8.03.2004
Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies
A project by Oliver Ressler
...The project presents alternative social and economic models such as "Inclusive Democracy" from Takis Fotopoulos (GB/GR), "Participatory Economy" from Michael Albert (U.S.A.), and "Free Cooperation" from Christoph Spehr (G). Nancy Folbre (U.S.A.) speaks about her concept of "Caring Labor," and Marge Piercy (U.S.A.) discusses the feminist-anarchist utopias of her social fantasies. As an interesting historical model, the workers' self-management in Yugoslavia in the sixties and seventies is thematized in the exhibition by Todor Kuljic (SCG). In the further course of the project, models developed in other specific historical contexts such as "La Commune" in Paris (1870-1871) and the workers' collectives during the Spanish Civil War (1936-38) will be thematized....
A project by Oliver Ressler
...The project presents alternative social and economic models such as "Inclusive Democracy" from Takis Fotopoulos (GB/GR), "Participatory Economy" from Michael Albert (U.S.A.), and "Free Cooperation" from Christoph Spehr (G). Nancy Folbre (U.S.A.) speaks about her concept of "Caring Labor," and Marge Piercy (U.S.A.) discusses the feminist-anarchist utopias of her social fantasies. As an interesting historical model, the workers' self-management in Yugoslavia in the sixties and seventies is thematized in the exhibition by Todor Kuljic (SCG). In the further course of the project, models developed in other specific historical contexts such as "La Commune" in Paris (1870-1871) and the workers' collectives during the Spanish Civil War (1936-38) will be thematized....
