CAPITAL FORMS–An Economic Humanities Training Project

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We are pleased to announce the start of CAPITAL FORMS, an Economic
Humanities training project supported by the London Arts and Humanities
Partnership (LAHP) <https://www.lahp.ac.uk/about-lahp/>.



This semester-long project will include a monthly reading and discussion
group (beginning 22 January 2020) and a final daylong symposium (15 May
2020) focused on methods and approaches in the humanities for studying
topics related to political economy. Please read on for full details about
CAPITAL FORMS and how to participate.



While geared for postgraduate research students at universities belonging
to the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), participation in
CAPITAL FORMS is open.



If you have any questions, please email the conveners at:
[email protected]



Full details for the reading group and symposium can be found at:
https://capitalforms.wordpress.com/



The schedule of events includes:

22 January: Logistics (reading group)

12 February: Labour (reading group)

18 March: Money (reading group)

22 April: Debt (reading group)

15 May: CAPITAL FORMS Symposium





*CAPITAL FORMS OVERVIEW*

There is increasing interest amongst academics and PhD researchers in the
broad interdisciplinary field of the Economic Humanities. Within this
field, there is particular interest in the ways that artists, filmmakers,
writers and creatives of all kinds have used cultural and aesthetic forms
and practices to explore economic questions such as the impact of tax
avoidance, austerity, debt, and data mining on contemporary societies, as
well as issues of raced markets and economically-inflected gender
inequalities.



However, PhD researchers often struggle with the challenges of
interdisciplinary work of this nature, and with frequent isolation and
atomization within their broader traditional disciplinary areas (English,
Film Studies, Drama, Art History, Music etc.) that are typically their
institutional homes. CAPITAL FORMS brings together students at LAHP
universities across a broad range of arts subjects working on related
themes to showcase ongoing academic and artistic practice in the field, to
allow PhD researchers to find support from academics and other PhD students
across the LAHP partnership, and to gain greater awareness of developments,
challenges, opportunities and resources in this interdisciplinary sub-field=
.



*READING GROUP*

The CAPITAL FORMS reading Group will consist of guided reading and
discussion sessions held monthly on a Wednesday (see below for full
schedule). The sessions will be facilitated and cover a range of economic
themes, including debt, financialization, labour, and logistics. These
sessions will provide effective strategies on managing projects that
crossover into the discipline of economics and political economy and will
outline through guided reading and discussion a range of critical
methodologies available to students. The sessions will provide the space
for PhD students to reflect on the economic challenges that are facing
academia today and consider how they might build in resistance to this in
their own research.



Each 2-hour session will be facilitated by one of the CAPITAL FORMS
convenors, and will focus on a different topic. Preparation will include
reading one text to be circulated ahead of time. All readings will be
provided as linked pdf=E2=80=99s (see below). As this is a reading group,
participants are encouraged to attend each session.



All seminars will meet from 6PM-8PM at Queen Mary University of London
(room TBC; the nearest tube station is Stepney Green or Mile End). A map of
the Mile End campus is available here:
https://ph.qmul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Article/Mile-End-campus-map.pdf



*Seminar 1: Logistics*

*When:* Wednesday 22 January 2020, 6PM-8PM

*Where:* TBC, QMUL Mile End Campus

*Facilitator:* Dr Shane Boyle, Department of Drama, QMUL

*RSVP:* If you plan on attending, please confirm by booking a place here
<http://eventbrite.co.uk/e/capital-forms-reading-group-logistics-tickets-87=
091967419>
.

*Description:* The so-called =E2=80=98logistics revolution=E2=80=99 of the =
1960s all but
transformed the world of capital. Originally a military term, logistics
took hold of businesses in the post-war period as a management science that
championed reorganising production processes according to the costs and
speed of circulating goods. Today the priorities of logistics undergird the
=E2=80=98lean=E2=80=99 manufacturing systems and supply chains that define =
work and retail
globally. The first seminar of CAPITAL FORMS addresses how artists have
both responded to and been complicit in this shift of the capital world
system. The chapter from Deborah Cowen introduces the logistics terrain and
foregrounds the role art performs in supporting and contesting a world
remade by logistics. As the first meeting of the reading group, this
session will also introduce the project aims and schedule.

