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«Προβολή του ντοκιμαντέρ «Ο Τελευταίος Ουρανός» και συζήτηση με τον Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη | Πέμπτη 05 Δεκεμβρίου»
2024-12-05 19:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Athens) | Λόφος Art Project, Velvendou 39, Athens, Attica, 11364, Greece
Τι κρύβεται πίσω από τους πολέμους του Ισραήλ στη Γάζα και τον Λίβανο;

Το Κέντρο Μετακαπιταλιστικού Πολιτισμού mέta και το ΜέΡΑ25 σας καλούν στο «Studio new star art cinema» (Σπάρτης και Σταυροπούλου 33), την Πέμπτη, 5 Δεκεμβρίου, στις 19:30 στην προβολή του ντοκιμαντέρ «Ο ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΣ ΟΥΡΑΝΟΣ» που θα προβληθεί για πρώτη φορά στην Ελλάδα.

O Λιβανο-Αυστραλός δικηγόρος και σκηνοθέτης Nicholas Hanna επιδιώκει να κατανοήσει το πόλεμο στη Γάζα από μια εξαιρετικά διορατική αλλά σχεδόν παραγνωρισμένη οπτική γωνία: των Παλαιστίνιων προσφύγων στον Λίβανο.

Με εντυπωσιακά πλάνα από τον Λίβανο και την Παλαιστίνη, καθώς και προσωπικές συνεντεύξεις με μαρτυρίες από πρώτο χέρι, «Ο ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΣ ΟΥΡΑΝΟΣ» προσφέρει οδυνηρό και αφιλτράριστο ταξίδι ανθεκτικότητας από τους ανθρώπους που είναι αποφασισμένοι να διεκδικήσουν τη φωνή και τη γη τους!

Η ταινία διερευνά το κρίσιμο πλαίσιο που δεν καλύπτεται από τα μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης από τις 7 Οκτωβρίου και καλεί τους θεατές να αντιμετωπίσουν κάποιες δυσάρεστες αλήθειες που αφορά τη σύγκρουση στην καρδιά του Ισραήλ–Παλαιστίνης.

Γυρισμένο στον Λίβανο και την κατεχόμενη Παλαιστίνη, αυτό είναι ένα ντοκιμαντέρ που πρέπει να δει όποιος ενδιαφέρεται να κατανοήσει τη γενοκτονία της Γάζας και την κλιμακούμενη σύγκρουση στην περιοχή.

Με τον τρόπο αυτό, η ταινία εξετάζει επίσης τις κλιμακούμενες συγκρούσεις μεταξύ της Χεζμπολάχ και του Ισραήλ στον Λίβανο και πώς συνδέονται άρρηκτα με τον πόλεμο στη Γάζα.

Σας περιμένουμε στην πρεμιέρα που θα ακολουθήσει συζήτηση με τον σκηνοθέτη Nicholas Hanna, την παραγωγό Rihab Charida και τον Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη.

Studio new star art cinema» (Σπάρτης και Σταυροπούλου 33)

Πέμπτη 5 Δεκεμβρίου 2024

AI: Means of Emancipation or Dystopia?
2024-05-18 16:00 - 20:00 | Λόφος Art Project, Velvendou 39, Athens, Attica, 11364, Greece
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.

A 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.

In 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.

First Panel 4-5.30 pm:Art and Artificial Intelligence. New possibilities and new challenges

Speakers:

Yiorgos 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

Dimitris 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

Kostis Stafylakis,“Homegrown AI: all we want!”Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Expanded Media and Forms, Department of Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts

Faye Tzanetoulakou,“Technological Sublime”Doctor of Art History, AUTH, Post-doctoral Researcher, UTH, Teaching Staff at UNIWA

The 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

Speakers:

Yanis 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

Yiannis Mitrou,“The “big data” as a political condition: Digitality and the Unconscious”Doctor of Philosophy, Psychoanalyst, visual artist

Dimitris Sarafianos,“Ex machina ars. Cuius est? Who does it belong to?”

Doctor of Law, Art Critic, Director of Lofos Art Project

Georgia Skartadou,“Counter-trained Vision”Researcher, Member of Forensis

Aristotle 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

In 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?”

We 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.

SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Yanis 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.

Yiorgos 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.

Dimitris 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.

Yiannis 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.

Fanourios 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.

Dimitris 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.

Georgia 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.

Dr. 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

Athen, 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.

Faye 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.

Aristotle 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.

The 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.

Book launch [in Greek]: The End of the Great Deviation: From Ukraine and the pandemic to the shaping of the new global order
2023-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Κήπος του Μουσείου, 28ης Οκτωβρίου 44, Αθήνα, 10682, Ελλάδα
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).

Panel:

Costas Isychos, former Deputy Minister of Defence.

Vivi D. Kefala, Professor of International Relations, University of the Aegean, Greece.

Kostas Koutsourelis, author, Neo Planodion

Nikos Xydakis, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Sotiris Roussos, Professor of International Relations, University of the Peloponnese

mέta’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.

A few lines on the book:

What kind of world will we live in? What era is dawning before us?

We are living through the sunset of a world order and the dawn of a new macro-historical cycle.

Taking 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.

From 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.

Photography exhibition "Inside the Image" | opening on Thursday, April 6 (19:00) at 1927 art space
2023-04-06 19:00 - 22:00
mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, the Focus School of Photography, and the non-governmental organization The HOME Project, which was created to provide shelter and a holistic framework of child protection services to unaccompanied refugee children who arrive in Greece alone, are pleased to invite you to the photography exhibition “Inside the Image”, which opens on Thursday, April 6 (19:00) at 1927 art space (35 Kypselis Street, Athens 113 61) and will last until the 10th of April.

The exhibition presents the works resulting from the photography workshop with unaccompanied refugee minors as part of the three co-organizers’ partnership under the title “3X3”.

Based on the triptych “art-training-integration“, mέta, Focus and The HOME Project collaborated and brought together teachers, photography students, and unaccompanied children, in a process of mutual enrichment in professional or pre-professional skills, but also of refinement of empathy and intercultural perspective.

Particular emphasis was placed on the appropriate preparation, training, and support from The HOME Project’s Child Protection Unit to the participating students and photography teachers before and during the implementation of the project.

For mέta, its involvement in this partnership is not only a gesture of moral and material support for the valuable work of The HOME Project but also an act of empowerment of the children in their social integration efforts.

