Reinventing the autonomy of knowledge is the task of our time. It’s not only a political task. The epistemic foundation of research and learning as autonomous activities is at stake, when dogmas of profit, growth, competition take the lead in the old institutions of production and transmission of knowledge.
This is why we are calling students and researchers, artists and scientists and social activists to gather in the first conference of SCEPSI that will take place in San Marino, on May 20, 21 and 22.
Protests against the financial aggression and the destruction of the public school in the European continent are spreading, but we have to create new institutions, aimed to self organization of cognitive workers and to the reactivation of social sensibility and imagination.
The conference will be the first act of the activity of the European School of Social Imagination, that in the next year will organize seminars in San Marino, and in European cities like Helsinki, London, and Oslo.
The activity of the School starts from four question:
1. How can we think the consequences to every day life in the face
of a possible economic failure of the European Union?
2. How can art and poetry arouse new energies and revitalize the
social field weakened by precarization and the alienation of (digital)
labour?
3. How can emergent scientific imagination reconstitute the social body?
4. How can we open up spaces for the autonomy of knowledge within
the process of the marketisation and capitalisation of the education
system ?
These questions will be foundational for the emergent curriculum of
the first year of seminars and engagements of the European School for
Social Imagination. The following is the program of the conference,
that may change slightly during the next weeks.
Preliminary program [to be confirmed]
Friday 20 May
4.00 PM – OPENING
Welcome and opening statements
* Alessandro Rossi – San Marino
* Matteo Pasquinelli – Edufactory and Uninomade collective, Berlin
4.30 PM - EU COLLAPSE
How can we think the consequences to every day life, in the face of an
imminent economic failure of the European Union?
* Christian Marazzi - University of Bellinzona, author of Capital
and Language
* Valerio Monteventi – Journalist, author of Berretta Rossa, Bologna
* Florin Flueras – Bucharest, artist, founder of the political party NO HOPE
* Federico Campagna – Goldsmiths University London, founder of the
website th-rough.eu
6.30 PM - ART AND SENSIBILITY
How can art and poetry arouse new energies and revitalize the social field?
* Marta Kuzma – OCA director Oslo, IUAV Venice
* Leonardo Montecchi – Psychiatrist, Scuola di prevenzione Bleger Rimini
* Matteo Pasquinelli – Edufactory and Uninomade collective, Berlin
9.00 PM - BOOK PRESENTATION
Presentation of the book Organismes et artefacts (La Decouverte)
* Miguel Benasajag – Philosopher and psychoanalyst, Paris.
Saturday 21 May
10.30 AM – SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
How do emergent scientific imaginations reconstitute the social body?
* Tiziana Terranova - Istituto Orientale Napoli, Author of Network culture
* Alessandro Sarti – mathematician and professor of Bioengineering
at the University of Bologna, researcher at the Centre Recherche
Epsthemologie Avancee, Paris
* Konrad Becker – hypermedia researcher, Director of the Institute
for New Culture Technologies/t0 and initiator of Public Netbase, Wien
12.30 AM – AUTONOMY AND KNOWLEDGE
How can we open up spaces for the autonomy of knowledge within the
process of the marketisation and capitalisation of the education
system ?
* Francesca Coin - Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, Author of Il
produttore consumato
* Gigi Roggero – Bologna University, Edufactory and Uninomade
collective, author of The Production of the Living Knowledge
* Gerald Raunig – Zurich University, author of Art and Revolution
* Akseli Virtanen – Future Art Base, Aalto University Helsinki,
author of Arbitrary Power
Sunday 22 May
11 AM – CONCLUSION
Final debate and conclusions
* Franco Berardi - Future Art Base coordinater, Aalto University
Helsinki, author of Soul at work
* Irit Rogoff - Goldmisths University London
This is why we are calling students and researchers, artists and scientists and social activists to gather in the first conference of SCEPSI that will take place in San Marino, on May 20, 21 and 22.
Protests against the financial aggression and the destruction of the public school in the European continent are spreading, but we have to create new institutions, aimed to self organization of cognitive workers and to the reactivation of social sensibility and imagination.
The conference will be the first act of the activity of the European School of Social Imagination, that in the next year will organize seminars in San Marino, and in European cities like Helsinki, London, and Oslo.
The activity of the School starts from four question:
1. How can we think the consequences to every day life in the face
of a possible economic failure of the European Union?
2. How can art and poetry arouse new energies and revitalize the
social field weakened by precarization and the alienation of (digital)
labour?
3. How can emergent scientific imagination reconstitute the social body?
4. How can we open up spaces for the autonomy of knowledge within
the process of the marketisation and capitalisation of the education
system ?
These questions will be foundational for the emergent curriculum of
the first year of seminars and engagements of the European School for
Social Imagination. The following is the program of the conference,
that may change slightly during the next weeks.
Preliminary program [to be confirmed]
Friday 20 May
4.00 PM – OPENING
Welcome and opening statements
* Alessandro Rossi – San Marino
* Matteo Pasquinelli – Edufactory and Uninomade collective, Berlin
4.30 PM - EU COLLAPSE
How can we think the consequences to every day life, in the face of an
imminent economic failure of the European Union?
* Christian Marazzi - University of Bellinzona, author of Capital
and Language
* Valerio Monteventi – Journalist, author of Berretta Rossa, Bologna
* Florin Flueras – Bucharest, artist, founder of the political party NO HOPE
* Federico Campagna – Goldsmiths University London, founder of the
website th-rough.eu
6.30 PM - ART AND SENSIBILITY
How can art and poetry arouse new energies and revitalize the social field?
* Marta Kuzma – OCA director Oslo, IUAV Venice
* Leonardo Montecchi – Psychiatrist, Scuola di prevenzione Bleger Rimini
* Matteo Pasquinelli – Edufactory and Uninomade collective, Berlin
9.00 PM - BOOK PRESENTATION
Presentation of the book Organismes et artefacts (La Decouverte)
* Miguel Benasajag – Philosopher and psychoanalyst, Paris.
Saturday 21 May
10.30 AM – SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
How do emergent scientific imaginations reconstitute the social body?
* Tiziana Terranova - Istituto Orientale Napoli, Author of Network culture
* Alessandro Sarti – mathematician and professor of Bioengineering
at the University of Bologna, researcher at the Centre Recherche
Epsthemologie Avancee, Paris
* Konrad Becker – hypermedia researcher, Director of the Institute
for New Culture Technologies/t0 and initiator of Public Netbase, Wien
12.30 AM – AUTONOMY AND KNOWLEDGE
How can we open up spaces for the autonomy of knowledge within the
process of the marketisation and capitalisation of the education
system ?
* Francesca Coin - Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, Author of Il
produttore consumato
* Gigi Roggero – Bologna University, Edufactory and Uninomade
collective, author of The Production of the Living Knowledge
* Gerald Raunig – Zurich University, author of Art and Revolution
* Akseli Virtanen – Future Art Base, Aalto University Helsinki,
author of Arbitrary Power
Sunday 22 May
11 AM – CONCLUSION
Final debate and conclusions
* Franco Berardi - Future Art Base coordinater, Aalto University
Helsinki, author of Soul at work
* Irit Rogoff - Goldmisths University London