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• from: Conversation_with_Silvio_Lorusso (pad)

  Silvio (00:16:17) - That’s the hard part. Broadly speaking, I think that event engagements are better paid than writing engagements. If everything is good, you are paid 500 euros for a 45-minute talk, and if it all goes well, you are paid the same amount to write an essay of many pages. So this doesn’t make any sense, right? This means that if you care about something other than the event, as a cultural organizer, as someone who has the chance to invite other people, you have to see that event, that thing that you organize, not just as a service that the speaker does, it’s not about the person coming to the stage. conditions of workYou're sustaining the practitioner's writing for other days. So how, as a cultural organizer, how can you facilitate this? Not creating burdens for the author, in the sense that you don't ask necessarily something new. You don't insist too much on the format of the slides. You don't ask too many meetings in advance. I have a text about this. I can send it to you. I have like a list with this.

• from: Conversation_with_Silvio_Lorusso (pad)

  Silvio (00:27:45) - Wonderful reflection. I’m very much in this line of thought in the sense that I appreciate a lot of people who have taken on this kind of idea of abandonment, jumping ship not only from the art world but also from academia. governance and ownershipOne positive side of this is that many people have lost reverence towards institutions. They realize that in most ways they don't work. They don't work for them.Academia, for example, and I speak again from my experience, if you want to put down ideas, is the worst place. I’m not the first to say it. conditions of workSusan Sontag already said back in the day that the best writers of her generation were destroyed by academia.What’s the concrete reality of abandonment?

• from: Conversation_with_Silvio_Lorusso (pad)

  The people I’ve seen manage to cut ties with traditional institutions, when they manage, it’s an exceptional and somewhat uncertain path. I’m talking about people starting Patreon. But if you want to have a sustainable life with Patreon, you need to have an extremely huge user and fan base. And that also limits your output in the sense that the fan base, the people that will pay the five dollars every month, expect from you the same thing that you did the month before. So I think the most convincing negotiation between abandonment and staying, I found it in a book, which probably you all know, called references"The Undercommons". This idea that you stay in the institution because, to a certain extent, you cannot escape it completely, unless you are a superstar. conditions of workAnd you steal from the institution: you steal the tape, for instance. Of course, it's metaphorical, but you create spaces within the institution without reverence to the institution to pursue your goal. And why don't you feel guilty? You don't feel guilty because, after all, what you are doing is what you are paid for, to do research, to write, not to not to embark on managerial jobs.These are necessary things, but if they take 100% of your time, then better go to corporate, no?