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[Nettime-nl] Under Fire symposium | May 29, 2004 |
************************************************************* UNDER FIRE | MAY 29, 2004 | 15.00 - 19.00 CET (GMT +1) A critical forum on the organization and representation of violence by Jordan Crandall presented by Witte de With in collaboration with V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam. ************************************************************* UNDER FIRE explores the organization and representation of contemporary armed conflict. The project consists of a series of presentations and discussions that occur online, and live in Rotterdam. The discussions involve participation from individuals working in politics, theory, criticism, the arts, and journalism from both the West and the Middle East. This first symposium bringing the together the lead participants in the project, including John Armitage, Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss, Brian Holmes, Gema Martín Muñoz and Loretta Napoleoni will be moderated by Jordan Crandall. The project explores the ways that armed violence materializes as act and image, searching for new insight into its mechanisms and effects. In so doing, it engages issues of economy, embodiment, symbolic meaning, and affect. By delving into the economic underpinnings of contemporary armed conflict UNDER FIRE scrutinizes the legacy of the "military-industrial complex," the rise of the privatized military industry, and the repercussions of the commercialization of violence. The project has been looking at contemporary conflicts as being driven by combinations of territorial, market, and ideological imperatives, and new attempts at the reconciliation of identity and universality. It looks to emergent processes of organization that operate on multiple levels of temporality and implicit form. Through this approach, UNDER FIRE aims to articulate emergent systems of decentralized control and new global dynamics of power. By building on historical concepts of hegemony, the project attempts to understand the nature of emergent power and the forms of resistance to it, and situating cycles of violence within the modalities of a global system. STREAM and live IRC moderation via http://www.v2.nl/live/ Online moderation by Stephen Kovats, V2_. PROGRAM 15.00 - 15.10 welcome by Catherine David 15.10 - 15.30 introduction by Jordan Crandall 15.30 - 15.50 Brian Holmes 15.50 - 16.10 Asef Bayat 16.10 - 16.30 Susan Buck-Morss 16.30 - 17.00 discussion and live feedback 17.00 - 17.30 break 17.30 - 17.50 John Armitage 17.50 - 18.10 Loretta Napoleoni 18.10 - 18.30 Gema Martín Muñoz 18.30 - 19.00 discussion and live feedback For those of you who have been participating in <underfire>, the moderated discussions online over the past few months, and those who are simply interested in the project and can not attend the conference in person we invite you to actively participate online. The event will be streamed live with an open IRC channel to enable your direct remote participation. There will be a moderated chat throughout the session so that your comments and questions can be included in the discussion and the texted commentary of the chat will run onscreen during the event. We are very much interested in your opinions, critique and feedback, and hope that you can join us from wherever you are at that day! Saturday, May 29 | 15.00 - 19.00hrs CET, GMT +1 | Rotterdam | WEBARCHIVE of the project at www.wdw.nl STREAM and live IRC moderation via http://www.v2.nl/live/ Richard de Boer Communications & PR V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam 010-206 72 77 (direct) 010-206 72 72 (centraal) richard@v2.nl http://www.v2.nl
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