Thoughts on Argentina's Conjunctures :: Recuperating Work, Recovering Life (2005-2007): The Take's website, with key links

Saturday, July 02, 2005

The Take's website, with key links

Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's award winning film The Take's NFB website, with excellent supporting links and resources on worker recovered factories, worker cooperatives, and some aspects of the social justice movement.

the conjuncture

"The conjuncture can be defined as the set of circumstances which determine the market in a given phase, provided that these are conceived of as being in the moment, i.e. as constituting a process of ever-changing combinations, a process which is the economic cycle.... Difference between 'situation' and 'conjuncture': the conjuncture is a set of immediate and ephemeral characteristics of the economic situation...Study of the conjuncture is thus more closely linked to immediate politics, to 'tactics' and agitation, while the situation relates to 'strategy' and propaganda...." (Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1971/2003, p. 177)

On this blog...

"Occupy, resist, produce": Worker recovered workspaces in Argentina

As the unfolding research repository for Marcelo Vieta's PhD work, this blog will immerse you in my emerging thoughts on the community desires, the technological tensions, the democratic rationalizations, and the social and individual becomings of everyday life in Argentina's contemporary historical conjuncture. The emerging collection of insights, random thoughts, and experimental theoretical juxtapositions will ultimately inform my PhD dissertation on the most recent workers' control movement in Argentina. For more on me and this blog.

Proposed doctoral dissertation project.

The Worker-Recovered Enterprises Movement in Argentina::An early essay of mine on the ERT movement in Argentina.

Between Jul. 9 and Aug. 15, 2005, I exclusively reported on my experiences with the argentina automista project's summer internship program, Occupy, Organize, and Produce: The Factories, Streets, and Dreams. This program introduced 19 university students and activists from Canada and the US to the nascent and promising worker recovered, worker-managed workspace movement and Argentina's newest social movements since Dec. 2001. Enjoy and don't hesitate to email me with your comments.

The beginning of my trip: What I set out to do and learn in Argentina between July 8 and August 15, 2005.

After my trip: Reflecting on Argentina's newest social justice movements after five intense weeks of study and participation in Buenos Aires.

Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry

The Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry organizes critical educational events that seek to understand how life's enclosures work. But combating against cynicism, we also inquire into creative pathways within, against, and beyond the enclosures: pathways of thinking, collaboration, organization, experimentation...

MA Thesis

My MA work applied social interaction theory and existential phenomenology as a research paradigm for investigating Internet-mediated communication. You can download my entire thesis here::Interactions Through the Screen: The Interactional Self as a Theory for Internet-Mediated Communication:: Re-theorizing Internet sociability using phenomenology and social interaction theory.

Thoughts on Argentina's Conjunctures :: Recuperating Work, Recovering Life (2005-2007)

Saturday, July 02, 2005

The Take's website, with key links

the conjuncture

On this blog...

previous posts

Affiliations

A Few Regular Reads

Argentina Links

Select Writings::A Chronology of My Thinking

My Emerging Online Research

Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry

MA Thesis

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