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{ thx to Mini Matika for putting us on this track }

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” The grumpy G8 (10) in Ireland slaughter The Monolith from 2001, which will be stuffed and put on the wall at the hunting lodge.” XLt analyst.

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Many have pondered the meaning of Kubrick and Clarke’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, and one of its most profound and mysterious plot elements is The Monolith, which appears three times: Once at a prehistoric moment on earth amongst the apes ( who learn to use tools, to kill ); Next on the moon, and third floating above Jupiter.

Many have proposed the theory that it is an alien technology, and interviews w/ Clarke confirm the idea that he was working from the premise of a kind of alien beacon that would alert or warn the galaxy when the human species had reached a certain point in evolution.

Kubrick took this thread and turned it into a much more ambiguous presence in the film, which could relate to many things – from alien presence, to a mystical deity, to a kind of void, or some portal in time and space.

Certainly no one ever expected it to reappear in Ireland in 2013, lying under the feet of a tie-less G8, posing for a fotoshoot at this epic moment of flailing global governance.

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Please standby, the XLterrestrials are running this bizarre artefact through our own Prism analysis machine.

Please feel free to speculate with us, the possible meanings… Here’s some hypotheses germinating thus far:

- Does this signify the End of Neo-liberal space/time ?!

- The humans species has reached an evolutionary dead-end ?

- The machinations of Secret Government have now made their stupidity utterly transparent to all ?!

- The monolith represents the internet, which is kind of like a melting polar ice cap ( only black and infinitely disappearing ) ?!

- The grumpy cat meme is going to eat us all !! ( XLterrestrial colleagues in the UK have already made A VIRAL CLIP proposing such an ominous social catastrophe ahead. )

- #PRISM #SNOWDEN #DRONES #Guantanamo #DataMelt … What else are we sweeping under the carpet ??!

- Turkey and Brasil are currently what the state of democracies on earth now look like, and this little show in Ireland was so disingenuous, tired, dull and irrelevant, that they even forgot to send Bono his ticket ?!!

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Surely these themes and more will be investigated at our next CiTiZEN KiNO:

< 27.06 > CiTiZEN KiNO #26 : Anthropocene, Indigenous, Aliens – PART 2, at Panke in Wedding

the fedbook invite – more info coming soon !

tbc…

{ remxd from Francesco+Romoli , C-Kino #26: coming soon !}

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< 21.06 > Fête de la musique, everywhere

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< 21.06 > Fête de la hip hop at Panke in Wedding

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< 21.06 > 10 years of Buchhandlung Cafe ( on Fbook ) , Tucholskystr. street party @ August str. – w/ dj/vj Podinski, Tony Schorle, Loop Rider and Marton et Richard Duo, and more to be announced…

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< 21-22.06 > Taste Of Freedom Festival, Keller – Neukoelln

Featuring screenings, workshops, debate, circus, fire , food… and music from the likes of Ministry of Dub-Key – CHECK THIS ! ,… Beautiful !

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< 27.06 > CiTiZEN KiNO #26 : Anthropocene, Indigenous, Aliens – PART 2, at Panke

the fedbook invite – more info coming soon !

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tbc…

{ via Marie D. Thxx ! }

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There’s such massive shockwaves following Edward Snowden leaks, we don’t have enough time to keep up with all the angles ( much less add our own commentary),  but at the very least we’ll grab a few highlights as they fly by…

So what happens when empire is caught with its fingers in EVERYONE’s cookie jar ?! These are wild times …. Pay very close attention:

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More Greenwald Updates … ( i.e. European leaders reacting )

Robert Scheer’s  One American Who Isn’t For Sale

The Massive Online Surveillance Program No One Is Talking About ( the Blarney program )

World leaders seek answers on US collection of communication data

Brian Holmes’ From The Margins To The Center

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ACTIONS/DEMANDS :

86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying (via EFF )

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Media Self-defense ( protecting your privacy ):

NSA surveillance: is it possible to exist online without casting a digital shadow? ( good list of resources )

Prism-Break ( interesting, not yet researched )

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Oddities:

Obama Is Checking Your Email

Scene from Good Will Hunting: Why Shouldn’t I Work For The NSA?

