---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 3:50 PM Subject: [bgcon] Black Box East · Texts To: <[email protected]>
Hi, as you know BLACK BOX EAST is conceived as a year-long project, and the Berliner Gazette (BG) has initiated diverse activities in the course of this, most importantly a series of texts and a three-day online conference encompassing five collaborative workshop tracks taking place September 23, 24, and 25, 2021. For the text series, the BG has created an extensive space within its online newspaper (in German). We are sharing other language versions with international partners, including EastEast, LeftEast, Mediapart, and NON. Here we are presenting the first 30 texts from that series. There is more to come. I. How is the BLACK BOX EAST constructed? What interests does it serve? With invited contributions by historian *Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk* about the (un)friendly take over of East-Germany (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/demokratie-ohne-folgen/ https://lefteast.org/democracy-without-consequences/ sociologist *Yana Milev* about the politics of blackboxed devastations in East-Germany (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/schwarzbuch-der-deutschen-einheit/ political theorist *Stefan Kausch* and discourse analyst *Jürgen Link* about East German normality between deviance and avant-garde (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/disruptive-territory-ostdeutschland/ culture theoretician *Marco Abel* about the role of “the East” for the birth of Germany as a neoliberal nation-state (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/realisierung-und-intensivierung-des-neoliberalen-potenzials-im-wilden-osten/ activist and researcher *Christoph Marischka* about technological landscapes in “the East” (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/landschaften-des-kapitals/ culture theoretician *Neda Genova* about knowledge production and the politics of transparency/opacity (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/perfekte-black-box/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/200821/black-box-east-delivery media researcher *Greg McLaughlin* about Western narratives of the “Fall of the Berlin Wall” and “Brexit” propelling capitalism and nationalism (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/mauerfall-brexit-delirien-des-kapitals-ekstasen-des-nationalismus/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/310521/black-box-east-time-monsters-and-death-certainty social anthropologist *Florin Poenaru* about how the Orientalization of Romania is propelling unequal power relations in the EU (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/orientalisierung-rumaeniens-ungleichheit-eu/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/english-club/article/260521/black-box-east-orientalizing-romania the photographer *Petrut Calinescu* about Western images of Romania, precarious archives, and the politics of documentary photography (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/orientalisierung-rumaeniens-fotografie https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/070621/black-box-east-precarious-archives-and-politics-documentary-photography artist *Marina Gržinić* about the EU’s turbo-politics in ex-Yugoslavia (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/eu-turbo-faschismus-kapitalismus-osten/ sociologist *Sanja Milivojevic* about the black-boxed mobility infrastructure in the Western Balkans (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/black-box-eu-mobilitaetsregime-balkan-route/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/krystian-woznicki/blog/020321/inside-border-black-box-towards-political-economy-balkan-route II. What economic and political realities does the BLACK BOX EAST conceal and favor? With invited contributions by researcher *Mira Wallis* about Germany’s digital ghost workers in Romania (GER|EN|RU) https://berlinergazette.de/digitale-arbeit-und-mobilitaet-zwischen-deutschland-und-rumaenien https://easteast.world/en/posts/367 https://easteast.world/posts/367 digital media researcher *Miglè Bareikytè* about the incommensurability of labor politics and AI strategies in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/ki-strategien-in-baltischen-staaten/ architects *Kateřina Frejlachová* and *Tadeáš Říha* about the politics of logistics centers in Czech Bohemia (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/politik-der-lagerhallen-lkw-parks-und-autobahn-anschluesse-fuer-die-absatzmaerkte-des-westens/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/230821/black-box-east-politics-logistics-centers-czech-bohemia geographers *Lela Rekhviashvili* and *Wladimir Sgibnev* about struggles over infrastructure that holds post-Soviet space together (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/post-sowjetische-infrastrukturen/ https://lefteast.org/one-modernity-lost-the-other-out-of-reach-contested-post-soviet-infrastructures/ investigative journalist *Stefan Candea* about the political economy of cross-border journalism in “the East” (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/der-journo-ngo-komplex-und-die-demokratisierung-rumaeniens https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/230621/black-box-east-how-journalism-ngos-hijacked-democratization-romania