As the head of the workshop Pavlos Fisakis notes:

“This is a workshop that comments on the medium of photography itself. The authors are part of photography, they are both inside and outside the photographic act itself.

The group meetings were held at the children’s home in Kypseli and the confidence of the photographic team was built with a lot of effort as the unaccompanied minors who participated spoke many different languages (Greek, English, Arabic, and Farsi).

The overarching goal of the workshop is to communicate and convey the children’s messages through the photographic process, to emphasise the importance of collaboration through group projects, and to explore the critical issue of personal identity.”

The WORKSHOP took place from December 2022 to March 2023

Coordinator: Pavlos Fisakis | Assistant Coordinator: Ariana Darvis-Tabar

Opening

Thursday 6 April, 19:00

Exhibition hours

– Thursday 6 April, 19:00 Opening

– Friday 7 April, 18:00 – 22:00

– Saturday 8 April, 12:00 – 15:00 and 18:00 – 20:00

– Sunday 9 April, 12:00 – 16:00

– Monday 10 April, 18:00 – 22:00

Address:

1927 art space (35 Kypselis Street, Athens 113 61) 1st floor

Information about the co-organisers

mέta | Center for Post-Capitalist Civilisation (https://metacpc.org/en/)

mέta is an international research and cultural organisation, associated with the parliamentary party MeRA25, the European movement DiEM25 and Progressive International. Founded as a civil non-profit company in 2020, it aims to map eutopic alternatives to the post-capitalist condition we have entered, through academic and artistic actions related to the political, social, economic, ecological, cultural, and civilisational challenges of the times.

Focus, School of Photography & Video (https://www.focus.edu.gr)

The Focus School of Photography and Video was founded in 1985. The vision of the founders was to create a specialised and friendly environment, dedicated exclusively to photographic education, which would provide all the necessary skills to shape the artistic and professional identity of the prospective photographer.

In a modern space in Zografou, with fully equipped studios and classrooms, Focus now offers students the opportunity to develop their creativity in photography and video, with equal emphasis on learning new technologies.

Focus is constantly broadening its horizons and since 2010 has initiated a series of collaborations in educational programs and exhibitions with important cultural institutions and foundations such as the EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Αthens), the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and the National Opera House.

The HOME Project (www.homeproject.org)

The HOME Project is a non-profit organisation created to provide support, protection, education, and social integration services to refugee children who arrive in Greece on their own. In 6 years, we have established and run 13 shelters with a capacity of 240 children, where we provide a holistic framework of child protection services through an individualised psycho-educational plan for each child, including mental health services, education, and pedagogical and social support aimed at social integration. So far, we have supported more than 1,000 children and have provided 170 jobs.

1927 art space (www.1927online.art.blog)

The independent art space 1927 was founded by Aktina Stathakis and Jerome Simeon. It has been operating in Kypseli since 2019, with the goal of promoting artistic research and international exchanges between independent artists. In its programming, it seeks to engage with social and political reality and give space to stories often marginalised by mainstream narratives.

Ithaca – A Fight to Free Julian Assange
2023-03-09 19:00 - 22:00
Screening at “Trianon” on Thursday 9 March (19.00) in the presence of Stella Morris-Assange

Admission is free

The most important political prisoner of our time remains for the fourth year in the maximum security prison of Belmarsh in Britain, awaiting extradition to the USA where he is threatened with a 175-year prison sentence. The ‘crime’ for which Julian Assange is suffering this slow death sentence was his courageous contribution to exposing the war crimes and government corruption of the powerful of the earth. The defence of the founder of Wikileaks is currently the leading battle for freedom of speech internationally.mέta | Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation does not want to be absent from this battle. Besides, this is given immediate political relevance by the repeatedly documented erosion of freedom and credibility of information in our country as well as by the undemocratic aberrations like the recent wiretapping scandal.It is for this reason that, as part of mέta-cinema, the feature-long documentary “Ithaka – A Fight to Free Julian Assange” (2021) by Ben Lawrence will be screened next Thursday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at the “Trianon” cinema (21 Kodrigtonos Street, Athens 104 34).And it is a great pleasure and honour for us to welcome the wife of the Wikileaks founder and pioneer of the fight for his release, Stella Morris-Assange, who will address the audience at the screening of the film, together with the secretary of MeRA25 and co-founder of DiEM25 and the Progressive International, Yanis Varoufakis.

In addition, there will be an artistic intervention at the cinema hall by Miltos Manetas, who has been working on a series of portraits of Julian Assange in recent years, thus participating in the campaign for his release.

In the documentary “Ithaka”, which was filmed over two years and incorporates archival and previously unknown material, Ben Lawrence (creator of Ghosthunter, Hearts and Bones, among others) focuses on the “Odyssey” of Assange’s father, John Shipton as he attempts to save his son, travelling across Europe with Stella Morris-Assange to activate solidarity networks, pressure political leaders and communicate the case.Ithaka has already been screened or awarded at the Sydney Film Festival in Australia in 2021, Sheffield Doc Fest in the UK in 2022, Doc Edge in New Zealand in 2022, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin in Germany in 2022, DOC NYC in the USA in 2022 and will be screened at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival on Wednesday 8 March 2023.The film has a running time of 110 minutes and will be subtitled in Greek. Admission is free.

A generation under siege: Greek Youth between Crisis and Assertion
2023-03-28 18:30 - 21:30
Tuesday 28 March from 6.30 pm. at the “Sakis Karagiorgas II” amphitheatre of Panteion University

mέta | 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.

The 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.

From Crisis to War: One Year Later
2023-02-22 19:00 - 21:00
Admission is free | Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.Information: 210 8848270Serafio of the Municipality of Athens (19 Echelidon & 144 Pireos St.)

Wednesday 22 February 2023, at 7 p.m.

mέta | Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation is organizing a public event on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (7 p.m.) at the Serafio of the Municipality of Athens (19 Echelidon & 144 Piraeus St.) on the topic “From Crisis to War: A Year Later” with speakers Yanis Varoufakis (Professor at the University of Athens, Secretary of Mera25, co-founder of DiEM25), Angela Dimitrakakis (Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh), Amineh Kakabaveh (former member of the Swedish Parliament) and Stathis Kouvelakis (former Reader in political theory at King’s College London).Also, Danae Stratou (visual artist, president of mέta’s Board of Directors) will present material from the international online participatory project “Open the Black Boxes”.

