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 KAFCA - KNOWLEDGE AGAINST FINANCIAL CAPITALISM

  

  

  

 http://kafca.eu [1]

 KAFCA
  (Knowledge against financial capitalism)

 Conference organized by

 SCEPSI (EUROPEAN SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL IMAGINATION)

  

 In collaboration with MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona)
  the first three days of December 2011

 The coming months will be a defining moment of the change in social
 political and cultural scenario, following the ongoing collapse of the
 financial dictatorship in Europe, and preparing a new social solidarity
 and consciousness of general intellect and of revolting precarious
 workers.

 SCEPSI is a proliferating cell for knowledge production, independent
 from economic domination.

 Website: http://kafca.eu [2]

 Facbeook page: http://www.facebook.com/Kafca [3]

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 KAFCA
  (Knowledge against financial capitalism)

 Conferenza organizzata da

 SCEPSI (SCUOLA EUROPEA PER L’IMMAGINAZIONE SOCIALE)

 In collaborazione con il MACBA (Museo di Arte Contemporaneo di
 Barcellona)
  i primi tre giorni di Dicembre 2011

 Sarà l’occasione per fare un bilancio dei prossimi tre mesi che in
 ogni caso segneranno un momento decisivo di mutamento dello scenario
 sociale, politico culturale, e che nei nostri auspici segneranno lo
 sprofondamento definitivo della dittatura finanziaria in Europa e
 l’emergere di una nuova composizione solidale e consapevole
 dell’intelletto collettivo e del lavoro precario in rivolta.

 SCEPSI è nucleo in proliferazione di conoscenza autonoma dal dominio
 dell’economia.

 Website: http://kafca.eu [4]

 Facbeook page: http://www.facebook.com/Kafca [5]

  

 RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 David Graeber: Debt, 2011
  Christian Marazzi: _Language and Capital_, Semiotexte
  Franco Berardi Bifo: _After the future_, AKPress
  Paul Jorion: _Le capitalisme à l’agonie_ Fayard, 2011

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 “La solution, en réalité, n’existe pas. Pourquoi? En raison de
 l’existence d’un cercle vicieux: parce que le remboursement de la
 dette réclame un relèvement des impots qui reduit le pouvoir
 d’achat, entrainant une baisse de la consommation, d’où un
 fléchissement de la croissance qui oblige à une relance nécessitant
 une augmentation de la dette. Le secteur bancaire s’est écroulé,
 l’Etat s’est porté à son secours et est tombé à sa suite. La
 banque à alors grimpé sur les epaules de l’Etat, ce qui lui a permis
 de sortir du trou. L’Etat, lui, y est resté. En désespoir de cause,
 les Etats se tournèrent vers le citoyen ordinaire en tant que
 contribuable et en tant que futur retraité: On annonça l’austerité
 qu’on appela aussi rigueur, comme si les mesures qui seraient prises
 résultaient d’un imperatif moral.” (Paul Jorion: Le capitalisme à
 l’agonie, Fayard, 2011).

  

 “The financialization of capital has lead to a situation where
 something like 97-98% of the money in the total “economy” of wealthy
 countries like the US or UK is debt. That is to say, it is money whose
 value rests not on something that actually exists in the present
 (bauxite, sculptures, peaches, software…), but something that might
 exist at some point in the future. “Abstract” money is not an idea,
 it’s a promise—a promise of something concrete that will exist at
 some time in the future, future profits extracted from future 
 resources,
 future labor of miners, artists, fruit-pickers, web designers, not yet
 born. At the point where the imaginary future economy is 50-100 times
 larger than the current “real” one, something has got to give. But
 the bursting of bubbles often leaves no future to imagine at all, 
 except
 of catastrophe, because the creation of bubbles is made possible by the
 destruction of any ability to imagine alternative futures. It’s only
 once one cannot imagine that we are moving towards any sort of new
 future society, that the world can and will never be fundamentally
 different, that there’s nothing left to imagine but more and more
 future money.”

 (David Graeber: DEBT)

 “In the next months we'll need curators for the European insurrection.
 We have not to provoke the insurrection, as the insurrection is being
 provoked by the European Central Bank and by the cowardice and 
 ignorance
 of the political leading class of European countries. We have to
 introduce in the unavoidable insurrection the potency of collective
 intelligence, and to link the general intellect with the desire of
 sociality. The general intellect is looking for the erotic and social
 body that it has lost in the process of virtualization. Similarly the
 precarious life is looking for collective intelligence that is
 fragmented and dispersed.”

 (bifo)

  

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