^^^^*^^^^^^^^^^^*^^^^ pic : From a #fridaysforfuture protest somewhere ( quick search ) … … ( 25,000 people out today – #m15 – in Btropolis for the school strikes begun by Greta Thunberg, foto by PM Cheung ) … ______ _ ______ - early Spring – XLt Radar – v.3 Upcoming Actions + Events < 14.3 > Money Talk #7: CIRCLES – A Universal Basic Income, with Julio Linares + Sara Friend at Supermarkt – More info + FB invite < 15.

“”“” ” “” “”"” “” ““”“”" “ ( XLt foto remix, we are trying to find the orig artist who did the b/w pixelated portrait … aha, via Andres Lozano… discovered while researching for our next C-kino event (#78)… and bits on Walter Benjamin’s essay Art+mech.reproduction… cool website ! ) … Thx for all the female energies+power around us in our lives ! ! ! … without ya the planet would probably already be bagged toast … and the days and nights would have no gravity and no home for living + breathing + sharing + becoming …

… Coming Soon To A Theater Near You! CiTiZEN KiNO is Back ! … And if you would like to host us THIS SPRING/SUMMER, get in touch… … Work-in-progress… CiTiZEN KiNO #78: Work of Art In the Age Of Auto-Erotic Aspyhxia While we’re reading Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism… it seems like a good time to revisit Walter Benjamin, Frankfurt School etc., … to investigate the means and ends of the internet ( Boris Beaude ) … borders … and the reboot of auras + situational contexts in the arts…

+ -g-e-t- -i-n-f-o-r-m-e-d- + ( foto: Joke Lanz ) + Well, you might think we’re being stupid for complaining about an early spring… Well, this is NOT complaining… This is alerting you to get (y)our shit together… and discover the spaces and events that nourish your being while also providing the radical upgrades that do not ignore the obvious : All is not well in the underbellies of a shitstorm ! Of course, the Btropolis is an oasis of inspirations for another immediate+possible world … And these cultural events provide ways to support our local comrades.

_._ _:_ ._ _._ _:_ ._ _._ _:_ ._ _._ _:_ ._ _._ _:_ ._ New XLt analysis coming soon ! ( Sometimes, we love the Btropolis, cause the mindblowing stories write themselves… but then, sometimes they’re ugly + unbearable ones, and we are mortified … and want to run for the hills ! )

,;, ,;, ,;, #Fridaysforfuture #Climatestrike #Technofascism #Panictime … There’s a very good Democracy Now report today about the challenges to prevent the worst outcomes from the fossil fuels era and corporate krapitalism’s new world disorder ! They interview David Wallace-Wells from New York Magazine, who has just come out with a new book called The Uninhabitable Earth. What’s useful and fresh in these dire warnings is that there ARE abundant solutions that would be rather easy to implement, but the corruption of the policy makers and the political system is obstructing the necessary changes.

… ( +/- ) …. C-KiNO in Btropolis is NOT DEAD ( yet ) ! We’ve just been on another attrition holiday… but we are constructing new shows for 2019… because the mission is still very much a part of our survival… ours personally, but probably yours too ! Take a look around you… Given the current state of affairs, and now in very scientific terms, you have about 12 YEARS or less to get your heads out of the ass of humanity’s all time greatest ERRor !

… / … . … / … …./… XLT Guide to #Tm19 ( and if you’re just tuning in, see the XLt Soft and Fuzzy Intro v.1 ) review-in-progress We don’t have a lot of time for a thorough review, so let’s cut-to-the-chase and start by analyzing the closing round: “What Moves You?” with Donatella Della Ratta, Geert Lovink, Fernanda Monteiro, Carolina García Cataño, Sumugan Sivanesan. >> The present political moment is marked by the two global phenomena of neoliberalism and neo-nationalism, co-existing in a tension that sees both convergences and conflicts.

_.__._.___._____.___._.__ #TM19 So Transmediale 2019 looks about as tedious this year as reading through a manual for some new corporate gadget that helps you generate a 3-D map of all your MINOR personal, societal and technical problems in a WORLD ON (obvious) FIRE… We know there’s great minds and great people around… but this is going to be a rough one to navigate and have enough patience to try to pull out any concrete upgrades + actions for our troubled times … in Btropolis … and everywhere else !

::: work-in-progress ::::: The XLT Guide To… The Goo in the Btropolis v.2 : Surveillance Krapitalism :::: recommended Research / Analysis / Books / Pamphlets The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff / New Dark Age – James Bridle / Efficiency and Madness – Tactical Tech Collective / The Ends of The Internet – Boris Beaude / Surveillance Valley – Yasha […]

… … … work-in-progress … Süddeutsche Zeitung, and maybe a few others outlets, report about 70 protesters coming for a unwelcoming ( or fuck off ! ) party at Google’s grand opening for their new Berlin project that is NOT a Campus. Please don’t say “Campus”, because the big black eye that the company got in Kreuzberg for trying to […]

: – : – : – : It’s that time of year again in the Btropolis … Transmediale and the Vorspiel… We’ll have to come back and share a little orientation and history on that, but for now … the matters at hand: … Dear artist colleagues, PLEASE READ IN FULL > This will be the 7th year of […]

: ———– : ———– : “We have never been modern.” Bruno Latour *** ” And all the biggest assholes are on the future steering committee ! “ XLt analyst … Goo, Gropius and “Uncompromising Modernity” work-in-progress The planet’s largest krapitalist enterprise, Alphabet / Google recently ( November ) was forced to back down from opening their “Campus” project in Berlin, after […]

::: :::. :::::.. ::::.. …::: Pretty safe to say there are not many people on planet earth who have travelled through more unchartered musical waters than Fred Frith… < 17.01 > Fred Frith live and Step Across the Border ( 1990 ) – the film at Babylon Kino Mitte … one ticket for both ( 20euros )( […]

_______________________________________ Rosa Lux Revisited, Kiez Notes Expanded When a left political actor is murdered, it usually marks some incredible territory of politics that had reached an extremely effective level of strategies, which threatens those in power. … Fast fwd to today: via Xavi Ruiz ????? @xruiztru : “Citizens of Gdansk gathered to commemorate their Mayor @AdamowiczPawel, murdered last night at […]