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    BECOMING MORE 20 MAY: "FUTURE CAUCUS" Saturday 20 May 20/05/2017 10:30 - 17:30 convened by Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken Share on Facebook Conveners: Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken Speakers: Diedrich Diederichsen, Kodwo Eshun, Maurizio Lazzarato, Doreen Mende, Kerstin Stakemeier, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark. FUTURE CAUCUS Not too long ago, Fredric Jameson’s phrase that “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” was widely quoted and taken as proof of a decline—or indeed collapse—of the utopian imagination, which Jameson himself has analysed so compellingly in its literary (science-fiction) manifestations. Today, there is an abundance of neofuturisms, futurologies, speculative philosophies and accelerationist scenarios. What seems at stake here is a fundamental split between a “capitalist realism” that encapsulates the future in an ever-expanding process of accumulation, and a tendency that in the face of a looming planetary catastrophe attempts to imagine another future, which can be conceptualized as the liberation of human potential or, alternatively as the proliferation of posthuman alterities. The tropes of “the end of history” and “the end of the future” are now replaced on the one hand by crisis-laden motif of the “end of the earth” or the “end of labour”, and on the other hand by a return to the future through a series of recent, themed exhibitions, festivals and biennials as well as a resurgence of artificial intelligence and automation in the popular imagination. Despite this return to the future, the temporal horizon of our present moment is perhaps more aptly characterized by the “shrinking future” of just-in-time production, risk management, high-frequency trading, and the futures market. “Speculative” artistic and intellectual practices seem little inclined to problematize their implication in a speculative market whose movement is marked precisely by a perpetual extension of the present and a colonization of the future. The ‘future caucus’ is convened to address the following questions: Could it be that the total privileging of a radically different future (itself a modernist move) over various pasts and presents is not itself a dangerous impoverishment? What can be learned from historical futurities and potentialities? Do we need to distinguish between a return to the futurity of utopian thought and revivals of a specifically modernist, utopian imagination? Is there a repressed content of utopian thought to be discovered that might speak to our current predicament? TICKETS Tickets for this programme are €10,- including lunch and dinner. Order your ticket here. PROGRAMME PANEL 1: THE LABOUR OF THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE AFTER LABOUR 10:30 Welcome: Annie Fletcher 10:45 Introduction: Eric de Bruyn 11:00 Keynote: McKenzie Wark 11:45 Keynote: Maurizio Lazzarato 12:30 Discussion moderated by Anna Teixeira Pinto 13:00 Lunch PANEL 2: SPECULATIVE PRACTICES 14:00 Diedrich Diederichsen 14:30 Kerstin Stakemeier 15:00 Marina Vishmidt 15:30 Discussion moderated by Sven Lütticken 16:00 Break EVENT 3: SOCIALIST AND AFRO-FUTURES (ON FILM) 16:30 Conversation & Film screenings Doreen Mende & Kodwo Eshun 17:30/18:00 close 18:00 Dinner @ Designhuis (Stadhuisplein 3) LIVE BLOG BECOMING MORE ON OPEN! DAI’s Open! COOP Academy Publishing Class will provide live coverage of the symposia taking place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 19, 20, 21 at the Van Abbemuseum's auditorium. You can follow them on their live blog. BIOGRAPHIES Biographies Eric de Bruyn en Sven Lütticken Biographies Diedrich Diederichsen, Maurizio Lazzarato, Doreen Mende, Kerstin Stakemeier, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark.

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    BECOMING MORE 20 MAY: "FUTURE CAUCUS" Saturday 20 May 20/05/2017 10:30 - 17:30 convened by Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken Share on Facebook Conveners: Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken Speakers: Diedrich Diederichsen, Kodwo Eshun, Maurizio Lazzarato, Doreen Mende, Kerstin Stakemeier, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark. FUTURE CAUCUS Not too long ago, Fredric Jameson’s phrase that “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” was widely quoted and taken as proof of a decline—or indeed collapse—of the utopian imagination, which Jameson himself has analysed so compellingly in its literary (science-fiction) manifestations. Today, there is an abundance of neofuturisms, futurologies, speculative philosophies and accelerationist scenarios. What seems at stake here is a fundamental split between a “capitalist realism” that encapsulates the future in an ever-expanding process of accumulation, and a tendency that in the face of a looming planetary catastrophe attempts to imagine another future, which can be conceptualized as the liberation of human potential or, alternatively as the proliferation of posthuman alterities. The tropes of “the end of history” and “the end of the future” are now replaced on the one hand by crisis-laden motif of the “end of the earth” or the “end of labour”, and on the other hand by a return to the future through a series of recent, themed exhibitions, festivals and biennials as well as a resurgence of artificial intelligence and automation in the popular imagination. Despite this return to the future, the temporal horizon of our present moment is perhaps more aptly characterized by the “shrinking future” of just-in-time production, risk management, high-frequency trading, and the futures market. “Speculative” artistic and intellectual practices seem little inclined to problematize their implication in a speculative market whose movement is marked precisely by a perpetual extension of the present and a colonization of the future. The ‘future caucus’ is convened to address the following questions: Could it be that the total privileging of a radically different future (itself a modernist move) over various pasts and presents is not itself a dangerous impoverishment? What can be learned from historical futurities and potentialities? Do we need to distinguish between a return to the futurity of utopian thought and revivals of a specifically modernist, utopian imagination? Is there a repressed content of utopian thought to be discovered that might speak to our current predicament? TICKETS Tickets for this programme are €10,- including lunch and dinner. Order your ticket here. PROGRAMME PANEL 1: THE LABOUR OF THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE AFTER LABOUR 10:30 Welcome: Annie Fletcher 10:45 Introduction: Eric de Bruyn 11:00 Keynote: McKenzie Wark 11:45 Keynote: Maurizio Lazzarato 12:30 Discussion moderated by Anna Teixeira Pinto 13:00 Lunch PANEL 2: SPECULATIVE PRACTICES 14:00 Diedrich Diederichsen 14:30 Kerstin Stakemeier 15:00 Marina Vishmidt 15:30 Discussion moderated by Sven Lütticken 16:00 Break EVENT 3: SOCIALIST AND AFRO-FUTURES (ON FILM) 16:30 Conversation & Film screenings Doreen Mende & Kodwo Eshun 17:30/18:00 close 18:00 Dinner @ Designhuis (Stadhuisplein 3) LIVE BLOG BECOMING MORE ON OPEN! DAI’s Open! COOP Academy Publishing Class will provide live coverage of the symposia taking place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 19, 20, 21 at the Van Abbemuseum's auditorium. You can follow them on their live blog. BIOGRAPHIES Biographies Eric de Bruyn en Sven Lütticken Biographies Diedrich Diederichsen, Maurizio Lazzarato, Doreen Mende, Kerstin Stakemeier, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark.

