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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=en-SI link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Dear friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Aksioma is proud to present a new publication: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>(re)programming</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Strategies for Self-Renewal</span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>[A READER]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming.book"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC'>aksioma.org/reprogramming.book</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Marta Peirano</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> in conversation with <b>Kim Stanley Robinson</b>, <b>Benjamin Bratton</b>,<b> Holly Jean Buck</b>,<b> Anab Jain</b>,<b> Kate Crawford</b>,<b> Joana Moll</b>,<b> Astra Taylor</b> and<b> Eyal Weizman</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Editors: Marko Bauer, Janez Fakin Janša</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>-----</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>What will it take for humanity to change its course and build a responsible future for the generations to come? And what can really be accomplished when we finally do this?</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Inspired by </span><a href="https://aksioma.org/reprogramming/"><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC'>(re)programming</span></i></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> festival of conversations, this reader presents the eight episodes in a ready-to-read format. It seeks to answer the above questions with contributions from world-class thinkers as well as specialists from the local and online communities.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><a href="https://form.jotform.com/211172647049354"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC'>GET YOUR COPY HERE</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>-----</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>ABOUT THE READER</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>As a growing population is sharing an ever-shrinking planet, we have found ourselves at an existential crossroads: do we bring the mistakes of the enlightenment and industrialization to their logical conclusion or should we develop a capacity to reprogram ourselves as a species, in order to survive? Some of the solutions might be technical but most of the obstacles are not.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Through surveillance, manipulation and escapism, multinationals and foreign governments are using the powerful tools that could help us manage the climate emergency to manage us instead. The apocalyptic narratives of destruction, natural selection and space colonisation distract us from the urgent need to manage our resources and mitigate a disaster.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The discussions documented in this reader focus on solutions, finding tools, words or visions across the different disciplines, from energy and infrastructure to community building and AI. They analyse the strategies used by successful communities and proposed by social and scientific institutions to help us reset and find the way back. Not to the way it was, but to the way it should have been: an engaged community that encompasses all living beings on this planet.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>-----</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>CREDITS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>(re)programming: Strategies for Self-Renewal </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Publisher: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Co-publisher: Mladinski center Velenje, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Outreach partner: NERO</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>In the framework of: konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>konS is a project chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin:0cm'><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#2000'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#2000'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Marcela Okretič<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Aksioma | Project Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>e-mail: <a href="mailto:marcela@aksioma.org">marcela@aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.aksioma.org">www.aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=en-SI><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>