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SUMMARY:AI: Means of Emancipation or Dystopia?
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence systems are evolving at a rapid pace\, yielding huge profits and powers to the corporate giants that invest in them. At the same time they offer new tools in a number of fields\, including the field of art creation. Artists already use such systems to produce new works\, while the jobs of their colleagues in the film and recording industries are threatened precisely by the implementation of these systems. Issues that related to copyright\, the risk of personal data\, the control of personal life\, the uncontrolled growth and development of artificial intelligence systems are on the conferences’ agenda\, while at the same time artificial intelligence opens up new avenues of artistic expression\, creating a wave of creativity\, innovation and research. \n\n\n\nA prominent application of artificial intelligence in art is the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs). Artists and technologists collaborate to train algorithms on massive datasets of existing artworks\, allowing AI to imitate and create new artworks in a similar style. This process has led to the development of visual artworks that challenge traditional notions of inspiration and artistic authority\, blurring the boundaries between human creation and that of the machine. \n\n\n\nIn this context we attempt to deepen the discussion around the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence. While offering new ways and means of creating and appreciating art\, it also raises questions about the role of technology in creative free expression\, the ethical implications of artmanufactured by artificial intelligence and the future of kinds of synergy between humans and machines. \n\n\n\nFirst Panel 4-5.30 pm:Art and Artificial Intelligence. New possibilities and new challenges \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nYiorgos Drosos\,“GaUNs* + A.I. Art and Technologies of Artificial Intelligence”.*GANs: Generative Adversarial NetworksNew Media Artist\, Special Education Staff\, New Media Lab\, DeptVisual and Applied Arts AUTH \n\n\n\nDimitris Ioakeimidis (Jo Di)\,“Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyst for Social and Political Change through Art”Dentist – Content CreatorFanourios Moraitis (Nourako)\,“Large Language Hallucinations” Reference to how LLMs (LargeLanguage Models) workAssistant Professor of Digital Sculpture\, ASFA \n\n\n\nKostis Stafylakis\,“Homegrown AI: all we want!”Assistant Professor of Fine Arts\, Expanded Media and Forms\, Department of Fine Arts\, Athens School of Fine Arts \n\n\n\nFaye Tzanetoulakou\,“Technological Sublime”Doctor of Art History\, AUTH\, Post-doctoral Researcher\, UTH\, Teaching Staff at UNIWA \n\n\n\nThe moderator of the panel is Journalist and Curator Dimitris Trikas—–Second Panel 6-7.30 pm:Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Oligarchies: How New Technology is Intervening in Knowledge and Power Relations \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nYanis Varoufakis\,“Are We Socializing Artificial Intelligence? Or are we dying as a species? Here’s the dilemma“Doctor of Economics\, Professor University of Athens\, Secretary General MeRA25. Former Member of the Greek Parliament and Minister of Finance \n\n\n\nYiannis Mitrou\,“The “big data” as a political condition: Digitality and the Unconscious”Doctor of Philosophy\, Psychoanalyst\, visual artist \n\n\n\nDimitris Sarafianos\,“Ex machina ars. Cuius est? Who does it belong to?” \n\n\n\nDoctor of Law\, Art Critic\, Director of Lofos Art Project \n\n\n\nGeorgia Skartadou\,“Counter-trained Vision”Researcher\, Member of Forensis \n\n\n\nAristotle Tympas\,“On the Invisible Shaping of Algorithms and Big Data: Sexist\, Racist\, ecocidal and class biases”Professor of the History of Technology in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Director of the English-language interdepartmental MA of Science\, Technology and Society\, University of AthensThe moderator of the panel is Journalist Kostas RaptisSupervisor of the event: Faye TzanetoulakouThe event will be broadcasted livestream on the page of the Center for Post-Capitalist Civilisation on social media https://www.facebook.com/metacpc \n\n\n\nIn the framework of the International Museums Day\, in the basement of the exhibition space will be presented the video installation“OPEN THE BLACK BOXES” by the visual artist Danae Stratou\, following the open online invitation: https://opentheblackboxes.org/invitation-in-the-era-of-ai-labour-relationships-and-the-human-creativity/The words collected through the OPEN CALL_IN THE ERA OF AI\, will to be used for the video piece\, as a participatory digital art project\, a collaboration of Danae Stratou and the non-profit organization Vital Space\, a global\, interdisciplinary\, cross-media artistic platform that deals with pressing issues of our time. The project is based on the principle of “think global – act local”. It invites people all over the world to submit a Single Word to the website in response to one of two questions:“What threatens you the most?”