One year after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the reality of war is becoming entrenched on the international stage. And it is a war that is not only taking place locally but in fact globally. A war whose origins go back a long way and whose conduct is based not only on military but also on political, informational and, above all, economic means.

It is not difficult to discern in this war the ‘metastasis’ of the capitalist crisis, in which we have been immersed for a decade and a half, the attempt to ‘escape’ violently from this crisis and to change, just as violently, the powerbalance within and between states.

The cost is of course being paid primarily by the peoples who have been experiencing the military conflict but not only by them. The energy and inflation crisis, the new ‘sacrifices’ required of the unprivileged classes the deterioration of democracy and public debate are the imprint of war on our own societies. War is in a way the reality we are already living in. And that is without even taking into account the real possibility of the opening of ‘side fronts’ or the nightmare of a generalised confrontation, possibly nuclear, which is threatened as never since 1962.

While the conflict takes on a self-fuelled escalation dynamic, while statesmen and the vast majority of journalists indulge in bellicose discourse, with no obvious ‘exit strategy’, the virtual non-existence (at least compared to what existed up to the beginning of the century), of an international pacifist movement, the dominance of conformist discourse, and the embarrassment, if not the division, of the Left of all versions.

It is urgent that the debate be brought back into its full context. There is an urgent need to distance ourselves from the role of NATO or the Kremlin applauder. There is an urgent need to revitalise the pacifist movement. There is an urgent need to bring the aspirations of the peoples back to the fore. There is an urgent need to create a new Non-Aligned Movement and a more just international order. It is urgent to end the perpetuation of the war in Ukraine. At a time when such issues of principle are at stake, getting bogged down in petty politics does not suit us.

“The Cars We Drove Into Capitalism” will be shown by mέta, in a special screening at Mikrokosmos cinema | on Monday, February 13th, 2023 | 20:00.
2023-02-13 20:00 - 22:00
Constantly pursuing the dialogue between art and political endeavour, mέta | the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation proceeds with a series of films regularly screened in the multi-space facility of Mikrokosmos, literally bringing in the centre of our attention a genre connected per se to this pursuit: cinema.

Free entry | With Greek subtitles

With the kind contribution of Greek and foreign creators, who, quite often, work in stifling conditions, mέta proposes to a wider public significant, recent film productions, which visualise but also critically problematise various aspects of the multi-faceted crisis surrounding us, as well as pinpoint emancipatory alternatives. For, quite often, optical language proves to be much more eloquent than numerous written pages, in the depiction of societal reality – at times, riveting.

mέta presents for a special screening in Greece the film, “The Cars We Drove Into Capitalism” by Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov.

During the Cold War, almost every family in the Eastern Bloc treasured and impeccably maintained the car they had waited so long for. This film looks at the fascinating history of socialist automobiles based on select accounts which portray the events and hardships of the time with a touch of humour. The automobile was also seen as a means to an end against the imperialist class enemy. For most communist countries, the car was an instrument of propaganda, used to symbolise technological progress and the equality, if not the superiority of their system. Even Western families were known to drive a Lada, Wartburg, Moskvitch, Trabant, Skoda or Zaz.

We meet a young woman who was inspired by pin-up models, a couple who drove to freedom in West Germany but had to abandon their beloved car on the last leg of their journey, a former racing champion and automobile fanatic who turned his old banger into a luxury vehicle, and many more. A cinematic journey that focuses attention on its heroes – both man and machine.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director and the film’s contributors.

Feature Documentary / Human InterestFilm by Boris Missirkov and Georgi BogdanovLength 93’/52’ HDCo-Production AGITPROP, Saxonia Entertainment, Danish Documentary Production, Hulahop and Endorfilm with MDR/ARTE, in association with DR and YLE, with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA, Danish Film Institute, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Czech Film Fund, Bulgarian National Film CenterOriginal Title The Cars We Drove Into CapitalismYear 2021

Cinema Mikrokosmos Address: Leof. Andrea Syggrou 106, Athens 117 41

Iannis Xenakis: The sound born from an explosion of History
2022-12-18 20:00 - 22:00
Musical intersections on stage

Athens Conservatoire “Aris Garoufalis” HallSunday 18/12/22 at 20:00

Entrance: 5€ | Pre-sale: ticketservices.gr

As 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”.

Iannis 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.

For 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.

Conviced 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.

The programme

First part:“The ‘Battle of December‘ and the injury of Xenakis”. Screenings and narratives with Orestis Karamanlis and Makis Solomos.

Interactive musical performance by Orestis Karamanlis based on the GENDYN programme by Iannis Xenakis.

Second 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

A discussion with the contributors will follow

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Contributors

Pavlos 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.

Orestis 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.

Makis 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).

Georgia 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.

MC 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.

Book launch: ‘NO BOSSES - A New Economy for a Better World’ by Michael Albert, in Greek (TOPOS Books & mέta)
2022-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Red ‘n’ Noir (Δροσοπούλου 52, Κυψέλη), Δροσοπούλου 52, Αθήνα, Αττική, 11257, Ελλάδα
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

The book will be presented and discussed by:

Kleoniki Alexopoulou, lecturer at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Panteion University.

Konstantinos Poulis, journalist, The Press Project.

Dionysios Skliris, adj. lecturer at the Hellenic Open University, translator of the book

Moderation: Sotiris Mitralexis, mέta

A few words on the book:

Life 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.

Michael 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.

Michael Albert sends the following message to the Greek audience on the occasion of the Greek translation and publication:

I 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.
– Michael Albert

IN THE MIRROR OF PALESTINE
2022-11-29 19:00 - 22:00
On Tuesday 29 November 29, on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, mέta | the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation organises at “Trianon” cinema (Kodrigktonos 21, Athens) a one-day film festival titled “In the Mirror of Palestine: Images and sounds of a quotidian struggle for dignity and freedom”.

This is the second year in a row that the mέta, guided by the artistic work of Palestinian filmmakers, has honoured the struggles of the Palestinian people, which it considers to be central to any effort to shape a more just society in our neighbourhood and internationally, despite what the dominant discourse claims.

Aleen Shoufani’s ‘Taqi‘ (2021, 35’), Mohammed Almughanni’s ‘Son of the Streets‘ (2020, 34′) and Vice News’ ‘Inside the Battle for Jesusalem‘ (2021, 20’) will be screened. The filmmakers will participate with video messages, while Sofia Sakorafa, MP with MeRA25, Deputy Speaker of the Greek Parliament and honorary Palestinian citizen will address the audience and the chair of mέta’s Steering Committee Danai Stratou.

