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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the eleventh annual Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And 
 Research & Development anarchist theory conference. \n\nThe Workshops for 
 BASTARD 2010\n\nIf you have shopped till you drop and would like to know 
 what else anarchism has to offer please join us at the 2010 BASTARD 
 conference. This year we have an exciting theme planned that is highly 
 speculative and orginal. We look forward to your participation!\n\nWhere: 
 UC Berkeley, Dwinelle Hall\nWhen: Sunday March 14th from 10 am - 6 pm 
 (remember daylight savings time!!!)\n\nIn alphabetical 
 order:Comedy!\nAnarchist funnies by a panel of folks from a wide range of 
 histories and perspectives.\nCome laugh, chuckle, titter, or sit back and 
 look smug (depending on your hipness quotient).\npresenters: Jason Mcquinn, 
 Apio, Audrey Goodfriend, Doug the MAC\n\nContemporary Anarchist Studies: 
 from Activism to the Academy\nThis workshop will explore the implications 
 for nonviolent change presented in the recent volume of collected essays, 
 Contemporary Anarchist Studies. This interactive session will discuss the 
 process, substance, and utility of the book–the first academic anthology 
 of anarchism meant for a wide readership to be released in decades–and 
 will apply shared understandings of anarchism to current issues ranging 
 from homelessness and climate change to globalization and social 
 movements.\npresenter: Randall Amster\n\nCreating a New Anarchist 
 Synthesis: the anarchist critiques of capitalism, state and identity\nWhat 
 is the next evolution of anarchist practical theory and 
 theory-informed-practice? Why not a new synthesis starting from the 
 absolute refusal of self-alienation, ideology and enslavement in any 
 form?\n\nExplore what this means for uniquely anarchist critiques of 
 capitalism, state and identity that go well beyond merely Marxist-derived 
 critiques of capital, left-anarchist critiques of the state and all the 
 debilitating forms of identity politics. \npresenter: Jason 
 McQuinn\n\nGreeks!\nPublished authors from the VOID Network from Athens, 
 Greece will join a US anarchist to discuss the world-famous riots that 
 shook Greece in December 2008 (which were a response to the police killing 
 of a teenager in the “ungovernable” district of Exarchia). This is a 
 rare opportunity to hear about a major historical event directly from the 
 participants!\nThe speakers will also delve into the broader context of 
 popular revolt and state counterinsurgency in Greece, Catalunya (Spain), 
 and the UK, exploring how social contexts that support or discourage revolt 
 are created in a contest between the state and grassroots social 
 struggles.\n\n\nHabituation & The Plasticity of Our Psychogeographical 
 Landscapes\nAn Insurrectionary Analysis of the Theory of Habit, and the 
 Implementation of its Reconstruction\nThis presentation will draw upon the 
 works of William James, Marx, Debord, Bonanno, as well as various anarchist 
 authors in an attempt to explore the intersections, and possibilities, of 
 an Anarchist understanding of Psychological Theory. The workshop will begin 
 as a presentation on an Insurrectionary analysis of the theory of Habit, 
 and the implementation of its reconstruction, and will then be followed by 
 a discussion of other psychological theories that may expand the limits of 
 anarchist theory such as, Socio-cultural theory, and 
 Neuroscience.\npresenter: Derek\n\n\nLiberating the Imagination\nThere is a 
 problem that could be called global, but that concerns me more because it 
 pervades anarchist circles these days: a poverty of practical imagination. 
 Practical imagination describes the capacity to see and grasp varieties of 
 possibilities that may spring from the actualities around us. It has also 
 been describes as "creative pre-commitment". This lack is evident both in 
 terms of longer term visions and in terms of immediate possibilities. Its 
 symptoms include a need for models and a tendency to entrench positions 
 which tend to undermine theoretico-practical activity in favor of ideology 
 and ritualized activism. This will be a workshop of exercises intended to 
 stimulate imagination. It's playtime.\npresenter: Apio Ludd\n\nMurdering 
 the Dead: \nCapitalism's Singularity Versus the Human Community\nAn 
 exploration of the disastrous progress of the dominant social system and 
 it's war with the human community.  I will use the writings of Amadeo 
 Bordiga, Guy Debord and Ray Kurzweil to trace the paradoxical development 
 of the US "biomedical health care complex". I hope to cast light on 
 Capitalism's relationship to living existence.\npresenter: Red 
 Hughes\n\n\nOccupation, Indigeneity  & Defense\nThree theoretical currents 
 will be the shape of radical foment in our life times—\nOccupation: the 
 act of seizing that which defines you; as a student, a worker, or the 
 displaced\nIndigeneity: the connection between people and land, established 
 over time and in relationship \nDefense: fighting where you stand. The 
 question for the occupation movement (especially the “occupy 
 everything” wing) is how, or whether it can work with indigenous 
 currents. The question for both is whether a defensive posture will be 
 enough to stand the flood that results from the end of 
 neo-liberalism.\npresenter: Aragorn!\n\n\nOpen Space Thread: 
 Capitalism\nOur lives are dominated by exchange relationships and when we 
 finally wake up and attempt to understand this phenomena the only tools 
 that are available are from Marxists. For many, this is enough. For us, it 
 is not. We hope to explore this and perhaps begin to talk about where an 
 anarchist theory of capitalism would begin.\n\nOpen Space Thread: 
 Identity\nThreaded through any work we do are questions about who we are. 
 It is easy to succumb to the groups that claim either that identity is 
 essential or that it’s irrelevant. Neither of these simplistic 
 perspectives actually reflect our experiences. We can find a better way to 
 talk about this, we can figure out how who we are is both fluid and 
 meaningful, static and contextual.\n \nOpen Space Thread: Space\nIf 
 radicals in the twentieth century were captivated by the strategy of 
 organizing in the workplace it isn’t outrageous to believe the 21st 
 century will be equally focused on location. We will fight where we stand 
 and there is a lot to develop if we are going to do it 
 right.\n\nPhilosophical, Metaphysical, Theological, Sick & Twisted 
 Explorations of Identity\nThis presentation is inspired by two books of 
 Pierre Klossowski. First his 1966 novel le baphomet about the knights 
 templar, and dedicated to Michel Foucault, then Nietszche and the Vicious 
 circle, first published in 1969. Oh, and the poetry of William Blake.\nThis 
 lecture will entertain, both seriously and whimsically, two 
 propositions:\n1. like it or not, we always already have an eternal 
 identity\n2. identity and community are the same, though known differently 
 according to the expansion or contraction of our senses.\nThese 
 propositions may or may not be mutually exclusive...\npresenter: 
 Lew\n\nTechnology & Anarchism \nDiscussion Group\nFrom the Luddite 
 movements of the 18th century to current trends in anarcho-primitivism, 
 resistance and technology have not been friends. Yet in the face of new 
 challenges in social interaction and the growth of technology in everyday 
 life, is there a place for technology in the anarchist movement? Should the 
 anarchist movement embrace technology to seek a cyberpunk future? Or should 
 it treat technology as just another arm of oppression?\nThe discussion 
 seeks to hash out these arguments and find out how the anarchism can 
 survive in a technolust mindfuck.\npresenter: Hackbloc.org Collective\n 
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SUMMARY:11th annual Anarchist Theory Conference
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Dwinelle Hall
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