SFCM Founder @ Farmlab!
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User1 at 02.5.09 - 10:07 am
One of the founders of SFCM @ Farmlab Friday, (tomorrow!) at 12 noon, FREE and they feed ya!!
Chris Carlsson
Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, even the Burning Man festival, are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that challenges politics as we know it. As capitalism continues its inexorable push to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging that are redefining politics. In myriad ways, people are taking back their time and technological know-how from the market and in small under-the-radar ways, are making life better right now. In doing so, they also set the foundation—technically AND socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life. The social networks thus created, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies and tactics to confront the everyday commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.
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Nowtopia is a great book, I really recommend everyone read it.
Theres an Midnight Ridazz mention in it.
Graham02.5.09 - 11:33 am
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rain is gonna make me take public transportation instead of my beloved bicycle
spiraldemon02.5.09 - 11:43 am
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I see in Midnight Ridazz a definite movement towards collectivism, as well as (through virtue of it's inclusivity) a tendancy to cling to the Old Culture: possessiveness, heirarchy, supremacy and exclusivity. The amazing thing that I have seen within the past year is a slow gravitation towards that great center, represented by collective movements.
If any of you feel tired, disheartened or discouraged, this is only just the beginning. Those of us who are taking part now are making history. In the face of a failing financial system, I see more and more people: stock brokers, businessmen, freaks and students, all getting on bikes.
It's the inclusiveness of MR and the collectives that will spell the future of our great city. Slowly, but surely an anomaly became a possibility, and will become a minority. We will make a new and better world. I feel it all around me.
tortuga_veloce02.5.09 - 11:50 am
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After much debating and flinging of shoes, we agreed on a ride and a route. See post on the right.
BTW, the meal they serve is the only square meal I get all week! No P&J sandwiches here!
User102.5.09 - 12:07 pm
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al,
i would like totally go to this, dood! but i can't.
i'm going to be doing some dance stuff (yay) with collage dance theatre. actually, you guys should stop by from 2-4 on the southwest corner of 7th & fig. open rehearsals because it's on the street.
meandmybluebike02.5.09 - 3:21 pm
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mambb, is that near the 7th/metro redline stop?
I wanna see hot college girl dance action
spiraldemon02.5.09 - 3:29 pm
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Catty corner from the Red Line stop.
PC02.5.09 - 4:33 pm
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mambb,
I'll stop by! I'm a big fan of the sport of watching chicks dance! I'm hoping it'll be a hot day, with a little bit of a sprinkle. Just enough to get those skimpy t shirts wet.
:-)~
User102.5.09 - 6:56 pm
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we should all show up covered in blue sheets!
Joe Borfo02.5.09 - 6:59 pm
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Pirate Programmers is misleading. I think what they really mean is free software programmers and developers. Of which are not pirates at all! Or am I reading this wrong?
vor02.5.09 - 11:05 pm
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Yeah I see that too vor, but the tone of the write up does make it clear. I think the heading was just to grab people's attention.
BTW, Chris will also be talking at Eco-Village at 7:30, but that's $5 and no free lunch. I'll take the free lunch and have my evening free, thank you very much.
User102.6.09 - 12:26 am
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What's that in the circle? A pig or something? You always find the most whacked photos Borfe!
User102.6.09 - 12:44 am
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OK, so who's wimping out? Sushi Bo Bo? Anyone else?
User102.6.09 - 9:48 am
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Borfo found that pictures from a goggle image search of "hot amputees"
BTW, Chris will also be talking at Eco-Village at 7:30, but that's $5 and no free lunch. I'll take the free lunch and have my evening free, thank you very much.
CHEAP ASS
sexy02.6.09 - 10:47 am
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You call it cheap ass, I call it being sensible. I win!
This was a pretty freakin cool day. Even though Dave made it there some how. How he found it, I'll never know.
Anyways the Chris was entertaining to listen to. The reference of pirate programmers is a misnomer as was the term outlaw bicyclist. Even Chris had a good laugh with that. The ideas he espoused were some of the same we hold true here. A classless society, one of inclusiveness, one based on the outside of the norm. Excellent speaker.
The dance performance was the proverbial icing on the cake. The chick dancers were all looking sexy in their blue outfits. Hot hot numbers! I'm sure if the police weren't hanging around, we would have seen alot more skin. Was cool none the less.
User102.6.09 - 8:34 pm
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Ridazz Roulette!
om shanti shanti
There are no free lunches, Allan.