[Irit Rogoff], Friday, June 2 16:00 - 16:15
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.

[Ines Weizman], Friday, June 2 16:30 - 16:55
An architectural arms race is a competition between two or more countries for supremacy through the means of architecture and urbanism. Each party competes to produce architectural imagery or concrete built form to achieve a relative gain over the other. Such gain could be accounted for either symbolically, or physically interfering with urban practices in the country of the opponent.

[International Festival], Friday, June 2 17:00 - 17:15
I declare war on damaged hair and split-ends.
Victory!
Because I'm worth it.
Kate Moss for L'Oreal The film Comrades venture into the convention of representation, male friendship and the ability to engage emotionally in Hollywood war movies. What notions of friendship and community is it that film industry wish to provide, and how does it differ in respect of the political realities of different time periods. We are Swedish. We surrender.

[Susan Schuppli], Friday, June 2 17:30 - 17:55
"Conflicted/Inflicted" is a video based upon a found telephone answering machine tape belonging to someone named Linda. As we listen to the audio, the crisis and tensions in her life are slowly revealed.

[Dan Perjovschi], Friday, June 2 18:00 - 18:05 Romania entered the NATO in 2003 and was immediately sending troops into Afghanistan. One of the first battalions that was sent there, had the name of a king from 16th century, called Nicolae Basarab but the US-Army said: Who's that? The Romanians tried to explain: This was our king, this was our hero, this is our past. But the americans said: No way this is too complicated. From now on you will be named „Red Scorpions“.

[Azza El-Hassan], Friday, June 2 18:30 - 19:00
The Featherman a word that I belive should be included in the dictionary of war. It is the desire and the act of transforming ones self in order to resemble "the other" the enemy. This desire and act usually arises in situations of complete defeat where you find yourself incapable of confronting the other except by mirroring him/her.

[Nicolas Siepen], Friday, June 2 19:30 - 20:00
A montage of two kinds of montage, two types of assembling images about, in between, beyond, as a war machine within the images themselves. A fine line between love and hate: 1. Jean Genets »Un chant d’amour« (A love Song) – how to make love through a wall and que(e)r it (smoke). 2. The Godard/Gorin/Mieville machine »Ici et Ailleure« (Here and elsewhere) – how to use a two-image-assembly to ruin the War Machine as montage itself - are we not mature to read an Image yet? (Fascism)... in-between: GODARD - embedded War Machine ...

[Carl Michael von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad], Friday, June 2 20:00 - 20:25

[Christof Kurzmann], Friday, June 2 20:30 - 21:00
when the iraq war started i made a composition called "the air between". a work about powerlessness. now, quite some time later, and with the images of the war distributed by cnn, bbc, ... i examine what's left of the emotions. how do i/we remember?

[Thomas Plischke + Kattrin Deufert], Friday, June 2 21:00 - 21:20
The video proposes a sensual study on the fragmented self. The I as container can not contain itself. Selfcontainment is an unfinishable process of oneself being there for the first time and placing yourself and being placed in a constructed historical order. If I was you who were you then? The video is based on Gherasim Luca's "The Inventor of Love".

[Willem de Rooij], Saturday, June 3 14:30 - 15:00
"Representing manhood in the American war against terror: Pat Tillman and Scott Helvenston": Both Tillman and Helvenston played out traditional masculine roles in American public life before enlisting for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. The events that followed would colour the personas they had constructed earlier.

[Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss + Katherine Carl] Saturday, June 3 15:00 - 15:30
On NATO's misunderstanding of cultural history and its effects on the decision to bomb certain buildings in Belgrade.

[John Palmesino], Saturday, June 3 15:30 - 16:00

[Hans Nieswandt], Saturday, June 3 16:00 - 16:25
Es gibt einen Einsatz. Man wird irgendwo ein- und wieder ausgeflogen. Das schwere Marschgepäck...

