[sudo-discuss] At The Omni: Sylvia Federici and George Caffentzis on Capital, Labor and Reproduction

Hey Sudoers, Come check out this even at The (soon to be) Omni Collective space this weekend! Saturday March 22nd 6pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/1398000470462548/ Join Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh, and George Caffentzis for a discussion on Reproduction, Labor, and Capital at the Omni (4799 Shattuck Ave) in Oakland on Saturday, March 22nd. Please click the link below for details. George is author of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Silvia is author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. Peter is author of Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance. George will present his latest work, In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and Value (PM Press, 2013) a collection of essays that draw upon a careful reading of Marx's thought to elucidate political concerns encompassing twenty-first-century capitalism, information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization. Emphasizing class struggles that have proliferated across the social body of global capitalism, Caffentzis shows how a wide range of conflicts and antagonisms in the labor-capital relation express themselves within and against the work process. He will also discuss his recent PM release, The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual. Sylvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero (PM Press, 2012) collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain--to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in "alienated labor" is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction. Beginning with Federici's organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons. Peter's Stop, Thief! is a majestic tour de force that akes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. "Neither the state nor the market," say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle the embers of memory to ignite our future commons. The Bay Area Public School is a school with no curriculum. It is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything. -- ------- Andrew Lowe Cell: 831-332-2507 http://roshambomedia.com