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European Cultural Policies 2015

Maria Lind, Raimund Minichbauer [ed.]

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01 01 09
The Madrid based editorial Traficantes de Sueños publishes the Spanish version of Gerald Raunig's book "Tausend Maschinen".

27 12 08 - Universidad Nómada
Universidad Nómada asks for solidarity with Nico and Javi, since years activists in the self-organized social centers, in the global movement, in the network of migrants, and in collective experiences like Mayday and the struggles against precarization.

22 12 08
We want first of all to say a collective yes! to the uprising in Greece. We are artists, writers and teachers who are connected in this moment by common friends and commitments. We are globally dispersed and are mostly watching, and hoping, from afar. But some of us are also there, in Athens, and have been on the streets, have felt the rage and the tear gas, and have glimpsed the dancing specter of the other world that is possible ...

18 12 08
Boris Buden, Stefan Nowotny | Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant 2008
In this new book, Boris Buden's and Stefan Nowotny's essays on translation are accompanied by interviews with Doris Bachmann-Medick, Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes, Rada Iveković, Brigitta Kuster, Tomislav Longinović, Peter Osborne, Jon Solomon.

12 12 08 - Social movement "Forward!/Vpered" / Platform Chto delat
open letter on the inclusion of artist Alexey Beljaev-Gintvont in the short list of Kandinsky Prize 2008 in Moscow

11 12 08
translate/eipcp (Hg.), Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant 2008
This new publication presents the texts from the conference "Borders, Nations, Translations. The Political Limits of Cultural Trans-Nationalism" (http://translate.eipcp.net/conference), which took place in March 2008 in Vienna in conjunction with the transnational eipcp-project translate.

03 12 08
Editors Gene Ray and Gregory Sholette prepared a special issue of Third Text under the title "Whither Tactical Media?" with texts by Critical Art Ensemble, Ricardo Dominguez, Brian Holmes, Ana Longoni and many more.

24 11 08 - Giorgio Agamben
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben protests against the fact that nine young inhabitants of a French village including Tiqqun publisher Julien Coupat were sent before an anti-terrorist judge and "accused of criminal conspiracy with terrorist intentions."

16 11 08 - Dan S. Wang
The risk of illusory leftist dreams is low,­ at least no higher than the danger of paralytic self-critiques that miss the lessons to be learned from the left's contribution to the Obama victory.

07 11 08 - Judith Butler
Judith Butler warnt davor, Phänomen und Person Obama als "Erlösung" zu mystifizieren und die Ambivalenzen seiner Wahl in einer vereinheitlichenden Identifikation aufzulösen.

05 11 08 - IG Kultur Österreich
While in France the Parti Socialiste just seems to split and in Germany Die Linke becomes more and more successful, the new issue of the Austrian magazine for cultural politics, Kulturrisse, collects thoughts on the possibilities and conditions of a new left in Austria.

22 10 08 - occupied faculties of La Sapienza, University Rome
For a number of weeks in Italy the entire education system has been uprising. This movement opens up a new Europe-wide discussion on building up a counter-Bologna process, a European space of free circulation of knowledge, of social cooperation, of self-education.

30 09 08 - Gerald Raunig
A film by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler
What would it mean to win? is the title-giving question of the film by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler about Heiligendamm and the most current aspects of a social movement. Other questions resonate behind it: Is it actually possible to win? And before that: Against whom? And still more abstractly: Does anyone actually want to ‘win’?

19 09 08
Buchneuerscheinung im Verlag Turia + Kant: Band 8 der eipcp-Reihe republicart, Hito Steyerls "Die Farbe der Wahrheit", verhandelt klassische Fragestellungen der dokumentarischen Form – ihre Funktion als Knoten von Machtwissen, als Repräsentation der Realität oder mediale Selbstreflexion – anhand von neueren Beispielen aus dem Kunstfeld.

14 09 08 - eipcp
In collaboration with transform.eipcp.net the Madrid based publishing house Traficantes de Sueños published the new transform-reader on cultural production and instituent practices with texts by Boris Buden, Judith Butler, Marcelo Expósito, Alberto De Nicola, Brian Holmes, Jens Kastner, Maurizio Lazzarato, Isabell Lorey, Stefan Nowotny, Gerald Raunig, Gigi Roggero, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo (Universidad Nómada), Hito Steyerl, Benedetto Vecchi and Marion von Osten.

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European Conference of Social Centers

MACBA Barcelona, Ateneu Candela Terrassa | 08-10 Jan 2009

Felix Stalder: Vortrag zu Remixing und zur Kultur der Netzwerkgesellschaft

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart | 14 Jan 2009, 19.00

Curatorial Team 2009-2012: Call for Applications

Shedhalle Zürich | Deadline 15 Jan 2009

Who's going to win? Do we have a choice, and does it matter?

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York City | 16 October 2008 - 1 February 2009

Research the Research / Capitalist City as Urban Utopia

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart | 17-18 Jan 2009

Future(s) of Critical Theory

Frankfurt am Main | 19-21 March 2009