“What are you most eager to preserve?” \n\n\n\nWe live in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Technology gallops\, bringing cataclysmic changes in the production process\, labor relations\, artistic creation. Automation\, robotics and Artificial Intelligence are changing everything in the way we work\, in the way we express our creativity.But we must not forget: the opaque design\, the ownership of the technology and the ways of using it\, are what determine the mark of its consequences in our lives. However\, the discussion on this very important issue has so far been absent from the public sphere and from political dialogue. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES \n\n\n\nYanis Varoufakis was born in 1961 in Athens. He is an Economist\, Professor\, author.He studied mathematics and economics in Britain\, where he taught at the universities of Essex\, East Anglia\, Glasgow\, and Cambridge\, before “immigrating” to Australia\, as a Professor at the University of Sydney.In 2000 he returned to Greece and took up the position of Professor of Economic Theory at Athens University. In the period 2012-2014 he taught at the University of Texas\, Austin.In January 2015\, he was elected Member of Parliament\, garnering the most votes in the country\, and took over as Minister of Finance. After five and a half months of hard work of confrontations with the troika\, on the evening of the referendum of July 5\, 2015 he resigned as a minister and continued his confrontation with the policies that reproduce the crisis on a pan-European level.On February 9\, 2016 in Berlin\, with European politicians and intellectuals\,co-founded the Movement for Democracy in Europe DiEM25. In 2019\, MeRA25\, theGreek electoral arm of DiEM25\, entered the Parliament with 9 seats. \n\n\n\nYiorgos Drosos is a visual artist. He teaches at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, in the laboratory “New Media in Visual Arts”. He specializes in New Media\, image and sound. The core of his work is the correlation of movement with space and time. He has 6 solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. He has created educational applications and has supported two museums\, the State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Natural History.  \n\n\n\nDimitris Ioakeimidis was born in 1982 in Nea Ionia\, Magnesia. He graduated from Dental School of AUTH in 2008.He moved to the Netherlands in 2010\, working as a dentist in Groningen and the The Hague\, while since 2021 he has also taken over the management of the emergency dental clinic of Westeinde Hospital incidents. Outside of the professional course\, he engages with music and online content creation.He created one of the first blogs in Greece and since 2013\, through the website jodi.graphics informs and comments on political events in Greece and Europe. \n\n\n\nYiannis Mitrou is Dr. Philosophy\, visual-performance artist\, director andtheorist of Contemporary art and Psychoanalysis. He taught for the last five years at School of Fine Arts of AUTH\, Department of Visual and Applied Arts and teaches at Interdepartmental master’s programs Art theory and psychoanalysis and artistic practices.Studies: 1996\, Bachelor of Science\, Aristotle University\, Department of Physics /1996-97\, Master’s courses in theoretical physics on Chaos\, Department of Physics\, AUTH/ 1997-99\, Scholarship for original scientific research\, Nuclear Fusion Instituteat Orsay\, Paris-Sud / 2005\, Master of Systematic Philosophy\, Department of Philosophy and of Pedagogy\, AUTH / 2010-2013\, Teaching Psychoanalysis\, Faculty of Educational Reason\, Educational Society of Northern Greece / 2014-2017\, Training under supervision as a psychoanalyst / 2017\, PhD: “Phenomenology of the Unconscious: The Lacanian Paradigm field”\, in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and Pedagogy of AUTH with the departmentof Psychoanalysis\, Paris VIII.Research experience: 1997-99\, work on the relationship