RETORT
After yesterday’s carnival of Full Enjoyment drew hysterics from the media, unprovoked thuggery from the police you may be in the mood for some reflection this evening. If so, Wordpower is the best bookshop in Scotland, possibly the entire known universe, invites you to: “Resisting the New Enclosures: Peace, Anti-capitalism and the Multitude'. In an illustrated slide lecture, Iain Boal analyses the terms, forms and spaces of resistance to capitalist globalization in an epoch of military neoliberalism, one of the central themes of Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War, just published by Verso. Harold Pinter has written that this is a : "A comprehensive analysis of America's relationship with the world. No stone is left unturned. The maggots exposed are grotesque." TUESDAY 5 July 2005, 7.00 pm Lecture Room 1, School of Arts, Culture and Environment University of Edinburgh, 20 Chambers Street Admission Free and All Welcome! Iain Boal is associated with Retort, a group of writers and activists - antagonists of the present order of things - based in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose book Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, exploring the new imperialism, blood for oil, permanent war, spectacular politics, and modernity and terror. Go here for more...