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And if you’re just tuning in, or want to catch more additions to the Memes section in Data Meltdown v.1 … These are low-level ( + low-risk ) information tools that everyone can feel comfortable about spreading. We hardly recommend remaining in your comfort zones in these volatile times, but these help get the average citizens ( non-activated ) reading into and understanding more about why these are such crucial issues for … keeping democracies alive … and safely navigating the “data world meltdown” ! And one might call them good counter-propaganda to keep our  autonomous brains on high alert !

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And we’d like to recommend following Seismologik Intelligence – on the fedbook or website ( tho that’s just a pic depository ) . They point to a bucketload of serious anlaysis… without losing a sense of humor. Plus they’re simultaneously keeping a good flow of news from the situations in Turkey, where the shit’s hitting the fan AGAIN.

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ok, on the run… back to Other work… more later…

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{ via artist Topsy Qu’ret }

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Added : Big Breaking News: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

We’ll begin collecting articles here re: the latest leaked news of govt. data collection in the US…and beyond ! And of course we’ve got plenty to say about it, but for now we’re compiling some insider+outsider views… Cause this can only get MOre SUrreal as the details come to light … Please feel free to share links with us…

So what’s new ??!

:: Series: Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty Previous | Next | Index NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

:: NSA built backdoor in all windows by 1999

:: Obama defends internet surveillance programmes – video

:: Facebook and Google insist they did not know of Prism surveillance program

:: Thank You, Unknown Patriot, For Exposing The Spying On Verizon Customers

:: 10 Things Americans Underestimate About Our Massive Surveillance State

:: PRISM: Here’s how the NSA wiretapped the Internet

:: Assange on PRISM: US justice system in ‘calamitous’ collapse — RT News

auf Deutsch:

:: Gespräch mit Frank Rieger vom CCC, Der Zugriff auf die Informationen ist total

Orgs :

https://www.eff.org/

http://www.laquadrature.net/

http://www.foebud.org/

https://immi.is/

http://www.ccc.de/

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Actions:

:: Demand Progress, Defund New NSA Spy Center

( … for whatever petitions are worth in this situation. )

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Added: Information + Memes to Spread !

NSA Surveillance as told through children’s books ( initiated by @darth of Darth’s Shake )

Nerdcore’s remix of Shephard Fairy’s “Yes We Scan” ( and ALOT More links on the subject )

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Visualizations + Juxtapositions:

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work-in-progress

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Note: And let’s not let this disempower or distract us too much from other things we can and should be doing … and all the possibilities we have at our immediate disposal for taking action… and creating change !

And let’s not let the story of the Bradley Manning trial, nor the tales of the brave citizens of Turkey challenging the oppressive systems, etc… be lost in the flood of all this data world crap… Stay embodied :)

{ dj/vj Psycow at CdPV }

< 07-08.13 > Festival der Europaischer Versager at Club der Polnischen Versager, B-mitte.

Download the program list of all the crazy bits put together by the mad CdPV team at the link above. From concerts, discussions, kabarett, tombollas, djs/vjs… ( podinski vs. Psycow1 ) … breakfast… and of course fully vodkatizing bar hosts.

Sure to be a wild n wooly celebration w/ them crazy polska amigo/as at The Festival of Europaischer Versager

[ (de) Versagen: to flop ]

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more sSstuff to come! we’re a little busy right now…. getting our psyCow make-up on…

{ Resistanbul, see twitter info + Warning below }

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The resistance in Turkey is still exploding, and now’s the point where critical analysis + information flows remain crucial… So below are some resources to support the peoples’ long haul struggles there ( and solidarity everywhere ), and stay informed…

+ PLEASE SEND US YOUR LINKS + RESOURCES for us to repost here… in comments section or write to us at XLetterestrials.

