Structured along the three interdependent syntheses and ecologies, the conference focuses on three socio-techno-environmental regimes: Intelligence, Instituting, and Archiving. Its goal is to revisit the material-discursive ecologies of instituting and archiving practices as critical and creative endeavours that may counter systemic stupidity and engender collective intelligence. Instead of pondering the question of what intelligence is, the event will address the pragmatics of how it happens, who institutes it, and through which technologies it is archived. Starting from (post-)Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts and methods, extended through feminist, queer, and decolonial critiques, the aim is to render visible the reciprocally determinant structure and operation of these three regimes and through what methods, modes, techniques, and technologies dis/individuating becomings come to be differentially enacted.
Presentation was titled: Lines of Flight: Reclaiming Inheritances for Archival Survival, and built further on professional scholarship cultivated through the work done at Nieuwe Instituut (and life…). The workshop accompanying looked at cases of/for archival survival (from Palestine to Somalia to the Netherlands) in the wake of intentional institutional amnesia and archival destruction, towards the possibility of a counter-archive.