[netzmagazin] Fwd: 2. Make Worlds Festival, München , 26-29 Februar 2004

Don Jan 8 05:59:12 CET 2004

sorry für's cross-posting, aber diese ankündigung für das nächste makeworlds birgt meines erachtens genügend themen um ein magazin für netzkultur für's erste mehr als genügend zu füllen. 

ich würde mich im übrigen sehr freuen, wenn hier wieder so etwas wie eine sporadische kommunikation über unsere 'eigentliche' thematik einträte, der eklatante mangel an traffic auf dieser liste ist nicht sehr ermutigend... (ein fall von "ich hab' jetzt gerade nicht wirklich viel zeit und warte mal bis jemand anderes was tut worauf ich dann u.u reagieren kann"?)

bitte lasst uns wenigstens termine vereinbaren.

herzlichst 

sascha

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MAKEWORLDS (2) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 
http://www.makeworlds.org 

NAME
NEURO -- networking europe

SYNOPSIS
Movements and technologies of the common

DATE
February 26-29, 2004

LOCATION
Muffathalle, Munich (Germany)

DESCRIPTION 
A new generation of media and network initiatives from all over Europe
and different parts of the world present and work on their projects in
a broad interactive framework that explores the different conceptual
and practical idioms used to articulate and create new social, 
political and artistic practices.

Originating within the networking culture of open communications and
free exchange the event aims to connect contemporary debates on
mobility, migration and social movements with new media instruments,
information and communication technologies.

WHAT'S NEW?
The new is emerging in unknown and multiple ways. It is emerging from
the exhaustion and crisis of conventional political concepts that are
no longer adequate to the unstable, informatic and immaterial
dimensions of the emerging division of labour. The new technologies of
the common are not universal hierarchies of political right but small
scale and intimate practices of constitution. The new involves those
who see the limitations of individual social practices of
self-realisation and desire to turn them into general and transferable
social technologies of emancipation.

BACKGROUND
It is time for intellectual and political debates to merge with
technology. Both to evaluate the current state of social movements and
to build on those orientations that are pushing the limits of what are
individually considered possible. NEURO sets out to create and map a
new discursive terrain and practical horizon: the ideas of 'freedom of
movement' and 'technologies of the common' draws into a synergetic
perspective the range of irreducibly conflictual practices whereby
society is reproduced.

Without losing sight of the (translocal) constitution of the local as
indispensable site of intervention, NEURO seeks to review and research
practices of networking that are already redefining the political
geography of Europe. In the ongoing diversification of the social,
processes of integration can no longer be clearly separated from
mechanisms of exclusion. The working out of these tensions at a
political and economic level is producing new levels of complexity as
well as new opportunities for provocative and experimental projects
that challenge orthodoxy and convention.

The focus on social reproduction is an acknowledgment that its various
modes are proliferating across an ever-expanding terrain in a process
that suggests that collective responses will themselves have to explore
some of the idioms and tools of the network in each of the subjects
under discussion, whether human rights and citizenship, Empire and
Europe, free software and intellectual property regimes, the spectacle
of civil society, or the institutional and bureaucratic mentalities
present within post-governmental environments.

Beyond the juridical parcelisation of people into discrete, sovereign
and rights-bearing subjects, the present offers a unique chance to
express and form solidarities that catch up in political terms with the
sociality of our being. For these struggles, networks and
intercommunicative agency are not goals but their very conditions of
possibility. Thus the new sits in opposition to the current forms of
exclusion because the appropriation of subjective freedoms within
Europe and beyond it are part of the foundations on which these
political edifices themselves rest.

TASKS
What could be new today in networking? After the thin promises of new
markets and new media, what aspirations remain for evolving struggles
for information, knowledge and communication? What is the role of civil
society in the framework of global governing practices of political
mediation today? What is the impact of immaterial and affective labour
for practices of migration and the reconfiguration of the global
economy of biopolitical production? What projects of self constitution
emerge from practices of refusal and exodus? How has the movement
reposed the question of the autonomy of the political in the midst of a
crisis of representation? Is mapping the best tool for expressing
horizontal structures of cooperation and technologies of the common?

None of the initiatives present at neuro will offer a one-size-fits-all
solution to global wrongs. However when taken together it is imagined
that they will exhibit the power of generating communicable ideas out
of small, laboratory contexts that are embedded within different
environments and in dialogue with one another.

NEURO will be a major opportunity for forming creative alliances -
within a coherent discursive field - between all those that share the
aspiration to raise theory and activity to a level adequate to the
practice of digital generations.

TOPICS
NEURO is organized around seven major topics, that each constitute an
area for  debates on different levels and in different formats. Various
input and output devices will be attached to these topics.''

* SPECTACLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
Scaling the summits: esf, wsf, wsis - Multi-stakeholder ideology and
global governance scenarios - Snares of inclusion, pitfalls of
political mediation and the development discourse

* TRANSITIONS OF LABOR
Outsourcing and lean production - The becoming migrant of labor -
Cognitive labor and industries of affect - Division and recomposition:
the biopolitical network of immaterial labor

* FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
Third generation wall and wireless lager - Management, mobility and
post-human rights - Local and remote control

* CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION AND POLITICS OF SPACE
Mapping, mobile devices, games - Resisting virtual regimes  - Protest
in the non-protest

* SOCIAL ONTOLOGIES OF OPEN SOURCE
The collapse of techno- idealism  - Hyper-alienation and property out
of control  - Ethics of open images and imagination

* FORMATION AND INFORMATION
Educational projects in networking environments - Knowledge production,
general intellect and the crisis of learning - Strategies of
self-valorization from do-it-yourself to everyone-is-an-expert

* CONSTITUTIVE PRACTICES
Ad-hoc-networking and virtual organizing - Escape, exodus and refusal -
Hijacking speech: multilingualism beyond identity and unity

SEE ALSO 
http://d-a-s-h.org 
http://www.muffathalle.de 
http://www.kein.org 
http://www.generation-online.org 
http://www.incommunicado.info 

CONTACT 
neuro at kein.org 

HISTORY 
NEURO (networking europe) is the next version of the makeworlds
festival, which for the first time took place in October, 2001.

AUTHORS
Arianna Bove, Erik Empson, Susanne Lang, Geert Lovink, Florian
Schneider, Soenke Zehle

SPONSORS
NEURO -- Networking europe is designed, organised and realized in the
framework of the Europewide Internet-platform D-A-S-H that was set up
in the summer of 2002 with the support of the EU-Commission and the
Federal Youth Ministry in order to support young people in realising
media projects and initiatives against racism and exclusion. D-A-S-H
will host a five days workshop on computer games after the NEURO event.
Thanks to: Muffathalle. LHM, JFF, Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation & BpB. 