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Subject: <nettime> ZeligConf - European digital counter-cultures
meeting in Paris
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:17:39 +0200 (MEST)
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ZeligConf
Paris - 15-16-17 December 2000
European digital counter-cultures meeting
In Seattle, on November 1999, while the OMC conference was taking place, the
global mobilization of a multitude of struggles, local or single-issue
movements from the whole planet succeeded in defeating one of the major
institution of the New World Order. In this unexpected scenario, once more,
the ability of the actors to use the communication weapon, and in particular
the Internet, played a determining role. And the Seattle police forces were
not mistaken when, once their amazement went by, they surrounded the
Independent Media Center premises, in an attempt to deprive the protest of
its
weapon of coordination and cooperation.
Around networks practices, and on networks, during the last years many
collective subjects, actors of practices, initiatives and confrontations has
formed, which mark communication territories with a strong alternative
presence. Whether it is a matter of experiences linked to struggles or
social
movements (illegal immigrants, unemployed and precarious workers, occupied
social centers, etc.), of embryonic alternative networks (Nodo 50,
Sindimonio, ECN, Sherwood, Samizdat), of theoretical and cultural
aggregations around virtual spaces of development and reflection (Nettime,
Syndicate), of on-line publishing initiatives (Sherwood-Tribune, Agenzia di
comminicazione territorial, Agencia in permanent construccion,
Hacktivist news service), or the effervescence around free software, a real
richness has emerged from practices, contents and analysis which we
want to consider as a common and collective inheritance.
In the meantime, we have no choice but to notice that the gathering which
have taken place here and there (HIP and Next Five Minutes in Amsterdam,
ZPK in various central european cities, Hack It in Florence and Milan), as
well as the informal circuits of contact and cooperation which have formed
themselves progressively, in spite of the fact they play a determining role
of circulation, reproduce geographical and cultural splittings between
different areas of the Old Continent, and also between various sympathies.
The cognitive richness and the collective intelligence which form
themselves around these gatherings, as an extension of the ones which run
along the networks, are in a certain sense restrained by the borders of the
old nation-states, even though the boundless territories of the Cyberspace
are opened to us, even though the Internet provides for us the means to
form ourselves at a continental and transnational scale, even though the
struggles and movements are becoming increasingly all-inclusive facing th e
power of the Empire.
In these times precisely, where the Net in general, and the Web in
particular, are in accelerated way of "amazonisation", submitted to the
increasing
appetites of financials predators, the managers of the spectacle society and
the oligarchies of information industry, the stake of the construction of
wide levels of co-operation between the multitudes forming the
counter-network becomes determining. We believe that it's today possible,
and
necessary, to confront our experiences, and especially to consider the
formalization of effective levels of common initiative, of exchange of
knwoledges
and competences, of theoretical debates and production. In other words, to
conquer the means to be actors of our own communication, the capacity to be
free productors of information services, to echo the richness of the
initiatives of civil society against the neoliberalism.
For all these reasons, we want to set up, in december 2000 in Paris, an
european meeting digital counter-cultures. A space/time of convergences -
beyond national, subjective or practical separations - which suggests new
possibilities of collective actions between the various hearts of the
cultures of the networks. We want to build a temporary autonomous zone of
productive co-operation where can converge and combine cultures of
activism and hacking, practices of counter-information and the productive
engineering of the free software, creativity of the actors of the social
movements and that of the communities of the networks.
Padua-Paris, March 26, 2000
samizdat.net - sherwood.it
zeligConf
http://www.samizdat.net/zelig
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- rosta -
cybertovaritch lost in cyberspace
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