For the next few weeks, this site will be occupied by Brian Holmes. A member of the editorial collective of the French journal Multitudes from 2003 to 2008, he is the author of Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering and Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society. Holmes was awarded the Vilém Flusser Prize for Theory at Transmediale in Berlin in 2009. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley.
The Inland Empire has emerged as an epicenter for the relentless growth/crash dynamic of global capitalism – forcing workers out of jobs, families out of homes and students out of school. This massive displacement is the context for EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Organizing Inland – an on-going project with more events planned from April – September 2010.
This event, led by Brian Holmes, will focus on neoliberal subjectivity – the ways in which the present economic system both encourages and is encouraged by a set of fundamental assumptions, attitudes and perspectives.