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    Definitions

    Define: trimensionalisation of class

    (classification) - to extend from the 1st dimension of

    name to the 2nd dimension of nation and onto the 3th dimen-

    sion of situation. This process anchors its local point of origin as the

    workers who make this definition (the 2nd locus is of course the organisation or

    2nd dimension of their own definition ie the organisation in which they make this defi-

    nition)

    Because: as dictated by the locus of forces concentrated at a point ion space time or class

    Executive: the worker who forms a locus of the point at which many workers become one (multitude into union)

    DAMTP5PsychicOccupation:thePsychogeo-

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    AlytusArtStrikeBiennial,C/PA.D.#25,LT-62137Alytus,Lithuania

    CLASS,Arjuna,12MillRoad,Cam-bridge,CB12AD,UK

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    RESPONSE TO THE CALL FOR A TRANSNATIONAL MEETING IN TU-NISIA (01001001010001110)

    0We welcome the call for a transnational meeting in Tunisia this week

    1But we reject the national and racial classifications of Arab, African orEuropean and the ideas of a new Europe or an Arab Spring

    0

    We welcome - the revolution and all wahdat ofminds, employed orunemployed and collaboration between these

    moments of wahdat, beginning from the labour of Mothers and of birthuntil the labour of death and beyond. Our struggles are one and the

    same. And we see it as a priority for ones with access to resources tosupport those who do not have access to resources

    1We send our apologies to the wahdat in the Tunis as we cannot attend

    the meeting due to lack of resources0

    We welcome and encourage the leading ambitions of ALL less organizedstructures, such as the FLPT (Popular Liberation Front of Tunisia).1

    However, we agree with Sadri Khiari in that theleft is dominated by white privelidge and interest in Europe and we re-

    ject the leading ambition of Eurocentric and European nationalist groupsand so-called movements that are just elitist and in fact bourgeois and

    racist.0

    We recognise that there has been a retreat in the Womens and BlackLiberation movements since 1968. We call for renewal in

    these struggles. We call for a new Black Powermove-ment that mobilises as defense against the White

    power that is the basis of Capitalism (chattel slavery and

    colonialism). A Black Power that does not limit itself to Na-tionalism but opens up to the Class struggle.0

    We welcome the attack on the financial sectors and sup-port for the student and teachers within the educational

    sector who create wahdat against the attacks made uponthem

    1But we reject the school or the university as a model help-

    ing to build and fix all that separates us as productive ornon-productive entities e.g. artist/ activist/ etc.

    0We welcome all wahdat with all psychic workers those productive and

    unproductive ones engaged in production, consumption, distribution and

    devaluation of the general intellect - and we will do our utmost to

    meet with all those producing meaning of any quality, in anyshape or form from anywhere within the world or without1

    We are against reducing the general intellect into a machine-like verbali-zation by academic intellectuals who produce nothing but the platform for

    the state and political community to be hinged on0

    We love, live and reject death !0

    We welcome dead , poor and nobodies FULL ACCESS TO ALL HARTISLANDS ALL OVER THE WORLD!

    0We welcome doubts!

    1Itihad Rabni Al Tunjur Al Amali Al Fikriya

    1

    Anjuman Matan Karkan Aur Amali Karkoon1

    Alytus Biennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture And Distribution of itsAberrant Bacillus Right Abroad - Committee (ABRACADABRA-C)

    0DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychique

    (01001001010001110)

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    - ,, , - .1, , .0,!0, - HART !0!1

    11 (AlytusBiennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture And Distribution of its AberrantBacillus Right Abroad Committee //// ABRACADABRA-C)0 (DAta Miners TravailleursPsychique //// DAMTP)

    DUOMENKASI IR PSICHODARBININK KREIPIMASIS TRANSNACIONALINSUVAIAVIMTUNISE (01001001010001110)

    0Mes sveikiname i savait prasidedant transnacionalin suvaiavim Tunise.

    1Bet mes nepripastame joki tautini ar rasini skirstym arab, afrikiei ar

    europiei problemas, o taip pat kategorikai atmetame naujosios Europos ar Arabpavasario idjas.

    0

    Mes sveikiname - revoliucij irvisuotin tiek dirbani, tiekbedarbi mini vahdat (sjung). Mes sveikiname vis vahdato

    momentbendradarbiavim: pradedant nuo Motinos darbogimdant, ir baigiant darbais mirtant bei jau anapusybje. Ms

    kovos tai viena kova. Mes j matome nuolatinje tarpusavio pagalboje,kai turintieji prieig prie itekli darbininkai paremia tiesiogiai su

    itekliais nesusijusius darbininkus.1

    Mes atsipraome, kad dl resurs trkumo negalime dalyvauti Tuniso vahdate.0

    Mes sveikiname, palaikome ir teikiame pirmenyb VIS maiau organizuot struktr(pvz.: FLRP - Tuniso Liaudies Ilaisvinimo frontas) ambicijoms vadovauti

    1Taiau mes sutinkame su Sadri Khiari, kad iandieninje politin je kairje dominuoja

    baltj privilegijuotos klass bei euronaconalistini grupi ar taip vadinam judjiminteresai, kurie nra tik elitiniai, bet i esms buruaziniai ir rasistiniai.

