---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki via Commoning <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:37 PM Subject: [commoning] What Is It to Re-Think Radical Politics, Today? To: [email protected] Dear Commoners, we will kick off the BG annual project FRIENDLY FIRE with a panel at this year's transmediale festival with a great line up and an urgent issue on the table: What Is It to Re-Think Radical Politics, Today? Please scroll down for all info and please spread the word! Hope to see you at the event. Kind regards, Krystian -- Friendly Fire: What Is It to Re-Think Radical Politics, Today? transmediale festival | Saturday, February 4th, 2017 | 12 p.m. House of World Cultures | Auditorium Recent political events such as Brexit and the Trump victory should compel the Left to re-think its approaches. The rise of Right-wing populism is transforming the arena of conflict, struggle and antagonism in general, marking it with an increasingly xenophobic and nationalistic politics. How should the Left question and understand this arena anew? Is there an emergent politics, which can design effective forms of organization and confrontational strategies that can build on and extend in new ways logics of political communication? In what ways does the Left have to reconsider what it means to be radical – both in terms of agenda and strategy? How might the Left effectively adjust its trajectory and mobilize its forces to begin confronting the current moment with its increasingly hostile, cynical, and polarized social, economic, and political terrain? Central to this new terrain is a rapid re-articulation of the relationship between the masses, communities, movements, infrastructure and media, both old and new. The challenge of this panel is: to explore new approaches to socio-political organization and mobilization, especially in the digital realm. Moderated by Krystian Woznicki, this panel with prolific thinkers and researchers such as Natalie Fenton, Robert Latham and Jutta Weber will reflect on the data infrastructure of the public sphere, the role of digital media in the political field and a politics of re-collectivity that reconceives of conflict and struggle as progressive forces in democracy. This panel, a copperation between Berliner Gazette and transmediale, will kick off the Berliner Gazette annual project FRIENDLY FIRE. *Natalie Fenton* Professor of Media and Communications; Co-Director Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre; Co-Director Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy Goldsmiths, University of London. Her latest book, "Digital, Political, Radical", is now available from Polity. *Robert Latham* Professor in the Political Science department at York University; teaches in the Political Science, Communication and Culture, and Social and Political Thought programs at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has published widely on topics including political economy, security, digital activism, technologies of border surveillance, critical theories of sovereignty, transnational relations, migration, and multiculturalism. His latest book, "Politics of Evasion", is now available from Routledge. *Jutta Weber* Science, technology and society scholar, philosopher of technology and professor for media studies at the University of Paderborn. Her research focuses on computational technoscience culture(s) asking how and for whom the non/human actors work. Recent publications include: Keep Adding. Kill Lists, Drone Warfare and the Politics of Databases. In: Environment and Planning D. Society and Space, February 2016 vol. 34 no. 1 107-125; Human-Machine Autonomies. In: Nehal Bhuta et al. (Eds.): Autonomous Weapon Systems. Cambridge University Press 2016, 75-101, together with Lucy Suchman. *Krystian Woznicki* Journalist and critic in Berlin, Germany. He is founder and co-publisher of Berliner Gazette and the curator of the Berliner Gazette conferences. Woznicki's work adresses socio-cultural and political questions in debates related to globalization and digitalization. He is the editor and author of various books, most recently "After the Planes. A Dialogue on Movement, Perception and Politics" (2017, with Brian Massumi), which is now available from DIAMONDPAPER. *Berliner Gazette* As a nonprofit and nonpartisan team of journalists, researchers, artists and coders the Berliner Gazette (BG) analyzes and tests emerging cultural as well as political practices. Since 1999 the BG team has been publishing www.berlinergazette.de under a Creative Commons-License – with more than 900 contributors from all over the world. In addition to that we have been organizing conferences and editing books. Our latest conference was TACIT FUTURES. Mail us your suggestions under: info(at)berlinergazette.de Links | Speakers * http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/n-fenton/ * http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745650869 * https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Evasion-A-Post- Globalization-Dialogue-Along-the-Edge-of/Latham/p/book/9781138647572 * http://juttaweber.eu * http://diamondpaper.de/title_25 Links | Organisers * http://berlinergazette.de * http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2017-friendly-fire * https://2017.transmediale.de/content/friendly-fire-what-is- it-to-re-think-radical-politics-today * http://hkw.de -- ------------------------------------------------- FRIENDLY FIRE War and Peace without Borders? 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