Throughout my pregnancy I’ve been pondering the question of consciousness – not mine, that of my fetus. Is she aware of her environment? Does she have a sense of identity? Can she think, or dream? And if she was born tomorrow, what could she know about the world around her? […] By the end of … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a talk at SIGINT 2010: “GUERRILLA.COM: How to mess with media, the market and life itself”. “The term guerrilla communication refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a talk at SIGINT 2010: “Reach Out and Touch Face: A rant about failing”. Science and Technology Studies (especially Langdon Winner and Bruno Latour) have convincingly demonstrated that the widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only … Read more
Frank Apunkt Schneider will give a talk at SIGINT 2010: “The Medium is the Messiah. On the implicit ideology of media activism” In the media age nearly all forms of political interventionism show an inevitable tendency to become media activism. This is to say that the activists’ focus has shifted from what could be considered … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner wird auf der SIGINT einen Vortrag zum Thema: “GUERRILLA.COM: How to mess with media, the market and life itself” halten. “The term guerrilla communication refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner wird auf der SIGINT einen Vortrag zum Thema “Reach Out and Touch Face: A rant about failing” halten. “Science and Technology Studies (especially Langdon Winner and Bruno Latour) have convincingly demonstrated that the widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in … Read more
Roland Gratzer wird am 23. Mai 2010 in Köln auf der SIGINT 2010 etwas zum Thema “Hoist the colours! Die Geschichte der Piraten” erzählen. Piraten sind nicht nur torrent-affine Medienkonsumenten mit steigendem politischen Engagement. Unter Pirat versteht man auch die Bezeichnung für einen maritim agierenden Vertreter der Verbrecherzunft. Wo früher in der Ostsee gegen die … Read more
The Wizard of Oz as economic fable? Here is a piece on the economic interpretation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 vision, brought to the masses through the 1939 Judy Garland film, and brought to the world’s understanding in 1964 by high school teacher Henry Littlefield: “The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is … Read more
Miki Malörs letztes Stück. Eine Tierfamilie aus unzähligen Individuen trifft auf den Körper einer Performerin. Eine Performerin stellt sich einer Vielzahl von Tieren radikal zur Verfügung. Sie lässt sich betreten, bespielen, beschreiben, nutzen. Zärtlichkeit, Liebkosungen, Hingabe anstelle von Ekel und Abwehr. 19. Mai 2010 bis 21. Mai 2010, ab 18 Uhr im Raum D / … Read more
monochrom presents the third part of a lecture series by Johannes Grenzfurthner. As it emerged in the 90s, the concept “communication guerilla” was, not least of all, a response to the exhaustion of traditional leftist activism after the fall of the Berlin wall. The search for new forms of praxis led (at least in some … Read more