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Mail Art, as defined by myself, is taking a good piece of cardboard or better, illustration board... roughly 4"x6" in size (I tend to go from 5"x7.5" to 6"x9"). As they are larger than standard postcards, they exceed the current 23 cent postage within the USA. Sufficient postage would be 37 cents postage just like you were sending a standard letter. Going towards *anywhere* outside the USA, it would be wise to affix (don't you just LOVE that word?) a 90 cent Air Mail stamp. On the side that you place the stamp(s) goes the return and forwarding address and correspondence. Rubber stamping, random bits of artistic flourishes, your own show, do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight! On the other side, whatever it takes, baby! Acrylic paint, watercolor, drawing, collage, stitching, lights, camera, action! You don't have to be a star, baby... to be in my show;^)! Mail art is an expression of your soul... because every week or every day you ache to get something out in the post, you want to reach out to someone or a group of people who just might return the favor. My children, there isn't a damn thing wrong with calling attention to yourself. "Mail art... has strong links to the fanzine and music underground... Abstract Expressionism. Dada. Situationism. Fluxus. Neoism. Futurism. Bob's Church of the Subgenius. Discordianism. Nouveau Realism. The Art Strike. Rubber stamp art. Movements, philosophies, aesthetics, and issues rooted in mail art and fanzine publishing. I think we are making a deeper footprint in the sand of the art world than we think." - Michelle Rau, Alternative Press Review (Spring/Summer, 1994)

Anarcho-Universal Revolution (Revision as of 06:26, 23 Dec 2002)

THE FIGHT GOES ON

WHEN HUMANITY WILL RISE

PGAE = POST – GIFT – ANTI – ECONOMY = META – ECONOMY

10 WAYS TO DESTROY AND GET RID OF CAPITALISM

1) Social revolution 2) Natural disaster 3) Implosion 4) Cosmic event 5) Running out of raw materials and fossil fuel 6) Massive psychosis 7) Third world war 8) Sudden emancipation 9) Strange fractal attractor 10) Evolutionary progression

USE THE MEDIUM TO TRANSFORM

FAT = Free anarchic transformation PAT = Permanent anarchic transposition RAT = Revolutionary anarchic transfiguration TAT = Temporary autonomous transgression

CAPITALISM IS TORTURE FOR MOST OF THE PEOPLE MOST OF THE TIME

Trade and exchange are primitive forms of Des-existence. Capitalism is a primitive form of social – relations still in practice today, the question is for how long will this barbaric system remains. Hopefully capitalism will terminate quite soon before it terminates our planet and us. Terminate the terminator and liberate the earth and its people. Terminate capitalism and its state – system and you will set humanity free. For every thousand years of wars and human suffering, there will be a thousand years of joy and peace. For every thousand years of slavery and brutality, there will be a thousand years of happiness and celebration of life and freedom. For every drop of pain an avalanche of pleasure.

THE “ NATURAL” CRISES OF HUMANITY THE CAPITALIST

The need for an immediate solution + Progression towards freedom. The end of capitalism and the beginning of the communist individualist anarchy of the 21st century. Here + Now – Revolutionary transformation of socio-individual crises.

THE BOOK OF NOTHING + ENERYTHING

≈         $   n   = m =  m  x n   = e m = e e = mc2 e = mc3 e = mc1

M = TV2 TURN INTO FANTAZY.

Capital & Labor  the Marx brothers. Mad socio-demographic economics. It looks as if we have made it – some day – then will say – we are still together – getting stronger – it is asexual but erotical – the shocking avenue.

HERE WE ARE – ARE WE – WHAT IS NOW – NOW IS ALWAYS OR NEVER – ALWAYS HERE OR NEVER HERE OR ONLY SOME TIMES

That’s the answer: The fear of truth. The fear of life. The fear of fear.

 The scientifico-military state as the new religion of control + domination.  Philosophy as the ideology of exploitation.  The destruction of the spectacle through its exposition + the construction of anti-spectacle anarchic situation. Who are the gravediggers of the system = The social revolutionaries.

Specialists, who have abandoned the critical truth of their disciplines in order to preserve the personal advantages of their function.  Introducing the aggression of the delinquent into the plane of ideas.  Survival at the beginning of the 21st century in the world. TO LATE FOR THE GODS + TOO EARLY FOR BEING 1000 EINSTEIN’S

S/he is ready to kill a wo/man to save a snake. Every one is born free but everywhere everyone is in chains. The only animal that knows from the start it is going to die. All the scientists + philosophers of the world (there are none of them today), of the past didn’t do a good job of it – probably lacking the condition. Hold your head up + don’t look down or up at anyone. The entire western + eastern cultures are rubbish including their so-called specialized geniuses. All that they have destroyed we have to build again, because we have to show the way, because we were born for the entire world to see – one united world. They called anyone who dint obey their stupidities a barbarian. Eating meat is killing animals. Alexander the great visited Diogenes in Cornith and tried to corrupt him by offering him anything he liked; Diogenes merely replied: you can stand out of the sunlight. It is reported that the greatest man in the known world said, as he left: if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. Ultimate happiness will be achieved in a calm untroubled mind. A leader during Rome decline would be more unpopular if he neglected the games than if he neglected the distribution of corn: circuses became more important than bread, such was the craving for blood. Religion as a primitive mental formation – ontogenesis. The reproduction of boredom – Critique of reproduction + boredom.

THE UNIVERSAL BRAIN + ITS EXPRESSION WITHIN THE REAL RVOLUTION

1. The brain + its elasticity. 2. The brain of brains. 3. General (universal meta-theory). 4. Specific (personal) meta-theory. 5. Psychiatric psychology. 6. Colossal cosmic + global design + structure of anarchic equilibrium. 7. Mathematical analysis of all mental activity, past, present + future.

THE UNWORKING BRAIN + ITS BRAINWASHING BY THE SYSTEM

A. The development of the meta-structure for a future social-anarchism, its programs, goals + targets to be achieved. B. Indifference to a further imprisonment + elementary deprivation of liberty, including chemical, physical + psychiatric torture. C. The ability to resist + withstand everything + all, at a cost of min/max expenditure of effort + energy. D. Counter-challenge to punitive conditioning + oppression by the state. E. The achievement of harmonic impossibility. F. The life & death of emotional thought (picture + idea + experience). G. The unification of pain + pleasure  masochism, suffering + happiness  narcissism, freedom + enslavement (oppression + exploitation)  split mind.

