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<nettime> Make World #2 paper @ European Social Forum |
(Printed in 10.000 copies the second free Make World paper has arrived in Florence. If you're there and interested in copies, please contact Florian Schneider who is in Florence with the Expertbase bus. The paper will also be distributed at Futuresonic (Manchester) and the World Information exhibit in Amsterdam. /geert) Make World #2 Paper Download URL: http://lola.d-a-s-h.org/paper/paper6.pdf Table of Content 2 A Virtual World is Possible: From Tactical Media to Digital Multitudes (Geert Lovink/ Florian Schneider) 3 Touching an Elephant (McKenzie Wark) 4 Wu-ming: 54 Re:inter:view (Snafu) 5 Porto Alegre - Todays Bandung? (Michael Hardt) 6 Wandering between two worlds. (selection of posts from generation-online list after Porto Alegre, Genove, Strasbourg 2002) 9 The European Social Forum: Sovereign and Multitude (Jamie King) 10 Fences of Enclosure, Windows of Possibility (Naomi Klein) 11 Brief history of the noborder network (Hagen Kopp/ Florian Schneider) 13 The march on the left (Franco Barchiesi) 14 Is it a Yes Man Satire? Yes, it is Yes Men, but it's not a satire (A virtual interview) 15 Anti-Capitalism with a smiley face (Eric Empson) 16 Yomango: Sabotaging capitel while having fun 17 Virtuosity and Revolution. The Political Theory of Exodus (Paolo Virno) 20 Social entropy and recombination (Franco Bifo Berardi) 20 The Dark Side of the Multitude (Arianna Bove/ Erik Empson) 21 What is to be Thought? What is to be Done? (Alain Badiou, Natasha Michel, Sylvian Lazarus) 22 Homo Politicus Pim Fortuyn: A case study (Herman Asselberghs/ Dieter Lesage) 23 A Visit to the Sarai New Media Initiative Delhi (Geert Lovink) 25 Dark Fiber (Franco Bifo Berardi) 27 noborder Camp 02 (Various contributors) 28 The Dark side of Camping - A Critical Perspective (Susanne Lang/ Florian Schneider) 29 Border: Waking Across, as opposed to Flying Above (Shuddhabrata Sengupta) 30 Are we in a war? Do we have an enemy? (Slavoj Zizek) 31 The clash in the western mind (Antonio Negri) 32 The Transformation of Security (Michael Renner) Introduction The World Social Forum, organized twice in Porto Alegre 2001 and 2002, not only prompted a flurry of autonomous self-organization, crossborder organization, and creative media interventions. It also initiated an intense process of analysis and reflection on the tricky question of a 'global' dynamic of self-organization. Across continents and movement traditions, a few key terms continue to re-emerge as focal points for reflection - above all the status of sovereignty and the limitations of a sovereign logic of organization, as well as the frustration with the various traditions of leftist representationalism. Activists have long ceased to simply march on the corporate and institutional bad guys of globalisation-as-usual. They have also begun to articulate alternative logics of organization and mercilessly sort through the archive of political pieties, challenging the dominance of an older leftist expertocracy at every juncture. The words of Franco Barchiesi of Indymedia South Africa might well serve as a summary of this shared sentiment: "it was time for the new social movements to express the qualitatively new "biopolitical" nature of their struggle in terms of refusal not only of the identity and mystique of "national liberation", but also of the leadership practices of a left that has historically tended to reproduce subordination and discursive expropriation of the movements' grassroots subjectivity." In this issue we have brought together many different perspectives on the increasingly pressing questions of the 'movement' - its theory, its politics, its media and modes of organisation. The texts reproduced here add vibrancy, background and analysis to these ongoing debates, and irrespective of the diversity reflect that none of these issues can be treated in separation. The first edition of this free newspaper appeared in October 2001, as a part of the Munich 'Make World' festival and exhibition that brought together activists, new media artists and theorists. The first paper dealt with responses to 911, migration, immaterial labour, free software and featured a number of art projects. The free paper format already has a certain tradition. Within our context it started with the nettime ZKP4 paper, produced for the Nettime meeting in Ljubljana, May 1997. Another one appeared in Zagreb, August 1999. In the global edition of 'Bastard' a group of editors brought together critical texts related to the Kosov@ conflict. Within this 'tradition' the Make World paper#2 also works with the concept of collaborative text filtering. The amount of key texts and strategic debates on the Internet is overwhelming. There are so many interesting lists and weblogs. It is a potlatch of content. This abundance of material could drive one mad. Yet, it also makes selecting and editing much easier. There is less of a feel of censorship and exclusion. All the texts, in their full length, including responses, are available online. The context of this issue is the summer and fall of 2002, defined by the growing threat of an US-led Iraq invasion. The texts for this issue were selected alongside some significant events of the last few months such as the noborder camp in Strasbourg, where between 2000 and 3000 activists met for discussions, actions and media interventions. But it may also seen as a direct or indirect output from the work on the films and the online-platform "What's to be done?" http://wastun.org or the dark markets conference http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at in the beginning of october in Vienna. Last but not least the make-world paper#2 will be accompagnied by live-streaming and mobile screening events during the European Social Forum in Florence. This paper has been compiled and edited by: Arianna Bove, Erik Empson, Susanne Lang, Geert Lovink, Florian Schneider, Soenke Zehle. Thanks to: Suzanne Helden, Paul Keller, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Joanne Richardson, Pit Schultz and all the contributors. Related URLs: http://lola.d-a-s-h.org/paper/html/ http://expertbase.net http://www.wastun.org http://make-world.org http://world-information.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net