IN DECEMBER 2009 THREE NEW NUMBERS OF REARTIKULACIJA WERE ISSUED
THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
The starting point of Reartikulacija no. 7, no. 8, and no. 9 is the analysis of the present state of things in relation to the historical role of capital in (de)regulating all social political, labour, epistemological, and life processes. A permanent state of exception is being developed to reshape society; making it sterile, incapable of thinking alternatively, i.e. transforming it into a politically dead society. Fear of losing jobs and houses, fear of migrants, of diversity, of the crisis, etc., has started to function as the basic regulator of life. Therefore, Reartikulacija no. 7, no. 8, and no. 9 want to show that capital’s upgrading strategies call for its firm and consequent denigration, criticism and degradation. Reartikulacija no. 7, no. 8, and no. 9 present a new structure of producing interdisciplinary radical-critical discourses. Although every number is meant to function independently, they are in fact all connected through the international project The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression. We define the latter as an International Research Project with Exhibition and Symposium that comprises the publishing of the 3 issues of Reartikulacija. It is through the conceptual base of the project that the collaboration of the exposed radical critical discourse of each issue starts to take place, thus unveiling not just the problematic side of capitalist exploitation, but also exposing all the strategies and modes of production by way of which capital has been subjugating people, territories, discourses, etc. The project The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression is a critical intervention in the structure of contemporary capitalist societies, aiming to shed light on social inequalities, contemporary forms of colonization, commodification, marginalization of various sexual and ethnic groups, and general exploitation by capital, which has been faced by the major part of the worlds population for centuries. The project puts focus on the development of a discursive/intervention platform between art, theory, philosophy and activism, in order to fight racism, homophobic normalities, exploitation, expropriation and coloniality. A crucial point is being presented in the framework of the project, namely the De-linking from Capital and the Colonial Matrix of Power, that through its double role (as a supplement and a symposium), further connects the issues no. 7, no. 8, and no. 9 together into an intervention marked by its uniformed multilayered intermediality. In this issue, only the texts included in the supplement De-linking from Capital and the Colonial Matrix of Power are translated into Slovene, since the precarious situation by which we are restricted persists, and does not allow us to provide additional funds for the basic fees (small, almost symbolic, but still important) for our faithful translators and language editors. Nevertheless, we will continue to publish Reartikulacija, regardless of the precarious situation, since we are clearly convinced that only through the constant production of radical-critical discourse are we able to detect new as well as old forms of oppression, and most importantly, that we can propose some changes in the end. Certainly, this is what it is all about, and maybe the general time is favorable to such ideas, as there are more and more of those who have enough regarding all the these necro-governmentality procedures imposed on our studies, actions and lives. We can unite our forces. This is our power, and the three issues of Reartikulacija testify this clearly.
—Marina Gržinić and Sebastjan Leban, Editors of the journal Reartikulacija
Taja Kramberger: PRITOŽBA MONITOR ZSA/ APPEAL BY MONITOR ZSA (REVIEW OF HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND OTHER ANTHROPOLOGIES)
- REARTIKULACIJA
Sebastjan Leban: CONTEMPORARY VAMPIRISM: CAPITAL AND ITS (DE)REGULATION OF LIFE - (HARD) CORE