SLEEP – STIMULATION + THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION

1. Memory + the concept of constancy + continuity. 2. The triumph over the physical, natural + oppressive condition. 3. The laws of the order of chaos [entropy]. 4. The laws of the disorder of order [nega-tropy]. 5. The harmony of chaos [posi-tropy]+. 6. The disharmony of disorder + order [tropy]. 7. The harmony of knowledge + melody [meta-tropy]. 8. Multidimensional communication with all. 9. No gods + goddesses. 10. A living meta-nomena – meta-dialectical universal association. 11. The neutralization of reactionary violence + its conversion + direction towards insurrection . 12. Eliminate of all regimes + you eliminate terror with their institutions. 13. Total cure of functional + non-functional mental + emotional disorder. 14. Universal application of anarchic manifestation. 15. The overcoming of all faults, error + obstacles through courage + non-violent intellecto-emotional + psi-force. 16. Beauty + esthetical appreciation of life, love + creativity. 17. Dictation of the objective condition over the subject matter + the subjective. 18. Contribution toward the meta-theory of knowledge. 19. Ontologico-epistemological inter-relations + mutual independence. 20. The resolution of tension between love + matter.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE ANARCHIC REVOLUTION

A. The progressive anarchic movement instead of the socialist progressive party. B. Instead of hierarchical authority, communist anarchy. C. Instead of democracy anarchy. D. Universal transformation of the human mind + kind. E. Individual metamorphic anarcho-transformation of society. F. Universal happiness, justice, mutual aid + equality. G. The elimination of all discrimination. H. Universal cooperation + mutual assistance. I. Metamorphic transformation of humanity. J. Anarcho-transformation of society. K. Anarcho-communist transposition of the individual. L. The destruction of the old + the creation of the new. M. Total destruction of the politico-economical + military hierarchy. N. Self + mutual respect + the strengthening of all positive elements. O. Love your friends + brothers + sisters (in arm) + repel + annihilate your anti-human enemy + its antagonistic position = once + for all. P. The causes of mental illness are: the family, psychiatry, society + the economical conditions. Q. The elimination of psychiatry + its chemico-electric sadistic therapies. R. Anti-psychiatry + the dismantling of all psychiatric institutions. S. Introduction towards the understanding of the Spartakian meta-nomena. T. The elimination of all the enemies of humanity once + for all + forever after. U. The conquest of fear, weakness + mental disorder. V. The causes + function of mental illness, i.e., the myth of mental illness. W. The release of all socio-economic prisoners + those locked in mental institutions + the demolition of their respective architectural structures. X. The abolition of capitalism + work.

THE END OF HIS-STORY

Power  deceit  law + order  juridical  etc. The elimination of politics, religion + every form of dangerous alienation. The elimination of greed + the need for fame, control & wealth. There must be a total destruction of these structures, that bring only oppression, exploitation + discrimination of one fellow wo/man from another. The worker, the wage earner, the slaves of this society with a surplus of unemployed slave-reserve. The slave-worker must first conquer their inner fears, they must also overcome their insecurity + the fear of their ruling masters. To rebel against the owners of wealth + of production + take back what you have produced. Don’t worry about loosing your job, there will be always another one, don’t worry about paying the next mortgage payment, just revolt united + together we will decide for ourselves how to live. You can rebel even without losing your job or what ever promised security you have got. You don’t want to remain dehumanized + demoralized person living the rest of your life enslaved, estranged + in chains. All wage earning work is unnecessary function, made to keep you occupied + under control, crippled by its long hours + unhealthy surrounding + stupidtified by its infinite monotony + repeated machine like movements. Wo/man should be free from boredom, from labor + from work-owners. The automaton shell replace living labor in every process of production. Wo/man will be free to do everything according to his/her choices + s/he will receive what they desire. We must stop laboring soon + get rid off this yolk, will bring the state, the system + capitalist production into a complete halt. We shell get out to the streets + fight for our unquestionable human birthright. Fight those who have stolen these rights, fight the system + the church, masque + the synagogue + their bodyguards the police + the secret services. Take over all the property, land + commodity + throw away the values of your rulers + the relations that are based on them. Non-violent mass revolt everywhere, in the streets against the army + police, in the factory against the owners + their managers – in prisons against the warden + the judge, in school against the teachers + the head master, in the temples of god against god + his earthy lackey’s. Peoples non-violence will be directed also against all centers of suppression + control, dismantling them + throwing them to the garbage pen of history + forever remaining there. People will take the conduct of their lives into their own hands, deciding + acting on human principles that are founded on honesty + kindness, caring for the weak with equal justice. It is time to lose patience, rebel + never compromise – no more acceptance of suffering + humiliation – stand together struggling on all levels, adherently united in activities + purpose, in deed, to become free. Within a short period of time people will choose a certain date, in which all at once will set the revolution high into motion.

THE UNIVERSAL BRAIN + ITS EXPRESSION WITHIN THE REAL RVOLUTION

1. The brain + its elasticity. 2. The brain of brains. 3. General (universal meta-theory). 4. Specific (personal) meta-theory. 5. Psychiatric psychology. 6. Colossal cosmic + global design + structure of anarchic equilibrium. 7. Mathematical analysis of all mental activity, past, present + future.

THE UNWORKING BRAIN + ITS BRAINWASHING BY THE SYSTEM

A. The development of the meta-structure for a future social-anarchism, its programs, goals + targets to be achieved. B. Indifference to a further imprisonment + elementary deprivation of liberty, including chemical, physical + psychiatric torture. C. The ability to resist + withstand everything + all, at a cost of min/max expenditure of effort + energy. D. Counter-challenge to punitive conditioning + oppression by the state. E. The achievement of harmonic impossibility. F. The life & death of emotional thought (picture + idea + experience). G. The unification of pain + pleasure  masochism, suffering + happiness  narcissism, freedom + enslavement (oppression + exploitation)  split mind.

SLEEP – STIMULATION + THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION

1. Memory + the concept of constancy + continuity. 2. The triumph over the physical, natural + oppressive condition. 3. The laws of the order of chaos [entropy]. 4. The laws of the disorder of order [nega-tropy]. 5. The harmony of chaos [posi-tropy]+. 6. The disharmony of disorder + order [tropy]. 7. The harmony of knowledge + melody [meta-tropy]. 8. Multidimensional communication with all. 9. No gods + goddesses. 10. A living meta-nomena – meta-dialectical universal association. 11. The neutralization of reactionary violence + its conversion + direction towards insurrection . 12. Eliminate of all regimes + you eliminate terror with their institutions. 13. Total cure of functional + non-functional mental + emotional disorder. 14. Universal application of anarchic manifestation. 15. The overcoming of all faults, error + obstacles through courage + non-violent intellecto-emotional + psi-force. 16. Beauty + esthetical appreciation of life, love + creativity. 17. Dictation of the objective condition over the subject matter + the subjective. 18. Contribution toward the meta-theory of knowledge. 19. Ontologico-epistemological inter-relations + mutual independence. 20. The resolution of tension between love + matter.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE ANARCHIC REVOLUTION

A. The progressive anarchic movement instead of the socialist progressive party. B. Instead of hierarchical authority, communist anarchy. C. Instead of democracy anarchy. D. Universal transformation of the human mind + kind. E. Individual metamorphic anarcho-transformation of society. F. Universal happiness, justice, mutual aid + equality. G. The elimination of all discrimination. H. Universal cooperation + mutual assistance. I. Metamorphic transformation of humanity. J. Anarcho-transformation of society. K. Anarcho-communist transposition of the individual. L. The destruction of the old + the creation of the new. M. Total destruction of the politico-economical + military hierarchy. N. Self + mutual respect + the strengthening of all positive elements. O. Love your friends + brothers + sisters (in arm) + repel + annihilate your anti-human enemy + its antagonistic position = once + for all. P. The causes of mental illness are: the family, psychiatry, society + the economical conditions. Q. The elimination of psychiatry + its chemico-electric sadistic therapies. R. Anti-psychiatry + the dismantling of all psychiatric institutions. S. Introduction towards the understanding of the Spartakian meta-nomena. T. The elimination of all the enemies of humanity once + for all + forever after. U. The conquest of fear, weakness + mental disorder. V. The causes + function of mental illness, i.e., the myth of mental illness. W. The release of all socio-economic prisoners + those locked in mental institutions + the demolition of their respective architectural structures. X. The abolition of capitalism + work.

