Radical Talks are back, this year in a larger fashion.
See you on June 24–25, 2026!
When: June 24 - June 25, 2026
Where: A mysterious location with no address - in google maps, type the following: 46.05416, 14.49279
At last, we see the return of Radical Talks, this year in a larger setting, and, at a slightly different location.
Radical talks take place in the public space and aim to circle among people. Several guest speakers will present their thoughts on the topics, while the audience will be invited to participate in a discussion. Over a glass of wine (and online). There will be poetry and music. And hanging around.
Curator of the Festival of Radical Talks:
Bara Kolenc, PhD
DAY 1
13:00 – 15:00
RADICAL TALK 1
Dorotea Pospihalj, MA, Domen Hitrec, MA
15:00 – 15:45
STREAM 1
Omar Itani / Beirut
15:45 – 16:15
POETRY
Nejc Bahor – Biga
16:15 – 17:00
STREAM 2
Dj Zhao
17:00 – 19:00
RADICAL TALK 2
Andrea Perunović, PhD, Karlo Pavlović, MA, Kozma Prelević
DAY 2
13:00 – 15:00
RADICAL TALK 3
Sodomak
Marko Peljhan, Prof.
15:00 – 15:45
STREAM 3
Scott McCulloch / Tbilisi
15:45 – 16:15
POETRY
Matjaž Zorec
16:15 – 17:00
STREAM 4
Dj Zhao
17:00 – 19:00
RADICAL TALK 4
Wassim Z. Alsindi, PhD, Alfie Bown, PhD
RADICAL TALKS DAY 1, 24. 6. 2026
Coloured Pins and the Fishing Net
There are two ways of thinking society: coloured pins and the fishing net. Coloured pins begins with the individual. A colourful gathering of individuals with the most diverse beliefs, skin colours and faiths: all different, all equal. Together they create beautiful patterns. If one of the pins disappears, the pattern changes, yet society continues to function without interruption. The individual is special, but also superfluous.
Fishing net, by contrast, begins with the community. The community is a net, individuals are the knots that hold it together. They are not colourful; they are grey-brown – like the threads of the net itself. The net catches enough fish for everyone to survive. Not only humans, but even the small fish. If one of the knots breaks, the net no longer functions. The individual is nothing special, but is needed. Their identity is not built upon their individuality, but upon their indispensable role within society.
We all know the coloured pins. But what is the fishing netwit—hin the internet? What is its sociality, its social contract—or is this produced as pure contingency? A side effect? Can it function, can it make sense? AI collectivism—the craziest idea of all?
RADICAL TALKS DAY 2, 25. 6. 2026
The Other Internet
If the internet has a future — and this future is perhaps more certain than all others, such as the future of humanity, natural habitats, or spirit — it will undoubtedly shift the parameters of the possible.
But what if another internet is possible, too. Globalization is a scam. But it is the hardest materiality, too. Historical materiality that diminishes history itself. In the age of instanternity, history turns into metadata, a datedness. Nevertheless, material conditions persist. Techno capitalism brings the abstraction of capital to another level – at the same time, dialectically, it eats up raw resources on a new scale. What it produces is uniformization, bio-standardization, and living on garbage dumps. But life itself can be traversed. Immortality as the new generation product.
We are not interested in humanity’s fall from the throne of the alleged most intelligent being on Earth. The blow to human narcissism is not painful. Let us smash our heads against the ground! This is not about Man. Thinking is at stake. The thing at stake is the subject. What is at stake is the subject. More than that, the inter-subject: society.
How does the internet — as hyper-medium, as materialized ideology, as space-time — realize intersubjectivity? We know that, in the name of the neutrality of the internet, we are entering the age of a new social division: earthlings and spacemen. Nevertheless, radical pessimism is not a real stance today, just as overly excited optimism was not a real stance in an age of relative geopolitical stability. When one runs out of possibilities, what is required is thinking that is an act. We want to discuss a non-exploitative high-tech socio-economic structure. Not as a utopian dream against the backdrop of the current dystopian reality, but as a real possibility. As we swing in the doomsday, we repeat the 1990s slogan of the then soon-to-be-bankrupt Kovinotehna: theimpossible is possible. What, then, are the Other-Nets?
