Toni Negri’s postface of Gerald Raunig’s new book „Factories of Knowlegde, Industries of Creativity“, just published in Semiotext(e)’s Intervention Series.

Partido _X , the Party of the Future, has been launched, a party with no faces and based in Internet.

We declare our solidarity with the refugees in the Vienna Votivpark and Votivkirche.
We fully agree with the rightful demands of the refugees.
We condemn the police violence in the morning on 28 December 2012.
We demand of the Catholic church to support the refugees staying in the Votivkirche.
We demand of the politicians, church officials, and media to stop their rhetoric of division among refugees and activists.
We support the occupation of churches for reasons of attacking reactionary and neoliberal migration politics.

European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp)

For further information: https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/

The refugee protest camp vienna has expanded to Votivkirche, to continue the struggle! They demand their right to stay!

Start: 12:00 o'clock at Refugee Protest Camp Sigmund Freud Park (next
to metro station Schottentor and University)

On 24th November, a large group of refugees marched for 8 hours from Traiskirchen to Vienna to make their political demands heard. They’ve set up a protest camp at Sigmund Freud Park on the same Saturday, so as to raise their voices at the heart of the Austrian capital and finally speak for themselves.

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24th of November: 7 a.m. Protest march from the refugee camp in Traiskirchen to Vienna / Following: permanent manifestation in Vienna at Votivpark / For this protest, many resources are still needed. // + This is a call to all groups and individuals who deal with anti-discriminatory practices, to join the plenary meeting of the refugeesprotestcamp today, 28th of November to participate in the planning/mobilizing/supporting of planned demonstration this coming Saturday 1st of December. The plenary meeting will be held in the big tent at 6pm.

Gerald Raunig's book "Fabbriche del sapere, industrie della creatività" (Translation and preface by Roberto Nigro, postface by Antonio Negri) will be presented and discussed in Venezia (15 Nov.), Bologna (16 Nov.) and Milano (30 Nov.).

Following a large protest for the rights of refugees at the weekend, the
building of the Nigerian embassy in Berlin was occupied this morning by
refugee activists.

In August of 2012 the Québec Liberal Party under Jean Charest announced a provincial election that would take place just after Labour Day and before the resumption of Fall classes. The premier had presented the election as a sort of referendum in which the province was asked to vote on the student strike, which at its peak had mobilized nearly 300,000 students and which since the passing of the unconstitutional anti-strike and anti-demonstration Law 78 had brought into the struggle broad swathes of civil society. Student groups insisted that even if Charest lost the election, the struggle for a social strike and for free university access would continue.

The “Jobcenter” is the largest provider of income in the Neukoelln district of Berlin. It is here where people from the district come together – the young and the old, those with a Ph.D. and those without a school leaving certificate, those who have been around forever and the newest district residents. For this reason, the Jobcenter as an institution has not only a great influence on the district – it is also a (potential) place for intervention against disfranchisement and exploitation.

In the wake of the 100th day of the general student strike in Québec and in the aftermath of passing the so-called Special Law 78, the global rupture these events evoked cannot be overlooked. In solidarity with Québec, its students, activists and the Quebecoise people reminding us of the rights for free education, the right for peaceful assembly and political expression, this interview has been prompted spontaneously during a workshop at Zurich University of the Arts.

Text publié le 23 Mai 2012 dans le journal Médiapart (http://blogs.mediapart.fr).

Un artículo con occasión del aniversario la "Spanish Revolution" publicado en www.diagonalperiodico.net, núm. 175, mayo de 2012.

Ein Artikel anlässlich des Jahrestages der "Spanischen Revolution", veröffentlicht in www. diagonalperiodico.net.

Students in Quebec are marking their 100th day of an unlimited general strike on Tuesday, May 22nd, the culmination of the most stunning mass protest movements of recent months and North America’s largest student movement in years. In fact, the mobilizations in Quebec might just be Canada’s Arab Spring.

Popular protests such as Blockupy offer an alternative to capitalism for those facing a life hunting through garbage cans.

In a press release on afternoon May 4th the Frankfurt Municipal Department for Public Order announced that it bans all actions planned by the alliance “blockupy Frankfurt” for the Days of Protest May 16th to May 19th. Today the legal applicants of the more than 15 different actions only received information on one single case, and even that happened seriously late.

The trial against four political activists will take place in the Josefstadt District Court on the 13th March 2012 at 9:00 am. Under the pretext of having set a garbage can on fire in front of the AMS (unemployment office) in Rederergasse, a political trial will be conducted that is directed against autonomous political practices and policies. Under paragraph 278b, month-long surveillance operations have been carried out, which – beginning with the education protests in 2009 – soon the observations included the activities of the autonomous/anarchist and anti-racist scene.

At a time when one in two young Greeks is unemployed, when 25,000 homeless people wonder the streets of Athens, when 30% of the population has fallen below the poverty line, when thousands of families are forced to give up their children to save them from dying of hunger and cold, when refugees and the newly impoverished fight over bins in public dumps, the “rescuers” of Greece, under the pretext that Greeks “aren’t doing enough”, are imposing a new aid package that doubles the administered lethal dose. This is a package that abolishes the right to work and reduces the poor to extreme poverty, while making the middle class disappear.

Avusturya macht Sprache zum Lieblingsproblem. Einfache Lösung: Deutschpflicht für alle.

Hayır, Jo, Lo, Ne, Njet, No, Non, Nu! Nicht mit uns!

Mit Ausschluss Basta! haben wir 2011 dem austriakischen Integrations-Theater eine Absage erteilt. Dieses Jahr reden wir übers Reden: Unsere gemeinsame Sprache ist nicht Deutsch! Wir rufen zum Streik gegen den Deutschzwang auf. Sprechen wir gemeinsam die Sprache der gleichen Rechte – am 1. März beim transnationalen, translationalen Migrant_innenstreik.

Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the question: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to the view that radical practice has no other future than its reduction to the workings of the free market in the form of the simple process of cultural production or to variations on the cultural politics of representation. Today's avant garde, formed in the wake of the end of the Soviet Union and the rise of the anti-globalization movement, represents a counter-power that rejects the inevitability of capitalist integration. The way out for artists in today's world of creative industries is defined in these pages as a psychoanalytically informed sinthomeopathic practice.

This book, originally published in Spanish in 2002, is now available in English. Translated by Nate Holdren & Sebastián Touza, and with introductions by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri.

It is winter and the squares have been cleared. Across the United States, the occupation movement has been erased from public space memory with the routine use of pepper spray, overwhelming displays of militarized force, Mayoral claims of wasted tax payer dollars and unsanitary conditions. While the movement itself continues in sporadic protests, guerrilla actions and moments of civil disobedience, its nodal epicenter of occupations have, at least for the moment, been eviscerated. As we head into the upcoming election year of 2012, the occupation movement in the United States has an opportunity to plan its next move.

The global economic and ecological crises have exposed the thought and institutions that have enriched a few by making the majority starve and by bringing nature to the brink of destruction. Lokavidya Jan Andolan is a knowledge movement of this majority, that is of those people, who have been dubbed as the ignorant masses by the science establishments, the universities and the modern state. The conference is an attempt to bring together the organizers of the movements of peasants and artisans, indigenous peoples and small trades-people, women and youth on a knowledge platform, which is a platform of their knowledge, lokavidya.

"Nobody Can Predict the Moment of Revolution", "We the People Have Found our Voice" and "The Time For Action Is Now (Occupy CUNY)", three videos by Iva Radivojevic & Martyna Starosta are available online.

On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares.

Students, precarious workers, unemployed, and activists of Europe and North Africa met in Tunisia for the transnational meeting “Réseau de luttes” from September 29th to October 2nd to share knowledge and collective experiences to create a common process of struggles.

The new issue of the Edu-Factory Journal is now available for free download.

Financial capitalism is crumbling with impressive velocity, and the social civilization built by labour and science during the modern centuries, is in danger. Only cognitive work, independent from financial capitalism will be able to save it. Building autonomy of knwoledge from financial dictatorship is our political, scientific and poetical task.

An analysis of the recent events in the UK, as seen from Brazil.

Last week in a memorandum titled "More than Quality," the State Secretary for Culture, acting on behalf of the Dutch government (a minority government of liberals and Christian Democrats, whose hold on power relies on the support of Geert Wilders's anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV)) announced his new "vision" for the field of culture, which represents nothing less than a violent and sweeping political manoeuvre aimed at the very notion of culture and art, its role in society, and its place within the democratic sphere.