THE END OF HIS-STORY

Power  deceit  law + order  juridical  etc. The elimination of politics, religion + every form of dangerous alienation. The elimination of greed + the need for fame, control & wealth. There must be a total destruction of these structures, that bring only oppression, exploitation + discrimination of one fellow wo/man from another. The worker, the wage earner, the slaves of this society with a surplus of unemployed slave-reserve. The slave-worker must first conquer their inner fears, they must also overcome their insecurity + the fear of their ruling masters. To rebel against the owners of wealth + of production + take back what you have produced. Don’t worry about loosing your job, there will be always another one, don’t worry about paying the next mortgage payment, just revolt united + together we will decide for ourselves how to live. You can rebel even without losing your job or what ever promised security you have got. You don’t want to remain dehumanized + demoralized person living the rest of your life enslaved, estranged + in chains. All wage earning work is unnecessary function, made to keep you occupied + under control, crippled by its long hours + unhealthy surrounding + stupidtified by its infinite monotony + repeated machine like movements. Wo/man should be free from boredom, from labor + from work-owners. The automaton shell replace living labor in every process of production. Wo/man will be free to do everything according to his/her choices + s/he will receive what they desire. We must stop laboring soon + get rid off this yolk, will bring the state, the system + capitalist production into a complete halt. We shell get out to the streets + fight for our unquestionable human birthright. Fight those who have stolen these rights, fight the system + the church, masque + the synagogue + their bodyguards the police + the secret services. Take over all the property, land + commodity + throw away the values of your rulers + the relations that are based on them. Non-violent mass revolt everywhere, in the streets against the army + police, in the factory against the owners + their managers – in prisons against the warden + the judge, in school against the teachers + the head master, in the temples of god against god + his earthy lackey’s. Peoples non-violence will be directed also against all centers of suppression + control, dismantling them + throwing them to the garbage pen of history + forever remaining there. People will take the conduct of their lives into their own hands, deciding + acting on human principles that are founded on honesty + kindness, caring for the weak with equal justice. It is time to lose patience, rebel + never compromise – no more acceptance of suffering + humiliation – stand together struggling on all levels, adherently united in activities + purpose, in deed, to become free. Within a short period of time people will choose a certain date, in which all at once will set the revolution high into motion.

THE REVOLUTION MAKERS

We, in this generation, are the revolution makers; we will become the first people on earth and in history to succeed in creating this final episode of the fall of capitalism. The termination of capitalism by causing the first and last genuine anti-capitalist revolution. We, the revolution makers are the gravediggers of capital existence, by liberating humanity permanently from the yolk of exploitation and oppression. The destruction of capitalist social relations through any means available will lead to an anarchic just and equal society. By eliminating physically and morally the commercial mentality and its modern wage-slave system, we will become the final blows to this cruel old vicious money order. The last hierarchical structure on earth will fall and crash, were for the first time in human life all the people will live as equally rich and everyone will prosper. The state is doomed under our targeted annihilation and it staffs dismantling. The economic system will be transformed into a mass bankless account for all of humanity to share and enjoy, where each individual will receive as mush as he or she wants and gives as mush as he or she desires. The businesspersons, the politicians, the clergy and their finance slave managers will be released forcefully from all duty and office and the fiscal transfer of wealth directly to the people via the revolutionary participators. We are anarcho-revolutionary manifestation for the liberation of humanity and for the distribution of wealth and health to the rest of the world. The leadership and hierarchy will be post-violently crushed weather through armed subversion or civil disorganization. We will bring down the walls of forced labor, the walls of prisons, brutality and mass alienation. We are now taking our destiny into our practical insurrected action for the final collapse of the state and its ruling minority, god and the military industrial complex and the vanquishing of all its personnel. Also the equal distribution of international wealth to each individual alive regardless of his/her position, age, sex or race. Money will be something of the past; the punitive system will be buried forever. The capitalist will be expelled from society till further notice. We are the executioners of the capitalist system, by terminating its slave-trade existence and dissolving all its manipulative institutional masters’ hegemony. The days are coming for the final show down between anarchy and state capitalism. The coming months will spark the final confrontation and the total implosion and collapse of capitalism and its lackeys. The modern Techno-slave system is on the verge of a stand still and immediate disintegration – some of us have clogged the wheels of profit, by causing a massive social upheaval and revolution for human liberty and happy equality. Money will not be used anymore, the police and army and bankers and the courts will all be released immediately of all their duties for good. These 7000 years of human tragedy and capitalist catastrophe must quickly end. There shall be no more pain or poverty and suffering, there will be only extreme and intense happiness and pleasure. No more wars for killing people for the accumulation of capital, hardship will become something of the past, everyone will be well fed and sheltered and given health and totally free from any coercion and imposition. The days are coming when these 7000 years of authoritarian and imperial nightmare will vanish from the human horizon of emancipation towards a future without repression, suppression and oppression. A new anarchic world free from it’s self, a world that got red of sweating and bleeding for money and power. Humanity is on the verge of liberation and we are the liberators, without us this planet will be doomed to oblivion. Watch out, for here we come, from everywhere to anywhere we shall liberate the land and mind from the bloody hand of the usurer.

Down to the capitalist system Down to the state Down to organization and authority Down to hierarchy and classes Long live freedom and anarchy

"Give Sky the 'Boot' "

Telestreet Rome

A flurry of activity has convulsed the Italian Telestreet project in recent days. This coordination of micro-broadcasters first came on air in the summer of 2002 in the form of Orfeo Tv, a neighborhood station based in Bologna, and a slew of others launched shortly thereafter. Transmissions occur on frequencies allocated to commercial broadcasters which lie unused either for reasons of local topography or due to simple lack of interest on the part of the assignee. Given the outlandish concentration of media ownership in Italy - where 90% of the audio-visual media is controlled directly or indirectly by Silvio Berlusconi - this recycling of frequencies has become a flashpoint for the development of critical approaches to information production and distribution. Despite being in breach of the law only one station had encountered legal problems until last thursday. Telefabrica was broadcasting in the area around the Fiat factory in Termini Imerese, where workers were on strike and involved in generalized protests against restructuring and layoffs, when they were closed by the Carabinieri in december of last year. They subsequently went back on air.

