Radars and Fences

Thursday, March 6, 2008
05:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Thursday, March 6, 5:00-8:30 pm
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall
Room 206

Friday, March 7, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
NYU Kimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South
Room 808

Radars and fences, satellites and walls, networks and bunkers. Two different sets of technologies confront us: the former epitomize the selective and flexible character of what Gilles Deleuze termed the “societies of control”; the latter embody the “old” disciplinary paradigm based on separation, physical mass containment, and restriction of the freedom of movement. Most of the times control and discipline coexist ad reinforce each other; sometimes they seem to collide. This is due to a variety of far-reaching factors and transformations occurring in the productive sphere.

Call to Action Against the G8 Summit
Resisting Free Trade, Militarism and Fighting for Real Solutions to
Climate Change

The G8 Summit will be held this year from July 7-9 in Toyako, Hokkaido,
Japan. This will be a culmination of a series of ministerial preparation
meeting beginning in March. The G8 Action Network, a network of various
Japanese organizations and movements, is calling on all social
movements, peasant organizations, women, migrants, urban and rural poor,
fisherfolks and civil society from all over the world who are resisting