45pm to
1.15pm MASSIMO DE ANGELIS
and DAVID HARVIE [University
of East London and University of Leicester]: “Cognitive capitalism
and the rat race: how capital measures ideas and affects” [Abstract] [Full Paper]
1.15pm to
2.45pm LUNCH BREAK
2.45pm to
3.15pm NICK DYER-WITHEFORD [University of Western Ontario]: “The circulation of
the common” [Abstract] [Full paper]
3.15pm
to 3.45pm MICHEL BAUWENS
[Foundation for P2P Alternatives,
3.15pm to 3.45pm GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA [University of Pittsburgh]: “Meeting Felix: Guattari and the Italian Autonomists from Franco Berardi Bifo to
Wu Ming [Abstract] [Full
paper]
3.45pm to
4.15pm TEA BREAK
4.15pm to
4.45pm SABRINA OVAN [University of Southern California] “The
General Body” [Abstract] [Full
paper]
4.45pm to
5.15pm NEBOJŠA MILIKIČ: “The inquiry with workers from Bor, Serbia” [Abstract] [Full Paper]
5.15pm to 5.45pm ED EMERY [Universitas adversitatis]: “General intellect
and the Intifada: Part 2” [Abstract] [Full
paper]
VENUE: Granta Bar, Graduate Centre, Bottom of Mill Lane, Cambridge
(opposite Scudamore’s punts)
A TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION FOR MAYDAY
Cambridge University Ceilidh Band and friends.
All welcome. Bring an instrument… bring a song… Bring a friend…
VENUE: Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE SHALL START PROMPTLY
11.00am to 11.30am CARLO VERCELLONE [University of Paris-1] “Changes in the concept of productive labour and new norms of distribution:
the suggestion for a Guaranteed Basic Income” [Abstract] [Full paper]
11.30am to
11.45am COFFEE BREAK
12.15pm
to 12.45pm ZANNY BEGG [
12.45pm
to 2.15pm LUNCH BREAK
2.15pm to
2.45pm GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA [University of Pittsburgh]: “Meeting Felix: Guattari and the Italian Autonomists from
Franco Berardi Bifo to Wu Ming [Abstract] [Full
paper]
2.45pm to 3.15pm GEORGE J. CICCARIELLO MAHER [University of California, Berkeley]: “Hegemonic
articulation and the logic of separation” [Abstract] [Full
paper]
3.15pm to
3.35pm TEA BREAK
3.35pm to
4.05pm HARRY HALPIN [University of Edinburgh]: “Digital
sovereignty: The immaterial aristocracy of the World Wide Web” [Abstract] [Full paper]
4.05pm to 4.35pm ADAM
ARVIDSSON [University of Copenhagen]: “Creative Class and Creative Proletariat?
Class composition and immaterial labour in the
4.45pm to
5.30pm ROUND TABLE AND SUMMING UP
We acknowledge the
hospitality of the authorities of King’s College, Cambridge, and the generous
assistance of Professor John Dunn
This conference is
an independent initiative organised by Universitas adversitatis, a peripatetic
free university.