Marina Vishmidt : VALUE AT RISK: FROM POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION TO HUMAN CAPITAL* - RADICAL CRITICAL PRACTICE
Angela Mitropoulos: LEGAL, TENDER - Priloga/Supplement: Supplement: RAZVEZA OD KAPITALA IN KOLONIALNE MATRICE MOČI/DE-LINKING FROM CAPITAL AND THE COLONIAL MATRIX OF POWER:
- THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
Siniša Ilić: RAZDEJANJE/AFTERMATH - THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
Tjaša Kancler: HIT-TO-KILL - LESBIAN BAR
Nataša Velikonja: ZAPOREDJE ZGODBE/THE SEQUENCE OF THE STORY - DEEP THROAT
Ivana Marjanović: BOJ PROTI ANTIROMIZMU KOT DEL PROCESA DEKOLONIALNOSTI EVROPE/CONTENTION OF ANTIROMAISM AS A PART OF THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIALITY OF EUROPE - THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
Lina Dokuzović: DOBIČEK OD BIOKAPITALISTIČNE VREDNOSTI IN UKINITEV ČLOVEŠKEGA KAPITALA/THE TURNOVER OF BIOCAPITALIST CURRENCY AND THE SUSPENSION OF HUMAN CAPITAL
- REARTIKULACIJA
Marina Gržinić: CAPITAL, REPETITION - (HARD) CORE
Agon Hamza: THE SPECTER OF IDEOLOGICAL APPARATUSES - HARD (CORE)
Lina Dokuzović and Eduard Freudmann: SQUATTING THE CRISIS - Priloga/Supplement: Supplement: RAZVEZA OD KAPITALA IN KOLONIALNE MATRICE MOČI/DE-LINKING FROM CAPITAL AND THE COLONIAL MATRIX OF POWER:
- THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
VETEVENDOSJA - THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
Ana Vujanović: TEMPO KONZUMERIZMA: O filmski kompoziciji Tempo avtorice Marte Popivode/TEMPO OF CONSUMERISM: On the film composition Tempo by Marta Popivoda - QUEER
Tatjana Greif: “UŽAS JE MOJA FURKA”1 - DE-COLONIALITY
Goldie Osuri: IDENTITETA IN SOKRIVDA PRI NEKROPOLITIČNIH ANGAŽMAJIH: PRIMER IRAKA/IDENTITY AND COMPLICITY IN NECROPOLITICAL ENGAGEMENTS: THE CASE OF IRAQ - THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
Ana Hoffner: MOVEMENT.PRIVATIZED
- RADICAL CRITICAL PRACTICE
Marta Popivoda: AMAZON WOMAN OR LIFE! – A FORCED DECISION / DISCUSSION OF GENDER ARTIVIST TACTICS - NEW FASCISMS
Šefik Šeki Tatlić: DIABOLICAL FRIVOLITY OF NEO-LIBERAL FUNDAMENTALISM - REARTIKULACIJA
Staš Kleindienst: ON EUROPEAN CONSCIENCE AND TOTALITARIANISM - Priloga/Supplement: RAZVEZA OD KAPITALA IN KOLONIALNE MATRICE MOČI/DE-LINKING FROM CAPITAL AND THE COLONIAL MATRIX OF POWER:
- THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
Ivan Jurica: BESEDNI PODALJŠEK KOT POMEN SLIKE/THE VERBAL EXTENSION AS THE MEANING OF AN IMAGE - THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
Virginia Villaplana: AMAZONIJA Izgubljeni raj na zemlji/AMAZONIA World paradise lost - HARD (CORE)
Jonathan Beller and Marina Gržinić: POGOVOR O SODOBNEM KAPITALIZMU IN KINEMATIČNEM NAČINU PRODUKCIJE/DISCUSSING CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION - DE-COLONIALITY
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee: ZGODOVINE ZATIRANJA IN GLASOVI ODPORA: K TEORIJI O TRANSLOKALNEM/HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION AND VOICES OF RESISTANCE: TOWARDS A THEORY OF THE TRANSLOCAL - THE LAW OF CAPITAL: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION
KAJ JE DEMOKRACIJA?/WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
Read more at: www.reartikulacija.org
Reartikulacija (no.7. 8 and 9) was published within the context of the International research project The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression. The project was supported by City Museum, Ljubljana, The Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, International Foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures, company Luminus, University Nova Gorica, Slovenia, FI ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana and skupina group Irwin.
The publishing of the supplement De-linking from Capital and the Colonial Matrix of Power was made possible by: the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, group Irwin, Fotem, company Luminus,The Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Smart & Escargo.
The project is supported by ERSTE Foundation.
Publisher: Society for Contemporary Creativity HCHO.
