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From: studio at jonasstaal.nl (Studio Jonas Staal)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:32:55 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> Collectivize Facebook
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Collectivize Facebook 

A Pre-Trial by Jonas Staal & Jan Fermon
With contributions by Paul Goodwin, Inke Arns and Mar?a In?s Plaza Lazo

HAU, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
March 26, 2020, 8PM, HAU I

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Collectivize Facebook, Study (2020), Jonas Staal and Jan Fermon 
Image: Remco van Bladel and Jonas Staal

With over two billion users today, Facebook impacts our social, economic and political lives in an unprecedented way. In response, artist Jonas Staal and lawyer Jan Fermon initiate a collective action lawsuit to force legal recognition of Facebook as a public domain that should be under ownership and control of its users. Turning the theater into a people?s tribunal, Staal and Fermon invite the public to join their juridical claim that Facebook must be collectivized.

Facebook infringes upon the right to self-determination of peoples and individuals in various ways. The corporation instrumentalizes users as neo-feudal data workers, selling their information to third parties. Facebook is used in various surveillance capacities that infringe upon privacy and further impacts democratic elections in disproportionate ways, of which data capture and targeted campaigns of Cambridge Analytica are a recent example. And the corporation has willfully advised authoritarian regimes such as that of Duterte in the Philippines.

During the Collectivize Facebook pre-trial, Staal and Fermon will introduce their indictment against Facebook, and invite the public present to become co-signatories to the lawsuit that will be submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva coming September 2020. Invited witnesses will additionally testify on the possibilities the lawsuit enables, and speculate on the complex questions of how to collectively govern Facebook as a global cooperative of 2.5 billion members in the future.

Collectivize Facebook transforms the theater into a space of collective legal action and speculation. It invites the public to join a lawsuit, but also aims to enable the imagination when it comes to reclaiming and governing Facebook ? as well as other multinational corporations ? as our common public domains.

From March 26 onwards, you can sign up to the collective action lawsuit via collectivize.org <https://jonasstaal.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fffa84ac286bcc293f49d5c93&id=3ba9c9747d&e=c26e51c43b>

Jonas Staal is a visual artist, propaganda researcher and founder of the New World Summit
Jan Fermon is a lawyer specialized in criminal, international (humanitarian) and human rights law
Paul Goodwin is a curator, theorist and director of the Research Center for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN)
Inke Arns is an author, curator and director of HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund
Mar?a In?s Plaza Lazo is a critic and founder of the newspaper Arts of the Working Class

Collectivize Facebook project team: Jonas Staal (artist), Jan Fermon (lawyer), Nadine Gouders (coordinator Studio Jonas Staal), Paul Kuipers (architect), Remco van Bladel (visual identity), Ruben Hamelink (filmmaker), commissioned and produced by HAU, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, as part of the festival Spy on Me #2: Artistic Manoeuvres for the Digital Present

 
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From xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com  Thu Mar 12 19:50:48 2020
From: xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com (xDxD.vs.xDxD)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:50:48 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> point of view from a hospital for a brain surgery while
 cov19
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Hi everyone

again about cov19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrwsM5N3cs

Things change, things stay the same:

just like 7 years ago, I find myself in an hospital to have a brain surgery
(all's fine this time, too)

and just like 7 years ago it's super-important to reposition disease in our
society, with all our strength and through all our capacity to be an example

The Patient is never the only one diseased:

it is the entire society, in solidarity among all.

This is even more true in our hyperconnected world: in which we live and in
which everything depends on everything else.

This is the limit, tragedy, but also the great opportunty of our times:
when data + computation are not a merely technical deal anymore, they
assume an existential value for their characterstic of being our only
credible way to experience complex, global, interconnected phenomena.

This requires an enormous transformation: to our values, to our sense of
solidarity, to how we perceive the ecosystem we live in.

In one world: to our culture.

Without an Ecosystemic Culture we will not make it: now it's cov19, then
will be climate change and others, and things will be the same or worse.

We need to start designing and building it together, now.

Best wishes to you all
salvatore iaconesi

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From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Tue Mar 24 20:56:12 2020
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:56:12 -0700
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?q?Call_for_contributions_to_=28virtual=29_PD?=
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*Call for contributions to (virtual) PDC workshop: ?Computing Professionals
for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of
Participatory Design?*

Values play a central role in technology design. But whose values? Where
are they coming from? How exactly do they play out and shape the
socio-technical systems we create? And which values do we want to prevail?
New challenges such as the climate crisis and societal polarization call
for technologists to become part of the public and political arena. This
results in a new sense of responsibility, but the closing of CPSR
<http://cpsr.org/>, the Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility,
has left a gap. Today, across tech workers, academics and computing
professionals, there is a renewed sense of urgency for engaging the public
and politics to change course in how computing is shaping society.

At a time when intersections in automation and AI agendas, social justice
and climate emergency are inspiring researchers of all types and
temperaments to write passionate appeals for change
<https://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/>, is it time to revive
the activist wing of PD with a new structure for public and political
engagement? This interactive workshop at PDC 2020 <http://pdc2020.org/>
(conducted remotely) will re-invigorate the debate around values and social
responsibility across disciplinary boundaries in the Latin American context
to discuss:

*Who has what responsibilities related to values in computing today?* Where
are the boundaries, connections and overlaps in value responsibilities
across designers, academic researchers, tech workers, community organizers
and other stakeholders? Whose values are marginalized how? What can we
learn from CPSR?

*How do we handle values critically in PD research and practice?* Beyond a
call to be sensitive, and methods to support sensitivity, PD must also face
how marginalization, coercion and false consensus play out on the level of
values. How do existing approaches to PD account for this? Does this
present a challenge to PD practice and research? How can computing
professionals and academics support those affected by computing in
emancipating themselves from the values embedded in computing?

*What should a CPSR for the 21st century look like?* The CPSR wound down
over a decade ago, but today, organizations like it are more needed than
ever. What could such an organization achieve? What should it be like? How
could it come to be? Many organizations, initiatives, collectives and
individuals already speak to these concerns. How can they connect and
cooperate more effectively?

We ask prospective participants to submit a short position paper (500-1000
words) in English, Spanish or Portuguese that outlines

   - a concrete case or experience report that speaks to responsibilities
   and values,
   - a historical view on CPSR,
   - a reflection or critique of current positions or practices, or
   - a personal interest statement.

Please submit papers via email to pdc2020cpsr at gmail.com by April 7.

We are also building a collaborative map
<https://graphcommons.com/graphs/bb42292b-a855-4841-b65a-c143a0e12c8f> of
relevant organizations and welcome contributions!

*A note on Covid-19:* We expect that the workshop will be primarily or
exclusively conducted remotely. PDC currently operates on the assumption
that the conference will take place, but that remote participation will be
essential and supported.

Organizers:

   - Christoph Becker, University of Toronto, Canada
   - Ann Light, University of Sussex, UK
   - Victoria Palacin, University of Helsinki and LUT University, Finland
   - Dawn Walker, University of Toronto, Canada
   - Christopher Frauenberger, TU Wien, Austria
   - Rachel Charlotte Smith, Aarhus University, Denmark
   - Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, University of Toronto, Canada
   - Pedro Reynolds-Cu?llar, MIT Media Lab, USA
   - David Nemer, University of Virginia, USA

Workshop website: https://pdc2020cpsr.wordpress.com/


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From xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com  Wed Mar 25 05:08:14 2020
From: xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com (xDxD.vs.xDxD)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:08:14 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> La Cura VS COVID19
Message-ID: <CAJ=DDhqgeLB+z83XTQVmMK4dv7sPy0mh4he5=3MLoZZs_e2edw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone!

(I am reposting this from another mailing list because I think that it can
interest many here: sorry if I'm wrong)

My cancer decided to came back

now

I'm fine, don't worry: I have had another surgery that went well, and I'm
fully recovering

but this synchronicity has been really important

for those who remember, back in 2012, when I had my first cancer, i used
medical data to propose a global repositioning of disease in society:

https://www.artisopensource.net/projects/la-cura/

a cure can happen only in the middle of society: that was the synthesis of
La Cura, the global performance into which I had transformed my cancer,
inspired by visionary innovators such as Franco Basaglia

What is, now, La Cura at the time of COVID19?

It turns out that it's a really meaningful continuation in the same
direction: a cancer and a global pandemic perfectly show the coexistence of
two dimensions: the individual and the ecosystem

This coexistence has a tragic aspect: the two dimensions can be at open war
with each other

This was perfectly clear, for example, while being in the hospital: I
risked not being able to have my surgery because of the COVID19 situation.

