Video recordings

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 24th 2008

In his lecture entitled Conflicts within Peace, Peace within Conflicts, Dr. Chen will discuss the unique situation of simultaneous war and peace that seems to exist across the Taiwan Strait. It goes without saying that the cross-strait political relationship is an extremely unusual case in international politics, and although most countries don't acknowledge Taiwan's nationhood and maintain it is a part of China, Taiwan is active on the international stage as a sovereign and independent national entity.

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

This paper looks at the phenomenon of media piracy on the internet and in real space. As I live in the Philippines, I will focus on the piracy here, but my remarks will not be limited to the local situation. I will look at the phenomenon of piracy as such and try and outline some observations about how piracy works. First of all, I will look at piracy as a means of distributing films, and - drawing on interviews with some traders of pirated media material - on how the piracy market functions in the Philippines.

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Subtle! Subtle! It approaches the formless. ─ Sun Tze, Art of War, 500 BC

Micro-urbanism came out of a shifting paradigm of city and philosophy, which suggests there are internal realities to be investigated in order to describe how things interact and coordinate in the micro-scale realm, and which manifest the true spirit of a city and its people.

Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano, September 20-21 2008

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano, September 20-21 2008

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano September 20-21 2008

Dictionary of War 7th Edition, Meta-edition, Bolzano September 20-21 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

An associative and casual listening session to examples of shaabiyat tracks produced and distributed in Cairo over the past three years. Khan will discuss how the taboo becomes totem, the self hysterically claims a space, and aggression and paranoia become productive cultural operations, his evidence a collection of tracks that he finds to be the most interesting, surprising, and exciting cultural product to come out of his home town for a very long time.

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Hindutva and Islamism are both movements of revanchism and annihilatory impact, which claim to speak in the name of a pure religious tradition that has been tainted and threatened by alien influences. In a zone of cultural confluence such as South Asia, these global movements are at war with one another: to Hindutva, secular modernity as well as Islam and Islamism are the enemy; to Islamism, secular modernity as well as Hinduism and Hindutva are the enemy.

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

We could find a definition for the word "continuity" as such: "A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order." While all possible kinds of "wars" are going on in the world all "possible details" disappear. But details are the bridge towards what makes life more real and interesting. By disappearance of the detail, absurdity evolves in reality and the aspire to continuity is a strong contest around this absurdity.

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

Dictionary of War 6th Edition Gwangju September 4-6 2008

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

At first the notion of »asymmetrical war« is a description of a more or less obvious phenomenon: since 1945 there are less and less wars between states and more and more conflicts between regular forces on the one side and irregular formations on the other side. The state-to-state war - predominant in the time after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 - was characterized by two similar kinds of army: a symmetrical disposition.

[Florian Schneider] The original idea of the DICTIONARY OF WAR traces back to an event we have been organizing almost three years ago in Tarifa, in the very south of Spain. At BORDERLINEACADEMY, where about two hundred artists, activists, theorists met, we were realizing that although we might share some basic beliefs, convictions or attitudes there is a surprising lack of understanding since specific keywords or buzzwords were conceived in tremendously different ways and notions.