Viral Utopias November 16th – 7PM til 1AM @ Limehouse Town Hall, London
Panics, plagues, and politics. Countless times the death of politics, utopia and neoliberalism has been proclaimed... and just as many times the lumbering remains of our conceptual apparatuses dust themselves and trundle on again... mutating their movements in unfolding recombinatory patterns.
Come join us to celebrate the release of several new publications exploring this overlap between the utopian and the viral, the networked and the not-worked: Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks by Tony Sampson; Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia by Angela Mitropoulos; Open Utopia by Thomas More & Stephen Duncombe; and the current issue of Mute Magazine, ‘Becoming Impersonal’ Vol.3 #3.
DJS Agit Disco DJs http://www.metamute.org/shop/mute-books/agit-disco
LIVE BANDS Traum - London-based chanson for lovers of neo-romantisch perverse pop http://soundcloud.com/traumatica/whatsmyjob Hungry Hearts - whisky filled gruff folk punk: http://www.myspace.com/thehungryhearts
VENUE Limehouse Town Hall 646 Commercial Road London E14 7HA RSVP ESSENTIAL http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4688544563
ABOUT THE PUBLICATIONS
Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks - Tony Sampson http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virality
Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia - Angela Mitropoulos http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=482
Open Utopia - Thomas More & Steve Duncombe http://theopenutopia.org/ Mute, ‘Becoming Impersonal’, Vol.3 #3 http://linkme2.net/sx
Pic: Rinat Voligamsi's Light (Painting, 2012)
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