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Readings for Artworkers: "The Potential of Failures"

Seminar with the Free/Slow University of Warsaw. Host: Joanna Erbel; Guest: Jon Brunberg

"Readings for artworkers" is a cycle of seminars organised by Free/Slow University of Warsaw

"When we talk about future form of community, design social utopias we are seduced by the vision of the social as perfect whole. Inability to bring the whole into being the way it has been planned undermines our belief in the ideals that were behind it. The presumption that "Ideal were good but the practice didn't meet them" which is often an argument against communist social. I would like to take this statement as descriptive not normative one and reflect on the society as an ongoing process of constant transformation in which nothing is definitively decided. I would like to discuss the society as assemblage of part that for a whole that it not logically necessary but contingently obligatory. And to look on the moments that we regard as failures as the potentially (and there interesting moments) that necessary points of passage into the better reordering of elements"

Readings

1. Manuel DeLanda: A New Philosophy of Society. Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity
2. Oskar Hansen: Towards Open Form