Dear Colleague,
We write to you as members of the academic community, gravely concerned about the escalating repression targeting participants in peaceful students-led protests that have now persisted for four months.
From the very beginning, students and citizens have faced systematic state intimidation, culminating in a shocking act of violence during a mass protest on March 15 — a moment intended for solemn silence in memory of 15 fellow citizens who tragically lost their lives. In that very moment of commemoration, an unidentified device emitting a powerful sound and shock wave was unleashed against peaceful demonstrators without warning.

„Was? Opa war ein Nazi?!?“, bricht es aus dem Teenager heraus. Den habe sie aber „doch so lieb!“. Der Vater versucht zu beruhigen, der Opa habe sich eben verrannt gehabt und an „Hitlers Sieg“ geglaubt. Diese Urszene postnazistischer Generation-X-Sozialisation ist im Herbst 1990 einer der narrativen Höhepunkte der Serie Lindenstraße, und spiegelt zentrale Motive deutscher Erinnerungskultur(en) wider. Im Anschluss daran bezeichnet Katrin M. Kämpf die aktuelle Erinnerungskonjunktur einer paranoiden Rationalität als „staatsräsonieren“.

On the basis of seventeen conceptual innovations from his new book, Gerald Raunig reformulates the question of revolutionary multiplicity in the forms of song and text: from windy kin to transversal intellect, from dissemblage to technecologies, from minor masculinity to condividual revolution. Intertwining the poetry of songs and the theoretical density of contemporary philosophy, the series of performances experiments with a format between lecture and concert, with the philosopher as a singer and playing the Rhodes electric piano.

The transversal audio season presents the lectures of the international conference “QUEER TOSQUELLES - Anti-Fascism, Vagabonding Psychiatry, Non-Identitarian Lives” that took place this june at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (KHM).
New episodes with Isabell Lorey, Angela Melitopoulos, Carles Guerra, Stefan Nowotny, Anne Querrien, Henning Schmidgen, Elena Vogman, Francesco Salvini and Gerald Raunig will be published on Wednesdays at 18:00 CET.

Die Akademie der Künste der Welt ist eine der wichtigsten, innovativsten und wegweisendsten Kunstinstitutionen in Köln. Durch ihr internationales und durch postkoloniale Studien geprägtes Künstler:innen-Programm bringt die Akademie herausragende Persönlichkeiten nach Köln, die quer durch die Stadt wirken. Die Stadt Köln denkt nun darüber nach, die Förderung der ADKDW einzustellen. Im folgenden veröffentlichen wir das Statement der ADKDW.

Anlässlich der Neuauflage von Gerald Raunigs Buch Wien Feber Null veröffentlicht transversal texts diesen aktualisierenden Dialog zwischen Hito Steyerl und Ari Joskowicz.

Die Idee, ein Buch über die Widerstandsformen zwischen September 1999 und Februar 2000 zu schreiben, entstand in den Treffen von gettoattack im Frühling und Frühsommer 2000, als die Frage aufkam, wie in der beginnenden Depression der Bewegung gegen Schwarzblau und im alltäglich werdenden Regieren von FPÖ und ÖVP neue Wunschenergien angefacht werden könnten. Es war also weniger die historische Archivfunktion der Erinnerung an ein paar starke Wochen des Widerstands in Wien, die den Schreibprozess leitete, sondern die Vorstellung, dass durch die gemeinsame Einschätzung, in Präsentationen und Diskussionen neue Kräfte entstehen würden und gebündelt werden könnten.

Isabell Lorey liest das erste Kapitel aus der Neuauflage von: Gerald Raunig, Wien Feber Null, transversal texts 2024:
https://transversal.at/audio/wien-feber-null-101.

Heute wäre Antonio Negri 91 Jahre geworden. Die Trauer um ihn nach seinem Tod am 16. Dezember des letzten Jahres klingt nach und sie wird uns noch lange begleiten. Zu gewichtig war Tonis Rolle in Praxis und Theorie der sozialen Bewegungen der letzten 60 Jahre, zu unvergessen bleibt seine Kraft, seine Energie und seine Potenz der Affirmation selbst im hohen Alter.

