>ZeligConf >Paris - 15-16-17 December 2000 >European digital counter-cultures meeting > >In Seattle, on November 1999, while the OMC conference was taking place, >the global mobilization of a multitude of struggles, local or single-issue > >movements from the whole planet succeeded in defeating one of the major >institution of the New World Order. In this unexpected scenario, once >more, >the ability of the actors to use the communication weapon, and in >particular the Internet, played a determining role. And the Seattle police >forces were >not mistaken when, once their amazement went by, they surrounded the >Independent Media Center premises, in an attempt to deprive the protest of >its >weapon of coordination and cooperation. > >Around networks practices, and on networks, during the last years many >collective subjects, actors of practices, initiatives and confrontations >has >formed, which mark communication territories with a strong alternative >presence. Whether it is a matter of experiences linked to struggles or >social >movements (illegal immigrants, unemployed and precarious workers, occupied >social centers, etc.), of embryonic alternative networks (Nodo 50, >Sindimonio, ECN, Sherwood, Samizdat), of theoretical and cultural >aggregations around virtual spaces of development and reflection (Nettime, > >Syndicate), of on-line publishing initiatives (Sherwood-Tribune, Agenzia >di comminicazione territorial, Agencia in permanent construccion, >Hacktivist news service), or the effervescence around free software, a >real richness has emerged from practices, contents and analysis which we >want to consider as a common and collective inheritance. > >In the meantime, we have no choice but to notice that the gathering which >have taken place here and there (HIP and Next Five Minutes in Amsterdam, >ZPK in various central european cities, Hack It in Florence and Milan), as >well as the informal circuits of contact and cooperation which have formed > >themselves progressively, in spite of the fact they play a determining >role of circulation, reproduce geographical and cultural splittings >between >different areas of the Old Continent, and also between various sympathies. >The cognitive richness and the collective intelligence which form >themselves around these gatherings, as an extension of the ones which run >along the networks, are in a certain sense restrained by the borders of >the >old nation-states, even though the boundless territories of the Cyberspace >are opened to us, even though the Internet provides for us the means to >form ourselves at a continental and transnational scale, even though the >struggles and movements are becoming increasingly all-inclusive facing th >e >power of the Empire. > >In these times precisely, where the Net in general, and the Web in >particular, are in accelerated way of "amazonisation", submitted to the >increasing >appetites of financials predators, the managers of the spectacle society >and the oligarchies of information industry, the stake of the construction >of >wide levels of co-operation between the multitudes forming the >counter-network becomes determining. We believe that it's today possible, >and >necessary, to confront our experiences, and especially to consider the >formalization of effective levels of common initiative, of exchange of >knwoledges >and competences, of theoretical debates and production. In other words, to >conquer the means to be actors of our own communication, the capacity to >be >free productors of information services, to echo the richness of the >initiatives of civil society against the neoliberalism. > >For all these reasons, we want to set up, in december 2000 in Paris, an >european meeting digital counter-cultures. A space/time of convergences - >beyond national, subjective or practical separations - which suggests new >possibilities of collective actions between the various hearts of the >cultures of the networks. We want to build a temporary autonomous zone of >productive co-operation where can converge and combine cultures of >activism and hacking, practices of counter-information and the productive >engineering of the free software, creativity of the actors of the social >movements and that of the communities of the networks. > >Padua-Paris, March 26, 2000 >samizdat.net - sherwood.it > >zeligConf >http://www.samizdat.net/zelig > >------------ > >- rosta - >cybertovaritch lost in cyberspace >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~artinfo~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >A C3 moder�lt levelez�si list�ja~ C3 moderated list >Inform�ci�k m�v�szeti esem�nyekr�l~ Information on arts events >Leiratkoz�s: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Feliratkoz�s: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.c3.hu/ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >
