tomislavmedak

@tomislavmedak

Joined on Oct 10, 2019

  • bijela vina Toreta Pošip 2019., 50 KN, Vrutak -- kupiti sve do kraja rezervi, gorko, mineralno, savršeno Trdenić Šklet 2018, 52 KN, Vrutak -- moćno tropsko voće, uz zeru alkohola Mikša Škrlet 2018, 45 KN, Vrutak Fakin Malvazija 2018, 67 KN, Vrutak Damjanić Malvazija 2018, 65, Vrutak / Miva DK Pušipel 2018, 54 KN, Vrutak -- žitko a blago Carić Cesarica 2018, 52 KN, Vrutak -- masu mineralno i zeru tropasto, mješavina bogdanuše, pošipa i maraštine, raj Škaulj Maraština 2017, 58KN, Vrutak -- masu dobro Dobravac Mlavazija Suita 2017, Miva cca 50 KN
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  • BUDGET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xxVKQtltsebKj8JgyNwYSAo0IfFi2DxsYjDQBH8LTYQ/edit#gid=0 DESCRIPTION UbuWeb (abbr. Ubu) is the most comprehensive and important online archive of avant-garde art. Containing over 100.000 works of concrete poetry, sound art, video art, film, criticism and art theory, it is an indispensable resource for students and scholars across the world. Ubu was created in 1996 by the conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith, who continues to expand archive still today. In 2021 Ubu is turning 25. For anything digital, susceptible to digital rot and myriad of legal constraints, that is a momentous achievement. With an virtual exhibition, a conference and a publication titled "Ubu's 50th — 50 Ubus", the curatorial collective Custodians.online plans to mark that anniversary and wish it longevity. Continuing our previous collaboration with Kenneth Goldsmith, with "Ubu's 50th" we will look back to Ubu's history and look forward to its future. The project will revisit what made it possible for Ubu to make the impact it has made and to remain sustainable while being legally and technologically so precarious. It will also consider what might make it resilient to remain online for the next 25 years. Virtual exhibition / conference
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  • PIRATE CARE INITIAL PLANNING DOCUMENT: https://hackmd.io/@tomislavmedak/FIO-initial-planning/edit PR for the book: Late 2023 or early 2024 Clean up Syllabus - check links, references, etc. , finish to upload Ivory stuff (in Rijeka) Round of emails / calls with the original contributors to announce the book and discuss potential presentations? Clean up social media: FB group, Insta, telegram group, etc..
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  • -- If we don't fight collectively, you will lose individually - Darko Suvin -- This is a class analysis of lying and cheating - Davor Miskovic CREATIVE EUROPE 2022 TOPICS: audience (access / participation) social inclusion / resilience (disabilities, minorities, socially marginalised) sustainability digital
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  • Dear Editors, we appreciate the attention and care you have committed to our proposal. We understand your two principal concerns to revolve around a) fitting the entire structure of argument and examples we provide into the xx word format and b) how the focus around intellectual property dovetails with the exposition of our argument around care. Ad a) we have already, for the purposes of an exhibition, written up a survey of some 30 pirate care practices in brief, economic format. Each of these vignettes was no more than a page long. You can see the entire survey of practices here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UL9qtbTuIEVtICj6SkdpKMUjDtHVw8pG/view?usp=share_link. We intend to use a similar format for the book. Assuming that the book will have around 20 examples, they would fill up no more than 30 pages, leaving ample space in each chapter for the discussion of key issues, our theoretical analysis and future openings. These will be written in an accessible and short presentation style as well. Ad b) we have added a paragraph in the outline of the chapter on Imperial Property explaining why we think the question of private property and intellectual property are particularly relevant for the future of care provision - and defining for central issues of the following three chapters, i.e. technology, situated knowledges and disobedience.
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  • COST action: april meeting, potentially a writing retreat january invite people to join ten EU participants, three non-EU participants FIO
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  • Telling through examples: Science hub Women on Waves Four Thieves Vinegar OSSI
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  • Dear all, we are sending still just a provisional description of our activities. These are not final as we would like to explore further possibilities of collaboration with partners in this project. More specifically, we'd like to have your feedback on the following: Research Activity - as part of developing our course on decentralized archiving at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, we will most likely carry out a preliminary research into existing practices and relevant literature. This process is for the moment described as a phase of the course development. We wonder if it could be a good idea to develop this research into a separate activity, potentially expanding this with interviews to the other partners and, again potentially, feeding into the Archivos del Comun gathering that Reina Sofia might host as part of their contribution. Workshops - we would gladly provide some of the expertise we have acquired in digitising, creating digital collections and learning/writing processes on top of collections as forms of intervention. This process usually would take the form of 3-4 day workshops that we could organize together around your collections and with your constituencies. If you are keen on developing a workshop along those lines, please let us know and we'll talk.
