EIPCP Begins “Creating Worlds”
Poster Detail from Hornsey College Occupation, 1968
Stemming from observations that the society of control is less interested in past expressions of power than in actually creating worlds, the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (EIPCP) is embarking on a three year research project to investigate the relationship between art production and knowledge production in the context of the transformations and crises of contemporary capitalism.
Creativity becomes an ambivalent term here, “creating worlds” meaning a modulating procedure in cognitive capitalism and societies of control, but also an emerging political dimension of creativity as political imagination and invention of new lines of flight, new struggles, new worlds.
Titled Creating Worlds, this tripartite effort will involve feminist and post-colonial critiques of cognitive capitalism, emphasizing not only the “immaterialization, informatization and acceleration of communication” that accompanies the treatment of knoweldge production as capital’s raw material, but also the simultaneous and parallel shift of “traditional industrial and manual labor to the dependent peripheries of the [so-called] Second and Third World.”
Further consideration will be paid to aging factories of knowledge production – the university in particular – with an eye toward recognizing different scales of transformation and struggle in the knowledge factory, particularly self-organized and alternative
Finally, the researchers will investigate the role of art in producing knowledge, particularly as it relates to theory and its implementation in policy, as well as other instances where art serves as a catlyst for social transformation.
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