A discussion will follow on “The importance of solidarity with the Palestinian people in the context of the global crisis” with Italian activist Luisa Morgantini and Yanis Varoufakis MP (secretary of MeRA25, co-founder of DiEM25) as speakers.

Luisa Morgantini was for two terms (1999-2009) a member of the European Parliament for the Italian party Rifondazione Communista. She is a figure with decades of struggles in the pacifist, women’s and trade union movements, as well as solidarity actions around the world, particularly in Palestine and the Mediterranean. She leads the Italian section of the anti-war organisation Women in Black.

Greek subtitling of the films and live translation of the debate will be provided.

Free admission. Doors open: 18.30

The films

Taqi (2021, 35′) by Aleen Shoufani

The film deals with the story of Taqi Sabateen, a well-known Palestinian graffiti artist from the West Bank of Jordan, who expresses his frustration with the occupation, checkpoints, the separation wall, and uses his art and personal life stories as a tool of resistance.

Aleen Shoufani is a filmmaker born in Haifa. She studied film and television at Tel Aviv University (2019-2020). She worked as a nurse. She participated in several productions as a student. Her first film, the documentary short “Taqi”, was made during her university film studies at her own expense and was awarded at the Stockholm Film Festival, Boden International Film Festival, Vienna Films Awards, Prisma Film in Rome, Tagore International Film Festival and Naples Film Awards.

Cast: Taqi Sabateen, Yusra Sabateen, Israa Sabateen, Elyaa Sabateen, Jolan Sabateen.

Directed by Aleen Shoufani

Producers: Aleen Shoufani, Elias Shoufani

Cinematography: Said Jomaa, Sigal Zegman, Aleen Shoufani

Editing: Wafi Khalil

Recording: Aleen Shoufani

Sound designer: Sari Matar

Music: Elias Garzuzi

“Son Of The Streets” (2020, 34′) by Mohammed Almughanni

Khodor is a 13-year-old boy whose family is trying to issue him with an identity document that proves his existence and entitles him to education, healthcare and movement outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. During the process, many of the family’s old secrets are revealed.

Director, writer and filmmaker Mohammed Almughanni was born in 1994 in Gaza. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in film directing at the Łódź Film School in Poland, where he produced Son of the Streets. In recent years, he has shot films in various parts of the world, including Cuba, Palestine, Denmark, China, Jordan, Lebanon, Poland and Germany. He is a documentary and narrative filmmaker, including “Blacklisted” (2021), “Son Of The Streets” (2020), “Falafala” (2019), “Operation” (2018), “Where’s the Donkey” (2018), “Shujayya” (2015), and “Halawan” (2012). His films have been selected and awarded at numerous film festivals around the world.

Written, directed, photographed and edited by Mohammed Almughanni.

“Son Of The Streets” was awarded at the Jihlava Film Festival in Prague, Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival in Berlin, Popoli e Religioni Terni Film Festival in Italy, Festival Ciné Palestine in Paris, Long Story Short Film Festival in Wroclaw, Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient in Paris and Liberation DocFest Bangladesh in Dhaka.

“Inside the Battle for Jerusalem” (2021, 20′) by Vice News

Documentary on the ground by Palestinian photographer Ayman Abu Ramuz and South African photographer Dan Bitman for Vice News in occupied East Jerusalem.

Vice follows Palestinians in danger of being evicted from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in order to give them to settlers. Correspondent Hind Hassan talks to residents who are resorting to legal action and protesting while facing attacks by Israeli occupation forces, arrests, house searches, beatings and attempts to occupy by settlers.

Inside the Battle for Jerusalem won two EMMY awards (Best Cinematography and Best News Coverage).

Left and ‘governability’: what engagement with power, on which terms and for whose benefit?
2022-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | meta
Tuesday 15 November, 19.00, in the Greek language,at “Trianon” cinema (Kodringtonos 21)

Free Admission | reservations: bit.ly/aristerakyv

In recent years the Left, however we define it, has attempted, not only in Greece but also in other European countries, to take up the challenge of governing in the midst of an unprecedented neoliberal attack on the subordinate classes. These ventures have been by and large a failure and no serious evaluation of them has been ventured in retrospect. There is ‘strategic silence’, if not adherence to the principles of the opponent, while the social strata in whose name the left speaks are plunged into degradation and passivisation, subjected to the blackmail of supporting the ‘lesser evil’ or simply avoiding the notorious ‘ungovernability’.

In this light, mέta | the Centre for Post-Capitalist Culture considers it urgent to return to the strategic debate, repelled by the absorption of an increasingly repulsive “political current affairs”. A return to the theoretical conquests (and unanswered questions) of the Left, as well as the invention in the new conditions of crisis of original forms of organization and political practice.

In this spirit, mέta is organizing on Tuesday, November 15, at 19.00, at the “Trianon” cinema (21 Kodrigtonos Street, Athens 104 34) an event on “Left and “Governability”.

Speakers:

Sissy Velissariou, Professor at the University of Athens, Vice-Chair of mέta’s Steering Committee.Yannis Kouzis, Professor at Panteion University.Alexis Smyrlis, Director of MeRA25’s Policy Planning and Director of MeRA25’s parliamentary group.Panagiotis Sotiris, PhD in Philosophy, adjunct lecturer at the Hellenic Open University, journalistThemis Tzimas, PhD in Public Law, lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

With an in intervention by Yanis Varoufakis, Professor at the University of Athens, MeRA25 Secretary, co-founder of DiEM25

Moderator:Sotiris Mitralexis, PhD in Political Science, mέta’s research director

"Magnetic Fields", will be shown by mέta, in a special screening at Mikrokosmos cinema, on November 2nd, 2022. Arrival time 19:30.
2022-11-02 19:30 - 21:30
Constantly pursuing the dialogue between art and political endeavour, mέta, the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation proceeds with a series of films regularly screened in the multi-space facility of Mikrokosmos, literally bringing in the centre of our attention a genre connected per se to this pursuit: cinema.

Free entry

With the kind contribution of Greek and foreign creators, who, quite often, work in stifling conditions, mέta proposes to a wider public significant, recent film productions, which visualise but also critically problematise various aspects of the multi-faceted crisis surrounding us, as well as pinpoint emancipatory alternatives. For, quite often, optical language proves to be much more eloquent than numerous written pages, in the depiction of societal reality – at times, riveting.