between Art and Science in the context of of the scholarship from the Nuclear Fusion Institute of Paris-Sud / 2000-02: scientific advisor and manager of educational programs in MacedonianLabor Institute / 2003: Founds the International Performing Arts Research Laboratory-Alma Kalma.Artistic and scientific collaborations: 2013\, Philosophical Research Laboratory in the Imaginary of AUTH\, in collaboration with the Center de Recherche surl’Imaginaire\, University Stendhal-Grenoble III / 2003\, Research Institute of Performing Arts-J. Grotowski\, Poland / 2005\, Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards\, Pondedera\, Italy / 2012 -14\, Department of Performing and Experimental Arts of the Art Academy of Moscow / 2018\, Club Art Organization New Orleans\, America / 2019\, Artistic director of the organization: International Meeting Performance Art\, parallel event of the International Short Film Festival of Drama.The directions of his research concern the Philosophy of Art\, Language and Politics in articulation with Phenomenology. \n\n\n\nFanourios Moraitis (Nourako) lives and works in Athens. His work is aboutpractices of post-digital plasticity and the study of algorithms as expandedartistic processes. He has a degree in Electronic Engineering & Engineerin Computer Science from the Technical University of Crete and obtained an MSc. in Art and Technology from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden with a scholarship from the A. S. Onassis Foundation.He worked at the French National Institute of Informatics and Automation (INRIA) and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts\, where he now teaches at the rank of Assistant Professor. He has exhibited in Greece and abroad and his works are in private collections. \n\n\n\nDimitris Sarafianos is a lawyer\, Doctor of Law and Director of the Lofos Art Project.He has been a member of the Board of Directors at the Athens Bar Board and Vice-President of the Hellenic Union for Human Rights. He is the Director-Legal Advisor of the Greek Collecting Society for Works of Visual Arts OSDEETE.His articles have been published in Greek and English magazines and books. \n\n\n\nGeorgia Skartadou is a Researcher at the Forensis group\, the sister organization of Forensic Architecture. She holds an undergraduate degree from the School of Architecture from Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki and a Master’s degree in Digital Arts from Ionian University. Her research activity focuses on the understanding of possibilities and limitations that new media/technologies provide to their claims of social interactions and interventions. Her experience on tools and practices comes from the professional occupation in the field of cinema and video games. \n\n\n\nDr. Kostis Stafylakis is a visual artist and art theorist with a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Political Sciences and History at Panteion University\, Athens. He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts and he also holds an MA in Art Theory and an MA in Continental Philosophy from the University of Essex. His works often take the form of navigation through the online and physical space of fringe social groups. His published essays delve into the relation between the “mimetic”\, the “social\, and the ”the “political”. He has taught and lectured at undergraduate and graduate programs at the Athens School of Fine Arts\, the University of Patras\, the University of Western Macedonia and other institutions across Greece and Europe. He has been a post-doc researcher at ASFA and Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki. He was curator and co-curator of the Outburst of the digital swamp (Overkill festival\, NL\, 2023)\, the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI\, the 4th Athens Biennale AGORA\, Weasel Dance at Goethe-Institut \n\n\n\nAthen\, Twisting C(r)ash at the Batiment d’Art Contemporain Geneva\, The Suspension of Litanies and Fuyuhiko Takata at ViZ Laboratory for Visual Culture\, and more. His most recent solo shows were GZPRM GOPNIK at KEIV Athens (2023)\, Chloroquine Juggalo at KEIV Athens (2021) and the two-person show Readiness: Civil War at Panke Gallery\, Berlin (2022). His artistic activity includes participations at Prepper Paradise\, Bureau Europa (2022)\, Bless’ed Curse by soloshow.online (2021)\, Toxicfest at Tick Tack Antwerpen (2021)\, Oblique Field (by Gossamer Fog\, London\, 2021)\, Enter: New Commissions by Onassis Foundation (2020)\, Kultursymposium Weimar (2019)\, the “Festival of Democracy” of Geneva (2017)\, Neue Ravensburger Kunstverein (2017)\, “Omonoia” 5th Athens Biennale (2016)\, 1st NSK Biennialof Folk Art (2014)\, Hell as Pavillion at Palais de Tokyo (2013)\, Truth is Concrete by Steirischer Herbst\, Graz (2012)\, Monodrome 3rd Athens Biennale (2011)\, Media Impact at the 4th Moscow Biennial (2011) and more.  \n\n\n\nFaye Tzanetoulakou holds a PhD in Art History\, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki. She is a University Scholar at the University of Thessaly.She teaches the courses Social Function of Art\, and Art and Materiality atthe University of West Attica\, and is conducting Postdoctoral research at the School of Architecture at the University of Thessaly on contemporary Environmental Art.She works as an Art Critic/Exhibition Curator\, and is the Arts Editor at culturenow.grShe has been Secretary General of the Greek Section of the International Association of Art Critics\, AICA.She is an environmental activist and supports the Zero Waste movement. \n\n\n\nAristotle Tympas is Professor of History of Technology in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens\, with specialization in the study of Artificial Intelligence and energy transitions. With studies in Chemical Engineering at Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki\, a Master’s degree and a PhD in technology-science policy and history – sociology of technology in the USA.He is the director of the English-language Master’s program in the interdisciplinary field of Science\, Technology\, Society\, member of the Gender Equality Committee of the University of Athens\, vice president of research at the European Inter-University Association on Society\, Science and Technology\, and action chair at the European research network on the role of new technology in shaping European borders and immigration. He holded the chair of Tensions of Europe: Network on History\, Technology and Europe. He was a visiting scholar at MIT. \n\n\n\nThe conference “AI: Means of Emancipation or Dystopia?” is organized by the meta | Center for Post-Capitalist Culture in collaboration with Lofos Art Project\, Velvendou 39\, Kypseli.
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/ai-means-of-emancipation-or-dystopia/
LOCATION:Λόφος Art Project\, Velvendou 39\, Athens\, Attica\, 11364\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Book launch [in Greek]: The End of the Great Deviation: From Ukraine and the pandemic to the shaping of the new global order
DESCRIPTION:mέta\, the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation\, and Topos Books invite you to the book launch of “The End of the Great Deviation: From Ukraine and the pandemic to the shaping of the new global order” by Dimitris V. Peponis (Topos Books\, Series: mέta). \n\n\n\nPanel: \n\n\n\n\nCostas Isychos\, former Deputy Minister of Defence.\n\n\n\nVivi D. Kefala\, Professor of International Relations\, University of the Aegean\, Greece.\n\n\n\nKostas Koutsourelis\, author\, Neo Planodion\n\n\n\nNikos Xydakis\, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs\n\n\n\nSotiris Roussos\, Professor of International Relations\, University of the Peloponnese\n\n\n\n\nmέta’s Press Officer Kostas Raptis will host the event. The author\, Dimitris V. Peponis\, and the book’s co-editor & research director at mέta\, Sotiris Mitralexis\, will offer a comment. \n\n\n\nA few lines on the book: \n\n\n\n\nWhat kind of world will we live in? What era is dawning before us? \n\n\n\nWe are living through the sunset of a world order and the dawn of a new macro-historical cycle. \n\n\n\nTaking the war in Ukraine and the crisis of the pandemic as its starting point\, the book outlines the shaping of a new global order and discusses the completion of three different and partly overlapping historical cycles: the post-Cold War order (1991-)\, the post-war world (1945-) and a great era of human history (19th century-)\, the ‘Age of the Great Deviation’. By the middle of the 21st century\, and with 2037 as a landmark year\, the three historical cycles that have defined the metamorphoses of order during the last two centuries will have been completed: the Great Deviation will expire. \n\n\n\nFrom history to political geography\, from the completion of the American hegemonic period to the return of Asia\, from technology to demography\, and from modernity to postsecularism\, this book attempts a long-range dissection of developments\, with the aim of providing a tool for understanding the world-historical changes taking place on the cusp of the end of an era and the beginning of a new macro-historical cycle.
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/parekklisi/
LOCATION:Κήπος του Μουσείου\, 28ης Οκτωβρίου 44\, Αθήνα\, 10682\, Ελλάδα
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SUMMARY:A generation under siege: Greek Youth between Crisis and Assertion
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 28 March from 6.30 pm. at the “Sakis Karagiorgas II” amphitheatre of Panteion University \n\n\n\nmέta | the Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation and Panteion University are organising the event “A generation under siege: Greek Youth between Crisis and Assertion” on Tuesday 28 March from 6.30 pm. at the “Sakis Karagiorgas II” amphitheatre of Panteion University\, aiming at giving an overview of the suffocating landscape created by neoliberal educational “reforms”\, miserable job prospects for the young\, emigration\, ubiquitous repression\, the commodification of leisure time\, lack of political representation.The first part of the event\, which will take the form of a round table\, will bring together people with a background in research on aspects of Greek youth issues\, while the second part will be an open process\, where groups of young people will make interventions and present performances and the results of experiential workshops. \n\n\n\nThe speakers of the round table will be Yanis Varoufakis (Professor of the University of Athens\, Secretary of MeRA25)\, Alexandra Koronaiou (Professor of Panteion University)\, Yannis Kouzis (Professor of Panteion University) and Alexandros Sakellariou (PhD in Sociology)\, while the journalist Agapi Varouni will moderate the event.Afterwards\, Katerina Botsari (PhD\, candidate in ASFA\, coordinator of the “ASFALESS” group) will present the experiential workshops that took place at the 5th Painting Laboratory of Athens School of Fine Arts\, under the supervision of Professor Yannis Skaltsas.In addition\, there will be the artistic intervention “Those who leave and those who stay” by a group of students of Panteion University\, in context with DARE research programme\, and a visualised presentation by a working group of the MeRA25 Youth Branch\, and a discussion open to all present. Journalist Nektaria Psaraki will moderate the discussion.
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/a-generation-under-siege-greek-youth-between-crisis-and-assertion/
LOCATION:Attica
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SUMMARY:Iannis Xenakis: The sound born from an explosion of History
DESCRIPTION:Musical intersections on stage \n\n\n\nAthens Conservatoire “Aris Garoufalis” HallSunday 18/12/22 at 20:00 \n\n\n\nEntrance: 5€ | Pre-sale: ticketservices.gr \n\n\n\nAs the “Xenakis’ Year” draws to a close\, mέta | the Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation commemorates the centenary of the birth of the multi-dimensional composer\, architect\, and thinker\, Iannis Xenakis\, in the month that was the most decisive for his personal itinerary: December\, the month of the “Battle of Athens”. \n\n\n\nIannis Xenakis (1922-2001) pioneered\, as is well known\, an artistic revolution\, bridging music with mathematics\, 20th-century experimentation with ancient Greek thought. But as a young man\, he also participated (and this should not be silenced) in a popular resistance movement with revolutionary characteristics\, the crushing of which shaped the malformed physiognomy of post-war Greece. For Xenakis of the “Byron Battalion”\, the “Battle of December” was the moment of his severe injury in Exarcheia district\, the precursor of his subsequent forced expatriation with a death sentence on him\, and\, overall\, the historical turning point at which the expectations of his pioneering generation were refuted. \n\n\n\nFor mέta\, which aspires to combine the language of artistic creation with theat of political-theoretical argument\, the holistic approach to the life and work of Iannis Xenakis is an opportunity to reflect anew on the meeting points between art and technology\, intellectuality and aesthetic pleasure\, musical breakthrough and political radicalism\, “avant-garde” and “popularity”\, beyondthe limitations of laboratory or museum mentality. \n\n\n\nConviced that Xenakis can “converse” with contemporary currents\, starting from experimental music and reaching up to rap\, we attempt an original “meeting on stage”\, in the event organised on Sunday\, December 18\, at 20:00 at the Athens Conservatoire (17-19 Vas. Georgiou B’\, “Aris Garoufalis” Hall)\, with the participation of Pavlos Antoniadis\, Orestis Karamanlis\, Georgia Spiropoulos and MC Yinka. The event is curated by Makis Solomos. \n\n\n\n The programme \n\n\n\nFirst part:“The ‘Battle of December‘ and the injury of Xenakis”. Screenings and narratives with Orestis Karamanlis and Makis Solomos. \n\n\n\nInteractive musical performance by Orestis Karamanlis based on the GENDYN programme by Iannis Xenakis. \n\n\n\nSecond part:Evryali (1973) by Iannis Xenakis. Pavlos Antoniadis on piano.Evryali with enhanced images (projection).Eror (the pianist)\, excerpt\, by Georgia SpyropoulosAn absolutely imaginary space by MC Yinca \n\n\n\nA discussion with the contributors will follow \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nContributors \n\n\n\n\nPavlos Antoniadis: Pianist and musicologist\, Dr. University of Strasbourg-IRCAM\, a researcher at EUR-ArTeC\, University of Paris 8. He is involved in contemporary experimental music and the development of technological tools in art performance and teaching. \n\n\n\n\n\nOrestis Karamanlis: Composer\, lecturer at the University of Athens\, Dr. Sonic Arts Research Centre of Belfast. He is particularly involved in the fusion of acoustic instruments with the laptop\, algorithmic composition\, and sound design for multi-channel systems. \n\n\n\n\n\nMakis Solomos: Musicologist\, Professor at the University of Paris 8. He specialises in the work of Iannis Xenakis and Theodor Adorno and works on issues of musical ecology. Author\, among others\, of the book Iannis Xenakis: The universe of a peculiar creator (“Alexandria”\, Athens 2008). \n\n\n\n\n\nGeorgia Spiropoulos: Composer and multimedia artist living in Paris. She studied at IRCAM and EHESS and taught music composition at McGill University\, Canada. Her work includes compositions for instrumental and vocal ensembles\, electronic and mixed music\, musical theatre\, and audiovisual-sound installations. \n\n\n\n\n\nMC Yinka (Manolis Afolayo): Founding member of the hip-hop bandw “Adiaspasti Ousia” and “Paragontes”. Member of the bands Street Buzz\, Dr.Votkanini and Imam Baildi\, and Direct Connection. Creator of the music projects Urbanix and Fuzics.
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/iannis-xenakis/
LOCATION:Attica
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SUMMARY:Book launch: ‘NO BOSSES - A New Economy for a Better World’ by Michael Albert\, in Greek (TOPOS Books & mέta)
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday 10 December at 6pm\, TOPOS Books and mέta | the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation invite you to Red ‘n’ Noir (52 Drosopoulou Str\, Kypseli\, Athens) for the book launch of Michael Albert’s ‘NO BOSSES – A New Economy for a Better World’ (prefaces by Noam Chomsky and Yanis Varoufakis)  in Greek\, published by TOPOS Books & mέta \n\n\n\nThe book will be presented and discussed by: \n\n\n\n\nKleoniki Alexopoulou\, lecturer at the Department of Political Science and History\, Panteion University\, Panteion University.\n\n\n\nKonstantinos Poulis\, journalist\, The Press Project.\n\n\n\nDionysios Skliris\, adj. lecturer at the Hellenic Open University\, translator of the book\n\n\n\nModeration: Sotiris Mitralexis\, mέta\n\n\n\n\nA few words on the book: \n\n\n\n\nLife under capitalism. Rampant debilitating denial for the many next to vile enrichment of the few. Material deprivation\, denial\, and denigration. Dignity defiled. Michael Albert’s book No Bosses advocates for the conception and then organization of a new economy. The vision offered is called participatory economics. It elevates self-management\, equity\, solidarity\, diversity\, and sustainability. It eliminates elitist\, arrogant\, dismissive\, authoritarian\, exploitation\, competition\, and homogenization. No Bosses proposes a built and natural productive commons\, self-management by all who work\, income for how long\, how hard\, and the onerousness of conditions of socially valued work\, jobs that give all economic actors comparable means and inclination to participate in decisions that affect them\, and a process called participatory planning in which caring behavior and solidarity are the currency of collective and individual success. \n\n\n\n\nMichael Albert is a founder and current member of the staff of Z Magazine as well as staff of Z Magazine`s web system: ZCom. Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements\, starting then and continuing to the present\, have ranged from local\, regional\, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press\, Z Magazine\, the Z Media Institute\, and ZNet\, and to working on all these projects\, writing for various publications and publishers\, giving public talks\, etc. Albert is the author of 21 books. Most recently these include: No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World (Zero Books\, 2021)\, Fanfare for the Future (ZBooks)\, Remembering Tomorrow (Seven Stories Press)\, Realizing Hope (Zed Press) and Parecon: Life After Capitalism (Verso). Many of Albert`s articles are stored in ZCom and can be accessed there along with hundreds of other Z Magazine and ZNet articles essays\, interviews\, etc. \n\n\n\nMichael Albert sends the following message to the Greek audience on the occasion of the Greek translation and publication: \n\n\n\n\nI boundlessly celebrate the publication of a Greek translation of “No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World” by Topos Books in collaboration with the wonderful Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation\, mέta. Greece\, like so many other places\, including my U.S.\, not only confronts a very dangerous economic\, political\, and ecological future\, but also a potentially equitable\, self managing\, and green one. Moreover\, Greece’s population\, I think like people everywhere\, is steadily realising as much. So “No Bosses” in Greek is timely. Like any book’s author\, I of course want the ideas conveyed by “No Bosses” to reach widely\, be critically assessed and refined\, and be shared. But with a book presenting a postcapitalist vision\, this desire is really the whole point. Emerging from past practice and seeking to aid future practice\, a book like this has merit only insofar as it facilitates and promotes further thoughtful strategic activism today and into the future. That is what mέta stands for and so too the book “No Bosses”. I hope it proves useful in Greece\, as I hope it proves useful wherever folks seek to move beyond capitalism. \n– Michael Albert
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/no-bosses/
LOCATION:Red ‘n’ Noir (Δροσοπούλου 52\, Κυψέλη)\, Δροσοπούλου 52\, Αθήνα\, Αττική\, 11257\, Ελλάδα
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SUMMARY:"The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class" | Guy Standing talks with Yanis Varoufakis
DESCRIPTION:Monday 31Oct 2022\, 19:00. \n\n\n\nOn the occasion of the translation of his book “The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class” into Greek\, as part of the new publishing series of mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation at Topos Publications\, author Guy Standing\, professor at SOAS\, talks with Yanis Varoufakis about the socio-political challenges of the diffusion of labour precarity. \n\n\n\nSotiris Mitralexis\, PhD in Political Science\, Director of the Academic Department of the mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation\, introduces and moderates. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPlyfa Industrial Park\, 39 Korytsas Street\, Athens 104 47 \n\n\n\nFree entrance | registration https://bit.ly/3ER57h2 \n\n\n\nSimultaneous interpretation from English. \n\n\n\nThe term precariat is a commonplace of political and social analysis today – yet the book that introduced it had not been previously translated into our language. First published in 2011\, Guy Standing’s The Precariat is the first account of an emerging class of people facing unprecedented insecurity\, moving in and out of precarious jobs that give zero prospects and little meaning to their lives as well. In addition to the miserable life that the present mutation of capitalism has in store for the precariat\, the internal divisions of the precariat have led to greater overall social instability\, e.g.\, by targeting immigrants or other vulnerable groups and strengthening political extremism. Standing argues for a new politics that puts the fears and aspirations of the precariat at the heart of a progressive strategy of redistribution and income security. \n\n\n\nThe translation of Guy Standing’s book into Greek\, as part of the recently launched series of mέta | Center for Postcapitalist Civilisation at Topos Publications\, is accompanied by a new preface in which the author discusses the recent political developments of the Covid-19 pandemic and its implications for the precariat. \n\n\n\nAfter ten years of economic crisis and memorandum\, two years of pandemic and the war emergency that is currently spreading with increasing consequences for energy\, inflation\, expensiveness\, and\, by extension\, work\, “The Precariat” could not be more relevant\, – in today’s Greece\, as well. \n\n\n\nGuy Standing is an economist\, professor and SOAS research fellow at the University of London. