What to do next with European Green Deal? Deliberative and Degrowth Perspectives
European Green Deal is an ambitious and at least one decade long program of the European Commission which – although under impact of…
Sami Khatib: “The Organization of Pessimism”: From Leftwing Melancholy to Messianic Nihilism
In 1940, Walter Benjamin noted that it is the function of political utopia to cast light on the sector worthy of destruction. His…
Esther Leslie: Unleashing Revolution from the Archives: On Art and Politics
Aesthetics and politics, culture and barbarism: the relations between these have concerned revolutionary and critical thinkers and practitioners. This talk considers the politics…
Søren Mau: Mute Compulsion
Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and…
Joseph Vogl: Capital and Ressentiment
A trace of destruction follows the reign of financial markets, the new internet giants, the opinion-making industry. What loses out are democracy, freedom…
Učitelj socijalističkog humanizma: razgovor u sjećanje na Michaela A. Lebowitza
Nedavno preminuli američki politički ekonomist Michael A. Lebowitz itekako je poznato ime u našim lijevim krugovima. Još prije rata dolazio je u Cavtat,…
Dissemblage: Machine Capitalism and Molecular Revolution
The panel will be discussing Gerald Raunig’s new book, published at the end of last year, which brings philosophical and political considerations on…
Stephen Zepke: Head in the Stars
Knjiga Head in the Stars: Essays on Science Fiction (Multimedijalni institut, 2020) preispituje dominantno mišljenje o znanstvenoj fantastici danas, kao i o utopiji…
Peer Illner: The Mutual Aid Dilemma: Disasters, Crises and Social Reproduction
In our age of Covid and climate catastrophe, mutual aid has gained renewed importance in providing relief when hurricanes, floods and pandemics hit,…
Boyan Manchev: Kairos Call: The Philosophical Fantastic and The Persistence of Utopia
The task of this talk: to propose a philosophical mobilisation of few key concepts of contemporary epistemology (i.e. complex systems and irreversibility), confronting…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Black Film* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
No man should come before an audience like the one by whose presence I am now honored, without a noble object and a…
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try…
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song
A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was Melvin Van…
Sambizanga
This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. * One of the first feature films ever directed by…
Touki Bouki
With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of post-independence Senegal…
West Indies
West Indies is a visually and aurally stunning musical appropriately set on a giant slave ship symbolizing the relationship between Africa, Europe and…
Tongues Untied
Tongues United gives voice to communities of Black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia,…
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader, Seven Songs for Malcolm X collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to tell…
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Interviews, reconstructions and archive footage tell the story of the life and work of the highly influential anti-colonialist writer Frantz Fanon, author of…
Drylongso
A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder…
