Marco Deseriis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Eugene Lang College of
The New School. His recent publications include ?The General, the
Watchman and the Engineer of Control: The Relationship between
Cooperation, Communication, and Command in the Society of Control,?
Journal of Communication Inquiry Special Issue on Communication and
Autonomism, Ed. Jack Bratich (October 2011).
www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=70519
Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RGS and creator of the Carnivore and Kriegspiel projects.
ReadMichael Seemann studied Applied Cultural Studies in Lüneburg. Since 2005 he is active on the internet with various projects. He founded twitkrit.de and Twitterlesung.de ('reading Twitter'), organized various events and runs the popular podcast wir.muessenreden.de. In 2010 he began the blog CTRL-verlust, about the loss of control over data on the internet. In 2014 he published Das neue Spiel after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Now he blogs at mspr0.de and writes for various media like Rolling Stone, TIME online, SPEX, Spiegel Online, c't and the DU magazine. He gives lectures on whistleblowing, privacy, copyright, internet culture and the crisis of institutions in times of Kontrollverlust.
Konrad Becker is a pioneer in media art and electronic music. He is known for initiating seminal and controversial net-culture projects. A thinker and activist, he has curated and organized a large number of international conferences and exhibitions. His recent book, "Strategic Reality Dictionary" published by Autonomedia, addresses issues of cultural agency beyond the tactical. He now runs the World-Information Institute in Vienna, doing critical research into culture and technology.
Read1. Historical
Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the family; then the school ("you are no longer in your family"); then the barracks ("you are no longer at school"); then the factory; from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent instance of the enclosed environment. It's the prison that serves as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine of Rossellini's Europa '51 could exclaim, "I thought I was seeing convicts."
Summary of the extended conversation on the emergence, consequences, and activist responses to the concept of "post-control"
Report of the conference 'The Society of Post-Control', organised by Eric Kluitenberg and David Garcia, tying into the opening of the exhibition As If.
Xnet – Internet Freedoms
Xnet is an activist project working in fields related to digital rights and democracy: freedom of expression; net neutrality; privacy; the free circulation of culture, knowledge and information; mechanisms for transparency, participation and citizen control of power and institutions; the defense of citizen journalism for the right to know, inform and be informed; the technical, communications and legal fight against corruption; and the technopolitics understood as the practice of networking and taking action for citizen empowerment, justice and social transformation.
Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer, writer, curator and photographer.
Artist | Critical Engineer
Readb 1957 in Philadelphia (USA); 1978?82 study of art at the Cooper Union
of Art, New York (USA), under Hans Haacke, Vito Acconci and Martha
Rosler, degree of Bachelor of Arts; since 1981 in cooperation with Nam
June Paik; 1985 starting his own production of tapes and installations;
1990 Artist in Residence at the Video Fest Berlin (D); lives in New
York (USA).
Introduction to the cultural intelligence manual "Tactical Reality Dictionary"
Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. Data we never knew existed is finding paths that were not intended and reveals information that we would never have thought of on our own.
ReadIn winter 2000 the World-Information Exhibition took place in Vienna's Technical Museum.
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