CFP: refusing structures
The Future in The Present: Occupying the Social Factory
May 2-4, 2006 - Digby House at Oadby, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
“What is the meaning of autonomy today, both as a theoretical category and as a practice? And what can the thought of refusal contribute to the organization of refusals in our daily lives? How can one create forms of antagonism directed against the lines of command that cut across the economic and social fabric, and which seek to incorporate affective, biological, and symbolic processes into forms of production? How can antagonism avoid being subsumed into the working of power and turned them against themselves? What would it mean, rather than to create overarching concepts that describe a new historical epoch, to look at the specific modulations of how productive forces and regimes of command are changing in response to the social creativity and struggles of political actors? And what possibilities for political and social change are contained within these transformations? This is to start from the multiple inscriptions of power and resistance, from the bare life and bodies of the migrant worker to the precarious temp employee, from the unwaged to laborers in export processing zone archipelagos.”
Proposals for discussions, presentations, and panels of 500 – 1000 words should be sent to futureinthepresent@refusingstructures.net by Friday January 27th, 2006.