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The risk of illusory leftist dreams is low,­ at least no higher than the danger of paralytic self-critiques that miss the lessons to be learned from the left's contribution to the Obama victory.

Judith Butler warnt davor, Phänomen und Person Obama als "Erlösung" zu mystifizieren und die Ambivalenzen seiner Wahl in einer vereinheitlichenden Identifikation aufzulösen.

While in France the Parti Socialiste just seems to split and in Germany Die Linke becomes more and more successful, the new issue of the Austrian magazine for cultural politics, Kulturrisse, collects thoughts on the possibilities and conditions of a new left in Austria.

For a number of weeks in Italy the entire education system has been uprising. This movement opens up a new Europe-wide discussion on building up a counter-Bologna process, a European space of free circulation of knowledge, of social cooperation, of self-education.

What would it mean to win? is the title-giving question of the film by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler about Heiligendamm and the most current aspects of a social movement. Other questions resonate behind it: Is it actually possible to win? And before that: Against whom? And still more abstractly: Does anyone actually want to ‘win’?

Buchneuerscheinung im Verlag Turia + Kant: Band 8 der eipcp-Reihe republicart, Hito Steyerls "Die Farbe der Wahrheit", verhandelt klassische Fragestellungen der dokumentarischen Form – ihre Funktion als Knoten von Machtwissen, als Repräsentation der Realität oder mediale Selbstreflexion – anhand von neueren Beispielen aus dem Kunstfeld.

In collaboration with transform.eipcp.net the Madrid based publishing house Traficantes de Sueños published the new transform-reader on cultural production and instituent practices with texts by Boris Buden, Judith Butler, Marcelo Expósito, Alberto De Nicola, Brian Holmes, Jens Kastner, Maurizio Lazzarato, Isabell Lorey, Stefan Nowotny, Gerald Raunig, Gigi Roggero, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo (Universidad Nómada), Hito Steyerl, Benedetto Vecchi and Marion von Osten.

In her DVD-project “Antonio Negri. The Cell” (Actor Publisher, Barcelona/New York 2008) Angela Melitopoulos presents an arrangement of more than two hours of video-material based on three interviews with the famous Italian philosopher focusing on problems of exile, imprisonment, freedom and the construction of personal joy and community.

Der bei Unrast erschienene Reader "nicht alles tun", herausgegeben von Jens Kastner und Bettina Spörr, erforscht zivilen und sozialen Ungehorsam an den Schnittstellen von Kunst, radikaler Politik und Technologie.

European solidarity campaign for the Collettivo Sottotetto housing project in the Compagnoni quarter of Reggio Emilia, Italy