Now available for private purchase: the DVD edition of "First of May (the City-Factory)", first video of "Between Dreams", a video-series by Marcelo Expósito. The video opens a dialogue with the concept of "virtuosity" used by the political philosopher Paolo Virno to describe new figures of labour as well as certain emergent trends of political action.

Félix Guattari's and Suely Rolnik's book Micropolitical Revolution in Brazil, only recently published in English by Semiotext(e) / MIT Press, gives us a glimpse into both the activist and the thinker Guattari.

Buffalo, NY--Dr. Steven Kurtz, a Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY at Buffalo and cofounder of the award-winning art and theater group Critical Art Ensemble, has been cleared of all charges of mail and wire fraud.

Review of the latest book by Boris Groys - “Art Power”. The book reveals some of the contradictions of modern art, where the lines to today's power assigned to art - exclusively based on the existing free market, the art market – could be drawn from.

A response to eipcp's conference "The Art of Critique", held in April 2008. The texts of the conference themselves will be published in two upcoming issues of the web journal transversal in August and November 2008.

In Artforum's new issue on '68 as "the great refusal" Gerald Raunig discusses the twofold meaning of "la brèche": This expression, attributed to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, was used around '68 to refer to the breach that rebellious students and workers were able to force in French universities, factories, and streets. Significantly, it also appears in the title of a remarkable book by Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, and Edgar Morin - Mai 1968: La Brèche. Premières Réflexions sur les événements.

Isola district in Milano is struggling hard to survive in a difficult political and cultural context, being the target of capitalist and neo-nazi aggressions. Two days after the victory of right wing parties at the Italian elections, the Isola Art Project has once again been aggressed.

Buffalo, NY—A process that has taken nearly four years may be coming to an end. On Monday, April 21, Federal Judge Richard J. Arcara ruled to dismiss the indictment against University at Buffalo Professor of Visual Studies Dr. Steven Kurtz.

During his stay in Buenos Aires, where he had been invited by Tinta Limón to present the book Generación Post Alfa , Franco Berardi, alias Bifo, made a series of therapeutic suggestions that were closely followed by a myriad of media activists, university students and more ore less flexible culture workers. To our surprise, at the last moment there were signs he had been co-opted by the Errorist International.

Diverse cultural, political and university networks in Europe appeal to the mayor of Ljubljana, Slovenia, not to sell and evict the lively social center ROG.

In cooperation with transform.eipcp.net the Russian-English language magazine Chto Delat (based in Petersburg and Moscow) has published a new issue entitled Critique and Truth. It could be seen as a set of theoretical texts regarding the recent issue Basta on local pre-electorial protests in Russia, and concerns the "critical class" and its conditions of production. In how far can this class and its criticality claim to produce the truth?

Im Zuge der Politisierung um 1968 kam es einerseits zu einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit institutionellen Logiken. Institutionen wurden mit aktivistischen und künstlerischen Mitteln sowohl radikal in Frage gestellt wie strategisch unterwandert, ebenso verlassen und durchbrochen wie verändert und neu gegründet. Im Anschluss daran wurde andererseits der „Marsch durch die Institutionen“ von einer gegenhegemonialen Strategie zu einer legitimatorischen Rhetorik.

an interim report of reading Marina Gržinić´ s book: re- politicizing art, theory, representation and new media technology, publications of the academy of fine arts Vienna, volume 6, 2008, schlebrügge.editor

The promising exponential impact of this 700 pages book has just started. Since its public release in November 2007 at the headquarters of the self-managed publishing house Traficantes de Suenos, dozens of well attended public presentations of the book have taken place around different sites of Spain.

A talk given at the symposium “Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Exit or Activism?”, Central European University, Budapest, 29 February 2008.