___ 0 ___ 1 ___ O___1 ____ < Dec 27-30 > #34C3 in Leipzig Program Overview HERE Live streams are available at http://streaming.media.ccc.de All recordings will be published at https://media.ccc.de/c/33c3 Keynote: Charlie Stross- Dude, You Broke the Future ! ! Weds. 27.12 – 11.30h CET … live streamed ( and archived ) + XLT perspectives… coming soon ! + ( foto above by Benks @Algoropticon ) + … And we’re very excited that this year the TEAHOUSE has its own little B-side stage for lectures and presentations ( which were rejected and/or need urgent ‘last-minute’ insertion ) … See full schedule here… Our C-KINO project is booked for Thurs.

+++ Fig. 1 : A city created like an organism with roots from below is a beautiful creature, while a machine-world – ruled by elites from above – becomes the new colonialism ! +++ +++ ALERT ! Some time in the beginning of 2018 Google plans to open their seventh “Campus” project. In Berlin ! In Kreuzberg ! At Ohlauer Str. and Paul Linke Ufer in the Umspannwerk, a power station – known as the “cathedral of electricity ” – designed by Hans Heinrich Müller and built between 1925-29.

° ° ° ( still for Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear, 1953 ) ° ° ° < Nov.30- Dec.2 > 1948 Unbound, Unleashing the technological Present, another round of HKW investigating the Technospheres, HKW Berlin … As usual there’s an extraordinary wealth of information at this HKW conference which aims to put our most pressing economic, environmental, sociological and […]

+ + + < Dec 7 > CiTiZEN KINO #69 : Electric Sheep REvisited x2 at Club Der Polnischen Versager, Berlin 20h Donations welcomed. + + + The XLterrestrials present an anarcho-feminist critique of the Blade Runner films, and a deconstructive media analysis of Hollywood spectacle- dystopias in context of our very realworld existential crises + social challenges. How will we shape an alternative vision for possible futures as we grapple with the immediate threats of a dismal environmental and social collapse accelerated by both the return of a rabid hyper-nationalism AND a new transnational techno-fascistic corporate state !

+ + + Dear arts + praxis friends, Hope you can join us in the local + global liberations and re-alignments ! On the XLTerrestrials’ radar : < 29.11 > – Globalista Radio Kit party + music trading, @t Buchhandlung Cafe, 20h … POSTPONED ! to be rescheduled < 06.12 > – “AG21c” – A network party for our new […]

***´*** ( pic from Children Of Men ) … About - # COP23 - We were not able to participate in this year’s climate summit So this guide is from some far off perspectives… Let’s begin with an important announce for those of you in Btropolis… Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and team have been providing exceptional on-the-ground coverage, not just […]

____ + ____ ( artwork by Ray Caesar ) … OK comrades, this looks like the direction to go next… CiTiZEN KiNO experiments with a new feminist Hollywood-SLASHER genre …. 5 years ago ! 30 years after the release of the original Blade Runner film …. We produced Electric Sheep Revisited at Theater Kapelle in Friedrischshain ! NOW, 2 months […]

… ( pic from James Bridle’s project Citizen Ex ) < Nov 2- 4 > Berliner Gazette’s Annual Conference, theme Unfriendly Fire, ZKU Berlin The formats for BG conferences are a good tactic to go deeper into some challenging topics, in a short time. This time there are 3 days of workshops on 5 different tracks - and […]

||||| ||||| ||||| … ( poster from an exhibition in London, July 2017 ) …. Warning : There will be spoilers below ! But if you haven’t seen Blade Runner 2049 yet, and would like to read some primer materials … Here’s our pre-BR-2049 analysis and critiques: … Ridley is no Kubrick! But is he the Edward Bernays of Our Technotopian Dismaland ?! ||||| . XLT Blade […]

°? °? °? °?° We are currently developing our next show… And we are planning to take it to one of the places it’s most needed ! … And we are looking for supporters and collaborators ! Please contact us if you want to be in on our most lucrative adventure… It’s like getting in on Bitcoins, […]

—– o ——- 0 ——– o —— A page from the XLT Story Book —– o ——- ” Just because we have semi-solid science doesn’t mean the goals and aims are properly selected. Let’s say you want to optimize life expectancy, GDP, and minimize crime. You’d likely end up with a pure totalitarian government deciding what you can […]

… https://fcsamsterdam2017.nl/ … If there’s time to report more …. tbc…

… - under construction - This is NOT a Blade Runner 2049 review ! Not yet anyway ! At the time of writing this, we hadn’t seen it, but our “precogs” had already mapped out the high probabilities ! … This is a suggested primer to understand what you may be about to absorb, as you imbibe the granular synthesis […]