Last week the axe fell again, this time in the small town of Sigallia, near Ancona, in central Italy. A voluntary group principally occupied with care for the disabled had been broadcasting with the involvement of local members of the centre-left party, Democratici della Sinistra, under the name "DiscoVolante". The station was raided and closed by the Carabinieri for being in breach of the broadcasting regulations, and the studio sealed. Meanwhile it was learned that another Telestreet, this time in Pechioli near Pisa, would be closed on September 26th. In Pechioli the project is actually supported by the town council. Paradoxically, thus, these two recent targets represent those with strong institutional affiliations who practice a form of broadcasting that would appear to fall within very orthodox definitions of legitimacy. Media insurgents did not let this attack go unpunished, as you will see below, but first a a little context....

A Tale of Two Despots

Berlusconi's Mediaset group controls approximately 50% of the Italian television market. Victory in the general elections of 2001 extended his grip from the private to the public sector, giving him a free hand over the national public broadcaster RAI, who with 40% of the market constitute the only serious competition to his networks. Within a couple of months he began to purge RAI of popular TV presenters known for their critical attitude and statements in his regard.

The Italian TV market has some unique characteristics; terrestrial broadcast remains essentially unchallenged as the distribution format and there are few cable channels. Secondly, satellite television has been slow to take off and use of unauthorized decoder cards remains commonplace. Until last year there were two players in the Italian market: Stream and Telepiu. 80% of Stream belongs to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, whereas Telepiu was owned by Vivendi-Universal. This merger established an effective monopoly in the satellite market. An interesting tangent to this story is that the deal also contained an agreement by Canal+ (now owned by Vivendi) to drop a legal action filed in California against News Datacom Services (NDS), a News Corp subsidiary, in 2001. Canal+ had filed a multi-billion dollar suit for damages against NDS accusing them of having provided information to 'black-hat' engineers involved reverse engineering and the design and manufacture of unauthorized satellite decoders. Canal+'s reasoning was that information was provided to strategically undermine their business model and ultimately the ability to compete. NDS were were necessarily well infiltrated in the black hat scene out of a desire to protect their own interests and remain abreast of technical developments in the underworld. With the purchase of Telepiu this rather sleazy and fascinating story ceased to unfold in the public domain. The merger was cleared by European Competition regulators in April 2003, who also placed restrictions on the exclusivity and duration of broadcast rights agreed with football clubs and film studios.

The new satellite operator, now known as Sky Italia, was launched publicly at the end of July. In the meantime contracts had been negotiated with Italy's most famous football teams - Lazio, Juventus, Roma, Inter Milan etc - for transmission rights. Sky currently has just 2.3 million subscribers in Italy (110 million worldwide) and aims to increase that base to 6 million subscribers, and profitability, within two years. Industry estimates the number of satellite dishes at 6 million, most of which use unauthorised cards.

Given the nature of the market, Murdoch desire for audience growth can only come from two sources. The first is to clampdown on users of unauthorised decoder cards in a massive anti-piracy jihad. The second is to take eyeballs from the existing market incumbents and enter into conflict with Berlusconi's interests. A hallmark of Murdoch's business style has been the instrumentalization of his media empire in order to extract favours from political leaders, most notably in Britain and more recently evidenced by the vile political postures assumed by his Fox Television network in the United States and other activities in China. In Italy however this role of media-magnate cum political puppetmaster is already occupied by the politico-business apparatus of Berluska himself. The scene seems set for a truly modern conflict.

But let's leave the Goliaths for a moment, and turn our eyes back to David, and the working class quarter of San Lorenzo in Rome.

An Assault on the Sky...... San Lorenzo is a small district couched between the University, Verrano cemetry and the city walls, it was one of last quarters in the center of Rome to be built during the so-called "Construction Fever" that accelerated from 1870. The district has a proud radical tradition with socialist, communist and anarchist elements traceable to its population of workers, artisans, and more recently, students. Mussolini's gangs always found themselves driven out of the area whenever they attempted incursions prior to the march on Rome in 1922 which concluded with his assumption of power, That night fighting and shoot-outs in S.Lorenzo claimed thirteen lives. Apart from this politically antagonistic character, the other unmistakable trait of the district is its passion for Roma Football club. When Roma became Italian champions in 2001 the streets were closed down for a massive popular celebration complete with the roasting of pigs in the middle of the street. This fanaticism for foot ball for which Italy is renowned comes from its popular and working class character, but changes in the structure of the football industry in recent times have relentlessly driven up the costs for those who follow it with dedication. Tickets for games are difficult to acquire and have become ever more expensive due to the spiraling costs of transfer fees and player salaries required to maintain competitiveness at an international level. Excluded from the stadiums, fans are obliged to make do with watching games on television. Whilst games were once broadcast free over terrestrial stations, the rights are now largely under the control of Sky Italia, who charge a minimum of 47 euros for a basic package that includes soccer coverage.

In this context of the enclosure of popular culture, and determined to make a quick rispost to the state's authoritarian suppression of Disco Volante in Senigallia, an alliance of several telestreet groups (SpegnilaTV, Teleaut, AntTV, OrfeoTV) and a subversive marketing project named 'Guerriglia Marketing' decided to escalate the level of the conflict. The proposition was simple: use the telestreet apparatus for the retransmission of the match between soccer giants Juventus and Roma, for free, to the entirety of the football-mad district. One decryption card attached to the transmitter would be transformed into a decoder for the whole area. Intriguing posters with legends such as "Totti Libero!", "Montella libero!" -- star players on the Roma squad -- appeared on the walls of the district. Shortly after the appearance of these teasers -- which caused enough perplexity amongst Roma Ultras that they tore many posters down misinterpreting the slogans as an attack on their life-long love -- flyers were distributed explaining that on Sunday 21st September the game would be broadcast free on UHF channel 26.

A studio was established in a secret location so as to evade police detection and the equipment prepared. There had been some anxiety as to whether it would actually function as reception obviously depends on many variables, especially the direction in which the antennas on apartment blocks roofs are pointed. A straw-poll conducted via house speakerphone laid these worries to rest. Large numbers of people were enjoying the game in the comfort of their won home for free, and their responses were enthusiastic and admiring. That evening the broadcast was the talk of the district. The following day the news hit all the national newspapers. Guerilla marketers insist that rather than prosecuting them, Sky should recognise the value brought to their product by the underground viral dissemination of their materials, and pay them for the publicity generated for Murdoch's fledgling operation.

Before the game started a communique was read in defense of another local struggle, that of a housing occupation in Via de Lollis involving more than a hundred Italian and migrant families and individuals, now under threat of eviction. Naturally the advertising that would normally have been shown during the 15 minute interval was excised from the broadcast, and the time employed instead to transmit video-spots produced as part of the Telestreet project and an interview with a Roma Ultra who critiqued the commodification and exploitation of modern football, arguing that access to soccer and other forms of immaterial wealth should be a right for all. At the bottom of the screen sat the logo of Disco Volante, closed just three days before. As SpegnilaTV commented: "Turned off in Senigallia, Disco Volante lights up again in Rome."