The film that will represent us at the Oscars, “Magnetic Fields” by Giorgos Goussis, will be shown by mέta, in a special screening at Mikrokosmos cinema, on November 2nd, 2022. Arrival time 19:30.

In this beautiful and tender road movie, Elena drives alone to an unknown destination, when she unexpectedly embarks on the ferry to Kefalonia. There, she will share her thoughts and life burdens with Antonis, a man she meets by chance. The two of them begin wandering around the island, looking for a nice place to bury a metal box that Antonis carries.

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CREDITSDirection: Giorgos GoussisWriters: Giorgos Goussis, Elena Topalidou, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos Director of photography: Giorgos KoutsaliarisEditing: Dimitris PolyzosMusic: Lefteris VolanisProduction: MiniFILMS, Naked Eye Productions, HereticProducers: Giorgos Goussis, Marinos Sklavounakis, Giorgos Karnavas Co-production: ECCStarring: Elena Topalidou, Antonis TsiotsiopoulosRuntime: 78′Production Year: 2021

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AWARDSGolden Alexander Award (Film Forward)FIPRESCI Award Greek Association of Greek Critics AwardFirst ERT Award First Greek Cinema Centre AwardLocation Manager AwardThessaloniki Festival 2021Nominated for Best Film, Debut Director, Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor, Photography, Original Music AwardsIris Awards 2022

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The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director and the film’s contributors.

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mέta is a civil-non-profit research and cultural institution, related to the political party MeRA25, the European movement DiEM25, and Progressive International. It was established in 2020, aiming to explore eutopic alternatives to the postcapitalist era in which we are already living, through academic and cultural actions regarding the political, social, economic, ecological, cultural, and civilisational challenges of our times.

Cine Mikrokosmos (member of Europa Cinemas) was born in the fall of 2004, on Syngrou Avenue, opposite ex-Fix Industry, equipped with state – of the – art technology and with a unique architectural approach. Having hosted numerous festivals and tributes, without ever standing off from first-rate promotions, committed to cinephile choices, and particularly hospitable to independent Greek productions, Mikrokosmos has created its own audience and is chosen for its ideal show conditions, its careful selections, and, occasionally, for its autonomous bar, which operates in the foyer at affordable prices and cinematic ambiance.

George Goussis was born in Athens in 1986 and studied graphic design. He is one of the most famous Greek comic book artist, and many of his graphic novels have been awarded and become bestsellers. In 2019, he made his directing debut with the short documentary The “Arm Wrestler“, which was awarded by the Hellenic Film Academy. “Magnetic Fields“ is his first feature film, and he will soon be releasing The “Arm Wrestler“ as a feature film.

Cinema Mikrokosmos Address: Leof. Andrea Syggrou 106, Athens 117 41

"The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class" | Guy Standing talks with Yanis Varoufakis
2022-10-31 19:00 - 21:00 | meta
Monday 31Oct 2022, 19:00.

On 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.

Sotiris Mitralexis, PhD in Political Science, Director of the Academic Department of the mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, introduces and moderates.

Plyfa Industrial Park, 39 Korytsas Street, Athens 104 47

Free entrance | registration https://bit.ly/3ER57h2

Simultaneous interpretation from English.

The 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.

The 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.

After 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.

Guy 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.

His 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).

mέta | 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.

meta-cinema: premiere 17/05/22, 19:30 pm at Mikrokosmos, Ruins a documentary by Zoe Mavroudi
2022-05-17 19:00 - 21:00
Constantly pursuing the dialogue between art and political endeavour, the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation (mέta) proceeds with a series of films regularly screened in the multi-space facility of Mikrokosmos, literally bringing in the centre of our attention a genre connected per se to this pursuit: cinema.

With the kind contribution of Greek and foreign creators, who, quite often, work in stifling conditions, mέta proposes to a wider public significant, recent film productions, which visualise but also critically problematise various aspects of the multi-faceted crisis surrounding us, as well as pinpoint emancipatory alternatives. For, quite often, optical language proves to be much more eloquent than numerous written pages, in the depiction of societal reality – at times, riveting.

RUINSChronicle of an HIV witch-hunt – ten years later.

Moral panic, demonisation of HIV-positiveness, sex work and substance dependence, coercive medical acts. All this in the service of an election show, the initiators of which still have the audacity to play a leading role in public life.This is the “case of HIV-positive women” that erupted in May 2012, with tragic consequences for the women involved and with, ongoing to date, juridical implications at a European level.Ten years later, the Center for Postcapitalist Civlisation (mέta) remembers this sad anniversary and raises questions about social attitudes, official policies and the communication strategies that accompany it, and is screening, as part of the meta-cinema series, the hourly documentary Ruins/ Ruins (2013) of Zoe Mavroudi, which is precisely the “chronicle of the shaming” of alleged HIV-positive women.

The film will be screened on Tuesday, May 17th at “Mikrokosmos” (106 Syggrou Avenue) with free entrance for the public and attendance time at 19.30.

Directed by Zoe MavroudiCamera Operator, Sound: Giannis ChinosEditor: Antonio RochiraPost-processing: Antonios DimopoulosOriginal Music: Fruto5Composer: Diamanda Galás, “This is the Law of the Plague” (Plague Mass, live 1991)Executive Producers: Theodora Oikonomides, Loukas StamellosPresented by Zoe Mavroudi, Theodora Oikonomides, OmniaTV, Unfollow magazine(Running time: 53 minutes)

A short discussion with the director as well as interventions by the journalist Mariniki Alevizopoulou, Marios Atzemis from the HIV-Positive Association, the lawyer Kostas Farmakidis and a prostituted persons collective representative will follow.

mέta is a civil-non-profit research and cultural institution, related to the political party MeRA25, the European movement DiEM25, and Progressive International. It was established in 2020, aiming to explore eutopic alternatives to the postcapitalist era in which we are already living, through academic and cultural actions regarding the political, social, economic, ecological, cultural, and civilisational challenges of our times.

Cine Mikrokosmos (member of Europa Cinemas) was born in the fall of 2004, on Syngrou Avenue, opposite ex-Fix Industry, equipped with state – of the – art technology and with a unique architectural approach. Having hosted numerous festivals and tributes, without ever standing off from first-rate promotions, committed to cinephile choices, and particularly hospitable to independent Greek productions, Mikrokosmos has created its own audience and is chosen for its ideal show conditions, its careful selections, and, occasionally, for its autonomous bar, which operates in the foyer at affordable prices and cinematic ambiance.

