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Hiyas + good morning! Hope this finds you all well!! http://pas-un.eu is another beginning some Might fancy joining? (currently involves yours truly & Hilan Bensusan - hilanbensusan.net ) Bellow there's a bit of a french/english blurb to boot.. However you do - no-safety is actually safe.. ;) Much fun and bests! ahanonah xxx --- text by Hilan --- <> The human, the unhuman, and the urban Modernity conceived humanity as a reference for all its universal projects. Humans are different from anything else they are whos, not whats; they obey to norms, not only to laws; they have spirit, not only bodies. Hence, human rights, human science. All encompassed by what contrasts to nature culture. It promoted the enclosure of dignity as much as of politics, subjectivity and delicate interactions. The inhuman, on the other hand, is the proscribed, the contemptible. There is a line, a line that separates the human from the less-than-human. But attachment to the human became controversial. Modernity, with its habit of splitting the human from all the rest, became suspicious. Politics and diplomacy became explicitly having to reach beyond: political ecology, animal rights, info-hacking, cyborgs, bio-hacking, technoshamanism But what would happen to the label human? Would it become old-fashioned? Would it be no more than an excuse? An insult? A demonstrative (like for the jaguars, jaguars are human)? And the urban. The human niche. What sort of niche is it? << Ceci nest pas un humain >> Lhumain, linhumain et lurbain La modernité a conçu lhumanité comme la référence pour tous les projets universaux. Elle a bien séparé lhumain des autres animaux il y a des droits humains, des sciences humaines, des institutions politiques exclusifs pour les humains, des attitudes humanitaires etc. et des objets les humain sont des sujets, une chose dite complètement différent. Cétait le clôture de la dignité (et aussi de la subjectivité, de la politique, des sens et des interactions délicats) : aucun appel de linhumain peut être assez fort pour changer la force des besoins humains. Aussitôt, être humain agençait des valeurs sanctionnés linhumain, par contre, était le condamné, le proscrit, Être sous-humain était déjà se mettre au delà du respect. Mais lattachement à lhumain est devenu controversé. La politique, il semble, va au delà de lhumain et ainsi la diplomatie, les relations vertueux, les collectifs et les associations. Les projets qui engagent les gens (lécologie politique, de droits des animaux, les info-hackings techniques, les cyborgs, le bio-hacking, le technoshamanisme etc.) ont commencé a reconnaître des communautés au delà de lhumain. On commence à mouvoir les yeux vers des sphères plus amples. Le travails des anthropologues comme Bruno Latour et Philippe Descola ont bien remarqué sur les hybrides entre le monde humain et le monde naturel, qui sont une partie chaque jour plus présent dans nos vies. Quest-ce quil va devenir de létiquette <> ? Ce sera un mot dépassé ? Une excuse (« cest humain, pardonnez ») ? Une offense ? Une communauté entre dautres ? Simplement un démonstratif (pour Viveiros de Castro et le perspectivisme amérindien, pour les jaguars les humains sont eux) ? Au même temps, lurbain est la niche de lhumain comme nous le concevons en modernité. Les villes ne sont pourtant pas seulement les habitats des gens, elle abritent toute une urbi-biota dont il y a ceux qui sont parasites des humain et ceux qui leur sont indifférent. Les villes sont aussi peut-être le berceau des espèces au delà de lhumain, des espèces pour qui nous sommes possiblement en train de préparer lenvironnement : les cyborgs surhumains, les bactéries ultra résistants ou même les nouveaux avatars du capital (voire Nick Land, Desiring Machines et aussi Le Capital de Costa-Gravas). Donc, cest quoi lhumain dans la ville ? Links Posthumanities: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/posthumanities HorsHumain http://www.horshumain.org/#/page __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Art and Political Conflict - A public debate at Framer Framed, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Sunday July 6, 14.00 - 17.00hrs
