[Reader-list] Fwd: ragpicking or recycling: from squattercity

[Rob van Kranenburg]

> I think there is no parallel for this, leaving our activists lost  
> and others too overwhemled to propose a way ahead.

Hello Ravi,

Very true. In this, we are all in the same boat. We - or I shall say  
I - have been quite depressed the past years in seeing the  
convergence of logistics and surveillance, convenience and biometrics  
in rfid and smart environments in not only the West but India,  
Russia, China where these high tech systems have no history and break  
down local and artisanal practices and ways of life and living where  
doing is a formative practice and things hold other meanings than  
waste only.

But, if you'd see me now, you see a smiling man! In Bricolabs
http://www.bricolabs.net/directions/paragraphs/
we are pulling together three strands:

1) the praxis of brazilian metareciclagem and gambiarra, making do
2) the attitude of developers such as jaromil, venzha, aymeric  
mansoux and alexei blinov and vladimir grafov, to name but a few and  
leave out lots of others
3 the ethnographic and organizational power of academics in LSE and  
INC and conceptual architects such as bronac ferran and matt ratto ,  
also to name but a few

together
in a practice of aiming for ( doing, thinking, scheming) global  
generic infrastructures , fully open source parallell trajectories  
for all human activities

and the key here is: parallell

so we withdraw from any oppositional practice or doing as that feeds  
the loop of wild capitalism

you have to give us some time to come forward with concrete projects,  
but they are coming up!

greetings, Rob