[Mansur Jacoubi], Saturday, June 3 16:30 - 16:55
"Instead of calming the situation, the army shot at people for no reason... We are trying to calm the situation on both sides and I believe that we have almost succeeded. But the protesters are extremely angry. Some of their friends are dead and they are furious." (Member of the Lebanese Parliament explaining the situation after the shooting of protesters in May 2004)

[Shimon Naveh], Saturday, June 3 17:00 - 17:30
Rhizomic Maneuver is an emergent logic and form of maneuver, that divers from the traditional paradigm. Rhizomic Maneuver is based on disorder, complex geometry, a different epistemology, a different kind of learning. Unlike the industrial manoeuver which is idealistic, rhizomic maneuver is heretical.

[Battery Operated], Saturday, June 3 18:00 - 18:20
The S.P.I.R.A.W.L. (Sound Proofed Institute of Research into Acoustic Weapons Logistics) project is an online documentary. The work focuses on the uses of sound, infrasound and ultrasound as weapons by the military and organisations of civil enforcement. The website can be found at: http://www.batteryoperated.net/spirawl

[Jan Ritsema], Saturday, June 3 18:30 - 18:50
I would never have considered a lecture, considering the notion of war, if I hadn’t gotten this call. But since I got it, I kept hearing myself saying: you need to be more aggressive, you need more war, more aggression, a wider range of weapons than only that of the verbal communication, to enter the battlefield. You have something to fight for, don’t you?

[Celine Condorelli], Saturday, June 3 19:00 - 19:20
Proposal for a theatre of operations for the dictionary of war. Drawing package, references, materials. "It was recognized that the chronologic development of these elements would vary from theater to theater. In theaters where a long buildup period was possible, a fairly elaborate system of communications zone sections or bases would develop well in advance of the rest of the theater elements."

[Shu Lea Cheang], Saturday, June 3 19:30 - 19:50
Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" (1957) based on Macbeth was originally titled "SpiderWeb Castle" - tales of ambition ridden lord Washizu (played by Toshiro Mifune) and his vicious lady (played by Isuzu Yamada) set in medieval Japan. Lord Washizu was driven to his downfall following an encounter with a witch in the SpiderWeb forest. " You will never lose a single battle, unless the spider web forest begins to move and approaches the castle." advises the witch to the bewildered Washizu. What follows is the classical plot of betrayal schemes that lead to the final insurgence of Washizu's own archers while the revenging troops marching with tree branches as camouflage towards the castle.

[Angela Melitopoulos], Saturday, June 3 20:00 - 20:20
Timescapes/B-Zone (Becoming Europe Zone) is a collaborative, non-linear video editing project investigating techniques of narration against the power politics of the segmentation of memory and communication located in a (post-) war zone where state politics concerning migration and mobility are thought of as warfare.

[Apsolutno], Saturday, June 3 20:30 - 20:50
In this video piece, Association Apsolutno presents the view of the Balkans from the outside as a view which is not direct, but rather mediated through a filter of technology and media representations, based on various assumptions.

[Anselm Franke], Saturday, June 3 21:00 - 21:20
Movements in space and movements of the mind: The trip as the mobilisation of empathy, mimesis and sympathetic magic; between depression and delirium. From Joseph Conrad's outposts to todays checkpoints. From the Gates of Perception to cinematic gestures and sovereign continuity.

[Dietmar Dath], Saturday, June 3 21:30 - 21:50
The following remarks are intended to elucidate certain notions and practices of political and military semantics pertaining to those forces of nature which we summarize under the umbrella terms "weather" or "climate". Since it is an almost insurmountably difficult task for any speaker to grapple with semantics in a language other than the one she or he is sufficiently fluent in to turn that language's descriptive searchlights on its own workings and intricacies, I've decided to present this talk in German - but for the benefit of those guests who don't speak German at all, let me just give a brief and comprehensive summary of what it's about.

