Speakers Corner no. 5

Transform Brighton and Hove brings you the latest in radical political education, as we invite three speakers to talk each month. Expect hot takes on politics, culture, current affairs, history, and everything in between.

Adam Englebright 

In the early 1970s, the socialist government of Salvador Allende recruited a brilliant but eccentric British operations researcher called Stafford Beer to try and build a system to manage the Chilean economy without falling prey to the pitfalls of Soviet central planning. Beer and his team devised PROJECT CYBERSYN, a conceptual apparatus for thinking about how nationalised industries could be run based on his cybernetic management theory of the viable systems model. Working with very few resources due to trade embargoes, the system was built on a collection of creaky old mainframe computers and telex machines that was nevertheless able to help keep the country going amidst right-wing agitation and CIA interference. After Allende's government was brought down by General Pinochet's US-sponsored coup, Cybersyn's material apparatus was destroyed, but the vision of using technology and data to improve people's lives rather than immiserating and oppressing them is one that can still show a way forward for us today.

Adam Englebright is a data consultant by day and organises with the United Tech and Allied Workers, the tech workers' union, by night.

Max Savage

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Floralis

Floralis is a Brighton based political musician, drawing in themes about transphobia, anarchism, and discussion about the process of neoliberalism's displacements of colonised people. Through years of activism and the lived experience of being a trans woman of colour, she has a wealth of knowledge of modern economic policy's effects on those most marginalised in the present day.

Why is it that 94% of all murders that happen to trans people happen specifically to trans women and other transmisogyny-affected people? To what extent has colonialism played a role, and what can we do now to change this? Floralis discusses popular transmisogynistic myths and the role they have in social isolation and violence towards some of the most marginalised people within our society.

Doors 7pm - First Speaker 7:30pm

Ticket Prices 🎟️

£10 Solidarity

£5 Standard

£2 Unwaged

♿AccessibilityThe venue is fully wheelchair accessible. If you have any questions about accessibility please get in touch at transformbrightonandhove@gmail.com.

📚 TBH LibraryWe will be facilitating book borrowing with a range of books to chose from. If you have any books to donate or that you want to share with others please bring them along. We have a range of books on theory and history.

Got a theory you think everyone should know about? Political analysis of your favourite sit com? Been involved in a project that's inspired you? If you have a topic you love, and could talk about for 10-20 minutes, then let us know!

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