<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Krystian Woznicki via Commoning</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:37 PM<br>Subject: [commoning] What Is It to Re-Think Radical Politics, Today?<br>To: <a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a><br><br><br><br>
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Dear Commoners,<br>
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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?<br>
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Please scroll down for all info and please spread the word!<br>
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Hope to see you at the event.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Krystian<br>
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Friendly Fire: What Is It to Re-Think Radical Politics, Today?<br>
transmediale festival | Saturday, February 4th, 2017 | 12 p.m.<br>
House of World Cultures | Auditorium<br>
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Recent political events such as Brexit and the Trump victory should<br>
compel the Left to re-think its approaches. The rise of Right-wing<br>
populism is transforming the arena of conflict, struggle and antagonism<br>
in general, marking it with an increasingly xenophobic and nationalistic<br>
politics. How should the Left question and understand this arena anew?<br>
Is there an emergent politics, which can design effective forms of<br>
organization and confrontational strategies that can build on and extend<br>
in new ways logics of political communication? In what ways does the<br>
Left have to reconsider what it means to be radical – both in terms of<br>
agenda and strategy? How might the Left effectively adjust its<br>
trajectory and mobilize its forces to begin confronting the current<br>
moment with its increasingly hostile, cynical, and polarized social,<br>
economic, and political terrain?<br>
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Central to this new terrain is a rapid re-articulation of the<br>
relationship between the masses, communities, movements, infrastructure<br>
and media, both old and new. The challenge of this panel is: to explore<br>
new approaches to socio-political organization and mobilization,<br>
especially in the digital realm. Moderated by Krystian Woznicki, this<br>
panel with prolific thinkers and researchers such as Natalie Fenton,<br>
Robert Latham and Jutta Weber will reflect on the data infrastructure of<br>
the public sphere, the role of digital media in the political field and<br>
a politics of re-collectivity that reconceives of conflict and struggle<br>
as progressive forces in democracy.<br>
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This panel, a copperation between Berliner Gazette and transmediale,<br>
will kick off the Berliner Gazette annual project FRIENDLY FIRE.<br>
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*Natalie Fenton*<br>
Professor of Media and Communications; Co-Director Goldsmiths Leverhulme<br>
Media Research Centre; Co-Director Centre for the Study of Global Media<br>
and Democracy Goldsmiths, University of London. Her latest book,<br>
"Digital, Political, Radical", is now available from Polity.<br>
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*Robert Latham*<br>
Professor in the Political Science department at York University;<br>
teaches in the Political Science, Communication and Culture, and Social<br>
and Political Thought programs at York University in Toronto, Canada. He<br>
has published widely on topics including political economy, security,<br>
digital activism, technologies of border surveillance, critical theories<br>
of sovereignty, transnational relations, migration, and<br>
multiculturalism. His latest book, "Politics of Evasion", is now<br>
available from Routledge.<br>
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*Jutta Weber*<br>
Science, technology and society scholar, philosopher of technology and<br>
professor for media studies at the University of Paderborn. Her research<br>
focuses on computational technoscience culture(s) asking how and for<br>
whom the non/human actors work. Recent publications include: Keep<br>
Adding. Kill Lists, Drone Warfare and the Politics of Databases. In:<br>
Environment and Planning D. Society and Space, February 2016 vol. 34 no.<br>
1 107-125; Human-Machine Autonomies. In: Nehal Bhuta et al. (Eds.):<br>
Autonomous Weapon Systems. Cambridge University Press 2016, 75-101,<br>
together with Lucy Suchman.<br>
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*Krystian Woznicki*<br>
Journalist and critic in Berlin, Germany. He is founder and co-publisher<br>
of Berliner Gazette and the curator of the Berliner Gazette conferences.<br>
Woznicki's work adresses socio-cultural and political questions in<br>
debates related to globalization and digitalization. He is the editor<br>
and author of various books, most recently "After the Planes. A Dialogue<br>
on Movement, Perception and Politics" (2017, with Brian Massumi), which<br>
is now available from DIAMONDPAPER.<br>
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*Berliner Gazette*<br>
As a nonprofit and nonpartisan team of journalists, researchers, artists<br>
and coders the Berliner Gazette (BG) analyzes and tests emerging<br>
cultural as well as political practices. Since 1999 the BG team has been<br>
publishing <a href="http://www.berlinergazette.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.berlinergazette.de</a> under a Creative Commons-License –<br>
with more than 900 contributors from all over the world. In addition to<br>
that we have been organizing conferences and editing books. Our latest<br>
conference was TACIT FUTURES. Mail us your suggestions under:<br>
info(at)<a href="http://berlinergazette.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">berlinergazette.de</a><br>
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Links | Speakers<br>
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* <a href="http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/n-fenton/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-<wbr>communications/staff/n-fenton/</a><br>
* <a href="http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745650869" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://politybooks.com/<wbr>bookdetail/?isbn=9780745650869</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Evasion-A-Post-Globalization-Dialogue-Along-the-Edge-of/Latham/p/book/9781138647572" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.routledge.com/The-<wbr>Politics-of-Evasion-A-Post-<wbr>Globalization-Dialogue-Along-<wbr>the-Edge-of/Latham/p/book/<wbr>9781138647572</a><br>
* <a href="http://juttaweber.eu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://juttaweber.eu</a><br>
* <a href="http://diamondpaper.de/title_25" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://diamondpaper.de/title_<wbr>25</a><br>
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Links | Organisers<br>
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* <a href="http://berlinergazette.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://berlinergazette.de</a><br>
* <a href="http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2017-friendly-fire" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://berlinergazette.de/<wbr>feuilleton/jahresthemen/2017-<wbr>friendly-fire</a><br>
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<a href="https://2017.transmediale.de/content/friendly-fire-what-is-it-to-re-think-radical-politics-today" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://2017.transmediale.de/<wbr>content/friendly-fire-what-is-<wbr>it-to-re-think-radical-<wbr>politics-today</a><br>
* <a href="http://hkw.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://hkw.de</a><br>
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FRIENDLY FIRE<br>
War and Peace without Borders? The BG 2017 Annual Project<br>
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Check out also TACIT FUTURES, our prior annual project:<br>
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BG Annual Conference 2016<br>
<a href="http://berlinergazette.de/tacit-futures" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://berlinergazette.de/<wbr>tacit-futures</a><br>
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Essays and Interviews (in German)<br>
<a href="http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2016-tacit-futures/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://berlinergazette.de/<wbr>feuilleton/jahresthemen/2016-<wbr>tacit-futures/</a><br>
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Documents of BG's annual project 2016<br>
Photos: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/albums/72157662038932563" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/<wbr>berlinergazette/albums/<wbr>72157662038932563</a><br>
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