In the Shade of the Commons. Towards a Culture of Open Networks

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 5
Towards a Culture of Open Networks......Page 8
The Delhi Declaration of a New Context for New Media......Page 10
The Vienna Document......Page 18
A Letter to the Commons......Page 20
World Information City Bangalore......Page 24
World-Information City: Cultural intelligence for the Urban Multitudes......Page 26
Security, Seduction and Social Sorting: Urban Surveillance......Page 31
Disembedding from Psycho-urban Containment......Page 44
The New Security Culture......Page 48
Haussmann in the Tropics......Page 54
Fragmented Urban Topographies and their Underlying Interconnections......Page 58
Cities of Planning and Cities of Non-Planning: A Geography of Intellectual Property......Page 62
IP and the City - Restricted Lifescapes and the Wealth of the Commons......Page 65
Pirate Aesthetics......Page 67
Electric Fences, Human Sheep......Page 71
ARTeries: Networks of an Art Route......Page 77
Air Around......Page 82
Someplace......Page 83
WIC TV......Page 89
WIC Photographic Review......Page 106
Open Networks......Page 122
Introduction to Open NetworksPower and Politics of Good Intentions......Page 124
Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s and the Birth of Open Systems......Page 126
Sometimes a Great Notion: a Reflection on Cybernetics, Isolated Systems and Open Beings......Page 134
In Defiance of Existence: Notes on Networks, Control and Life Forms......Page 142
Open Source, Open Society?......Page 147
On the Plane of the Para-Constituted: Towards a Grammar of Gang Power......Page 151
Open Communities and Closed Law......Page 166
On the Differences between Open Source and Open Culture1......Page 169