CONTINENTAL DRIFT
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(from) the Ground*


Working Schedule
The idea for the schedule is that it should be subjected to change based on our needs and desires over the course of the event.
It is more like an approximation

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FRIDAY EVENING
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18:00 - 18:30 Informal Introductions
19:00 - 20:20 Henry C K Liu
                         The Case Against Market Fundamentalism
20:20 - 21:30 Question + Answer + Conversation
21:30 - 23:00 Dinner & Drinks

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SATURDAY
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12:00 - 12:30 Tea, Coffee
12:30 - 13:30 Open Session / Discussion of Reading
                         Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities And the Rule of Markets (Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore)
13:30 - 14:00 Andy Bichlbaum
                         Yes Men in New Orleans.
14:00 - 14:30 Coalition of Groups Fighting Columbia Gentrification of Harlem
14:30 - 15:00 Claire Pentecost How the growing environmental /climate change/water preciousness/
                         food consciousness is effecting urban organizing.
15:00 - 17:30 Neil Smith
                         Mega Gentrification

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SUNDAY
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12:00 - 12:30 Tea, Coffee
13:00 - 13:30 Hakan Topal
                         
Possibility of Justice and Justification of Artistic Production
13:30 - 14:00 Marty Lucas
                          Cyber-Urbanism in Southern African
14:00 - 14:30 Video interview with Jeff Halper -Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
                         Good Architecture
14:30 - 15:00 Scott Berzofsky, Dane Nester, Nicholas Wisniewski
                         Practicing Ecosophy in East Baltimore
15:00 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Holmes
                         Escape the Overcode: Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies, or the Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics
19:00 - 21:30 Final Discussion
"Prospects" for upcoming Continental Drift in Zagreb and the Radical Midwest Cultural Corridor
+ thinking about further NYC prospects (over dinner)

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*ground as the contradiction and tragic failure of capitalism right now:
--ground rent, for everything that concerns housing
--ground to the bone, for flexible labor
--ground as the earth itself, overheating and poisoned
--ground zero wherever a bomb goes off and people die