Research

A piece of documentation about research work done

SPAZMs on the Uncommons

Submitted by doll_yoko on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 07:54

SPAZ | Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zones

In 1985 the anarchist philosopher, poet and activist Hakim Bey wrote a small but influential book called Temporary Autonomous Zone (or TAZ). Bey proposed the political necessity for the creation of autonomous, horizontally-organised process-oriented productive spaces.(1) The temporary nature of alternative initiatives was crucial, ensuring creative dynamism and an inbuilt resistance to corruption and ossification. TAZ became a kind of a manifesto and blueprint within various activist communities worldwide, and influenced the shaping of innumerable creative projects.

Lindsay's Transfer Report and Other Notes

Submitted by Lindsay on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 19:19

I have uploaded my newly submitted transfer report as a file instead of pasting it here. I'm still learning how to use modules like these so bear with me!

DIY or die | Historical genealogy of the network society

Submitted by Clemens Apprich on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 08:53
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Talking about as well as investigating networks has become the determining morphology of our society in recent years. Web 2.0 holds the promise of an essential change, in which the collective intelligence of the users becomes the central resource of individual and community life. Today the question seems to be whether the industrial society is in the middle of a transformation to something entirely new, which by theory is only indicated with the prefix "post". Thus, scientific research has trouble keeping pace with the rapid development of a nascent mode of life and production.

video documentation of first tnl conference

Submitted by hadzi on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 15:34
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please follow this link for the video documentation of the first next layer conference, april 08

http://www.archive.org/details/the-next-layer-april-08

Intellectual Craftsmanship - John Barker about C.W.Mills and methodology

Submitted by John Barker on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 09:29
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John Barker is both a novelist and an author of non-fiction essays about political, social and cultural issues. Barker's essays, published in magazines such as Variant or Mute Magazine, bristle with historic depth and accuracy of information, woven into critical narrations written in a dense prose. This evident richness of background research is maybe a result of Barker being inspired by the research methodology of a great of the 20th century, C.W.Mills. In this guest contribution, written specifically for thenextlayer.org and the taxi-to-praxi workshop, John Barker introduces us to Mills' concept of intellectual craftsmanship.

Methodocity

Submitted by Lindsay on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 11:03
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Slager H.  2008.  Methodocity. Lier en Boog, Artistic Research. :12-31(20).
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