Opaque Cartographies:Agency and Territory in Social Networks

4th Vivo Arte.Mov Festival | BH, 2009

Giselle Beiguelman

A Battle of Language

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WAR MACHINES X CAPTURE APPARATUS

The machine promotes a war without combat line, without neither front nor rear. Its model is whirling: it is a question of being distributed in an open space, occupying the territory, preserving the possibility of emerging in any point.

Movement goes no longer from one point to another, still, it becomes perpetual, it has neither neither departure nor arrival. It constitutes a smooth space, made of lines of movement and connections.

Cute Capitalism Age

Rounded

Soft

Onomatopoeic

Colored

Childlike

Web 2.0 Semiotics

Social Networks Ambivalences

• Collective x Distributed Intelligence• Walled Garden x Garden of Forking Paths• Narcisism x Networked Individualism• Cybermalthusianism x Cyberdarwinism• Consumer x Fansumer

Networked Individualism

Creativusers Thinkflickrthink 21st Century revolt (Digg Rebellion) ThoughtMesh Zexe.net (A. Abad e E. Tisselli) Your Life, Our Movie (F. Velázquez, B. Favaretto e F. Lapetina) 10 x 10 (J. Harris) Filosofia da Caixa Prata (G. Beiguelman e J. Silvestre) YouTag (L. Bambozzi) GeoPlay (R. Marchetti) How Much Does it Costs.us (M. Mandinberg) My Frienemies - Angie Waller

Lucas Bambozzi

Rafael Marchetti – http://www.geoplay.info

Michael Mandinberg - http://howmuchitcosts.us/

Angie Waller - http://myfrienemies.herokugarden.com

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