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If you’re just tuning in to this story, or just want to see a good summary of the first week of the uprising(s), have a look at This Clip : THE FIRST WEEK OF RESISTANCE IN ISTANBUL…

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And here’s a minute by minute update or “ticker” ( as it’s called in german) on #occupygezi here http://turkishspring.nadir.org/index_eng.html in several languages :-)

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Social Media + Net Communications

Warning: Beware Corporate Social Media tools ! Without getting into the details here – one should be very cautious re: fbook + twitter in volatile situations, as the extent of data traceability ( and how our data is + will be utilized by govts. ) is always an expanding problem. If you are Very Active, and not yet versed in security and privacy measures and encryption, we recommend The Tactical Tech Collective’s Security-In-A-Box and other resources available there… ( it’s complex, but conveyed simply for a variety of situations, as best as possible. note: time investment required ! ).

** Please read news item re: twitter users in Turkey. Below.

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Twitters to follow :

#OccupyGezi #direngeziparki #solidaritygezi #direnankara

#occupy #gezi #taksim #istanbul

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@OccupyGezi :: @Occupy Gezi (pics) :: @Ecumenopolis :: ( more coming )

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Fbook sites to follow:

Occupy Gezi

Diren Gezi Park

HalteDurchTurkei ( de )

more coming soon !

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{ library at occupy gezi }

Reports, Analysis, Etc.

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Analysis from a home-grown istanbuler ( w/ indymedia roots ) at Counterpunch.org

And here’s a blog in eng – Mashalla News – Gezi Park Occupation – that was recommended by some comrades from the balkan region…

The statement of the Turkish protesters (in seven languages):
http://eagainst.com/articles/occupygezi/

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- auf Deutsch -

Online Aktivisten : Proteste in Istanbul – Linksammlung

Ein Interview mit der türkischen Stadtforscherin Ay&#351;e Çavdar von Ende
2012 findet ihr hier:
http://infobrief-tuerkei.blogspot.de/2012/12/raus-aus-den-hutten-palaste-fur-euch.html

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{ via ctrl, alt, delete }

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If we have time, we’d like to analyze the neo-liberal metropolis situations global-wide … this image resonated as we watch Tayyip continue to bullshit his way through the crisis.  And recently watched the film Ekumenopolis at the Globale Festival… ( Watch in full, w/ eng subtitles ) which is Great backround to why Istanbul erupted and an important tale for all of us in these new + intensified Urban Colonial Cages.

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** We do not wish to create paranoia, and we’d like to find more confirmation of these stories, but The Atlantic Wire reports Dozens Arrested For Using Twitter … and another report here.

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Added XLt perspective: while many will laugh that Erdogan appears to be both incredibly arrogant and clueless regarding the internet and social media, it can be expected that any well-funded Intelligence agency in Turkey – who can hire outside companies if needed – will surely be utilizing data grabs profusely for analysis, monitoring (and ?). Erdogan’s silly publicly staged remarks should in no way give anyone any comfort that you might be ahead of the game; Turkish authorities are surely working overtime to navigate big data + surveillance tools.

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ART + MUSIC WINS (almost always) !

Kardes Türküler – Tencere Tava Havas? (Sound of Pots and Pans)

Kardes Türküler (translated Songs of Fraternity) – home page

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>> NEWS UPDATES >>

This translation of Erdogan’s speech upon his return from Africa, is a sign that a massive collision of wills will continue:

http://www.yesilgazete.org/blog/2013/06/07/defiant-erdogan-returns-from-africa/

{ pic possibly from Gezi Park, Istanbul }

We’ll come back to update this later, but there’s international solidarity day – 01.06.13 – for Bradley Manning … and if your in Berlin see below…

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{ http://www.freebradleymanning.net/ }

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And as things are heating up in Turkey, a call for a demonstration at 17h, also today – 01.06.13 – at Kottbusser Tor in solidarity with Istanbul and “Occupy Gezi” … the park that they are attempting to turn into a shopping mall, has triggered 4-5 successive days of action, and violent police reactions.

