DICTIONARY OF WAR is a collaborative platform for creating 100 concepts
on the issue of war, to be invented, arranged and presented by
scientists, artists, theorists and activists at four public, two-day
events in Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and Berlin. The aim is to create key
concepts that either play a significant role in current discussions of
war, have so far been neglected, or have yet to be created.
The European Cultural Backbone was founded as an initiative of 16 Trans-European Media Institutions. They baptize their baby with an extensive "We want Bandwidth" campaign, starting in a medium near you any minute. What to do with it and what to make with it?
Press Release, February 17, 2011:
Declaration drafted during 4 months by the Free/Libre Culture Forum.
Each year, the FCForum brings together key organisation and active
voices in the sphere of free/libre culture. It responds to the need for
an international arena in which to put together and coordinate a global
framework for action, and to the need to defend and expand the sphere
in which human creativity and knowledge can prosper freely and
sustainably.
Overview and manifesto of urban tv movements in Italy
Public Agency in Hybrid Space
Lead-essay for the theme issue "Hybrid Space" of OPEN, Journal for Art and the Public Domain, #11, (Amsterdam / Rotterdam, 2006).
The twin phenomena of immediacy and of instantaneity are presently oneof the most pressing problems confronting political and militarystrategists alike. Real time now prevails above both real space and thegeosphere. The primacy of real time, of immediacy, over and above spaceand surface is a ~fait accompli~ and has inaugural value (ushers a newepoch). Something nicely conjured up in a (French) advertisementpraising cellular phones with the words: "Planet Earth has never beenthis small". This is a very dramatic moment in our relation with theworld and for our vision of the world.
ReadWe, the supporters of the #FREEBASSEL project are inviting every person, everywhere to make an event on March 15, 2013 with other people in your city in global solidarity to call for the immediate release of open web advocate Bassel Khartibil. This day is the one year anniversary of the illegal jailing of Bassel Khartibil, well known free internet pioneer, software engineer, teacher, husband, family-man and friend. Bassel is a normal guy, in a bad situation. He is now stuck in a Syrian jail cell where he is not able to directly contribute to his local and global communities. We demand his captors to #FREEBASSEL!
ReadThe World Social Forum, organized twice in Porto Alegre 2001 and 2002, not only prompted a flurry of autonomous self-organization, crossborder organization, and creative media interventions. It also initiated an intense process of analysis and reflection on the tricky question of a 'global' dynamic of self-organization.
ReadFrom: beka economopoulos
Date: June 10, 2010 6:07:12 GMT+02:00
Subject: [iDC] Participationism (was "why do we need physical campuses")
Hi all,
(...) Below is (one of) the curatorial statement(s) of a show that Not An
Alternative has curated with Upgrade NY! and Eyebeam, called Re:Group:
Beyond Models of Consensus, about the subjects of collaboration and
participation. After constant debate, the curatorial committee never
came to consensus about the thesis for the show, and so we've presented
two distinct positions.
Below is that of our group, Not An Alternative. The opening is
tomorrow, with a curators talk at 5pm, so if you're in NY and you're
ready for a rumble join us there.
Best, Beka
It's time to create the pop stars of activism,
the idoru of communication guerrilla,
it's time to threaten and charm the
masses by the ghosts coming from the
net, to play the myth against the myth,
to be more nihilist than infoteinment!
- etoy -
by ZKP
TRANSLATED MESSAGE:
The global data-network is on everyone's lips. Initiatives that plan
and promote the further extension of the nets in the big style
originate in politics and economy. Goal of this engangement is an
efficiency-oriented and economy- centered utilization of the new
structures of communication. The capacity of these projects is already
proven within a wide range of areas and especially curious people are
working with it yet. However, one can also judge this development
skeptically.
Abstract of the lecture by Peter Lamborn Wilson
For the 'Next Five Minutes" Conference, Amsterdam, january 1996
There is a last enterprise that might be undertaken. It would be to seek experience at its source, or rather, above that decisive turn where, taking a bias in the direction of our utility, it becomes properly human experience. (Bergson, 1991: 184).
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