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney\, a PhD from the University of Cambridge\, a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts\, co-founder and Honorary Co-Chair of the Global Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)\, a member of the Progressive Economy Forum\, and a member of the Advisory Board of the mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation. In 2016-19 he was an advisor to the UK opposition Treasury candidate John McDonnell. He served as director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organization. He advised a number of international agencies\, was director of research for Nelson Mandela’s Market and Labour Policies Committee as chairman\, and implemented his basic income proposals in a number of pilot programmes. \n\n\n\nHis books include “The Precariat” ( translated into 25 languages)\, “The Corruption of Capitalism” (third edition\, 2021)\, “Basic Income: How to Achieve It” (in Greek from Papasotiriou Publications)\, “Plunder of the Commons” (2019)\, and “The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea” (2022). In 2020 he collaborated with Massive Attack on a video based on his book “Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now” (2020). \n\n\n\nmέta | Center for Postcapitalist Civilisation was founded in 2020 as international research and artistic organisation\, affiliated with the MέPA25 party\, the DiEM25 movement\, and Progressive International. It aims to map emancipatory alternatives to the post-capitalist dystopia that opens up before us. The mέta’s actions so far include the publication of working papers\, the creation of a special editorial series in “Topos” publications\, the holding of workshops and roundtables\, film screenings in the context of mέta-cinema and the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People\, the production of a weekly radio show and the mέta-boulouki artistic tour in the summers of 2021 and 2022.
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/precariat-event/
LOCATION:meta
CATEGORIES:DISCUSSIONS,PRESENTATIONS
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SUMMARY:"A most surprising Anti-War Libertarian-Communist Manifesto"
DESCRIPTION:Reservations at 210.8847571 (10:00 με 16:00) \n\n\n\nThe boundaries of political imagination are also those of our struggles for an emancipated society. And nowhere also has the modern world given imagination so much liberty as in aspects of mass culture – not so in the sophisticated one\, though. \n\n\n\nFrom the realms of the entertainment industry\, often disguised as science fiction\, some inspirations spring up occasionally\, and they are worthy of our serious political thinking and action\, so that we bring back to Earth and our turbulent present the “futuristic visions” that a series like Star Trek placed somewhere in the infinite space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeing the most influential series of the sci-fi genre worldwide since the ‘60s\, Star Trek pioneered the abolition of racial and gender stereotypes on the screen. However\, at a closer analysis\, it proves to be an excellent guide so that we can envision an alternative societal organization\, beyond the present\, techno-feudalistic dystopia. \n\n\n\nThus\, the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation (mέta) is inviting two of the most devoted trekkies in Greece\, Yanis Varoufakis and Mithridatis\, to present six Star Trek episodes each\, commenting on and discussing their political\, economic and philosophical content. \n\n\n\nThis most promising exchange of viewpoints between a music creator and an economist and politician\, on the basis of their shared love for Star Trek\, will take place live on Wednesday 23rd March 2022\, at 20:00\, in Trianon Cinema (21 Kodriktonos\, Athens\, 104 34). \n\n\n\nFree admission\, according to state covid measures. \n\n\n\nmέta team
URL:https://metacpc.org/en/activities/a-most-surprising-anti-war-libertarian-communist-manifesto/
LOCATION:Attica
CATEGORIES:DISCUSSIONS,PRESENTATIONS,SEMINARS
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