… Five days after the week-long* Volksbuhne occupation was evicted, the Staub Zu Glitzer group organized an outdoor stage to discuss the situation, give updates and host concerts from the group Milliarden and guests from Ton Steine Scherben… It was a fully poignant time and place to rethink an EastWest unification on the German “re-unification” holiday, Oct. […]

… Volksbuhne Theater Reclaimed – Day 6 – Wir Spielen Alle ( we’re all playing ) News, Analysis, Perspectives, Outlook… The XLerrestrials are on site to share our tales of reclaimed time and space !… Inspiring Times ! … … And plenums galore… for those addicted to the revolutionary processes ! … … The Volksbuhne programs being distributed … like sand castles… … … A theater within a […]

… Dramatic News : Berlin’s Volksbuhne Theater at Rosa Luxemburg Platz has been reclaimed, occupied, transformed, re-purposed … the space is currently open for self-organized collective participation ! … Updates: DAY 6 Plenums begin daily at 18:00h ! Everything is subject to Change ! So check, the official outreach channels: https://web.facebook.com/StaubzuGlitzer/ …. https://twitter.com/vb_6112 ______ _______ _________ DAY 1 A beautiful little embryo of anarchy… “Good performance at […]

… ( 0 ) … ( 0 ) … < Sept.21-24 > AnthropoSCENE: film and climate justice in Asia and Africa, Kino Moviemento AnthropoSCENE is a four day programme of short and feature length films showcasing recent filmmaking from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Bringing together artists, filmmakers, activists, journalists and academics whose […]

+ + + + … Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, Holger Czukay RiP – a Globalista Radio Kit tribute, Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism at HKW, Suppe&Mucke, Topsy Qu’ret art opening, El Usman Faroqhi Here and a Yonder – Harun Farocki Retrospective at Savvy Galerie, -o/De — Sounds From Georgia at Silent Green, “The Circle” film, etc, etc… + […]

… { in Btropolis, by Sozi36 ! } … Freedom is slavery, War is peace, Ignorance is strength, Antifascists are fascists … Beware the Orwellian media dog poo ! … There’s alot of nasty distraction going on out there in the mediaspheres… From the likes of Chomsky in Washington Examiner ( who probably never even quoted Chomsky til now […]

… On the XLt Art News radar… we’re processing IT ! … Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, critical theorist and media activist, had his original program dropped at Documenta 14… His reading was canceled, and then reformatted, b/c he dared to conjure the Holocaust atrocities in relation to Europe’s necropolitical constructs and failures to grapple with all those drowning in […]

””””””””””’ < 16.08 > The Antifascists (2017 ) doc film, Weissensee ( FB invite ) Free Admission ! SE/GR 2017, 75 min | Original With English Subtitles | Regie: Patrik Öberg & Emil Ramos | Produktion: AEAAEA Wed. 16.08.2017 | 8pm (introduction) 9pm (movie start) | Freilichtbühne Weißensee (Große Seestraße 8-10, 13086 Berlin) A Swedish-Greek documentary film about the legal […]

+ — + — + Added: ToNIGHT at the Stammtisch < 21:00 CET – Tues, Aug 8, 2017 > ~–o~-~o~~o~ Globalista Radio Kit v.60 ~-~o–~o~~~~ We are organizing a special gathering to interview various artists, tech adepts, economic specialists, media theorists, curators and other interventionists … about the Zapatista Comrades’ Call for Comparte Digital […]

_________ + ________ image: ship simulator extremes ( search ) ____+___ We are definitely NOT done with analyzing the G20 stories ! For the XLterrestrials it remains a pivotal event / moment to extract new maps for citizen engagements. There is fascinating ‘forensic data’ on the authoritarian ultra-liberal state(s) and analyzing how it reacts in its failure to imagine […]

_______ … _______ … ______ … _______ ” G20 is dead. G20 remains dead. What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. What sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves […]

+ + + … Note: The banner above reads “G20, We are everyone, the drowned are not here “ … this is was what SOLIDARITY looks like ! … 76,000± ( estimated by the Grenzenlose Solidarität statt G20 organizers , but that number has been fluctuating alot ) on the way to St Pauli … #g20demo … Follow the FCMC media + live ticker […]

… Added RESOURCES : the Videoticker – THE realtime online newsflow @GaengeOase , a very-equipped oasis infopoint in the midst of the blue meanies FreiesSenderKombinat @FSK – live reports and great beats to keep you charged ! work-in-progress ( apologies for any clunky phrasings, we’ve been on the run, and writing deeper reflections will have to come […]

