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

Don Jan 8 11:04:02 CET 2004

On 8 Jan 04, at 5:59, sascha brossmann wrote:

> bitte lasst uns wenigstens termine vereinbaren.

diesen vorschlag aufgreifend: hat es schon ein berliner treffen 
gegeben? 

und wie sieht es mit dem transmediale-treffen aus? Sebastian hat 
bootlab als ort angeboten, das sollten wir dankend aufgreifen. 

Ich bin von 31.jan bis 4. feb in berlin. wie waere es mit dem 1.februar, 
das ist ein sonntag? habe jetzt das programm nicht im kopf ob wir 
dann was wichtiges versaeumen, aber ich denke das waer ein ganz 
guter termin, entweder als brunch so um die mittagszeit oder 
spaeter, um 4 - 5 herum?

gruss
armin

> herzlichst 
> 
> sascha
> 
> ---
> 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. 
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