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Of Talking Rocks and Their Ideas of Peace
Photo by Natia Chikvaidze
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Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland
Jörg Scheller was invited by the University of Groningen (NL) to present and discuss art projects from present-day Poland that oppose the rampant polarization between internationally oriented left-wing liberals and nationally oriented right-wing conservatives. His lecture “Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland” focused on artists (a.o. Daniel Rycharski and Jana Shostak)…
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Common Ground: Discussion with Bojan Djordjev and Vitalie sprinceana
LEFTovers, by Bojan Djordjev What is left from the 20th century left politics, Marxist thought and material and intellectual heritage of the communist project that can still stimulate our imagination and bring back the narratives of utopian future into the public sphere? What is the role of temporary collectives created in the field of contemporary…
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Central Eastern Europe and Geopolitics
In his new article “Ostmitteleuropa ist ein Bollwerk des Realitätssinns” (in German) for the magazine Schweizer Monat, Jörg Scheller argues that Central Eastern European perspectives have long been marginalized in Western Europe, especially in the context of geopolitics.