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The Twitter Revolution Must Die
Have you ever heard of the Leica Revolution? No?
World-Information Serbia
World-Information.Org is an trans-national cultural intelligence provider, a collaborative effort of artists, scientists and technicians. It is a practical example for a technical and contextual environment for cultural production and an independent platform of critical media intelligence.
ReadOntologies of the Wayward Drone - Part II
A Salvage Operation:
Ontologies of the Drone
Amplifying Expertise
Governmentality of Information
The American military network ARPAnet was conceived as a way to maintain uninterrupted communications in the event of nuclear war. Ancestor of the Internet and foundation of the Global Information Infrastructure, ARPAnet springs from exactly the same source as the "pushbutton war" that lay behind it: the change of scale provoked by the early 20th century discoveries in physics, within an industrial society capable of organizing the productivity - including the scientific productivity - of thousands of agents. Here, no doubt, is the real birthplace of the information society: a society massively penetrated by the sciences and technologies of information and telecommunications, using them to carry out the design of the planet or at least, that of its components (with design replacing politics). A society whose governmentality entails the knowledge of the real, that is to say, the transformation of reality into information. A society whose governmentality unfolds between its smallest common denominators (atomic, electronic, magnetic, genetic, chemical) and its largest common denominators (climate, planet, solar system), by way of laws, formulas and norms that determine its productivity, means, and possible destinies.
ReadNoam Chomsky
The Concept of Tactical Media
Tactical Media emerged when the modest goals of media artists and media activists were transformed into a movement that challenged everyone to produce their own media in support of their own political struggles. This "new media" activism was based on the insight that the long-held distinction between the 'street' (reality) and the 'media' (representation) could no longer be upheld. On the contrary, the media had come to infuse all of society... Read More
Art After Activism?
This debate will address some of the doubts that hard core activists have about the usefulness of art in a political context.
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).
ReadNo One is Illegal! Manifesto
For a world without borders! No immigration controls!
DEFEND THE OUTLAW!
Immigration controls should be abolished. People should not be deemed 'illegal' because they have fallen foul of an increasingly brutal and
repressive system of controls. Why is immigration law different from
all other law? Under all other laws it is the act that is illegal, but
under immigration law it is the person who is illegal. Those subject to
immigration control are dehumanized, are reduced to non-persons, are
nobodies. They are the modern outlaw. Like their medieval counterpart
they exist outside of the law and outside of the law's protection.
Opposition to immigration controls requires defending all immigration
outlaws.
World-Information Paris
World-Information.Org is an trans-national cultural intelligence provider, a collaborative effort of artists, scientists and technicians. It is a practical example for a technical and contextual environment for cultural production and an independent platform of critical media intelligence.
World-Information Bangalore
World-Information City is a one-week programme of events addressing global issues of intellectual property and technology in conjunction with changing urban landscapes.
Read#Occupy Wallstreet
The resistance continues at Liberty Square and worldwide!
OccupyWallSt.org is the unofficial de facto online resource for the
ongoing protests happening on Wall Street. We are an affinity group
committed to doing technical support work for resistance movements. We
are not affiliated with Adbusters, anonymous or any other organization.
Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the cloud
"We have to be very attentive and united at a state level to fight
against what is a threat to democratic authority and sovereignty,"
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French government spokesman Francois Baroin speaking out against
wikileaks releasing US diplomatic cables.
"Governments of the
Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from
Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of
the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no
sovereignty where we gather."
- A Declaration of the Independence of
Cyberspace, John Perry Barlow
Final Program: As If / Vox Populi / The Syrian Archive / The Society of Post-Control
Tactical Media Connections public program, Amsterdam January 20 - 22, 2017.
As part of the Tactical Media Connections public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present, a series of public events take place in Amsterdam between January 20 and 22, 2017. The public program includes an exhibition at Framer Framed in the Tolhuistuin cultural centre, opening on Friday January 20; a Meme Wars Lab workshop on Friday January 20; a public debate at Eye Filmmuseum on Saturday January 21, and a one day conference (‘The Society of Post-Control’) again at the Tolhuistuin on Sunday January 22.
Please find below a brief program overview, followed by a detailed description of the different parts of the public program.
No Border Campaign / Network
The no border network is a tool for all groups and grass root organizations who work on the questions of migrants and asylum seekers in order to struggle alongside with them for freedom of movement, for the freedom for all to stay in the place which they have chosen, against repression and and the many controls which multiply the borders everywhere in all countries. This network is different from lobbying groups and NGOs because it is based on groups of grass root activists and intends to stay so. The coordination between the groups is done through two meetings every year and a working list on e-mail.
ReadReclaim the Streets: The Film and Other Media Tactics
The Disorganisation
Reclaim the Streets (RtS) cannot be understood as a campaign, although
some of its methods are very similar. There are now RtS groups in
thirty cities organising illegal street parties. Most of these groups
only exist for the event, and many of the activists are involved in
local campaigns during the rest of the year. There is no membership or
official line although many would like to see a wider global strategy.
As a movement, RtS is only four years old, and it could grow in
unpredictable ways.