This tragic character of the situation is exactly the condition which we'll
start to face in the crises that are about to start coming up
systematically: climate change, migrations, poverty, health, access and the
others.

The tragic coexistence between the individual and the ecosytem, and the
problems that come with it: which are complex and, thus, irreducible.

Complexity doesn't have "solution". It has a life, a way to cope with it,
but not a solution in the sense of being able to reduce it to a point.
There's no App for it.

In today's life we have tried all to try to remove tragedy from our lives.

And, instead, this new condition shows us just how much we need this tragic
dimension in our lives.

As tragedy is complexity, and complexity is tragic and irreducible: it just
doesn't go away.

And: with/after tragedy comes Agnition: the ability to understand,
recognize and transform/adapt.

In our world, this tragic dimension has a lot to do with data and
computation.

The complex phenomena of our planet can be only experieced through enormous
quantities and qualities of data, and through the computation needed to
collect them, and to processes and represent them. How can I experience
climate change (as a global phenomenon, not just because it is hotter in my
city)? COV19? Povety? etc

Data, data, data, and computation.

Understanding this tragic condition, in context, means that data +
computation need to be addressed as existential issues, not as technical
ones.

This means a necessary focus shift towards finding/building the new
rituals, times, habits, practices and traditions with which we will learn
to inhabit our world through data and computation.

This is, for example, what we've been doing with the Datapoiesis project:
https://datapoiesis.com/home/

And this is what we will continue to do now, through this tragic
continuation of La Cura.

We started writing two articles about it: they're in italian for now, but
if there's interest and if someone who speaks native english can help me
out, we'd love to translate and share.

Here they are, and we designed the article series so that we arrive at a
total of 10 articles:

https://operavivamagazine.org/sogni-e-nuovi-rituali/

https://operavivamagazine.org/i-rituali-del-nuovo-abitare-dopo-la-tragedia/

BTW: if anyone wants to join in: i think it would form a wonderful
publications in these times of "La Cura VS COVID19"

Thanks everyone: be safe and happy
Salvatore

-- 
Art is Open Source -  http://www.artisopensource.net
Human Ecosystems Relazioni - https://www.he-r.it/
Ubiquitous Commons - http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org
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From jhopkins at neoscenes.net  Fri Mar 27 16:54:40 2020
From: jhopkins at neoscenes.net (John Hopkins)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:54:40 -0600
Subject: <unlike-us> La Cura VS COVID19
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=DDhqgeLB+z83XTQVmMK4dv7sPy0mh4he5=3MLoZZs_e2edw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJ=DDhqgeLB+z83XTQVmMK4dv7sPy0mh4he5=3MLoZZs_e2edw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0ebff59f-282a-ca56-1186-97a34f4c6205@neoscenes.net>

Data data data --

An ever-increasing data feedback system eventually grinds to a halt, choking on 
the granularity and complexity of recording, saving, meta-data-ing, processing, 
and interpreting the feedback. Not to mention the clouds of CO2 that accompany 
this energy-intensive and ever-accretionary process of turning the map into the 
territory. There is an asymptotic limit to the madness of data. We are as close 
to that asymptote as we will (hopefully) ever be. We cannot afford, by any 
metric, to gather more data, much less 'use' it.

I personally don't need more data rituals. I'd rather spend more time in analog 
reception of the energy flows that I am a part of, and that I am immersed 
within. Pondering those flows directly allows the question "What is the nature 
of reality?" not only to surface organically, but for it to become ever more 
moot, *and* ever more part of life. Whenever I hear of someone with an Apple 
watch telling them to breath, I think, that's stupid to off-shore our embodied 
self-awareness to that globe-spanning techno-social feedback network. Partly, 
yes, because it takes a huge amount of energy to implement such a system, and 
partly in that it is the exact problem driving the ongoing lack of response to 
human-caused climate distortion -- that is, the wholesale separation of our 
(symbolic) mental processes from the immediate experience of the world-that-is.

jh

On 24/Mar/20 22:08, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote:
> The complex phenomena of our planet can be only experieced through enormous
> quantities and qualities of data, and through the computation needed to
> collect them, and to processes and represent them. How can I experience
> climate change (as a global phenomenon, not just because it is hotter in my
> city)? COV19? Povety? etc
> 
> Data, data, data, and computation.
> 
> Understanding this tragic condition, in context, means that data +
> computation need to be addressed as existential issues, not as technical
> ones.
> 
> This means a necessary focus shift towards finding/building the new
> rituals, times, habits, practices and traditions with which we will learn
> to inhabit our world through data and computation.


