Monthly Archives: March 2023

Open Call! H&D Summer Camp 2023 – HopePunk: Reknitting Collective Infrastructures

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 22, 2023

This summer Hackers & Designers are going to inhabit a remote location in the south of the Netherlands and are looking for 20-30 co-inhabitants for our temporary H&D village! Together we will embark on the adventure of learning, making and living together. With this format we aim for a holistic and intersectional way of thinking [...]

Andrew Lowenthal: Breaking the Censorship Consensus-My Time in the Twitter Files

By Andrew Lowenthal, March 19, 2023

A strange shift has overcome NGOs, academia and philanthropy working in the digital politics and culture spheres – a long held commitment to freedom of expression has been overtaken by a new consensus that accepts actively shaping and removing ‘unacceptable’ ideas and information. What is unacceptable or untrue tends to change weekly, if not more [...]

Who Wrote This Text? Me or Franco Berardi?

By Franco "Bifo" Berardi, March 19, 2023

By Franco Berardi Who wrote this text? Me or Franco Berardi? Peter Gabriel says the question is irrelevant. One year ago the visionary musician Peter Gabriel released a book titled Reverberation, a sort of technophile introduction to the science behind deep listening. “Reverberation is the impact a sound makes after the sound has stopped,” explains [...]

We Need to Collectivize the Internet–Amsterdam Alternative Evening, March 8, OT301

By Geert Lovink, March 2, 2023

On Wednesday 8 March 2023, Amsterdam Alternative is organising a discussion on collective digital property. This AA Talk is organised in the context of the web documentary AA is making about collective ownership. During this evening, we will discuss what digital collective ownership is or can be. We will discuss ideas that deal with ownership, [...]