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L E T ' S  F I R S T  G E T  T H I N G S  D O N E

During particular historical junctures, characterised by crisis, deepening exploitation and popular revolt, hegemonic hierarchies are simultaneously challenged and reinvented, and in the process of their reconfiguration in due course subtly reproduced. During such 'sneaky moments', the shared authorship of collective action is split between those engaged in struggles of social justice and those struggling for just technologies.
The paradoxical consequences of this divide have been baffling: (radical) activists organize and sustain themselves using 'free' technical services provided by Fortune 500 companies. At the same time, 'alternative tech practices', like the Free Software Community, are sustained by a select few, some of which propose crypto with 9-lives as the minimum infrastructure for any political undertaking, and refute the rest as naive or unsophisticated  in their technical practices. Even when there is a great desire to bridge the gap, the way in which delegation of technological matters to the 'progressive techies' is organised, reconfirms hegemonic divisions of labor and can be as pertinent as political and philosophical differences. Conversely, if our t f ools inform our practices  and our practices inform our tools, then we will have to reconfigure the divisions of labour between 'activists' and 'techies'

How can we re-tell narratives of social justice activism and struggling for just technologies in a way that they converge rather than divide? What stories of collective authorship can we produce in those 'sneaky moments'? The workshop is an occasion to discuss design artefacts, computational tools and language devices available in moments of crisis. Participants are invited to bring case studies that they want to analyse collectively.

G R A P H

http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/laborofdivisions
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/darmstadt.sandbox
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/darmstadt.publish

M A G N E T S

Jara / Time: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/darmstadt.time
Femke / Separation: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/darmstadt.separation  
Miriyam / Labor: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/darmstadt.labor

Rehearsing (of the) enemy; rehearsal and efficicieny and sufficiency
On the spot experimenting. New element, moment of uprising -- changes hardware, infrastructure. Plants become weapons. "Thick theory" vs moments of change. Sneaky moments, and what we mean by it; inviting dissent and dissensus -- sneaky moments as opportunities. If we want, urgencies and time ... life + death a constant paradox; if it is ... contradiction
instititutionlising progressive forms of doing




R E A D I N G  S O L I T U D E

• Heteromation and its discontent (Hamid Ekbia, Bonnie Nardi, 2014) http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5331
• Difference Work: A Conversation with Lilly Irani (Lilly Irani, Monika Sengul-Jones, 2015) http://catalystjournal.org/ojs/index.php/catalyst/article/view/irani_senjones/144
• Blog-post for cyborgs (McKenzie Wark, 2015) http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/09/blog-post-for-cyborgs/
• Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist Generativity (Anna Tsing, 2015) http://culanth.org/fieldsights/656-salvage-accumulation-or-the-structural-effects-of-capitalist-generativity
• Feminist principles of the internet  (APC, 2014) http://www.genderit.org/articles/feminist-principles-internet  
• Let's First Get Things Done! On Division of Labour and Techno-political Practices of Delegation in Times of Crisis (Darmstadt Delegation, forthcoming) http://constantvzw.org/documents/darmstadt/LetsFirstGetThingsDone_FinalEdits2805.pdf

D E L E G A T I O N

The Darmstadt Delegation is an ongoing collaboration following from a workshop based on anecdotes that took place as part of the Thinking Together Symposium ( http://www.osthang-project.org/projekte/thinking-together/?lang=en) in 2014 at the Osthang Architecture Summer School, Darmstadt, Germany. It is the assignment of the delegation to explore the techno-political and socio-emotional relationships between activist practice and tools. Currently active delegates are: Miriyam Aouragh (University of Westminister, UK), Seda Guerses (Princeton, US), Jara Rocha (GREDITS/Objetologías, Bau School of Design, ES) and Femke Snelting (Constant, BE).

Miriyam Aouragh

- http://fty.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/30/1464700115604132.abstract
- http://miriyamaouragh.blogspot.de
- http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/aouragh-dr-miriyam  

Seda Guerses

- http://vous-etes-ici.net/
- http://obfuscationsymposium.org/
- http://www.spion.me/

Jara Rocha

- http://jararocha.blogspot.com.es/
- http://objetologias.tumblr.com/
- http://www.baued.es/en/studies/masters-and-postgraduate-degrees/masters-in-design-research-and-experimentation
- http://relearn.be/

Femke Snelting

- http://constantvzw.org/
- http://snelting.domainepublic.net/
- http://mondotheque.be/
- http://relearn.be/

S O F T W A R E

• Graphviz Live https://github.com/fbsp/graphviz-live
• Graphviz http://graphviz.org/
• Curl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL