Eugene Thacker

Eugene Thacker is a writer, theorist, artist, who teaches at the School of Literature, Communication & Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• biotechnology,
• biowarfare

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and #1 international bestseller, 'The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism'. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being translated in over 25 languages. In 2009 it won the inaugural Warwick Prize for Literature. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festivals.

• culture jamming

La Ex

Platform for free culture and civil society advocacy organistion for copyleft cultural productionin Barcelona. La-Ex (formerly known as eXgea). La-Ex is also the organiser of the oXcars and the Free Culture Forum.

Ricardo Rosas

Ricardo Rosas is a writer, translator and experimental musician. He was one of the organizers of the Brazilian Tactical Media Lab in Sao Paulo. He has studied Social Communication and German Studies at Universidade de Sao Paulo and is currently senior editor of Rizoma (www.rizoma.net), a web site devoted to activism, tactical media underground culture in general, net critic, conspiracy stuff and occulture. He writes about media activism and (anti) pop culture.

(died April, 11, 2007)

• tactical media,
• Brazil

The Logos Fight back 

The culture jammers tried to subvert the big brand names. But the smart advertisers now use guerrilla tactics themselves, according to James Harkin

In a recent newspaper interview, Kalle Lasn was interrogated about Adbusters, the Canadian anti-advertising magazine that he founded.

• culture jamming

 Free Culture Forum

The FCForum is an international arena in wich to build and coordinate action around issues related to free/libre culture and access to knowledge.The FCForum brings together key organizations and active voices in the spheres of free/libre culture and knowledge, and provides a meeting point where we can find answers to the pressing questions behind the current paradigm shift.

• free culture

Meme Wars 

Hey all you cultural creatives and heterodox thinkers,

Occupy Wall Street created a fissure in global consciousness . . .
Now it's time to throw a mindbomb into the chasm:

Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics

• campaign,
• culture jamming,
• meme wars,
• economics

Tatiana Bazzichelli

Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de) is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

Bernardo Gutiérrez

Bernardo Gutiérrez (@bernardosampa) is a Spanish-Brazilian journalist and writer who researches networked movements, hacker culture and peer-to-peer politics. He is the founder of the network FuturaMedia.net, lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and participates in the Global Revolution Research Network (GRRN).

• public space,
• public domain,
• occupy,
• tactical research

Natalia Mazotte

Natália Mazotte is a Brazilian journalist from Rio de Janeiro with a background in social and technological issues related to the creation and sharing of knowledge. She writes for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, of Texas University, and works for a Brazilian NGO named Ibase. She is a researcher and fellow in the Graduate Programme of Culture and Communication of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

• grassroot journalism,
• diy media

Paolo Gerbaudo

Paolo Gerbaudo is Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at  the Department of CMCI at King?s College London.

• network cultures,
• participatory media,
• street protest

Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove is the former director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.  He received his PhD. in French Language and Literature  from the University of Toronto and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours. From 1972 to 1980 he was an associate of the Centre for Culture and Technology and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author.

• art,
• media,
• network cultures,
• theory,
• media theory

Ryan Griffis

Ryan Griffis makes work in the form of visual art, text, curated exhibits, and performance that usually focuses on relationships between activism, visual culture, and technology.

Art, Resistance and Rebellion on the Net  

Call to join the cybernetic edition of CompArte  "Against Capital and its Walls, All the Arts"

July, 2017

• politics,
• art,
• network cultures,
• net.activism,
• net criticism

The Brazilian Context 

Many are the social, political or economic problems in Brazil. Socially, there's an extremely unequal distribution of wealth. Such a big social unequality is reflected, for example, in the extreme differences between the center and the periphery in the big cities, regional unequalities, criminality, racism. Besides that, we live in an unnoficial police state that acts in defense of the elites, murdering and arresting poorer citzens, because of the color of their skin or social condition.

• tactical media,
• Brazil

Beautiful Trouble - A toolbox for revolution 

Introduction

By Andrew Boyd & Dave Oswald Mitchell

"The clowns are organizing. They are organizing. Over and out."
-Overheard on UK police radio during action
by Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, July 2004

• tactical media,
• activism,
• diy media,
• net.activism,
• info-activism,
• participatory media,
• self-mediation

Iona Sharp Casas

Iona Sharp Casas is a Catalan/English independent writer, researcher and cultural analyst based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• art,
• archive,
• theory

Elias Muhanna

Elias Muhanna is the writer of Qifa Nabki [?ki-f? ?neb-k?] a blog about Lebanese politics, history, and culture. He is a PhD student in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University. He works on classical Arabic literature, Islamic social and intellectual history, and has published on subjects ranging from medieval encyclopaedism to travel literature, to the material culture of the pre-modern Mediterranean world.

• middle east

Amy Sara Carroll

Amy Sara Carroll is Assistant Professor of American Culture / Latino / a Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  She received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995).

• art,
• migration,
• borders