Independent Publisher ✱ Minor Theoretical Literature ✱ Berlin/Nicosia
Exocapitalism European Tour
Exocapitalism marks the next chapter in the story of two researchers who have grown tired with a self-replicating discourse that seems to spiral endlessly only to arrive back where it was. With all the relevant sensibilities and love, discourse on capitalism can feel a bit... Cage-y, dingy, cavernous but poorly lit and damp. Even progressive discourse produces a kind of circle-of-pain—a hamster wheel—which you pour your life into and nothing changes. The psychoanalytical jaguar might be less confused if it could understand the concept of glass. Jaguars can run on the walls of their enclosure, in a momentous circle, no different to those show-girlies in the Motorbike pits of New Mexico or Tong Setan. It is not unlike the torlauf of a turntable stylus as it tracks its way along the vinyl cliff, only to suddenly clip a scratch and fly out of the groove; as the needle pops into the crevice, it is thrown back into the previous groove, where it will loop-untoward-death like an ox-bow lake.
If this is the task which lies before authors Poliks & Trillo, then Exocapitalism is the first attempt to jog the wheel, or shift the needle, to break out of the loop. As a book it is not a totalizing philosophical work about capital, neither is it a deep excavation of some underlying, string-like particle buried deep within us—and it is absolutely not a fantastical exploration of mind-control aliens extracting our lifeblood. This book is a rigorous attempt to massage the discourse, or to smooth out some bumps and contradictions which sometimes seem to have been carved into the world deliberately. This work is not theoretically estranged from Marx, Baudrillard or even Land, but it tracks a different path entirely, and attempts to build, from the ground up, new theories and concepts that account for the ever-more-nebulous and chaotic, economic, financial and social phenomena of our multiplicitous Vernetzte Welten.
✱ program
18:30
Strand Campus,
WC2R 2LS, London, England.Macadam Building, Embankment Room
(MB-1.1.4)
Registration required
18:00
Part of Πάμε Βενετία—The Venice Conference
Calle lunga S. Barnaba, Dorsoduro 2729, 30123, Venezia
RSVP preferable
19:00
Invited by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo
16:30
Atelier Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A, 1020, Wien, Österreich
Workshop & Lecture
RSVP
19:00
DM bookiniste.1150 for location
19:00
Kluckstrasse 25, 10785, Berlin, Deutschland
19:00 (doors open)
19:30 (talk)
Hoofdweg 403, 1056 CS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19:00
Rue de Commerçant 62, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgium