(Re)construction | Revolutions today (Susan Buck-Morss, Pierina Ferretti & Saeed Al-Batal)
Channel: medico international
Date: 2021-04-06

A critical balance of the recent revolts

Discussants:
Susan Buck-Morss (Political Philosopher, New York City)
Pierina Ferretti (Sociologist, Valparaíso)
Saeed Al-Batal (Film director, Berlin)

Facilitator: Mario Neumann (medico international, Berlin)

Susan Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, where she is a core faculty member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. She is Professor Emeritus in the Government Department of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Her training is in Continental Theory, specifically, German Critical Philosophy and the Frankfurt School. Her work crosses disciplines, including Art History, Architecture, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, German Studies, Philosophy, History, and Visual Culture. She is currently writing on the philosophy of history: History as the Cosmology of Modernity.

Pierina Ferretti is a Chilean sociologist who focuses on the production of subjectivity under neoliberalism. She is a member of the Nodo XXI Foundation, which is a forum for an anti-neoliberal, feminist and democratic left and organizes public discussions and trainings for members of social movements for this purpose. Ferretti is also a member of CLACSO's Working Group on the Legacy and Perspectives of Latin American Marxism and part of the Latin American Working Group on the work of Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui. She regularly publishes essays and analyses on current political issues in national and international media.

Saeed Al-Batal is a Syrian filmmaker living in exile in Berlin. During the Syrian civil war, he was in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, and together with Ghiath Ayoub documented the everyday life of the people with a film camera between 2011 and 2015. Together they created a 120-minute documentary from over 500 hours of camera footage, which they were able to smuggle out of the country. "Still Recording" premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2018, where it won the FIPRESCI Critics' Prize. It is a unique document and testimony of civilian resistance to the violence and terror of the state.

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The (Re)Construction of the World. Aid. Solidarity. Politics.

A conference not only on the miserable state of the world, but also and above all on the possibilities of its reconstruction into a place that will finally be worth inhabiting. In lectures and forums, the aim is to determine the relationship between aid, solidarity and politics from the promise we made to ourselves in the Declaration of Human Rights: The promise of a global and social order in which the rights granted to us all would be fully realized.

The online conference (February 12th until February 14th, 2021) was organized by medico international e. V. in cooperation with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, International Institute of Political Murder and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

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