eipcp

This new eipcp-book (in German) presents revised version of the contributions to the transform-conference 'The Art of Critque'. With texts by Alex Demirovic, Antke Engel, Marina Garcés, Hakan Gürses, Jens Kastner, Maurizio Lazzarato, Isabell Lorey, Chantal Mouffe, Stefan Nowotny, Patricia Purtschert, Gerald Raunig, Karl Reitter and Ulf Wuggenig.

A number of students and staff (among whom Peter Hallward and Peter
Osborne) have just been suspended by Middlesex University for their participation in the protests against the university's disastrous decision to shut their philosophy department.

Nachdem die Spieler des FC Sans Papiers beim Training von einem Massenaufgebot an Polizist_innen überfallen wurde und einzelne Spieler sowie deren Trainer in (Schub)Haft genommen wurden, schlugen antirassistische Aktivist_innen Alarm.

Late on Monday 26 April, the Dean of the School of Arts & Education, Ed Esche, informed staff in Philosophy that the University executive had ‘accepted his recommendation’ to close all Philosophy programmes: undergraduate, postgraduate and MPhil/PhD. | Please sign the online petition!

Gerald Raunig's recent book is now available in English. Translated by Aileen Derieg. Published by Semiotext(e) - The MIT Press.

In solidarity with the students facing sanctions for recent political activities at UC Berkeley in defense of public education in California.

European civil society organizes an unprecedented protest action at the Summit of the EU Ministers of Culture.

FRIDAY, THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL PLANNED TO PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE HIS DECISION TO "PUT AN END TO THE MCUR PROJECT". HELP US TO SAVE THE MCUR THREATENED OF DESTRUCTION FOR IDEOLOGICAL REASONS! - FRANCOISE VERGES AND THE MCUR TEAM

Issue #14 (March 2010) of the e-flux journal, guest-edited by Irit Rogoff, is now online.

The zero issue of this new webjournal, entitled "The Double Crisis of the University and the Global Economy" is now online.

The new journal of Free/Slow University of Warsaw - Vol. 1 now available online.

This text petitions for dismissal of the indictment against six young activists and/or for their release. These six young civil activists and union members from Belgrade have been in custody since September, 2009 under the charge of committing ‘an act of international terrorism’ for which, under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, a prison term of between three and fifteen years is foreseen.  The trial will commence on 17th February 2010.

On http://emancipating-education-for-all.org you can find the result of an attempt to list most of the protests related to "neoliberal reforms" within public education systems around the world.

On March 11 and 12 2010 the education ministers of 46 European countries will celebrate the 10-years anniversary of the Bologna-process in Vienna and Budapest.
Considering the current situation and the ongoing protests in many European Universities this celebration is a mockery for all of us.

Until recently, anyone who suggested nationalising the banks would have been derided as a ‘quack’ and a ‘crank’, as lacking the most basic understanding of the functioning of a ‘complex, globalised world’. The grip of ‘orthodoxy’ disqualified the idea, and many more, without the need even to offer a counter-argument.
And yet, in this time of intersecting crises, when it seems like everything could, and should, have changed, it paradoxically feels as though very little has.