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  • U Galeriji Nova ovaj tjedan otvarate izložbu 'Borbe s papirom' kroz koju zapravo ispisujete povijest piratstva. Na koji način su papir, ali i piratstvo povezano s njim danas i dalje aktualni? Proteklih petnaestak godina sa Science Hubom i drugim "knjižnicama iz sjene" piratstvo je postalo prešućenom infrastrukturom znanosti i obrazovanja na globalnim ekonomskim (polu)periferijama poput Hrvatske. Samoorganizirano dijeljenje je izmaklo tlo pod nogama globalnom oligopolu znanstvenih izdavača koji izvlače ogromne profite iz besplatnog rada znanstvenika. Zbog ovakvih transformativnih učinaka piratstvo uzimamo kao fenomen digitalne kulture. Pa ipak, oni malo stariji sjećat će se u kojoj mjeri im je fotokopiranje teško dostupnih knjiga i članaka doturenih iz inozemstva omogućilo da završe studije, djeluju kao znanstvenici i prenose znanja. Papir je, međutim, još uvijek aktualan. Na izložbi imamo primjer fotokopiraonice Rameshwari pri Delhi School of Economics koju su veliki izdavači poput Cambridgea i Oxforda tužili za piratstvo. Međutim, indijski sud je presudio u korist fotokopiraonice jer je javno dobro da znanje bude dostupno siromašnom indijskom studentu. To je izuzetak u globalnoj regulaciji intelektualnog vlasništva. Stoga je u prelazu od šapirografije, fotokopiranja i ilegalnih reprinta na digitalno dijeljenje papir dobar lakmus promjene koja u globalnom "društvu znanja" nije moguća bez "ilegalnog" dijeljenja znanja. U međuvremenu ste u riječkom Exportdrvu otvorili izložbu 'Piratska skrb: učiti iz neposluha' koja propituje 'krizu skrbi'. Nedostatak solidarnosti zorno vidimo upravo na primjeru kriminalizacije solidarnosti prema izbjeglicama. Što onda možemo učiti iz neposluha? Briga, njega i pomoć koje nam kroz naš život pružaju prijatelji, obitelj i institucije omogućuje nam da individualno i kolektivno opstajemo. Politike štednje, konzervativne socijalne politike i kriminalizacija migracija uskraćuju tu vitalnu podršku mnogima. Prakse piratske skrbi spremne su je pružiti usprkos zabranama. Solidarnost inicijativa Are You Syrious? i No Name Kitchen na istočnomediteranskoj migracijskoj ruti i inicijativa Sea-Watch i Médcins sans Frontières na srednomediteranskoj migracijskoj ruti, koje migrantima u bijegu od rata i ekonomske bijede pokušavaju pomoći da prežive, primjeri su neposluha protiv politike granica Europske unije i praksa nasilnog vraćanja kakvu revno sprovodi Hrvatska. Paradoksalno upravo Europska unije i njena članica krše Ženevsku konvenciju o izbjeglicama i ljudsko pravo na dostojanstven život. S Piratskom skrbi uočili smo da postoje barem dvije pozicije praksi neposluha: one koje su se nesretnim spletom okolnosti našle na vjetrometini regulacija kojima društvo samo sebe ukida, pa će se tako liječnik koji liječi, kapetanica koja baca pojas za spavanje ili domaćin koji pruža krov nad glavom naći u situaciji u kojoj sama gubi slobodu jer u društvu radi ono što se od društva očekuje. S druge strane ista ta kriza skrbi pruža priliku da neposluh iz solidarnosti osvoji mjesto koje priječi da kapital slobodno cirkulira, a to je onda, gotovo jedina, pozicija, za nas koji nismo u moći, iz koje je moguće politički djelovati.
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  • NEW VERSION - w VG edits (OLD BELOW) title: Care and Its Discotents Pirate Care Pirate Care^1 is a project mapping and connecting collective practices of care that are emerging in response to the neoliberal "crisis of care" [^2]. Throughout our lives we depend on the support of our kin, friends, strangers and institutions to sustain ourselves - and to sustain the world in which we and the future generations have to live. That social and ecological interdependcy defines the relations of care, and the effort to sustain those relations defines the labour of care. Yet, over the last decades of financialized global capitalism, the convergence of processes that include the rollout of workfare, rollback of reproductive rights, austerity and criminalisation of migration many have been denied that vital support. [^2]: Fraser, Nancy. "Contradictions of Capital and Care". New Left Review 100, no. 99 (2016): 98–117. Against the background of this institutionalized "negligence"[^3], a growing wave of mobilizations and resistances around care can be witnessed addressing a number of fundamental needs: for instance, the Docs Not Cops campaign in the UK,[^4] with doctors refusing to carry out documents checks on migrant patients; sea rescue operations, such as those conducted by Sea-Watch, that defy the violent pushback of refugees in the Mediterranean.[^5] Growing resistance of the housing movements such as PAH in Spain to homelessness through the reappropriation of houses left empty by speculators and banks.
