4 months, 2 weeks ago
This is super: between 1st- 31st October 2020 anyone can get 30% off the Food Democracy book online using the code FAN30 at the checkout!!
https://intellectbooks.com/food-democracy

4 months, 3 weeks ago
David Graeber was connected to Memefest mostly via his incredible work on Debt.
This is an invitation to come together across the world for a memorial carnival in the spirit of the one and only, David Graeber, who just left us so suddenly and unexpectedly. The invitation emerges from his wife Nika and a handful of his friends.
https://davidgraeber.industries/memorial-carnival-eng
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Here is the sound file of the dialogue between Arturo Escobar and I at the recent Participatory design conference at the Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia. It was such a pleasure and honor to talk to Arturo but also pure joy to be connected again with Colombia again and in especially in this a way!!
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The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar
Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar have in this special dialogue, Participatory Design Conference at the 2020 Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, looked into the radical potential of participation and design, especially in relation to knowledge. Taking a close look at the relations between the academy, practitioners and social movements, the dialogue focused on the politics of the possible, namely, a reality open for cohabitation of different worlds by design.
The conversation examined the potential for epistemic pluralism and participatory epistemologies to foster radical intimacy with each other and the earth. Looking at the growing field of critical design, Vodeb and Escobar discussed capitalism’s predatory strategies and design's role in it, while suggesting that another design, and another possible, are possible.
More on Arturo Escobar here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Esco…_(anthropologist)
More on Oliver Vodeb here: memefest.org/en/about/who_we_are_oliver_vodeb/
9 months ago
You can join now our Memefest channel via the Telegram app:
https://t.me/memefestnetwork

9 months, 2 weeks ago
"What kind of problem succumbs to domination and control? The kind caused by something from the outsi..."
10 months ago
I will be posting three lectures on comradeship by Jodi Dean in the coming weeks. Here is the first one:
Learning about comradeship with Jodi Dean: Class 1

10 months, 2 weeks ago
"Hi Thomas, really nice to hear from you!
I know what you mean. We left the post online for a day an..."

10 months, 2 weeks ago
"I like this initiative a lot Stephen. Somehow I just got the opportunity to look into it now. Same q..."

10 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?
1 year ago
The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting
Edited by: Alex Wardrop and Deborah Withers
2014
There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.
We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care.
http://hammeronpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PHA_Final.pdf

1 year ago
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/


Username
giartek
Name
giada totaro
Birth year
15051982
Website
http://it.linkedin.com/pub/giada-totaro/24/130/66a
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
Radical communication
Faculty
D.A.M.S., NABA, BRERA (Italy)
Education
artist
Working place
social and intermedia artist

7 months, 2 weeks ago
More on Arturo Escobar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)