monochrom @ Fest der Manifeste II

Die 60er Jahre. Zeit der Revolten und der Gesellschaftskritik. Junge Wilde, sogar in Österreich: Von der Hundsgruppe zu den Phantastischen Realisten, vom Kreis um Monsignore Otto Mauer bis zu den Wiener Aktionisten. Gemeinsam mit zeitgenössischen Künstlern treten einige der Protagonisten von damals in der Roten Bar auf und lesen aus ihren Manifesten. Mit Arik Brauer, … Read more

Thatcher could have nuked Cordoba?

Well… yes. 1982. It’s known that there were British nuclear weapons in the Falklands conflict zone, according to the Times. And two years after the war, the Labour Party demanded an inquiry into a report that Britain had sent a Polaris submarine to Ascension Island, the staging ground for Britain’s naval task force, to be … Read more

Saturn Silhouette

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. Although the sun is eclipsed by Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere to reach Cassini’s cameras. Link

The Politics of Genocide: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System

Excerpted from The Politics of Genocide (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia “may have been the most misrepresented series of major events over the past twenty years.” But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars that have ravaged several countries in the Great Lakes … Read more

Guerrilla Communication: A Lecture (Teil 2)

monochrom präsentiert eine Vortragsreihe von Johannes Grenzfurthner. The terms guerrilla communication (and communication guerrilla) refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point … Read more

Guerrilla Communication: A Lecture (Part 2)

monochrom presents the second part of a lecture series by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The terms guerrilla communication (and communication guerrilla) refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning … Read more

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