*I'm not a connoisseur of modern French cyberculture, but this has gotta be the freakiest, geekiest French article I have ever Google-translated.
*Apparently written by some hack-symp named "Ulrich."
http://izine.net/2010/12/e-nayons-lair-de-rien-piratons-e/
Posted on 06/12/10 | @ @ Geek my ass , I am a Citizen € € | 4 Comments
€ Let us not look like much, piratons! €
By Ulrich
Since the Internet has become a lifestyle more than a mode of communication, the happy hacker tribe is thriving, even better every year. Despite the fingernail scratch that this community should have regular, she knew better than anyone else enjoy the growth of the Net without the parasite instead of a web merchant that owes its existence by having applied the method of steamroller.
(((Okay, now we know where Ulrich's sympathies lie, and the rest of this piece is just like that, only much more so.)))
"In this context a strong anxiety or completely schizophrenic, music (the film) was the spearhead of the cultural scene hacker. I will not repeat the story of Napster and other sharing software, but the spirit that has endured, based on sharing, cooperative production and an alternative report to work and money, and never went away will not disappear anytime soon.
"Applied to the city, we perceive that we have available a huge playground where all the experiments are possible. (((Uh-oh.)))
"It is therefore necessary to repeat the common good in our behalf and for that, nothing beats a good hacking, pirate way. The public space is to us, but we dare not we appropriate it, the time to create a temporary autonomous zone, in which the range of possibilities has no limits. Hacking has led to many improvements in computer and Internet, it is not silly to think that the city would perform in a certain influence on its future. Remember that Guy Debord, in his "Introduction to a critique of urban geography," wanted to develop a psycho-geography by studying the "precise effects of geographical environment, consciously organized or not, acting directly ment on the emotional behavior of individuals ". By creating invisible lines and / or rebuilding of emotional ties, the city is no longer made of concrete and glass, but becomes a pulsating heart. (((Good to see ol' Guy getting a look-in, though if he'd known the modern French Internet was coming he probably would have shot himself even faster.)))
"The city is ours, piratons it!
"Internet users, your provider breaks out the nuts. (((Yeah man.))) You know that sooner or later, the eye of Hadopi will land on your poor connection to two francs in six, even if you've stashed deep in the Correze, behind the skirts of Bernadette Chirac (or receding hairline Francis Holland). But this, do not be afraid (a little more still skirts the President): you can now securely exchange unless you are bored.
"This is to hack the city to further explore the public space, making ours the quote from Jean-Luc Godard: "What matters is not where you take things, this is where you wear them." So, you will again become a nomad, fly in the round and alternative creative producer. (((Well, that would look great on a business card.)))
"In particular, thanks to Dead Drops (((whoa))), you can now share your files with these USB drives scattered throughout the city and the countryside. Designed by Berlin artist Aram Bartholl the Dead Drops is an anonymous network of exchanges that offline is to use USB key inserted and sealed in the walls of the city or by other means such as padlocks. Just plug in your laptop and share your content as well, freely and safely. You can locate these keys on a google map, go there and see their contents.
"Apart from the exchange classic videos, music or e-books, one can easily transform the basic principle and imagine that the dead drops become the guardians of freedom of expression without limits: exhibition giant digital photographs, creation of historical landmarks that tell where, through photographs, videos featured stories, testimonials or simply historical records, etc.
"Drops Dead While not enough for you, you can pretty much build your own wireless LAN for some 70 euros without using the Internet and then filtering providers. Just buy a small box wifi (an access point actually) firmware that supports the open-mesh, a little elbow grease to hair and nerdy glasses and a few hours, you put at the disposal of your neighbors, secure a network and reach of everyone.
"Then imagine (((yes, do go on))) that every house and building has such infrastructure and the city covers a wifi mesh parallel. Just because a single computer and / or a simple USB storage device to enjoy the features. Such a grid would allow local and open the debate on very punctual, and to renew social contacts between neighbors they no longer used. And a town hall focused on local democracy, may well open up such a network by informing and raising sensitive issues, such as garbage collection or distribution of water, the views of the inhabitants of the municipality, the rather than through a website. The city then becomes an agora, a city in the literal sense, where the policy makes available to its citizens a simple, direct and effective. (((Do I really want to discuss urban plumbing with the neighbors after installing an awesome system of this kind? Can't we at least groove out to Charlotte Gainsbourg?)))
"But despite all this, your soul geek demand more. You have a real passion for the bar codes, the flashcodes, RFID and other QR Codes (these tags mobile). And above all, you love the city covered with graffiti. Augmented reality can help you hack the city, without the knowledge of free will of all. (((Hmmm.)))
"In your artistic frenzy, so you create lots of QRcode , the have all over the city and your smartphone just has to reveal the mystery of these 2D barcodes to a new kind. Any kind of content can hide behind them: pictures, videos, music, news and stuff. Like the Dead Drops, their cultural vocation is limited only by our imagination, but unlike our USB sticks, QR Codes do not share, the individual viewer though interacts with its environment .
"But this type of hacking can shake up conventional wisdom: the art market, for example. We just have to improvise the city as an alternative to the traditional exhibition galleries and speculation. People make the process as well to go and discover the works exhibited at the four corners of the city and the game of bar codes, the price is set by the game "first come, first served": the first does not pay that euro and sixty, seventy euros, etc.. Sure, you do not acquire the latest Murakami, but the works of true artists who were able to put imagination in power or at least on the street. It's an aesthetic choice, faced with a mass art and speculative.
"The flesh is no price to pay. (((Boy, I'll say.)))
"Kit the perfect geek, you cure. For you, the city is also organic, and technology is a means, not ends. You want to first of all the sweat, noise and smells, touch the flesh, feel the energy. You live in the city, you're part of it. Now, with your WiFi antenna on the head and the bar code tattooed on the neck, you look like more bacteria discovered by NASA as a real human being. But your sense of sharing is such that you must absolutely share peer. It's compulsive and unhealthy. (((Oh come on, be fair.)))
"The solution is then: leaving home and going to meet each other. Yes, another one that has two arms and two legs and, incidentally, has a speech and brain. Do not worry, it's called a human being and it can greatly facilitate the life in your frantic search for the share. (((Yeah, and the ones in uniform are called "cops.")))
"Before neo-liberalism does not clean our brains tired, we forgot that politics, this endangered species, was made available to citizens eager for knowledge and knowledge that public service incredible library / media center city! The miracle of these places is that they invented the global license before anyone else. There, pecking at your leisure so these books already purchased, these discs already paid and the films acquired legally and all that! Life is not she beautiful?
"After some verbal exchanges with (on) a librarian, you are then become a user and in the same spirit, you borrow DVDs, CDs, books that take you home. Who would blame you to copy this film and this music? And to share with your loved ones? Too often we forget that we are the first messenger.
"But the ultimate is still the Beer to Peer (((hey, good one))) or more commonly known as the physical exchange between friends. In short, good branlade between friends, the evening, teuf, the blow to drink after work at the local boozer, manly hugs and petting in order. So the beer to peer, for that, anywhere you should suffice: the bar, your apartment, 'the neighbor's barbecue, the restaurant on Saturday night or the bench.
"But you need your thumb drives, or anything your netbooks communicating by Bluetooth which allow you to share in peace. You exchange confidential, you invest with impunity the public place and in addition, you are promoting the social bond around a good beer and good food, knowing that you practice it longer than the first. You are a winner of both worlds: you have all enriched each other, you had a great time together and more, the beer was very fresh. So, after you get home, you find many nase your P2P software and direct download. The next Friday, when he fell by the way?
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