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22.02.2012
Kids in Banja Luka, the city of Republic of Srpska, resisted the heavy machinery that was on its way to turn their playground into parking. Weapons of 5 to 12 years old kids were improvised barricades, eggs and tomatoes, night sabotages, drawings and poetry. Through negotiations with the mayor they managed to stop the betonization and got assured that the City will build the real playground inste…
18.02.2012
This is pretty fantastic. A game show spectacle uses Guy Debord as content.
I would be interested to see how would Debord comment on this.
Just a little reminder: "The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images." Society of Spectacle: Guy Debord. What kind of social relations are becoming visible through this image…
11.02.2012
A recent article published in THE NATIONAL newspaper in the United Arab Emirates. An interesting point stated "... the Arab Spring itself is part of a global wave of unrest triggered ultimately by the ongoing disorderly collapse of globalisation in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008." http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/why-its-kicking-off-everywhere-the-contagion-of-revolution Re…
06.02.2012
Debakl se zove kapitalizam. Debakl neoliberalnog/postmodernog kapitalizma je krizna realnost našeg svakodnevnog života. Prezaduženost države i nezaposlenost ne terete samo život ljudi u SAD. U Evropskoj uniji su prezadužene 24 njene članice, Grčka, Portugal, Irska, Španija se nalaze u veoma teškom položaju, dok je bezposlenost najveći EU problem. Slika nije drugačija ni u SAD. Ni Barack Obama ni…
26.01.2012
It was in 2004, when we created a whole Memefest Festival around the Cyberwar theme. Besides the "Design is not enough" manifesto, the main text that served as a festival provocation for people around the world to create media and texts, was "Cyberwar is coming." It was a highly important but also popular theme with our community
Few days ago, this video was published by the Anonymous group, d…
20.01.2012
17.01.2012
As a Sociologist I am happy to see that the big and most important body of the profession- The International Sociological Association is currently led by Michael Burawoy. He is engaged in a particular approach to sociology called "Public Sociology" which encourages the discipline to engage in "explicitly public and political ways with issues stimulated by debates over public policy, political act…
13.01.2012
13.01.2012
This is link to a paper I gave at a conference Design and Social Activism in Barcelona this summer, I thought it would interest people here. It draws on the fantastic theories of communcation that Mikhail Bakhtin and Valentin Volosinov wrote in the 20s in Russia, and looks at how the combination of economic collapse and network technology are feeding a dialogical battle over the meaning of Signs,…
04.01.2012
MEMEFEST, in conjunction with OCCUPY BRISBANE and The Free University of (Occupied) Brisbane Presents:
OCCUPY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SPACE:
Response-Ability, Socially Responsive Media and Communication Workshop
Participants will include members of the Brisbane Memefest Collective, members of Occupy Brisbane Media Working Group and other participants or supporters of Occupy Brisbane.
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