<nettime> Art of Rent Seminar Series Spring 2008 London -The Art of Rent Spring 2008 University of London, Queen Mary http://www.generation-online.org/other/artofrent.htm As part of an ongoing collective project, the organisers of this seminar series seek to promote a discussion on the rise of rent as a form of capitalist appropriation and the way that new levels of association in the arts and culture, in information and communication, in public taste and ambience have made this rise possible, and from the perspective of private accumulation, necessary. To this end, the seminar brings together various perspectives on the Art of Rent taking in analysis of cognitive capitalism, of the financialisation of the quotidian and the bodily, of gentrification and the metroversity, of new international division of labour and of governance. The seminar will conclude with a special two-day event in September on the cultural industries. Behind this series is the sense that the Art of Rent is a reaction to a new collective power among bodies assembled to labour and a capacity fo... [nettime]