[Battlemesh] Call for Our Networks 2047: Redistributing the Future, attend online Nov 14-27

[Dave Taht]

Pretty cool idea! I hope there is a future less dystopian than
doctorow's "When sysadmins saved the earth", for all of us.


On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 8:38 AM dc <dc at dcwalker.ca> wrote:
>
> After a year of hibernation, we're excited to invite you to our next Our
> Networks, an experimental online event - something between an alternate
> reality conference, and wiki as collaborative science fiction.
>
> Between November 14–27, 2022 we will host a series of online writeathons
> to edit and create a wiki detailing events, people, and things that
> happen
> between now and 2047 when the sci-fictional event takes place.
>
>
> 🡤 • 🡥 • 🡧 • 🡦 • 🡤 • 🡥 • 🡧 • 🡦
> *Our Networks 2047: Redistributing the Future*
> November 14–27, 2̶0̶2̶2̶ 2047
> Online, Distributed
> https://ournetworks.ca
>
> /Drawing inspiration from our favourite sci-fi authors we're headed to a
> future for Our Networks 2̶0̶2̶2̶ 2047. Join us over two weeks to call
> into the
> present an artefact from an Our Networks more than 20 years ahead. We
> will
> collectively narrate the history of the steps that allowed us to get
> there
> from here in order to understand where and how we can focus ourselves in
> the present./
>
> •--------------------------------------------------------------------------•
> 🡥 We've all been living through these weeks where decades happen.
> Looking
> 🡥 back on our past we find neither dystopia nor utopia. Instead, our
> history
> 🡥 winds in-between, with setbacks and sudden leaps toward the internet
> and
> 🡥 web we want. In order to even try and get there we've had to fight to
> 🡥 transform the entire world. While there have been great strides in
> 🡥 remaking where we live, work, and play as we tackle the interleaved
> crises
> 🡥 of climate, capitalism, and co-option. There are still looming
> challenges
> 🡥 and lingering concerns.
> 🡥
> 🡥 For an event that has been held alongside these struggles, Our
> Networks
> 🡥 has been a place to share victories and defeats together. Out of a
> sense
> 🡥 of large-scale ruin ⤴, we have kept inventing hope, the kind that
> isn't
> 🡥 optimism, but rather a discipline we practice every single day ⤴. In
> 2047
> 🡥 it feels like we are at another critical juncture, just like we were
> in
> 🡥 2022 and 2035.
> 🡥
> 🡥 So once again, what will we make of our futures? How do we learn from
> our
> 🡥 pasts? How do we strengthen and extend our forms of redistribution and
> 🡥 accountability in our spaces, movements, collectives, and institutions
> 🡥 that have been our inspiration and home the last decades?
> •--------------------------------------------------------------------------•
>
> /To participate all you need is an internet connection to join us during
> the
> event annotating the wiki of this future conference./
>
> /We are seeking session leaders to spend at max couple hours writing
> abstracts and pitches for the hypothetical conference programming. To
> declare your interest, please submit a character's name and bio, area of
> interest or talk by October 15, 2022 here as a GitHub issue (we have a
> template with prompts to help you):
> https://github.com/ournetworks/2022-submissions/issues/new we also have
> an FAQ which hopefully explains more here: https://ournetworks.ca/#faq
> A week before the event we will share instructions and a registration
> form
> for those who want to receive a material artefact from the future after
> the
> event. If you don't want to "lead a session", you can still participate:
> registration for wiki-editors will stay open until the event ends. The
> online event is between November 14–27, 2022./
>
> /Email us comments or questions: orga at ournetworks.ca/
>
> 🡤 • 🡥 • 🡧 • 🡦 • 🡤 • 🡥 • 🡧 • 🡦
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