The coming transversal audio season will center around discussions on non-traditional or even clandestine publishing practices from the peripheries, as part of the Peripheral Visions project. The notion of “peripherality” is critically approached and often subverted within these discussions, but serves as a sort of central theme in understanding the challenges and commonalities between these very unique practices.
New episodes will be published on Wednesdays at 18:00 CEST.

The eipcp has participated in the Creative Europe project Peripheral Visions – towards a trans(l)national publishing culture. The project was launched in June 2022 and completed in May 2024.

This paper is a slightly revised version of a talk we gave in honor of Toni Negri’s 90^th birthday. The changes are minor and are not necessarily in keeping with the spirit of an (ever-unsatisfying) revision. Instead, they express a further deepening of our initial tribute, now from the perspective of those left behind who wish to continue, if not rebuild, the resistances against the reactionary threats of our time.
https://transversal.at/transversal/0124/diefenbach-sonderegger-valdivia/en

Goldsmiths University’s Senior Management Team intends to carry out another significant restructure to be implemented by October 2024. This comes at a worrying speed, and without information and consultation with those affected, including staff, students and researchers.

Dass Twitter/X nun seit mehr als einem Jahr nicht mehr aus den Schlagzeilen der Tech-News kommt und die Zerstörung des Netzwerks immer weiter fortschreitet, ist nur die Spitze des Eisberges einer tiefgreifenden Krise der Social Media Monopole. Während sie trotz jahrelanger Kritik weder ernsthaft daran arbeiten, Hass, Missinformation und Manipulation auf ihren Plattformen einzuschränken, noch daran, die verheerenden Auswirkungen ihrer Aufmerksamkeitsökonomien zumindest abzumildern, wird ein Setting immer deutlicher, das außer dem eigenen Konzern und dessen Investor:innen nur mehr Verlierer:innen kennt. Doch die Machtpositionen sind fest zementiert und man sollte nicht zu optimistisch ein baldiges Ende erwarten. Was die Zerstörung von Twitter allerdings gezeigt und auch als konkrete Chance eröffnet hat, ist, dass alternative Projekte wie im konkreten Fall der Kurznachrichtendienst Mastodon, aber auch dessen breiteres, als 'Fediverse' bezeichnetes Umfeld, zumindest zu einer stabilen Nische werden können, in der sich die Entwicklungen von Medien und Technologien wieder mit sozialer Fantasie und emanzipatorischen Begehren verknüpfen und damit Zusammenhänge entstehen können, die eine Phase nach Social Media antizipieren.

We mourn the loss of Toni Negri, who passed away on the night of December 15-16, 2023, and publish here an obituary of his friend Sandro Mezzadra.

Nach der Publikation von Ungefüge als zweitem Band von „Maschinischer Kapitalismus und molekulare Revolution“ und den beiden Übersetzungen des Buchs ins Englische (Minor Compositions) und ins Spanische (Subtextos / Cactus) präsentiert transversal texts nun auch das erste vollständige Hörbuch. Die Stimmen von Isabell Lorey, Antonio Negri, Stefan Nowotny, Suely Rolnik, Birgit Sauer und Ruth Sonderegger setzen Gerald Raunigs Experiment der theoretischen Form nun als Audiobook fort.
Streaming und Download:
https://transversal.at/audio/ungefuege-hoerbuch

Isabell Lorey liest das erste Kapitel aus Eran Schaerfs Gesammeltes Deutsch

Suburbia presenta el Programa de Estudios Radicales (PER). Una experiencia de estudio centrada en la interacción entre prácticas teóricas, producción social e imaginación política. Este programa va más allá de la investigación académica tradicional y entra en el terreno de la investigación radical y militante, con el objetivo de investigar, profundizar y producir conceptos y prácticas que muevan la imaginación política existente.
Viernes, 17 de noviembre de 2023, 19h, Casa Azul, Málaga
Presentación con aportaciones de Suburbia, Marta Malo, Gerald Raunig y Ruth Sonderegger
Más información aquí: per.sub-urbia.es

“Allied Grounds,” an international conference on the social question of the climate crisis, took place in early October in Berlin. The conference was the culmination of an annual project of the Berliner Gazette (BG) that explored two related, but rarely linked, constellations: “In the Global South, environmental concerns have been an integral part of working-class struggles against expropriation, exploitation, and extractivism literally since the colonial-capitalist conquest of the New World. In the Global North, on the other hand, working-class environmentalism emerged in the 19th century as a response to industrialization and urbanization, while labor and environmental movements have only in recent years reclaimed their potential for alliance.”

Wenn wir Rassismus als soziales Verhältnis verstehen, dann gilt es, ein solches ebenso für den Antirassismus zu denken. Der vorliegende Beitrag zu einem "gesellschaftlichen Antirassismus" schlägt eine Analytik seiner globalen Kampfzyklen für antikoloniale Selbstbestimmung und Dekolonisierung, seiner Konjunkturen und seiner transversalen Konjunktionen vor. Hierbei gilt es vor allem, den verhängnisvollen Zusammenhang zwischen Vergessen, Verleugnen und rassistischer Gewalt zu ergründen. Gerade für die postgenozidalen Gesellschaften Europas ist eine solche Perspektive entscheidend: Rassistische Gewalt adressiert nicht zuletzt das Vergessen antirassistischer Kämpfe.

The audio-archive of the lecture series is online. The links to the recordings can be found in this blog-post or via https://transversal.at/tag/tribute-to-toni-negri.

La Villana de Vallekases un *centro social autónomo y autogestionado* basado en el apoyo mutuo, el sindicalismo social y la acción directa.

HOY comienza la #CuentaAtrasVillana y tenemos 10 días llegar al OPTIMO, ¿nos ayudas?

https://www.goteo.org/project/la-villana-de-vallekas-un-centro-social-para-el-ba

#CuentaAtrasVillana

Loukia Kotronaki ist Dozentin und Postdoktorandin an der Fakultät für Politikwissenschaft und Geschichte der Panteion Universität. Sie untersucht kollektives Handeln und soziale Bewegungen auf der ganzen Welt, ausgehend von der Bewegung gegen die neoliberale Globalisierung in Griechenland in den Jahren 2000-2006. Wir sprechen mit ihr über die aktuelle Protestwelle, die das Land nach dem Verbrechen von Tempi erfasst hat.

The following appeal for international solidarity has come from inside Iran and we the undersigned declare our support for this call, and hope you will join us by adding your name to it.

The transversal audio season presents livestreams, book presentations, interviews, discussions, lecture performances, sound pieces and features. At the centre of this spring’s audio season is a Tribute to Toni Negri: “The Irrepressible Lightness and Joy of Being Communist” celebrates the 90th birthday of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th and 21st century with a translocal series of lectures and a four-part interview with Toni Negri, conducted by Gerald Raunig. Beyond this, the season includes audios created in connection with eipcp projects and transversal books, starting with the most recent releases, The Household as Laboratory by Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero, and Raúl Sanchez Cedillo's This War Does Not End in Ukraine.

Livestreams and new episodes will be published on Wednesdays at 18:00 CET. Please check the program here at https://transversal.at/audio/transversal-audio-season-spring23 for possible short-term changes.
Default language: English, with multilingual interventions.

Raúl Sánchez Cedillo präsentiert sein neues, gerade bei transversal texts in deutscher Übersetzung erscheinendes Buch Dieser Krieg endet nicht in der Ukraine. Argumente für einen konstituierenden Frieden (https://transversal.at/books/dieser-krieg-endet-nicht-in-der-ukraine) in einer Reihe von Veranstaltungen in Deutschland und Österreich.

80 researchers, cultural workers, journalists, and activists from 25 countries call on event organizers throughout “Europe” and beyond: Stand together against the EU border regime and publicize the occasions when borders sabotage our efforts to build spaces of transnational conversation and cooperation!

