2 years, 11 months ago
Community Harvest Project
Hello all! I find this super meaningful and I am seeking your support. I have been participating in ...
3 years ago
Read about the ZAD, the largest squat on Europe, in the Guardian article bellow. After years of successfully defending the ZAD from the French authorities a new wave of threatening eviction is under way.
"The story of “la ZAD” in western France began more than half a century ago, when the French government earmarked the site for a new airport as part of a plan to create a transatlantic “Great West” gateway to France and Europe.
Years of consultations, arguments and indecision supposedly ended in 2008, when the €580 million project was given official approval. The squatters began arriving the same year, claiming they were responding to an appeal from farmers fighting compulsory purchase orders. No airport-related construction has since taken place on the 1,650-hectare site."
Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/28/end-of-la-zad-frances-utopian-anti-airport-community-faces-bitter-last-stand?CMP=share_btn_fb
2 years, 11 months ago
No Alternative
How culture jamming was culture-jammed
http://reallifemag.com/no-alternative/

3 years ago
"Hi uli.l, I just checked and the book is available online, for example here on Book Depository: http..."
3 years ago
Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone Into a Home Security System
https://www.wired.com/story/snowden-haven-app-turns-phone-into-home-security-system/
3 years, 1 month ago
“Weaponized Pleasure”
Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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3 years, 1 month ago
“Weaponized Pleasure”
Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
https://player.pippa.io/teamhuman/episodes/ep67-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-weaponized-pleasure
3 years, 1 month ago
Food Democracy book presentation Webinar!
Three weeks ago I did this live Webinar with Online School of Food Design founder Francesca Zampollo...
3 years, 1 month ago
Respect is when you change your own life. Public space is where you share that possibility.
Check this: Driving the Golden Spike, The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space by Brian Holmes
http://deeptimechicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Holmes-Golden-Spike.pdf
3 years, 1 month ago
Here a link to the Food Democracy book Webinar I did this morning with Francesca Zampollo and food designers from around the world- it is now online.
Note, it was 5 am for me here in Melbourne and I am not a coffee drinker! :) I presented our wonderful Food Democracy book more in detail and after that we had a good discussion on several issues presented in the book.
Here another link to the book with links where you can get your own copy
http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8D1G4gwwVA
3 years, 2 months ago
Food Democracy Webinar!
Dear Friends, join us for the FOOD DEMOCRACY live Webinar where I will be together with Franceska Fr...
3 years, 2 months ago
So this is cool. A project to fight scams/ scamers. So next time you get a scam email, exmpl. someone wants to send you 5 million USD out of nothing send the email you have received to me@rescam.org
But check out this video that explains it all:
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/141287/overcoming-internet-disillusionment-on-the-principles-of-meme-design/
3 years, 6 months ago
Here an interview tactical media guru and director of the Institute of Network culture in Amsterdam Geert Lovink made with me on the addictive power of Memes. It is their crucial nature in my opinion and never it became as explicit as now. It is crucial to understand these characteristics of memes in order to develop responses to the current media environment. There is also a crucial shift in the way visual memes operate and in the very logic of communication design.
http://networkcultures.org/geert/2017/06/22/interview-with-oliver-vodeb-memefest-on-the-addictive-power-of-memes-today/
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/141287/overcoming-internet-disillusionment-on-the-principles-of-meme-design/
3 years, 4 months ago
General Theory of the Precariat
http://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ToD25-Precariat-AlexFoti.pdf
About the book
From the fast-food industry to the sharing economy, precarious work has become the norm in contemporary capitalism, like the anti-globalization movement predicted it would. This book describes how the precariat came into being under neoliberalism and how it has radicalized in response to crisis and austerity. It investigates the political economy of precarity and the historical sociology of the precariat, and discusses movements of precarious youth against oligopoly and oligarchy in Europe, America, and East Asia. Foti covers the three fundamental dates of recent history: the financial crisis of 2008, the political revolutions of 2011, and the national-populist backlash of 2016, to present his class theory of the precariat and the ideology of left-populist movements. Building a theory of capitalist crisis to understand the aftermath of the Great Recession, he outlines political scenarios where the precariat can successfully fight for emancipation, and reverse inequality and environmental destruction. Written by the activist who put precarity on the map of radical thinking, this is the first work proposing a complete theory of the precariat in its actuality and potentiality.
Also, your profile description reads that you teach at Swinburne Uni in Melbourne?! I graduated there early this year. I would love to hear more of your work :)
3 years, 3 months ago
Decolonising research methodology must include undoing its dirty history
https://theconversation.com/decolonising-research-methodology-must-include-undoing-its-dirty-history-83912?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1506445307
3 years, 5 months ago
Hi there friends: I want to share with you a truly wonderful project that is more than worth your attention and support. A few days left to reach the goal of this crowdfunding campaign and your donation could really make the difference. Cups of nun chai is a memorial work for the 118 civilians that died in pro-freedom protests in Indian occupied Kashmir in 2010. One of my favorite art projects. But please see more on the link bellow and please do consider supporting the project financially (you will receive a lot in return)!
https://pozible.com/project/cups-of-nun-chai

3 years, 6 months ago
“Developing dissident knowledges”: Geert Lovink on the Social Media Abyss
http://lagrietaonline.com/developing-dissident-knowledges-geert-lovink-on-the-social-media-abyss/
3 years, 7 months ago
Does Facebook Make Us Unhappy and Unhealthy?
A look at new research covering thousands of adults
https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-facebook-make-us-unhappy-and-unhealthy-1495729227
3 years, 7 months ago
This is a great read: Notes Toward the Memes of Production
https://www.textezurkunst.de/106/notes-toward-memes-production/#id56
[IMG MGMT] What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan


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Alana_Hunt
Name
Alana Hunt
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1984
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2 years, 11 months ago