*Reading:* Deborah Cowen (2014), =E2=80=98Rough Trade? Sex, Death, and the =
Queer
Nature of Circulation,=E2=80=99 in The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Vi=
olence
in Global Trade, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2014, pp.
197-231.
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4fkmw27eyh7f7o/cowen%20rough%20trade.pdf?dl=3D0=
>
[Click for link]



*Seminar 2: Labour*

*When:* Wednesday 12 February 2020, 6PM-8PM

*Where:* TBC, QMUL Mile End Campus

*Facilitator: *Martin Young, Department of Drama, QMUL

*Description:* Art requires work. The effort and process of production is
often concealed by the finished piece, and has been frequently absent from
critical discourses, but over recent years there has been an increased
attention to artistic labour and its wider economic and cultural stakes.
This session will address these themes and the relationship between the
activity of artistic production and other forms of productive and exploited
labour. The reading from Leigh Claire La Berge=E2=80=99s new book Wages Aga=
inst
Artwork introduces key recent debates about artistic labour and its
relation to value and capitalist commodity production.

*Reading:* Leigh Claire La Berge (2019), =E2=80=98Socially Engaged Art and
Decommodified Labor,=E2=80=99 in Wages Against Artwork, Durham and London: =
Duke
University Press, pp. 1-33. [Click for link]
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-0482-0_601.pdf>



*Seminar 3: Money*

*When: *Wednesday 18 March 2020, 6PM-8PM

*Where: *TBC, QMUL Mile End Campus

*Facilitator:* Dr Alasdair King, Department of Film, QMUL

*Description:* Peter Szendy=E2=80=99s short collection of essays, The Super=
market
of the Visible, appeared in English translation in 2019. Szendy=E2=80=99s p=
ieces
address what he sees as the saturation of the contemporary world with
images of all kinds. The Supermarket of the Visible analyses this general
image space and develops ideas of an economy of images and icons =E2=80=93 =
in
Szendy=E2=80=99s words, an =E2=80=98iconomy=E2=80=99. In his introductory e=
ssay, =E2=80=98Money, or The
Other Side of Images=E2=80=99, he draws on scenes from The Sopranos and fro=
m films
by Godard and Bresson to look at the relationship between the circulation
of images and the circulation of money. In this reading seminar on =E2=80=
=98Money=E2=80=99,
we will think about how money, currency, and finance are registered by
contemporary artists, writers and theorists, and look in detail at the
challenges and rewards of Szendy=E2=80=99s engaging and entertaining essay.

*Reading:* Peter Szendy (2019) =E2=80=98Money, or The Other Side of Images=
=E2=80=99 in The
Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a general economy of images, New York:
Fordham University Press, pp. 3-26. (Translated by Jan Plug)
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/k95vmzyhzoqqzqv/szendy%20supermarket%20of%20the%=
20visible.pdf?dl=3D0>
[Click for link]



*Seminar 4: Debt*

*When:* Wednesday 22 April 2020, 6PM-8PM

*Where:* TBC, QMUL Mile End Campus

*Facilitator:* Ruby Tuke, Department of English, QMUL

*Description:* Since the recent global financial crash and ensuing years of
austerity, debt has become a source of political contention. Yet what
exactly are the theoretical assumptions that underpin these debates? How
might these assumptions influence creative practice? In this reading
seminar, we=E2=80=99ll read a section of Elettrra Stimilli=E2=80=99s Debt a=
nd Guilt: A
Political Philosophy (2019) in order to think through some of the wider
implications of debt=E2=80=99s semantic link with guilt (schuld / schulden =
in
German), which her book raises.

*Reading:* Excerpt from Elettrra Stimilli (2018), Debt and Guilt: A
Political Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury.



*CAPITAL FORMS SYMPOSIUM*

A summative daylong symposium will be held at Queen Mary University of
London on 15 May 2020. This will include presentations, screenings and
workshops from artists and academics working on economic-related themes. It
will conclude with a round-table discussion on the challenges of and
approaches for researching political economy in the Humanities. The full
symposium schedule will be available soon.



*PARTICIPATION AND CONTACT*

CAPITAL FORMS is convened by Alasdair King, Martin Young, Ruby Tuke and
Shane Boyle.



If you would like to take part, please attend the reading group. The
reading group is open to anyone, but postgraduate research students at any
of the LAHP-affiliated universities are especially encouraged to take part.
If you are planning to attend the first seminar on logistics, please RSVP
here
<http://eventbrite.co.uk/e/capital-forms-reading-group-logistics-tickets-87=
091967419>
.



Please be in touch by email with any questions: [email protected]



Full details for the reading group and symposium can be found at:
capital-forms.co.uk



For updates and announcements, follow us on Twitter: @capitalforms
<https://capitalforms.wordpress.com/mentions/capitalforms/>

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nt-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;colo=
r:black">We
are pleased to announce the start of CAPITAL FORMS, an Economic Humanities
training project supported by the </span><a href=3D"https://www.lahp.ac.uk/=
about-lahp/"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">London Arts =
and Humanities Partnership (LAHP)</span></a><span style=3D"font-family:Helv=
etica;color:black">.</span></p>

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span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">This
semester-long project will include a monthly reading and discussion group
(beginning 22 January 2020) and a final daylong symposium (15 May 2020) foc=
used
on methods and approaches in the humanities for studying topics related to
political economy. Please read on for full details about CAPITAL FORMS and =
how
to participate.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=A0</=
span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">While
geared for postgraduate research students at universities belonging to the
London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), participation in CAPITAL FOR=
MS
is open.</span></p>

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-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=A0</=
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-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">If
you have any questions, please email the conveners at:
<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a=
></span></p>

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-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Full
details for the reading group and symposium can be found at: </span><a href=
=3D"https://capitalforms.wordpress.com/"><span style=3D"font-family:Helveti=
ca;color:black">https://capitalforms.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style=
=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The
schedule of events includes:</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">22
January: Logistics (reading group)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">12
February: Labour (reading group)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">18
March: Money (reading group)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">22
April: Debt (reading group)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">15
May: CAPITAL FORMS Symposium</span></p>

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-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=A0</=
span></p>

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=A0</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">CAPIT=
AL
FORMS OVERVIEW</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=
</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black;backgroun=
d-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backgro=
und-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">There=
 is
increasing interest amongst academics and PhD researchers in the broad inte=
rdisciplinary
field of the Economic Humanities. Within this field, there is particular
interest in the ways that artists, filmmakers, writers and creatives of all
kinds have used cultural and aesthetic forms and practices to explore econo=
mic
questions such as the impact of tax avoidance, austerity, debt, and data mi=
ning
on contemporary societies, as well as issues of raced markets and
economically-inflected gender inequalities.</span><span style=3D"font-famil=
y:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=A0</=
span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black;backgroun=
d-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backgro=
und-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Howev=
er, PhD
researchers often struggle with the challenges of interdisciplinary work of
this nature, and with frequent isolation and atomization within their broad=
er
traditional disciplinary areas (English, Film Studies, Drama, Art History,
Music etc.) that are typically their institutional homes. CAPITAL FORMS bri=
ngs
together students at LAHP universities across a broad range of arts subject=
s
working on related themes to showcase ongoing academic and artistic practic=
e in
the field, to allow PhD researchers to find support from academics and othe=
r
PhD students across the LAHP partnership, and to gain greater awareness of
developments, challenges, opportunities and resources in this interdiscipli=
nary
sub-field.</span><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span><=
/p>

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span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">READI=
NG
GROUP</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></=
p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The
CAPITAL FORMS reading Group will consist of guided reading and discussion
sessions held monthly on a Wednesday (see below for full schedule). The
sessions will be facilitated and cover a range of economic themes, includin=
g
debt, financialization, labour, and logistics. These sessions will provide
effective strategies on managing projects that crossover into the disciplin=
e of
economics and political economy and will outline through guided reading and
discussion a range of critical methodologies available to students. The
sessions will provide the space for PhD students to reflect on the economic
challenges that are facing academia today and consider how they might build=
 in
resistance to this in their own research.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=A0</=
span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Each
2-hour session will be facilitated by one of the CAPITAL FORMS convenors, a=
nd
will focus on a different topic. Preparation will include reading one text =
to
be circulated ahead of time. All readings will be provided as linked pdf=E2=
=80=99s (see
below). As this is a reading group, participants are encouraged to attend e=
ach
session.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=
=A0</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">All
seminars will meet from 6PM-8PM at Queen Mary University of London (room TB=
C;
the nearest tube station is Stepney Green or Mile End). A map of the Mile E=
nd
campus is available here:</span><a href=3D"https://ph.qmul.ac.uk/sites/defa=
ult/files/Article/Mile-End-campus-map.pdf"><span style=3D"font-family:Helve=
tica;color:black">
https://ph.qmul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Article/Mile-End-campus-map.pdf</=
span></a><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

