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Bookfair program (few more details and it will be finished) Friday, 26th March 2010 15:00 - 21:00 Bookfair - come and check the books of different publishers, free materials from various groups, newspapers, magazines... See list of participants. 17:30 New strategies of social control Fortress Europe is making it's walls stronger. New agrements and institutions are providing new posibilites for police networking, while production of fear adn tensions results with demands for "more secutrity" and more consent for new mesures of surveillance and control. 19:00 Academic approach to anarchism Academism, as a particular way of approaching and criticizing the world around itself, didn't bypass the methods of social organizing or non organizing, and thus also the anarchist theory and practice, which, through it's basic principles, demands for abolishing of university and academic approach, i.e. it's way of functioning and acting. This did not stop many anarchists from becoming a part of that group, and so empower it's elitist and authoritarian discourse which exists as the sole reality / dimension understood by the academic community. A question comes to mind; what are the limits of the academic analysis of anarchism, and could that approach be of any use in analysis of the society, if it came out of the authoritative system whose bearer it is, and because of the same reason is also limited in its analysing same as in its repeal, as it really is what makes its elitist position possible? |
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Saturday, 27th March 2010 10:00 - 15:00 Bookfair moves to the square, so the books are available during rush hour... In case of bad weather fair moves back inside in cinema Europa, Varsavska 3. 15:00 - 20:00 Bookfair moves back inside... 13:00 Presentation of book Miloš Krpan: Izabrani spisi Publishing house DAF will present it's new book Selected Writings by Miloš Krpan, selection of texts written hunder years ago, which represent rare insight in history of active political life in Croatia and presents history of anarchism and interest in anarchist ideas. 17:30 Contemporary Anarchist Press in Czech republic 18:00 Squat Wars 19:00 Strategies of social conflicts When social conflicts, strategies and tactics of resistance to government repression are discussed, discussion of violent or non violent tactics usage is almost inevitable. Although this discussion has lately become solved, by claiming the right of selecting different tactics, which solved the problem of reaching the consensus of tactics selecting, in practice there's still a great sensibility when violent methods of resistance are being used. Even if we neglect the reasoning in binary oppositions violence / non violence, the problem about violence as a method still remains very baffling. It could be seen that when resisting the repression, anarchists often refuse to use the methods that system finds radical in order not to provoke even larger repression, and thus perform a kind of auto-repression, and so neutralize their own activity. On the other hand, there are many examples lately in which people, who do not identify themselves with anarchism or the anarchist movement, seem to have no problem in radicalizing their own acting in fight against the repression. This indicates a few things; severity of extremely negative semantic field of the therm violence, difficulty of drawing the line between violence and non violence, influence of the pacifist ideology and importance of context within which we are acting. Discussion on strategies of social conflicts should take into consideration strategies of the institutionalised repression and institutionalised acting with the aim of destroying any resistance movement. Only in this wider context do the particular strategies gain or lose sense and purpose. The fact is that the basic priority of the governmental institution is to maintain the so called normal condition and obstruct any acting that could disturb that condition, and it's going so far that even considering resistance to repression and desire for change would be enough for extension of the institutional repression. Then, the weight of discussion is pulled away from violent or non violent methods to the oppositions of legal / illegal, normal / abnormal... Sunday 28th March 2010 10:00 - 15:00 Bookfair - come and have
coffee or tea, look for the book you missed the previous days, and spend
your sunday morning in a pleasant company... . That would be the closure
of the 6th Anarchist bookfair. |
