CasaZine 3: Call for Papers

What makes together? Notes on the life of political
collectivities
CASAZine #3: Borders, Markets, Movements

“Through the work of listening to others, of hearing
the force of their pain and the energy of their anger,
of learning to be surprised by all that one feels
oneself to be against; through all of this, a ‘we’ is
formed and an attachment is made.”
-Sarah Ahmed

The focus of this issue emerges from the 2005 Cultural
Analysis Summer Academy (CASA) international meeting
in Amsterdam organized around the themes of “Borders,
Markets and Movements”. CASA addressed a variety of
topics from immigration policy to working conditions
to the democratization of education. What united this
wide range of interests was a commitment to raising
questions of social responsibility, along with a
desire for collective analyses and collective
solutions for confronting and countering oppressions.

COPILANDIA is a copyright-free island situated on a boat moored in the Guadalquivir River. Equipped with art materials, copiers of all media, computers, and sound systems, COPILANDIA multiplies, disseminates and celebrates the free exchange and circulation of art and ideas.

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Contested Commons, Trespassing Publics: A Public Record Available for free download at http://www.sarai.net/events/ip_conf/ip_conf.htm

A rapporteur’s account of the Contested Commons conference (6-8 January 2005, Delhi), along with a range of interviews, links a wide spectrum of political, social and cultural issues embedded in “the property question”. It deconstructs the capital-driven processes of enclosure in the contexts of software, file-sharing, patents, biopiracy, Indigenous knowledge, cyber art, virtual exchange, literary history, theology and law, among others.

Varied voices explore new paradigms of practice in relation to the global intellectual property regime, its enforcement as well as its violation and subversion by a compelling array of resilient figures. These include the hacker, the pirate, the solitary “genius”, the reformer, the artist, the prisoner, the heretic, the thief, the “transformative” author, the theorist, the migrant, the vendor, the critic, the aesthete, the scribe, the citizen, the tenant, the worker, the chairman, the rebel, the coder, the squatter, the inventor, the farmer, the smuggler, the spectator, the judge…

This detailed account describes the radical contemporary shifts in the production, distribution and consumption of cultural materials through the networks of digital media. It complicates the meaning of “community”, and narrates how technology continues to enable an unprecedented levelling of exclusionary hierarchies and hegemonies all over the world.
Paperback, 170 pp, Euro 10, US$ 10

Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110 054 http://www.raqsmediacollective.net http://www.sarai.net

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