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MOVEMENT 1-19 |
From First Assembling: A test in this case infers the question of how we may assemble in an interesting manner. We don’t know, but we would like to ask all who do join to try and help create a different kind of space which we may not have experienced before through such mediums of disembodiment. We will offer some basic suggestions as we go along and also have moments to discuss and change whatever we think needs to be changed. But basically, we are not interested in creating a consumptive situation rather a communal one.
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Organized by 16 Beaver Group ...AND Centre Parrhesia ...AND the Society of the Friends of the Virus ...AND the Friends to Come for additional information visit:
To CONTACT: mai [at] 16beavergroup.org |
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| FIRST TEST
"We have put this day together without wanting to produce work for anyone. It should be something enjoyable and a chance to think together in times that certainly warrant thinking, And everyone who is generously taking part does so with a fair degree of caution as we are also living through times that merit quite a bit of consideration of matters that we cannot each individually have a grasp of. Hence our idea of trying to assemble and assemble some notes for consideration. By collectively putting in common our perspectives, there may yet emerge more sense in this process we are living through. In a shared physical space, we could do certain things that we cannot do now. But the chance to move over continents together and make contact, even if remotely to friends may give us, in this moment, also a kind of extra-sensibility. We have not fixed rigidly the schedule of guest contributors, but we have a general plan for the movements of the day."
11:00pm 12:00-14:00 Break
15:00-17:00 Break 18:00-20:00 |
Jean-Luc Nancy and Friends May 3, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 1 |
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Nazan Ustundag, Rolando Vazquez Melken, Nika Dubrovsky, David Graeber and Friends May 3, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 2 |
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Jaspal Singh, Silvia Federici, Marcela Olivera, Hardeep Mann, Suely Rolnik and Friends May 3, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 3 |
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Sarah Lewison and Suely Rolnik and Friends May 3, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 4 |
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SECOND TEST MOVEMENT V "We are all being or going to be called into processes which will establish, shape a 'new normal', to 'return', to go 'back to work', 'back to school', etc.: trying to create a space of thinking together in this moment is also searching for the terms to struggle within the 5,1 Postscript to Movement I-IV "Each of us prepares a question or two, a point or two, related to last Sunday’s meeting, something that was brought up, that resonates, needs attention and thinking. To make this assembling useful and our meeting meaningful, we encourage everyone to try to link their questions and associated points or elaborations to issues raised in the first series of conversations. We are trying to build a process of thinking and questioning together and avoid the institutionalized approaches which foreclose any possibility to develop collectively a critical space for thought, action, and organization in whatever form that may take." 5,2 How to think this moment through situated struggles which reflect on broader limits in political imaginaries. For this movement, we are joined by Havin Guneser who attempts to situate our relation to the virus and the pandemic through the longer arch of the struggles for autonomy in the Kurdish communities, especially in Northern Syria and Rojava. |
5,1 Postscript to Movement I-IV
5,2 with Havin Guneser and Friends May 10, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 5,1
MOVEMENT 5,2 |
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THIRD TEST MOVEMENT VI"We feel it important to say that according to reports we have read, over the last two months, in New York City alone, more than 24,000 people have lost their lives above what would be expected from prior years. We can normalize these deaths as victims of a natural phenomenon called a virus, or we can begin to build up collectively a sense of the gravity of this moment to better understand the politics/shifts it asks of us. As the Society of the Friends of the Virus texts have attempted to find a way of exploring potential horizons of the struggles implicated by these experiences, attempting also to not isolate them, these conversations are an attempt to build up in a more dialogical manner other potential lines of thought and to resist the coming normalization. Clearly, our objective is not to accept further state or corporate control and surveillance over our lives. So, as we wrote last week, what shape this "new normal" takes requires in every way serious conversations within our various communities of struggle to understand what it is we are struggling for and how it is that we may allow these experiences to alter, inform and intensify our distancing measures from such control/dependency." |
David Harvey, Suely Rolnik and Friend May 17, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 6 |
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| MOVEMENT VII | Michael Taussig and Friends May 17, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 7 |
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FOURTH TEST MOVEMENT VIII |
Annie Chambers and Friends May 24, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 8 |
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| MOVEMENT IX | Haig Aivazian and Göksun Yazici (Notes from Lebanon and Turkey) May 24, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 9 |
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FIFTH TEST MOVEMENT X |
Vinciane Despret and Friends May 30, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 10 |
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| MOVEMENT X.2 | Postscript to Vinciane's intervention (Science Fiction) May 30, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 10,2 |
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SIXTH TEST MOVEMENT XI |
Tonika-Sealy Thompson and Stefano Harney June 7, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 11 |
