Re: [NetBehaviour] open call: AMBIENT REVOLTS

[Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour]

This is also relevant here I think -
https://www.akpress.org/against-the-fascist-creep.html

Thanks, Alan

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:12 AM, ruth catlow 
wrote:

> Of interest?
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: [bgcon] open call: AMBIENT REVOLTS
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 12:03:24 +0200
> From: Krystian Woznicki  
> Reply-To: k...@berlinergazette.de
> Organisation: Berliner Gazette
> To: digi-ya...@berlinergazette.de
>
> Hi,
>
> What does it mean to act politically when, like in this very moment, we
> are confronting the spread of right-wing populism as an ambient force
> that polarizes all of us? What, in other words, does it mean to oppose
> the imperceptible power of an atmosphere that outrules a collectivity
> that is inclusive of all? What does it mean to counter the
> quasi-environmentalization of proto-fascist tendencies that further
> foster segregation?
>
> Posing these questions in its 19th year, the Berliner Gazette continues
> a long-term engagement with contemporary forms of political agency and
> the common. In this open call for contributions, we wish to invite
> activists, journalists, researchers, cultural workers, coders and
> artists to join us looking for answers.
>
> We want to invite you to participate! There are two different formats of
> participation: conference workshops (deadline: May 20, 2018 ) and online
> newspaper (deadline: June 20, 2018).
>
> The structure of this email is as follows:
>
> 1. Development, context, goal
> 2. Conference workshops | call for contributions
> 3. Online-newspaper | call for contributions
>
> Links, that are implemented in the email text as footnotes, you will
> find at the very bottom.
>
> 1. Development, context, goal
>
> *Development*
>
> The BG team [1] began developing the AMBIENT REVOLTS project in July
> 2017. We started right after the G20 summit in Hamburg where some of us
> joined the alternative media center FCMC [2]  and witnessed with many
> other journalists the most severe execution of preemptive state violence
> in Germany’s recent history [3,4,5]. The ensuing recreation of the
> political landscape echoed the authoritarian approach of the G20 police
> force: a shift of politics to the right and even radical right, a
> restriction of demonstration rights and of expressions of political
> dissent, scaling and expanding security measures, etc. Against this
> backdrop we developed the concept for AMBIENT REVOLTS, including the
> general idea for our 2018 annual project consisting of a special section
> in our online-newspaper and a series of events culminating with our
> annual conference.
>
> Shortly after the g20-summer the BG annual conference FRIENDLY FIRE [6]
> took place and provided many fruitful possibilities to reflect the
> politics of citizenship under current conditions. Then, in December
> 2017, the BG team contributed to the #LutherLenin festival at the Studio
> Hrdinu in Prague [7]. Here we were able to test some of the ideas for
> AMBIENT REVOLTS. Finally we launched the project with first
> contributions to our online newspaper [8] and with a panel at the
> transmediale festival [9] in February 2018. Documents of our
> transmediale event are available in audio [10] and video [11,12].
>
> After that few members of the BG team went on a month-log tour, visiting
> some of the nodes of the BG network in Europe, including cities such as
> Genoa, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto, Paris and Brussels. We learned
> a lot about how the people who contribute to our online-newspaper or to
> our annual conferences live and work in their respective local contexts.
> This helped substantially honing some of the key ideas of the AMBIENT
> REVOLTS project.
>
> *Context*
>
> When we returned to Berlin in the beginning of March 2018, the
> atmosphere was literally spooky as the ghosts of the G20 summit came to
> the fore again. Symptomatic of this was the career step of Olaf Scholz
> [13]. Instead of paying for the consequences of his ‘bad management’ as
> the mayor of Hamburg – we are, to reiterate, talking about the most
> severe execution of state violence in Germany’s recent history –, Scholz
> became finance minister and even vice chancellor in Angela Merkel’s
> fourth cabinet. This disturbing move echoed the later day promotion of
> many high ranking policemen and politicians who had been responsible for
> the excesses of violence during the G8 in Genoa 2001 [14].
>
> If such things can happen ‘in bright daylight’ and if they are taken to
> be normal, rather than causing a public debate, then the public sphere
> is in peril. After all, Scholz’s promotion was followed by a silence
> that is telling inasmuch it expresses an implicit framework for
> censorship. As such this silence is a constitutive condition for the
> post-G20 public sphere: while (left-wing) criticism of the government
> and its interpretation of democracy is quelled, 

Re: [NetBehaviour] open call: AMBIENT REVOLTS

[Tom Keene]

Very much so - thanks! 