    0Mes pripastame, kad nuo 1968 m. vyko atoslgis tiek Moter, tiek Juodj

    ilaisvinimo jud jimuose. Mes kvieiame atgaivinti iuos

    judjimus. Mes kvieiame naujam BlackPower (Juodj galios) judjimui, kuris

    mobilizuos prie Baltj gali, kuri ir yrakapitalizmo pagrindas (katorginisdarbas ir kolonializmas). Mes

    kvieiame naujai Juodosios galios bangai, kurineusiskls nacionalizme, bet isilies klasin kov.

    0Mes kvieiame atakuoti finansinius sektorius beipalaikome studentus ir mokytojus, besijungianius vahdatus, kad apsigint nuo juos smaugiani antpuoli.

    1Bet mes atmetame mokykl, ar universitet kaip tolimesn organizacin model, nes jisformuoja btant tai, kas mus visus skaldo produktyvius ir neproduktyvius elementus,

    kaip antai: menininkus, aktyvistus ir pan.

    0Mes kvieiame vahdat visus psichodarbininkus tiek produktyvius, tiekneproduktyvius visus, kurie kuria, vartoja, paskirsto ir devalvuoja visuotin intelekt.

    Mes sieksime susitikti su visais, kurie gamina bet kokios kokybs, formos arpavidalo prasm, ir i kur jie bebt: i io pasaulio, ar i anapusybs.

    1Mes kategorikai atmetame bandymus redukuoti visuotin intelekt akademini

    intelektual mainizuot verbalizacij tai tra dar vienas bdas sutvirtinti iklibintpagrind valstybei ir jos politinms klikoms.

    0Mes mylime, gyvename ir nepripastame mirties!

    0Mes priimame mirusius, neturtlius ir tuos, kurie yra niekas REIKALAUJAME

    LAISVOS PRIEIGOS VISAS HART SALAS VISAME PASAULYJE!

    0Mes sveikiname abejojanius!

    1Itihad Rabni Al Tunjur Al Amali Al Fikriya

    1Anjuman Matan Karkan Aur Amali Karkoon

    1Alytaus bienals pervertimo kultros naikinim bei ios klaikios bacilos tarptautins

    sklaidos komitetas (Alytus Biennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture And Distributionof its Aberrant Bacillus Right Abroad - Committee - ABRACADABRA-C)

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    ber) its fucked up (differently than ap-

    pealed FUCKING UP! From the Alytus slo-

    gan). I imagine joining beings for some

    reason and, for the duration of the rea-

    son without duty to follow the decisions

    in the moment they start to sound odd.

    No feedback responsibility!

    0

    General strike is a full scale and glob-

    al refusal from participation

    in exploiting models.

    1

    This is too abstract and it would sink

    into endless debates where exploitation

    starts. when anarchists will start to

    tolerate each other they will start to

    tolerate all people. I think there is

    pretty enough to fight a wish to partic-

    ipate in capitalist mode of production,

    what is a biggest exploitation mechanism

    at present moment.

    0

    HA ! Here I must say that capitalism is

    dead and todays exploitation mechanism

    deserves also a different name not

    even the different adjective like corpo-

    rational , If to use something from past

    terms then maybe more suitable would

    be:neofeudalism, or: neoslavery, or:

    globalslavery (with mostly hiden mas-

    ters). The history coming back, trying

    to apply the seemingly forgotten models,

    using the technologies and psychological

    knowledge of today. So: slavery sup-

    ported by slaves, participating,

    col-laborating, involved with keeping the

    system (under different names and dif-

    ferent cover ideas) running.

    0

    psychic worker that is a possible word

    to identify ones activities with

    1

    psychic worker is simply the producer of

    the meaning and differs from those who

    manage, own, simulate the meaning. I my-

    self have distrust in the coept of to

    identify with - it has very strong de-

    pendence on bourgeois cultural system

    to always to identify with some models

    and to play some role I would take the

    concept psychic worker as a key concept

    to understand the mechanisms proceeding

    in the capitalist system of production

    of meaning there I found myself locat-

    ed after many years of trying sincerely

    play the role of an artist and a teach-

    er.

    1

    I agree with mistrust to identify with

    0

    I also mistrust to production of mean-

    ing by the psychic workers maybe

    attempt to search for meaning

    0

    Also start hating the word production

    that is the real evil.

    1

    This is very basic word and it differs

    from the machine called capitalist mode

    of production (that what leads towards

    gaining a profit).

    0

    We love, live and reject

    death!

    But when I read it today I

    see it maybe means something

    different than I wanted the

    intended meaning was:

    We love death, we live death

    we reject death!

    Or

    We love and live death and we

    reject it!

    0

    reading all this what Iwrote I see I have some

    problem with words

    1

    Rather than make triangular

    (which is two dimensional)

    trimensionalisation means

    three dimensional - going be-

    yond the four dimensional

    straight jacket into an open-

    ing up of layered three di-

    mensional trimensions - so a

    situation can be understood

    as having endless sensual di-

    mensions of ever increasing

    complexity

    1

    this process involves concen-

    trating and reducing one as-

    pect of activity or work to

    zero dimensions eg point or

    event or letter

    Produce I feel as doing something with

    some idea of further use in mind real

    evil no innocence!

