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Learning the Right Lessons
By David Garcia
Whatever happened to tactical media? David Garcia, one of the gen ...
By Ted Byfield Last autumn’s conference, Architecture and Situated Technologies, at the Villard House in New York sought to rescue technologists and architects from their industry controlled and conceptually rigid engagement with each ...
By John Cunningham January's Art and Immaterial Labour conference at the Tate brought together some famous names from post-Autonomia to discuss conjunctions between the dematerialisation of art and immaterialisation of labour. John Cunni ...
By Anthony Iles This extended report covers a demo that held last week in Leyton against one aspect of the collossal land-grab taking place as part of the London Olympics and is intended to put this struggle to save an historic commons i ...
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By Elizabeth Povinelli On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the a ...
By Marina Vishmidt This year’s Transmediale festival in Berlin was themed around the conceptual term ‘Conspire’. Here, Marina Vishmidt reviews its multiple presentations of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ colla ...
By Anthony Alexander Bruce Sterling, techno-prophet of the Wired school, was recently in London prophesying the future of RFID technology. Seeing beyond its crucial role in managing the logistics of commodity flows within just-in-tim ...
By Melancholic Troglodytes After the Iranian ‘revolution’ in 1979, film became public enemy number one. Viewed with suspicion, this infidel medium became the target of state repression and, at the same time, the site of a n ...
By Graciela Monteagudo This essay from interactivist.net goes into detail on many issues behind what went wrong in Argentina and tries to answer the question: 'how did the Argentinean people manage to avoid making a revolution?' This is ...
By Heath Bunting & Kate Rich A basic sign language, warchalking communicates the status of wireless networks on the surfaces of the city. Since the appearance of the first chalks in June 2002, it has also proved to be wireless inte ...