{ rooftops in Iran } < 1.12 > Globale invites: open roundtable discussion “Becoming the media” at New Yorck in Bethanien, Berlin “Becoming The Media” with: AkKraak, Joanne Richardson, XL Terrestrials, Globale December 1st / Tuesday 19.30 New Yorck in Bethanien “Raum für emanzipatorische Projekte” Südflügel Mariannenplatz 2A, Kreuzberg The former censorship of the mainstream media has now turned into new and more refined forms of disinformation, based on overload and noise rather than the removal of information. At the same time, the claim for the democratization of the media, which in the past 10 years gave birth to a large number of independent media projects, seems to have empowered the web 2.

1st Up: Podopolog News : Dearest Unmediated Organisms, We are very pleased to inform you that you can now finally participate again in the discussion here. The podopolog has been repaired and upgraded, and we are all warm and fuzzy about the potentials for expanding the collective intelligence … far beyond the colonial virtual realms, but well …for now, here we are reading/writing/podopologging. Many thx to IhazIdea, who battled 32 governmental agencies, 213 rightwing drones, a few dozen trolls, battalions of spambots, too many fascists to count, stinky slippery corpo-capitalists (backed by the swine dept.

+ { James Cameron on the set of “Avatar” } Please Note: All media used for XLt education and psychomedia analysis purposes! < 19.11 > Xlterrestrials present Psychotronic Cinema v.5.0 : “Don’t Feed The Monsters!” at Club der Polnischen Versager, Berlin … XLterrestrials, fresh back from Copenhagen, present the latest version of the XLt’s Psychotronic Cinema ( also known as […]

{ Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer opens Digital Labor Conference in NYC tonight } … < Dec.12-14 > The Internet as Playground and Factory, a conference on Digital Labor, begins tonight in NYC at the Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. Much online, much will be archived… Join the Discussions! Participants include : Mark Andrejevic, Burak […]

{ on the edge of Norrebro district, CPH } We have returned to Berlin from our initial Copenhagen explorations and while we go through all our plundered goods – an abundant collection of djmixes + world music demos – from Womex09, we can’t help but listen to everything as a soundtrack to the upcoming UN Climate […]

{ Water Knows No Walls, Haubitz + Zoche. Parts of CPH underwater after a 7 meter rise in sea levels, part of Rethink Kakotopia at Kunsthalle Nikolaj, one of the 3 locations of the ReThink Climate exhibition } Excerpt from the Kakatopia catalogue: ‘Cacotopia’ is a term coined by the english philosopher Jeremy Bentham { also known […]