Introduction / Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson -- The collaborative turn / Maria Lind -- Polyphonous language and construction of identity: its dynamic and its crux / Katharina Schlieben -- The oppositional device, or, Taking matters into whose hands? / Brian Holmes -- Time for a new political slogan / interview with Alex Foti by Andreas Gustavsson -- From enthusiams to creative commons / Marysia Lewandowska -- It pains me so. Notes on the SHAHRZAD Collective, 2006 / Tirdad Zolghadr -- Balkanisation -- beyond the subject. Lost Highway Expedition / Marc Neelen and Ana Dzokis -- "She now works flexible--" / Marion von Osten [and others] -- Utopia live: let's dismantle the artist genius and replace it with an open-ended, self-organised multitude / Copenhagen Free University -- Exhibition as school in a divided city / Anton Vidokle -- Our goal is mobility: X -- The Federal Trade Association Schleppen & Schleusen / Farida Heuck, Ralf Homann and Manuela Unverdorben -- To be put up in a public debate / What, How & for Whom -- Scattered (war) opposition / comments by Jakob Jakobsen and Simon Sheikh -- IKK / Emma Reichert, Camilla Backman, and Camilla Palm -- Taking play seriously / B+B -- Then and now and after (taking the matter into common hands 2005-2012) / Åbäke -- Four notes from Ayreen / Ayreen Anastas -- Postscript from Rene / Rene Gabri -- Agenda of reactivity: an eye-witness report of the taking the matter into common hands symposium / Nav Haq