Aral BalkanOct 24, 2023

On the Internet, public space is not a place like Facebook or Xitter. It is the sum total of the interconnections between individually owned and controlled places.

This is why I’m designing the Small Web to enable everyone to have their own place on the web.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

And if you want to help us continue to exist, you can fund our work (because folks like the EU sure as hell aren’t).

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

#publicSpace #internet #digitalNetwork #SmallWeb #SmallTech #funding

What is the Small Web?

Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:

Aral Balkan
Show threadStrypeyMay 22, 2021

"As the Slovenian Marxist philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, has remarked (commenting on [Curzio] Malaparte’s account of the October Revolution), today’s equivalent of the old Russian infrastructure that Trotsky occupied is none other than the digital network. Thus, it is the digital network that ought to be the primary locus and target of revolutionary activity."

- #JonathanCulbreath, 'Technopopulism and the Online Class War', 2021

#SlavojZizek #CurzioMalaparte #OctoberRevolution #DigitalNetwork