Untitled draft by Sylvat Aziz (2018). Pencil on light paper print. Image of the Mammari Buffer Zone. | Άτιτλο προσχέδιο της Sylvat Aziz (2018). Μολύβι σε ελαφριά εκτύπωση σε χαρτί. Εικόνα της Νεκρής Γραμμής, Μάμμαρι. This circle was initially conceived as a lecture entitled "Theodora's freedom: Notes on Foucault's governmentality, Haraway's 'staying with the trouble', and… Continue reading A circle on big and small transgressions, more or less illegal art, and other braving zones | Κύκλος για μεγάλες και μικρές παραβάσεις, περισσότερο ή λιγότερο παράνομη τέχνη, και άλλα braving zones.
Author: nee
I sought meaning in academic research about conflict transformation in relation to art and media history, and efforts for recovering the commons (PhD Cultural Studies with the London Consortium). I worked and taught with a number of universities, art-centers and internationally funded programs with increasing focus on free and open source technology, until a child reactivated my connection with a circle of heart-giving art educators in Brasil and helped me see what the Situationists' meant with their rejection of alienated labour. My child and I started mapping out and learning from the bravest and most meaningful art-educational initiatives around the world, and we've been focusing on holding space and community for free play, towards what Silvia Federici describes as a re-enchantment. Through my own learning path (including on-going training in Waldorf and Forest school teacher training, What Future for Education, London Institute of Education 2019; Hand in Hand Professional’s Intensive 2020) I have come to see learning as a state of being that is meaningfully embedded and present in its social setting, prioritising applied responses to local and community needs, and contributing to each other’s creative, practical, scientific, emotional and other developmental processes through a recognition of the abundant nature of the necessary resources, materials, information, peer-to-peer learning, and tools. | neeii.info
Gender, race, and the free software movement
I wouldn't say that issues of racism and sexism are out of place or that they don't belong in the free software movement, or that they are separate from it. I would say that the free software movement is connected and complementary to struggles against systemic oppression and exploitation, by focusing on the computing field … Continue reading Gender, race, and the free software movement
You’re never far from my mind (a message to the Free World)
I wonder about the assisted reproductive technology industry and whether anyone is looking into how free or unfree their practices might be. I got rid of my smartphone which means an entirely different workload and relationship with labour. With Jano now three years old and roaming, it's counterproductive to carry a laptop, and creating computer… Continue reading You’re never far from my mind (a message to the Free World)
Η γλώσσα σου είναι πανέμορφη
Όχι μόνο εύηχη και πλούσια, αλλά και το πολιτισμικό πλαίσιο στο οποίο βάζεις τον γιο σου και εμάς που τυγχάνει να είμαστε κοντά είναι υπέροχο, γεμάτο λεπτές, μαγευτικές ευαισθησίες. Τα δικά μου Ελληνικά είναι σκουριασμένα, και όχι μόνο αυτό: μου ήταν σημαντικό (ακτιβιστικό ακόμα) να αναπτύξω τρόπο διδασκαλίας στην Κυπριακή διάλεκτο, με αποδοχή των ελλείψεων… Continue reading Η γλώσσα σου είναι πανέμορφη
gardening, baking, studying: Stavrodromi + eimaste, January 2020
All this is happening over at parentscollective.eimaste.net
For my brothers
You are not alone. We are together in this. There’s endless love here for you. The little one proves it. Here is endless possibility for gentle cooperation, warm companionship, co-existence. And there is desire for these things. I wish to share with you my survival mechanisms, my ways of resolving our trauma. Of the chaos… Continue reading For my brothers
War-zones and battle-fronts / Dear Bassel Khartabil / Free culture
Dear Bassel Khartabil, responding to your call in this climate of urgency has been a liberating experience. Your work is especially heartening in the midst of an international climax that defies our previous definitions of conflict, and our understanding of its geographies. I was reminded of the significance of this in the emergency room yesterday:… Continue reading War-zones and battle-fronts / Dear Bassel Khartabil / Free culture
Σε επανάστασην / in revolution
the First Device
What should be the ideal character and purpose of the First Device we give to our young? How would such a tool define humanity's future approach to technology, and to our world? How would it shape and direct the mind? What kind of information should it contain? Would it be primarily audiovisual, or holographic, or… Continue reading the First Device
Zito post-patriarchy – Ζήτω αγαπητοί Ασσιώτες/ισες: Αντωνάκης Χατζηχρήστου, Μάμμαρι 1931-2019.
Obituary 16/8/2019 Έγραψα κάτι για τον παππού μου, για σας & για όποιον θέλει να το διαβάσει, έγραψα το πρώτα στα αγγλικά επειδή αρεσκουν του τα αγγλικά, & επειδή είμαι περήφανη (privileged) που μου έμαθε τη διεθνή γλώσσα. -- the language to talk back to power (Dear Assiotes and Assiotisses.., no, I'm joking / αστειευκουμαι!)… Continue reading Zito post-patriarchy – Ζήτω αγαπητοί Ασσιώτες/ισες: Αντωνάκης Χατζηχρήστου, Μάμμαρι 1931-2019.
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