POSITIONING
Taja Kramberger: APPEAL BY MONITOR ZSA (REVIEW OF HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND OTHER ANTHROPOLOGIES)

Since the call for applications issued by the Slovenian Book Agency (hereinafter referred as JAK) for the year 2009 (JR1-knjiga-2009) wherein the application submitted by the multilingual and international review Monitor ZSA was rejected on the grounds that the curves of the spine of issues 4 and 2 (see note 1 below) differed, it seems that the newly established Agency needs to be congratulated for the enviable level of bureaucratisation with which it has reached or perhaps even surpassed the efficacy of the bureaucratic-cultural and bureaucratic-(anti)intellectual institutions of the Third Reich. Since its foundation (which is the result of the most effective union ever between delirious bureaucratism and average dilettantism) the Slovenian “cultural geniuses” who occupy their positions within JAK, have finally accomplished the long unrealized wish to eliminate practically all content based on hard work and people’s endeavors out of 512 proposals, 170 were rejected in the pre-selection phase, and another 140 in the following selection phase, which makes 310 rejected proposals altogether; i.e. 60,5 % of all proposals, while 7 of them were placed on the reserve list).[...]

supplement: DE-LINKING FROM CAPITAL AND THE COLONIAL MATRIX OF POWER

Part of Reartikulacija no. 7, 8 and 9 is also a supplement DE-LINKING FROM CAPITAL AND THE COLONIAL MATRIX OF POWER, that through its double role (also as a symposium), further connects the issues no. 7, no. 8, and no. 9 together into an intervention marked by its uniformed multilayered intermediality. [...]

THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION

International Research Project with Exhibition, Symposium and Publishing of the journal Reartikulacija, no. 7., 8., and 9.

15 – 28, December 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Conceived, organized and curated by Marina Gržinić and Sebastjan Leban, Ljubljana

The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression researches and addresses the contemporary (and historical) role of capital in (de)regulating all social processes. The project is a critical intervention in the structure of contemporary capitalist societies, aiming at shedding light to social inequalities, contemporary forms of colonisation, commodification, marginalization of various sexual and ethnic groups, exploitation by capital faced for centuries by the major part of world population. The project gives a focus to the development of a discursive/intervention platform between art, theory, philosophy and activism in order to fight racism, homophobic normalities, exploitation, expropriation and coloniality. (Gržinić and Leban)