[Eyal Weizman], Friday, June 2 19:00 - 19:30

[Eyal Weizman], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 14:00 - 14:30

»Initially the task of that talk is to frame the relationship between the previous event and this one and to see how concepts could be developed. However, the kind of events and situations that we are experiencing and consuming right now would obviously make it little bit more specific. But, I think, in general that the war that is happing right now in Gaza and Lebanon is exactly a moment where events such as the Dictionary of War are made relevant..«

[Hans-Christian Dany], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 14:30 - 15:00
Hans-Christian Dany explains the functionality of Amphetamine and its use in the 20ties and then draws a connection to the military usage of the drug regarding particularly its role in friendly fire actions. He refers to a paradox in reference to the rapid technical diversification within the military and the constant use of the same drug like Amphetamin over a long period of time. He is holding his lecture in german.

[Stefan Römer], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 15:00 - 15:30

The concept of »Camouflage« in its traditional military sense has been classified always as national representation. To camouflage Stefan Römer adds another military concept: showing the flag - whicht got another connotation during Football Worldchampionship 2006 in the privatized and corporated public spaces. As opposed these methods might be in their intention, they seem to serve the same system of representation as the same cultural practices. Speaking about piracy, both methods appear in a single constellation. Could this open up new spaces of action for non representative practices? Stefan Römer is holding his lecture in german.

[Manuel Herz], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 15:30 - 16:00

Manuel Herz, an architect based in Cologne, analyzes the concept of »Camp« rather in an abstract way but in a specific location, in Chad. One of the poorest countries in the world, pumping oil since several years without any positive effects on the income of the local population, became one of the most important areas for refugees from different countries. Manuel Herz is talking in english, below you'll find the paper of his lecture in german.

[Andcompany&Co], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 16:00 - 16:30

andcompany & Co. Feat. Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord, Sascha Sulimma & Co.
In their lecture performance KRIEGSERKLÄRUNG they will explain and declare war at the same time, talking in stolen words, quotes borrowed from John L. Austin until Vladimir I. Lenin. For supplementary reading please check out the text "Die Kriegserklärung " by Karl Marx http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me10/me10_168.htm

[Nora Sternfeld], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 16:30 - 17:00

At 12 o'clock on April 8, 2005, in the Ostarrichi-Park in front of the Landesgericht (the regional court), a temporary monument to the defeat was unveiled that triggered a debate on the process of denazification and made an issue of the fact that this process was still unfinished today. The eight-sided object was conceived as a monumental plinth and it measured 2 meters in height and had a circumference of 11 meters. Nora Sternfeld presents her concept in german but below you could read the english translation.

[Avery Gordon], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 17:00 - 17:30

Absent without permission, it's not only soldiers who desert, or should consider it. What does it mean to be a deserter or to practice desertion? Not furtively, but as an outlaw, a fugitive? Some brief thoughts on disobedience, desertion and other promising conduits to abolishing the disposition to war.

[Ulrich Broeckling], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 17:30 - 18:00

Disciplining in order to fight is "hot" - it mobilizes, transgresses and fuels the passions. Disciplining in order to effectively use force is "cold" - it controls, regularizes, and curbs the affects. The mix ratio is changing and the history of military disciplining can be described as a change between rather "hot" and rather "cold" epochs. Ulrich Bröckling is talking in german but below you could read his lecture in english translation.

[Mansur Jacoubi], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 18:00 - 18:30

We set up a chat module that should allow the participants of the Dictionary in Munich as well as a group of people at the very moment gathering in Beirut to communicate. In order to "Join #Beirut" please click here:

http://dictionaryofwar.org/en-dict/chatbox

[Ivan Kucina], Saturday, July 22nd 2006, 18:30 - 19:00

Every war needs a positive notion - one could be: »Liberation«. Ivan Kucina, architect and lecturer based in Belgrad, speaks about two workshops with his students, questioning the diverse meanings of »liberation« and shows a short documentary.

[Akram Zaatari], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 12:00 - 12:30

The artist Akram Zaatari defines Mobilization as a kind of eternal propaganda. He is reading a text he wrote some weeks ago describing how found footage and the process of collecting documents became crucial for his work and finally shows his latest video, a work about mobilization.

[Julieta Aranda], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 12:30 - 13:00
How does nationalism relates to the context of art production? Which countries are showing up regularly within the circle of international art exhibition - and which won't and why?

