Sausage Sizzle

Random thought: Over a period of thirty or forty years, the university student has been reduced in circumstances and privilege so as to now be quite a bit closer to the proletarianized worker, themselves increasingly digitized as precarious labour, data input or call sector workers or shopping till operators. This trajectory of concurrence occurring while [...]

Merry Absurd Xmas Card – Scrooge and ‘Azure’!!

Some insane dialectics for xmas – time to think about those cash cards and all the pressure the commodity fest puts upon your wallet, then see also the beautiful blue sky and think of warmer places far away, and then remember this is England and the borders are secured by the UKBA. Massive conflicts here [...]

[Guest post] The Kettle: Resistance and Responsibility

by Dr. Yojo Queequeg In 2009, after the kettling tactics and violence used by police on the day of the G20 protests in Central London, Duncan Campbell asked if this signalled the future of demonstrating in the UK: “Does this mean that anyone wanting to go on a demonstration in the future needs to be [...]

BeePicture

Also: http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/do-bee-do-bee-do/

Sunbeam and Colonial Adjustments

That interview with the Iranian News Agency retooled as an article for California and for translation in a Bengali paper. Originally here on Dec 13th The unrest in Britain is described in the media as about fees, but not a single student I have talked to, nor member of staff or other supporter of the [...]

WikiRebels

This is the documentary to watch, harrowing stuff, do not put an axe through your screen – though it may seem to suggest you need to do this. watch the video here: http://svt.se/embededflash/2258254/play.swf Apparently this vid version is only going to be up till January or so. http://wikileaks.ch/ A search engine for wikileaks would of [...]

Why the Fees routine is nothing new, and why the issue is FAR wider than fees (old 1994 LA Leaflet from Australia).

download PDF here: fees

[guest post] Difference within form

Tess Quixote It is easy to equate the Police absolutely with the State. This is obviously so in discursive terms. It is because this is obvious that it deserves unpacking. The uniform of the riot policeman gains mobility on the backs of said men and women, while many riot police wear such uniform in their [...]

[Guest Post] Tesco’s- an obligatory passage point? Black Boxes vs an unreduced cosmos

Irresponsible appropriation of philosophy- spaces for thought, spaces for action… Tess Quixote What happens when you break with ‘space’? Charles Holland’s reflections on the USO through Tschumi’s quote ‘There is no space without event, no architecture without programme’: ‘Architecture could not be dissociated from the events that ‘happened’ in it’ is an excellent tool to [...]

Bougainville

Letter from a BRA General. Monday 13th December, 2010 BRA’s stand on mine reopening Following all the media coverage in the recent weeks and the recent meeting by the so called landowners of Panguna Mine with the President for Bougainville, I would like to highlight certain issues that need to be taken into consideration before continuing discussions and [...]

Sunbeams and Colonial Adjustment

IRNA news agency interview: Do you think the cause of these objections in Britain is increasing university ’s fees or other issues like the government’s policy, economy and other things play role in it? Why the government officials did not fulfill their promises for fixing the fees? The unrest in Britain is described in the media as about [...]

Release Assange

RELEASE ASSANGE – Letter to the Australian High Commissioner London to be delivered Mon D13 (original location here) Australians in UK for Immediate Release of Julian Assange, 12.12.2010 17:07 *If you are an Australian based in UK, or presently travelling through, and wish to sign this letter. Make contact through…..releasejulianassange at gmail.com Ph.079 392 90 576 [...]

On Violence

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Department of DIY – UfSO

Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Prof. Expectantby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Crisis Centreby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Dr. John Effraby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Platoby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Bob Edwardsby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Poetryby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Karl Boxerby UfSOLondon Do Your Own Mini-Lecture: Dr. Whyby UfSOLondon [...]

USO – 2 minute lectures launched

There are more of these here. There are more of these here. There are more of these here. There are more of these here.

Cartoon Vigil tomorrow

This seems to have been the plan recommended to AP of NUS, but watered down…

The University for Strategic Optimism and the Spatio-political Performative

Guest post by Dr. Jacques Valentin, UfSO. The University for Strategic Optimism is the synchronisation of multiple lines of thought and practice and one of the points around which this synchronisation occurs is that of space. The ’68 comparison continually drawn with the recent student movement that the UfSO has been caught up in is [...]

Creative subversions: a politics beyond representation in the UK

Guest post by Charlotte Lattimer, Christopher Collier, Jaideep Shah, Katherine Burrows, Matthew Woodcraft and Saoirse Fitzpatrick, who write ‘as students, members of the University for Strategic Optimism, self-ascribed activists, friends…the list is infinitely long. We do not write or speak from one ground, nor do we represent ourselves on these multiple grounds. These categories or [...]

USO news round up

Johannes Effra (doctorate pending, viva thursday) from The Press Office of The University For Strategic Optimism prepared this helpful round up of the latest mentions of the fledgling University. Most offer praise, some are critical, and all offer something by way of thought or reflection on tactics and goals. Excellent coverage on K-Punk and Infinite [...]

The Future is Going to Come True (‘Buy this bloke a beer!’ said my friend Vij. ‘Future Presidential candidate for the United Socialist Federation of Europe’ I reckon).