    0

    devaluation of the general intellect

    1

    I think there is something wrong in it

    might be somebody will add more exact note

    there is no value in the general intel-

    lect because it is an active, living, im-

    personal, critical mind in itself this

    is a critique of abstract knowledge, itis in itself devaluation this is what the

    DAMTP istending to be about

    0

    General intellect is another bullshit

    that derives from overestimation of the

    role of reason. Intellect is what fails the

    most. I would prefer general mind or con-

    scious but I dislike also the general

    maybe: common? , shared?, Generated?

    0

    We welcome doubts!

    1

    There I remembered our discussion about

    skepticism what is about the doubt if

    communication is not verbal?

    1

    THEN NON VERBAL DOUBTS!

    1

    And to come back to the issues of the con-

    gress:

    Weve had experienced together verbal and

    non verbal communication

    Weve had experienced together panlinguis-

    tics and nonlinguistics

    Weve had experienced together created sit-

    uations

    Weve had experienced individual and col-

    lective skepticisms (or doubts) mostly

    addressed to the (mis)concepts (worker,

    football, (in)comprehensible language/

    message, spectacularity of marching, not

    structured topics, anthem ritual, skepti-

    cism itself etc) this shows nothing but

    how sick from capitalist relationships we

    all areand each in a different way and

    substitution of the words would not abolish

    the skepticism itself, because the words

    are never adequate to reality .

    1even when sick from these whatever (dont

    want to use the word capitalist without

    brackets or quotation marks anymore) rela-

    tionships we still mostly think and act

    within their logic.

    1

    I do not think we are an organization and I

    never had any intentions on pushing towards

    it but so far we agree on many common

    things

    1

    This is why I started using the word con-

    vergents in place of comrades (even when

    the Czech meaning of the word kamarad is

    totally apolitical: means: a friend)1

    I am sure we can proceed further on forming the

    union the union of multitude of entities is

    possible even including all skepticisms prevail-

    ing, without chairmen, dues but with solidari-ty thanks to all of you for it.

    0

    This more reminds the also ugly word: network

    + before I will say: with best wishes

    one more explanation to zet-english I wrote

    this:

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    echos Bacon's concern, criticising thegreedy merchant bankers (finance capital)in a similar way, with his cognitariansreplacing Bacon's noblemenand gentlemen.

    Art precisely emerges with the renaissance,with the rise of the bourgeoisie and theidentification of the artist as the goriginatorof the work of art, whether they callthemselves Bellini or Raphael. Therenaissance humanism of which Bifo is so

    proud comes from these gentleman, all timeserved artisans. So there is here acontradiction.

    Likewise, it is worth understanding Marx'spassage in The Fragment on Machines inthe Grundrisse:

    Nature builds no machines, no locomotives,railways, electric telegraphs, self-actingmules etc. Theseare products of human industry; naturalmaterial transformed into organs of thehuman will over nature,or of human participation in nature. Theyare organs of the human brain, created bythe human hand;the power of knowledge, objectified. Thedevelopment of fixed capital indicates towhat degree generalsocial knowledge has become adirect force of production, and to what

    degree, hence, the conditions ofthe process of social life itself have comeunder the control of the general intellect andbeentransformed in accordance with it. To whatdegree the powers of social productionhave been produced,not only in the form of knowledge, but alsoas immediate organs of social practice, of

    the real lifeprocess.

    (http://thenewobjectivity.com/pdf/marx.pdf)

    Certainly Paul Virno poses an interestingproblem at the end of his text GeneralIntellectin Lessico Postfordista:

    Finally, our question is whether the peculiarpublic character of the intellect, which istoday the technical requirement of the

    production process, can be the actual basisfor a radically new form of democracy andpublic sphere that is the antithesis of theone pivoting on the state and on itsmonopoly on political decision. There aretwo distinct but interdependent sides to thisquestion: on the one hand, the generalintellect can affirm itself as an autonomouspublic sphere only if its bond to theproduction of commodities and wage labouris dissolved. On the other hand, thesubversion of capitalist relations ofproduction can only manifest itself throughthe institution of a public sphere outside thestate and of a political community thathinges on the general intellect.

    (http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpvirno10.htm)

    Perhaps it would be more useful to developa discussion from these points rather than

    SCEPSI statement.

    And it would also be useful if peopleunderstand that it is not a matter of lookingfor things with which to compromise Bifo:the problem is that the shortcomings of hispolitical viewpoint are so blatant that theycannot be ignoerd.

    0[Andrius]The cognitariat seems to echo RichardFlorida's propositions for the 'creative class',which are described by him as the mainmotor for revitalizing capitalism - ultimatelyin the form of gentrification. This curatorappeared on the public sphere at the timebetween the dot com bubble in 2002 andthe following house market 'crash'. Floridais quoted by mayors of Berlin, Detroit,Chicago etc. In my view, withoutrecognizing the role of 'creatives' as such

    (often unconscious) agents, and inventingterminology for disparate political, financial,cognitarian classes, the possibility ofgrasping one's own function in complexsocial relationships is postponed.

