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<div>*Commoning Art and Culture Summer University at the Central
European<br>
University (Budapest) *<br>
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Course date: 19 June - 29 June, 2021<br>
Application deadline: 14 February, 2021<br>
Details, application:<br>
https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/commoning-art-and-culture-2021<br>
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This course asks how and why art and open societies have sustained
each<br>
other across history, and how they may continue to do so beyond the
crisis<br>
they jointly undergo in the current context of rapid
technological,<br>
economic and political transformation. While focusing more
specifically on<br>
artistic production, on its present crisis, and its possible futures,
this<br>
course puts art in the broader perspective of the history of
cultural<br>
production, and of its social, political and economic conditions
of<br>
possibility at the modern intersection of state and market.
Instrumental in<br>
this project is the conceptual lens of the "common(s)," a notion
that has<br>
always been defining cultural production in the modern era in one way
or<br>
another (as a common good, as a public good, as a human right, e.g.);
one,<br>
however, that has recently gained new meanings and dramatic currency
since<br>
the digital turn in media and the financial turn in economics.
Digitization<br>
and financialization, commodify, segment, and often alienate ever
larger<br>
segments of our private lives and democratic public spheres. In
response to<br>
these threats, theories of the commons and practices of commoning
coming<br>
from the digital and art worlds are transforming the goals and means
of<br>
art, politics, and economics on the margins of the old
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