TOM KEENE: Artist/Activist/Researcher
Save Cressingham Gardens
www.db-estate.co.uk


On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, at 11:12 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> Of interest?


> 
>  Forwarded Message  Subject: [bgcon] open call:
> AMBIENT REVOLTS Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 12:03:24 +0200 From: Krystian
> Woznicki  Reply-To: k...@berlinergazette.de
> Organisation: Berliner Gazette To: digi-ya...@berlinergazette.de> 
>
> Hi,  What does it mean to act politically when, like in this very
> moment, we are confronting the spread of right-wing populism as an
> ambient force that polarizes all of us? What, in other words, does it
> mean to oppose the imperceptible power of an atmosphere that outrules
> a collectivity that is inclusive of all? What does it mean to counter
> the quasi-environmentalization of proto-fascist tendencies that
> further foster segregation?  Posing these questions in its 19th year,
> the Berliner Gazette continues a long-term engagement with
> contemporary forms of political agency and the common. In this open
> call for contributions, we wish to invite activists, journalists,
> researchers, cultural workers, coders and artists to join us looking
> for answers.  We want to invite you to participate! There are two
> different formats of participation: conference workshops (deadline:
> May 20, 2018 ) and online newspaper (deadline: June 20, 2018).The
> structure of this email is as follows:  1. Development, context, goal
> 2. Conference workshops | call for contributions 3. Online-newspaper |
> call for contributions  Links, that are implemented in the email text
> as footnotes, you will find at the very bottom.  1. Development,
> context, goal  *Development*  The BG team [1] began developing the
> AMBIENT REVOLTS project in July 2017. We started right after the G20
> summit in Hamburg where some of us joined the alternative media center
> FCMC [2]  and witnessed with many other journalists the most severe
> execution of preemptive state violence in Germany’s recent history
> [3,4,5]. The ensuing recreation of the political landscape echoed the
> authoritarian approach of the G20 police force: a shift of politics to
> the right and even radical right, a restriction of demonstration
> rights and of expressions of political dissent, scaling and expanding
> security measures, etc. Against this backdrop we developed the concept
> for AMBIENT REVOLTS, including the general idea for our 2018 annual
> project consisting of a special section in our online-newspaper and a
> series of events culminating with our annual conference.   Shortly
> after the g20-summer the BG annual conference FRIENDLY FIRE [6] took
> place and provided many fruitful possibilities to reflect the politics
> of citizenship under current conditions. Then, in December 2017, the
> BG team contributed to the #LutherLenin festival at the Studio Hrdinu
> in Prague [7]. Here we were able to test some of the ideas for AMBIENT
> REVOLTS. Finally we launched the project with first contributions to
> our online newspaper [8] and with a panel at the transmediale festival
> [9] in February 2018. Documents of our transmediale event are
> available in audio [10] and video [11,12].After that few members
> of the BG team went on a month-log tour, visiting some of the nodes of
> the BG network in Europe, including cities such as Genoa, Barcelona,
> Madrid, Lisbon, Porto, Paris and Brussels. We learned a lot about how
> the people who contribute to our online-newspaper or to our annual
> conferences live and work in their respective local contexts. This
> helped substantially honing some of the key ideas of the AMBIENT
> REVOLTS project.  *Context*  When we returned to Berlin in the
> beginning of March 2018, the atmosphere was literally spooky as the
> ghosts of the G20 summit came to the fore again. Symptomatic of this
> was the career step of Olaf Scholz [13]. Instead of paying for the
> consequences of his ‘bad management’ as the mayor of Hamburg – we are,
> to reiterate, talking about the most severe execution of state
> violence in Germany’s recent history –, Scholz became finance minister
> and even vice chancellor in Angela Merkel’s fourth cabinet. This
> disturbing move echoed the later day promotion of many high ranking
> policemen and politicians who had been responsible for the excesses of
> violence during the G8 in Genoa 2001 [14].  If such things can happen
> ‘in bright daylight’ and if they are taken to be normal, rather than
> causing a public debate, then the public sphere is in peril. After
> all, Scholz’s promotion was followed by a silence that is telling
> inasmuch it expresses an implicit framework for censorship. As such
> this silence is a constitutive condition for the post-G20 public
> sphere: while (left-wing) criticism of the government and its
> interpretation of democracy is quelled, right-wing populists are
> elevated, e.g. when readily given stages, even by liberal