Thinking Network Politics

..Learn to read network topologies as political control structures, seeing how corporations and governments shape and control the way we use

computer networks.

..the relationship between power and control over networks and the enclosing of subjectivities and

affects.

“network politics” became a wider popular media phenomenon too,

where old media started to focus on what is was able to brand as “twitter-revolutions, or facebook-revolutions”

Biopolitics of network culture, or in other words, the various practices

which form internet cultures – hence a step outside of the technological

focus, to look at what practices define network politics..

we were interested too in the metaquestion: what form would

investigating network politics have to take?

what kinds of forms of politics there are out there that are not even

recognized as politics? From artistic practices to the grey work of

engineers..

Given the context of a capitalist society and economy it is this

techno-capitalist framework within which the potential for digital

communications must be understood.

' ideology of healthy paranoia ' (' templates for suspicion ')

Network politics: artivism, hacktivism and social networking

Activism: political activismHacking: technological activism Artivism: artistic activism.

Does Hactivism matters ?

We want to know if hacktivism matters

Hacktivism = any kind of political activism that is performed by hacking Not: digital activism in blogs etc.

Matters = has any impact outside the hacker movement itselfe.g. politics, society, law ..

what digital activism can mean ?

Computer Crime Law-Making

The Law on hacktivism

To keep hacking, one author concluded, they had to hack the law

by finding ways for legal hacking.

So, the impact of hacktivism is not part of a rational debate, but of a

more complex strategic situation in which rational arguments only play a

minor role.

..and now the Law..

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

What is ACTA?

Thinks you need to know about ACTAFacts:

1. ACTA isn't the “European” SOPA. It's nearly GLOBAL and will apply to every country that signs the treaty.

2. ACTA is far more aggressive. Acta will not simply affect websites and have them blocked out of the internet – it measures go as far as surveillance of anything you share through private channels.

3. ACTA doesn't have a campaign against if that is as wide-spread and organized as the SOPA one. This is DANGEROUS, as there's less time between now and the final signing of ACTA.

4. ACTA has effects on healthcare, trade, and even tourism.

5. ACTA has to be STOPED.

Let's start spreading the world and organazing a good, solid response to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=63JyXmu0fqM

for over two years the ACTA agreement got negotiated secretly.

Nobody asked us about our opinion, but its negative effects will hurt us

all.

..will stifle free speech, innovation and undermine Internet security.

ACTA threatens free software

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta

Anti-ACTA protest

How can you act against ACTA?

http://www.stopp-acta.info/english/get+involved/get+in

volved/get+involved.html

First inform your social network about the impending consequences of ACTA. Talk about it on weekly

meetings, at work or at school, write about it on Twitter or Facebook, via

telephone, texts, e-mails or snail mail, you may even shout it out loud - and sign the e-petition. Every voice

counts!

We demand the stop of ACTA ?

So do it yourself.

Please go to the street and do your part to sink ACTA.

so..

We can think ethics and politics of digital activism as a critical artistic theory in a techno-political sense ..

Net Art → Network Art

The exploit to be the most desirable form of exposure.

Our artistic strength still remains in misusing, disrespecting, hacking

and cracking protocols, for we are, hopefully, not yet bots following a

technological template or legal policy. We are the composers of all the possible network topologies.

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Feel free for questions ..

Thanks!

Contact

●Giannis Moris: g7e6re@gmail.com Nikol Bairaktari: V17b8co0@gmail.com

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