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and more of a look ahead … coming soon !

{ ancient/modern | i/o }

< 30.05 > XLterrestrials present CiTiZEN KiNO #25: Anthropocene, Indigenous, Aliens + + a Fundraiser afterparty at Panke, Berlin

20:00h – Voku / dinner
21:00h – C-kino begins
23:00h – afterparty

spende / donation

( the fedbook invite, if you’re so inclined. )

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“CiTiZEN KiNO is cinema hacking. We don’t just watch ! Navigated and performed by XLterrestrials, we’ve come to de-colonize your culture ! … coming soon to a theater near you !” ( invite us! have ship, will travel. )

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CiTiZEN KiNO #25: Anthropocene, Indigenous, Aliens … explores the conflicts escalating between the anthropocene and the indigenous … and adds another layer of complexity by infusing the crises with the X-factor of ‘Aliens’. Aliens being either we ourselves, illegals, and/or as in returning from the cashing-out future to become pre-(post-)moderns…  Or the Other possibility, an intervening outside intelligence.

Be prepared for our most ambitiously freaky Kino experiments yet… and more concepts to be gathered and put on display this week as we prepare the psychomedia mash-up.

Some bits we’ve gathered and considering thus far: sections from Adam Curtis’ All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancocks’ TEd-X controversy, Facebook’s Home Launch commercial, various Jodorowsky bits including the trailer for his new Dance Of Reality, bits from Sirius, the new doc on alien encounters, Michio Kaku on 3 types of civilization, etc… more coming soon.

We also will try to include a little analysis of the “Whole Earth, Disappearance of The Outside” exhibition, and Haus der Kulturen Der Welt’s focus on Anthropocene themes. And some of our issues which came up during the Re:publica13 conference, i.e. Was it another technotopian schmooze fest ?!

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We know the subject is broad and still very ambiguous, but feel free to make some suggestions.

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< ANd > we’re putting together a fundraiser afterparty to follow the C-Kino program w/ the extraordinary dj Elmo Lewis ( Dusty Ballroom/ Fuchs und Elster ) + Shazam,  + Podinski and Podmosis… XLterrestrial Vjs … and more to be added ??

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a.) trailer for La danza de la realidad (dance of reality ), b.) military drone x47b c.) Clayton Cubitt’s Hysterical Literature d.) Russian trailer for Pervert’s Guide To Cinema w/ Slavoj Zizek

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Here’s a possible playlist for CK#25, in no particular order:

Sections from Adam Curtis’ All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancocks’ TEd-X controversy, Facebook’s Home Launch commercial, trailer for Jodorowsky new Dance Of Reality + his ‘Panic’ theater days (1968), bits from Sirius, the new doc on alien encounters, Michio Kaku on 3 types of civilization, Clayton Cubitt’s Hysterical Literature, Tom Scott’s “Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers” , The Poke’s “The Internet: A Warning From History”, bits from “Resonance – Beings of frequency” ( full clip here ), excerpts from BBCs Natural World 25th anniversary , Bernd M. Scherer with Akeel Bilgrami on The Anthropocene Project…

New Additions: “The New Inquisition” from Robert A. Wilson, Daarpa’s Humanoid Robots, Richard Dawkins’ ” The Magic of Reality”, Lee Camps’ ” The Most Dangerous Discussion in The World”, ” Naked Citizens” from Journeyman Pictures.