We give our full support to Manuel Borja-Villel, until a few days ago director of Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and who in the recent weeks has been the subject of a defamatory and violent campaign by some right-wing Spanish media.
Sign the letter: Institute of Radical Imagination

How can institutions change and open up towards the work ethics and themes of the “exhibited” activism—despite the imposed institutional imperative of non-partisanship? How might funding structures and budgets be reinterpreted and shifted, to allow new things to emerge outside the logics and funding lines conceived in cultural ministries continuing to pay lip service only to contemporary conflicts? How might institutional resources be redistributed towards initiatives without requiring that initiatives tacitly adopt and accept—through cooperation with the institutions—those structures that are, in principle, being fought against?

Acid Horizon publishes a podcast with Gerald Raunig on themes from his new book Dissemblage.

This discussion looks at Bulgarian literature, publishing, its challenges, how it exists as a peripheral space and how people resist those challenges through new forms of inventive publishing. Departing from an anecdote about a pivotal shift in the Bulgarian literary context that took place in 2016, the authors reflect on the historical context to elaborate how this came to be and highlight the significance of numerous contemporary experimental, resistant, and non-traditional publishing practices.

Seit Anfang November müssen Geflüchtete am steirischen Grenzübergang Spielfeld in Zelten ausharren, bei eisiger Kälte und häufigem Ausfall der Heizungen, mit ungenügender Kleidung, zu dünnen Decken und zeitweise auch zu wenig Verpflegung. Es ist ebenso unerträglich wie inakzeptabel, dass Geflüchtete in einem der reichsten Länder der Welt in Zelten überleben müssen. Als Wissenschafter*innen im Bereich Menschenrechte und Migration protestieren wir gegen diese unmenschliche und rechtswidrige Situation.
Update, 22.12.: Seit Mittwoch, dem 21.12., befinden sich etwa 30 Geflüchtete in Spielfeld im Hungerstreik, nachdem seit Tagen niemand in ein festes Quartier gebracht wurde. Sie fürchten, im Zeltlager vergessen zu werden.

The humanitarian organisation medico international has published an interview with Raúl Sánchez Cedillo based on his new book Esta guerra no termina in Ucraina (This War Will Not End in Ukraine). The German translation of the book is forthcoming with transversal texts in cooperation with medico international in February 2023.

Our issue #10 is devoted to the Refugee Movement from O-Platz/Ohlauer School (Berlin) and all movements around the world. With activists*, who were part of the protest camp and the occupation of Ohlauer School, we spoke about the 10th anniversary of the O-Platz occupation and reflect on this particular time, its forthcomings as well as current and future activism. Since it’s also the 10th issue (the first was delivered in March 2016) of DAILY RESISTANCE, we brought together old and new comrades to talk about the beginnings of the newspaper, the importance of own media for the Refugee Movement, collaborations and future plans.

There have been multiple film manifestos, such as ones for an imperfect or militant cinema, or for a women’s cinema as a counter-cinema. They have all been formulated by filmmakers not only with a theoretical-reflective, but also formal-practical and directly cinematographically transformative claiim. What does not yet exist, however,––and what we are currently working on––is the postulate for a cinema of care, or a healing cinema, or of a cinema that sees to things and looks after them, not least with regard to the contexts of films, cinematic experiments and those actors’ networks that belong to it.

We are students from Iran and we are addressing you with this letter because we need your help and don't know what to do anymore. You study, lecture and research at universities without being oppressed by the violence of a state. We, too, dream of one day being able to study and work in a free, democratic country - a country that is no longer an Islamic republic, that no longer suffers from the mullahs' reign of terror, where we, as women can wear to a lecture whatever we want to wear.

We the undersigned, academics and researchers across the globe, stand in solidarity with Iranian people in recognition of increasing waves of political protests sparked across Iran after the killing of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini at the hands of Iran’s so-called “morality police”.