… { foto: Hamburg, “Protestwelle” on the Alster, July 2nd } … The XLT GUIDE TO THE G20 : v.1 – Another Possible Global Summit [ G20 Hamburg ] + FUNDRAISER v.2 : Redrawing the Political Maps ! v.3 : “Power concedes nothing without demand !” + RESOURCES … ||||||||| RESOURCES ||||||||| … Monday morning we woke up and caught a Channel 4 clip about […]

… [ Figure 8. Fred W Rose, Revised Edition. Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877, London, England, 1877. ] … XLt Guide To the G20 – v.2: Redrawing the Political Maps ! v.1 Here ||||||||||||||||||||||||| Last night we were web-hunting for the quite famous cartoon of Napoleon and the British PM carving up the globe between them at the dinner […]

… The XLTerrestrials Guide To the No Go G20 In Hamburg : Work-in-Progress FUNDRAISING : SUPPORT the XLT journals / SUPPORT Indy Media ! XLterrestrials are raising funds to be able to do provide in-depth and on-the-ground reports from Hamburg in July. Please consider donating to our Patreon page. ( or contact us for other ways to donate or […]

… work-in-progress ( still ) … Ultimately, this is just a sketch of an essay… we require your support to do these topics justice. If you would like to help the XLterrestrials do further research in this field, please consider donating to our Patreon Page. [ A Non-Anthropocene Theory + Praxis v.1 ] It’s a little uncomfortable to dive into […]

… There’s been some extraordinary guerilla media to take over the narrstives of the general Election in the UK… If we have time, we”ll try to post some links… But we’ll just say here that after Corbyn wins 2morw, we suggest he hire Chunky Mark aka The Artist Taxi Driver immediately to become the Sub-Commandante Communications Director-General to […]

| | | This radar list is all over the map…. music, arts, brainfood, survival skills, anniversaries, community actions, resistance… ( not in chronological order ) | | | < 27.06 > Sun Ra Archestra, Festsaal Kberg ________ < 01.06 > Mensch Unter Druck w/ Czentrifuga, Ron Gerlach, Gogo Trash, Klang Kunst JeKaMi, Theater Unter Druck, at Made In Wedding [ Fb ] ___________ < o8-12.06 > World […]

… < 25-26.05 > DiEM25 returns to Berlin to develop its political roadmap … Event Schedule for Volksbuhne + Technical University ( TU ) Main event is Thurs. at 20:00h with speakers Yannis Varoufakis, Saskia Sassen, Heike Loeschmann ( Heinrich-Boell-Foundation, Alternative Summit Alliance), Sre?ko Horvat (DiEM25 Co-Founder, DiEM25 Coordination Collective) Søren Altstaedt (DiEM25 German Federal Committee, Alternative Summit Alliance) […]

{{{ another Anthropocene view }}} … Coming Soon ! … “A truly fascinating lecture, song + dance on The Anthropocene ( dead-end construct ), that gave us so little to defend the living planet – and all its inhabitants – in the age of krapitalist endgames… Shall we finally pronounce the institutionally-employed intellectual left as […]

~:~ < 23.05 > Syrphe Electronic Night #10 · Tomy Herseta (Indonesia), Dirar Kalash (Palestine), Szkieve (Canada), Marie Takahashi & Ottó Szabolcs Horváth (Japan/Germany), C-drík aka Kirdec (Belgium/Congo). + Vegan food – XB Liebig, Friedrichshain ~~ < 27.05 > Vendetta & Fiesta Lucha Amada, Clash Berlin, 21h ~~ < 26.05 > Ondatrópica (DJ Set) ft. Quantic & Frente Cumbiero, Club […]

… #rp17 / #LOVEoutLOUD / #endofthenet We’re heading into another one of those Re:publica thingees… a digital cult conference which began as a friendly little bloggers media niche convention and metasticized to become ” one of the largest and most exciting conferences about digital culture in the world.” … […]

{{{ v.o2 }}} Part 2 of our Springtime Radar is looking at events which encourage “full engagement” ! The situations we are currently facing as a global society / civilization are monumental and unprecedented. In case you didn’t know, the planet, or at least all its living species, are in grave peril. We will need citizens […]

— { CK#61 … click on image to enlarge the true nature’s eye-candy } . . |||||||||||||||||||||| o |||||||||||||||||||||| . . We are experimenting with combining some new and old themes for upcoming shows… We still have not presented CiTiZEN KiNO #59: A Modest Alien Proposal ( read more Here ) and are attempting to rewrite it a little for presenting at The […]

+ + <> <> <> XLT + GLOBALISTA RADIO KIT provide a list of upcoming music events in BTROPOLIS and a few beyond… Not to be Missed ! Kein Scheiss ! < 28.05 > Nurse With Wound, Sophienkirche < 29.05 > Yugo Nite : Lenhart Tapes, Mangulica FM, Cica Mica Šlagerica, at Supamolly < 29.05 > Konzert Yan Jun, Otomo Yoshihide, […]

