---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:49 PM Subject: [commoning] TACIT FUTURES: commons + mass migration To: [email protected] Hi, the follow-up to UN|COMMONS (berlinergazette.de/uncommons) is TACIT FUTURES. In this annual project the Berliner Gazette continues its work on the commons vis á vis the pressing challenges posed by the ongoing mass migration to Europe. The continent as well as each individual nation state seem incapable of upholding human rights, social justice and equality. Here, not only the deteriorating state of our democracies becomes ever more visible. Moreover, the question of the appropriate democracy model arises anew – whether democracy can really be confined to national borders or whether it should be dedicated to global citizen rights. Yet, post-Paris and post-Cologne hysteria in politics, media and civil society suggests something else. The majority seems to agree, that what's spreading in Europe today is not a humanitarian crisis but actually a security crisis. And that we should not cry for humanity and democracy, but instead for a stronger police and more authoritarian control. In fact, that we should continue buying into the new form of power, which has been unleashed in the course of the War on Terror. A power, that confronts potential as well as projected threats, while subjecting us to a culture of fear. A power, that operationalises what is "yet to happen". Ultimately a power, that renders democracy as well as future in general into the big-data driven child of algorithmic logistics. However, rather than buying into this new form of power, it's high time to question and challenge it. Despite or rather because of the current pogrom atmosphere. To begin with, are we ready to expand our notion of surveillance and understand it as the vehicle of this new form of power? And are we willing to acknowledge, that today's post-digital surveillance is reformating not only privacy and citizenship, not only economics and epidemiology, culture and climate policy, (geo-)politics and advertising, but all of this at once? Do we need long theoretical debates or is it enough to sense, that the recognition of refugees and migrants disrupts the expansion of this new form of power and paves ways for alternatives? Can we use Edward Snowden's disclosures about the surveillance-industry-state-complex to unlock the collective unconscious and to nurture counter powers? What does it take for us to imagine and build a democracy that our global, mobile and post-colonial times deserve – a "democracy without borders" or a "democracy in movement"? What is holding us back to renegotiate the very basics of social justice and sociality in general, when facing the growing number of refugees in Europe? And when do we eventually begin to work on a common future? In 2016 the Berliner Gazette will explore this terrain in practical and theoretical ways. We launch TACT FUTURES in the context of the transmediale with a program entitled "Diving into the Snowden Archives". It is a series of dialogues curated by Berliner Gazette for the transmediale 2016. Here comes the intro, followed by the links to the program module: The Snowden archives encompass documents leaked by former NSA subcontractor Edward Snowden and then published in part by major newspapers including the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Der Spiegel. These revelations initiated a global debate about the role of secret services in democracies, citizen rights in the age of digital networks, and big data and the industries of prediction. By disclosing the inner workings of a clandestine government-industry-nexus, the Snowden archives represent a kind of collective subconscious: something that society was never meant to learn about itself, its past, present, and future. In that sense the Snowden files can be seen as a message from "children from an era that is yet to be received," as Kim Ki-Duk has said. Yet the interpretations of even the published documents remain unfinished, due to their cryptic language and specialized information. And only a small percentage have been published. We can expect more revelations to emerge in the near future, though it may take decades before they all enter the public domain. In this sense, the Snowden archives not only represent a repressed awareness of the design of our social and political present, they also represent an awareness yet to come, provided we can develop the tools and capacities to decode and share them. How can we render this awareness and knowledge common and incorporate it as a vital part of our common history and common future? "Tacit Futures: Diving Into Snowden Archives" is the follow-up to UN|COMMONS and a cooperation between Berliner Gazette and transmediale in the context of the "Tacit Futures" project by Berliner Gazette. Guests include Andrew Clement (The Snowden Digital Surveillance Archive), Sandro Gaycken (Digital Society Institute / dsi.esmt.org), Evan Light (Snowden Archive-in-a-Box), Geert Lovink (Institute for Network Cultures), M. C. McGrath (The Snowden Document Search / Transparency Toolkit), Deborah Natsios (Cryptome.org/The Tally Update), Pit Schultz (nettime.org), André Rebentisch (meshcon), Maria Xynou (Surveillance without Borders), John Young (Cryptome.org/The Tally Update). Panel "Tacit Futures #1: Building Snowden Archives". Info: http://2016.transmediale.de/content/tacit-futures-1-building-snowden-archive... Workshops "Tacit Futures #2: Connecting Snowden Archives". Info: http://2016.transmediale.de/content/tacit-futures-2-connecting-snowden-archi... What we also plan to do: The Berliner Gazette is now working on a special section in its online newspaper. Around 40 reports, essays and interviews will be published throughout the year. Creative types of all sorts will get a chance to speak about the key questions relating to TACIT FUTURES. All texts will be contributed on a voluntary basis and published under a Creative Commons license. In parallel, the Berliner Gazette will organize more than 20 meet-ups, serving as the project’s cooperative platforms for dialogue about ideas and projects. Moreover, the Berliner Gazette plans to organize various partner-events. The TACIT FUTURES project will culminate in the international Berliner Gazette conference scheduled for October/November 2016 in Berlin. Please spread the word about! We truly hope, that there will be a way to wire our ambitions and to embark upon a fruitful exchange. Best wishes, Krystian -- ------------------------------------------------- UN|COMMONS - DOCUMENTATION - EN Projects, papers, recordings, photos and videos from the international conference on the fight for common wealth: http://berlinergazette.de/uncommons ------------------------------------------------- UN|COMMONS - DOKUMENTATION - DE Projekte, Positionspapiere und Videos von der internationalen Konferenz zum Kampf um Gemeineigentum: http://berlinergazette.de/deutsch/uncommons ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. 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