    I also see Dovile's and Kasparas'responses simplistic. 'The uncontrollablealternative', if you put it together with claimsfor preserving European gems from so-named financial class, sounds ratherstrange... I would recommend watching PierPaolo Pasolini's 'Sal, or the 120 Days ofSodom', 1975 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/) - at this point I realize it wouldhave been a good inspiration for adiscussion in Alytus.

    The general intelect, in my opinion, doesnot begin and end with ourselves.Ourselves (in Kasparas' response) seem tostand for the preservation of certain

    privileges in a highly segregated world,such as those called 'creative autonomyoutside of the realm of capital' - what arethey eventually? Even if one thing is to livewith dignity (in search for a better word) andquite different to ignore the persistingracism of Europe. The general intellectincludes the whole human history and ourparticular place in it: both spatial &

    temporal. In an authentic search forauthenticity you seem to forget thatyou are not authentic...

    Capitalism and Communism beingflip sides of the same coin is a basic"truth". Preventing Marxism fromthinking it is superior. The coinbeing "materialism" itself. A "dead-end' that has held us back for manyyears.b.m.

    Surplus culture (whatever it is in-tend to mean) doesnt fit to be sub-stituted for bourgeois culture. Bour-geois culture is surplus in general,but surplus culture would be some-thing to damage that bourgeois (orWhite, or serious) culture. Alsosimilar effect could be reachedtotally striking any appearance ofcultural (or that of civilization...againWhite) trace.

    Neither Black Power nor WhitePower is not to mean as only con-nected to skin's colour - that prob-lem is much more complex - theproblem is in s.c. White and euro-centrist civilization which is widelyexported to the third world as welland everything gets even muchmore messed up. Today Black and

    white contrapositioning is gettingmuch closer to the class conflictthan ever before.

    The search for the meaning byusing language as a systematicbasis and continuously being lost inthe meanings of the particularwords - that is what the consumingof bourgeois culture is all about (thesame is with other non verbal insti-tutionalized cultural spheres), whilethe production of meaning tendstowards demand to control themeans of production; first term isabout the respect to authorities, thesecond one is ignorance towardsthem; first is related towards individ-ualization, while the second is openalso towards collective attempts.Eurocentrist axis in the search for

    the meaning ...and particularly thesymbolic forms of that "knowledge' -that is what mostly misleads...doubt has only individual sense inthe process of the search of themeaning, but it has a striking effectin the process of production.

    That was also the way how crusad-ers invaded the indigenous people -they imposed the symbolic meaningto everything what surroundedthose people...that is what the cul-ture is about...search for the mean-ing has no sense anymore - its timeto get rid of it...what does it meanswhen you refuse from the spoiledwords and choosing or inventing thenew - the clean - ones ...very soonit will be spoiled in the same way

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    0

    (social) layer or

    caste in place of

    class

    0

    The relations within

    the society take again openly form of

    slavery, for which the rulers use the

    cover name democracy. We can speak

    about the democratic slavery (as it ac-

    tually was in the very beginning of the

    use of this term was it in Athens?)

    0

    And again - one more trying: Bodies

    or minds could alternate the word

    workers keeping the psychic work-

    ers

    1

    I see a danger in those statements what

    was essential trick of all bourgeois

    revolutionaries the statement we are

    all humans the problem appears when

    realizing that there are different hu-

    man beings those who produce and

    those, who are managing the produced

    that is where inhumanity starts and

    that is why we still need the concepts

    like worker and class. Of course, the

    etymology (I included that concept be-cause I felt that it is essential posi-

    tion of miscommunication in the common

    debates) of those words is very much

    connected to obsolete contexts mostly

    related to 19th century and is hardly

    acceptable to us now simply not

    trendy. But the essence of the words is

    still the same that is why probably

    the biggest efforts from institutional-

    ized academicians were brought to dis-

    fashion and to erase those concepts

    from the common usage.

    1

    Also I think that if someone dislikes

    the word that is an ability to trans-

    late it to his/her own language diverg-

    ing from urdu, Russian or Arabic to zet

    -english or red-ass-english

    0

    Yes, it gives sense, but I see todays

    society notso clearly

    devided into

    the those

    who produce

    and those,

    who are man-

    aging the

    produced

    and l see

    the thing as

    more complicated in most cases both

    mentioned are fire-able employees of

    intertwined system ruled but not clear-

    ly appointable individuals. Its easier

    to define the worker even when in

    some places of the world it really

    doesnt exist anymore in the 19trh cen-

    tury meaning of the world, than the

    other classes. Its so tricky that the

    cruciat enterprises are not in one hand

    and when we get

    to share-

    holders etcwe

    are lost talking

    about class.

    So I would

    say : if we

    leave the feudal counties like the UK,

    and few others, the clear class struc-

    ture doesnt exist anymore maybe this

    fact makes usage of words like class

    kind of outdated, more than the bad

    sound caused by their overuse in main-ly easteuro-asian totalitarian regimes

    of the 20th and 21st century. Yes I

    like the expression: psychic worker

    very much, even when I am not sure

    about the optimism about finding

    the meaning.

    0

    Individual in the

    sense that we appreciate

    the individual quali-

    ties, contributions, but

    do not overestimate

    them. The individual ap-

    proach is the best in-

    strument to fight the

    racism.

