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100 Notes – 100 Thoughts

Now available: The third round of 21 notebooks in both printed and e-book editions. The notebooks appear in three different formats (A6, A5, B5) and range from 16 to 48 pages in length. The third round of notebook authors include Ida Applebroog, Walter Benjamin and Nikola Doll, Jill Bennett, George Chan and Fernando García-Dory, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Salvador Dalí and Ignacio Vidal-Folch, Dietmar Dath, Jimmie Durham, Nawal El Saadawi, Matias Faldbakken, Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Avery F. Gordon, Boris Groys, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Sonallah Ibrahim, David Link and Geoff Cox, Ada Lovelace and Joasia Krysa, Stephen Muecke, Ingo Niermann and Chus Martínez, Ana Prvacki and Irina Aristarkhova, Andrew Ross, and Enrique Vila-Matas on Thomas Mann and Theodor W. Adorno. Commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13) Artistic DirectorCarolyn Christov-Bakargiev together with Head of Department, Member of Core Agent Group Chus Martínez, this series is edited by Head of Publications, Bettina Funcke.
http://www.hatjecantz.de/documenta13
http://documentagmbh.cmail4.com/t/j/l/ctyiit/elrdjz/d/

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Diagram Workshop

WHAT IS IT?
Drawing on (amongst others) Gilles Deleuze’s notion of the diagramInto the Diagram is a workshop/event exploring all kinds of dia/gramming, especially diagrams, maps, biograms, indeed many kinds of grams. We’re interested in the practice and philosophy of diagrams and related things.

WHEN/WHERE IS IT?
There will be parallel workshops primarily in Sydney and Aarhus, Denmark, but we hope also in other cities (for example, our friends at Senselab in Montréal and Tero Karppi in Turku, Finland), that we hope will have points of contact on December 13-14 (and 15-16 in Sydney). There will also be a lead in time with readings and activities, for a week or so before then.

DIAGRAMS
Explore the diagrams of echoes, derives, etc. from the workshop at https://diagramworkshop.wordpress.com/
 

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Lecture: Sensibility and Semiocapital, Franco Berardi “Bifo”

6. December 2011
12:00to14:00

Digital Aesthetics Research Centre and Italian Studies, Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, invite you to the Lecture:

Sensibility and Semiocapital
Franco Berardi “Bifo”

Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditoriet, Nygaard, Aarhus University.

Abstract: Disease of civilization from Freud to the present: from Freudian repression to the explosion of the Infosphere. Effects of the information overload on the Psychosphere.
Sensibility and psychopathology.
Effects of acceleration on the individual and collective psychosphere.
Power: complexity, acceleration and techno-linguistic automatisms.
Financial violence and precarious infosphere.
Art literature and subjectivation: from a phenomenology of contemporary suffering of the precarious mind to the creation of a social mantra. Insurrection and sensibility in Europe.
Knowledge against financial capitalism.

Respondent: Olga Goriunova

Biography: Franco Berardi “Bifo” is a writer, media theorist and media-activist.
Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he took part in the staff of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976/1978). He was involved in the political movement of autonomia in Italy during the 1970s. He worked with Felix Guattari, in the field of schizoanalysis.
During the 1980s he contributed to the magazine Semiotexte (New York), Chimeres (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milano).
In the 1990s he published Mutazione e ciberpunk, (Genova, 1993), Cibernauti (Roma, 1994), Felix (2001), and he worked in the field of cyberculture and TV broadcasting.
He is one of the founders of the network Telestreet, and co-author of the book: Telestreet Macchina immaginativa non omologata.
Teaches Social history of the media in the Accademia di Brera, in Milano.
Co-founder of the rekombinant.org e-zine.
He is currently working on a book on Sensibility in the age of connectivity.

Olga Goriunova is Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, UK.

Hosted by Tatiana Bazzichelli

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