Face aux sites commerciaux aux messages publicitaires agressifs, destinés
à ficher et cibler les utilisateurs, le Web indépendant propose une
vision respectueuse des individus et de leurs libertés, il invite à la
réflexion et au dialogue. Quand les sites d’entreprises se transforment
en magazines d’information et de divertissement, quand les mastodontes
de l’info-spectacle, des télécommunications, de l’informatique et
de l’armement investissent le réseau, le Web indépendant propose une
vision libre du monde, permet de contourner la censure économique de
l’information, sa confusion avec la publicité et le publi-reportage,
sa réduction à un spectacle abrutissant et manipulateur.
To us, the Web is a sort of shared external memory. We do not have to
remember unnecessary details: dates, sums, formulas, clauses, street
names, detailed definitions. It is enough for us to have an abstract,
the essence that is needed to process the information and relate
it to others. Should we need the details, we can look them up within
seconds. Similarly, we do not have to be experts in everything, because we
know where to find people who specialise in what we ourselves do not know,
and whom we can trust. People who will share their expertise with us not
for profit, but because of our shared belief that information exists in
motion, that it wants to be free, that we all benefit from the exchange
of information. Every day: studying, working, solving everyday issues,
pursuing interests. We know how to compete and we like to do it, but our
competition, our desire to be different, is built on knowledge, on the
ability to interpret and process information, and not on monopolising it.
Taking in account this political tradition of Interfaces, we would say
that a Manifesto embedded in its shape its political intention. So one
of our challenges and hopefully our contribution to this field would be
to transform the previous statements into an interface.
We take politics that exclusively valorize the local in the guise
of subverting currents of global abstraction, to be insufficient.
To secede from or disavow capitalist machinery will not make it disappear.
Likewise, suggestions to pull the lever on the emergency brake of embedded
velocities, the call to slow down and scale back, is a possibility
available only to the few -- a violent particularity of exclusivity --
ultimately entailing catas- trophe for the many. Refusing to think
beyond the microcommunity, to foster connections between fractured
insurgencies, to consider how emancipatory tactics can be scaled up for
universal implementation, is to remain satisfied with temporary and
defensive gestures. XF is an affirmative creature on the offensive,
fiercely insisting on the possibility of large-scale social change for
all of our alien kin.
- limit my content's virality
Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist. 'Gender abolitionism' is not
code for the eradication of what are currently considered 'gendered'
traits from the human population. Under patriarchy, such a project
could only spell disaster -- the notion of what is 'gendered' sticks
disproportionately to the feminine. But even if this balance were
redressed, we have no interest in seeing the sexuate diversity of the
world reduced. Let a hundred sexes bloom! 'Gender abolitionism' is
shorthand for the ambition to construct a society where traits currently
assembled under the rubric of gender, no longer furnish a grid for the
asymmetric operation of power. 'Race abolitionism' expands into a similar
formula -- that the struggle must continue until currently racialized
characteristics are no more a basis of discrimination than than the color
of one's eyes. Ultimately, every emancipatory abolitionism must incline
towards the horizon of class abolitionism, since it is in capitalism
where we encounter oppression in its transparent, denaturalized form:
you're not exploited or oppressed because you are a wage labourer or poor;
you are a labourer or poor because you are exploited.
**In(ter)dependent:** Lo-fi production technologies direct orchestration
(like a recipe), not composition (like a TV dinner), allowing users and
their devices full control to render (or not) and perhaps repurpose the
media elements that constitute a digital artifact.
33. It’s important to notice and cherish the talk, the friendship, the
thousand acts of sympathy, kindness, and joy we encounter on the Internet.
Despite their humble, decades-old base technology (plain text), innovative
uses of lo-fi technologies can be remarkably hi-fi, as in the case of AJAX
(whose most famous application may be Google’s Gmail service).
106. We should have the courage to ask for the help we need.
63. The more machines sound human, the more they slide down into the
uncanny valley where everything is a creep show.
73. Every new page makes the Web bigger. Every new link makes the
Web richer.
1. **Contributors and facilitators** over ‘editors’ and ‘authors’
067. Affirm all words and signs.
our nectar is not just a lure
046. See “23” in everything.
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A lot of people say that new media is revolutionary. They say the net is
anarchic and subversive. But how subversive can you be in an exclusive
club, with a $1000 entrance fee?
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile
processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
- The critique of the image is the defense of the imagination.
Bangalore is a clear example of a future that happens in the present
time, and with tangible effects. The linearity of technological,
economic and social progress is presented by specific actors who often
have specific interests. And the idea of a post-whatever works in a
similar way. As theoretical gesture, the post-whatever tells us the
story of a historical development along with that of an imaginary future
towards which a certain number of people are heading. Any post-whatever,
when used to delineate a linear historical narrative of cause-effect
relations, imagines time as following a clear progressive path, from
the past towards a future condition.
Patents are government-backed monopolies which are obstacles in a free
market and increasingly hinder, instead of help, innovation. Patents
should definitely never be given for things that are trivial,
non-substantial, computer programs, business models, or anything
unethical.
8. If you run into Internet trolls, troll back or make sure you kick
them off your side of the internets. Or, be cooler than them, and make
them join you (see, Troll them back). Do not let them make you sad.
* Design is emotional, functional and political. Interfaces are
designed. (D. Norman)