    0

    Communal in the sense

    that two is better thanone, not speaking about

    more knowing that

    even one sometimes

    seems to be unreachable

    amount in times of not

    complex identities.

    0

    My vision of better fu-

    ture could be called

    PANTONOMIA system ena-

    bling parallel existence

    of different autonomous

    models, opened certain

    way that one could

    choose in which s/he/it

    wants to live.

    1

    individual and communal

    are not oppositions any-

    more organization

    could be as one-person

    as communal, temporary,

    or permanent that is a multi-

    tude into union. But there I must say

    that I disagree with correction of the

    words one and the same into similar

    in the sentence Our struggles are one

    and the same and we see it as a priori-

    ty for workers and organisations with

    access to resources to support those

    who do not have access to resources -

    the problem

    is ex- actly

    that our treatment

    of our struggles

    was as they are

    similar the

    point is that it is the one struggle

    (different modes, tactics, strategies,approaches, but its totally one)

    that is what the union is need for. The

    problem is still that we are too much

    into the concepts and ourselves identi-

    fication with it the point is not a

    glossary of things to identify with,

    the point is doing things and then to

    find words for it good things done

    can improve even mistrusted words.

    1

    I completely agree on

    ideological and stra-

    tegic level, but as I

    am scared from any

    ideology and I kind

    of hate total expres-

    sions like: forever, never, always, one

    and the same, the only etc. for their

    hypnotic ultimate value, I usually try

    to change them into something less pa-

    thetic.

    0

    remember "communal" has a very differ-

    ent meaning in India!

    1

    Maybe we need to define "we" and "i"

    1

    We = west essex

    us = united state

    1

    there is enough of eight I to consti-

    tute WE or to be more precise WE = 4

    obliques + 1 vertical + 3 transversals

    0

    I still dont like the optimism as to

    the Institute of organisation. Organ-

    isation is something which obtains in

    its essence the self-assuring, self-

    referring, self-supporting tendencies,which kill the healthy doubts and espe-

    cially in case of organisations appre-

    ciated suicidal inclinations.

    1

    It depends on how youll treat the word

    as an organism or as a corporation I

    found nothing bad in the word itself

    the substitution of the word with

    gatherings- here we step back to the

    same problem discussed above as de-

    scribed we all are the humans. Due to

    the corporational or capitalist mode of

    the organizations structure there is

    a mechanism of self regulation as pro-

    posed by DAMTP:

    1

    But we reject from the conduct of those

    workers who are less organized then we

    are

    1

    We welcome and encourage the leading byless organized

    workers

    0

    Once the organi-

    zation requires

    the subordina-

    tion of the mem-

    bers (in case of

    organization of

    one: of its mem-

    MOREONBASICDEFINITIONS:LET-

    TER+NAME+NATION+CASTE=SITUATION

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    AGAINSTBIFO,SCEPSIANDFURTHEREUROCENTRISM0[Redas]Yournewstatement[KAFCA:KnowledgeAgainstFinancialCapitalismundertheumbrellaofSCEPSI(EuropeanSchoolforSocialImagination)]coincidedwithournextissueofArtStrikeBiennialandthemeetingofDAtaMiners&TravailleursPsychiqueshortlyDAMTPs[orpeopleinclosewithagree-menttoDAMTPs].AsIalwayshadabunchofdisagreementstoyourstatementsthistimeImustnoticeitcomesevenworse.Theallolderourdisagreementsoneuropeancentrist(atsomepointracist)positions,andalsoduetoprescriptionofleadingroletowhitepro-westernmodeofknowledgeanditspropagatorsbourgeoisartists,theoreticiansetc.thatneverwerefollowedbyfurtherdiscussionsorevenplacedasacounter-positionsinyourwelleditedandselect-

    edinsurrectionistthoughtevenyourcomingcoupleyearsagotoAlytuswasbasednotondoingsomethingtogether,butratheronpositioningtobelistenButitwasverygoodwehadsomediscussionsotherwisewewoulddonotboth-ereachotherafterwardsIdisagreethatcommonsenseofsensual-eroticsocialbodycouldberestoredbythespecializedtheorists,artists,teach-ers,studentsandwhomsoeverandthatisnottruththatitwaslostbecauseoftheprocessofvirtualizationandprecari-zationprevailinginneoliberalmechanismsitwaslostmuchearlierandbecauseofthesametheheirsoffivecen-turiesofhumanistcivilizationandofscientificrevolution.Andtheyarenotthepromiseofafutureofprogress,andfree-domthatsanopposite.Actuallythatisthecauseoftheinstitutionalizedobstacletopreventthesocietyfromrealsocialimaginationandtoturnitonfetishisation.Itiswhatthebourgeosificationisabout.

    Whatiswe(DAMTPs)arecallingforthatisreproletrianiza-tionofthesocialintelligencethefreedomforcreationofthemeaningwithoutlimitationintimeandspaceandwithoutcapitalistspecializations.Youasanacademician,orwhom-everelse(inthesameorderassomequeenofEnglandaswell)you[we]allcanresignfromyour/ourdutiesandjointogetherforthestrikingthesystemprevailingnobodyknowsbetterthesystemaspeoplewhoareinvolvedintoit.ButinsteadIseejustacalltorestoreprivilegiesforEuropeanworshipersoftheSUN.