Art and Political Conflict A public debate at Framer Framed, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Sunday July 6, 14.00 - 17.00hrs The relationship between art and political conflict has been significantly reshaped by the proliferation of digital media and the internet as a means of instant dissemination of images, texts, and audiovisual expressions. Artistic /activist actions intervene via these digital means into an expanded symbolical space that is no longer the sole sanctuary of artists and art audiences, but instead has become the ‘neural fibre’ of everyday life. At first sight this seems to have simplified the task enormously of art that wants to intervene in daily life, not least in urgent political affairs. However, the intervention of art in political conflict has turned out anything but uncomplicated in recent years. The idea that art can address pressing social, ecological and material issues in a wider public domain to some extent presupposes a democratic context that is willing to absorb and respond to this criticism. When this context is absent, in the face of authoritarian rule, amidst tightening ideological domination, the efficacy of artistic/activist intervention is called into question, while unpredictable detrimental results of actions further complicate the situation. Recent outpourings of artistic/activist protest for instance in Turkey and Russia seem to have amplified the tightening of authoritarian rule. The hopeful beginnings of the uprising in Syria (once dubbed the “Syrian Cyber-Revolution”, suggesting the image of a bloodless revolution) have descended into a nightmare. The rise of violent sectarian religious fundamentalist movements in the wake of the various crises in the Middle East have rendered the arts all but speechless. How can artists respond to such extreme deployments of brutal political force, and what are responsibilities do they face in staging political dissent? How can art, as a predominantly secular ideology, produce a counter-weight to the ideological closures of fundamentalist religious (mass-)movements? This public debate is organised at the occasion of the Tactical Media Connections research meeting at the Tolhuistuin, which marks the start of a public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to current forms of artistic / activist media practices. Tactical Media had been identified in the 1990s as an emerging practice at the intersection of art, media, political activism and technological experimentation. Tactical Media are media of crisis and opposition. Tactical Media crack open the media, cultural, and political landscape. Completely without innocence their operations are never uncontroversial or straightforward. The debate will be staged inside the exhibition Crisis of History ( www.crisisofhistory.nl ), which presents the works of young artists from the Middle East that investigate the Modernist dream and what is left of it. The exhibition includes, inter alia, the provocative Jihadi Gangster series by Aman Mojadidi (Afghanistan), the video Children of the Left by Urok Shirhan (Iraq), and the demolition of Mecca in the installation Ground Zero by Ahmed Mater (Saudi-Arabia). With: Brian Holmes (writer, art critic, translator, activist), Robert Kluijver (Curator of Crisis of History), Paolo Gerbaudo (Researcher, writer, lecturer King's College London), Simona Lodi (director Share Festival Torino), Ozge Celikaslan (Video Vortex Istanbul) Moderators: David Garcia (artist, researcher, co-founder Next 5 Minutes) & Eric Kluitenberg (writer, theorist, editor in chief Tactical Media Files). Location: Framer Framed at the Tolhuistuin Buiksloterweg 5c, Amsterdam. Sunday, July 6, 2014 - 14.00 - 17.00 hrs. Admission: free Resources: For updates on the Tactical Media Connections public research please refer to our blogs: http://blog.tacticalmediafiles.net http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/ Documentation of the evolving practices of Tactical Media is collected at: www.tacticalmediafiles.net Further materials are collected in the website of Brian Holmes' 'Tactical Media Generation' project: http://autonomousuniversity.org/content/tactical-media-generation Support: This debate is organised in collaboration with Framer Framed ( http://framerframed.nl/en/ ) and the Tolhuistuin (www.tolhuistuin.nl/english). Tactical Media Connections is supported by the e-culture program of the Creative Industries Fund NL.__ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] non pass on pas-un.eu ??
Hiyas and good evening! Hope this finds you all well! A bit of an updated this is not human on: http://pas-un.eu/?p=111 and more when a scroller does the operation on: http://pas-un.eu Cheers and have a fably memorable evening! aharon xx __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