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=A0</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=A0</spa=
n></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Se=
minar 1: Logistics</span></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:18pt;font-family:H=
elvetica;color:black"></span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Wh=
en:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Wednesday =
22 January 2020, 6PM-8PM</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Where=
:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span><span=
 style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-image:initial;backgr=
ound-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;bac=
kground-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">TBC, QMUL Mile End Campus</=
span><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Fa=
cilitator:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Dr =
Shane Boyle, Department of Drama, QMUL</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">RS=
VP:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> If you pla=
n on attending, please confirm by</span><a href=3D"http://eventbrite.co.uk/=
e/capital-forms-reading-group-logistics-tickets-87091967419"><span style=3D=
"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> booking a place here</span></a><span s=
tyle=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">De=
scription:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> The=
 so-called =E2=80=98logistics revolution=E2=80=99 of the
1960s all but transformed the world of capital. Originally a military term,=
 logistics
took hold of businesses in the post-war period as a management science that
championed reorganising production processes according to the costs and spe=
ed
of circulating goods. Today the priorities of logistics undergird the =E2=
=80=98lean=E2=80=99
manufacturing systems and supply chains that define work and retail globall=
y.
The first seminar of CAPITAL FORMS addresses how artists have both responde=
d to
and been complicit in this shift of the capital world system. The chapter f=
rom
Deborah Cowen introduces the logistics terrain and foregrounds the role art
performs in supporting and contesting a world remade by logistics. As the f=
irst
meeting of the reading group, this session will also introduce the project =
aims
and schedule.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Re=
ading:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span>=
<a href=3D"https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4fkmw27eyh7f7o/cowen%20rough%20trade.=
pdf?dl=3D0"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Deborah Cowen=
 (2014), =E2=80=98Rough
Trade? Sex, Death, and the Queer Nature of Circulation,=E2=80=99 in The Dea=
dly Life of
Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade, Minneapolis: University of
Minneapolis Press, 2014, pp. 197-231.</span></a><span style=3D"font-family:=
Helvetica;color:black"> [Click for link]</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=
=C2=A0</span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Se=
minar 2: Labour</span></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:18pt;font-family:Helv=
etica;color:black"></span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Wh=
en:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Wednesday =
12 February 2020, 6PM-8PM</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Where=
:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span><span=
 style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-image:initial;backgr=
ound-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;bac=
kground-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">TBC, QMUL Mile End Campus</=
span><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Fa=
cilitator: </span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Mar=
tin Young, Department of Drama, QMUL</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">De=
scription:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Art=
 requires work. The effort and process of
production is often concealed by the finished piece, and has been frequentl=
y
absent from critical discourses, but over recent years there has been an
increased attention to artistic labour and its wider economic and cultural
stakes. This session will address these themes and the relationship between=
 the
activity of artistic production and other forms of productive and exploited
labour. The reading from Leigh Claire La Berge=E2=80=99s new book Wages Aga=
inst Artwork
introduces key recent debates about artistic labour and its relation to val=
ue
and capitalist commodity production.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Re=
ading:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span>=
<a href=3D"https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-0482-0=
_601.pdf"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Leigh Claire La=
 Berge (2019),
=E2=80=98Socially Engaged Art and Decommodified Labor,=E2=80=99 in Wages Ag=
ainst Artwork,
Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. 1-33. [Click for link]</span>=
</a><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=
=C2=A0</span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Se=
minar 3: Money</span></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:18pt;font-family:Helve=
tica;color:black"></span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Wh=
en: </span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Wednesday =
18 March 2020, 6PM-8PM</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Where=
:
</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-imag=
e:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-re=
peat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">TBC, QMUL M=
ile End Campus</span><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></sp=
an></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Fa=
cilitator:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Dr =
Alasdair King, Department of Film, QMUL</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">De=
scription:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Pet=
er Szendy=E2=80=99s short collection of essays,