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| MOVEMENT XIb | Black Life Matters Discussion After Tonika-Sealy Thompson and Stefano Harney June 7, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 11,2 |
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SEVENTH TEST MOVEMENT XII |
Laura Harris, Fred Moten, Manolo Callahan, Stefano Harney and the Friends June 14, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 12 |
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NINTH TEST MOVEMENT XIV |
Nicholas Mirzoeff and the Friends June 27, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 14 |
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TENTH TEST MOVEMENT XV |
Testing Assembling - Movement 15 - Going Beyond Racialized Surveillance Capitalism and the Social Infrastructures of White Supremacy and Coloniality - with Nicholas, Manolo, Hardeep, Jaspal, Rolando, and many more friends July 5, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 15 |
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ELEVENTH TEST MOVEMENT XVI |
Testing Assembling - Movement 16 - Farida Akhtar and Farhad Mazhar July 12, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 16 | ||
TWELFTH TEST MOVEMENT XVII |
Testing Assembling - Movement 17 - Peter Linebaugh with Sarah Lewison July 19, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 17 | ||
THIRTEENTH TEST MOVEMENT XVIII |
Testing Assembling - Movement 18 - Valiana Aguilar and Ángel Kú on Milpa and the Social Infrastructures of Community with Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy July 26, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 18 |
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FOURTEENTH TEST MOVEMENT XIX |
Testing Assembling - Movement 19,1 - Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore with Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen August 2, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 19,1 |
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Testing Assembling - Movement 19,2 - On Prison Abolition, the Movement for Black Life, the Struggles to Come - Postscript to Ruth and Craig's Intervention August 2, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 19,2 |
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FIFTEENTH TEST MOVEMENT XX |
Testing Assembling - Movement 20 - Suraj Yengde on Caste August 9th, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 20 | ||
SIXTEENTH TEST MOVEMENT XXI |
Testing Assembling - Movement 21,2 - Olga Kopenkina on Belarus August 16th, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 21,2 |
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TWENTY FIRST TEST MOVEMENT XXVI |
Testing Assembling - Movement 26 - Munir Fasheh and Friends September 20th, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 26 |
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TWENTY NINTH TEST MOVEMENT XXXV |
Testing Assembling - Movement 35 - with Rojava Film Commune and Friends November 15th, 2020 |
MOVEMENT 35 |
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THIRTY SEVENTH TEST MOVEMENT XLIII |
Testing Assembling - Movement 43 - with Peter Linebaugh and Friends January 10th, 2021 |
MOVEMENT 43 |
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FORTY SEVENTH TEST MOVEMENT LIII |
Testing Time - The Political Kitchen March 21st, 2021 |
MOVEMENT 53 |
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FIFTY FIRST TEST MOVEMENT LVII |
Testing Assembling - Movement 57 - On Colombia with Patricia Botero Gómez, Manuel Rozental, José David Toro, Milena, Ravena Márquez in discussion with Rolando Vasques, Aldo Ramos, Valiana Aguilar, Annie Paradise, Hardip Mann, MPA and friends. May 9th, 2021 |
MOVEMENT 57 |
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FIFTY NINTH TEST MOVEMENT LXV |
Testing Assembling 59 -On Brazil - Denise Ferreira da Silva, Amilcar Packer, Mark Harries and the Friends (including Suely Rolnik) July 4th, 2021
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MOVEMENT 65 |
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SIXTIEH TEST MOVEMENT VXVI |
Testing Assembling 60 - On Haiti - Jean Casimir July 11th, 2021 |
MOVEMENT 66 |
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| CONTRIBUTOR INVITATION | 16 BEAVER INVITATION #1 | |||
Ten or So Points for Consideration We would like to invite a group of friends, comrades, thinkers who have been committed in different ways to struggles for justice to contribute to an online convening/assembling that we attempt to put together relating to the outbreak of the virus and the various shifts, openings, and points of consideration it may present for the way politics are conducted and life lived, reimagined. These points can come out of direct and immediate concerns within specific contexts or struggles and they may be points that are based on a wider field of analysis drawing on experiences from different times and places which may be pertinent for better grasping the forces at play. Our proposal is to organize a meeting online, using in the most ideal case a grassroots media initiative to stream this meeting live to all participants. We have been doing some tests and will adjust which platform we use according to what we are able. The first step would just ask you to let us know if you would be able to join us on Sunday May 3. And to prepare these points and then you could elaborate them. We anticipate that each invited guest can take approximately 10-30 minutes and we can give another 10-20 minutes for questions. In effect, they will be short talks/interventions in thought held online with a possibility for questions, elaboration, discussion. Moreover, we hope that upon sharing these points, we can gather them for publishing online subsequently with a wider public, along with any documentation we generate either through recorded video and/or audio to distribute online. For those of you who may not be able to join us on the Sunday, we will still be happy to collect these points and to share them in the final dissemination of the texts.. |
In the spirit of our worlds-already-in-contact, we would like
to invite you to an experiment in assembling, a gathering, an
anchoring, an encounter of/with friends – old, new and yet
to come. We are hoping to be able to continue to think and
experiment together through the complexities and potencies of
this moment we are living. |
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