- + – + – + – + – + – + There’s a fascinating new video going viral on the interwebz. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a passionate American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator living in NYC posted this 4 minute PSA ( public service announcement ) and commercial on April 19th, 2017. In the span of […]

~~~ ~~~ ~~~ date/time: Thu April 20 2017, 7pm-9pm: title: CiTiZEN KiNO #60: “Strategies For Turtle Islands - subtitle: A Guide to Indigenous Resistance for All!” duration: (films + dialogue, ca 120 mins) venue: Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte Greifswalderstr. 4, 10405 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg) pubtrans: Bus 142, 200, Tram M4 “Am Friedrichshain” map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1923424966 program: http://www.hausderdemokratie.de/artikel/programm.php4 event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1263735870330555/ blog: http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=16425 pad: https://citizenkino.titanpad.com/60 ~~~ ~~~ CK #60: Strategies For […]

… XLT Radar, a highly-charged Spring is coming ! … /// < 20.04 > CiTiZEN KiNO #60: Strategies For Turtle Islands - A Guide To Indigenous Resistance For All ! ( films + dialogue, c. 120 min. ), at Haus Der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Berlin. { frackybook invite } /// … < 20-25.03 > Haifa Independent Film […]

… Postponed: CiTiZEN KINO #59 : A Modest Alien Proposal … has been postponed to some future date. A difficult subject which will require more time, more collaborators, sponsors and a supporting host venue. Please feel free to contact us, if you wish to help make it happen ! Note: While this article is meant to primarily […]

… < March 8 > International Women’s Day / Strike / Ptrotests / Interventions ! everywhere ! … … Events In Berlin, See here : http://mfata.info/aufruf-2017/make-feminism-a-threat-again/ … … { Two pics from 2 separate marches – one with a focus for women immigrants’ rights – that converged at the end at Oranienplatz in Berlin. 2nd foto from Heinrichplatz, where a Haus Project lights […]

… { From the Exhibition “Alien Matter” at HKW } … more XLT analysis work-in-progress… “In Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey, monoliths are machines built by an unseen extraterrestrial species…. The response of the characters to their discovery drives the plot of the series. It also influences the fictional history of the series, particularly by encouraging humankind to progress […]

+ … Oceti Sakowin, the main camp at Standing Rock fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline has been forcibly evicted. And on the last day Feb 24th, roughly up to 30 remaining water protectors were arrested… by a massive militarized force comprised of various County Police forces, National Guard, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Homeland Security ( […]

… … 30 Years of #TM17 – Continues… … < 18.02 > Interventions excursion #2 w/ Ubermorgen, Telekommunisten, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Željko Blace, Daphne Dragona, Baruch Gottlieb & Dmytri Kleiner (Telekommunisten), Seda Gürses, Laboria Cuboniks, Jonas Lund & Sebastian Schmieg, Sebastian Olma, and many more … at ver.di, Paula-Thiede-Ufer 10, 10179 Berlin < 24.02 > excursion #3 Ecologies w/ […]

9 … | … | … 0 … | … 0 work-in-progress #TM17 Analysis v.2: In The Bubbles of Mediation, The Exit Points ! ( An applicable perspective for most well-funded arts + culture-type events ) … re: Transmediale 2017 * + beyond … … Let’s not beat around the bush or over-intellectualize our current predicament. We as artists, journalists, sociologists, ecologists, scientists, […]

… < Late Feb or March > CiTIZEN KINO #59 : A Modest Alien Proposal, in Berlin An Unofficial Transmediale ‘Nachspiel’ An “acinematic” and screen-perforating public forum to investigate the lost tribes of mediations, ecocide, technopolitics… and a defense of our r/fights to remain connected to an embodied and non-anthropocentric web of Nature. More details about place + time […]

… { Plastic Raft of Lampedusa. YoHa., XLT remixed } … Transmediale Festival for arts and digital culture turns 30 ! Will a festival which celebrates all the technologically-infused and entangled ways of being, be able to sufficiently grapple with the challenges our civilization, our society and all living species face in these devolutionary times, wherein the cybernetic vision-cum-regime […]

… # j20 // # j21 … XLterrestrials are currently working with CiTiZEN KINO and a number of other artists to prepare for an “Arts Strikes Back” response to the inauguration of the new creepy era ( the Insane Clown President – as Matt Taibbi describes it ) – on January 20th. These are very dangerous times […]

… work-in-progress ( We will post most links at the end, so you can hopefully read to the end of the article, without surfing off into the hyper-ether . Images collected from the web, fotographers still to be added below. ) … The High and Low Tides of Chaos #33c3 One of our favorite parts of visiting Congress this year […]