MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Topology of Autonomy
A talk by Sylvère Lotringer
Preceded by a tour of
community gardens in Boston
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Full schedule:
Friday, April 6
9:30a–12:30p
Bus Tour: Community Gardens in Boston
RSVP required (see details below)
1:30–3:00p
Lecture: Topology of Autonomy
Location:
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA | MAP
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Sylvère Lotringer will address the notion of autonomy, its planting, plotting, and propagation as the means to imagine and propose alternative relations to land, history, politics, and art. Lotringer’s talk expands the discourse initiated through the international archive platform, the exhibition Disobedience: An Ongoing Video Archive.
The tour through Boston’s community gardens will explore the history of community gardens in Boston as sites of resistance against the increasing privatization of resources in the city. Many of Boston’s gardens are the result of grassroots struggles for community land control and food security. As sites of intense cooperation, community gardens can be seen as a training ground for new forms of social solidarity, political self-organization, and ecological consciousness.
Sylvère Lotringer is the general editor of the seminal book series Semiotext(e). As a literary and cultural theorist, his major contribution was introducing French theory to the United States. In 1979, Lotringer traveled to Italy to document the post-Marxist Autonomia movement, which resulted in the special publication Autonomia—Post-Political Politics. Lotringer is a Professor of Foreign Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.
This public program is part of Disobedience: An Ongoing Video Archive, installed at the Media Lab until April 15, 2012. The Archive is a cross-platform initiative curated by ACT Professor Gediminas Urbonas, ACT Fellow Nomeda Urbonas, and Marco Scotini from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan. The tour of Boston’s community gardens is a component of the thesis project of Scott Berzofsky (SMACT 2012).
Free and open to the public.
How to sign up for the Boston community gardens tour:
To reserve a seat on the bus tour please RSVP by emailing Scott Berzofsky at [email protected]. Seating is limited. RSVP required by April 2, 2012.
For more information:
http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/topology-of-autonomy/
disobedience.mit.edu
act.mit.edu