Research Journal of Armin Medosch

Die imaginäre Zukunft oder: wie Versionen der Zukunft aus der Vergangenheit die Gegenwart bestimmen.

Eine Rezension des Buches “Imaginary Futures” von Richard Barbrook.

Als sich die USA in der Ära des Kalten Krieges auf eine Spirale des Wettrüstens mit der Sowjetunion einließen, tobte zugleich auch ein ideologischer Kampf. Die Führungsschichten beider Seiten versuchten, indem sie den Anspruch auf die Zukunft erhoben, auch die Gegenwart zu dominieren. Die Sowjetunion hatte dabei den Vorteil, das von einer Befreiungs-Utopie geprägte Geschichtsbild des Marxismus auf ihrer Seite zu haben.

Night and Day: Inside Nerdcore Central

Let me put it this way: generally speaking there are things implicit and things explicit -- and at the hackmeeting the overwhelming majority of things to know and find out were implicit. It is in the nature of the self-organised event with flat, or, rather no hierarchies that those things that matter do usually not come with a large banner in human readable code that explains everything. There is not really a spokesperson, there are few figureheads, even fame is implicit, is something to be known and shared between insiders. What is to be found out is mostly based on direct human relationships. Everything else is largely a question of the 'vibe'.

10 Years of Nerdcore: Hackmeeting in Pisa

This year the annual Italian hackmeeting happens for the 10th time. On September 28, 29 and 30 the various hacker tribes of Italy descend on the historic city if Pisa. Hosted by the social centre Rebeldia 5 minutes walk from the train station the meeting continues the tradition of self-organisation. As opposed to other fairly expensives hacker campings further north financial contributions here are entirely voluntary and in return participants are actually expected to share some of the work.

Parallelwelten

[Eine deutlich verbesserte Fassung dieses Artikels ist erschienen in Futurezone: http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/224793/ ]

Nothing New in Spook Central

According to reports in tech gazettes there is nothing new
regarding the cyberspooks from the NSA: they still want to monitor and control all the information on the net.

Wireless Community Weekend and 45RPM

Last weekend, Saturday 15th of September, a wireless community weekend was held in the rooms of the former MedienKunstlabor at Kunsthaus Graz. Wireless community networkers from Funkfeuer Wien, Graz and Bad Ischl met with guests from Berlin (B.A.T.M.A.N) and Italy/Netsukuku.

Research Journals launched on Next Layer Website

Today, with the help of Lo-res-ers X alias Chris Kummerer and Aaron Kaplan I have been able to install The Next Layer website using Drupal. 6 hours later and we have already got users and content, a newsletter and a contact form, I am using the video to brain DVD by Hagen Graf. I was sceptical at first but must say it is an excellent tool to learn this software. It is not cheap but the Drupal developer community also benefoits financially with a small percentage of the price.

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