UKS-Forum #1-2: Dream Politics

Issue #1-2, 2009
Dream Politics

Editorial:
We will turn toward the future. This book represents pieces of dream-work, in which the given, the obvious and the probable are reworked by desire - short-circuiting the operations of common sense, and tackling head-on the question of what things should be like. Taking its cue from Gilles Deleuze’s assertion that ’the people is what is most lacking’ in art, this issue of UKS-forum highlights the invention of new peoples, based in equal measures on recent political developments in western Europe and on science fiction and utopian projects. We trace the effects of a violent change in Qualia and of the Danish painter Paul Gernes; the struggle of the fruiceworkers of Phillipville and of a metalworker of Social Democratic Sweden; the cultural policies of Britain’s New Labour, and the production of discontent by William Morris, pamphleteer; the abandonment of inner monologue, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen as an archetype; These future perceptions, be they of diabolic powers to come or of revolutionary forces to be constructed, shed light on the current political condition of art. As we turn toward the future, it is already looking back on us.

Contents —

Will Bradley
Dreaming of dreaming

PHILIP
Brifcor’s speech

Rune Lykkeberg
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Åsa Lindeborg
Mig äger ingen

Søren Andreasen
OntoTech

Emily Pethick
Changing the vocabulary

Eva Meyer
Free and indirect
A Future Perception

Niels Henriksen
Inheriting political
representation