A Commonality That Cannot Speak: Europe in Translation International Conference
8/9 June 2012, 10.30-17.00 Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK Währinger Strasse 59, 1090 Vienna What is at the core of the European crisis today? The trouble with the Euro, as the ruling elites want us to believe? Wrong! The crisis is not about the common currency, but about the current commonality. Europe not only lacks a common language to collectively respond to the crisis, or a common public space to mobilize joint democratic action against its disastrous social consequences. It fails, above all, to address the very commonality of today's capitalist crisis that now returns to Europe after having long been displaced to other parts of the world, outsourced to those "others" who were not, and still are not, supposed to enter a truly shared sphere of commonality. Hence, when today, caught in crisis, the European modes of speaking and decision- making fall apart into a cacophony of national languages and a chaos of parallel political realities, they simultaneously keep silencing the very commonality of the question of commonality. It has been claimed that translation can offer a solution to the enigma of linguistic and political commonalities. But what kind of translation? Certainly not the one that simply serves the communication between allegedly homolingual communities and thus reproduces the already existing regimes and imaginaries. So how can we think of another kind of translation, one that addresses a non-aggregate community of foreigners, migrants of all sorts, but also all those who are becoming increasingly foreign to their own "native" languages, cultures, societies and political institutions: a translation that evokes a new mode of sociality still in search of its political actualization? With: Arianna Bove, Boris Buden, Nicole Doerr, Stefan Nowotny, Loredana Polezzi, Naoki Sakai, Rubia Salgado, Myriam Suchet, Jon Solomon Su Zhean, Peter Waterhouse, 1. März transnationaler Migrant_innenstreik Moderation: Peter Grabher, Birgit Mennel [http://heterolingual.eipcp.net/conference][1] Languages: German-English (simultaneous translation) Childcare on request (until 1 June 2012) A conference organized by the eipcp in the framework of the project Europe as a Translational Space: The Politics of Heterolinguality, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): TRP34-G15 --- eipcp - european institute for progressive cultural policies a-1060 vienna, gumpendorfer strasse 63b a-4040 linz, harruckerstrasse 7 [[email protected]][2] [http://www.eipcp.net][3] If you prefer not to receive any further announcements from eipcp, please send an e-mail with the subject 'unsubscribe' to [[email protected]][4]. [1]: http://heterolingual.eipcp.net/conference [2]: mailto:[email protected] [3]: http://www.eipcp.net [4]: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
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