This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.

On Sunday May 25th, there was a European-wide call to occupy main squares at 6pm. In Vienna, there has been a Camp at Karlsplatz since Sunday, May 29th. There were about 150 people at the solidarity rally at Stephansplatz at noon on Sunday. This is the fourth day of occupation. A blog (http://acampaviena.blogsport.eu/) was set up.

New publication with contributions by Brigitta Kuster, Maurizio Lazzarato, Esther Leslie, Isabell Lorey, Angela McRobbie, Raimund Minichbauer, Monika Mokre, Stefan Nowotny, Marion von Osten, Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Suely Rolnik, Vassilis Tsianos, Paolo Virno and Ulf Wuggenig

With just a few hours to go before the municipal and regional elections in Madrid, in the midst of a pathetic electoral campaign, the so-called Movimiento 15-M has restored the meaning of the word “politics”.

On 15th May 2011, around 150,000 people took to the streets in 60 Spanish towns and cities to demand “Real Democracy Now”, marching under the slogan “We are not commodities in the hands of bankers and politicians”. The protest was organised through web-based social networks without the involvement of any major unions or political parties. At the end of the march some people decided to stay the night at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. They were forcefully evacuated by the police in the early hours of the morning. This, in turn, generated a mass call for everyone to occupy his or her local squares that thousands all over Spain took up. As we write, 65 public squares are being occupied, with support protests taking place in Spanish Embassies from Buenos Aires to Vienna and, indeed, London. You probably have not have read about it in the British press, but it is certainly happening. Try #spanishrevolution, #yeswecamp, #nonosvamos or #acampadasol on Twitter and see for yourself. What follows is a text by Emmanuel Rodríguez and Tomás Herreros from the Spanish collective Universidad Nómada.

With a series of important events over the last 5 days, the city of Paris has been witness to the material transnationalisation of the radical democratic movements that began this spring in Maghreb and the Middle East.

Article du sociologue politique Jean-François Bayart sur la question du regime migratoire à propos des événements en Libye.

Ein Text des politischen Soziologen Jean-François Bayart zur Frage europäischer Migrationspolitiken im Hinblick auf die Ereignisse in Libyen.

Article de la philosophe Isabelle Stengers paru dans le journal Le Monde, le 26. 03. 2011 faisant partie du débat "Vivre et penser le temps de catastrophes".

Ein Text der Philosophin Isabelle Stengers, veröffentlicht in der Ausgabe der Zeitung Le Monde vom 26.03.2011 im Rahmen der Debatte "Die Zeiten der Katastrophe denken und leben".

Appeal to put the catastrophe under citizens control supported by numerous french magazines, such as Vacarme, Multitudes et Chimères.

Do you have to work? Do you want to work? Are you getting paid for your work? Do you have permission to work? Or permission to live here? What are you living from? Do you have spare time? What do you do should you become sick? What are you going to do when you are aged? What do you wish for? How are you opposing your precarity? How are you organizing?

Following an anti-Roma march by the far-right Jobbik party in the village of Gyöngyöspata on 6 March, three vigilante groups have been "patrolling" the area harassing and intimidating Roma residents. Local Roma have allegedly been racially abused and there is fear for their safety. The vigilante groups have announced that their next target will be Roma in the town of Hajdúhadháza. Police have reportedly taken no action.

Figurant ci-dessous le communiqué du réseau Migreurop, paru dans leur site web, le 22 février 2011.

Im Folgenden ein Kommuniqué des Netzwerks Migreurop, das am 22. Februar auf ihrer Website veröffentlicht wurde.

A recently published article in The Guardian, on 24 February 2011, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

Figurant ci-dessous l'article du philosophe Alain Badiou, paru dans le journal Le Monde, le 18 février 2011.

Ein kürzlich in Le Monde veröffentlichter Text des Philosophen Alain Badiou zu den Ereignissen in Tunesien und Ägypten.

