C4: Global networks after de Landa’s A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and Negri’s Empire

Seminar Leader: Phillip Armstrong, Ohio State University and Gene Holland, Ohio State University

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Conservatory

Phillip Armstrong, Ohio State University: “Sovereignty After Empire”

Gene Holland, Ohio State University: “Marx, de Landa, and Markets”

Tim Rayner, University of Sydney: “Politics on the Edge of Chaos: Network Power and Virtual Republicanism”

Imre Szeman, McMaster University “Reproduction/Revolution/Networks: Rethinking Social Representation Through de Landa and Hardt and Negri”

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Conservatory

Keir Milburn, University of Leeds – United Kingdom: “How Does a Multitude Decide?”

Barry Shank, Ohio State University: “The Empire of Pop Versus Non-Linear Music: Yoko Ono’s Infection of the Popular”

Chris Thompson, Maine College of Art: “Making Felt”