
2 years, 9 months ago
"Here the latest on Black Yield Institute, published by Civil Eats:
https://tinyurl.com/y2ephb4c..."

2 years, 9 months ago
"Hello Pamela @mxpjthompson, thanks for sharing about the work you have been doing with your students..."

2 years, 9 months ago
"I Love Kevin's take on food and its relation to community, commoning and the potentials, which are i..."

2 years, 9 months ago
"And hi again...so, we are very excited and looking forward to come and join you in Baltimore to inve..."

2 years, 9 months ago
"Hi everybody! Very much looking forward to it all. I will write more later but for now here are some..."

2 years, 9 months ago
Baltimore’s Food Apartheid: A pre-workshop preparation session

2 years, 9 months ago
"Hi to everyone in Baltimore and to Memefest community around the globe. I am one of the members of M..."
2 years, 9 months ago
We checked 100 years of protests in 150 countries. Here’s what we learned about the working class and democracy.
The success of mass protests depends on who is doing the protesting.
'...Industrial workers have been key agents of democratization and, if anything, are even more important than the urban middle classes. When industrial workers mobilize mass opposition against a dictatorship, democratization is very likely to follow.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/24/we-checked-years-protests-countries-heres-what-we-learned-about-working-class-democracy/
2 years, 10 months ago
Wearable face projector, projects a face onto your face and tricks the face recognition surveillance technology:
https://tinyurl.com/yx9v6977

2 years, 10 months ago
How to Be an Anticapitalist today? The brilliant sociologist, late Eric Olin Wright:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/erik-olin-wright-real-utopias-anticapitalism-democracy/?fbclid=IwAR2xVnbY0JZqg1gRJDxlKBWYPRUxpijD0onLf6BUQ-2eeud0o5_IMGVWpuQ

2 years, 11 months ago
An audio-visual archival resource focusing on radical activism around Australia, particularly during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (although resources are not restricted exclusively to this time period).
The archive recovers "lost" and rare independent Australian documentaries (also vérité footage of historical significance) in order to preserve these films, videos and audio for posterity before they reach end of life and disappear permanently.
The focus is on visual/aural material.....the archive currently has 204 film streams and 91 audio streams.
http://radicaltimes.info/


2 years, 11 months ago
"This is cool too:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49582520..."

3 years ago
"Nice one, thanks for sharing ROk!
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3 years ago
There is a reason we call each other "comrades" and not "friends" on the Memefest network.
Here a new book From Jodi Dean: Comrade
An Essay on Political Belonging
When people say “comrade”, they change the world
In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as “comrade”. Now, it’s more common to hear talk of “allies” on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relation of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defended.
In Comrade, Dean offers a theory of the comrade. Comrades are equals on the same side of a political struggle. Voluntarily coming together in the struggle for justice, their relationship is characterised by discipline, joy, courage, and enthusiasm. Considering the generic egalitarianism of the comrade in light of differences of race and gender, Dean draws from an array of historical and literary examples such as Harry Haywood, C.L.R James, Alexandra Kollontai, and Doris Lessing. She argues that if we are to be a left at all, we have to be comrades.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3060-comrade
3 years ago
"During the introduction of a recent speech by Donald Trump at Turning Point USA Teen Student Action Summit, someone — reportedly by accident and has since been fired from Turning Point — pasted into the slides a 2016 faux seal created by Charles Leazott that features an eagle holding wads of cash and golf clubs with a ribbon that says, in Spanish, “45 is a Puppet”. Score one for the resistance."
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/45_is_a_puppet.php

3 years, 1 month ago
For those who are interested in how to build and run a small social network site, certainly an alternative to Facebook or Twitter, here is a great guide:
https://runyourown.social
"Keeping the social network sites small is essential for customization that will meet everyone's needs. Kazemi doesn't suggest going over 100 users. Smaller communities are easier to manage both technically and socially, but it also creates an intimacy where it's possible to know everyone in the group, creating a truly private, curated space. "
Full article here:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmjde/facebook-and-twitter-suck-so-heres-how-to-make-your-own-social-media-network
3 years, 1 month ago
Donald Weber writes about photography as a discipline, profession and practice, which still has a long journey to make for to be able to think the conditions of its own production. This work is part of a larger body of work Donald and I are developing, one day it will be a book. A next text related to the ideas Donald is talking about here is in the making. Highly recommended reading!
https://tinyurl.com/y6d9fhtg


3 years, 1 month ago
"@Bernadette- you mean from 'Global Liberal Media" into "Democratic Media"?..."

3 years, 2 months ago
"Thanks for this SanFrancisco- if you have any more examples on Culture Jamming coming from Argentina..."
3 years, 2 months ago
The Baffler on Spotify and how its main value for brands and advertisers is to know really a lot about our emotional states via their mood based playlists.
https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly



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Name
Oscar Villota
Birth year
1985
Gender
male
Country
Colombia
Website
http://oscarvillota.blogspot.com/
Description
Visual Designer from the University of Caldas, in Colombia. Currently, a Communicational Design master degree (DiCom) student, at the University of Buenos Aires, in Argentina //////// Diseñador visual de la Universidad de Caldas en Colombia. Actualmente estudiante de la maestría en Diseño Comunicacional (DiCom) de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
get into an academic community interested in the study of communication and follow theoretical exploration of the image and design //////// Entrar en una comunidad académica interesada en el estudio de la comunicación y seguir en la exploración del área teórica del diseño y la imagen.
Faculty
DiCom (FADU-UBA)
Education
Visual Designer

3 years ago
Cheers