The University of the Commons RIT (Research Institute on Turkey) www.riturkey.org Teach-in: What binds us together? Solidarity and New Institutional Horizons Michael Hardt with Nidhi Srinivas & Hakan Topal Thursday, April 9th, 2015. 5:50PM-7:30PM****University Center, 65 Fifth Ave. Basement floor,…
I contributed to the book “Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork” with a glossary entry titled “Intentional Failure” – What needs to change in our understanding of reality for reality to change? In the face of radical uncertainty, an awareness that…
Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker of CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research), an organization created in the wake of Egypt’s 2011 revolution to establish a critical space for…
In my previous article I wrote about how both soft and hard Islamists render a very dark future for the Middle East. I finished my article by stating that the Kurdish Movement may provide a salient alternative for the whole region. However,…
Monday, September 29, 2014 6:30-8:30pmAnthology Film Archives32 Second Ave, New York, NY 10003CATALOGAdmission Free http://transborderart.com/index.html Curated by Graciela Cassel, TransBorder presents an international panel of artists to discuss current positions relating to reality and utopias as well as individual and…
20 September – 16 November 2014Opening: 19 September 2014, 19hr nGbK / neue Gesellschaft für bildende KunstOranienstrasse 25, 10999 Berlin http://www.ngbk.dehttp://theultimatecapital.orgFacebook event page Artists: Pedro Barateiro, Ricardo Basbaum, Paolo Bottarelli, Anne Dukhee Jordan, Wietske Maas, Amina Menia, Yves Mettler, Pratchaya Phinthong,…
Thursday, September 18, 4:30 pm at the Neuberger Museum Join a fascinating conversation among scholars, conservator and curator about the technological and conceptual innovations of Group Zero, an international movement of artists. Participants: Elizabeth Berkowitz, adjunct professor of Art History, Purchase College;…
newmuseum: “Whose Terms?” was conceived as a dual-form project the Department of Education and Public Engagement started in late Spring to look at some of the conditions, agendas, and priorities that operate in social practice art. Part 1 of the…
I wrote this piece just before the Gezi protests and repression in Turkey. It provides a perspective for understanding those events, as it highlights the tragedy of Syria and how Turkish policy is implicated. At the end of May, the…
Michael Hardt is the new resident of Boğaziçi University’s Boğaziçi Chronicles! Here is an interview that I did with him in Turkish. For more information: http://www.bogazicichronicles.boun.edu.tr/ Original video interview can be seen at: WHAT NOW? Michael Hardt on Continuity and Leadership http://blog.hakantopal.info/post/63942942881/what-now-michael-hardt-on-continuity-and