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    BECOMING MORE 20 MAY: "FUTURE CAUCUS" Saturday 20 May 20/05/2017 10:30 - 17:30 convened by Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken Share on Facebook Conveners: Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken Speakers: Diedrich Diederichsen, Kodwo Eshun, Maurizio Lazzarato, Doreen Mende, Kerstin Stakemeier, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark. FUTURE CAUCUS Not too long ago, Fredric Jameson’s phrase that “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” was widely quoted and taken as proof of a decline—or indeed collapse—of the utopian imagination, which Jameson himself has analysed so compellingly in its literary (science-fiction) manifestations. Today, there is an abundance of neofuturisms, futurologies, speculative philosophies and accelerationist scenarios. What seems at stake here is a fundamental split between a “capitalist realism” that encapsulates the future in an ever-expanding process of accumulation, and a tendency that in the face of a looming planetary catastrophe attempts to imagine another future, which can be conceptualized as the liberation of human potential or, alternatively as the proliferation of posthuman alterities. The tropes of “the end of history” and “the end of the future” are now replaced on the one hand by crisis-laden motif of the “end of the earth” or the “end of labour”, and on the other hand by a return to the future through a series of recent, themed exhibitions, festivals and biennials as well as a resurgence of artificial intelligence and automation in the popular imagination. Despite this return to the future, the temporal horizon of our present moment is perhaps more aptly characterized by the “shrinking future” of just-in-time production, risk management, high-frequency trading, and the futures market. “Speculative” artistic and intellectual practices seem little inclined to problematize their implication in a speculative market whose movement is marked precisely by a perpetual extension of the present and a colonization of the future. The ‘future caucus’ is convened to address the following questions: Could it be that the total privileging of a radically different future (itself a modernist move) over various pasts and presents is not itself a dangerous impoverishment? What can be learned from historical futurities and potentialities? Do we need to distinguish between a return to the futurity of utopian thought and revivals of a specifically modernist, utopian imagination? Is there a repressed content of utopian thought to be discovered that might speak to our current predicament? TICKETS Tickets for this programme are €10,- including lunch and dinner. Order your ticket here. PROGRAMME PANEL 1: THE LABOUR OF THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE AFTER LABOUR 10:30 Welcome: Annie Fletcher 10:45 Introduction: Eric de Bruyn 11:00 Keynote: McKenzie Wark 11:45 Keynote: Maurizio Lazzarato 12:30 Discussion moderated by Anna Teixeira Pinto 13:00 Lunch PANEL 2: SPECULATIVE PRACTICES 14:00 Diedrich Diederichsen 14:30 Kerstin Stakemeier 15:00 Marina Vishmidt 15:30 Discussion moderated by Sven Lütticken 16:00 Break EVENT 3: SOCIALIST AND AFRO-FUTURES (ON FILM) 16:30 Conversation & Film screenings Doreen Mende & Kodwo Eshun 17:30/18:00 close 18:00 Dinner @ Designhuis (Stadhuisplein 3) LIVE BLOG BECOMING MORE ON OPEN! DAI’s Open! COOP Academy Publishing Class will provide live coverage of the symposia taking place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 19, 20, 21 at the Van Abbemuseum's auditorium. You can follow them on their live blog. BIOGRAPHIES Biographies Eric de Bruyn en Sven Lütticken Biographies Diedrich Diederichsen, Maurizio Lazzarato, Doreen Mende, Kerstin Stakemeier, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark.

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    BECOMING MORE 20 MAY: "FUTURE CAUCUS"

    VAN ABBE MUSEUM, EINDHOVEN

    Saturday 20 May

    10:30 - 17:30

    Conveners: Eric de Bruyn and Sven Ltticken

    Speakers: Diedrich Diederichsen, Kodwo Eshun, Maurizio Lazzarato, Doreen Mende,

    Kerstin Stakemeier, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark.

    Socialist Future: Science without Ends

    Doreen Mende

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    Image: Gottfried Kolditz (Regie) and Joachim Hellwig (Script), Im Staub der Sterne, 1976, screenshot.

    A science without ends emerges from impatient zombies of a socialist planned future: On
    April 23, 1975, the East-German filmmakers, authors and script-writers Joachim Hellwig
    and Claus Ritter defended their collective practice-based PhD as it would be called today
    on the artistic creation for visions of a socialist future film. Their writing resulted from the
    experiences of conceptualizing defa-futurum that has been initiated as a working group in
    July 1971 by the Ministry of Culture and DEFA [the state-owned film studio of the German
    Democratic Republic] itself with the objective to define principles of the socialist future-film
    in difference to the idea of Utopia and Science-Fiction. The definition of the
    Problemprmisse' [premise of the problem] operated as the main element of the artistic
    process to analyze, for example, the eradication of the colonial system, the transition to
    socialism and the question of noninterference in internal problems of another state or entity
    as it has been elaborated in the film Im Staub der Sterne [In the Dust of Stars] / 1976.
    defa-futurum followed the idea of the intergenrefilm, integrating and crossing the feature
    film, documentary practice, short-film and animation-film. The talk will reflect on futurums
    projects through excerpts from films, writings and research by Hellwig/Ritter in order to
    speculate that what if the East-German state-socialism itself has been a special form of
    science-fiction, only, the concept of the state-planned economy never fulfilled its plans.

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