International conference

April 8-10, 2010
Popper Room
Central European University
Nádor utca 9, Budapest

PROGRAM
How do things stand with respect to the fate of the alternative? Branded and normativized, incorporated into a whole ensemble of mainstream discourses, and no longer the threat it once posed to capitalist and communist states alike, the political and social force of the alternative seems to have faded away. And yet the dream of the alternative continues to inspire political and social movements, artists, theorists, and all kinds of creative practices. How might we begin to situate and think of alternativity as a global phenomenon at this precise conjuncture in world history? What is alternative about culture today? And how is the study of it changing as different models of cultural analysis intersect and collide?