, , ,, ,, ,,, ,,,,, ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, -:- ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,, ,,,,,, ,,,, ,,, ,, , , work-in-progress With all the news spilling out about Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and social media … and the net in general… the conversations about where we are now in the webbed world are getting a bit more invested. While there’s a good stir now about whether or not to #DeleteFacebook ( and even good arguments for not abandoning the mainstream platforms to the wolves ) … but suddenly people are beginning to ask much deeper questions about the full spectrum of our technological entanglements.

… ( from the ADK exhibition, see more below ) … >> — << — >> — << Coming SOON to a THEATER near YOU ! ( standby for more links + dates ) << — >> — << XLterrestrials RECOMMEND : < March 15-17 > Dangerous Conjuntures , HKW < March 22 > Michel Bauwens atSmartDE < March 22 > Platform Kooperativismus with Michel Bauwens at Supermarkt < March 24 > Anti-Goo Cafe and an open discussion on “smart prisons”, at Kalabal!

… < March 07 > CiTiZEN KiNO #71: Awakening The Spirits in The Beehive at Regenbogen Kino, 19:00h … We are preparing an updated text for our CK#71 theme(s)… work-in-progress … …. XLterrestrials present CiTiZEN KiNO #71: Awakening Spirits in The Beehive Weds. March 7th at Regenbogen Kino - Lausitzer Str. 22, 19:00h by donation ! This episode revisits Victor Erice’s monumental poetic + political work – El Espiritu De La Colmena ( 1973 ) – made during Franco’s nightmare regime.

… < 22.02 > Armen Avanessian & Enemies #11: Dreams Rewired , Volksbuhne < 23.02 > Armen Avanessian & Enemies #12: Liberties Rewired , Volksbuhne … F you are in Btropolis, the XLT and C-KiNO team highly recommend engaging in these discussions on our hyper-mediated times,,, with director Manu Lucksh ( Dreams Rewired ), Armen Avanessian,Tactical Technology Collective, CryptoParty, Syrian Archive, Daphne Dragona & Jack Wolf …. The XLt analyzed Dreams Rewired in 2016… And it’s not a pretty picture ( as the Arte promo pic above would imply ) … And in fact the situations have only gotten worse since then …

… Coming Sooon ! To Regenbogenkino, Btropolis … March 7th ! ( and 1st show in Italy in June !? ) … Written as a proposal for the Share Festival in Turino in June, 2018… We begin with a work-in-progress version in Btropolis, to develop “the Frankenstein of our mass mediated cultures ” investigations … a long-running theme in the XLterrestrials’ artivist repetoire… < March 07 > CiTiZEN KiNO #71: Awakening The Spirits in The Beehive at Regenbogen Kino, 19:00h

… Exciting news, we will be working with Regenbogenfabrik to create a new CiTiZEN KiNO in March… ( possible theme: degrowth + technological retreat ) … stay tune ! … They have a fantasticly cozy cinema space, and is one of the remaining bastion of Kreuzberg autonomy, community strategies and 80s squat culture… CK#70 was a great success ! … Thx to all who came, supported, participated, and schemed ! … The resistance and community-building continues ! … +++ ( foto: Contra-Internet by Zach Blas at #Tm18 )

… < 17-25.01 > “Spy On Me” – Focus on Big Data – w/ Peng! Collective, Timo Daum, Felix Maschewski , Anna-Verena Nosthoff + Nina Scholz, and more, Hau / Hebbel Theater XLterrestrials went to this discussion and it was very worth reporting and expanding on… while we’re processing it…. here’s the write-up and frame for the panel… part of an 8-day program at the Hau: Die Pistole ist neutral? Über informierte Naivität und Technikeuphorie With Timo Daum, Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff / Moderation: Nina Scholz Part of the focus “Spy on Me” In the debates about the influence of digitization on recent elections –such as Brexit or the election of Donald Trump as American president –tech-authorities are constantly repeating the mantra that technology is neutral.

+#+#+ < 12.01 > William Basinski, Skrei, Nent at Funkhaus Berlin ( warning! ) < 13.01> AVA Movie Night : DETROIT, directed by Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty) with discussion after featuring DARNELL STEPHEN SUMMERS, Lichtblick Kino < 16.o1 > The Edge Of Tomorrow, Trevor Paglen in dialogue, KW Institute < 17-25.01 > “Spy On Me” – Focus on Big Data – w/ Peng! Collective, Timo Daum, Felix Maschewski , Anna-Verena Nosthoff + Nina Scholz, and more, Hau / Hebbel Theater

… ( The foto is from Szimpla, an unusual and creative cafe+venue space made from a former ruin in the city center of Budpaest. Send us some of your favorite interiors of public spaces and venues, as examples.) … When Life is about to give you a military industrial complex LEMON… DO NOT MAKE LEMONADE ! … rather, Imagine a worker-owned collective that serves whatever you can dream next !! Currently Google is planning to open a “Campus” in Kreuzberg… in 2018… And the neighborhood has formed numerous groups to oppose it.

___ 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 […]