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Eirini Avramopoulou asks the following questions in her essay 'Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics': How is the desire for existence implicated in the experience of identity as wound? Under which conditions does the demand for desire appear to confront the repetition of trauma? Or else, what echoes in the last breath of someone dying? In Istanbul, a city built upon neoliberal structures of governance and cosmopolitan aesthetics, and defined by severe policing and local histories of ethnic and gender violence, these questions reflect upon a particular historical and political period through a personal story. The essay focuses on a transgender activist named Ali, his fight against transphobia, his illness and death, while reflecting on the 2013 public uprising in Istanbul following attempts by the Turkish government to demolish Gezi park. By exploring the notion of spectral survival as a political praxis, it argues that this notion, rather than acceding to claims over a fuller subjectivity, mobilizes an aporia of de-subjectivation. De-constituting the 'I' here attests to an attempt neither to reconfigure its parts nor to merely perceive life as dismantled, but rather to speak of a loss that no familiar language can yet describe. The spectrality of this 'I' troubles and repoliticizes, then, the very notion of haunting, as it lays claims to its own differing and deferral from the constitution of a proper name, or of a 'self'-acclaimed existence, especially when the fight for existence here is also a performative assertion of loss and death connected to processes of resisting sexist, neoliberal, heteronormative, and phallogocentric representations of possession and belonging.

<p>Το άρθρο αυτό επικεντρώνεται σε μια γυναικεία συμμαχία που δημιουργήθηκε το 2008 μεταξύ φεμινιστριών, λεσβιών/αμφισεξουαλικών/τρανσεξουαλικών και θρησκευόμενων γυναικών στην Τουρκία, και καλείται να απαντήσει στα εξής ερωτήματα: Πώς οι συγκεκριμένες γυναίκες έρχονται να επανανοημαδοτήσουν προδιαγεγραμμένες εκφάνσεις του πολιτικού και της επισφάλειας; Πώς «υπογράφουν» δια-<br />φορετικά το συμβόλαιο του πολιτικού; Με αναφορά στις συντηρητικές και νεοφιλελεύθερες πολιτικές αξίες που εγγράφονται στην παρούσα κυβερνητική πολιτική της Τουρκίας, υπογραμμίζεται η σημασία νεοεμφανιζόμενων γυναικείων κινημάτων, και αναδεικνύεται η περιπλοκότητα του αγώνα τους να επανεγγράψουν τους όρους διαπραγμάτευσης λόγων και πρακτικών που δημιουργούν έμφυλο αποκλεισμό και συνθήκες επισφάλειας.</p>

Το άρθρο αυτό επικεντρώνεται σε μια γυναικεία συμμαχία που δημιουργήθηκε το 2008 μεταξύ φεμινιστριών, λεσβιών/αμφισεξουαλικών/τρανσεξουαλικών και θρησκευόμενων γυναικών στην Τουρκία, και καλείται να απαντήσει στα εξής ερωτήματα: Πώς οι συγκεκριμένες γυναίκες έρχονται να επανανοημαδοτήσουν προδιαγεγραμμένες εκφάνσεις του πολιτικού και της επισφάλειας; Πώς «υπογράφουν» δια-φορετικά το συμβόλαιο του πολιτικού; Με αναφορά στις συντηρητικές και νεοφιλελεύθερες πολιτικές αξίες που εγγράφονται στην παρούσα κυβερνητική πολιτική της Τουρκίας, υπογραμμίζεται η σημασία νεοεμφανιζόμενων γυναικείων κινημάτων, και αναδεικνύεται η περιπλοκότητα του αγώνα τους να επανεγγράψουν τους όρους διαπραγμάτευσης λόγων και πρακτικών που δημιουργούν έμφυλο αποκλεισμό και συνθήκες επισφάλειας. ; This paper focuses on the unexpected female coalition created in 2008 between feminist, LBT (lesbian, bisexual, transsexual) and religious activists in Turkey, and asks how women come to signify –and possibly challenge– the pre-established demarcations of politics framing gendered precariousness. How do women claim to sign differently the contract of the political? By referring to the neoliberal and conservative values of the current government's agenda and underlying the importance of newly formed alliances between activist women, it explores the complex ways in which these three groups struggle to be heard within public debate in Turkish society and how they try to form alliances despite their differences.

Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation. In the different contributions which make up this deliberately heterogeneous collection of short, non-canonical essays, such a quest proceeds by re-articulating the aporias of desire, intimacy, touch and seduction. It also relates them to claims of visibility, visions of emancipation and its failures, as well as to the politics of violence that we get exposed to through circulating images and affects. This is an attempt to exceed the limits set by and for ourselves in relation to how we connect to our own bodies, to the bodies of our lovers and to the bodies of the theories we live with, sleep with and dream about – in short, to all that we get attached to. The editors and contributors of this collection do not claim the euphoric potentiality of pornography as necessarily subversive and emancipatory, but are nevertheless open to the possibilities of re-shaping it (in textual, contextual, intertextual, but also affective and embodied forms) through different graphic and tactical/tactile inscriptions. On the one hand, authors reflect on definitions and practices of pornography as a genre adopting specific codes and canons, whether it is concerned with sex acts and the industry of porn or with other predominant forms of representation and the structures of power underlying them. On the other hand, chapters relate to the more affective, libidinal, synaesthetic and inter/subjective dimensions of pornography, and on the capacity of different reappropriations to subvert its limits.

Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation. In the different contributions which make up this deliberately heterogeneous collection of short, non-canonical essays, such quest proceeds by re-articulating the aporias of desire, intimacy, touch and seduction. It also relates them to claims of visibility, visions of emancipation and its failures, as well as to the politics of violence that we get exposed to through circulating images and affects. This is an attempt to exceed the limits set by and for ourselves in relation to how we connect to our own bodies, to the bodies of our lovers and to the bodies of the theories we live with, sleep with and dream about -- in short, to all that we get attached to. The editors and contributors of this collection do not claim the euphoric potentiality of pornography as necessarily subversive and emancipatory, but open up to the possibilities of re-shaping it (in textual, contextual, intertextual, but also affective and embodied forms) through different graphic and tactical/tactile inscriptions. On the one hand, authors reflect on definitions and practices of pornography as a genre adopting specific codes and canons, whether it is concerned with sex acts and the industry of porn or with other predominant forms of representation and the structures of power underlying them. On the other hand, chapters relate to the more affective, libidinal, synaesthetic and inter/subjective dimensions of pornography, and on the capacity of different reappropriations to subvert its limits

Leftover: the residual, the adjunct, the tenacious, dismissed from the 'Whole', a demarcation, a rejection, an excess, a stain, a trace, to be re-decorated, re-moved, re-cycled, re-turned to a primordial condition. Only it won't. Unwanted as they might be, leftovers linger, escape, insist, and demand our attention; they are a constant distraction, intensity, and transgression. As objects, environments, actions, and intentions, leftovers incite affects. Although not essentially antagonistic or the product of agential action and intention, leftovers are helpful in mapping the political, not only by drawing the coordinates of the respectable, responsible, reasonable, essential, and the aesthetic, but concurrently as the rejected yet lingering remnant of knowledge production. Using 'Leftover' as an invitation for theorization across disciplines and research paradigms, this event reflected on what we might mean when we use affective vocabularies in order to position ourselves in theoretical and methodological terms, and what is being left-over in theory, action, and passion. Eirini Avramopoulou is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Currently, she is working on her first monograph on affect, performativity, and queer/gender activism in Istanbul, Turkey. Heather Love is the R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin ('Rethinking Sex'), and the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History ('Is There Life after Identity Politics?'). Nahal Naficy is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Her most recent work, Our Tale Was True, Our Tale Was A Lie, co-authored with Alice Gavin, is forthcoming with Punctum Books. Ruth Preser is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Currently she is working on a monograph on queer Israeli diaspora in Berlin. Yael Navaro-Yashin is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Faces of the State: Secularism ...

Leftover: the residual, the adjunct, the tenacious, dismissed from the 'Whole', a demarcation, a rejection, an excess, a stain, a trace, to be re-decorated, re-moved, re-cycled, re-turned to a primordial condition. Only it won't. Unwanted as they might be, leftovers linger, escape, insist, and demand our attention; they are a constant distraction, intensity, and transgression. As objects, environments, actions, and intentions, leftovers incite affects. Although not essentially antagonistic or the product of agential action and intention, leftovers are helpful in mapping the political, not only by drawing the coordinates of the respectable, responsible, reasonable, essential, and the aesthetic, but concurrently as the rejected yet lingering remnant of knowledge production. Using 'Leftover' as an invitation for theorization across disciplines and research paradigms, this event reflected on what we might mean when we use affective vocabularies in order to position ourselves in theoretical and methodological terms, and what is being left-over in theory, action, and passion. Eirini Avramopoulou is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Currently, she is working on her first monograph on affect, performativity, and queer/gender activism in Istanbul, Turkey. Heather Love is the R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin ('Rethinking Sex'), and the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History ('Is There Life after Identity Politics?'). Nahal Naficy is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Her most recent work, Our Tale Was True, Our Tale Was A Lie, co-authored with Alice Gavin, is forthcoming with Punctum Books. Ruth Preser is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Currently she is working on a monograph on queer Israeli Diaspora in Berlin. Yael Navaro-Yashin is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Faces of the State: Secularism ...

Europe seems beset by the prospect of crisis. And yet its institutions continue to function. The continent remains a zone of economic privilege, a status that exacts other kinds of cost, humanitarian and social. Established political processes continue to operate as usual. At the same time, we witness the rise of protest reactionary and progressive. Our speakers asked what ideals ought to claim the commitment of Europeans today, in a situation combining cynicism and struggle, threat and stability. Programme Thursday, 27 March 18:30 Introduction: What Europe? Ideals to Fight for Today Roger Berkowitz (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College New York) 18:45 Keynote Introduction Dr. Gabriele Freitag, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde 19:00: Opening Keynote: Ukraine: Soviet Past, European Future? Timothy Snyder (Yale University) Friday, 28 March 10:30-12:00 Opening Panel Where is democracy to be found in Europe today? Speakers: Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies) Eirini Avramopoulou (ICI Berlin) Ulrike Winkelmann (taz Berlin) 14:00-16:00 Panel Is there a European Idea? Speakers: Patrick Bahners (F.A.Z.) Roger Berkowitz (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College New York) Walter Russell Mead (Bard College New York) 16:30-18:00 Panel What use are Europe's heritages in looking to the future? Speakers: Peter Baehr (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin) Rob Riemen (Nexus Institute, the Netherlands) 18:15 Closing Remarks Catherine Toal (Bard College Berlin) ; What Europe?: Ideals to Fight for Today , conference, ICI Berlin, 27–28 March 2014