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Programme for the Conference on

IMMATERIAL LABOUR, MULTITUDES AND NEW

SOCIAL SUBJECTS: CLASS COMPOSITION IN

COGNITIVE CAPITALISM

to be held on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th April 2006

in the Keynes Hall, King’s College,

University of Cambridge

with additional events in other venues on Friday 28th April

Website: http://www.thefreeuniversity.net /ImmaterialLabour

FRIDAY AFTERNOON 28 APRIL: 12.00pm to 5.30pm

A public seminar on

“THE POLITICAL MEANING OF THE RECENT EVENTS IN FRANCE”

This event is open to the general public at no cost. It will include speakers, video materials and general discussion. Our intention is to read the events in France through the lens of the concepts and terminologies that will inform our Conference.

The afternoon will include reports on various projects of militant research which have been established recently in Europe.

VENUE No. 1: From 12.00pm to 3.00pm in the McCrum Theatre, Bene’t Street, Cambridge (located about 300 yards from King’s College)

VENUE No. 2: From 3.00pm to 5.30pm in the Meeting Room, Queen’s College, Silver Street, Cambridge

12.00pm to 12.15pm Introduction: ED EMERY

Thereafter various speakers, beginning with:

YANN MOULIER BOUTANG [Univs. Compiègne and Binghamton]: “A Resistible New Deal in Europe: On the crisis of the Contrat de Première Embauche (CPE) in France” [Full paper]

FRIDAY EVENING 28 APRIL: 7.30pm

VENUE: Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge

A public lecture by TONI NEGRI entitled

“J.M. Keynes, Guaranteed Minimum Income and the Recent Events in France” [Full paper]

[UPDATE: Due to the indisposition of Toni Negri, this lecture was delivered by ANDREA FUMAGALLI of the University of Pavia]

SATURDAY MORNING 25 FEBRUARY 10.00am to 1.00pm

VENUE: Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE SHALL START PROMPTLY

9.45 am REGISTRATION

10.15 to 10.30am Welcome: ED EMERY

10.30 to 11.00am STEVE WRIGHT [Monash University]: “There and back again: mapping the pathways within autonomist Marxism” [Abstract] [Full paper]

11.00am to 11.30am YANN MOULIER BOUTANG [Univs. Compiègne and Binghamton]: “Antagonism under cognitive capitalism: class composition, class consciousness and beyond. [Abstract] [Full paper]

11.30am to 11.45am COFFEE BREAK

11.45am to 12.15pm EMMA DOWLING [Birkbeck College, London]: “Formulating new social subjects? An enquiry into the realities of a (hyper)-affective worker” [Abstract] [Full Paper]

12.15pm to 12.45pm VASSILIS TSIANOS [University of Hamburg] and DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS [University of Cardiff]: “Precarity: A savage journey to the heart of embodied capitalism” [Abstract] [Full paper]

12.45pm to 1.15pm MASSIMO DE ANGELIS and DAVID HARVIE [University of East London and University of Leicester]: “Cognitive capitalism and the rat race: how capital measures ideas and affects” [Abstract] [Full Paper]

1.15pm to 2.45pm LUNCH BREAK

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 29 APRIL: 2.45pm to 6.00pm

VENUE: Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge

2.45pm to 3.15pm NICK DYER-WITHEFORD [University of Western Ontario]: “The circulation of the common” [Abstract] [Full paper]

3.15pm to 3.45pm MICHEL BAUWENS [Foundation for P2P Alternatives, Thailand]: “The political economy of peer production” [Abstract] [Full Paper]

3.15pm to 3.45pm GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA [University of Pittsburgh]: “Meeting Felix: Guattari and the Italian Autonomists from Franco Berardi Bifo to Wu Ming [Abstract] [Full paper]

3.45pm to 4.15pm TEA BREAK

4.15pm to 4.45pm SABRINA OVAN [University of Southern California] “The General Body” [Abstract] [Full paper]

4.45pm to 5.15pm NEBOJŠA MILIKIČ: “The inquiry with workers from Bor, Serbia” [Abstract] [Full Paper]

5.15pm to 5.45pm ED EMERY [Universitas adversitatis]: “General intellect and the Intifada: Part 2” [Abstract] [Full paper]

SATURDAY EVENING 29 APRIL: 8.00pm to 11.00pm

VENUE: Granta Bar, Graduate Centre, Bottom of Mill Lane, Cambridge (opposite Scudamore’s punts)

A TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION FOR MAYDAY

Cambridge University Ceilidh Band and friends.

All welcome. Bring an instrument… bring a song… Bring a friend…

SUNDAY MORNING 30 APRIL: 10.30am to 1.30pm

VENUE: Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE SHALL START PROMPTLY

10.30am to 11.00am TORU YAMAMORI [St Edmund’s, Cambridge]: “Una Sola Moltitudine: Autonomous claimants’ struggles for the second programme of Multitude in Italy, the UK and Japan” [Abstract] [Full Paper]

11.00am to 11.30am CARLO VERCELLONE [University of Paris-1] “Changes in the concept of productive labour and new norms of distribution: the suggestion for a Guaranteed Basic Income” [Abstract] [Full paper]

11.30am to 11.45am COFFEE BREAK

11.45am to 12.15pm ANDREA FUMAGALLI [University of Pavia]: “Basic income sustainability and productivity growth in cognitive capitalism: An initial theoretical framework” [Abstract] [Full paper]

12.15pm to 12.45pm ZANNY BEGG [Sydney, Australia]: “Imagining subjectivity – globalisation and visual art” [Abstract] [Full Paper]

12.45pm to 2.15pm LUNCH BREAK

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 30 APRIL: 2.15pm to 5.00pm

2.15pm to 2.45pm GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA [University of Pittsburgh]: “Meeting Felix: Guattari and the Italian Autonomists from Franco Berardi Bifo to Wu Ming [Abstract] [Full paper]

2.45pm to 3.15pm GEORGE J. CICCARIELLO MAHER [University of California, Berkeley]: “Hegemonic articulation and the logic of separation” [Abstract] [Full paper]

3.15pm to 3.35pm TEA BREAK

3.35pm to 4.05pm HARRY HALPIN [University of Edinburgh]: “Digital sovereignty: The immaterial aristocracy of the World Wide Web” [Abstract] [Full paper]

4.05pm to 4.35pm ADAM ARVIDSSON [University of Copenhagen]: “Creative Class and Creative Proletariat? Class composition and immaterial labour in the Copenhagen cultural industries” [Abstract] [Full paper]

4.45pm to 5.30pm ROUND TABLE AND SUMMING UP

We acknowledge the hospitality of the authorities of King’s College, Cambridge, and the generous assistance of Professor John Dunn

This conference is an independent initiative organised by Universitas adversitatis, a peripatetic free university.

The programme may be subject to change according to circumstances. For all inquiries please contact

ed.emery @ thefreeuniversity.net