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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Dear friends, </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>we’d love to read your </span></strong>questions and comments in the <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>live chat </span></strong>tomorrow <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>during the 7<sup>th</sup> episode of the (re)programming series of conversations!<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i>(re)programming – Strategies for Self-Renewal</i></b><br>Curated and conducted by <b>Marta Peirano</b><br>February–November 2021<br><br>STREAM #7<br><b><i>(re)programming: Community<br>Talk to Your Neighbours</i></b><br>With <b>Astra Taylor</b><br><br><b>Monday, 18 October 2021 at 7 PM CET<br></b><br><b>STREAMING & LIVE CHAT:</b> <a href="http://aksioma.org/reprogramming/">http://aksioma.org/reprogramming/</a><br><a href="https://fb.me/e/1Rh6wj2Az">FB event</a><br><br>-----<br><b>How can we act collectively in an age of extreme polarisation, isolation, dehumanisation and dystopian imagination? What can we build from the ashes of the Arab Spring, the Indignados movement and Occupy Wall Street?</b><br><br><b>Astra Taylor</b> knows there is no such thing as a perfect social movement, but in a series of legendary attempts to improve existing ones, she has become one of the essential chroniclers of contemporary acts of collective resistance. Ever since publishing<i> Occupy!</i>, a “semi-regular, forty-page tabloid newspaper inspired by the Occupy movement”, she has been engaged in a lifelong debate about the nature of community-driven power, pushing its limits and analyzing its discontents.<br><br>Astra is an international filmmaker, writer and relentless political organiser, hailed as the “<b>New Civil Rights Leader</b>” by the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. She has directed philosophical documentaries such as <i><a href="https://www.whatisdemocracy.info/">What is Democracy?</a></i> (2019), <i><a href="https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/examinedlife">Examined Life</a></i> (2008) and <i><a href="https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/zizek">Žižek!</a></i> (2005). Her latest book <i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250231284/">Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone </a></i>(2019) was published by Metropolitan Books.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>Special guests:</b> Tjaša Pureber, Barbara Rajgelj, Asja Hrvatin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-----<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>About the series</b><br>The tenth edition of <i><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/" target="_blank">Tactics & Practice: (re)programming</a></i> is a festival of conversations with world-class thinkers in crucial disciplines that discuss the ways in which we can repair our thought and behavioural patterns in order to keep us collectively safe. The program is <b>led and curated online by Marta Peirano</b>. Watch previous episodes:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>- Kim Stanley Robinson: <i><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/trigger/" target="_blank">Trigger: What Does it Take to Change the Future?</a></i><br>- Benjamin Bratton:<i> <a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/infrastructure/" target="_blank">Infrastructure: An Alternative Earth</a></i><br>- Holly Jean Buck: <i><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/energy/" target="_blank">Energy: Can We Repair the Climate?</a></i><br>- Anab Jain: <i><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/interdependence/" target="_blank">Interdependence: Post-Human Politics</a></i><br>- Kate Crawford: <i><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/ai/" target="_blank">AI: Better Machines for Better Humans</a></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Joana Moll: <i><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/cloud/">The Cloud: Everything is Not Connected</a></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>-----</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>Organised and produced by:</b> <a href="https://aksioma.org/" target="_blank">Aksioma</a> – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<br><b>In partnership with:</b> Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture<br><b>For the series: </b><a href="https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice" target="_blank">Tactics & Practice</a><br><b>In the framework of:</b> <a href="https://kons-platforma.org/en/" target="_blank">konS</a> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art<br><br><i>The project konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.</i><br><br><b>Outreach partners:</b> Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE – Electronic Language, International Festival, Furtherfield, La Gaîté Lyrique, IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], The Influencers, Institute of Network Cultures, Interface Cultures | Kunstuniversität Linz, MKC Maribor, Neural, ∏Node, Založba Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make Money Not Art.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>