Yesterday Sky made a formal complaint to the police about the affair, but good ideas need no newspaper to spread, and a proliferation of this practice elsewhere in the country can be predicted with some confidence. With one move a small DIY television project has made a decisive incursion into the popular imagination. Through the medium of football thousands will tune into channel 26, give the business plans of Sky a kick in the teeth and open up a channel that will be used to communicate radical social practices and critiques. An intervention to be emulated.

Some links

SpegnilaTV http://www.spegnilatv.it/web/

Guerrila Marketing

http://www.guerrigliamarketing.it/

OrfeoTV http://www.telestreet.it/telestreet/home.htm

New Global Vision - Archive of Italian and international Audio-Visual works available for free download. http://www.ngvision.it

Report from First Telestreet Conference - Etarea (scroll down page to second article) http://www.heartybreakfast.org/freedistro/archives/2002_12.html

Manifesto of Urban Televisions http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/173209&mode=nested...

Lower Your TV Please http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/198255&mode=nested...

i. The User Insurgency

(a) As Critique of property

There is a more precise connection between this mass 'criminality' and the merging productive power; the desire to obtain media commodities for free is a powerful motivation for self-education the acquisition of new skills and knowledge: how to use cryptographic hashes, compression techniques, wider knowledge of less-charted (and thus safer) network spaces, familiarity with formats and the ability to render digital forms as physical objects such as mastered CDs and DVDs, familiarity with publishing techniques, wikis etc. File-sharing forums function as veritable apprentice-yards for the diffusion of techniques which once acquired are portable to uses outside of the reproduction of the commodity circuit.

(b) As Productive Force

"But the worker, as owner and seller of his labour-power, enters into relation with capital only as an individual; cooperation, the mutual relationship between workers,only begins with the labour process, but by then they have ceased to belong to themselves. On entering the labour process they are incorporated into capital. As co-operators, as members of a working organism, they merely form a particular mode of existence of capital. Hence the productive power developed by the worker socially is the productive power of capital." Panzieri

Critical interpretations of automation earmark the introduction of technology as either a reaction to the militancy of or, or an attack on, workers activity. This is sometimes described as the increasing role played by constant capital (investments, machinery) with respect to variable capital (labour). The worker is deskilled as the intelligence formerly drawn from living labour is invested in the machinery itself, the producer ceases to be the subject of production and becomes supervisor of a machine that has taken her place. In some cases the introduction of technology will result in unemployment whose disastrous consequences can be seen in a thousand former industrial towns turned wastelands.

P2P reverses this situation at least in part. As the range of its productive practices grow it substructs tasks from the market and the firm. Instead of 'management' or 'planning' these projects rely upon horizontal negotiation, modular production and exploits the ease and cheap nature of digital communications to overcome the need for a centrally located decision-maker, formerly known as the boss. Widespread social cooperation need longer be constrained to the firm - this is the fundamental change of peer to peer. Distinguishing this practice from real-world volunteerism are the low costs of coordination, the role of information (and its especial public good characteristics) as both raw material and output of the productive process and the access to a near infinite range of expertise and paralellizable workers through the network.

No objections to the creation of value per se.

Produces a decline in the level of political dependence.

(c) The Dark Side of the Collaborative Mode

ii. Response of the State

iii. Response of existing market incumbents

ii. Deregulation of the media

iii. We want the machines to work for us. To improve the standard of living whilst abolishing monotonous, labour.

Assessing the effects of technological innovation between potential productivity and real-world effect allows us to shine light on the social consequences at the level of distribution of wealth and crucially power, rather than fetichizing innovation in and of itself.

"The working-class struggle thus presents itself as the necessity of global opposition to the capitalist plan, where the fundamental factor is awareness -- let us call it dialectical awareness -- of the unity of the 'technical' and 'despotic' moments in the present organization of production. The relationship of revolutionary action to technological 'rationality' is to 'comprehend' it, but not in order to acknowledge and exalt it, rather in order to subject it to a new use: to the socialist use of machines .30" Panzieri

Caffentzis essay commentary

In the master's mind, "the machinery and his monopoly of it are inseparably united"12 Panzieri

iv. Freedom to be where we want and do what we like

"In fact, for Marx, free time for the free mental and social activity of individuals by no means simply coincides with the reduction of the 'working day'. It presupposes a radical transformation of the conditions of human labour, the abolition of wage labour and the "social regulation of the labour process" In other words, it presupposes the total overthrow of the capitalist relationship between despotism and rationality, for the formation of a society administered by free producers, in, which-with the abolition of production for the sake of production-planned development, the plan itself, rationality and technology would be subjected to the; permanent control of social forces, and work would thus (and only thus) be capable of becoming man's 'vital need'."

Difference between opposition within the accumulation mechanism and that at the level of the social relation of power that lies at the heart of the system as a whole.

v. Strategy "The tendential line that can be identified objectively as a valid hypothesis/guide lies in the strengthening and expansion of self--management demands. Since self-management demands are not posed merely as demands for 'cognitive' participation, but affect the concrete relationship rationalization/hierarchy/power, they do not remain closed within the ambit of the firm. Instead, they are precisely directed against the 'despotism' which capital projects and exercises over society as a whole, at all levels, and they are expressed as the need for a total overthrow of the system, by means of a global prise de conscience and a general struggle of the working class as such."

fn41: The representation of communist society as a society of 'abundance' of goods (even if not purely material ones) and of 'free time' is widespread in Soviet ideology, and is obviously the result of denying any effective social regulation of the labour process. 'Technological' illusions intervene today to sustain such ideology; for example, in R. Strumilin (On the Road to Communism, Moscow 1959), 'directing functions in the processes of production' are identified with 'technical' control, with the 'higher intellectual content' of work made possible by the "development of technology with its miraculous automatic mechanisms and electronic machines that 'think' ". Thus, automation will make it possible to achieve a really 'affluent' society of consumers of 'free time'; see above, note 30! As an example of typical deformation of Marx's texts on this point, see G. Friedmann, Industrial Society, New York 1955, where the worker's reappropriation of the product and of the content of work itself is identified with 'psychic-physiological control of work'!

-Presentazione: zombi di ngv agnese e alan di Candida:

Overview of the Talk (1 minuti)

- Introduction: (2min) Agnese - CandidaTv e' una piccola casa di produzione indipendente romana che nasce nel 1999 da un gruppo di persone provenienti dal campo della telematica, del video, della radio e del teatro. Definiamo candida la Tv elettrodomestica, il nostro motto e' "Fai la tua televisione". per oltrepassare la distinzione tra produttore e consumatore.

-Una mutazione antropologica si e' determinata: lo sport, le soap opera, il porno, sono buone ragioni per sviluppare competenze tecniche che consentano il reperimento (tracing, finding, discovery), la duplicazione e la condivisione del materiale video. I computer e la telematica mettono a disposizione queste tecnologie: i metodi di compressione video le reti peer-to-peer

-Cosa e' la compressione video: (2min) agnese Sfruttando il fatto che l'occhio umano non è in grado di percepire variazioni infinitesimali quali quelle ottenibili con la digitalizzazione di un segnale video, i dati ottenuti vengono ridotti tramite un processo matematico che passa sotto il nome di compressione. Di conseguenza un segnale video compresso richiede meno risorse di uno non compresso ma, ovviamente, contiene meno informazioni. La bontà (virtue, quality) di un sistema di compressione sta nel rendere invisibile all'occhio questa riduzione di informazioni. Il dispositivo che opera questa compressione viene chiamato CoDec (Compressore/Decompressore). La compressione consente l'upload e il download anche di film da un ora e mezza riducendo fino a 10 volte il peso originale del file. Un esempio sono gli mp3: gli mp3 vengono condivisi tramite reti peer to peer, ma lo stesso accade per i video -formato che e’ buono solo per guardare e formato che e’ buono anche per montare (vp3)

-Cosa e' una rete peer to peer? (2 min) Alan sono computer che condividono con il resto della rete parte del loro hard disk senza passare per un server centrale, creando cosi' una banca dati collettiva. nello specifico la tecnologia bitorrent consente di alleggerie il traffico di download perche' e' pssibile scaricare i file da chi li sta in quel momento scaricando da altri nodi della rete.

Queste tecnologie, sviluppate dai consumatori per appagare la loro sete di consumo nell'intimita' e nel calore delle case, diventa un enorme risorsa per la costruzione di reti autonome all'interno delle quali condividere o copiare video non e' piu' un reato.

1. P2P e un rete dove ogni participante fornisce risorse (banda, i cicli di processore, spazio per immagazinare) o saperi (dati, fatti, puti di vista, valutazioni) agli altri senza passare tramite un server centrale.

2. Il migliore conosciuto forma e il file-sharing, condivisione di file, sopratutto musica ma sempre di piu materiali video e multimediale. Nel rete file sharing c'e un virtualisazione delle risorse. Una folla diffusa, transiente, e capace di raggiungere livelli di aggregazione che permette la distribuzione del file in un modo veloce e economico.

3. A qualsiasi momento ce sono 6 millioni di persone che usanno le reti file sharing. Allo stesso modo, ce sono altro 4 millioni chi contribuiscono i cicli di processore al progetto SETI: "un esperimento scientifico che sfrutterà la potenza di centinaia di migliaia di computers collegati a Internet, alla ricerca di intelligenze extra-terrestri [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (S.E.T.I.)]. Voi potrete partecipare facendo "girare" sul vostro computer un programma che scarica e analizza i dati di un radio-telescopio. Esiste la lontana, ma accattivante, possibilità che il vostro computer scopra il lontano mormorio di una civiltà extra-terrestre."

e.g CNN & Portale di informazione independente come Indymedia

a. Velocita di collegamento dell'utente b. Velocita di collegamento dell'server dove sono ospitati i materiali desiderati c. Accord tra provider diversi di gestire il traffico di data, cosidetta 'peering agreements' d. Dorsale. Crescita di traffico e piu grande che il livello di espansione della dorsale della rete, legato anche al sviluppo della technologia delle router.

Qua, le risorse condivise sono: - spazio sull hard-disk per immagizanare dati - capacita di trasferimento (la banda)

Nell'area della distribuzione, la coordinazion e realissato attraverso un delle due seguente methodi: - o all'interno dell protocollo stesso (pura p2p) - o tramite l'uso di supernodes (computer piu potente, con piu banda quini in grado di funzionnare come punto di riferimento per gli altri nella localita. - o attraverso un server centrale che gestisce il collegamenti ulteriori

Intermezzo Agnese (30 seconds)

-e New Global Vision dal 2001 (5 minuti) (Zombi)

-Un esempio di reti autonome e indipendenti sono v2v (2 min)

Noi vogliamo svillupare una communita dentro, dedicato alla distribuzione di materiali independenti, perche purtroppo la grande parte delle materiali condivisi sono prodotti strettamente commerciale. Ovvio che per le aziende mediatica queta si pone come problema della cosidetta 'pirateria' per noi, l'aspetto infelice e che riprodiusce e fa crescere preferenze commerciale e acritiche.

1. Accordarsi sull utilizzo di codec standard

2. Standardised metatdata Systema di etichetta e categorizazione standard poer fare ricerca, organizzare un palimsest etc., sapere se la qualita delli materiali e adeguato di essere riciclati. Naming protocol, fer favorire l'identificazione di opere critici o independenti. Anche se non conosci il nome del film, metti V2V e trovi tutti gli risultati, scegli.

3. Experimentation with bit torrent Sperimentiamo con un programmino chi si chiama bit torrent. Questo e il forma di scambio p2p piu efficace. Facilissimo di installare. Scarici un piccolo file che contiene due elementi:

- tracker: server che osserva chi e collegato al file in questo attimo, che pezzi del file detengono. Cosi, quando il primo di scaricarlo e aggiunto da un altro, questa seconda commincia a scaricare dell fonte originale e il primo scaricatore, e il primo prende dall secondo altri pezzi che non ha ancora scaricato e cosi via.

- hash data: representazione crittographica dell file originale - ti permette di verificare gli contenuti delle dati, e prodce anche informazione sull pezzi dell file gia scaricati.

Quindi scarici il file, lo apri, questa to collega al tracker eagli altri utenti. Tutti quelli che scaricano consentono anche di scaricare agli altri. Più persone sono coinvolte nel processo e maggiori saranno le velocità di download di ognuno.

4. V2V e un progetto infrastruturale. Rete 'syndicato'. Questo vuole dire che non appartiene a un portale specifica. File contribuiti sono pubblicati su una lista RSS, aggiornata automaticamente.

RSS è un formato per la distribuzione e la diffusione su diversi canali (syndication) di liste di link, titoli e sommari di news. L’uso della Really Simple Syndication favorisce la decentralizzazione del materiale, consente agli utenti di integrare i links in qualsiasi pagine web, accanto materiali fatto del produttore del pagine. Torrent files o legami edonkey, possone essere attacati, o collati in email, e girato. Encoragiamo gente di formare gruppi per digitilissare materiali interessanti, e usufruire l'infrastruttura,

5. Ha una infrastruttura communitaria, che permette risposte, questione, o offerti di aiuto delli utenti. Questa e fondamentale, perche al di la di distribuire li materiali, e condividere risorse per superare ostacoli finanzialli, nostra aspirazione e di svillupare relazioni, basati su altre norme, non quelli inscritte nella diritto di autore. Quindi strumenti di dialogo sono fundamentali.

6. A parte di Bit torrent, usiamo altri reti di file-sharing anche. Anche se sono meno efficiente, hanno un aspetto che Bit Torrent Manca, cioe la capacita di fare una ricerca piu grande sulli materiali esistenti tra i utenti. Bit Torrent richiede che qualcuno ti tira l'attenzione attraverso email o RSS, o che visiti un portale. E ottimo quando c'e multo domanda per uno certo file durante un tempo breve, quando e uscito, ma non tre mesi dopo. Altri sistemi, come MLDonkey, ci permettono di risolvere questa lacuna.

