TweetSource: Transmediale journal What are the limits of acting in solidarity and a progressive liberal vision of the world? Of living an activist life? In today’s heated debates, who speaks for whom and from where at what moment matters, something that the Western liberal world is just starting to learn in what could be understood…
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What moves you? – Transmediale 2019
TweetThe following text has been drafted on the basis of the notes made for the participation in the closing event of Transmediale 2019. What moves you? During Transmediale we’ve been dealing with the uneasiness as well as affections, our current lives are full of ambiguities, contradictions, feelings of discomfort and we are not sure how…
Les saï saï au coeur
TweetOn the 24th February elections will take place in Senegal, after 7 years in Government and having promised to bring change to the country, the president Macky Sall has betrayed its people. Once again politicians are on the side of corruption, repression, selling the countries richness to external agents and enriching themselves while the people…
Hacklabs to technological cooperatives
TweetDownload EN / ES Techno-political collectives mix technical and political concerns. A perfect example is Riseup which defines its mission as a provider of “online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications .
Diving into the labyrinth of Asylum-seekers
TweetIt was after lunch, the phone rang and a friend asked me if I could accompany an African woman to LAF (the institution in charge of deciding about Asylum), she was not well treated the day she went alone, also she speaks only French as European language. My answer, “yes, of course”. So next day…