upcoming events

Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire

International Conference, June 24-26, 2010 in Berlin

Sexuality is implicit in economic processes: ways of organizing sexuality influence economic processes; conversely, current global economic processes constitute specific sexual identities and practices that collaborate in relations of exploitation, domination, and subjectivation. The conference “Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire” proposes to focus on the notion of desire as a tool to explore economy’s sexual dimension as much as the economic dimension of sexuality. It recognizes that desire sustains current economies, but also carries the potential for inciting new forms of understanding and doing economy. Drawing on Queer Theory, which maintains that desire can be envisioned beyond heteronormative restrictions, it will address the question of justice. In particular, it will ask whether the pursuit of economic and sexual justice can be made to coincide when economy is queered by desire.

For further details, please see > www.desiring-just-economies.de

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10th Berlin Queer Salon

how to queer things with words?

Time: June 17th, 8 pm
Place: Werkstatt, Adalbertstr. 71, Hinterhaus (U-Kottbusser Tor)

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The Queer Salon is a monthly event that experiments with different formats of "doing collective" (DIC) in order to explore the wide spectrum of queer political ideas and positions. Following each event, everybody is invited to chat and exchange in a frivolously-kempt atmosphere while consuming inspiring snacks and beverages at moderate prices. The Salons are meant to be perversely parasitic -- with each feeding off the last and hopefully inspiring new, unexpected ideas for future Salons.

If queerness is neither uniform nor fixed, how can its manifold and constantly changing positions intersect? And how does queer then become productive, provocative, and political? We want to create a space that brings people into contact who would not otherwise meet and who might see the Salon as a platform to negotiate and transform relations of power, a space that individuals and communities who take queer to provide a range of possibilities of expressing difference in its manifold forms might make use of. Rather than rely only on language or the classical formats of political discussion, we want to develop ways of contending with the political that build on alternative formats and shared practices.

The Queer Salon is initiated by Antke Engel & Volker Woltersdorff alias Lore Logorrhöe. Salons have so far taken place in cooperation with Katja Abel, Arnika Fuhrmann, Sun-ju Choi, Katja Abel, Koray Yilmaz-Günay, Jess Dorrance, Jule Jakob Hesseler, Romyrosa (Alex).

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