#SWAP: David Potocnik (SI/ES totalism.org)
Channel: iMAL Brussels
Date: 2017-11-22

So, what about Politics? - #SWAP
Symposium @ iMAL, Brussels, November 2017
http://imal.org/en/activity/so-what-about-politics-swap

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David Potocnik (totalism.org)
So, how about hackbases? The case of cyberhippietotalism
As others, hackers (technologists, theorists, artists, ...), the supposed vanguard, too labour in bullshit jobs to subsist. In majority, their lives are subsumed by the logic of current neoliberal capitalist societies, and actually further those agendas. Arising from their fund-politics entanglement, the current institutional types (startups, non-governmental or academic organisations, as well as current hackerspaces) are insufficient to change that for the many. The already limited coverage (as per their limited replicability/scalability) these vehicles offer, in addition, often seems to be in systemic danger proportionally to how much their work is transformative. Hackbases however, might be the critically missing, replicable, resilient subsistence and work infrastructure model, to enable general full-time lives of integral political and technical practice. These live-in hack/theory/art spaces are experimenting with, developing, and currently offering new foundations for an insurgence - to shift the negative trend of how technology is redefining societies and natures.

About the speaker
David Potočnik, b.1986, Slovenia. Critical technologist and practitioner. Studied Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Since 2009 working on middlemachine, an unreleased fragment ideation-execution-publication engine, in the context of CHT/Totalism hackbase in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain [http://totalism.org]. Recently released E2H collaborative content system [http://e2h.middlemachine.com], and launching the Totalist cooperative [http://coop.totalism.org]. Splitting time between the Lanzarote base, and different European capitals [http://totalism.org/maps]. Researching full work automation, post-capitalism, representation systems, hypermedia, supply chains, and the Anthropocene. I am convinced the forces of technology will only be used sensibly when we change the current structure and the dynamics of power over it.

- http://totalism.org


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(intro & outro music: The Choice by The Black Square (■), licensed under a Attribution License http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Black_Square_/The_Choice)