[Sigcrit-l] Fw: Indeterminate! Kommunismus Kongress

[Ron Day]

If anyone happens to be in Frankfurt in early November...
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Subject: Indeterminate! Kommunismus Kongress


This might be of interest:

 

Indeterminate! Kommunismus Kongress

http://www.kommunismuskongress.de/

Frankfurt, Germany

7 - 9 November 

Schedule

Friday, 07.11.2003 

5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. Check-in and Announcement

6.30 p.m. Welcome, Opening Remarks, organizational Information, Welcome Addresses

7.00 pm Introduction

7.30 p.m. Central Starting Event

The actuality of communism. A first approach.

Micha Brumlik (Frankfurt am Main), Isabelle Graw (Berlin), Jacques Rancière (Paris), Slavoj Zizek (Ljubljana)

10.00 p.m. "Insourcing des Zuhause. Menschen in Scheißhotels" play by René Pollesch (written by Pauline Boudry, Brigitta Kuster and Renate Lorenz)

10.00 p.m. Concert: Robots in Disguise (GB)

12.00 p.m. Concert: DAT Politcs (F)

2.00 a.m. Party

Saturday, 08.11.2003 

10.00 a.m. - 1.30 pm Forum I:

Economy of Political Critique: Communism and Radical Democracy 

Alain Badiou (Paris), Simon Critchley (Essex), Alex Demirovic (Frankfurt am Main), Axel Honneth (Frankfurt am Main), Chantal Mouffe (London)

1.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Break

2.30 p.m. - 5.30 pm Lecture and Discussion: Martin Beck (New York): "Critical Condition: Art, Politics, Activism"

2.30 p.m.- 5.30 p.m. workshops I:

Economy of Political Critique

  a.. Can the revolution be televised? Communism, Media, and Mediation
  Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris), LIGNA (Hamburg), Christoph Weismüller (Düsseldorf) 
  a.. How to learn to die? Psychoanalysis and the Constitution of Subjects
  Peter Dews (Essex), Rudolf Heinz (Düsseldorf) 
  a.. Ideology and Subject
  Sebastian Herkommer (Berlin), Mladen Dolar (Ljubljana, inquired) 
  a.. Governmentality in Presence: Bioethics and Biopower
  Thomas Lemke (Frankfurt am Main), Isabell Lorey (Berlin) 
  a.. Is a queer Communism possible?
  Iris Nowak (Hamburg), Nancy Wagenknecht (Berlin) 
  a.. Love between Stabilisation, Destabilisation and Transcendence
  Françoise Cactus (Berlin, inquired), Terre Thaemlitz (Kanagawa) 
  a.. leftwing politics: Bio-politics or social movements?
  no spoon (Frankfurt), Peter Wahl (Berlin), Sebastian Scolnik (colectivo situaciones, Buenos Aires) 
  a.. Visual Culture
  Christian Höller (Wien), Anne von der Heiden (Karlsruhe, inquired) 
  a.. Panel: Critique and Utopia
  Katja Diefenbach (Berlin), Jutta Held (Osnabrück, inquired), Drew Milne (Cambridge), Ben Watson (London) 
5.30 pm - 7.00 pm: Break

7.00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m. forum II:

Critique of Political Economy: Quantity and Quality of recent Capitalism

Katja Diefenbach (Berlin), Joachim Hirsch (Frankfurt am Main), Marion von Osten (Zürich), Moishe Postone (Chicago)

10.00 p.m. "Insourcing des Zuhause. Menschen in Scheißhotels" play by René Pollesch (written by Pauline Boudry, Brigitta Kuster and Renate Lorenz)

10.00 p.m. Reading: Thomas Meinecke

10.00 p.m. Performance: TEXTxtnd: MARX

12.00 p.m. Lounge: DJ Terre Thaemlitz

12.00 p.m. DGB Jugend Hessen: The long Night of Political Skills with DJ

Sunday, 9.11.2003 

11.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m. workshops II:

Critique of Political Economy

Suggestions:

  a.. Artistic Interventions in Public Spaces
  Ted Gaier (Hamburg), Hito Steyerl (Berlin) 
  a.. The "automatically active character" of value
  Hans-Georg Bensch (Hannover), Nadja Rakowitz (Frankfurt am Main) 
  a.. Capitalism and Migration
  kanak attak, Rutvica Andrijasevic (Utrecht) 
  a.. Globalization-movements and communist practice
  Michael Heinrich (Berlin), Thomas Seibert (Frankfurt am Main) 
  a.. Nature and Biopiratery
  Christoph Görg (Frankfurt am Main), Jörg Prelle (Frankfurt am Main), Kai Kaschinski (Berlin, angefr.) 
  a.. "When you pirate mp3's, you download communism". Property and Electronics
  Mercedes Bunz (Berlin), Verena Kuni (Frankfurt am Main), Christoph Spehr (Bremen) 
  a.. Can the hegemonials hear? Lessons from Migrations, Postcolonialism, and Capitalism
  Yann Moulier Boutang (Paris), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (New York) 
  a.. Gender-Relationships, Sexuality and Economy
  Pauline Boudry, Brigitta Kuster und Renate Lorenz (Berlin), Antke Engel (Hamburg), Frigga Haug (Berlin) 
  a.. "The revolutionary subject you are calling is temporarily not available". Multitudes and Proletariat
  Thomas Atzert (Frankfurt am Main), Yoshihiko Ichida (Osaka) 
  a.. Panel: Represent! Represent! Political, philosophical and artistic Critics of Representation
  Roger Behrens (Hamburg), Esther Leslie (London), Oliver Marchart (Wien), Mark Terkessidis (Köln) 
2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Break

3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Forum III: Practiced Philosophy of Practice

Ulrich Brand (Frankfurt am Main), Wolfgang-Fritz Haug (Berlin), Jelica Sumic-Riha (Ljubljana), Dora Dela Vega (Iniciativa Praxis-Crítica, Cordoba), Mathias Wiards (Hannover)

5.00 p.m. Leave

Exhibitions by Michael Dreher, Christiane Feeser, Julian Röder, Silke Wagner, Neid Magazina (Ina Wudtke), Stefan Roigk

Performances by Nicola Nord, red park, LIGNA (Hamburg)





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