Am 1. März organisieren sich weltweit Migrant_innen gegen soziale Ausschlüsse, Diskriminierung und Rassismus. Angefangen hat es im Jahr 2006 mit einem Streik der Migrant_innen in den USA. Seitdem weiten sich die transnationalen Proteste aus. Auch heuer werden in den reichsten Ländern der Welt viele Arbeitnehmer_innen am 1. März streiken oder andere Formen des Protests praktizieren.

Unique in Europe, the courses offered by the Theory major establish an interplay between advanced theory and the free space of the art school. Surpassing the boundaries of academic convention, the systematic course structure provides students with a substantiated overview and opportunities to try out new forms of text and theory production, of aesthetic and political intervention.

On Horizons: Art and Political Imagination took place 4-6 November 2010 in Istanbul. It was the second in the series of FORMER WEST Research Congresses. The congress revolved around the theoretical notion of the "horizon" and its place within artistic production and political imagination today.

For the exhibition 'Culture(s) of Copy' at Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art Cornelia Sollfrank realized a new work, which is the last part of her project 'This is not by me'.

In its draft budget the Austrian government plans to severely reduce structural funds for independent research institutes in 2011, and in a next step to reduce this budgetary item to zero in 2012. A petition against these plans can be found at http://wissenschaft.research.at/ .

And yet another petition, this time in French and from Paris/France, where the Coordination des intermittents et précaires (organization established to coordinate intermittent workers and represent their claims for indemnification due to the precarity of their employment) is being threatened with expulsion ....

A Petition Against Racism in Austria ...

In his new book Achille Mbembe explores the process of african decolonisation that took place in the course of the second half of the 20th century. Was this decolonisation finally nothing else than a clamerous accident, a crack on the surface, the sign of a future that was ought to be mistaken? Achille Mbembe shows in this critical essay that the merit of this event – beyond everything that predominates today – is the opening up of a multitude of possible historical tracks. In addition to the world of ruins and destruction new societies are arising ...

The Occupation Cookbook, which is a "manual" that describes the organization of the 35-day student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, is now online.

‘The old institutions are crumbling ...’ - so began the introduction to the zero issue of Edufactory Journal on the double crisis of the university and the global economy. Paradoxically, one of the conditions of this double crisis is the global expansion of the university. The old institutions are crumbling but they are simultaneously trying to reinvent themselves, to transplant themselves, to network themselves. This issue of the Edufactory Journal will investigate two faces of this situation.

Volume two of The Johannesburg Salon, edited by Lara Allen and Achille Mbembe has recently been published on the Website of The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism.

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.

Zwanzig Jahre nach der Wende im Herbst 1989 stellt Boris Buden in seinem neuen Buch eine radikale Zeitdiagnose: Seit dem Kollaps der kommunistischen Regime, in dem nicht nur Diktatur und Planwirtschaft, sondern die Ära der industriellen Moderne selbst untergegangen sind, hat sich die Zukunft verabschiedet.

From 5. to 6. Dec. about 50 activists occupied a vacant building in the Universitätsstraße, Vienna. This occupation is the kick-off of further activities in order to build up the Solidarity University in Vienna. Activists will continue the struggle for adequate space for KriSU.

“We won’t pay for your crisis!” has echoed throughout universities worldwide. The significance of this is that the statement’s momentum has not only spread throughout educational institutions, but has also been present in other areas of society, bringing attention to the general failure of neoliberal capitalism and its appropriation of all spheres of life.

The new website of the specialization Theory (Bachelor Media and Arts) at the Zurich University of the Arts is online now.

A new publication with contribution by Jean Baudrillard, Igor Chubarov, an interview with Jerko Denegri, Branislav Dimitrijević, Hal Foster, Dejan Kršić, Nenad Malešević, Metahaven, Borislav Mikulić, Barbara Predan, Jacques Rancière, Feđa Vukić and WHW collective.

Statement from the arts and cultural sector in solidarity with the protests on Austrian universities.

After a manifestation of students today against the bologna-process and in solidarity withe the squating of the academy of fine arts two days ago, parts of the university of vienna have been occupied spontanously. Right now there are 2000 students participating in the occupation.

In July this year, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a UK based art activists' collective was commissioned by the Copenhagen Centre for Contemporary Art to make a new piece of work for Rethink an exhibition of “political” art during the December UN climate change summit. Last week the gallery pulled out claiming it could no longer continue to support the project for “practical reasons”. In fact they were frightened that the project involved non-violent civil disobedience and that this might be disapproved of by their funders.

