In Artforum's new issue on '68 as "the great refusal" Gerald Raunig discusses the twofold meaning of "la brèche": This expression, attributed to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, was used around '68 to refer to the breach that rebellious students and workers were able to force in French universities, factories, and streets. Significantly, it also appears in the title of a remarkable book by Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, and Edgar Morin - Mai 1968: La Brèche. Premières Réflexions sur les événements.

Isola district in Milano is struggling hard to survive in a difficult political and cultural context, being the target of capitalist and neo-nazi aggressions. Two days after the victory of right wing parties at the Italian elections, the Isola Art Project has once again been aggressed.

Buffalo, NY—A process that has taken nearly four years may be coming to an end. On Monday, April 21, Federal Judge Richard J. Arcara ruled to dismiss the indictment against University at Buffalo Professor of Visual Studies Dr. Steven Kurtz.

During his stay in Buenos Aires, where he had been invited by Tinta Limón to present the book Generación Post Alfa , Franco Berardi, alias Bifo, made a series of therapeutic suggestions that were closely followed by a myriad of media activists, university students and more ore less flexible culture workers. To our surprise, at the last moment there were signs he had been co-opted by the Errorist International.

Diverse cultural, political and university networks in Europe appeal to the mayor of Ljubljana, Slovenia, not to sell and evict the lively social center ROG.

In cooperation with transform.eipcp.net the Russian-English language magazine Chto Delat (based in Petersburg and Moscow) has published a new issue entitled Critique and Truth. It could be seen as a set of theoretical texts regarding the recent issue Basta on local pre-electorial protests in Russia, and concerns the "critical class" and its conditions of production. In how far can this class and its criticality claim to produce the truth?

Im Zuge der Politisierung um 1968 kam es einerseits zu einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit institutionellen Logiken. Institutionen wurden mit aktivistischen und künstlerischen Mitteln sowohl radikal in Frage gestellt wie strategisch unterwandert, ebenso verlassen und durchbrochen wie verändert und neu gegründet. Im Anschluss daran wurde andererseits der „Marsch durch die Institutionen“ von einer gegenhegemonialen Strategie zu einer legitimatorischen Rhetorik.

an interim report of reading Marina Gržinić´ s book: re- politicizing art, theory, representation and new media technology, publications of the academy of fine arts Vienna, volume 6, 2008, schlebrügge.editor

The promising exponential impact of this 700 pages book has just started. Since its public release in November 2007 at the headquarters of the self-managed publishing house Traficantes de Suenos, dozens of well attended public presentations of the book have taken place around different sites of Spain.

A talk given at the symposium “Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Exit or Activism?”, Central European University, Budapest, 29 February 2008.

In 2007 St. Petersburg’s European University received a grant from the European Union for monitoring the Russian elections and educating observers. On 8 February 2008, some weeks before the elections and following an order by the state fire inspector and a decision by the Dzerzhinsky court, all educational activity in the university was shut down for ninety days.

What no presidential candidate is talking about – but what activists need to know about a dangerous long-term tendency in US policy.

Isola Art Center / Milano has been a very original case of activist space dealing with exhibiting and research in contemporary art, capable to reach international recognition without ever losing connection with the struggles of its neighborhood.

a bookreview of ALTERNATIVE ECONOMICS, ALTERNATIVE SOCIETIES (English/Polish)
editors: Aneta Szyłak & Oliver
Printed in Poland 2007

For the post-Operaist philosopher Paolo Virno, exodus transforms the context in which a problem has emerged, instead of treating the problem by deciding between given alternatives. As joke and as innovative action, exodus opens up a side road, uncharted on political maps, “to modify the very ‘grammar’ which determines the selection of all possible choices.”