<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Krystian Woznicki</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kw@berlinergazette.de">kw@berlinergazette.de</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:34 PM<br>Subject: [bgcon] "Weak Resistance: Precarity, Diasporas, Movements"<br>To: <a href="mailto:digi-yards@berlinergazette.de">digi-yards@berlinergazette.de</a><br><br><br>Hi,<br>
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for those of you who will be in Berlin on July 8, there is an<br>
interesting event entitled "Weak Resistance: Precarity, Diasporas,<br>
Movements" taking place at the INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY (where,<br>
btw, Berliner Gazette organised its annual conference in 2010). Please<br>
scroll down for more info.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Krystian<br>
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FRIDAY, 8 JULY 2016, 7:30 p.m.<br>
DISCUSSION: WEAK RESISTANCE 2. PRECARITY, DIASPORAS, MOVEMENTS<br>
<a href="https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/753/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/753/</a><br>
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Social mobilizations today often use the strategies of the weak rather than<br>
the strong. The slogan ‘we are the 99%’ signals a belonging to the<br>
actually or potentially dispossessed, a group recognizing its situation as<br>
one of vulnerability and precarity. Refusal and subversion replace<br>
aggressive critique; political claims offer various versions of what could<br>
be called ‘weak resistance’. The weak messianism announced by Walter<br>
Benjamin in his ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ emerges in the<br>
movements of the supposedly speechless, subaltern, and the rebellious<br>
‘other’ of the Western hegemonic subject both at the core and on the<br>
periphery of globalized capitalism.<br>
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The event understands ‘weak resistance’ as a decisive feature of<br>
contemporary political agency. The precarious of today articulate their<br>
claims and subvert the existing power structures using unspectacular forms<br>
of resistance, often involving everyday practices and claims. Isabell<br>
Lorey will examine the political practice of today’s resistance of the<br>
precarious under the state of insecurity and will speak about her theory<br>
of presentist democracy. Other contributions discuss the non-heroic<br>
resistance of queer Israeli activists refusing to answer Zionism in the<br>
currency of heroism and active resistance, as well as that of the<br>
‘Solidarnosc’ movement in <a href="tel:1980" value="+661980">1980</a> and in the recent feminist<br>
mobilizations against anti-abortion laws in Poland.<br>
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The theme of weakness has been explored in connection with political<br>
resistance (James C. Scott), utopia (Michael Gardiner), artistic<br>
production (Gerald Raunig), and the analysis of the social (Michael<br>
Levine, Howard Caygill). It reevaluates what previously has been thought<br>
of as failure, passivity, and conformity. Departing from three different<br>
contexts – of precarisation, ‘Solidarnosc’, and of queer strategies<br>
– the event will consider weak resistance and its possible implications<br>
for political activism.<br>
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This event loosely follows the major themes of the Weak Resistance event<br>
held at the ICI Berlin in May 2015.<br>
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With Isabell Lorey, Hila Amit Abas, and Ewa Majewska<br>
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Moderated by Rosa Barotsi<br>
Organized by Ewa Majewska<br>
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ICI KULTURLABOR BERLIN / INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY<br>
Christinenstr. <a href="tel:18%2F19" value="+661819">18/19</a>, 10119 Berlin - Tel: 030 / 473 7291 10<br>
<a href="http://www.ici-berlin.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ici-berlin.org</a><br>
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