conference

Conference organizers: Nick Butler, Lena Olaison, Bent Meier Sørensen and Sverre Spoelstra

Organizers: Yousra Rahmouni Elidrissi, Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Christos Giotitsas

Organizers: Chris Giotitsas, Lena Olaison, Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar and Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając

Organizers: Irina Cheresheva, Chris Giotitsas, Márton Rácz and Konstantin Stoborod

Measurement is a central task of capitalist organization. From the days of the industrial factory, when labour first came to be measured in hours, through to the time-motion studies under Taylorist regimes, measurement has involved the optimization of surplus value extraction from labour. During the 20th century, these techniques of measurement were complemented by more intrusive forms of quantification such as the use of psychological testing in the human relations school.

Conference organizers: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Konstantin Stoborod and Keti Chukhrov at NCCA Moscow, Russia, 6-7 May 2015

The very first ephemera conference, ‘Web of capturing the moving mind’, which took place on a Trans-Siberian train, had Moscow as its starting point. 10 years later, ephemera is happy to announce it is going back to Moscow, so as to make our minds move again and cross all sorts of boundaries that constitute us and the worlds we inhabit.

You can register, see the preliminary program and stay updated with latest information about the Ephemera 2014 ‘Organizing for a Post-Growth Economy’ conference, by following this link: 

http://www.conferencemanager.dk/ephemera2014

Perpetual economic growth is an underlying assumption of the contemporary capitalist organization of society.