[Brian Holmes], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 13:00 - 13:30

The concept I'm going to present draws directly from the work of Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. It describes the economic phases of "depth" and "breadth," and correlates them with the first- and second-order cybernetics of control. It attempts to situate the functions of cultural-communicational labor within these economic phases. It questions those autonomists who thought it would be possible to transform a broadly expansionary phase of capitalism, like that of the nineties, into a qualitatively different society. It’s not a polemic, but seeks to open up a field of strategic debate. It doesn't assert a future, but observes the unfolding of the present into the depths of violence, which has robbed resistance movements of their potential, again. The concept is Peace-for-War.

[Katja Diefenbach], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 13:30 - 14:00

We are currently entering a hegemonic war regime dominated by strategies of preventive intervention and crisis management, and therefore subject to the logic of the police. Elements of private enterprise war, of low-intensity warfare, of counter insurgency, of biopolitical administration, and of the police state of emergency are combined and legitimated as humanitarian mission, civilian-military cooperation, or just war. This war regime follows a calculation of control and security.

[Georg Seeßlen & Markus Metz], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 14:00 - 14:30

There is no war without pop, and there is no pop without war.
Georg Seeßlen and Markus Metz perform their lecture in german, commenting and analyzing multiple film extracts. In the »preface« below you'll find their crucial questions and thesis written in english.

[Naeem Mohaiemen], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 14:30 - 15:00

It is almost banal to start by talking about the ongoing Iraq apocalypse. After thousands of lives, and many multiples more of ink and video have been spilt, what more remains to be said about this manifestation of permanent war? Those who marched in anti-war rallies can now feel some schadenfreude at the unraveling of the entire project for a New Century. But at what a terrible price we earned the right to say "we told you so". Even after all the interventionist fantasies have shattered, there is no post-war peace dividend. The madness of the Neocon project only replaced by the equally insane Islamist project of the Mahdi Army, and the ethnic cleansing and forced partition dreams of the Shiite and Sunni death squads.

[Marko Peljhan], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 15:00 - 15:30

»Redundancy« is a crucial element for building network systems - so failure does not mean the end of the system; it's about functioning beyond the failure. But the artist Marko Peljhan is not only interested in the technical terms of the concept but also in its political meaning and impact.

[Ingrid Strobl], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 15:30 - 16:00

Relativizing the Absolute "Resistance" is among those terms that although seemingly clear-cut, are in reality difficult to define. What is resistance? Who defines what it is? What conditions have to be met so that who identifies or recognizes what to be resistance? And which and whose interests stand behind the label?

[Konrad Becker], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 16:00 - 16:30

In times of global wars, financial wars, the classic battlefield, the »Theatre of Operation« is not longer visible. Konrad Becker focuses on perception and the human nervous system and instead of defining and giving answers he poses questions: 100 questions for the Dictionary of war.

[Erzen Shkololli], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 16:30 - 17:00

Presentation of a works will reflect the dramatic transformation of the region, connected in particular with decay of the local totalitarian regimes during the 1990's. By representing various forms of ethnic, religious or political predestination and manipulation symbolizing the contrast social situation in his homeland.

[Tom Keenan], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 17:00 - 18:30

What sort of language is war, if it is one? What would "total" conflict be? When does escalation become impossible? When the violence is not exercised to force others into a conversation, or to change the terms of a debate, but in order to end a debate, to remove the other party in a debate once and for all, when debate itself -- or politics, or language -- is itself the target of the violence .... is that the limit? Is that the moment when things actually can't get any worse?

[Ariane Müller], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 18:30 - 19:00

Rio, Peking, Kairo, Istanbul, Genf, Kyoto, Habitat, Houairou, Konventionen, Protokolle, Deklarationen. Ariane Müller transfers excessive demands, over fatigue and prescribed terminology in a repetitive rhythm of the german language. We're still working on an appropriate translation.

