Travel patterns: Amtrak seat plastic pattern, not the sky.
In a brilliant paper titled ‘Forking Free Sofware’, delivered at the Make Art Festival in Poitiers last December, Simon Yuill explained how the free software community was being recuperated by a neoliberal logic.
Yuill quoted Charles Leadbeater, British futurologist, management consultant, and one-time adviser to the Tony Blair government:
The avant-garde imagined that spectatorship would give way to participation permitting people to become more social and collaborative, egalitarian and engaged with one another, to borrow and share ideas … Mass participation, Debord’s antidote to the society of the spectacle, has turned into YouTube and social-networking sites on which we can all make a spectacle of ourselves.
Letter to a Eurocrat about Data Retention
189 letters posted to current and former Europarliamentarians who voted for data retention. Each letter comes with a “prototype,” a mirror-clad, credit card-sized object.
In memory of Sophie Scholl. Part of the exhibition Verdeckte Adressaten at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Curated by Axel Wieder.
Metahaven, November-December 2011.