    Whatalsomakesdistrusttoyourpositionsaboutdefendingthesocialcivilization,thelegacyofhumanisticvalues,andthepleasureoflifeisthatusuallyyour(andthatofotherSCEPSIs)activitiesarebasedonwhatwecallculturalwhitesupremacisteuropeancentristformatwhatsaboutincludingthepositionsoftherefugeesfromNothernAfrica,slaveryofEasternEuropeansintheWestetc.Iamsureyoureaccept-ingonlythosewhomeetthelevelofcivilizationorinabestwaywhatinneoliberalistideologyiscalledmulti-cultii.e.civilizedsavages[theyareusuallyaremuchmorecapitaliststhencapitaliststhemselves].Mightbeitsnotabestthingtohappenthatintellectualsandlumpeninterminglefortogolootingtogether,butintermingling

    ofintellectualswithwhitebourgeoisieindefendingofhighvaluesthatsmuchworse.IthinkweatDAMTPwouldarrangeacollectiveresolutionaddressedtowardsyourupcomingeventnotsurehowcriti-calitwillbe,butdefinitelyitwillbeveryskeptictowardsyourSCEPSI

    1[Dovil]SadtoreadthemisinterpretationbyDAMPTsonSCEPSIsstatement.Ifrecuperationofstudents,researchers,artists,engineers,therapists,teachersisalreadynot

    reproletrianizationofthesocialintelligence,thenwhoandhow?Isitnecessarytowritealgerianresearcherandstreetartisttobeliterallycorrectandnotmixedwithwhitesupremacistsomethingborgeous?Itissomethingverymuchmixedinhere.

    FrancoBerardihasnotonlyintelligenceandsubtlethinking,butcharismaofexpression,sonaturallyhedidntneedspeciallytoasktheaudiencetolisten.Justhardtobelievethat

    DAMPTsaresomuchintoMaoidealsofdoingeverythingtogether,likereadingonebookorlisteningonesong,thatevenindividualspeachmeetsintolerance.

    NowIunderstandwhywewereshootingeachotherwithblackcolorinAlytustobemoretoleratedinconferenceasguestsfromNorthAfricawere.0[Fabian]IfoundRedasresponseverygood.ButwhenIreadDovil'sresponse,IfeelitmissedsomekeyelementsoftheSCEPSIsstatement:

    "Interpretationfollowssemanticcriteriaintherealmofconjunction:themeaningofthesignssentbytheotherassheentersinconjunctionwithyou,needstobeunderstoodbytracingtheintention,thecontext,thenuancesandtheunsaid,ifnecessary."BifoBeradi:Connectivesensibility(http://scepsi.eu/en/connective-sensibility/)"ThecollapsethathasjeopardizedeconomiclifeandisdestroyingthesocialcivilizationoftheEuropeancountriesisaneffectofthirtyyearsofapplicationoftheNeoliberalphilosophy."(OpeninglineoftehSCEPSIsstatement)

    AlthoughtheimpactofthecollapseoftheAmericansubprimemarketismentioned,itishardtounderstandwhySCEPSIfocussesonlyonEurope.Themostobviousexplanationisaeurocentricoutlook.HoweverasDovildoesnotthinkthisis

    thecase,Iwouldbegratefulfortheirexplanationofthislimitation.

    Whilstthecapitalistsystem-asaworldsystem-isshakingwiththeimpactofthecrisis,thereisnoreasontobelievethattheEU"isonthevergeofafinalcollapse"-onthecontrary,itseemsthattheEurozonewillbecomemoretightlycontrolledbyGermanyandFrance.MeanwhiletheEuropeanExternalActionServiceisapproachingitsfirstbirthdayasanEU

    ForeignOffice.TheEUisbecomingstronger,andbeingpromotedpreciselyasaresolutionofthecurrentcrisis.

    AsregardsBifo'sintelligence,thisactuallycreatesaproblem:IfthefocusonEuropeismerelyaccidental,thenwecouldaccepttheEurocentrismasanerror,andthedocumentcouldswiftlybesuperseded.However,ifthestatementistheworkedoutthinkingofpeopleofintelligence,IthinkwecansafelyassumethattheEurocentrismisacentralplankofthispoliticalconcoction.Whetherthisisasincerelyheldbeliefinthe

    superiorityofEuropean"socialcivilisation",ormerelyademagogicploytorallycognitariansaroundaredEUflag(Martinhasalreadymadeoneforthem:http://martin-zet.com/en/2003.html).

    Dovilreferstosomeproblemabout"readingonebookorlisteningonesong"butforsomereasonseesthisaslinkedto"Mao'sideals".Ifindthisodd.Allacrosstheworldpeoplehavedevelopedwaysofproducingmusicinconcert,andoftenhavestructureddiscussionaroundcriticallyassessingaparticulartext.IndeedmuchofEuropeanthoughthascentredaroundonebook,theBible,thebookwhoseverynamemeansthebook.Meetingthe

    shortcomingsoftheSCEPSIsstatementwithcriticismisnotintol-erance,itisaresponse.

