Active Propositions

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Diffracting time, in (dis-)continuity with the notion of exploring asymmetries, from « I Come From The Third-TechnoScape », HackOn, July 2017.

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Third-TechnoScape

3TS unfolds from the alliance and agency of free spaces and free technologies.
It stems from human relations and conversation and not from an online platform (or media.) The latter can be used as support tool for historical and documentation purposes, but requires curating and reading time!

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We acknowledged:

• the presence of the enemy, and took a decision to focus on actions we can take rather than placebo solutions involving it
• the asymmetry of means and access to media and reaching out to a large public, eliminating a marxist approach to look for a critical mass
• scale issues in what living groups can achieve with regard to each person’s availability and engagement capacity
• friendly fire among hackers quibbling each other’s technical choice, and widespread disinformation
• the illusion that a technology can scale to all situations
• interesting tools to work with (e.g., radar.hso to coordinate action)

A number of pending issues were convoked:

• free software is not enough: although we like to think we can solve a lot of issues with free software, and technology in general, we don’t control device production. There’s a huge asymmetry here.
• people adopt technologies that is simple to use even if they enter a masochistic relation (e.g., wasting time)
• hacker events are usually not non-techie friendly
• non-techie events are not necessarily attractive to hackers (“full of hippies” )