A diario suceden mil cosas, pero ¿cómo descifrar cuáles son señales de las transformaciones que vienen? ¿Cuáles son huellas o ecos del pasado, y cuáles anuncian tendencias sociales decisivas? ¿Cómo saber cuándo hemos traspasado un umbral histórico? Me lo he preguntado estos días pensando sobre los “gobiernos técnicos” que se han impuesto en Grecia e Italia. Los veo como signos de muy mal agüero, fórmulas en experimentación que podrían luego reproducirse, rápido. Prototipos…
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El Pressentiment #16
El Pressentiment es el arma con la que Espai en Blanc quiere intervenir en el actual combate del pensamiento
The 6th Annual Workshop of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, at Duke University (http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies) will be devoted to “Decolonial Aesthetics.” This workshop and exhibition is a continuation of the show that at under the same title opened in Bogotá, Colombia, on November 10, 2010. (http://www.udistrital.edu.co/novedades/particularNews.php?idNovedad=3170&Type=E) Although with the same title, the Duke edition will not be a replica of the former but a continuation of it.
The project Hit-to-Kill is set up in parallel with the dynamics of political negotiations and progress of the missile defense program, therefore it is designed as an open structure in continuous dialogue concerning the future changes and development of the related events on this issue.
The first edited version of the documentary outlines the period between the signature of the Missile Defense Agreement in Czech Republic and Poland in summer 2008 and the suspension of the 2007 European missile defense program by Obama Administration on 17th of September, 2009.
During the expedition with two women activists (with one in Poland and with the other in Czech Republic) to the “future” U.S. military bases in Redzikowo (Poland) and Brdy (Czech Republic), some of the past (Cold War) and current events are exposed through four interrelated chapters: (1)The Politics of Security, (2)The Quest for Global Dominance, (3)You. Yes, You. You Control the Information Age and (4)Translating Democracy, that emphasize political and strategic elements of the deployment of U.S. antimissile shield in Europe to question the concepts such as security, global dominance, democracy, propaganda and resistance.
Virno is best known as a post-operaist, an activist and theorist of immaterial labour, the kind of work that characterizes of post-Fordist society. The best introduction to Virno’s post-operaism is his “Virtuosity and Revolution” from ARTicles (2004).
Many of these links here are from the excellent Generation Online site, moderated by Arianna Bove and Erik Empson.