Uns erreichen schreckliche Nachrichten aus Tschetschenien. Die von Putin angekündigte Teilmobilisierung trifft die Menschen in der totalitär regierten Teilrepublik besonders heftig: In einem Video letzte Woche hat Ramsan Kadyrov angekündigt, bis Samstag 24.09.2022, 9.000 Soldaten für Putin in den Krieg gegen die Ukraine zu schicken.

Following Dividuum (2015), transversal texts and Minor Compositions present the second volume of “Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution”: Dissemblage unfolds a wild abundance of unruly material, from the multilingual translation machines of Al-Andalus to the queer mysticism of the High Middle Ages, from the minor voices of the falsetto in 20th century jazz and soul to today’s disjointures and subjunctures against the smooth city in machinic capitalism.

On 16 September, Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, was brutally murdered by the morality police of the Islamic Republic of Iran. She was beaten several times on the head after her arrest for wearing so-called ‘improper’ hijab. This was among many other state murders committed systemically and purposefully by the gender-apartheid regime of Iran. Since this state murder, people have been protesting in many cities in Iran.

The constitution that Chile will vote on in a referendum on 4 September is one of the most democratic and advanced in the world. Express your support for the approval of the New Constitution with your signature.

On July 19 in Piacenza, Italy, six grassroots union activists have been put under house arrest. They are accused of having set up a criminal conspiracy disguised as labour union activity. This is the latest and most severe assault to the unions that since the early 2010s fight for the rights of workers in the logistics sector.

Seemingly without prior consultation, it became clear around a year ago that several people involved in transversal texts had become curious about expanding the work of the little nonpublisher-machine of books and blog and multilingual webjournal into sound. Surely in the bigger picture, the timing was no coincidence—the pandemic, not least, comes immediately to mind. Nor were the personal interests in sound necessarily new. And yet there was something delightful to the apparent coincidence.

Now he is finally gone. The resignation of the Executive Director of the European border management agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, was long overdue and yet a surprise. After all, since the first allegations against the agency became public in autumn 2020, Leggeri had clung to his post, showed neither awareness of the problem nor of wrongdoing, and could apparently rely on the fact that neither the EU member states nor the European Commission were interested in weakening the agency by toppling its executive director. For: the Agency is currently in a decisive phase of its transformation into the first uniformed European police force.

Vienna (23.05.) - München (26.05.) - Augsburg (27.05.) - Köln (28.05.) - Stuttgart (31.05.) - Berlin (01.06.) - Hamburg (03.06.)

Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna

On the jacket quote of Kuba Szreder’s The ABC of the Projectariat, theorist/video artist Hito Steyerl says that the book creates “an alphabetical list– trusting that this mess will be easier to sort out once articulated aloud.” The mess that Szreder effectively sorts out is that pile of contradictions that appear when aiming to make art through the work of institutions. Specifically, to Szreder’s interests, this is the mess that appears when dialing in on how political or socially transformative artwork does and does not function through the current neo-liberal cultural order.

The Chaosmosemedia association, the Universite de Paris 8 and the Collège International de philosophie are co­-organizing a five half-day international conference with a view to promoting a transversal gathering of researchers in philosophy, educational science, gender studies, performance arts, music, dance, cinema, as well as practitioners and clinicians of mental health, students, teachers and activists, in order to address the numerous investments of desire which Guattari's textual and social practices have made possible. Deadline for proposals: 16 May 2022, conference: 20-22 October 2022

Not all Roma leave Ukraine and not all are victims of discriminatory treatment. But reports of discrimination against Romnja* at the borders are increasing. They are not taken in cars, bus companies turn them away. In the places of arrival they are separated from the „white“ Ukrainians for unknown reasons. There are also difficulties in the places of arrival in Germany.

Heute, am Jahrestag der Pariser Commune, haben wir in Wien ein Haus besetzt. Wir haben damit bewusst die kapitalistische Eigentumsordnung angegriffen, die die allermeisten Menschen vom gesellschaftlichen Reichtum ausschließt.