European national news

This article tracks developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications and provides a concise alerting service of important national developments. It is co-ordinated by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to complement the Journal's feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening ``on the ground'' at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.     

Landscapes of power: local struggles and national stakes at the rural-urban fringe of Kabul,Afghanistan

This article shows the coexistence of the language of legal claims and the use of violence as constitutive modes of getting control over resources. Through the analysis of a specific case of land dispute east of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, we aim at revealing how local struggles are linked to broader geographies of power. Following important changes in the material conditions in Afghanistan, which have led to the expansion of the city and the transformation of the rural-urban fringe, territorialized power appears as a pre-condition to control the circulation of people, goods and money, information and ideas, allowing us to add landscapes, the circulation of land, to the five categories famously distinguished by Appadurai as a way of organizing the study of the world's culture and economy.     

The June Tyson Sessions: remixperiments with vocal materiality and the becoming-woman of cosmic music

This article explores “The June Tyson Sessions,” a collaborative experimental sound project that employs remix as method to re-materialize the performativity of the voice of June Tyson, the former lead singer of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Using only samples of Tyson's voice, “The June Tyson Sessions” seeks to resituate Tyson herself as a cosmic artisan, composer of forces, and arranger of forms, affirming the cosmic potentialities immanent to Tyson's vocal performances that Ra may have overlooked, sonically following a line of flight toward a becoming-woman that is integral to, yet rarely emphasized in, the broader scope of the Arkestra's becoming-cosmic.