sociologist and activist *Polina Manolova* about the bureaucratic bordering of Bulgarian migrant workers in Germany (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/buerokratisches-bordering/ https://non.copyriot.com/black-box-east-spatialities-of-in-betweenness-and-irregulairsed-pathways-of-incorporation-exploring-the-case-of-bulgarian-migrants-in-germany anthropologist *Tanja Petrović* and journalist *Maja Ava Žiberna* about invisibilized workers from the Balkans as drivers of “European integration” (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/wie-arbeitsmigrantinnen-aus-dem-osten-europa-am-laufen-halten/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/180621/black-box-east-migratory-factories-invisibilized-workers-and-promise-europe literary scientist and novelist *Marlen Schachinger* about the last-minute-society in Kosovo (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/kosovo-nach-der-zerschlagung-jugoslawiens researcher and writer *Lesia Prokopenko* about how the working class in Ukraine consumes China’s shanzhai goods as a phantom of “Westerness” (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/das-weben-neuer-codes-shanzhai/ https://non.copyriot.com/black-box-east-the-gum-you-like-or-a-letter-from-the-western-borders-of-shanzhai/ decolonial researchers *Kasia Narkowicz* and *Zoltán Ginelli* about how anti-colonial rhetorics against “foreign powers” are obstructing decolonial critique in Poland and Hungary (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/wie-antikoloniale-rhetorik-gegen-fremde-maechte-die-kritik-an-kolonialitaet-blockiert/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/240621/black-box-east-how-anti-colonial-rhetorics-are-obstructing-decolonial-critique III. What is the potential of the BLACK BOX EAST as a common space of transnational struggles? With invited contributions by researcher and artist *Anna Stiede* about deindustrialization, labor struggles, and TreuhandTechno (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/black-box-apolda-treuhand-techno/ theater-maker *Kevin Rittberger* and artist *Nicolas Mortimer* about labor struggles and cybernetic futurism in the GDR (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/sozialistische-kybernetik-ddr-marxismus-leninismus/ https://non.copyriot.com/black-box-east-how-socialist-cybernetics-helped-the-gdr-unlearn-marxism-leninism/ artist and activist *Rena Raedle* about how workers in the GDR organized themselves in writing circles (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/erweiterung-des-politischen-avantgarde-osten/ political geographer *Evelina Gambino* about lessons from 19th century labor struggles in Georgia for today’s transnational fight against logistical capitalism (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/arbeitskampf-logistischer-kapitalismus-georgien/ https://non.copyriot.com/black-box-east-infrastructures-to-other-worlds/ critical geographer *Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro* about what current movements can learn from the eco-politics of the USSR (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/staatssozialismus-udssr-umweltpolitik/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/130821/black-box-east-lessons-eco-politics-ussr political theorist *Gal Kirn* about “primitive accumulation” of capital and memory, or how the Berlin Wall fell in Yugoslavia (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/akkumulation-der-erinnerung/ https://non.copyriot.com/black-box-east-primitive-accumulation-of-capital-and-memory-or-how-the-berlin-wall-fell-in-yugoslavia/ researchers *Sanja Bojanić* and *Marko-Luka Zubčić* about what it means to be up against the Right in Croatia (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/kroatiens-zivilgesellschaft-kampf-gegen-rechts/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/310821/black-box-east-what-it-means-be-against-far-right-croatia sociologist *Paul Stubbs* about the legacies of the Non-Aligned Movement for today’s activism (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/progressiver-internationalismus-das-sozialistische-jugoslawien-und-die-bewegung-der-blockfreien-staaten/ https://non.copyriot.com/black-box-east-another-worldmaking-is-possible-or-progressive-internationalism-socialist-yugoslavia-and-the-non-aligned-movement/ historian *Anna Calori* about transethnic workers’ struggles against privatization in Bosnia and Herzegovina (GER) https://berlinergazette.de/arbeiterinnenkampf-postethnisch-wie-in-bosnien-der-aufstand-gegen-den-ausverkauf-gefuehrt-wurde/ literary scholar *Karolina Golimowska* about social struggles in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/polen-kaempfe-frauen-und-lgbtq-rechte/ https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/280621/black-box-east-struggles-over-women-s-and-lgbtq-rights-poland social thinker *Max Haiven* and historian *Vijay Prashad* about the role of “the East” in the Western radical imagination (GER|EN) https://berlinergazette.de/der-osten-in-der-radikalen-imagination-des-westens https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/060921/black-box-east-role-east-west-s-radical-imagination An overview is provided on https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de in the TEXTS section. 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