Reartikulacija No. 10,11,12 and 13 Is Out!

FORMATION OF RADICAL CRITICAL PRACTICE: THERE IS NO RADICAL PRACTICE WITHOUT RADICAL THEORY. YET, THERE’S MUCH MORE TO IT!

What is the point of criticizing the system today when there has already been so much written about it? Or better, is it possible to produce a real critical reflection upon the ever more poignant forms of exploitation and subjugation to interject into the collective consciousness in order to provoke a change? We are confronted with various ideas holding that critical discourse is a warning sign against the impossibility of the system to function, that it involves but the raising of social awareness and the localization of the common denominator of the new global struggle that might perhaps unleash resistance against the dominant power structure – capital, and more precisely, profit and private property. The problem is not in the critique as such, but in the way in which it is formed, in its definition, conceptualization and rationale. Therefore, the question arises as to what theoretical basis to draw upon in redefining critical practice and what theory to call upon for intervention to occur. It is precisely for this reason that radical critical practice aims at producing radical theoretical discourse that takes shape at the intersection of different social practices – from art, philosophy, theory to political activism – organising upon them its own practice, incorporating them into its own agency and, more importantly, intervening through them into the social structure as a whole. Radical critical practice is not marked only by multilayered agency, but also by a new political engagement that allows for the repoliticization of the politically castrated subject.

The project Formation of Radical Critical Practice analyzes and brings forward the role of production of radical critical discourse in the present, its intervention into the social structure and its potentiality. The extension of context that is established through the multilayered mode of agency enables a simultaneous intervention into different social fields, their improvement and change. In order to understand this shift, one needs to understand new paradigms and structures that allow for the establishment of these relationships at the practical level, where particular projects trigger a social reaction, as well as at the theoretical level, where a project means building and upgrading the tools needed for the researching and analysis of the ever more strained social conditions.

The present multiple issue of Reartikulacija presents these very formations, analyzing through scientific, artistic and activist agency various social agents that frame contemporary society as the necrosocial, theory as a mere brand and activism as a style. Moreover, it brings forth systematically chosen projects, theories and artistic practices that by way of their analytical power and artistic and critical activity offer the option for a radical possibility here and now.

Finally, the situation of Reartikulacija is getting worse with each issue – censorship is occurring at the level of receiving the necessary funds for publication, financing project partners are slowly disappearing, money supply is curtailed, and public resources are inaccessible due to bureaucratization. These last are only accessible, so to speak, to the handful of those whose routine operations tally with the state’s vision of art, culture and theory meant to pragmatically take the line of least resistance, producing not-too-critical works and carrying out an increasingly managerially efficient and capitalist-oriented global informational program.

Marina Gržinić and Sebastjan Leban

• INTERVENTION
  Marissa Lôbo: WHAT IS ANASTÁCIA KEEPING SILENT? OR WHAT DOES ANASTÁCIA SEE?
• (HARD) CORE
  Marina Vishmidt: HUMAN CAPITAL OR TOXIC ASSET: AFTER THE WAGE
  part 1
• (HARD) CORE
  Marina Vishmidt: HUMAN CAPITAL OR TOXIC ASSET: AFTER THE WAGE
  part 2
• LESBIAN BAR
  Nataša Velikonja: CATCH THE THIEF! (the thief cries out)
• POSITIONING
  Jovita Pristovšek: FROM BODY COUNT TO BODIES THAT COUNT
• STATE OF EXCEPTION
  Hansel Sato: AUSTRIAN NEWS/ÖSTERREICHISCHE NACHRICHTEN
• NEW FASCISMS
  Staš Kleindienst: EU – SOME THOUGHTS ON IDEOLOGY
• CRITIQUE (OF EXHIBITIONISM)
  Danila Mayer in collaboration with Muzaffer Hasaltay and Onur Serdar: KENTLERDE SANAT – ART IN CITIES. CONSIDERING ART BIENNIALS WHILE LOOKING AT THE 11th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BIENNIAL
  part 1
• CRITIQUE (OF EXHIBITIONISM)
  Danila Mayer in collaboration with Muzaffer Hasaltay and Onur Serdar: KENTLERDE SANAT – ART IN CITIES. CONSIDERING ART BIENNIALS WHILE LOOKING AT THE 11th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BIENNIAL
  part 2
• REARTIKULACIJA
  Marina Gržinić: DECOLONIALITY OF TIME AND SPACE
• DEEP THROAT
  Sandi Abram: THE ZENITH OF KNOWLEDGE-FEUDALISM THROUGH CREATIVITY: ON PROPERTY, CYBERSPACE AND ART
• DE-COLONIALITY
  DECOLONIAL THINKING AND DOING IN THE ANDES: A CONVERSATION BY WALTER MIGNOLO WITH CATHERINE WALSH: A PROPOS OF HER BOOK INTERCULTURALIDAD, ESTADO, SOCIEDAD. LUCHAS (DE)COLONIALES DE NUESTRA EPOCA/ Interculturalism, State, Society. (De)Colonial Struggles of Our Times1
  part 1
• DE-COLONIALITY
  DECOLONIAL THINKING AND DOING IN THE ANDES: A CONVERSATION BY WALTER MIGNOLO WITH CATHERINE WALSH: A PROPOS OF HER BOOK INTERCULTURALIDAD, ESTADO, SOCIEDAD. LUCHAS (DE)COLONIALES DE NUESTRA EPOCA/ Interculturalism, State, Society. (De)Colonial Struggles of Our Times
  part 2
• HARD (CORE)
  Marina Gržinić: JUSTICE AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM
• RADICAL EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
  Rubia Salgado: LEARNING AND TEACHING THE HEGEMONIC LANGUAGE GERMAN IN THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION
• STATE OF EXCEPTION
  Alanna Lockward: WILD AT HAIR

Read more: www.reartikulacija.org

Reartikulacija is published by: Society HCHO

The project is supported by: Erste Foundation, Ministry of Culture of Slovenia, Luminus, IRWIN, Kiberpipa, SRC SASA