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Extended Version of Text 'Feminine Aesthetic as Femininist Aesthetic'

Here is the extended version of Feminine Aesthetic as Feminist Aesthetic: Incorporation of the Affectivity Sensibility.

Writing on Dry Wipe, an online exhibition for Nottingham Contemporary, led me to expand this in closer relation to the organisation of identity, after networks. The original short version (from which the extended version was made) can be found here.

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We Are All Groupuscules

Three_Group-Related_Problems.pdf

In this text, 'Three Group-Related Problems' from Desert Islands and other texts, Gilles Deleuze pays tribute to his friend and co-author, Felix Guattari. Using the opportunity to raise central problems of mediation within and between selves, activists, groups, militants, groupuscules, analysts and individuals, Deleuze explores the 'hope and despair' following May '68 and the legacy of some of its experiments in collective subject-formation [ more ] about We Are All Groupuscules

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The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group

by Sam Moss

Published in Living Marxism, 1939

Reposted from: Letters Journal, http://www.lettersjournal.org/moss.html
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On Organisation by Jacques Camatte

Co-authored Jacques Camatte and Giani Collu. Published originally in French as "De l'organisation" in 'Invariance', Anne V, serie II, no. 2. [ more ] about On Organisation by Jacques Camatte

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Remaking Media Practices – From Tactical Media to Post-Media

If media theory over the last 40 years largely understood media as hopelessly contaminated by capitalism, the quietism implied by this critique also met its challenge in Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming-media’. Here Clemens Apprich revisits key media political debates to imagine post-media approaches in the age of social media. [ more ] about Remaking Media Practices – From Tactical Media to Post-Media

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Destructive Destruction? An Ecological Study of High Frequency Trading

Image: A Nanex chart from 08/01/12 showing the bid and the ask in one stock (a utilities ETF), and how at first the bid/ask are tight, but then just before 10:00 AM went totally wild

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How is High Frequency Trading’s drive to efficiency affecting market dynamics as a whole? In their analysis of the financial arms race, Inigo Wilkins and Bogdan Dragos find that far from beating entropy, algorithmic trading simply redistributes it more unequally than ever.

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Organised Networks : Ned Rossiter (2006)

Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity and New Institutional Forms

Ned Rossiter (2006)

» The social-technical dynamics of ICT-based networks constitute organisation in ways substantively different from networked organisations (unions, state, firms, universities). My interest in this paper is to say a few things about the process of scalar transformation and transdisciplinarity as they relate to the invention of new institutional forms. Having established these background conditions, processes and practices, I will then move on to the topic of autonomous education. ... « [ more ] about Organised Networks : Ned Rossiter (2006)

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The Packet Gang

An article by Jamie King, written in 2004, on the impasse of political organisation in the age of 'openness'

Openness – as an organising principle and political ideology – has become an article of faith across networked social movements. From its role as a central tenet of free and open source software production to its current popularity within activist circles, the concept of openness is attracting enthusiastic adherence. Here, as part of our series on the politics of alternative media structures, JJ King takes a less credulous view of what lies beneath the dream of organisational horizontality

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The Tyranny of Structurelessness

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The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation

Campsite on Rotshchild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, July 2011

Moving beyond the conceptual polarisation of tight-knit vanguardist parties and loose-tie virtual networks, Rodrigo Nunes sifts the residue of last year’s wave of revolts to produce a more nuanced picture of organisational dynamics in the age of Web 2.0

[This article first appeared in Mute magazine, June 2012: http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/lessons-2011-three-theses-organisation] [ more ] about The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation

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