[Rumori] Neuro

[David]

MAKEWORLDS (2)		CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


NAME

NEURO -- networking europe
Movements and technologies of the common


DATE

February 26-29, 2004


LOCATION

Muffathalle, Munich (Germany)


SYNOPSIS

A new generation of media and network initiatives from all over Europe
and different parts of the world present and work on their projects in
a broad interactive framework that explores the different conceptual
and practical idioms used to articulate and create new social,
political and artistic practices.

Originating within the networking culture of open communications and
free exchange the event aims to connect contemporary debates on
mobility, migration and social movements with new media instruments,
information and communication technologies.


WHAT'S NEW?

The new is emerging in unknown and multiple ways. It is emerging from
the exhaustion and crisis of conventional political concepts that are
no longer adequate to the unstable, informatic and immaterial
dimensions of the emerging division of labour. The new technologies of
the common are not universal hierarchies of political right but small
scale and intimate practices of constitution. The new involves those
who see the limitations of individual social practices of
self-realisation and desire to turn them into general and transferable
social technologies of emancipation.


BACKGROUND

It is time for intellectual and political debates to merge with
technology. Both to evaluate the current state of social movements and
to build on those orientations that are pushing the limits of what are
individually considered possible. NEURO sets out to create and map a
new discursive terrain and practical horizon: the ideas of 'freedom of
movement' and 'technologies of the common' draws into a synergetic
perspective the range of irreducibly conflictual practices whereby
society is reproduced.

Without losing sight of the (translocal) constitution of the local as
indispensable site of intervention, NEURO seeks to review and research
practices of networking that are already redefining the political
geography of Europe. In the ongoing diversification of the social,
processes of integration can no longer be clearly separated from
mechanisms of exclusion. The working out of these tensions at a
political and economic level is producing new levels of complexity as
well as new opportunities for provocative and experimental projects
that challenge orthodoxy and convention.

The focus on social reproduction is an acknowledgment that its various
modes are proliferating across an ever-expanding terrain in a process
that suggests that collective responses will themselves have to
explore some of the idioms and tools of the network in each of the
subjects under discussion, whether human rights and citizenship,
Empire and Europe, free software and intellectual property regimes,
the spectacle of civil society, or the institutional and bureaucratic
mentalities present within post-governmental environments.

Beyond the juridical parcelisation of people into discrete, sovereign
and rights-bearing subjects, the present offers a unique chance to
express and form solidarities that catch up in political terms with
the sociality of our being. For these struggles, networks and
intercommunicative agency are not goals but their very conditions of
possibility. Thus the new sits in opposition to the current forms of
exclusion because the appropriation of subjective freedoms within
Europe and beyond it are part of the foundations on which these
political edifices themselves rest.


TASKS

What could be new today in networking? After the thin promises of new
markets and new media, what aspirations remain for evolving struggles
for information, knowledge and communication? What is the role of
civil society in the framework of global governing practices of
political mediation today? What is the impact of immaterial and
affective labour for practices of migration and the reconfiguration of
the global economy of biopolitical production? What projects of self
constitution emerge from practices of refusal and exodus? How has the
movement reposed the question of the autonomy of the political in the
midst of a crisis of representation? Is mapping the only way to
express horizontal structures of cooperation and technologies of the
common?

None of the initiatives present at neuro will offer a
one-size-fits-all solution to global wrongs. However when taken
together it is imagined that they will exhibit the power of generating
communicable ideas out of small, laboratory contexts that are embedded
within different environments and in dialogue with one another.


TOPICS

NEURO is organized around seven major topics, that each constitute an
area for  debates on different levels and in different formats.
Various input and output devices will be attached to these topics.'

* SPECTACLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY Scaling the summits: esf, wsf, wsis -
Multi-stakeholder ideology and global governance scenarios - Snares of
inclusion, 	pitfalls of political mediation and the development
discourse

* TRANSITIONS OF LABOR Outsourcing and lean production - The becoming
migrant of labor - Cognitive labor and industries of affect - Division
and recomposition: the biopolitical network of immaterial labor

* FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT Third generation wall and wireless lager -
Management, mobility and post-human rights - Local and remote control

* CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION AND POLITICS OF SPACE Mapping,
mobile devices, games - Resisting virtual regimes  - Protest in the
non-protest

* SOCIAL ONTOLOGIES OF OPEN SOURCE The collapse of techno-
idealism - Hyper-alienation and property out of control  - Ethics of 
open
images and imagination

* FORMATION AND INFORMATION Educational projects in networking
environments - Knowledge production, general intellect and the
crisis of learning - Strategies of self-valorization from 
do-it-yourself to
everyone-is-an-expert

* CONSTITUTIVE PRACTICES Ad-hoc-networking and virtual organizing -
Escape, exodus and refusal - Hijacking speech: multilingualism beyond
identity and unity


SEE ALSO

http://www.makeworlds.org

http://d-a-s-h.org

http://www.muffathalle.de

http://www.kein.org

http://www.generation-online.org

http://www.incommunicado.info


CONTACT

neuro at kein.org


HISTORY

NEURO (networking europe) is the next version of the makeworlds
festival, which for the first time took place in October, 2001.


AUTHORS

Arianna Bove, Erik Empson, Susanne Lang, Geert Lovink, Florian
Schneider, Soenke Zehle