Purpose
The keywords:
- CRITICAL towards the scientific discourse, the policyand practises in the field of culture and communication
- ENGAGEMENT with the field, from an affirmative post-modern,radical-democratical, neo-Gramscian and feminist background
- RESEARCH, in the widest sense of the word. Our commitmentto an engaged criticism means that objectivity and neutrality are not ourforemost concerns, as we think that these terms are often used to obscureunderlying power relations. Koccc resists any essentialist tendencies inculture, society and Academia
- Koccc is a small-scale NETWORK. Meetings take placeon a more or less regular basis. New members are accepted unanimously.Decision making is a horizontal process
- Members are preferably from an academic, artistic, activistor media-related background
- INTERDISCIPLINARITY and MULTI-MEDIALITY are high-valued
Purposes:
- Networking as such
- Presentations and discussions
- Publications
- Commenting upon current affairs
- Action if necessary