Techno-Politics in the Age of the Great War 1900–1930

Techno-Politics in the Age of the Great War 1900–1930

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IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften an der Kunstuniversität Linz
Veranstaltungsort
IFK Reichsratstraße 17, 1010 Wien
Ort
Wien, Austria
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
11.10.2012 - 12.10.2012
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Von
Ingrid Söllner-Pötz

World War I was a European war over the future of the world. But the futures of the world that emerged from the war, including a yet more deadly war and a long period of cold confrontation, were quite unlike anything the belligerents, high and low, had expected. It is to the futures of this violent past that the series of three conferences on The Time for Destruction is dedicated.

The capacity to mobilize and organize and, more so, to maximize the forces of destruction–what the Greeks called techne and what we call techno-politics–is the subject of the second conference in the IFK conference series “A Time for Destruction.” The focus of the first day is on the mobilization for war at home and at the front as well as the kind of “frictions” an ever more comprehensive mobilization generated–as well as the evasions and resistances mobilization engendered. The focus of the second day is on the effort to harness and to tame the seemingly limitless capacity of destruction. Common soldiers everywhere suspected that techne, the capacity to maximize force, had become an end in itself that the “perfection of technology” (Friedrich Georg Jünger) had turned both into the end and the means of war. They had a point in blaming their generals. However, there was more purpose to destruction than met their eye, because the future of Europe depended on it. By the same token, there were extensive considerations and debates on how to tame or channel violence. Peace-making and law-making, in other words, were integral parts of mobilizing for and fighting war. We might want to doubt the success of containing violence and bringing the Great War to a conclusion. However, the struggles were as important as the outcomes, because they set the tone and the agenda for the rest of the century.

Programm

Thursday, 11 October 2012:
09.00
Address of Welcome
Helmut Lethen

Introduction
Michael Geyer

Chair: Anatol Schmied-Kowarzik
MOBILIZING FOR WAR

09.30
Manfried Rauchensteiner
Austria-Hungary and the unleashing of WW I

10.30
Coffee Break

11.00
Michael Geyer
The Imperative of Organization: Revisiting the Debate on “Organized Capitalism”

12:00
Laura Engelstein
Running Wartime Russia: State and Civil Society

13.00
Lunch Break

CHAIR: Lutz Musner
MOBILIZING FOR COMBAT

14.30
Alex Watson
Making Soldiers Fight: a New Approach to the Patriotism / Primary Group Debate

15.30
Gene Tempest
Nations to horse! The mobilization of France and Britain’s War Animals

16.30
Coffee Break
CHAIR: Lutz Musner

A NEW WORLD ORDER?

17.00
Adam Tooze
WW I and the New Political Geometry of International Finance: 1916 and after

18.00
End

Friday, 12 October 2012
Chair: Peter Becker
WAR AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

09.30
Isabel Hull
International Law and the Great War

10.30
Coffee Break

11.00
Peter Holquist
The Origins of “Crimes against Humanity”: The Russian Empire, International Law, and the 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide

12.00
Lunch Break
CHAIR: Helmut Konrad
PEACE MAKING

13.30
Hew Strachan
Frictions in war: civil-military relations and the formation of strategy

14.30
Laurie Cohen
Peace advocacy and action

15.30
Coffee Break

16.00
Birgitta Bader-Zaar
War and Citizenship

17.00
Jay Winter
Mobilizing for peace: the Veterans’ Movement

18.00
End

Kontakt

Ingrid Söllner-Pötz

IFK Reichsratstraße 17, 1010 Wien

soellner-poetz@ifk.ac.at


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