Turbulence at the US Social Forum, Detroit, 22-26 June
Turbulence will be at the United States Social Forum in Detroit from June 22-26, 2010. We’ll be there with hundreds of copies of the magazine. If you can help us hand out copies, or would like to get a bundle to take home with you, get in touch! As ever, our email address is editors@turbulence.org.uk
We’re also co-sponsoring a workshop at the Forum. Here’s the blurb:
Collaborative Investigation (Co-Razonando) in Times of Crisis: Bridging North and South, Activism and Academia
This workshop is part of a collaborative effort between activist-researchers and researching-activists in the Americas to develop new concepts and practices adequate to the multiple, intersecting crises that characterize our times. We recognize that the inadequacy of old concepts and theories of social change contributes to crisis. While most in the mainstream look to policy experts, scientists and academics for solutions to the ecological, food, energy, economic, and political crises of our day, we believe that social movements are producing the most creative responses. Building on our different experiences within movements as well as international projects of militant or collaborative investigation, we will discuss the importance of spaces and projects to cultivate new conceptual and practical frameworks for pursuing activist work. The panel will combine the diverse experience and approaches of our presenters with collaborative media projects including Turbulence: Ideas for Movement (a critical transnational magazine) and community gardening projects in rural and urban areas (North and South). Following brief presentations the workshop will use small group work to explore other potential sites for collaborative investigation.
The workshop will be held in English and Spanish, hopefully on Thursday 24 June. But this still needs to be confirmed. Watch this space! We hope to see you there.
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Turbulence Says: Save Middlesex University Philosophy Department!
The Philosophy Department at Middlesex University is threatened with closure. Middlesex is one of very few locations for the study of continental philosophy in the United Kingdom, the loss of which would be felt throughout the discipline and well beyond. As well as providing a home for a number of highly productive critical thinkers, the Department contributes enormously to the intellectual life of London, often collaborating in events with non-academic public institutions. It is also home to many of the editors of Radical Philosophy, the largest circulation English language philosophy publication which carries articles by some of today’s most innovative critical minds.
Turbulence: Ideas for Movement supports the campaign by staff, students and others to defend Philosophy at Middlesex.
For more information see: Save Middlesex Philosophy | Save Middlesex Philosophy Campaign Facebook Page | Petition | saveMDXphil Twitter | Infinite Thought blog, carrying news and updates about the campaign | Education Activist Network | EduFactory
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