    Bifowrote:Whatmattersistheabilityofminority(callthempoliticalavant-garde,callthemorganic

    intellectuals,callthemmaybe

    schizoanalists)tofindconcepts,andwords,andgesturesthatgivedifferentpeopleacommonvision,andacommon

    understandingoftherealandofthepossible.

    Thisdevelopmentofsuchavanguard-whetherinitsLeninistformoritsSorelianform-hasprovedtobeasmuchanobstacletohumanliberationasthe"financecapital"thattheSCEPSIsstatementfocuseson.Whatisdisturbingisthatthisfocusonfinancecapitalastheproblem-ratherthancapitalismaswebofsocialrelationships,isoftenusedtoencouragetrustinintelligentandcharismaticindividualsleadingaself-styledintellectualelite(herecalledthe

    Cognitarians)inthecreationofadystopiasuchasexperiencedacrossEuropeduringmuchofthetwentiethcentury.IagreewholeheartedlywithRedasthatthelossoftheeroticandsocialbodycanbefoundinthedevelopmentofCartesianthoughtandthesplitbetweenmindandbodywhichwestartedtodiscussduringtheScepticismdebateonSaturday.Theadventofthecomputertechnologyissimplytheindustrialisationofwhathadpreviouslybeenacheivedthroughhandicraftproduction.IreadBifo'sstatementasbeingasmuchanattempttoorganise"cognitarians"whoseartisanstatusisbeingthreatenedbyTaylorisedworkprocessesasanythingelse.Asmuchanattempttomaintainaseparationbetweenthe"cognitarians"andtheworkingclassasawhole,tomaintainacasteseparation-withalltheprivilegeswhich

    thatentails.InthisrespecttheEurocentrismmaywellbesimplyasmokescreenencouragingthecriticalreadertofocusontheEurocentrism-whichRedascorrectlyidentifiesasborderingonracism-allthebettertoobscuretheintellectualelitisminherentinthedocument.

    Theuseoftheterm"psychicworker"ratherthan"cognitarian"islinkedtothefactthatallworkhasitspsychicaspect.Itislinkedtoanapproachwhichisnotrootedinthelinearthoughtwhichconstitute"fivecenturiesofhumanistcivilizationandofscientificrevolution"imposedbyforceofarmsbyEuropeanimperialismontherestoftheworld.ThediscussionoftheuseofthetermworkerattheAlytusBiennialewasimportant,andIunderstandthewellfoundedreservationsexpressed.Ithasbeenusedsomuchinthepasttoglorifythepositionoftheworkerratherthanlookingtothesupercessionoftheworkingclass.However,nomatterhowdespisedorabusedthetermmaybe,whenfacedwiththeintellectualelitisminherentintheSCEPSIstatement,Ifinditausefulantidotetothispostmodernself-intoxication.1[Kasparas]IalsodistancemyselffromwhatRedassaidandIdon'twanttobemingledamongthosecriticizingwhatBifodoes.IthinkwhatautonomistsdotryingtothinkovertheartistssituationisnotlessusefulthanArtstrikes.Moreover,Artstrikesdespitetheirmagnetismalsohavetheirownproblems.Forexample,itisalwaysfuntomakedemonstrationsortoplayinconcertwhichisconductedaccordingtoaprinciple"Everyoneisanartist".Ontheotherhand,thereisalwaysacomicmomentofHegelianrepresentationwhichmakesthesedemonstrationsandconcertskindofartificial.Ithinkinourdiscussionwemustnotonlysearchfornon-alienationbutalsoemphasizethematerialpotentialityofacreativepersonandtoregainourlostpossibilitieswhichwererecuperatedbycreativeindustries,financialcapital,interfaceetc.InsteadoftheartistalienationIwouldbetterfocusonmaterialexploitationofartistworkforcebyusingthetechniquesofcreativecommonsandcreativeindustries.Thesequestionsremainlargelynotdiscussedduringtheartstrikes,butnamelythesequestions,thequestionsofartistsaslivinglaboraremosturgentnowadays.Dialecticcritiqueand

    refusaltocreateartisnotananswer,theproblemisintheneedtosearchforsubversiveactsthatunderminecapitalistdomination.WemustsearchforautonomyinsideEmpire,tocreateourfreezonesnotbychangingourownconsciousness(bysingingArtstrikeanthemsinsteadofLithuanianoranyotherimperialistanthem)butbyconstantinsubordinationtoanysubjugationtechnologies.Andofcoursewecannotforgetthatthetimestheyarea-changin'andwecannotalwaysdefineourrealitybyMaoistoroldorthodoxMarxistterms.Itisnotenoughtocreate"proletariannegative"insteadof"capitalistpositive",itwouldbemoreusefultocelebratethedionysiananduncontrollablealternativewithoutanyrepresentation.IcompletelydisagreeherewithyoubecauseyouonlysearchforthingsthatcompromisetheattitudeofBifo.Ithinkheiscompletelyrightwhenthinkingandspeakingabouttheconditionsofcontemporaryartistorintellectual,becauseheisspeakingabouthimself.ShouldhedobetterifhespokeabouthungrychildrenofAfrica?Wouldn'titremindthetacticsofBonoorothernobleartistsinvolvedinliberatingalltheworld...insteadofourselves?Orallthosetrotskyiterevolutionaries

