A strategy account on open source, digital sovereignty, civic capacity, and how Cyprus can do more than simply host decisions about our collective digital future. Link to the actual press release. Let me start from the top, or rather, the so-called top. There is an official tech policy conversation taking shape, these days, as part… Continue reading This Is Not a Press Release: Cyprus Open Digital Futures Week OR How to Move from Hosting to Co-Creating Tech Policy
Category: transformation
Working with Erkan Ali
Who would have known that it's possible to change so much --shift so much dead weight-- so fast? Working with Erkan for three months has been a revelation. A phenomenal relief. He has helped me shed light and transformative attention on areas of my productivity that have been holding me back and in pain, and… Continue reading Working with Erkan Ali
Community idealism and the tragedy of the commons: On the politics of energy exchange and mutual assistance (Lefkara, Cyprus 25th March, 2022)
Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? On the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn
(1) Notes on the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn / The difference between me and a free person July 2019, Ixodos at A Casa Lar, Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro Are YOU able to trust in a fully participatory format? / On the academy as capitalist enclosure (edu-factory). / On the (arts) academy as a… Continue reading Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? On the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn
Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? / A review of the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn / The difference between me and a free person
29 July, 2019 Tineke called it soulwriting. We were talking about the trouble of caring too much about one's projects cum funding proposals. ________ You either trust in a fully participatory format or you don't. / On the academy as capitalist enclosure (edu-factory). / On the significance of deconstructing patterns of gathering and working that… Continue reading Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? / A review of the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn / The difference between me and a free person
perhaps it’s the nihilism, OR “If I were to start over, I would have been researching public fountains”
The following is written in response / review to the State of the Monument (Nov 20, 2018 organised by the Cultural Studies and Contemporary Arts Lab, European University, Cyprus) via Loizidou, C. (2014) Commemoration, Public art and Memorial Politics in Cyprus, 1901-2013 [thesis] If monuments are about asserting or compensating for insecure regimes, then I… Continue reading perhaps it’s the nihilism, OR “If I were to start over, I would have been researching public fountains”
Protected: On Love-violence (Family-state: resistance-sacrifice and the pain-impossibility of truth) / Redemptive govermentalities in-between Yael’s work, and “the revolution will be spiritualised.”
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