Plan de trabajo [es]
Category: storytelling
Collective Intelligence PhD text+vids online! [en/es]
Very happy to finally share these posts about my Collective Intelligence PhD:
General Argument: Decidim is a prototype for public-commons participatory democracy, forming part of a live ecosystem of collective intelligences with transformative impacts.
Argument 1: Decidim is part of a live ecosystem of interconnected collective intelligences.
Argument 3: Decidim has transformative impacts.
[Versión en castellano casi lista] Argumento: Decidim es un prototipo de democracia participativa público-común, que forma parte de un ecosistema vivo de inteligencias colectivas interconectadas, con impactos transformadores
Videos:
… Collective Intelligence PhD text+vids online! [en/es]Lockdown Voices #2. Thank u MP T
Dear T, you are my Member of the people’s Parliament: MP T
If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
(MP T!)
Lockdown Voices #1. Thank u F, L + D
During lockdown
When the buck stopped with me every second of every minute of every day
You will never know how much your voices
Kept me afloat
“Hallo C, I’m calling to get your food delivery together, is it a good time?”
F: your voice is so melodious, so calm, so velvety, I smiled and relaxed every time I heard you on the phone
And I kept you talking a bit longer than I should have done so I could enjoy your voice like glorious warm soft sunshine at the beginning and the end of the day
Cushioning me so that everything felt not just doable but that I was warm and safe in a big soft pillowy snug
Tecnopolitical histories
La Colmena / The Hive of Decidim
[es/en] La Colmena (The Hive) (2019) is a documentary style video sharing (some of) the inner life of Decidim, made from material recorded during the fieldwork with the Decidim Team (July 2018). If you are interested to help with translation/subtitles, please message me on Twitter.
La Colmena builds on the experimental video The Sound of the Hive which transmits the hum of the Decidim office that was still ringing in my ears for a long time after returning home from fieldwork.
The Sound of the Hive / El Sonido de la Colmena
Knowing the whole + Not knowing the whole
Not knowing the whole: excerpts from Notes from Nowhere (eds) (2003), We Are Everywhere (p. 69, 71, 72).
Centres, Margins, Distributions
United States Air Force Project Rand (1964).
Baran’s network typologies from the early days of computing (1964) are still referenced by Tecnopolitica researcher-activists at the forefront of social transformation today (see diagram below). Decentralized and distributed networks, politics and technologies are at the heart of Tecnopolitical practices, however their politics are far removed from Baran’s context of US Air Force funded research. Politically, Tecnopolitica would have more in common with the trajectory of bell hooks whose framework: emphasises ‘the centre’ (contrasted with the margin); suggests ‘the decentering of the West globally’ and a focus instead on ‘attention on the issue of voice. Who speaks? Who listens? And why?’ (p. 40, 1994); and continues to be a reference point today for people arguing for ‘decentering and decolonising knowledge’ (Moreno Figueroa, 2019).
However, the substance and vibe of the hooks’ text sends very different messages to these stylised network visualisations (above and below)….
… Centres, Margins, DistributionsSwarm of Swarms [sketch #2]