“From Lesvos to an unknown land”: this was the response given by Mr X. at the NoBorder Camp in Mytilini, when asked where he planned to go after his arrival in Athens. Mr X. was acting as a spokesperson for a Somalian group, who, along with migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea, were released from the “Pagani Welcome Centre” shortly before the official start of the NoBorder Camp. Pagani, the “reception centre” of Lesvos; the detention centre with a capacity of 250 people was filled with around 1,000 occupants – men, women and children – in August, when the Camp took place. Needless to say, Pagani was totally over-booked. A video made with a camera smuggled into the centre by one of the transit migrants clearly documents the unbearable conditions in which they were being detained.

The new issue of the magazine Chto Delat on "The Great Method" and Chto Delat's video film "Partisan Songspiel. Belgrade Story" are now available online.

Málaga ya lo sabía, pero además lo vio. El pasado 18 de septiembre lascalles del centro de Málaga presenciaron una manifestación como no serecuerda en esta ciudad tal vez desde las movilizaciones por el “No a laGuerra”. Más de mil personas exigieron otro modelo de ciudad, clamaroncontra la privatización de los espacios públicos, contra eldesmantelamiento de la cultura, contra la ciudad escaparate, contra lapolítica de los solares y la destrucción. Más de mil personas exigieronel derecho a la ciudad. Su voz gritó que la Casa Invisible debecontinuar, que la Casa Invisible continuará.

After a widely watched four-year legal battle, the CAE DefenseFund was officially dissolved last week, with its remainder of unexpendedfunds donated in two substantial gifts to the Center for ConstitutionalRights (CCR) and the New York affiliate of the American Civil LibertiesUnion (NYCLU).

International solidarity actions in front of all French embassies in Europe!

Even if the subtitle above might suggest it, this essay will not be a matter of evoking the old thesis of a linear revolutionary sequence to a socialist paradise. “Crisis”, “transition”, and “communism” instead name three divergently problematic concepts whose relations must be investigated anew.

The reader: New Public Spaces: Dissensual Political and Artistic Practices in the post-Yugoslav Context by Radical Education Collective is available in pdf

Simon Burgess, a lecturer at East Surrey College, is facing serious disciplinary action (and possible redundancy) for introducing students to the work of transgender artist Del LaGrace Volcano.

Hamburg: Mit dem "Bernhard Nocht Quartier (BNQ)" wollen Investoren den aseptischen Totraum auf dem ehemaligen Astragelände ins bewohnte St. Pauli hinein ausdehnen. Köhler und von Bargen planen auf 15 Grundstücken teure Modernisierungen, Abrisse und neue Luxuswohnungen. NO BNQ ist ein Zusammenschluss von MieterInnen und NachbarInnen gegen die Investorenpläne. Zudem befürchten viel BewohnerInnen einen Dominoeffekt, Gentrifizierung und weitere Mietpreissteigerungen.

Während am 16.07.2009 Präsident Prof. Martin Rennert den Rundgang feierlich im Hofgarten eröffnete, verbarrikadierten Studierende den Haupteingang mit Gittern und Transparenten. Innen und Außen stauten sich Menschenmengen. Hiermit brachten die Studierenden lautstark ihren Protest gegen ein nicht nachvollziehbares Berufungsverfahren an der Fakultät Bildende Kunst zum Ausdruck.
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This morning the 21 students arrested two weeks ago came out from jail.

Please sign and circulate the petition for the release of 21 students protesting against the G8 University Summit in Torino!

At the break of the day, in several Italian cities police irrupted in students and activist places to make inspections and arrests. The repressive operation is coordinated by Turin's police and it refers to the May 19th demonstration in Turin against the G8 University Summit.

In a front-page ad in today's International Herald Tribune, the leaders
of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in
months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate
conference that will be held this December. There was only one catch: the paper was fake.

In the past, the Isola has been almost everything except a bedroom community: a nest of Lombard shop-owners and workers; a haven in the Twenties for small-time criminals and bandits, boasting at times a warning for policemen not to enter; an irreducible anti-fascist and partisan community; a springboard for committees fighting demolition plans; an incubator of squats and occupations in the Nineties

Since May 15, when Russian artist Artem Loskutov was arrested in Novisibirsk, his case has sparked a massive outcry in Russia's activist and art communities. In the past three weeks, artists, activists, and ordinary concerned citizens all over Russia have carried out a series of pickets, protests, and actions in Loskutov's defense.

