Full Steam Ahead at the BCC launch pad. 24c3 Oilble Schauble Boible Doible, civil society crasher Dangerous Hacker at work ! Hacking ideologies …podopolog reports coming sooooooon. p.s. Well probably not until 2008, and not until after Day 4 of Mikro.fm’s Radiowoche2008, which begins on 01.01.08. Day 4 will focus on North American free radio projects like Freakradio Santa Cruz, Pirate […]

The 24th Chaos Communication Congress is coming once again to the heart of Mitte at the Berliner Congress Center (BCC), under the shadow and blinking red-eyed phallus, the Fernsehenturm ( tv tower), and surrounded by the holidazed zombie shoppers of Alexanderplatz. But alas the hacker orphans, in replenished droves, come from the 4 corners tunnelling […]

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ where law, technology and culture are de-scripted in a landscape that might conjure multiple and interconnected Harry Tuttle characters, not in Gilliam’s Brazil, but drifting back along the Berlin canals at dusk toward the infinitely unfinished Medien Spree… Not untangling plumbing behind walls, but transparently reconfiguring the concepts of ownerShip into flying carpets and rapid-eye […]

TONIGHT + THURSDAY ( 17.12 + 20.12) XL Terrestrials present: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : […]

Oil21 and Pirate Cinema Berlin present freitag, 14 dezember: lecture and discussion, 19 uhr suzhou he (suzhou river) by ye lou (china, 2000), 21 uhr And at 7pm, Lawrence Liang, a researcher with the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, whose key areas of interest, in recent years, have been the various conflicts that arise at the intersections of law, technology and […]

Call 4 Participation ( English and German below… if you are able to translate to other languages please contact us): BERLIN 01.-09.01.2008 Call for Participation Berlin Radio activists will host “Liberation Radio Week“ transmissions Jan 1-9,2008 LIVE and ON AIR from Berlin. Berlin Free Radio (BFR) will be listenable via multiple micro-fm transmitters and an internet stream, […]

:: 11/12:: Tonight LOST FILM FESTIVAL at Subversiv ab 21h ____________________ :: This week Creative Commons will celebrate its 5 year anniversary at many locations around the world…i.e. at C-Base in Berlin. But perhaps higher up in the deconstruction of the food chain, the Berlin finale of The Oil of the 21st Century ( there will be […]

Last night we received a precious tip that a special screening of Yüksel Yavuz’s new film Close Up Kurdistan was playing at the Hackescher Hofe Kino, with the whole crew in attendance. An intense, powerful, and intricately woven documentary which connects Yuksel’s own personal story of immigration (to Germany) and the current situation of the […]

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