Now Out! Issue #6, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest

Journal of Aesthetics & Protest issue #6,
theory in 3 acts

Over 300 pages of Contemporary action and thought.

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With more then 30 authors. Contributions include new articles by
Gregory Sholette, Dorit Cypis, smartMeme studios, Rebecca Zorach,
Kelly Marie Martin, Amy Franchesini, Lisa Ann Auerbach, Code Pink,
Andrew Boyd, Iraqi Veterans for Peace, John Carr of Yo! What
Happened to Peace and many more.

Book Design by Jessica Fleischmann

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Journal of Aesthetics & Protest issue #6
New design! 3 New Concepts!
You will not want to miss it.

Crafted & collected for 7 months, this sober eyed jumbo sized brick
of a book explores 3 distinct premises in contemporary life:
Sustainable Culture, Antiwar Activism, Contemporary Critical Theory.
The book comes with in depth analysis of activist and art projects as
well as resolute analysis of cultural conditions by people we want
you to read.

"One could see the level of frustration in your eyes. There were ways
to avoid it; staring to the internets, listening to radio, cursing,
cursing news, attending protests, trying at little "political
projects." But generally, it was all around, this horrible stasis.
There were wars, the loss of a city, the disappearance of beloved
bookstores, magazines, community centers , and the cruel inability
for networks to amount to anything real. It appeared that nothing
good could be generated out from under this era. And you were getting
older." This issue finds a way forward.

Full contributor's list....

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Amy Franceschini, Fritz Haeg, Bonnie Fortune, Brett Bloom,
Juliana Parr, Charlotte Sáenz (aka Lozeh Luna), Kelly Marie
Martin, Aviv Kruglanski, Kate Rich, Ben Schaafsma, Aimee Le
Duc, Mark Chamberlain, Lisa Ann Auerbach, Veronica Wiman,
Town Hall Meetings (Daniel Tucker, Nato Thompson and LA
Participants)

Antiwar Survey Respondents:
Andrew Boyd, Ashley Hunt, Alexandra Juhasz, Steve A
Anderson, Veterans for Peace, Art for a Democratic Society,
Janet Weil (of East Bay Code Pink), Center For Tactical
Magic, Eric Estenzo, Ehren Tool, Hillary Mushkin, Jene
Despain, Keith Hennessy, John Carr (of LA VS WAR), Lizabeth
Eva Rossof, Melissa Day, Scott Campbell (of Direct Action to
Stop the War), Sandy Wood

Another Theory Section
Sharmina Afsana Hossain, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, J Cookson,
Dorit Cypis, Karla Diaz, Mindy Faber and Open Youth
Networks, Marc Leger, Ami Motevalli, Mark Rodriguez, Gregory
Sholette, Greg Smithsimon, Steve Stuffit, Tran, T.
Kim-Trang, Annette Weisser, Grant Wahlquist, Rebecca Zorach
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E.ON gets fingered : NEIN KINGSNORTH!

E.ON gets fingered : NEIN KINGSNORTH!

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/411334.html

 

British Climate Camp (1) activists have taken their campaign to stop the building of a coal-fired power station in Kent, UK, to the Energy headquarters of E.ON in Munich, Germany (2).

 

This morning activists involved in the UK Climate Camp coordinated a 'flash mob' style action at the office of E.ON Energie. Dressed in splashes of E.ON red, around thirty people swamped the main entrance of the office to give E.ON the finger. Playing on the 'E.ON F.OFF' logo (3) from this summer's Climate Camp the group held their middle fingers in the air, sending a clear message that the multi-national is a target across Europe.

 

"This summer saw a plethora of highly effective actions against the energy major in the UK" explained Jimmy Hoover, one of the UK Climate Campers who travelled to Munich to coordinate the action. "We wanted to make it very clear to E.ON that its not just about one week in a field in Kent. We have the means and the motivation to take this campaign to stop Kingsnorth and new coal continue all the way home to E.On's headquarters in Germany. Until the plans for this new coal-fired plant are dropped, we will drag E.On's name through the mud and expose them for being the climate criminals they are."

 

Since this summer's third and largest Climate Camp, the group have openly stated their intention to return to the Hoo peninsula in Kent to prevent the building of a new coal fired power station, should it be given planning permission by the British government.

 

"When you've got the world's top climate scientist Jim Hansen explaining that this one power station will make extinct up to 400 species (4), you've got to ask why E.On would still be pushing ahead with this act of climate vandalism," added Mel Evans. "Its clear that E.ON has their profits in mind, rather than the public interest and climate security. With the British tax-payer looking likely to own a 60% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland – who have provided loans to E.On to build Kingsnorth (5) - I for one don't want my taxes being used to trash the climate. That's why we've come here today to make sure they get the message loud and clear – E.On, F.OFF!"

 

 

For high res images go to http://thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/eonmunich/

 

Notes to the Editor:

 

(1)  www.climatecamp.org.uk

 

(2)  Brienner Straße 40 80333 München Germany  +49 (0) 89 - 12 54 – 01 http://www.eon-energie.com/pages/eea_en/index.htm

 

(3)  http://www.flickr.com/photos/monaxle/2739086776/

 

(4)  James Hansen, NASA climate scientist, estimates that if the new coal power station at Kingsnorth in Kent goes ahead, it will result in 400 extinct species due to its contribution to climate change. www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/04/climatechange.fossilfuels

 

(5)  In 2007, RBS-NatWest took part in loans to E.ON, the company planning to build Kingsnorth, totaling $70 billion.