7. Dall punto di vista di produttori independenti, offre la potenziale di diffondere i loro prodotti senza pagare gli costi della infrastrutura, e tramite mezzi che sono capace di attenuare gli inuguaglianze economiche al rispetto dell grande impresa mediatice.

8. E sostenibile perche il numero di 'providers' cresce con il livello di domanda, questa riduce la problema di dipendenzia sull finanziamento esterno, che nell ambito della cultura viene spesso sia dello stato, sia di Fondazioni; entrambe hanno gli loro esigenze che determinano l'orrizonte dell accetabile (institutionalisazzione) sia altri privati e le regole del mercato (professionalisazzione)

L’uso della Really Simple Syndication favorisce la decentralizzazione del materiale, consente agli utenti di integrare i links nei

In via di sviluppo e nata per cercare degli standard nella compressione e i metodi piu' rapidi per la distribuzione e condivisione creando cosi' un bacino multimediale e una comunita' di produttori e distributori

Licenze (1 min) Le license sono stati creati inizialmente dall communita Gnu/Linux, e la sua machina di progresso. Questa licensa mantiene il diritto di autore ma da al utenti certi diritti normalmente riservati: - reproduzione - distribuzione - modificazione

Ogni programme prodotto usando un software sotto license GPL deve essere distribuita sotto le stesse termine e condizioni.

Le licenze di creative commons sono un tentativo di trasferire questi principi dall software a "prodotti dell'ingegno": cioe, literario, musicale o multimediale. Ci sono diverse license disponibile per gente chi si trova in svariate circonstanze. Alcuni permettono solo il consumo gratis, altri favoriscono il riuso delli materiali per creare opere derivati.

La licenza attualmente da noi consigliato e quella che: - richiede attribuzione - permette il riuso se il creatore e daccordo che anche il loro opera sara riusabile (licenza d'ereditarietà). "The nonsoftware analogue to making the code of a new work openly available is to make the derivative work itself available on the same terms as the original." - proibisce l'uso con fini di lucro.

Questo ultimo termine e problematica, a cosa della definizione multo stretto di 'fini di lucro'. Adesso, nell Stati Uniti, anche le ricevute di altri dati e considerato come incluso in questo definizione - non c'e bisogno per un scambio di soldi. Al livello dell sviluppo di una communita sostenibile di produttori independenti e ovvio che dobbiamo essere capace anche da vendere, almeno in certe circonstanze. Quello che vogliamo eliminare come possibilita e che i grandi interessi commercilai sfruttano nostro lavoro, usando la liberta che noi aveviamo avuto intenzione dare ai utenti e altri case di produzione critiche o independente.

-------------- (4 min) Sirenetta illustra la centralita della recodificazione di certi personaggi mediatici. Abbiamo tutto il nostro lessico audio-visivo, personaggi famigliari. Disney e l'esempio par excellence: sono diventati proprietari della nostra memoria dell'infanzia. Per questo che le famiglie portanno i bambini al loro film, e compranno loro giochiali generazione dopo generazione. Noi vogliamo fare parlare questo personaggi con altre voce, fare raccontare altre storie. Questo materiali sono stati appropriati, e in questo sta un puo a parte della potenziale per le rete medaitiche autonome chi e il sogetto del nostro discorso. Punat sull fatto che anche con nostri mezzi technologici avanzati, dobbiamo ancora confrontafre una legge che riflette li interessi della 'gran pezzi', perche Disney e stato praticatmente l'autore della legge di 1998 che ha esteso la durata del diritto di autore nell' Stai Uniti.

Negativeland prova una routa. Noi facciamo un altro. Si intrecciano. Qualche parte da questo incroci si trova un modo per fronteggiare lal logica del mercato sull produzione culturale.

===================== -Le license: (1 min) La distribuzione di prodotti dell'ingegno via web pone sempre il problema delle licenze, da un lato come un problema di distribuzione di materiali eventualmente coperti da copyright dall'altro come un problema di tutlela del materiale distribuito in modo da garantirlo da possibili manipolazioni, soprattutto a livello commerciale. Ogni risorsa, sia un'applicazione, sia un file testuale o un ipertesto, sia un file multimediale o audiovisivo ha i suoi problemi nella distribuzione, riproduzione e manipolazione; quindi benchè sempre nell'ambito del copyleft, deve essere individuata una licenza apposita per il tipo di materiale audiovisivo. Le licenze proposte da Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org/ sono copyleft e si occupano specificamente della tutela e circolazione di materiale di tipo multimediale piu' precisamente per prodotti creativi, che siano musica, video, o testo. NGV ha adottato simbolicamente, nell'attesa di uno sviluppo nell'affermazione giuridica del concetto di copyleft una licenza Creative Commons "Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike": viene garantita l'atrtribuzione di proprietà, ossia la proprieta' del contenuto e' dell'autore; viene diffidata la creazione di un priofitto dalla semlplice distribuzione del file; il file deve continuare a essere distribuibile, condivisibile quanto il file originario (quest'ultimo principio è mutuato dalla gpl e dalle licenze copyleft utilizzate nella protezione dei software). Strumenti come NGV o V2V possono tutelare i file che ospitano e tutelarsi nei confronti degli utenti attraverso l'assunzione di una licenza che genericamente copra i materiali distribuiti ma che non potrà in alcun modo incidere sul tipo di tutela stabilita dal produttore: il primo e per molti aspetti unico soggetto in grado di garantire la protezione accanto alla circolazione di una risorsa intellettuale in rete rimane lo stesso autore.

As Florian correctly pointed out the demo in Geneva was not only to IP-focussed institutions (WIPO, WTO) but also to the IOM.

The evening beforehand the content of the action was introduced at a public meeting addressing freedom of communication and of movement; the discussion summarized some key developments in each area and went on to examine analogous tendencies in each field. Substantially this comprised a reflection on autonomy and its limits (of migrant labour, of communications production), the paradigm of management as the modern form of control and performance of power (digital rights, border management etc) and concrete connections (role of communications in migrant flows, use of communications in struggles against detention centers, the relationship between the circulation of pirate or 'grey' goods and the material economy of migrant subsistence).

We decided to this on the basis of a hunch, without a clear idea of the shape of the interconnection between struggles in these two areas. Those discussions have continued and become steadily more wide-ranging, confused, fascinating and rewarding - but inconclusive. ------------------

When we met in Geneva last April for two hectic days the only consensus I recall was that our work was not towards an independent media love-in, but should address broader questions, and at least three were mentioned: IP, border management and work. Since then other themes have also been raised, such as financial flows. Any call worth the name should provide ample space for all these thematics. Rather than scripting the agenda with conceptual finality this document needs to function as a device to allow people to co-operate, both those who have been in the process so-far and those who may want to become involved later. The structure should provide space and interface for autonomous initiatives.

