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Opening Address to the Berlin Summit by Kodwo Eshun
I would like to thank all of you for coming along this evening. And to thank Nora, Florian, Nicolas and Irit for their presentations. Afterwards, I will pass onto Susanne Lang who has been responsible for ensuring this project reaches this moment.
Tonight, I will restrict myself to elaborate upon two of the core ideas to which my colleagues have already drawn attention.
The first is the idea of authorisation. Florian has talked about this in terms of self–authorisation. Irit talked in terms of self-empowerment, in terms of people gathered around curiousity