Programm

14 November 2011
18:00

Um die komplexen und vielfältigen Wirkungsweisen des Terrors systematisch zu erfassen, müssen die theoretischen Grundlagen des Prinzips Terror erarbeitet und mögliche Alternativen dazu geprüft werden. Diese können, so Arata Takeda, anstelle von Wettrüsten, Überwachung und Terrorismus Solidarität, Verantwortung und Vertrauen heißen.

21 November 2011
18:00

The rise of mega-cities across both the developed and the developingworld coincides with the dominance of speculative, finance capital as the principlemode of capital accumulation. Yet there is a distinction between the mega-cities of thedeveloped world and those of the developing world. The difference hinges on thetheorization of the “slum” as the material artifact and articulator of relations of power,political force, economic processes, and contemporary engagements with nature.In both cases, the slum becomes shorthand for working through histories of speculationor the different ways in which abstract, digital capital flows are shaping contemporarycities’ landscapes and cultures.