[Klaus Viehmann], Sunday, July 23rd 2006, 19:00 - 19:30

Everyone knows that World War II was a global war. However, knowledge of its development and impact on Western Europe is rather limited. At least in the last two centuries knowledge of war crimes has increased. The purpose of today’s lecture is to draw a rough outline of the neglected aspects of this war and to raise some interest in the exploits and suffering of the people who were affected by fascism, “Herrenmenschentum” and aggression, and fought against it. The lecture is hold in german, below you could read the english translation.

[Mansur Jacoubi], Friday, October 13th 2006, 17:00 - 17:30

I open this evening, having just arrived from Lebanon, which had just undergone a one-month dreadful war and is now undergoing a difficult post-war situation, or rather one might say a period of "being in-between wars." Since my task here is one of introduction, I will use this opportunity to give a brief and perhaps scattered narration of this war as a witness. To witness war is to feel the inexplicable sound of bombs, to fear death, to be in solidarity with others. To feel hate, anger, and negotiate violence. It is also to witness it in ways not unlike others: through TV and computer screens, reminding us of that saying, "wars now happen only on TV".

[Raqs Media Collective], Friday, October 13th 2006, 17:30 - 18:00

Ashwatthama is a character in the Mahabharata,
cursed to live forever, as a kind of wandering warrior.

[Raul Zelik], Friday, October 13th 2006, 18:00 - 18:30

Das Zerstörungspotenzial der Massenvernichtungsmittel sorgte ab 1945 dafür, dass der zwischenstaatliche Krieg immer seltener geführt wurde. In den beiden großen Militärblöcken, NATO und Warschauer Pakt, wusste man, dass ein Waffengang nur zum Preis völliger Vernichtung geführt werden konnte. Im gleichen Zeitraum gewannen die Partisanenkriege an Bedeutung. Staatliche Armeen waren in diesen Konflikten mit Rebellen konfrontiert, die sich in der Zivilbevölkerung versteckten und manchmal sogar deckungsgleich mit ihr waren – eine asymmetrische Anordnung. Der Partisanen- oder Guerillakrieg wurde extrem erbittert und doch niederschwellig geführt. Es gab keine Entscheidungsschlachten, keine eindeutigen Fronten mehr. Stattdessen: Abnutzung, Nadelstiche, Zermürbung, politisch-psychologischer Kampf um die Unterstützung der Zivilbevölkerung. Diese »Asymmetrisierung des Kriegs« in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten immer wieder als Figur bemüht worden, zuletzt auch im Zusammenhang mit dem Terrorismus.

[Egdar Schmitz], Friday, October 13th 2006, 18:30 - 19:00

[Diedrich Diederichsen], Friday, October 13th 2006, 19:00 - 19:30

(1) the image of people cleaning up their houses and streets, and what's left of it after they been attacked, bombed etc. (2) the myth of Trümmerfrauen cleaning up the rubble in post-war Germany, when, at the same time, the trope auf cleaning up was strong as a right wing trope of law and order, and even war (3) the antagonism of negentropic cleaning up and entropic war

[Michael Hirsch], Friday, October 13th 2006, 19:30 - 20:00

»Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.« This is Carl Schmitt’s famous definition of the problem of sovereign state power. It is the definition of the threat of sovereign state power in two meanings of the word: the »normal situation« is threatened by chaotic, an-archic troubles; and it is threatened by a sovereign state who re-establishes the normal order by stepping outside of the rule of law. (..:) Giorgio Agamben has, with regard to the imperialistic world politics of the USA (and with regard to Italy under Berlusconi) strengthened Schmitt’s thesis and has formulated with Walter Benjamin: »The state of exception we are living in is the rule.«

[The Errorists], Friday, October 13th 2006, 20:00 - 20:30

An experiment in teleology via a syntax octopus of popsongs. DNA is a syntax, which names an ideal fruiting endstate: a productive human, a reproductive frog, etc. This name for the future-state elaborates in response to experience-towards structural realization at full-resolution/reality. Human Rights and DNA are names for that set of infrastructure economies-the organs comprising a body- that allow the individual cells to experience at the next absolute scale of economy. This in contrast to the thoroughly discredited micro-incrementalist reactionary future-gaming of war and market masters. Oh the poor old market, the poor old web- precious self-elaborating logics- in desperate need of colleague economies. In need of the Multiple Transnational Infrastructure Economies which will use the extracted refined and recombined modernist materialism to form the infrastructure trellis that can support the elaboration outwards, of the next absolute scale of economy: The World Organ Economies, The Global City of the Gardens.

