The Virality part of this free event (see below) will now be a collaboration between Tim Vogt, Francesco Tacchini, Nik Vaughn and Tony D. Sampson. We will be responding to the idea(l) of a viral utopia using academic voice, VJing, bass guitar and turntable.
Viral Utopia: What kind of Ontology is This?
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Viral Utopias launch event on Friday November 16th
Viral Utopias
Friday November 16th – 7PM til 1AM @ LimehouseTown Hall
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://snd.sc/PqsQb1
Hungry Hearts – whisky filled gruff folk punk:
http://www.myspace.com/thehungryhearts
VENUE
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Road
London E14 7HA
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ABOUT THE PUBLICATIONS
Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks – Tony D Sampson with Tim Vogt, Francesco Tacchini and Nik Vaughn http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virality
Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia – Angela Mitropoulos
http://www.akpress.org/contract-contagion.html
Open Utopia – Thomas More & Steve Duncombe
http://theopenutopia.org/
Mute, ‘Becoming Impersonal’, Vol.3 #3
Link to Mute Magazine
VIRALITY 