Yesterday, Yu Jie, writer, dissident and authorized biographer of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, gave a statement at the National Press Club. He had just left Beijing on January 11th, having been under house arrest since October 2010, following the announcement of Liu Xiabo’s Nobel peace prize award. Yu Jie has served [...]
Kopimi, from the word “copy me”, is an invitation to copy. Kopimi is the name of an attitude to life, animated by the desire to be copied and copied. For us the question of freedom to copy is not political, but much deeper than that.
The Church of Kopimism does not make claims [...]
BBC Travel has a nice little photo survey of monuments that rub some people the wrong way.
Provisions Library is pleased to launch research residencies that investigate futures for creative civil society. The program will bring together four residents (artists, scholars, activists, and practitioners) for research-based projects that explore and extend social change themes. Link to Provisions Research Residency Call for Submissions
“Hopelessness is unnatural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that the last 30 years have seen a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness…” David Graeber, from Revolutions in Reverse
