#WB: quoting Walter Benjamin, Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts A new e-book and its premiere in the form of an interactive, analog-digital reading on the contemporary relevance of Walter Benjamin
When: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 8 PM Where: Jewish Theater of Austria 6, Kandlgasse, A 1070 Vienna September 26, 2010, is the 70th anniversary of the death of the writer, philosopher, and seminal, media and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin. The e-book #WB: quoting Walter Benjamin, Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts (Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century), edited by Alexandra Reill and compiled by kanonmedia, commemorates the oeuvre, but also the tragic end of a pre-eminent, German-Jewish intellectual whose life, work, and creativity was cut short by the Nazis. Walter Benjamin, Paris 1937 photographer unknown, archive: DHM Berlin As in Benjamin's day, we live in an age of political and social upheaval, and an age in which technologies co-define the change that accompanies upheaval. How does the process differ today, or are we still, as Benjamin suggests, caught in the cycle of "the eternal recurrence of the same"? Between August 2009 and February 2010, about 110 co-authors participated in the collective communication process on facebook. Their approaches to contemporary development prospects of democracy in a globalized, digitized and simultaneously rocked by economic crises world are presented in the ebook #WB: quoting Walter Benjamin, Paris, the capital of the XIX. Century and in the framework of the first, interactive and analog-digital reading - always in relation to the positions of Walter Benjamin: The audience and the moderators control the selection of the readings out of the ebook and - on another meta-level - contribute with their own own thoughts in a a mixture of reading, discussion, and media performance, thus reflecting together on the interweaving relationships and opportunities for development of democracy in the context of the rapid development of information technologies, economic crisis, globalization, Marxism, Capitalism and Corporate Social Responsibilities - always in an associative analysis of Walter Benjamin's reflections and a commemoration of his life and work. Opening Words Madeleine Reiser, Deputy District Director Warren Rosenzweig, Jewish Theater Austria Introduction Alexandra Reill, editor Analog-active Moderators Agnes Peschta, cultural worker Alexandra Reill, conceptual artist/film maker Joe Remick, journalist, radio presenter Warren Rosenzweig, author/director/producer Klaus Tauber, artist Media-active Moderators Starsky, visualist Charlotte Zott aka Sari, cultural worker Docu-active Moderators Karin Gruber, media pedagogue Lisa Sperber, photographer Concept/Interactive Setting Alexandra Reill Ebook Production kanonmedia, Alexandra Reill (ed.) >From October 7, 2010 the ebook will be available on Lulu. Event Production kanonmedia in Kooperation mit dem Jüdischen Theater Austria Support We thank all co-authors, team members and the support of the Cultural Commission 1070 Vienna and the Department of Science and Research in the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna. Venue Jewish Theater of Austria 6, Kandlgasse A 1070 Vienna TEL +4313199619 FAX +4313190817 MAIL thewin...@jta.at www.jta.at Press Contact kanonmedia ngo for new media Alexandra Reill Richtergasse 12 1070 Wien TEL +4369918207003 MAIL alexandra.re...@kanonmedia.com www.kanonmedia.com Visit http://www.kanonmedia.com/portfolio/publications/benjamin_paris.html for the download of high resolution press photo --- sorry for cross-postings. if you do not like to receive info from us any more please just reply and say unsubscribe in the header. ---
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