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15.05.2012
Thursday, 31 May, 5pm, NAB LG01, A Goldsmiths' Centre for Cultural Studies event, with support from Departments of Anthropology and Sociology
In the current economic crisis we have entered into a new age of debt. In
spite of emergency loans, bailouts and liquidity injections, waves of
defaults, bankruptcies and capital drains have left the world economy
without cash. Governments, firms,…
12.05.2012
Yes, we have four of them for you. And what kind of awards we have!
From peer activist/artist/communication interventionist recognition to academic peer recognition and publication. From written feedback from the best editors and curators and to an invitation to participate in a extradisciplinary workshop that will result in a public intervention in the city of Brisbane, in sunny Australia. Y…
10.05.2012
Ry Cooder tells us a story. No banker is left behind.
10 days to go till deadline May 20th!
Check again the outlines here:
http://www.memefest.org/en/competition/intro/
07.05.2012
Mantra u etru, u repetitivnom loopu, ponavlja da je najbolja moguća forma društva u kome danas živimo (neo)liberalno demokratski kapitalizam. Tri velike krize najbolje forme društva – 1929, 1968 i 2008 – dokazuju suprotno. Dokazuju da je ova forma skrojena po meri kapitala a ne po meri čoveka. U sto godišnjoj političko-ekonomskoj istoriji rešavanje finansijske krize je uvek bilo prvo rešavanje ka…
05.05.2012
David Graeber author of Debt- first 5000 years, one of the texts we use in this years Friendly competition outlines, is interviewed by Uprising Radio. Graeber speaks about the history of Debt, its current role and also about the Occupy movement in which he was involved from the very beginning.
The other video is his lecture on the same theme. Both are very well worth watching. Graeber is a in…
03.05.2012
We need food and shelter
that come from our Earth.
We need land and water
seeds, spores and eggs.
We need cattle and bees
for the milk and honey.
We need barley and hops
for the beer and bread.
We need to be able to work
without passing tokens.
We must OWN or be OWNED...
[sing this part as a languishing cry in the night]
We need, neeeed.
We need, neeeed.
[sing th…
30.04.2012
It's a good time to be in Montreal. It's spring time to be precise. Montreal is experiencing a huge upsurge in social activism for the last three months. The biggest student strike ever, has been lasting for eleven weeks now, and nothing seems to be stopping it. Montreal's got revolutionary momentum and as we know from the history of the sole French-speaking society in North-America, this can mea…
30.04.2012
Created in collaboration with Montreal based designer and Memefest curatorial bord member Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, who visually beautifully designed Debt's dark world, here is this years Memefest poster.
We have been discussing a lot and in the end liked the concept of the dark urban space, with references to power- both on the side of banks and network/ bottom up organisations. We tried to balance …
27.04.2012
¿Cómo crees que el dinero trabaja para vos?
Green City Energy (Energía Ciudad Verde) y Musclebeaver le dan la respuesta en esta animación
Para más información por favor visite: http://www.bewusst-investieren.de/
Campaña realizada por: http://www.greencity-energy.de/
Año: 2010
MUSCLEBEAVER son Andreas Kronbeck & Tobias Knipf, viven en Munich/Alemania
Trabajan como equipo desde 2005 e…
