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[schedule proposal] The participation to the The Global Square at...

Upcoming events: The Global Square – Berlin Biennale

By marcstumpel, April 12, 2012

[schedule proposal] The participation to the The Global Square at Berlin Biennale is divided in two types of activity: Nodes (contents) and Actions. Nodes are: 1.- TGS Starting date: 27 April Presence: 2 months TheGlobalSquare is a decentralized social and organizational environment which respects privacy and transparency for individuals, public organizations and actions. TheGlobalSquare will consist [...]

Eleanor Saitta: Networks and Nation States

By Nicola Bozzi, March 10, 2012

Hacker, artist and writer Eleanor Saitta started her presentation by tracing quite a bleak scenario of the current global situation. As overpopulation and global warming expose the limits of the human presence on Earth, financial capitalism appropriates sociality, under the disguise of normal companies like Facebook. States try and keep their controlling position, while at [...]

Pitfalls of Building Social Media Alternatives (Debate)

By Nicola Bozzi, March 10, 2012

This panel session was pretty intense, as was the following debate. Below an overview of each presentation. Elijah Sparrow‘s speech was focused on presenting the Crabgrass platform, a social network for activist groups currently in an early alpha phase, but nonetheless serving some 30.000 users already. Theoretically based on a very specific idea of networking [...]