And many more…

We’ll attempt to make some links available if time allows. Please note: the idea here is to develop an “open source” program, where anyone can utilize the programs/themes we’ve constructed, to perform one’s own cinema hackings. But the CiTiZEN KiNO concepts are not encouraging one watch YET MORE films in an online cubical-ized form, but rather navigate them in community settings where they can be shared in realspace, (re-)contextualized, and made sense of via collective intelligence. One, so that we can construct meaningful social responses and Two, perhaps devise an escape route from the information overload and the colonizing Net/Spectacle.

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Standby for the deeper subtext for CiTiZEN KiNO #25: Anthropocene, Indigenous, Aliens ! …

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So dearest art organisms, we’re still in fundraiser mode, so if you’re into keeping the XLterrestrials on the frontlines of fertile resistance, and busy seeding the higher intelligence upgrades, now’s the TIME! Contact us Here, and ask how you can help!

And Berlin is overflowing with incredible events to catch… But let’s not get tooooo lost in the art without the Praxis, party time without the solidarity, deep knowledge without the realspace experiences, the hardcore struggles without some victories, compassion without Action. The times are calling for us to take care and protect our seriously endangered planet and re-route our devolving society !

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So we’ll try a little different format of listing blurbs… providing the dates first, (non-chron)… and then more detailed info on selected events below…

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< 30.05 > XLt presents CiTiZEN KinO #25 + Fundraiser party at Panke

< 18.05 > Eric Drooker at Koepi ( Fb invite, or see below )

<18.05> Carnival of Subculture, Koepi

< 17-19.o5 > Karneval, Kreuzberg

< 18.05 > Kotti and Co. + MieteStopp Demo !

< MAY > MPA- Month Of Performing Arts festival

< 25.05 > March Against Monsanto, everywhere !

< 30.05-1.06 > Hedonist International

< 21.05 > Buchee Strassenfest, 10 years Buchhandlung Cafe ( for Fete de la Musique)

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{ modern Re:publican Times }

Re:publica13 in industry loop mode ?!

< 06-08.05 > Re:Publica 13 – In/Side/Out , at Station Berlin

on twitter: #rp13

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Why re-rant? XLterrestrials + Charlie Chaplin ;) may have already assessed the crisis in 2012 and 1936, and since Re:publica13 – one of Germany’s largest digital culture conferences – seems to be in loop mode, last year’s analysis may be useful, if not sufficient…  http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=8776

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But stand by, we’re working on some fresher analysis… and there were some good sessions on Tuesday w/ peeps like Trebor Scholz and Joel Dullroy regarding Digital Labor and Freelancer rights, respectively… Brigitta Jonsdottir on the state of creating Iceland’s constitution and its missed chances (?) for participatory democracy and a real revolution…  Tactical Tech Collective’s exceptional version of media self-defense ! … Penny Red on cybersexism… Cory Doctorow’s fascinating rally for cyber-utopians ( which could be considered THe Internetz version of Clint Eastwood debating an empty Evgeny Morozov chair ) … and many others who Are on the cutting edge of the battle for a better, free-er net… ( no laughing please, the situation is freakin dire ! ).

There definitely seems to be a lack of heavy-hitting overviews, and way too much schmoozing and tango-ing with corporate-capital-capture players ( Windows8 sponsor !??… f*ck did the short-attention span netizens already forget again their brief computer/empire/colonial history?? Daimler sponsor ??! After the meat industry, the auto industry is in a close 2nd or 3rd place for melting the ice caps !!!  )… What’s wrong with this picture ?!!!

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{ tennessee e.ford }

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a podinski RT: “ya load 16 gigs and whatya get, another day older and deeper interdebt” …. #rp13…

Have a listen to Tennessee Ernie Fords “16 tons” as a preface to Penny Red’s article below… particularly hilarious clip as the tables of businessMen snap their fingers… Ok, maybe a cheap shot, as your digital slavery certainly got it better in the days of laptops compared to coal mines. But it is not really so difficult to imagine many who will not be reading this, not accessing the warm n’ fuzzy wave of technotopia, those outside Fortress Europe who ARE still in the mines providing you with the materials for your gadgets… for example.

