Re: Germany's geopolitics

[Andre Rebentisch]

My point was an observed pattern of thought (that is *also* common for 
conspiracy theories) where agency is claimed for the own camp (or the 
close opponent, your government, your military ally etc.). One wants 
them to be the bad guy or the good guy but it needs to be a main 
character, a driver, not a figurant, background actor.


In conspiracies theories, one does not accept a handful of Arab 
extremists with cutter knifes as attackers, one wants  ones own capable 
secret service behind it and many are then willing to buy into weird 
assumptions about motives and technicalities of the alleged actions.


I also raised the "Vietnam war" where no Vietnamese narration is present 
in contemporary discourse. And to Germans even the name of Ho chi minh 
alludes to German student protests.


You also find it in postcolonial debates which strongly reaffirm the 
hierarchy who is the colonialist and where the colonised person is 
racially marked. De facto West-Berlin pre-1990 was an allied colony. 
Yet, we don't want to see ourselves that way. Identifying as a 
colonialiser is much more attractive.


I am very suspicious of agency capture.

- A

(The question "which are the oligarch fractions fighting each other?" is 
fascinating. Geopolitics is a terrific area of analysis but the maps of 
these discourses are usually 30 years old.).


My guess: German government has a "Marche à vue" strategy. Second 
thought, for "Marche à vue"  you don't need a strategy. Which makes it 
all sound very agile. Good/! Also//abides to lex parsimoniae./
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Re: Peter Weibel

[Heiko Recktenwald]

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ein-geistesgegenwaertiger-bazon-brock-zum-tod-von-peter-weibel-dlf-216f83df-100.html


Brock is special, but thefre is something in it. Weibel was allways 
learning. He was a very political person. Very critical of TV 
revolutions. With Virilio on Rumania. And he was an actor too. See 
Wiener Brut with Peter Turrini etc. He did check tickets in the subway.



H.


Am 02.03.23 um 18:18 schrieb Timothy Druckrey:

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2023-03/peter-weibel-medienkuenstler-zkm-karlsruhe-tod

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/peter-weibel-dead-zkm-media-art-1234659384/

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Shifting Scales conference - Monday 6 March from 3.30pm CET

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear all,
Just a quick reminder: today you can follow our conference also online!


*Shifting ScalesVisions, Politics and Infrastructural Violence in a
More-Than-Human Planet *

*6 March 2023, 15.30–21.30 CET*
Kino Šiška, Ljubljana + online streaming

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*Programme*: https://aksioma.org/scale/conference/

*In the framework of* *Tactics #14: Scale*


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This edition of Tactics is a follow-up programme to *transmediale
2023 *, conceived independently by Janez Fakin
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*In collaboration with:* Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and ALUO – The
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Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the
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