Creating Worlds is a multi-annual research project that investigates the relationship between art production and knowledge production in the context of the transformations and crises of contemporary capitalism.

We are the knowledge workers of information and media, of the publishing world and of the cultural industry; of school, university and research; of show business, education, design and comunication; we are determined to not simply suffer your crisis; we want to stem this drift and reverse the trend of this tendency. That’s why we will join and pursue together our common objectives. We firmly assert the contents of this Chart and will submit it to all those who share our condition.

At a moment when the right to education for all is being tacitly eliminated under the bureaucratic code of "participation", by an administrative decree and without prior public discussion, despite the fact that the right to education is recognized as the universal and binding goal of civilization even in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, we feel that we must stand up in defence of that right not just in our own name, but in the name of society in general.

New publication with texts from the project transform. Contributors: Boris Buden, Rosalyn Deutsche, Marcelo Expósito, Marina Garcés, Brian Holmes, Jens Kastner, Maurizio Lazzarato, Isabell Lorey, Nina Möntmann, Stefan Nowotny, Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, Simon Sheikh, Hito Steyerl, Universidad Nómada, Paolo Virno

In their new book, philosophers Stefan Nowotny and Gerald
Raunig include theoretical lines of rupture around the incipient
question "What is institutional critique?", develop thoughts on new
forms of institution and introduce neologisms as "monster institutions"
or "instituent practices".

Declaration of the Assembly of Social Movements at the World Social Forum 2009

Collective translation of a leaflet circulated in the occupied Athens School of Economics and elsewhere commenting the protest in Greece.

Tuesday evening, 24 Feb, 2009, at 10:05, "unknowns" lobbed a hand grenade at the Immigrants' Place, the social center located on Tsamadou Street in Exarhia (the offices of the Network for Political and Social Rights and Network for Social Support to Refugees and Migrants share the same space).

One hundred years ago, on the front page of Le Figaro, for the aesthetic consciousness of the world Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the Manifesto that inaugurated the century that believed in the future. In 1909 the Manifesto quickly initiated a process where the collective organism of mankind became machinic. This becoming-machine has reached its finale with the concatenations of the global web and it has now been overturned by the collapse of the financial system founded on the futurisation of the economy, debt and economic promise. That promise is over. The era of post future has begun.

This new book is based on the symposium "Representations of the 'Other'. The Visual Anthropology of Pierre Bourdieu", centering around Bourdieu's extensive photographical work in colonial Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and his influence on contemporary visual art practices.

In order to defend a public service of higher education and research, a group of French organisations agreed on the need to engage a European-scale mobilisation against the Lisbon strategy which aims at building a “market of knowledge”. In this perspective, they call for mobilisations all around Europe on March 18th, 19th and 20th 2009, at the occasion of the next spring summit.

The interview on Oliver Ressler's curatorial work at the Taipei Biennial was conducted for China Airlines Sky Couch Magazine, but its publication was cancelled "due to an unpredictable cause".

Groups from all over Europe gathered on the 10th and 11th of January 2009 in Paris to analyse collectively the current crises, to develop joint strategies and to discuss joint demands and alternatives in response to these crises.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

open letter on the inclusion of artist Alexey Beljaev-Gintvont in the short list of Kandinsky Prize 2008 in Moscow

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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’?

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.

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.

In her DVD-project “Antonio Negri. The Cell” (Actor Publisher, Barcelona/New York 2008) Angela Melitopoulos presents an arrangement of more than two hours of video-material based on three interviews with the famous Italian philosopher focusing on problems of exile, imprisonment, freedom and the construction of personal joy and community.

Der bei Unrast erschienene Reader "nicht alles tun", herausgegeben von Jens Kastner und Bettina Spörr, erforscht zivilen und sozialen Ungehorsam an den Schnittstellen von Kunst, radikaler Politik und Technologie.

European solidarity campaign for the Collettivo Sottotetto housing project in the Compagnoni quarter of Reggio Emilia, Italy