Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

Laboratory n.

1 a facility for experiment, research and learning.

2 a space where small quantities of hazardous materials can have an effect greater than the sum of their parts.

• precarity,
• austerity

Social media activism in the Arab World and China 

One day seminar and public evening debate on social media activism in the Arab World and China, organised by the Centre for Globalisation Studies of the University of Amsterdam, Monday 21 January 2013.

• tactical media,
• globalisation,
• theory,
• media theory,
• participatory media,
• middle east

Drazen Pantic

Mathematician and open-source developer Drazen Pantic was deeply involved with Serbian Radio B92 in Pozarevac, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's home town.

The Avant-Garde Never Gives Up 

The avant-garde never gives up. And tactical media has produced (at least) three different theaters of operation to wage its struggle: media activism, pure tactical aesthetics, and net conceptualism. The first allows for "formal" net.art tactics (materialist, structural), the latter two allow for "real" net.art tactics (native presence, site-specificity).

• art,
• tactical media,
• next 5 minutes,
• art of campaigning

Digital Activism #Now 

Conference on Information Politics, Digital Culture & Global Protest Movements April 4th 2014 - King's College London

• activism,
• infopolitics,
• net.activism,
• info-activism

Dave Oswald Mitchell

Dave Oswald Mitchell is a writer, editor and researcher camped out at the intersection of the economic and ecological crises.

• activism,
• info-activism

Andrew Boyd

Andrew Boyd  is an author, humorist and veteran of creative campaigns for social change.

• activism,
• info-activism

Sami BenGharbia

Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. He was a political refugee living in the Netherlands between 1998 and 2011. Sami is the author of the first Tunisian e-book (in French) Borj Erroumi XL.

• activism,
• infopolitics,
• net.activism,
• info-activism,
• blogosphere

Occupy and UK Uncut: the evolution of activism 

Occupy Sandy gained the attention denied to Occupy Our Homes because it replaced militant Occupy! with "do-it-yourself" Occupy. Feel-good mutual aid displaced attention from the underlying contradiction between public housing and private utilities onto the quick fix of digital media. Occupy Our Homes, on the other hand, confronts the system with its failures ? predatory lending, homelessness, and empty bank-owned houses. The problems it addresses can't be solved by rolling up our sleeves and getting involved; they require political solutions.

• urban intervention,
• activism,
• precarity,
• street protest,
• austerity,
• occupy