The video recordings of the Novi Sad edition from last weekend are available for download from now on. We are in the process of uploading the files and you can start downloading at: http://dictionaryofwar.org/en-dict/v2v Please have some patience and stay tuned!

After a one year break the Dictionary of War continues with a fifth edition on January 25th and 26th, 2008 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Again 25 new concepts on the topic of war will be presented in alphabetical order by artists, theorists, filmmakers, scientists, researchers.

The Novi Sad edition of DICTIONARY OF WAR will feature contributions by: Verica Barac (RS), Hans Bernhard (AT), Muha Blackstazy (RS), Slavko Bogdanovic (RS), Thomas Campbell (US/RU), Jovan Divjak (BIH), Bojan Djordjev (RS), Volker Eick (DE), Galit Eilat (IL), Albert Heta (KS), IRWIN group (SI), Vesna Kesic (HR), Erden Kosova (TR), Andreja Kuluncic (HR), Geert Lovink (NL), Jean Matthee (ZA/GB), Sebastian Meissner (DE), Metahaven (NL/BE), Suzana Milevska (MK), Nebojsa Milikic (RS), Gini Müller (AT), Martha Rosler (US), Florian Schneider (DE), Teofil Pancic (RS), Zelimir Zilnik (RS)

The fourth edition of Dictionary of War will take place on 23 and 24th of February 2007 in Berlin, Sophiensaele. It will be the final edition of a first round of four events that have been organized to start this project. The session is concluding with a Postcriptum at the historic site of the unconditional surrender of German Fascism in 1945, today's "German-Russian Museum" in Karlshorst.

The Berlin edition features contributions by: Jonathan Allen (UK) / Christian von Borries (DE) / Arianna Bove (IT/UK) / Heinrich Dubel (DE) / Stefan Doernberg (DE) / Felix Ensslin (DE) / Stefan Heidenreich (DE) / Emil Hrvatin (SI) / Peter Jahn (DE) / kuda.org (YU) / Andrea Moll (DE) / Vanessa Joan Müller (DE) / Quio & Darius James (US/DE) / Sylvere Lotringer (US) / Brian Massumi (CA) / Khalo Matabane (ZA) / Avi Mograbi (IL) / Martin Neumeier & Nathalie Landenberger (DE) / Michalis Pichler (DE) / Rimini Protokoll (DE) / Saskia Sassen (US) / Armin Smailovic (DE) / Simon Starling (UK) / Marcus Steinweg (DE) / Stephan Trüby (DE) / Meir Wigoder (IL) & Irit Rogoff (UK) / Soenke Zehle (DE)

The video documentation of every concept presented at the Frankfurt, Munich and Graz edition is available for download now. The encoding, decoding and distribution of the video files is entirely based on open source technology. This is to guarantee true cross platform compatibility and a maximum of sustainability and accessibility rather than promoting proprietary video formats that run only on certain types of machines or operating systems.

The third edition of Dictionary of War takes place in co-production with steirischer herbst on October 13 and 14, 2006 in Graz.

The Graz Dictionary of War features contributions by: Azra Aksamija (BA) / Franco Berardi (IT) /Jordan Crandall (US) / Diedrich Diederichsen (DE) / Thomas Draschan (AT) / The Errorists (UK/DE) / Peter Fend (US) / Christine Frisinghelli (AT) /DeeDee Halleck (US) / Andreas Hiepko (DE) / Michael Hirsch (DE) / Mansur Jacoubi (LB) / Stefan Kaufmann (DE) /Tina Leisch (AT) / Lawrence Liang (IN) / Warren Neidich (UK) / Ultra Red (US) / Oleg Kireev (RU) / Sergej Goran Pristas & Ivana Ivkovic (HR) / Raqs Media Collective (IN) / Edgar Schmitz (UK) / Tris Vonna-Michell (DE) / Peter Weibel (AT) / Raul Zelik (DE) / Gesa Ziemer (CH)

The second edition of Dictionary of War will take place on July 22 and 23, 2006 in Muffathalle Munich. It is organized in collaboration with Muffatwerk and runs parallel to their project Crashtest Dummy.

The Munich Dictionary of War features contributions by: andcompany&Co (NL) / Julieta Aranda (MX) / Konrad Becker (AT) / Ulrich Broeckling (DE) / Hans-Christian Dany (DE) / Katja Diefenbach (DE) / Avery Gordon (US) / Manuel Herz (DE) / Brian Holmes (FR) / Tom Keenan (US) / Naeem Mohaiemen (BD) / Ivan Kucina (YU) / Ariane Müller (AT) / Marko Peljhan (SI) / Armin Petras (DE) / Stefan Römer (DE) / Georg Seeßlen & Markus Metz (DE) / Erzen Shkololli (KOS) / Eyal Sivan (FR) / Nora Sternfeld (AT) / Ingrid Strobl (DE) / Klaus Viehmann (DE) / Eyal Weizman (UK) / Akram Zaatari (LB)

The first edition of Dictionary of War took place on June 2 and 3, 2006 in Staedelschule Frankfurt. The video files of the entire event are online and available for download since Monday night.

The Frankfurt Dictionary of War featured contributions by: Apsolutno (YU) / Battery Operated (CA) / Shu Lea Cheang (US) / Celine Condorelli (UK) / Dietmar Dath (DE) / Kattrin Deufert + Thomas Plischke, Frankfurter Küche (DE) / Azza El-Hassan (PS) / Anselm Franke (DE) / Carl Michael von Hausswolff und Thomas Nordanstad (SE) / International Festival (SE) / Mansur Jacoubi (LB) / Christof Kurzmann (AT) / Angela Melitopolous (DE) / Shimon Naveh (IL) / Hans Nieswandt (DE) / John Palmesino (CH) / Dan Perjovschi (RO) / Jan Ritsema (NL) / Irit Rogoff (UK) / Willem de Rooij (NL) / Susan Schuppli (CA) / Nicolas Siepen (DE) / Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (US) / Eyal Weizman (UK) / Ines Weizman (UK)

Etienne Balibar is professor in Paris X Nanterre and University of California, Irvine. He was invited to participate in the first edition of the Dictionary of War but unfortunately could not make it to Frankfurt. Instead he has sent us as his contribution an essay entitled: "Politics As War, War As Politics - Post-Clausewitzian Variations". It is the text of a public lecture he gave at the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, on May 8, 2006.

I am here to function as the exergue, as that which comes in advance of an argument or the playing out of a hoped for argument. The exergue is a citation, a found object or quote which alerts us to both what might be coming but also establishes its relation to previous thought. In part the exergue establishes a heightened atmosphere of what is to be expected, a frisson that communicates the intention and the spirit behind that intention in advance of the thing itself. Whether a quotation from a famous philosopher or poet, a tombstone, a snatch from a popular song or an advertising jingle, it sets the tone, maps out the archive in advance of its constitution as such, and delivers a promise.