Time was, media producers put all their effort into completing media. They spent months and years producing TV shows and movies and photographs and paintings and CDs, and when they finally released their work and it was seen (or heard) by an audience that was considered the end of the cycle. The work was complete.... Continue Reading →
Tunisian Revolutionary Slim Amamou Breaks Down OS3 Culture
This morning I had the great fortune to tune into the latter part of a talk given in Stockholm by Tunisian web activist and revolutionary Slim Amamou, as part of the ambitious Net4Change conference being held there today. The live feed is available here: http://juliagruppen.se/lang/en/nyheter/ Slim Amamou is a programmer who was arrested in 2010... Continue Reading →
David Suzuki Gets It Right @ Occupy Vancouver
I have been talking about the need for leadership from the digital sphere to offer new models and strategies for the Occupy movement, strategies that are not reactive and not based on 'fixing' the existing financial system. But we also need leadership from oral elders who can reorient the Occupy movement away from self-defeating aims... Continue Reading →
Occupy The Internet!
The OWS movement keeps growing. More and more people keep celebrating resistance, protesting against corporate greed, getting arrested, speechifying, and making excellent media. Yesterday some Egyptians who had been involved in the Tahrir Square revolution put in an appearance and further stoked the flames of inspiration. Huzzah! Yet I worry. For all their energy, the... Continue Reading →
Occupy Wall Street – The Bad, The Good and the Uncertain – Part 3
Part 3 - The Uncertain (previously: The Bad) (previously: The Good) Strangely enough I want to start with certainties. Knowing what I know about Occupy Wall Street should help me to know what I don't know. So what am I reasonably certain about? I am certain that America is approaching the status of Police State,... Continue Reading →
Occupying Wall Street – The Bad, The Good and the Uncertain – Part 2
Part 2 - The Good (previously: The Bad) Saturday was a glorious fall day with blue skies and bright sunshine. At 3:30 pm I was in The New Schools' Wollman Hall, having just given a talk on post-literate activism at the Mobility Shifts conference, when we started to hear the unmistakable sounds of the Global... Continue Reading →
Occupying Wall Street – The Bad, The Good and The Uncertain
PART 1 - The Bad Cops, cops and more cops. Cops on horses. Cops in vans. Cops on motorcycles. Cops on scooters. Cops in paddywagons. Cops on foot. Cops on bikes. Cops in portable security towers. Cops everywhere. Watching. Waiting. Working. Thoroughly controlling the park perimeter. So much so that entering the park felt a... Continue Reading →
My Mobility Shifts Talk
MY MOBILITY SHIFTS TALK You are a tree. You are a bird. You are a fish. You are a flower. You are a cloud. You are a baby. Every atom that comprises you, each of you, all of us, has at one time been a tree, a bird, a fish, a flower, a cloud, a... Continue Reading →
Students talk IP @ New School
I just came from an interesting if perplexing session led by 4 New School students as part of Mobility Shifts. I didn't see the whole presentation but I did catch a discussion focused on Intellectual property and these students' desire to promote more 'open source' approaches at The New School. It was perplexing because while... Continue Reading →
The Army of Love and Software – NY update 1
So I've been in New York for a few hours now and plan to head down to do my Public Gifting action at Occupy Wall Street this evening (Friday) after I attend a talk by Geert Lovink at the New School. Yesterday, Geert, a Dutch new media activist, and his collaborator Franco Berardi released an... Continue Reading →
YOU ARE YOUR MEDIA 