hello Nettimers ! It seems that the annual CHAOS event rarely triggers much discussion here on Nettime... ( please correct us if that's not the case, but we don't immediately recall it getting much 'play' or reflection nor critical analysis here ). Always occurring between Xmas and New Year's, it's an odd time for a hacker, tech + net politics convergence. But it's a strategy that has allowed the Chaos Computer Club(s) to pull off one of the largest activist conferences of its kind. The 39th Chaos Communications Congress ( 39c3) will happen again in Hamburg this year. This coming weekend ! Dec 27-30 ! ( 4 Days ) We - the XLterrestrials - together with nBGK Galerie - in BERLIN - and the curators of the current EastUnbloc exhibition ( more below ) will be hosting a 2-day " remote viewing station" + satellite event ( Dec. 27+28 ) to watch a bunch of the Livestreams in a public setting. Navigating and analyzing the content and netzpolitik issues and urgencies together. And providing a bit of XLt critical analysis, like: Do we still have time, and do we have any concrete strategies to un-install the Techno-Dystopian Shitstorm !? Perhaps attempting to take it a few notches further than just limiting ourselves to the "Enshitification" ( C. Doctorow ) angles and tact ( which tend towards tech-solutionism and tech policy fights ) and providing some wider-field investigations + inquiries into the whole 'progress' narrations+myths that surround the whole Technosphere Industries. More Info: https://ngbk.de/en/programm/termine/eastunbloc-39-chaos-communication-congress-br-xlterrestrial-remote-viewing-station Details : Sat, 27.12. – Sun, 28.12.25, 11.00–10.00 pm ( both days ) Type: Event Languages: German, English Location: nGbK Address: Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11, 10178 Berlin, 1st floor Admission: free Also for Nettimers in Berlin, we can recommend the themes of EastUnBloc exhibition itself, which is open during our streaming events... Excerpt: > 35 years into the post-socialist transition in Europe, images of the “former East” are often still rendered in shades of gray. Only recently, Cold War scholarship is beginning to move away from a view of two monolithic opposing blocs, instead exploring the concept of alternate or parallel modernities rather than the idea of lack and lag in the former Eastern bloc. To add color to these images, explore the ruptures and permeability of the “Iron Curtain” and blast apart pre-conceptions, the group exhibition EastUnBloc presents subversive and experimental media art works and practices by more than two dozen artists and collectives from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe as well as the production contexts in which they were created. Beyond presentation, the exhibition seeks to reclaim these works, as “artistic intelligence”: inspiration and toolkits to respond to current challenges. < ... A very fitting space to also have discussions reflection + about the 39c3 now ! If you're in the Btropolis, hope you can join us ! In the online + offline embodied NGBK space. Alien Seasons Greetings ! and/or Happy (un?) Holidays ! Podinski + the XLt ps... a few extra links More about CCC event here: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html And a couple primer articles + critiques from the XLt: 1. The XLt primer(s) for Chaos Communication Congress ( #39C3 ) - the Prequel https://xlterrestrials.substack.com/p/the-xlt-primers-for-chaos-communication 2. The Gringo Centaurs + Hexapods *Arrival* at Chaos Congress ?! (#39c3) https://xlterrestrials.substack.com/p/the-gringo-centaurs-hexapods-arrival ( Yes, not sooo long ago, Cory Doctorow really fell in love with Amazon and Jeff Bezos, WTF !??! Are we still in the Sphere of the Technopriests ?!) -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
In The Technodystopian Shitstorm, navigating + analyzing 39c3 !
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