Video of the presentation by Steve Wright (UK) at The Need to Know event 22nd November 2013 The Drift Towards Universal Surveillance: on the new age of truly global surveillance…
World-Information Institute Posts
Felix Stalder’s extended essay, Digital Solidarity, responds to the wave of new forms of networked organisation emerging from and colliding with the global economic crisis of 2008. Across the globe,…
December 5th-8th, berlinergazette.de in collaboration with Heinrich-Böll Foundation – 2 Days with international activists on “Whatever happened to journalism?” and “Whatever happened to Privacy?”
Konrad Becker Keynote on “Cultural Intelligence and Digital Control Revolutions”:
“A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.” K.E.Tsiolkovsky
The Out of the Craddle Symposium at KSEVT Slovenia rethinks the human position within the technological, social and natural processes, the position which enables understanding of the deep and close surroundings – Space and Earth.
Konrad Becker on: “Strategic Space Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence”
Fr. 22. November 2013 – 19:30, IG Architektur, Gumpendorferstraße 63b, 1060 Vienna
The Drift Towards Universal Surveillance:
Steve Wright (UK) on the new age of truly global surveillance and tracking with state capability sets that even the Stasi and George Orwell did not imagine. What are the long term, social and political ramifications of such capabilities and how can we successfully resist when they go beyond the limits of the law?
We Should Take Nothing for Granted:
On the building of alert and knowledgeable citizenry. Dr. Bruno Taut (RU) will explore the depths, perils, challenges and the bliss of the decrypted century.
Screening: Marko Peljhan (SI/US) presents documents from the SPEKTR! Vaults
Presentations with Felix Stalder on “The War of Data against Communication” and Konrad Becker on “Cultural Intelligence: Tactics-Strategy-Operations” at the Embros Theater Athens. The poster shows the historical cover of…
WII on the panel “Contemporary Practices in Art: Technology, Digital Media and Social Creativity” at the conference on “Innovative, Open and Economically Sustainable Models of Creative Production” in Athens: Felix…
Uschi Reiter: With the Snowden affair the Internet as space for surveillance has reached a wider public. This incident and the excitement it caused hasn’t brought about any major withdrawal…
NPK Netzpolitischer Konvent der Österreichischen Zivilgesellschaft / Netpolitical Convent of Austrian Civil Society – online (in German)
Short documentary of Shared Digital Futures “Shared Digital Futures” was a conference to explore the impact of digital network technologies for cultural production in Vienna, June 2013.