FUTURE NON STOP

...is a semantically connected content repository, which contains documents on 15 years of new practices in art and media.

FEATURED TEXTS

“Grassroots Movements Can Learn from the PR industry.”
Sheldon Rampton
During the World-InfoCon conference in Amsterdam Sheldon Rampton, editor of PR Watch, spoke to World-Information.Org about improving grassroots techniques of advocacy.
Society Lost
Boris Buden
Warum spricht man heutzutage immer öfter von den so genannten urban struggles? Worum wird in diesem Fall gekämpft und warum ausgerechnet in der Stadt?
Let it RIP! Obituary of an Endless Myth: Public Netbase, 1994-2006
Brian Holmes
Brian Holme's tribute to Public Netbase, a project that combined art and politics, technology and culture, theory and practice in unique ways.
The Political Economy of Commons
Yochai Benkler
"In order to capture the benefits of freedom and innovation that the networked information economy makes possible, we must build a core common infrastructure alongside the proprietary infrastructure."; excerpt
Introduction Meaning of Digital Networks
Saskia Sassen
Technologies have long been recognized as significant factors in production, distribution, organizational forms, and social relations. But today's ICTs are not just any technology. They are reshaping crucial features of democratic participation, control, surveillance, privacy, and war. From the preface to "World-Information.Org – Politik der Infosphäre", Konrad Becker et al. BPB Berlin/ Leske und Budrich, Opladen 2002
Disembedding from Psycho-Urban Containment
Ewen Chardronnet
With the explosion of electronics, realising the science-fiction of yesterday, we are now in scenarios of the virtual city, the online city, the city of bits, the cybertown and other metaphors of disembodiment.

FEATURED VIDEOS

Nikeground

Nikeground - Rethinking Space. The hardly believable Nikeplatz Trick. Art Intervention in Urban Space.
World-Information.Org @Bangalore

Global Information Landscapes and Urban Transformations. Documentation.
Dark Markets

Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy in Times of Crisis. Documentation of the Conference and Exhibition.
Open Cultures

Free Flow of Information and the Politics of Commons. Documentation of Conference, Exhibition and Workshops.
Free Bitflows

Cultures of Access and Politics of Dissemination. Documentation of conference, exhibition and workshops.
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Public Netbase 1994-2004 (long version)