The Supermarket of the Visible, appeared in English translation in 2019.
Szendy=E2=80=99s pieces address what he sees as the saturation of the conte=
mporary
world with images of all kinds. The Supermarket of the Visible analyses thi=
s
general image space and develops ideas of an economy of images and icons =
=E2=80=93 in
Szendy=E2=80=99s words, an =E2=80=98iconomy=E2=80=99. In his introductory e=
ssay, =E2=80=98Money, or The Other
Side of Images=E2=80=99, he draws on scenes from The Sopranos and from film=
s by Godard
and Bresson to look at the relationship between the circulation of images a=
nd
the circulation of money. In this reading seminar on =E2=80=98Money=E2=80=
=99, we will think
about how money, currency, and finance are registered by contemporary artis=
ts,
writers and theorists, and look in detail at the challenges and rewards of
Szendy=E2=80=99s engaging and entertaining essay.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Re=
ading:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span>=
<a href=3D"https://www.dropbox.com/s/k95vmzyhzoqqzqv/szendy%20supermarket%2=
0of%20the%20visible.pdf?dl=3D0"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:=
black">Peter Szendy (2019) =E2=80=98Money, or
The Other Side of Images=E2=80=99 in The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward=
 a general
economy of images, New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 3-26. (Translate=
d by
Jan Plug)</span></a><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">
[Click for link]</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=
=C2=A0</span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Se=
minar 4: Debt</span></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvet=
ica;color:black"></span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Wh=
en:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Wednesday =
22 April 2020, 6PM-8PM</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Where=
:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span><span=
 style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-image:initial;backgr=
ound-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;bac=
kground-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">TBC, QMUL Mile End Campus</=
span><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Fa=
cilitator:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Rub=
y Tuke, Department of English, QMUL</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">De=
scription:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Sin=
ce the recent global financial crash and
ensuing years of austerity, debt has become a source of political contentio=
n.
Yet what exactly are the theoretical assumptions that underpin these debate=
s?
How might these assumptions influence creative practice? In this reading
seminar, we=E2=80=99ll read a section of Elettrra Stimilli=E2=80=99s Debt a=
nd Guilt: A
Political Philosophy (2019) in order to think through some of the wider
implications of debt=E2=80=99s semantic link with guilt (schuld / schulden =
in German),
which her book raises.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Re=
ading:</span></b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Excerpt=
 from Elettrra Stimilli (2018), Debt and
Guilt: A Political Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury.</span></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=
=C2=A0</span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">CA=
PITAL FORMS SYMPOSIUM</span></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:18pt;font-famil=
y:Helvetica;color:black"></span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">A sum=
mative daylong symposium will be held at Queen
Mary University of London on 15 May 2020. This will include presentations,
screenings and workshops from artists and academics working on economic-rel=
ated
themes. It will conclude with a round-table discussion on the challenges of=
 and
approaches for researching political economy in the Humanities. The full
symposium schedule will be available soon.</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font=
-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=A0</=
span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><b><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">PA=
RTICIPATION AND CONTACT</span></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:18pt;font-fam=
ily:Helvetica;color:black"></span></b></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">CAPIT=
AL FORMS is convened by Alasdair King, Martin
Young, Ruby Tuke and Shane Boyle.</span></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"background-image:initial;background-positio=
n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">If yo=
u would like to take part, please attend the
reading group. The reading group is open to anyone, but postgraduate resear=
ch
students at any of the LAHP-affiliated universities are especially encourag=
ed
to take part. If you are planning to attend the first seminar on logistics,=
 </span><a href=3D"http://eventbrite.co.uk/e/capital-forms-reading-group-lo=
gistics-tickets-87091967419"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:bla=
ck">please RSVP here</span></a><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:b=
lack">.</span></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Pleas=
e be in touch by email with any questions:
<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a=
></span></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Full =
details for the reading group and symposium
can be found at: <a href=3D"http://capital-forms.co.uk">capital-forms.co.uk=
</a></span></p>

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ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">=C2=
=A0</span></p>

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n:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-orig=
in:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;f=
ont-family:Calibri"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">For u=
pdates and announcements, follow us on
Twitter: </span><a href=3D"https://capitalforms.wordpress.com/mentions/capi=
talforms/"><span style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black">@capitalforms<=
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