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RE: Infrastructures</h1>
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September 20–22, 2019</h2>


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Toronto, Ontario</h3>
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<span style="font-weight:bolder">RE: Infrastructures</span> explores the
 collective care and maintenance of alternative networking practices—new
 protocols, peer-to-peer connections, offline-first computing, and 
community-based governance.</p>
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How can these emerging <span style="font-weight:bolder">Infrastructures</span> provide spaces to imagine<span class="m_-4808189267974023261gmail-x_word-spacer"></span> radically
 different futures, resist easy co-option by the forces of late-stage 
capitalism, and work in solidarity as plural networks seeking 
emancipatory change? To answer this we draw on insights from organizers,
 technologists, artists, and scholars to ensure the focus is not only on
 the technical aspects of infrastructure, but also the social and 
cultural. Their diverse perspectives suggest ways we can make space for 
livelihoods, solidarity, and survival; draw on history and place to 
bring our fullest imaginations to this moment; and open ways to think 
these questions together as we build transitional forms.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;max-width:75%;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-size:16px"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4808189267974023261gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Irwin Oostindie</span></span></span> <span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="mailto:ioostind@sfu.ca" target="_blank">ioostind@sfu.ca</a></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Instagram / </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Twitter: @Dutchphoto </span></span><span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">SFU School of Communications  <br></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div>
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