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But even for those on the digital insides – think in-the-belly of the i-beast – T.E.Ford’s 16 Tons song should still provide a quite eerie perspective to consider as a digital worker, an oh-so-savvy netizen, the myraid ways you may be going deeper into “Interdebt” … owing your soul to the company store ?!! Think about it!

[ Might be fun to transpose the lyrics to these digital culture days, if anyone likes to work with us on a Dubstep-ish remix, get in touch ]

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A great piece for the XLterrestrials to DECONSTRUCT as a preface to analyzing Germany’s big digital culture meet-up,  while the XLterrestrials gather the data on the digi-hive mind(s), the various speakers + sessions…  is Penny Red’s latest Guardian article, which pretty much synchs with the problems we often find inherent in Re:publica conferences and other net industry gatherings …

Internet detox promotes the myth of web toxicity The fashion for communications fasting relies on a false distinction between the digital and real world

We usually admire her fiery analysis, but here’s our initial response:

We don’t think it’s possible to debunk the fact that there are numerous and severe forms of techno-toxicity, to be more general, in our culture 2day. Her concluding line is easy to take apart “Communications technology, though, can’t “corrupt your soul”…

To begin with the cartoon religions that the west ( increasingly secularized, instrumentalized and fundamentalized ) has stewed in over the years, certainly makes the idea of “soul” already an unsavory grease pit, and laughable. BUt more to the point of this article and where it’s off, technologies sure as hell can and do shape society and its citizens! And at the current rate of being gamed by corporate platforms, autonomy + liberation look further away thru the gadget lenses than ever !

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And we’ll try and come back to all those labor issues, precarity, surveillance state, corporate capture, etc. in the technosphere.

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So is anyone at #rp13 filling the muuuuuch needed Evgeny Morozov shoes ?!!! He unfortunately cancelled, and as yet we haven’t found anyone sufficiently breaking down the technotopian delusions.

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{ thx to Telekommunisten }

< TONITE 7.5 >  we:publica | wii:publica | de:re:publica :::: 2nite at telekommunisten stammtisch, at Buchhandlung Cafe …. dj/v/xj podinski after 22h… til 2? … pirates, xlterrestrials, hedonists, psychomedia analysts, quadratures, etc… come join the auseinandersetzung !

As TK’s Baruch G. says, “Has democracy ever been more elite? Has change ever been more status quo? Have ideas ever been more industrial? Has having ‘keine Ahnung’ ( no clue) ever been more ‘de rigueur’? Not at we:publica! Tuesday May 7th from 9pm at Buchhandlung Caffetteria Bar. Don’t miss it!”

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Note for Berliners: Buchhandlung Caffetteria Bar – a kiez culture kantina – one of the few community locales left in a highly gentrified area of Berlin Mitte – celebrating 10 years on June 1st – is now on Fedbook + Twitter, if yur on em… LIKE EM ! One of our sponsors : )

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Added: Cory Doctorow’s talk ( and many others ) are now popping up online, so we’re catching up on important things we missed. But for us Cory’s talk is the quintessential cyber-utopian position to analyze and deconstruct. In it he says EVERYTHING is going to be done with a computer, EVERYTHING will require a computer. The Internet is our central nervous system…

But XLterrestrials might ask, “NET as ‘cntrl nervous system’?! Is that an IT indstry prosthetic n.sys colonizing one humans/lifeforms already got?! #rp13

ANd speaking of ” (not) a fax machine connected to a waffle iron” (talk title) , there’s a point at the end of his talk in the Q+A, where in his deregulatory zeal, his euphoria for technological innovators, WAFFLES completely in regards to reigning in deadly drone technologies… So it seems there’s a lot here to go deeper than the pep rally for IT ‘rebels’, and ask some serious Global Citizen questions !!

So we are working on articulating these position, stand by for RP13 Industry Loop Mode v.2 : Lifeforms vs. Techforms

tbc…