Zoe Mavroudi is a filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and actress. Her theatre work has been produced in the USA and in Europe. Her screenplays have won awards at international festivals and contests. She has written about human rights, politics and film for publications in Greece and the UK.

20 Years of Euro: An Assessment in the Shadow of a European War
2022-04-16 14:00 - 20:00
Admission Free.16-04-2022, 14:00 Athens timeReservations at: bit.ly/20xroniae or by phone at 210.8847571 (10:00 to 16:00 Monday to Friday).

The introduction of the euro (exactly twenty years ago as Greece’s currency) was presented as a big promise of economic convergence and well-being, in the spirit of the even bigger promise of permanent peace in the European continent. However, as is all too evident by now, the euro was instrumental in dividing rather than uniting Europe, and it put in action centrifugal forces that undermined unification – a prerequisite for a common European foreign policy and defense policy. Today, in the context of the biggest military conflict on European soil since decades, a critical re-evaluation of the twenty-year-long history of the common currency is more urgent than ever.In the colloquium organised by mέta on the 16th of April at the Athens’ Technopolis’ we analyse the introduction of the common currency, its impact during the last two decades, its geopolitical, ideological, and cultural dimensions while contemplating alternatives in the era of digital money.

Participants:

Mark Blyth is the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press, 2013), and co-editor of The Future of the Euro (Oxford University Press 2015).Nicholas Theocarakis is a Professor of Political Economy and History of Economic Thought at the University of Athens. He has co-authored Modern Political Economics: Making sense of the post-2008 world with Yanis Varoufakis and Joseph Halevi.Yanis Varoufakis MP is a Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, Secretary of Greece’s parliamentary party MeRA25, and co-founder of DiEM25.

PROGRAMME

14.00-14.15 – Welcome and introductions

14.15 -15.30 – Nicholas Theocarakis: The history and political economy of the common currency that weakened Europe | Q&A with the audience

15.30-15.40 BREAK

15.40-16.00 Stephanie Kelton: The euro from the perspective of Modern Monetary Theory – via videolink

16.00-17.30 – Mark Blyth: The euro – an assessment in the midst of a European war| Q&A with Yanis Varoufakis and the audience

17.30-19.00 – Yanis Varoufakis: Alternatives in the age of digital money | Q&A with the audience

"A most surprising Anti-War Libertarian-Communist Manifesto"
2022-03-23 20:00
Reservations at 210.8847571 (10:00 με 16:00)

The 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.

From 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.

Being 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.

Thus, 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.

This 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).

Free admission, according to state covid measures.

mέta team

meta-cinema: premiere 15/3/22, 20:00 pm at Mikrokosmos, Oleanders a film by Paola Revenioti
2022-03-15 20:00
Constantly pursuing the dialogue between art and political endeavour, the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation (mέta) proceeds with a series of films regularly screened in the multi-space facility of Mikrokosmos, literally bringing in the centre of our attention a genre connected per se to this pursuit: cinema.

With the kind contribution of Greek and foreign creators, who, quite often, work in stifling conditions, mέta proposes to a wider public significant, recent film productions, which visualise but also critically problematise various aspects of the multi-faceted crisis surrounding us, as well as pinpoint emancipatory alternatives. For, quite often, optical language proves to be much more eloquent than numerous written pages, in the depiction of societal reality – at times, riveting.

Paola Revenioti’s “Oleanders” is a nightly tour, guided by Betty Vakalidou, Eva Koumarianou, and the filmmaker, through the districts of Athens where trans women’s sex work used to flourish. Their nostalgic, often humorous and at times rough narrative witnesses the sexual codes, the struggle for self-identification, and the resistance towards exclusion that marked trans people’s lives in Greece from the ’70s to the ’90s.

Direction: Paola Revenioti/Featuring: Betty Bakalidou, Eua Koumarianou, Paola Revenioti/Co-directed and Cinematography: Elpiniki Voutsa Rentzepopoulou, Alexandros Synodinos, Vangelis Tsakas, Yorgos Gkonos, Alexandros Kotsenos/Editing: Christina Lagouri, Alexandros Synodinos /Music: Opera di Bestia /Research: Eliza Triantafyllou, Danai Maragoudaki/Production supervisor: Margarita Κ. Chomatianou/DCP: L’ Azur De La Mer I.K.E., Shooting Fish ® Productions/Contact: Vasilis Thanasis/Translation: Renée Molho/Production: © Paola Team Documentaries, 2020

mέta is a civil-non-profit research and cultural institution, related to the political party MeRA25, the European movement DiEM25, and Progressive International. It was established in 2020, aiming to explore eutopic alternatives to the postcapitalist era in which we are already living, through academic and cultural actions regarding the political, social, economic, ecological, cultural, and civilisational challenges of our times.

Cine Mikrokosmos (member of Europa Cinemas) was born in the fall of 2004, on Syngrou Avenue, opposite ex-Fix Industry, equipped with state – of the – art technology and with a unique architectural approach. Having hosted numerous festivals and tributes, without ever standing off from first-rate promotions, committed to cinephile choices, and particularly hospitable to independent Greek productions, Mikrokosmos has created its own audience and is chosen for its ideal show conditions, its careful selections, and, occasionally, for its autonomous bar, which operates in the foyer at affordable prices and cinematic ambiance.

Paola Revenioti, is a Greek trans woman, filmmaker, publisher, radio producer, activist and pioneer of the Greek LGBT movement. From a young age and due to the social exclusion of trans people from work, she made a living as a sex worker.

meta team

mέtaVASEIS radio 23 February 2022
2022-02-23 16:00 - 17:30
Στις σημερινές #mέtaβάσεις, την εκπομπή του Κέντρου Μετακαπιταλιστικού Πολιτισμού, @metacpc, στο #ΡάδιοΜέΡΑ με τον Κώστα Ράπτη:

🟥 Ο αρχιτέκτονας Θάνος Ανδρίτσος δίνει τη μαρτυρία του τι είναι οι Λαϊκές Δημοκρατίες του Ντονμπάς.

🟥 Ο διασώστης Ιάσονας Αποστολόπουλος (@Iasonas_Apost) καλεσμένος στο στούντιο, για να μας μιλήσει για την ανομία των pushbacks ως κρατική πολιτική

🟥Ο πολιτικός επιστήμονας Άγγελος Γουνόπουλος για το λαϊκιστικό φαινόμενο στη Λατινική Αμερική και τις θρησκευτικές του συνδηλώσεις.

