University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

Activist and historian Chris Carlsson will discuss his latest book, Nowtopia (AK Press). Nowtopia is a book about a new politics of work. It profiles tinkerers, inventors, and improvisational spirits who bring an artistic approach to important tasks that are ignored or undervalued by market society. Rooted in practices that have been emerging over the past few decades, Nowtopia’s exploration of work locates an important thread of self-emancipatory class politics beyond the traditional arena of wage-labor. Carlsson is a co-founder of Critical Mass, a co-founder of the San Francisco alternative arts space CounterPULSE, and a former editor of the magazine Processed World. Carlsson's talk is sponsored by the Graduate Group in Cultural Studies, Humanities Institute, and Media Study GSA.