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stacktivism
I Probably Need A Stamp Card
I was joking with the endoscopist as she saw me before, back in 2019 that they should have a stamp card program for regulars.
Solarpunk, Stacktivism and Cold Texas | 2107
The Texas disaster has all the elements of a Solarpunk story.
Living In A Time Of History | 2010
The Pandemic is coming… The longue durée, paying taxes after pestilence, boomers, ancient greeks, make art when the time ghost is at the door.
Profiles and Radio
I’ve been in the media the last week: Can Science fiction save the planet? I was profiled/interviewed by French online magazine ulyces.co The piece is in French but as you can see in the screenshot above, Google Translate does a very good job with it. The interview covers Solarpunk, My Sonar+D talk, Stacktivism work and…
General Ludd | 1828
Luddites were opposed only to technology ‘hurtful to Commonality’/ What are the wide frames of today? which bits of the stack need a visit at midnight?
Colonising the Clouds + Other stuff I forgot to post about in 2014
:: Colonising the Clouds :: Last summer i posted a visual essay on Medium of Slides and Notes from a presentation given at Theorising the Web #TTW14 NYC April 2014 with updated/expanded comments. I really like the possibility that beautiful html storytelling can/could afford – A few people however have said that they couldn’t get…
Nuclear war.. It’s Not Very Nice That
Photo Courtesy of Kieran McCann It’s Not Very Nice That From 21 Feb – 27 Apr 2014 the Light House Gallery in Glasgow had an exhibition of current politically engaged graphic design and politics. The #Stacktivism logo was included which was nice of them – the logo was a collaboration between myself and my friend…
#TTW14 abstract
PHEW. yesterday i finally submitted my extract/talk proposal on the ‘geopolitics of the stacks’ for the theorizingtheweb conference that takes place in april in new york . the piece is reproduced in full below. even if i am unsuccessful, i think the piece is a useful early 2014 ‘flag in the ground’ to orient my…
its been busy!
the main news is probably that grew a beard, went to florence, shaved it off again. in addition i’ve done a whole bunch of talks and workshops, this is my talk on ‘seeing the stack’ at the #stacktivism unconference in july. i also spoke more generally about infrastructure, SCIM and other stuff at the CRESC…
on #stacktivism – my #ILIW13 talk
:: we cannot have a conversation about something whilst it remains unseen :: ‘The stack’ – The chain of interconnected activities and technologies of current and historical significance that spread far beyond the individual. I think there are many people beginning to have/shape a conversation around the stack: From Jo Guldi the author of Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure…
