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    Trevor Plagen and Jacob Appelbaum. Transmediale Festival

    Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum in conversation

    The work of artist Trevor Paglen approaches the interferences between technology, power and the public sphere by using specific spaces in art. As part of the exhibition Really Useful Knowledge, Paglen invites Jacob Appelbaum to discuss the rise of government surveillance and the way in which this affects people’s freedom and their ability to act. Appelbaum is a computer security researcher and hacker and is part of the Tor Project, which advocates internet privacy. He also collaborated with Wikileaks in relation to the leaks involved in the Snowden case.

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    http://www.internationaleonline.org

    L’Internationale Online, new online research platform

    L’Internationale Online, new online research platform, resources and discussion is now available. L' Internationale Online is a joint initiative of the museum network L’Internationale and KASK / School of Arts of University College Ghent, where speculative texts, artistic projects and research papers will be published monthly, commisioned and inspired by the work and collections of the confederation

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    Adelita Husni-Bey. Postcards from the Desert Island, 2010-2011. Kaddist Art Foundation Collection

    Really Useful Knowledge

    The notion of “really useful knowledge” emerged at the beginning of the 19th century alongside the workers’ awareness of the need for self-education.

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    www.archivosenuso.org

    Archivos en Uso (Archives in Use)

    This website disseminates digital archives resulting from the collective research the Red Conceptualismos del Sur and Museo Reina Sofía have promoted with regard to the archives of the CADA (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte) group, from Chile, the creative practices of the Human Rights Movement in Argentina and the work of the Argentinian sociologist and artist Roberto Jacoby. The project addresses the public dimension, not the patronage, of the document, putting forward an alternative way of considering and articulating a museum’s collection.

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    David Cronenberg. Videodrome. Film, 1983

    Cinema and video. The image is a virus. Histories of cinema (1980-1990s)

    This audiovisual series looks at the 1980s, and that decade’s prolongation into the 1990s, as a genealogy of much of the dialectics that explain contemporary, as a time period and cultural category. The 1980s have traditionally been considered in terms of market extension and as the articulation of a pensive, self-referential artistic sphere. So, appeals to the final moments of identity-centred historicism, appeals that are visible in the return to the pictorial in Europe, or to the theses of the end of history as a justification of global neoconservatism, have resulted in this decade being considered through the paradigms of spectacle and banalisation.      

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    Image of XY? Masculine Identity? Frontiers, bodies, education and violence

    XY? Masculine Identity? Frontiers, bodies, education and violence

    There are men's bodies and there are masculinities expressed in roles, attitudes, identities and profiles that encompass multiple bodies and sexual practices. But, there also are frontiers that define identities, bodies hyper-identified with “the masculine,” and social and cultural traditions in which the aforementioned, acts as an airtight compartment, at least in appearance. This course is dedicated to the understanding of what masculinity is, how it is constructed, what and whom it questions nowadays, and whether or not “other masculinities” are possible.

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    Image of Welfare Wounded. State, Rights and the Struggle for the Common Good

    Welfare Wounded. State, Rights and the Struggle for the Common Good

    This course explores the role of the Welfare State in a desirable constituent process.  The successive crises occurring in capitalism have led to an interruption in this government model, which is being reformulated into a State of Debt not governed by the rule of law. Welfare wounded fuels the debate on how to shift from State institutions to institutions of the commons, understanding the latter as the institutional mortar with which to build a new political logic.