-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny
http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



From xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com  Fri Mar 27 18:17:25 2020
From: xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com (xDxD.vs.xDxD)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:17:25 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> La Cura VS COVID19
In-Reply-To: <0ebff59f-282a-ca56-1186-97a34f4c6205@neoscenes.net>
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 4:55 PM John Hopkins <jhopkins at neoscenes.net> wrote:

> Data data data --
>
>
you are assuming that you can do without it, and that is not a given

anyhow:

you are also assuming that "data" necessarily means someone with an apple
watch

and that "data" necessarily means "extracion" and "consumption"

we're obviously talking about two very different concepts here

(sorry that I don't have the immediate time/energy to translate the
articles)

s

-- 
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*Human Ecosystems Relazioni* - https://www.he-r.it/
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From jhopkins at neoscenes.net  Fri Mar 27 19:27:05 2020
From: jhopkins at neoscenes.net (John Hopkins)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:27:05 -0600
Subject: <unlike-us> La Cura VS COVID19
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=DDhrBY7GhLR4SrfUZQObnZPj-VEY-gh5u9S2gjVD0YUtbKw@mail.gmail.com>
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	<0ebff59f-282a-ca56-1186-97a34f4c6205@neoscenes.net>
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I'm sorry if I misunderstand your usage of the term. If we are talking about 
different things, and your definition is so extremely different, then there 
would be a need to define it for the people, like me, who are understanding the 
term in its common techno-social form. Perhaps another word or phrase needs to 
be invented to describe your understanding of "data"...

On 27/Mar/20 11:17, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote:
> we're obviously talking about two very different concepts here


-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny
http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



From xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com  Fri Mar 27 20:28:20 2020
From: xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com (xDxD.vs.xDxD)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:28:20 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> La Cura VS COVID19
In-Reply-To: <a6b7143a-bd6d-7b13-dfa8-cc99d7dad249@neoscenes.net>
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no, actually I think that data is just fine as a word. The problem here is
the framing.

Once we invented a new literary genre: algorithmic autobiography

https://www.artisopensource.net/projects/ghostwriter/

https://www.artisopensource.net/2016/02/16/algorithmic-autobiography-the-uncertain-boundaries-of-the-i-and-the-self-in-the-age-of-hyperconnectivity/

This gesture corresponds to taking something that is in the world (even
something as tecno-administrative as data) and turning it into existential:
we used it through the lens of culture, of our existence and thus of our
possibility to express, represent ourselves, relate etc

Now: If there is one thing we have learned from covid19 it is that data and
computation are a matter of life, existence and survival: of being able to
exist in the world.

In todays world, the one we have now, hyperconnected, globalized and
constantly on the edge of an ecosystemic crisis that the planet doesn't
care about at all, but that is bound to exterminate us, data is
existential: it is a matter of existence, or survival. Big, enormous
quantities and qualities of data. That are the only way in which we can
experience the complex, global, ubiquitous issues which we're talking about.

This is how we can do it: flesh, blood, piss, data and computation.

The issues of privacy and control are just too small: a discussion like
this cannot fit into them. We need a larger, existential frame.

cheers!
s


On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:28 PM John Hopkins <jhopkins at neoscenes.net> wrote:

> I'm sorry if I misunderstand your usage of the term. If we are talking
> about
> different things, and your definition is so extremely different, then
> there
> would be a need to define it for the people, like me, who are
> understanding the
> term in its common techno-social form. Perhaps another word or phrase
> needs to
> be invented to describe your understanding of "data"...
>
> On 27/Mar/20 11:17, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote:
> > we're obviously talking about two very different concepts here
>
>
> --
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
> hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny
> http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>


-- 
*Art is Open Source *-  http://www.artisopensource.net
*Human Ecosystems Relazioni* - https://www.he-r.it/
*Ubiquitous Commons *- http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org
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