[Christine Frisinghelli], Friday, October 13th 2006, 20:30 - 21:00

Der Begriff der "Entwurzelung" orientiert sich an dem von Pierre Bourdieu gewählten Begriff "Déracinement / Uprooting", der gleichzeitig den Titel eines von ihm in Zusammenarbeit mit Abdelmalek Sayad 1964 veröffentlichten Buches bildet. Gegenstand dieser Studie sind die tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der französischen Kolonialpolitik (seit 1830) und des Unabhängigkeitskrieges (1954-1962) auf die algerische Bevölkerung. Vor allem die Umsiedlung großer Bevölkerungsgruppen insbesondere im ländlichen Raum in die Centres de regroupement, von der über 2 Millionen Algerier (ein Viertel der Gesamtbevölkerung) betroffen waren, ist eine der brutalsten Vorgänge dieser Art der Geschichte und wurde von Bourdieu/Sayad in ihrer Studie exemplarisch analysiert.

[Stefan Kaufmann], Friday, October 13th 2006, 21:00 - 21:30

Der neue Soldat – meist als electronic soldier bezeichnet – trägt die Insignien des Informationszeitalters: in seinem Rucksack befindet sich ein wearable computer; sein Helm ist mit einem heads-up display, integriertem Ohrhörer und Mikrophon bestückt; Funkgerät und Antenne schließen ihn permanent an ein ge-fechtsfeldumfassendes W-LAN an; die Waffe lässt sich mit zahlreichen optotroni-schen Komponenten, wie Nachtsichtgerät und Videokamera, ausrüsten; GPS und andere features ergänzen die Rüstung. Und in der Tat lässt sich der electronic soldier als eine Figur an der Front der Informationsgesellschaft begreifen.

[Thomas Draschan], Friday, October 13th 2006, 21:30 - 22:00

[Lawrence Liang], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 14:00 - 14:30

Abstract wars demand abstract enemies, and the Hostis Humani Generis (or the enemy against all mankind) is a title that has been bestowed on a host of figures; starting with the pirate and now the terrorist, I seek to understand the links between property, piracy and terrorism and propose that the concept of Hostis Humani Generis helps us understand the idea of war as a continuation of property by other means.

[Gesa Ziemer], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 14:30 - 15:00

Komplizenschaft wird als kühles Plädoyer für einen kritischen Lebensentwurf, der sich als Alltagspraxis versteht und weniger das Feld der Kunst tangiert, vorgeschlagen. Komplizenschaft steht für eine mikrogemeinschaftliches Arbeits- und Lebensform und ist ein Beispiel für die Kraft des Schwachen. Anhand von 18 Regeln begründe ich, dass Komplizen nicht nur Mitdenker, sondern vor allem Mittäter sind. Komplizen sind keine Strategen, sondern Taktiker, die es vermögen mit den Ereignissen zu spielen und günstige Gelegenheiten zu ergreifen. Eng miteinander verflochten schreiten sie zur Tat. Sei diese Tat legal oder illegal – genau diese Doppelstruktur macht ihre Faszination und Schlagkraft aus. Weil sie eigene Gesetze kreieren, die sie mehr binden als das geltende Recht, lancieren sie alternative Ordnungen, die Machtstrukturen transparent machen und temporär verändern.

[Andreas Hiepko], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 15:00 - 15:30

[Sergej Goran Pristaš & Ivana Ivkovic], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 15:30 - 16:00

In a format of an (in)operative interview we will try to negotiate in a
polarized field between Jan-Luc Godard's movie "Here or Elsewhere" and
Ivana Sajko's play "Ribcage" which we once used to root our
thematizations of war. Silence and waiting and questions and oblivion
are the keywords of our small performance machine.