    whoforgetthemselvesafterturningontheBBCNews.Ithinkwemustbeginwithourselvesascollectiveforcetryingtomoveoutofsocialfactoryoflatecapitalism.Theartsabotageisnotaboutconstantreunionwithworkingclasswhodoesn'tevenknowanymorethatitisworkingclass,Theartsabotageisaboutdestroyingtheidentityofanartistandputtingupwiththeidentityitself,especiallynegativeidentity,it'saboutcreativeautonomyoutsideoftherealmofcapital.notforaweek,butforlife,it'saboutconstantredefinitionofvalue-makingprocessanddestructionofthelawofvalueitself.IthinkGeneralIntellectisaboutourselves,aboutourplacesimultaneouslyinandoutofthesystem,andithasapotentialitywhichyethastobediscussed.0[Fabian]ItisaveryweakargumenttosuggestthatanyoneisdemandingthatBifospeakabouthungrychildreninAfrica.Theproblemisthatheisrepeatingthefictionsofthebourgeoisrevolution.Heisdefingasaclassthe'Cognitariansas"heirsoffivecenturiesofhumanistcivilizationandof scientificrevolution"-i.e.therenaissancerediscoveryof

    CiceroandGreekthought,followedbytheriseoffolklikeGalileoandFrancisBacon.Sothesuggestionthatthisabout"creativeautonomyoutsideoftherealmofcapital"isasimplefiction.Itisnot,notevenforasecond.PerhapsitiswothreadingBacon's"OnPlantations"toseehowmuchthisfatherofscienceisproposingthedevelopmentofcoloniesfundedbyecologicaldestructionasforestsareusedtoprovidetimberascommodity.TrueBaconcallsforthesecoloniestoberunbynoblemenandgentlemenratherthanmerchants-whoheseesassimplywantingtomakeaquickbuck.AndhereBifo

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    0D A M T P D A DD A T A D A M TP O S T A D A DD A D A M T P OS T E V E N T DA D A V A H D A

    T A P O S T

    1DAMTP Berlin vahdat will trimensionalise the Antisituation of Amsterdam and Labyrinth of Alytus!

    1DAMTP Berlin vahdat will demon-strate the economic, scientific, cultural bankrupcy of the ruling culture through

    Situlogical Interferometrical Dark Power!

    0DADAMTPOSTBURNLINVAHDAT is not an art event, nor cultural, nor any other specialized activity celebrating gathering.

    1DAMTP Berlin vahdat is the place to further enjoy collective production of meaning of any quality in any shape and form from anywhere in

    the world and outside the world.

    1DAMTP Berlin vahdat calls for a Black Power concentration towards a defense against the White power that is the basis of Capitalism

    (chattel slavery and colonialism). A Black Power that does not limit itself to Nationalism but opens up to the Class struggle.1

    DAMTP Berlin vahdat calls for those, who are pissed of by continuous identification with White cultural clichs and are looking

    towards thesituations where the new meanings spread-up.

    1DAMTP Berlin vahdat will attempt to extend Dadaist Jedermann sein eigner Fussball through the triolectics and psychogeography by situa-tionists into surrealist dreamed marvelous convulsion of totality of the struggle, what many of us still individually use to consider as our own

    multiple similar fights.

    0MULTITUDE INTO UNION! MULTITUDE INTO WAHDAT! WAHDAMTP IN WAHDADAPOST!

    0B U R N BB E R LI NB A B Y BB U R N !

    1To join us in setting up the situation on site and for a talk come to DADAPOST on October 14th and/or 15th (untill 6PM), 2011.

    1To celebrate, discuss and play come to DADAPOST on October 15th at 6 PM:

    0a short presentation on geography & architecture in Berlin: a virtual skyscraper to replace a current building of Dadapost. Billboard & posters

    on sale/giveaway, advertising the building and deconstructing the role art plays in gentrification;

    0triolectical football in the yard of DADAPOST which by accident is very close to triangular all obstacles inside will be treated as psychogeographical;

    0freezing with Venom in Eternity (Isidore Isou's Venom and Eternity - remake by Karen Karnak) at the same time experiencing threeing by following the

    instructions in the best traditions of German ordnung definitely if there is a way to destroy capitalism in Germany that must obtain the form ofordnung first;

    0Collective chiseling of the soviet educational propaganda film about Marshal Zhukov in a lettrist way;

    0triolectic football (continuation) in the former airport of Templehof in South Berlin at the same time enjoying sacred site of Knights Templar, a site forPrussian & Nazi military parades, having one of the first concentration camps in Germany built and being a site for American airlift during the 'Cold'

    War planned as Sunday-noon-go-far-away-and-play-at-13-oclock event;

    1To try to conceive, abolish and/or to grab some propaganda or to leave your own come to DADAPOST by appointment whenever till November 13th.

    (Arrangements for new meetings included).

    0No doubts and skepticisms are awaited till the 6PM of October 15th just come and do!

    0Come and share, discuss or simply take whatever to spread the mist of ignorance or to light the fire of destruction of serious White culture or infect to

    initiate/help its decomposition.

    0Alytus Biennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture And Distribution of its Aberrant Bacillus Right Abroad - Committee (ABRACADABRA-C)