🟥 Η εκ των συνδιοργανωτών του Ελληνικού Μουσείου Αυτοχειρίας Ναταλί Φύτρου για το εγχείρημα καταγραφής 200 χρόνων ζόφου.

mέta-cinema: premiere 12/2/22 17:30pm at mikrokosmos, Digger, a film by G. Grigorakis
2022-02-12 17:30
Constantly pursuing the dialogue between art and political endeavour, the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation (mέta) proceeds with a series of films regularly screened in the multi-space facility of Mikrokosmos, literally bringing in the centre of our attention a genre connected per se to this pursuit: cinema.

With the kind contribution of Greek and foreign creators, who, quite often, work in stifling conditions, mέta proposes to a wider public significant, recent film productions, which visualise but also critically problematise various aspects of the multi-faceted crisis surrounding us, as well as pinpoint emancipatory alternatives. For, quite often, optical language proves to be much more eloquent than numerous written pages, in the depiction of societal reality – at times, riveting.

And the first step of this multi-month wandering, as we aspire, takes place on February 12, 2022 at 17:30 with the film Digger. The award-winning film by George Grigorakis, which received 14 nominations for the Iris Awards of the Hellenic Film Academy, although presents a fictional story, comes up as a valuable testimony to the abuse of the Greek nature, the reversal of social relations but also the activation of primordial resistance against the mining industry’s invasion, which our (post) memorandum dystopia projects as the royal path for “development”.

mέta is a civil-non-profit research and cultural institution, related to the political party MeRA25, the European movement DiEM25, and Progressive International. It was established in 2020, aiming to explore eutopic alternatives to the postcapitalist era in which we are already living, through academic and cultural actions regarding the political, social, economic, ecological, cultural, and civilisational challenges of our times.

Cine Mikrokosmos (member of Europa Cinemas) was born in the fall of 2004, on Syngrou Avenue, opposite ex-Fix Industry, equipped with state – of the – art technology and with a unique architectural approach. Having hosted numerous festivals and tributes, without ever standing off from first-rate promotions, committed to cinephile choices, and particularly hospitable to independent Greek productions, Mikrokosmos has created its own audience and is chosen for its ideal show conditions, its careful selections, and, occasionally, for its autonomous bar, which operates in the foyer at affordable prices and cinematic ambiance.

George Grigorakis is a director and screenwriter with a degree in Social Psychology, a Master of Arts in Film Directing at the National Film School (NFTS) in London, and an alumnus at the Berlinale and Sarajevo Talent Campus. He has written and directed many short films, which have won international attention and awards at over a hundred film festivals.

DIGGER, his first feature film, was developed through Nipkow Scholarships, Cannes Cinefondation Residency and the Sundance Institute.

It premiered at the 70th Berlinale where it won the CICAE Art Cinema Award, was awarded the Best Actor Award in Sarajevo and continued its successful run at internationally recognized festivals around the world (AFI, Busan, Melbourne, Philadelphia, São Paolo, Gifa, Haifa others). He won the Special Commission Award – Silver Alexander and four more awards in Thessaloniki. Winned 10 Iris Awards of the Hellenic Film Academy (Best Film, Direction, Screenplay).

In the Mirror of Palestine
2021-11-28 19:00 - 2021-11-29 22:00 | Κινηματογράφος «Αθηνά», Σολωμού 18, Χαλάνδρι, 15233, Ελλάδα
In honour of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Centre for Post Capitalist Civilization (mέta) and the Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Athens are co-organizing, with the support of the Municipality of Chalandri, a two-day event on Sunday 28 and Monday 29 of November 2021 at the cinema ”Athina”(Solomou 18, Chalandri) with title:

In the Mirror of Palestine: Images and Sounds of a Daily Struggle for Collective Dignity

A preliminary, yet necessary, contribution to the effort to highlight, by using the language of art as well as political argumentation, the quest for justice for the Palestinian people and to condemn all policies of occupation, settler-colonialism and exclusion.

On Sunday, the first day of the event, there will be official greetings from Marwan Toubasi (Ambassador of the State of Palestine), Sofia Sakorafa (Deputy Speaker of the Greek Parliament, MP Mera25, honorary Palestinian citizen), and Simos Roussos (Mayor of Chalandri), followed by a screening of the short documentary by the Greek-Palestinian artist Doris Hakim: “Liwan: a story of cultural resistance” and a small concert with Alekos Bretos on the oud.

The next day, November 29, film screening of “Rosh mia” by Salim Abu Jabal, and Enquete personnelle by Ula Tabari, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.

The Schedule of the events for both days is at 7 p.m. Free entrance.

All prescribed safety measures will be observed.

Seats must be pre-booked at +30210.8848270 – +30210.8847571.

A few words about the films:

Liwan – a story of cultural resistance, 2021, is a documentary of Doris Hakim about a cultural cafe that was founded by three Palestinians living in Nazareth το criticize the political situation through cultural resistance. Doris Hakim is a Palestinian Greek visual artist and performer. She studied at Athens School of Fine Arts and has a Masters’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville.

Roshmia (2015) του Salim Abu Jabal is a feature-length documentary by Salim Abu Jabal. A story of an elderly Palestinian refugee couple in a final standoff with the Israeli authorities to maintain their lifestyle in Roshmia, the last natural valley in Haifa. Salim Abu Jabal Studied Theatre and Arabic Literature at the University of Haifa and later Scriptwriting. He worked as a journalist, a film critic, and a producer also for programs for TV. He is most known for his award-winning documentary film ‘Roshmia’ which received 13 awards from renowned Arab and international festivals. Ηe founded the traveling film festival “Films From Behind The Wall” in 2005 and Ramallah Cinema Club in 2013. Αlso, he was the programmer of Palestine Cinema Days (2016, 2017) and the programmer of Haifa Independent Film Festival (2018). ‘Roshmia’ received 13 awards from renowned Arab and international festivals.

Enquete personnelle, 2002: a documentary by Ula Tabari that’s about Palestinian identity and the Israeli occupation; on how to live as a Palestinian in the Israeli Jewish State. Ula Tabari was born in Nazareth and lives in Paris. She studied Theatre and Visual Arts. In 2015 she founded “Al-Ashiqat” (“Les Amoureuses”) for alternative production services.

mέta

mέtaVASEIS, 24 November 2021
2021-11-24 16:00 - 17:30
Η ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή ΜέΤΑβάσεις της 24ης Νοεμβρίου 2021 με τον Κώστα Ράπτη:

mέtaVASEIS, 17 November 2021
2021-11-17 16:00 - 17:30
Η ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή ΜέΤΑβάσεις της 17ης Νοεμβρίου 2021, με τον Κώστα Ράπτη και ειδικό αφιέρωμα στην επέτειο:

What comes after capitalism? A discussion on P2P and the digital commons
2021-11-15 19:00 | Σεράφειο Δήμου Αθηναίων, Πειραιώς & Πέτρου Ράλλη, Αθήνα, 118 54, Ελλάδα
The Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, mέta, presents:

What Comes After Capitalism?

The commons, P2P, and new ways of production, ownership and governance

Discussants:

Vasilis Kostakis & Yanis Varoufakis

Monday, 15 November 2021, 7pm

P2P production and the digital commons in an era of nascent postcapitalism(s).

Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University‘s Berkman Klein Center. Moreover, he is the Founder of the P2P Lab and a founding member of the rural makerspace Tzoumakers (Tzoumerka, Greece). Vasilis is interested in exploring how to create a sustainable post-capitalist economy based on locally productive communities that are digitally interconnected.

Yanis Varoufakis is a member of the Hellenic Parliament, the Secretary-General of MeRA25, and a professor of economic theory at the University of Athens.

Serafeion, Pireos & P. Ralli, Athens 118 54, Greece

mέtaVASEIS, 10 November 2021
2021-11-10 16:00 - 17:30
Η ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή ΜέΤΑβάσεις της 10ης Νοεμβρίου 2021, με τον Κώστα Ράπτη:

mέtaVASEIS, 3 November 2021
2021-11-03 18:00 - 19:30
Η ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή ΜέΤΑβάσεις της 3ης Νοεμβρίου 2021, με τον Κώστα Ράπτη:

https://anchor.fm/95930/embed/episodes/mta-27-e19nff8/a-a6qscbj

Basic Income — And How We Can Make It Happen
2021-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Καφέ στον Κήπο του Νομισματικού Μουσείου, Πανεπιστημίου 12, Αθήνα, 106 71, Ελλάδα
The Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, mέta, invites you to an open discussion co-organised by mέta, Athens’ Numismatic Museum and Papasotiriou Publishing on the necessity of Basic Income,apropos the publication of Guy Standing’s Basic ‘Income: And How We Can Make It Happen’ in Greek (Papasotiriou 2021, foreword by Yanis Varoufakis).

The event (free admission) will take place on Tuesday 21 September, at 7pm, in the Garden of Athens’ Numismatic Museum (Panepistimiou Av. 12, Athens 10671), with Prof. Guy Standing and Yanis Varoufakis, Secretary of MeRA25, as the discussants. Sotiris Mitralexis, mέta’s academic director, will moderate the event, which will be translated live.

All prescribed safety measures will be observed. Seats must be pre-booked at +30210.8848270 – +30210.8847571.

As the COVID-19 pandemic so poignantly taught us, this issue couldn’t have been more timely right now.

‘Shouldn’t everyone receive a stake in society’s wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?’

Professor Guy Standing co-founded the Basic Income Earth Network and now serves as its honorary co-President. He has held professorships at the University of Bath and at SOAS, was programme director at the International Labour Organisation and has advised the UN, World Bank and governments around the world on labour and social policy. He is the author of the bestselling The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Απέναντι στη δυστοπία της αποδιάρθρωσης των εργασιακών σχέσεων
2021-06-23 16:00 - 17:30
Η εκπομπή κίνησης ιδεών “Μεταβάσεις” του Κέντρου Μετακαπιταλιστικού Πολιτισμού μεταδίδει την Τετάρτη 23 Ιουνίου (από τις 16.00 και μετά) στο Ράδιο ΜΕΡΑ την πλήρη ηχογράφηση των εισηγήσεων των Γ. Κουζή, Μ. Απατζίδη, Β. Μισσού και Δ. Κατσορίδα, καθώς και την συζήτηση που ακολούθησε με το κοινό, κατά την δια ζώσης εκδήλωση που διοργάνωσε το mέta την περασμένη Τρίτη στον κήπο του Συλλόγου Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων, ενόψει της ψήφισης του νομοσχεδίου Χατζηδάκη, με θέμα την αποδιάρθρωση των εργασιακών σχέσεων.

Against the dystopia of the restructuring of labour relations
2021-06-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Κήπος του Συλλόγου Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων (Ερμού 134, σταθμός ΗΣΑΠ Θησείου), Ερμού 134, Αθήνα, 105 53, Ελλάδα
The Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation (meta) is pleased to invite you to its first open-air event on Tuesday, June 15, at 7.30 pm in the garden of the Association of Greek Archaeologists (134 Ermou, ISAP station Thissio) with the theme:

Against the dystopia of the restructuring of labour relations

Panel:

Maria Apatzidi, Member of Parliament for Eastern Attica (MERA25)

Dimitris Katsoridas, scientific collaborator INE-GSEE

Giannis Kouzis, Dean of the School of Political Science of Panteion University

Vlasis Missos, KEPE researcher

Coordinated by Costas Raptis, mέta’s Press Officer

What do the new labour relations testify to the transformation of capitalism?

What “development model” for the country and its place in the international division of labour is presupposed in the Hatzidakis bill.

Which roads can the reconstruction of the labour movement go through, and through which forms?

(Admission is free.)

Yanis Varoufakis interviews Omar Barghouti
2021-05-24 21:00 - 22:00 | meta
While the massacre in Gaza is ongoing, and the repression of Palestinians everywhere is intensifying, how can progressives show meaningful solidarity with those suffering from, and struggling against, Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid? Looking to a future worth fighting for, is this the time for a SINGLE DEMOCRATIC STATE for Jews and Palestinians? Is the two-state solution the right objective for progressives or a formalisation of apartheid? To discuss these questions, on Monday 24th May 2021 at 19.30BST, 20.30 CET, 21.30EET Yanis Varoufakis, MeRA25 leader and DiEM25 co-founder, will interview Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights (*), co-recipient of the 2017 Ghandi Peace Award.

(*) BDS has emerged as a consensus movement that is increasingly recognized around the world, by trade unions, social movements, racial and climate justice groups, churches, among others, as the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Instead of adopting a specific political solution, it strategically focuses on ending international complicity in Israel’s system of oppression, as was done in the struggle to end South African apartheid.