[Tina Leisch], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 16:00 - 16:30

[DeeDee Halleck], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 16:30 - 17:00

This presentation starts with a look at Crystal City, Virginia and K Street in the District of Colombia -- places in the Washington area where war is brokered and then moves to the beneficiaries of the K street deals -- places like the Blackwater Headquarters and the General Dynamics submarine company in Connecticut.

[Azra Aksamija], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 17:00 - 17:30

Provocation is a means of visualizing a religious identity in a secular context. As a hybrid of the notions of vocation, "a divine call to God’s service," and provocation, "a means of arousing or stirring to action", provocation can be understood a means of asserting a believer's democratic rights to practice his or her religion fearlessly.

[Warren Neidich], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 17:30 - 18:00

"An eye for an eye
makes the whole world blind."

(Mahatma Gandhi)

[Franco Berardi], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 18:00 - 18:30

Training // Rhizome //
Conjunction // Elephant //
What next

[Oleg Kireev], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 18:30 - 19:00

[Tris Vonna-Michell], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 19:00 - 19:30

a science-fiction story of berlin in 1945,
about trainstations, subways and bus-lines,
tunnels, places, borders and hamburger bahnhof.

[Peter Fend], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 19:30 - 20:00

1. patterns of location in past wars

2. threat to territory as rationale for war

3. outer space as the upcoming field of war

[Jordan Crandall], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 20:00 - 20:30

ways of seeing change over time - shaped by history, thechnology, culture
and are closely connected with ways of thinking...

tracking as
1) a technology / 2) a perceptual modality / 3) as a discourse

[Peter Weibel], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 20:30 - 21:00

[Ultrared], Saturday, October 14th 2006, 21:00 - 21:30

What does the war on the poor
sound like?

[Felix Ensslin], Friday, February 23th, 2007, 18:00 - 18:30

[Simon Starling], Friday, February 23th, 2007, 18:30 - 19:00
Autoxylopyrocycloboros (2006) took the form of self-defeating journey in a small wooden steam boat. The voyage, made on the waters of Loch Long, Scotland, home to the Trident submarine base and neighbouring peace camp, was fuelled with wood from the boat itself, as plank by plank, piece by piece, it was feed to its own boiler, until inevitably disappearing into the submarine infested depths of the Loch.

[Soenke Zehle], Friday, February 23th, 2007, 19:00 - 19:30
Coloniality, no longer an awkward major paradigm but an agile minor concept, enters the mise en scène of William Kentridge's »black box« (Germany/South Africa 2005) and its reenactment of Germany's most recent Historikerstreit to report on various passions for the real.

[Christian von Borries], Friday, February 23th, 2007, 19:30 - 20:00
exploitation / imagineered urbanism / islamic banking / laundered dollars / permanent exception / slavery in the 21st century / The World Economic Forum Davos / "The world" island resort, Dubai

[Sylvere Lotringer], Friday, February 23th, 2007, 20:00 - 20:30
People don’t just disappear in wartime, they also disappear in broad daylight. Los Desaparecidos. Not accounted for, never to be seen again. Some are lucky enough to survive, but they are not in peace for all that, they become the war. Through their reactions, they reveal a reality that may not be accessible in any other way : the war is never over. It is simply simmering under the surface, ready to burst out at the slightest opportunity and show itself for what it is. War has become one with peace as death has become one with life.

[Emil Hrvatin], Friday, February 23th, 2007, 20:30 - 21:00
and to present various approaches to entertainment in different armies today as well as to question why don't we have entertainment for peacekeeping soldiers on international level. Lecture will consist on presenting documents as well as a part of documentary about American Military Theatre festival I am busy with.

[Andrea Moll], Friday, February 23th, 2007, 21:00 - 21:30
»Flintenweib« ist eine auf deutscher Seite gebräuchliche feindliche Bezeichnung für die sowjetische Soldatin im Zweiten Weltkrieg, sie wurde in Propaganda und Befehlsgebung der Wehrmacht angewandt – mit mörderischer Konsequenz. Der Begriff „Flintenweib“ äußert auch eine soziale Konstruktion des Weiblichen und Männlichen im Krieg.