Radical media, politics and culture.

Antosofia Presentation

FilosPres

1. Introduce Autonomedia/Semiotext(e) - History - Sense of scope of publications - Lack of ideological sectarianism

2. Website - Initial form: traditional - Contained: Link bank Forum - Retained shape of a publisher - contradiction of web publishing - 2001spring/summer first version of slash.autonomedia.org - Costs - Legal problems: the Thing. Reject Concept of Open Publishing - intstead strengthen tools and powers of the listener - avoid problem of manipulation - some measure of factual accountability: indy confuses comment and article 3. Describe Slash - Democratic Aspect Contrast Active Contrast Scoop - Features Peer evaluation RDF Boxen Problems of anonymity

4. RDF boxes - Network v Channel - Community v Broadcast Wiki - Drafting tool built on the premise of user participation. - Annotator - Political significance - map to the evolution of decisions. How do we understand moments of rupture? Why did a group or coalition split? Where do the differences lie? Potential significance of this in terms of transparency, as functioning social alliances are often the product of highly subjective factors.

Organised online - Encrypted chat - Intellkectual Propert issues

5. New means of cooperation, new possibilities for alliance, federation: the current fragmentation of resources. For example the construction of a video distribution platform. - New Global Vision. Provision of more complex technical support for social radical elements - Tech Fed - Mail, webserver, domain name registration, advice

6. Tools exist. - Social structures able to take advantage of them are slow to emerge. Impeded by territoriality, the efforts by some to monopolise cultural capital, hegemonise the political potential.

7. Political challenges - WSIS - EUCD