bertram
RESEARCHER + ARTIST + THEORIST + JOURNALIST + WRITER + NETWORKER
6 years, 10 months ago
Economist Paul Mason's blockbuster manifesto Postcapitalism suggests that markets just can't organize products whose major input isn't labor or material, but information, and that means that, for the first time in history, it's conceivable that we can have a society based on abundance.
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/15/postcapitalism-a-guide-to-our.html
6 years, 10 months ago
Camera Restricta: a wonderful student project, which measures the existing number of photos taken at a particular location and depending on the number may restrict you of taking a photo. But there is more to it: http://philippschmitt.com/projects/camera-restricta

6 years, 11 months ago
India's unusual protests: Pink underwear, poop and snakes
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34125840
6 years, 11 months ago
What’s the common factor between the tragic deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean and the Arab spring? Food shortages driven by global warming
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/18/mass-migration-crisis-refugees-climate-change
6 years, 11 months ago
Crowdfunding Campaign To Pay Fine For Tony Abbott Insult
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/08/25/crowdfunding-tony-abbott_n_8034372.html

6 years, 11 months ago
Radical Intimacies: The Many Different Fruits From Our Dialogue

6 years, 11 months ago
Radical Intimacies: The Many Different Fruits From Our Dialogue
6 years, 11 months ago
One of the weirdest animations I have ever seen - a surrealistic metaphor of contemporary living ... by David OReilly
http://postmatter.com/#/currents/david-oreilly
7 years, 1 month ago
This looks good:
In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism, Ippolita
From the publishers web site:
In their new work research collective Ippolita provides a critical investigation of the inner workings of Facebook as a model for all commercial social networks. Facebook is an extraordinary platform that can generate large profit from the daily activities of its users. Facebook may appear to be a form of free entertainment and self-promotion but in reality its users are working for the development of a new type of market where they trade relationships. As users of social media we have willingly submitted to a vast social, economic and cultural experiment.
By critically examining the theories of Californian right-libertarians, Ippolita show the thread con- necting Facebook to the European Pirate Parties, WikiLeaks and beyond. An important task today is to reverse the logic of radical transparency and apply it to the technologies we use on a daily basis. The algorithms used for online advertising by the new masters of the digital world – Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon – are the same as those used by despotic governments for personalized repression. Ippolita argues we should not give in to the logic of conspiracy or paranoia instead we must seek to develop new ways of autonomous living in our networked society.
Download the book here: http://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TOD15def.pdf

7 years, 1 month ago
" the worst thing you did to us was to make politicians out of all of us"

7 years, 1 month ago
"THe link is not working!..."
7 years, 1 month ago
Here is some serious Drone investigation:
http://citizendroneproject.com/drone-investigation-videos/
Good to see more of it!

7 years, 1 month ago
Memefest Cuba! Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times

7 years, 1 month ago
"Good luck with the workshop!!!..."

7 years, 2 months ago
"U.S.-Cuba deal expected in early July to restore ties, reopen embassies
http://www.reuters.com/ar..."

7 years, 2 months ago
Memefest Cuba! Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Memefest Workshop: Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Ins...

7 years, 2 months ago
Imaginary POSTERS : MAPPING Workshops
London College of Communication
Wed 10th June
– 16.00 in room D209
Lecture by Oliver Vodeb:...


Username
bertram
Name
bertram niessen
Birth year
1979
Gender
male
Country
Italy
Website
http://b3rtramni3ss3n.wordpress.com/
Description
Bertram Niessen is an electronic artist, teacher and sociologist. In 2001 he has been founding member of the Milan-based experimental collective otolab with whom he investigates visual dramaturgic representation of sound. He teaches theories, methodologies and tecniques of the audiovisual performance at NABA in Milan, LABA in Brescia and in several other seminars and courses around Italy. He holds a PhD in Urban European Studies at the University of Miano-Bicocca (UNIMIB); his research in urban sociology investigates the relationships among city, creative economy and social innovation processes, with a special focus on artists co-optation in post-fordist economies (the title of his PhD thesis was "Going Commercial: Integration of underground artists in Milan and Berlin”). Now he is a post-doc researcher at the University of Milan (UNIMI) and works on the EU funded project EDUFASHION, dealing with P2P economies, crowdsourcing and fashion. As a sociologist he held several graduate and post-graduate courses in methodology, sociology of culture, urban sociology and new technologies for social sciences.
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
non conventional communication; the relationship between signs and actions.
Faculty
Università Statale degli Studi di Milano
Education
sociologist
Working place
Università Statale degli Studi di Milano
