Grenze by Patrick Fontana

GRENZE / Lectures of the Capital by Karl Marx //
www.grenze.fr.vu

video performance / Patrick Fontana //
Electronic music / Aelters //
Graphics designer / Pierre-Yves Fave //

Grenze is supported by : ministère de la culture et de la communication, DICREAM / SCAM, Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia /CTC, Collectivité Territoriale de Corse / AERI

Our generation’s experience : Capitalism won’t die of natural death //
We intend through these particulars lectures of Marx’s Capital to open interrogations about social and economics context of today’s Capital. In GRENZE, the principal question thus goes on the movement, the circulation of capital and its transformations. It places progressively series of metamorphic movements. It articulates with it. It gives it a visual translation. Our look, our waiting, time respond together to this construction of an infernal mecanism which holds everything. It opens a range of questions as how today’s capital catches our lives, our subjectivities.

Naked Logic: Lecture of Boldizsár Hordós at Metaforum X, Budapest

By Geert Lovink, November 12, 2024

I am happy to teach computer history at a fine arts university. Besides, I also work with small kids. Part of my job is to pry phones out of their hands—not the most pleasant part of the day. This is partly because (as with every mandatory intervention) it stirs up more chaos than it prevents. [...]

Infrastructure that Sticks: Digital Affect Within Sovietcore

By Salome Berdzenishvili, November 4, 2024

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Ágnes Básthy: Crisis? What Crisis? Taking a Suspicious Walk around a Fashionable Notion

By Geert Lovink, October 31, 2024

(Text of the speech by Ágnes Básthy on the first day of Metaforum X, Budapest, October 25, 2024) “‘Krisis’ was originally a medical concept which designated, in the Hippocratic corpus of texts, the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would be able to survive the disease. Theologians reprized the term to indicate the [...]