Paranoia transmediale

Contributed by nynke on Fri, 01/02/2008 - 12:57.

In between everything else: "That I can be named paranoia doesn't mean they're not after me."

In conversations a couple of years ago, I said that in the next cycle it would be highly unlikely that "demonizing" of "others" by governments to create more fear in order to gain public acceptance of more control, would be based on "race" or "religion" ... likely intelligentsia would be demonized next time around. That's us. And here it is.

This is the story of Anne, her partner and their family: "If you are intelligent, and you have friends, and you don't belong to any specific part of the left movement, then you could be a terrorist."

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Andrej and xname will be discussing some of these issues next Sunday at the Transmediale (4pm Berlin time). According to the organisers, there was no budget left for a translation into English and so it'll be in German.

From the transmediale website:

"Under its motto CONSPIRE..., transmediale.08 seeks to examine dubious worlds of story telling and remote opinion making, to look critically at the means of creative conspiratorial strategies, and use these to uncover new forms of expression and digital discourse.

The programme includes an exhibition to the festival’s theme CONSPIRE..., an extensive film & video programme, a several-day conference with international researchers, media activists and artists, a series of experimental performances and the award-ceremony. The salon programme invites to an exchange of ideas while the lounge offers previews of the film & video programme. Diverse external and partner events complement the programme."

The entire transmediale 08 is being streamed and has IRC:

More links (mostly in English):

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