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Come and have a chat with your local feminist server! With our DIT (do-it-together) and low tech approach, actinomy seeks to disrupt the everyday techno-capitalist relations. In this session of Salon Digital we share about our technofeminist practices of shared terminal sessions and solar-powered micro computers and invite you to stretch our hyphae together towards situated techno practices and extra-earthly backend creativity.
Salon Digital @ hfk 5.5. 18 h
https://www.hfk-bremen.de/de/veranstaltungen/salon-digital-actinomy/15583
As parts of my research on Robotron I wrote a text (in German) titled "Socialist Co-Innovation. How the relational database DABA-1600 was developed in the GDR"
Open Access: https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/sozialistische-co-innovation
It discusses the relational database DABA-1600, which was jointly developed by VEB Robotron and the TU Dresden in the 1980s.
Through this analysis, the paper discusses how the databases of the socialist GDR came to bear strong similarities to those of the capitalist West.
These MFs have just ruined this beautiful statue honoring the #workers who built the television tower in #Berlin by placing a horrible skyscraper wannabe in front of the tower – they just hate the city’s historical traces of #socialism
PS: This is an old picture that doesn’t show the building I’m criticizing. Imagine there’s a tall building right in front of the tower. That’s what it looks like now
I remember having strong issues with this kind of (quite common and self-indulgent) Chilean alternative irreverence when, long time ago, I was at the university there. I guess I still have these issues. Matapanki offers a powerful aesthetics and the general idea is interesting. But the result is naive, mostly because the direction needs lots of polishing and the script is simply silly. Many seem to think this is attractive, though
Yesterday we saw the Chilean movie Matapanki at the Berlinale. In the Q&A session, the director Mapache Fuentes said that the film project began as a joke and in the spirit of not taking movies too seriously. Later, he had to explain to a German young woman in the audience why, while the film claims to be an antifascist project, they thanked a fascist rapper in the credits…
I just learned about this subtle yet super relevant Ursula K. Le Guin’s short text — via @parismarx
Ein Deutscher hat mir heute gesagt, dass Wim Wenders ein Idiot ist — auf Deutsch … Und echt verärgert
I attended the “Critique of AI” roundtable organized by @criticaltheoryinberlin today. It was really nice and refreshing to listen to Matteo Pasquinelli, Ana-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer, and Rainer Mühlhoff in a big room full of diverse, committed people
#AI #Critique #CriticalTheory #MediaTheory #PhilosophyOfTechnology
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