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12/05/2013, 19:00h, cinema Europa, 6th Subversive festival: "The Utopia of Democracy" The Utopia of the EU Moderator: Igor Štiks Croatia's accession coincides also with the deepest crisis in the EU's history. The Union that is about to radically redefine itself is, as the trends show, fragment internally into the core member states surrounded by the EU's internal periphery and, furthermore, by the EU's external periphery, most notably the rest of the 'Western Balkans' as the EU likes to call the Balkan ghetto it surrounds. Croatia's accession is the event that symbolically and technically signifies, what we call, the enlargement of post-democratic Europe: territorially, it enlarges towards another Balkan state and at the same time, structurally, it redefines itself as budgetary and managerial union of several levels of subordination with dubious democratic legitimacy, if any. What's the future of the postdemocratic Europe? And is a true democratic renewal possible? Yanis Varoufakis Political economist and a professor at the University of Texas, Austin. After training in mathematics and statistics, Varoufakis received his economics doctorate in 1987 at the University of Essex. Before that he has allready began teaching economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia. From 1989 until 2000 he taught as Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Sydney. In 2000 he moved to his native Greece where he was Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens. He is an active participant in the current debates on the global and European crisis and the author of The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (2011). Susan George Well-known Franco-American political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She is a fellow and president of the board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and what she calls their "maldevelopment model". She similarly criticizes the structural reform policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development. Franco Berardi Bifo Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. Berardi has written over two dozen published books, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches. Some of these book are: The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (2009), Precarious Rhapsody: Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation (2009), Ethereal Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy (2009). Igor Štiks His fiction, academic work, poetry and essays have appeared widely in journals and reviews of the former Yugoslavia and abroad. His novel A Castle in Romagna received the Award 'Slavic' for Best First Book in 2000. His second novel Elijah's Chair (2006) received both the Award "Gjalski" and the Award of 'Kiklop' for the Best Fiction Book of the Year and it has been translated into a dozen European languages. The theatre play based on this novel won the Grand Prix of the 2011 Belgrade International Theatre Festival. His first collection of poems History of a Flood was published in 2008. Recently in collaboration with Srećko Horvat he wrote a political essay The Right to Rebellion -- An Introduction to the Anatomy of Civic Resistance (2010). Igor Štiks is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and the co-director of the Subversive Forum in Zagreb. http://www.subversivefestival.com/foruml/7/223/en/the-utopia-of-the-eu