BLACKMARKET FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON- KNOWLEDGE No.11 in Liverpool

The Live Art Development Agency, the Bluecoat and Mobile Academy presents

BLACKMARKET FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON- KNOWLEDGE No.11

ON WASTE. The Disappearance and Comeback of Things.

An Installation with 50 Experts, a Digression on the Rhetorics of the Dialogue and a Shadow Play for a Dialogue Duo

For the Bluecoat's Liverpool Live programme for the Liverpool Biennial 2008

Sat 29 November, 8.00pm, check-in opens 7.00pm

Free. No advance booking available

Book an expert for £1 or €1!

A Blackmarket is an interdisciplinary research on learning and un-learning where narrative formats of knowledge transfer are tried out and presented. The installation imitates familiar places of knowledge exchange, like the archive or library reading room, and combines them with communication situations such as markets, stock exchanges, counselling or social service interviews. 

Each Blackmarket presents a different topic, generating an encyclopaedia with local experts. In Liverpool the theme deals with the relationship between human beings and their material world, the moment when things lose their form, deteriorate, rot, explode, slide into decay; and when remembrance and forgetting lose their distinction. In our economy of waste, garbage is the repressed side of consumption, whilst non-biodegradable, radioactive toxins have made waste an ecological survival problem. In response to this we have developed a range of methods to stabilise waste, such as recycling, burning, conserving or archiving. 

At this new Blackmarket you can book a 30-minute one-to-one dialogue with one of 50 experts recruited from Liverpool, including garbologists, philosophers, economists, alchemists and psychoanalysts. Or you can observe and listen into select conversations via headphones on Blackradio's six channels. The experts will put together a lexicon that fragments, mirrors and hallucinates the theme of waste – through stories, theories, documentation and myths.

Mobile Academy is a project devised by Hannah Hurtzig with changing partners based at HAU, Berlin. Following ten Blackmarkets on different topics in Berlin, Warsaw, Istanbul, Hamburg, Graz, Vienna and other cities, this is the long-awaited first Blackmarket in the UK.

www.mobileacademy-berlin.com

Blackmarket No 11 is part of the Bluecoat's Liverpool Live programme for the Liverpool Biennial 2008. Presented in association with the Live Art Development Agency. Supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool Culture Company and the Goethe Institut Manchester.

The Bluecoat

School Lane

Liverpool

United Kingdom

L1 3BX

0151 702 5324

www.thebluecoat.org.uk

Nouriel Roubini - global game plan

You've all heard his name: Nouriel Roubini, professor at New York
University, formerly known as Dr. Doom for having predicted what's
now reality. Yesterday he said we are in sight of a systemic collapse
and a global depression and called for a list of measures to be taken
at the world level (including massive public works projects). Copy of
his conclusions below. This morning (EU time) Japan proposes raising
capital from Asian and Arab high-rollers for the support of emerging
markets, to be distributed with IMF assistance. Meanwhile Yamato Life
insurance tanks and the Nikkei plunges. At the American Treasury
they are talking about guaranteeing ALL bank deposits (not just up
to $250,000) and using a clause of the Paulson Plan to directly
recapitalize the banks (therefore dropping the original idea of
buying the toxic waste bit by bit). In other words: huge confusion
at Treasury. On the level of the real economy, the impossibility of
selling commercial paper for short-term loans or even using letters
of credit between banks is causing some corporations to cease certain
activities, notably transnational shipping. This would be the advance
warning sign of the global depression announced by Roubini. With
the World Bank/IMF meetings in Washington this weekend and Bush's
rich-country crisis-cell meeting tomorrow, it seems likely we will see
at attempt at concerted global action over the weekend. Monday there
may be only one possible world. Or chaos!

Here is Roubini's text:

...At this point severe damage is done and one cannot rule out a
systemic collapse and a global depression. It will take a significant
change in leadership of economic policy and very radical, coordinated
policy actions among all advanced and emerging market economies to
avoid this economic and financial disaster. Urgent and immediate
necessary actions that need to be done globally (with some variants
across countries depending on the severity of the problem and the
overall resources available to the sovereigns) include:

- another rapid round of policy rate cuts of the order of at least 150
basis points on average globally;

- a temporary blanket guarantee of all deposits while a triage
between insolvent financial institutions that need to be shut down
and distressed but solvent institutions that need to be partially
nationalized with injections of public capital is made;

- a rapid reduction of the debt burden of insolvent households
preceded by a temporary freeze on all foreclosures;

- massive and unlimited provision of liquidity to solvent financial
institutions;

- public provision of credit to the solvent parts of the corporate
sector to avoid a short-term debt refinancing crisis for solvent but
illiquid corporations and small businesses;

- a massive direct government fiscal stimulus packages that includes
public works, infrastructure spending, unemployment benefits, tax
rebates to lower income households and provision of grants to strapped
and crunched state and local government;

- a rapid resolution of the banking problems via triage, public
recapitalization of financial institutions and reduction of the debt
burden of distressed households and borrowers;

- an agreement between lender and creditor countries running current
account surpluses and borrowing and debtor countries running current
account deficits to maintain an orderly financing of deficits and
a recycling of the surpluses of creditors to avoid a disorderly
adjustment of such imbalances.

At this point anything short of these radical and coordinated actions
may lead to a market crash, a global systemic financial meltdown and
to a global depression. The time to act is now as all the policy
officials of the world are meeting this weekend in Washington at the
IMF and World Bank annual meetings.

http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/253973/the_world_is_at_sever
e_risk_of_a_global_systemic_financial_meltdown_and_a_severe_global_dep
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