Almost all of us have been highly sceptical about WSIS itself from the beginning, that it should not determine our agenda, our acts, a skepticism shared also by many in the CRIS campaign. Consistent with that I don't think it should dictate our schedule. The references to the HUB in Florence were important for me not because we went there with a clear plan and came away with a new political network (which we didn't really) but because in retrospect it was the first moment in a new cycle of struggles, even if we didn't know it at the time. HUB involved people working in innovative communications strategies, migration and agitation in the new world of work. Not all of these elements have been brought into synthesis and those which have hybridized are not yet mature, but that a process of recomposition began seems clear. This is the timeline, the schedule which attracts me: the time necessary to bring these elements, and the people who care passionately about them, together. Fuck the event, this is a work in progress, a site under de-construction.

------------------- I liked the style of Jamie's first draft enormously but felt that it overemphasized the IP aspect. As we work together on IP conflicts I now where he's coming from ;-)

The danger of playing into the official summit dynamics and agenda lay behind the desire to give the moment a 'festival like fashion' and turn it into a show of strength and potential 'by any means networking'. There is however a difference between being sucked into predictable oppositional dynamics and abandoning the contestation and conflict. I believe that there is a necessity for conflictuality in Geneva, just not at Palexpo where it runs the perverse risk of giving a legitimacy and sense of significance to a talk-shop and petty-governance disneyland.

"I am vehemently against downgrading the ongoing struggles around globalization and informatization to a somehow moralistic notion of "sharing"." Florian

I would also applaud Armin's extension of the field of freedom of movement to laws affecting individuals within the EU etc. and dissection of the modality used to achieve that. Likewise with his stress on the fact that the information society is 'labourers society' with the same disfiguring savagery and darwinian exploitation as yesterday, and as today.

On the other hand to interpret the progress of free software as a sign of a general obsolescence of the need to fight around IP strikes me as simplistic. The threat of jail for p2p users and the reality of death for millions in need of patented medicines are very real.Whilst the former may function as something similar to a migrant's risk of ending up in a detention center - a risk, but not the controlling factor of migrant action or subjectivity - by performing legal vilification on an individual as a simulacrum of control and management. The complexities of modern life and the basic conditions for modern production do not however enable the realization of such power fantasies. Instead we get the totalitarian state show five days a week after the news at lunchtime, repeated again at 6.30. The potential danger in this display lies in tis capacity to straightjacket the social appropriation of technology, in such a way as to keep the model of exploitation central to media-marketing-news companies alive. This is why the struggles around IP should not be foremost about consumption, but production, social relationships and the collapsing of the distinction between user and producer. In this light there is nothing 'moralistic' about 'sharing' (although Florian's comment suggests to me that the term is already fulfilling its potential as a wolf in a lamb's clothing) which I suggest is the form of social relation and mode of exchange proper to that nebulous movement now touted as the 'commons'.

I agree with Ionnek's comments about the signature of the call (Geneva 03) and its location.

1. WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT (2 mins)

[CONTEXT & QUESTIONS]

-- 'Preferences' 'Production of affect' --- the necessity of changing what is produced, consumed and distributed over P2P

-- Conflict --- What is the site of conflict? What do we expect? \

[PROJECT]

-- V2V

-- A group project (LIST)

--- A set of syndication standards and naming protocols that uses metadata to make independent media available over user-built infrastructures

-- Geneva03 ... The Shivers of Sharing

2. CONTEXT & STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS (5 mins)

- Discussions yesterday

-- tenability of commons vs. proprietary spaces

-- the necessity of 'protecting' commons (the hardware layer)

Our assumption: free as in zero cost is a given: it cannot be removed.

But free as in zero cost does not equal free as in free minds, free as in at liberty.

The problem: how to address the imbalance of content 'preference' in 'autonomous' media infrastructures.

3. PROJECT (10 MINS)

PRECEDENT & CONTEXT (5 MINS) as Eben pointed out distribution is an amateur activity

....looks at elements the advances in social and software technologies that have enabled the emergence of film-sharing.

-- Portals: www.sharereactor.com

-- Checksums (p2plinks, bitzi etc.) www.edonkey.com, www.bitzi.com

-- Partial Download Sharing

-- Multiple Source Downloads

-- Swarm downloads http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/FAQ.html

-- example of bit torrent portal www.torrentse.cx

-- previous attempts at video sharing www.mediajumpstart.org

-- existing portal for the distribution of independent works over ftp (limited political genre) www.ngvision.org

-- likewise but limited to artistic genre Open Video Archive (http://ova.zkm.de/)

-- attempt to commercialize p2p infrastructure for independent film www.transmissionfilms.com (operated by the developers of Overnet/Edonkey)

3.1 V2V (5 MINS) others: others

- Appropriates the release structure from Warez groups - Establishes of the basic network of ftp servers to spread initial load - checksums

a. Ring of FTP servers

b. Running P2P clients

c. metadata format. size, length, license, genre, title, creator

d. format VP3 - better quality xiph, theora

divx - lighter

e. license share alike will make available options for those who want to distribute but not allow recombinancy

f. rss feed

g. independent portals working on the same infrastructure

h. community infrastructure for feedback and the provision of mutual aid Users and producers prod-users (community edit)

...where the gift is concerned, goods circulate in the service of ties. Any exchange of goods or services with no guarantee of recompense in order to create, nourish, or recreate social bonds between people is a gift. We intend to show how the gift, as a form of circulation of goods that promotes social bonding, represents a key element in any society. Jacque Godbout

This is not the vulgarized reputational accumulation of Eric Raymond

this is social norms

law

bring users and producers closer together

19 media collectives, talking to producers, film festivals etc.

h(2) legal consequnces of legitimate uses (transmission films)

i. no-one portal: curated portals with different emphases

j. not open publishing

k. polymedia distribution in other formats such as cds/dvds packaged with books and magazines showings in local halls

l. sustainable user-constructed infrastructure which scales according to demand - avoids problems of dependency upon external funding that drives process people into either professionalization or institutionalization

The Model:

- Appropriates the release structure from Warez groups - Establishes of the basic network of ftp servers to spread initial load - Creates space for release groups of different types to then proliferate on the secondary layer - Uses BT so as to overcome some of the free-rider problems - Employs more traditional p2p networks to expand persistence

& - Integrate collaborative media software to allow feedback to those who made the work and to facilitate knowledge exchange between enthusiasts - Include voluntary payment mechanisms so as to provide revenue to the producers - Provide a license engine so as to allow specification as to what constitutes fair use. - Finds a way of providing useful metadata from the vantage point of both users and producers - Potentially offers a media for the establishment of real world screenings by individual or venues.

& - Co-ordinate maintenance of hard archives - Combines virtual delivery with distribution in other formats through inclusion with books and magazines, feed for television, independent cinemas etc.

-- DEMO

DOWNLOAD & RUN

RUN GENEVA03 RAID VIDEO

3.2. GENEVA03

Explain project

Shows technological conditions can allow liberty of expression to be performed

And this suggests an ultimate site of conflictual

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