Distributed Technologies & Ideologies
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Fachseminar Hauptstudium und weiterqualifizierendes Studium
Sam Hopkins, Verena Friedrich
Mittwoch 14-täglich 15:00 – 17:00
Erster Termin 29.04.2020
Filzengraben 2, Atelier-/Seminarraum H 4.02
There is an ideological strain amongst certain internauts and
netizens which holds that the more decentralised the Internet
is, the better it is. The logic being that if power (political and
processing) is distributed throughout the Internet then it becomes
a safe and self-regulating system.
Distribution is a clear means of combating the monopolies
of twenty-first century platform capitalism. But what are the
implications for the state, for society and for democratic political
processes when power is devolved to a self-regulating system?
This is a practice-based research group that inquires into and
interrogates the structures of this belief system. We look at the
heterogenous political positions, emerging technologies and
available services that coalesce around the topic of decentralisation
and distribution.
We will engage with texts by crypto-anarchists and hippylibertarians,
explore the worlds of crypto-currencies and
blockchain-based platforms, and experiment with the various
distributed social networks of the Fediverse.
Keywords: The California Ideology, from counterculture to
cyberculture, cybernetics and systems theory, the Whole Earth
network, the WELL, Radical Markets, Vitalik Buterin, Scuttlebut,
Mastodon, WT.social, The Decentralised Web, Blockchain, Solid,
Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Dweb, Blockstack, Beaker Browser,
Network Aesthetics, Silicon Valley (the tv show), Dammbeck &
Curtis
Due to the situation around COVID-19, the seminar takes place in an adapted online version...
29.04.2020
- introduction by Sam Hopkins & Verena Friedrich
- short inputs by students
13.05.2020
- Fred Turner, "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Chapter 1: "The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor"
- online discussion
27.05.2020
- Fred Turner, "From Counterculture to Cyberculture"
- this week the discussion takes place asynchronously in the pad
10.06.2020
Discussion of:
- "The Global Brain" by Peter Russell (1983)
- "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts" by Adam Curtis (2011)
24.06.2020
- projekt presentation by Sam Hopkins
- projekt presentation by ...
08.07.2020
- project presentation by ...