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  • TO DO JUNE 2020 Reply to Andreu putting him in touch with Maddalena and EMina (we need ot aks them first) Cassie TOPIC - we need to read her book text she sent Text for HKW - Valeria & Tom Application for Syllabus? (larger AHRC EC one) June 10th, workshop with Josh Neves - Marcell & Tom June 19th: RadicalXChange - Tom 18th-30th of June: KRIK festival Skopje - talk or seminar, Tom text for Soundings (July)
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  • Session 1: Pirates of the Central Mediterranean Introduction The European states have created a zone at their margins, where all their proclaimed values, their human and civil rights are suspended: A state of exception that reduces the sea to a weapon, people to bargaining chips - and the fluid southern border of the European Union to the deadliest migration route in the world.1 This is where activists organized to respond immediately in a solidary way. What can we learn from the brief history of thousands of years of migrations in the Mediterranean and that of six years of civil sea rescue? Let’s learn together Step 1: Words we think with (30 mins) Hand out post-it papers (the bigger ones). Ask participants to write words or phrases that come to their mind for each of the following concepts: piracy, migration, duty to rescue, socially organized death, freedom of movement, humanitarian crisis, solidarity; one after another, giving them 3 minutes for each. Assemble papers by theme (concept), sticking them to a wall.
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  • MAMA je 14. svibnja ove godine napunila 20 godina. Što se sve promijenilo u prošla dva desetljeća? Da li ste zamišljali da ćete se danas nalaziti tu gdje se nalazite? Krenuli ste s jednom da tako kažem kibernetičkom premisom da nove internetske tehnologije donose nove forme okupljanja, stvaranja i angažmana, a danas vidimo da je sam prostor interneta pretvoren u prostor neslobode i da budućnost nije uvijek nužno budućnost. Otvorenje Mame dogodilo se dva mjeseca nakon do tada najviše vrijednosti NASDAQ-a u povijesti. U tih dva mjeseca NASDAQ se urušio i ubrzano ispuhivao još par godina. Iz pozicije kritičke perspektive Interneta devedesetih činilo se da je upravo to ono što se trebalo dogoditi ne bi li se Internet "pročistio" od korporativnih prodavanja magli i oslobodio prostor za procvat suradničkih projekata poput Wikipedie koja je u tih par godina nezaustavljivo krenula sa svojim razvojem ili slobodnog softvera kojeg je tih dana IBM promovirao gerilskom marketinškom kampanjom "Peace, Love and Linux" crtajući grafite po San Franciscu. Tad nekad odlučili su i izaći iz prodaje osobnih računala i predložili Lenovu da oni od IBM-a kupe Thinkpad proizvodnu liniju. U isto vrijeme Microsoft je nazivao slobodni softver kancerogenim komunizmom i optuživao ga za antiameričku djelatnost. Evropska unija se, nakon dugačkog sudskog procesa, spremala kazniti Microsoft sa pola milijarde kazne za (tipično američku) monopolističku tržišnu praksu. IBM je svojih sto tisuća dolara kazne za gerilsko crtanje grafita platio krajem 2001-e, a Microsoft svojih pola milijarde Evropskoj uniji sredinom 2004. Amazon.com je kao i Google, Yahoo ili eBay bez puno filozofiranja vrtio svoje servere na Linuxu ili BSD-u, ali to im nije pomoglo da im se vrijednost kompanije 2000. ne strmoglavi do desetine onog što je vrijedila samo šest mjeseci ranije. Dvadesetak godina kasnije: 2019. godine IBM će u skladu sa povjerenjem, posvećenošću i uspješnim poslovnim modelom baziranom na hibridu vlasničkog i slobodnog softvera za 34 milijarde dolara kupiti Red Hat - kompaniju poznatu po razvoju i korištenju slobodnog softvera, ali i po tome da su prva takva kompanija koja je vlastiti godišnji prihod prebacila preko dvije milijarde dolara. Drugi čovjek Microsofta je na dvadeseti Mamin rođendan 14.05.2020. na webinaru izjavio da je Microsoft, po pitanju slobodnog softvera, bio na krivoj strani povijesti. Ali da je dobra vijest, ako je život dovoljno dug, da se ljudi mogu i promjeniti. Microsoft je za zadnje fiskalno tromjesečje prijavio prihod od oko osam milijardi dolara za Azure poslovanje u oblaku. Virtualne mašine bazirane na Linuxu čine preko 60% pokrenutih instanci. Amazon.com je u prvoj fazi Corone povećao prodaju za 26%, a udio AWS-a, cloud platforme bazirane na Linuxu, u 75 milijardi dolara prihoda u prvom tromjesečju je oko 10 milijardi dolara.
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  • Context „Piracy in the early eighteenth century was, at bottom, a struggle for life against socially organized death.“[^1] This definition of piracy, however, was surely not the one that former Italian minister of interior Matteo Salvini had in mind, when he proclaimed "yet another act of Piracy by an outlaw organization", in June 2019, after the crew of Sea-Watch 3 had rescued 52 people from a rubber boat in distress.[^2] And yet, the struggle that has been going on for five years in the central Mediterranean Sea is just that; a struggle for life against socially organized death. European states have created a zone at their margins, where all their proclaimed values, their human and civil rights are suspended: A state of exception that reduces the sea to a weapon, people to bargaining chips – and the fluid southern frontier of EUrope to the deadliest border in the world.[^3] The European activists who oppose this state of exception are of course neither pirates in the historical, nor in the legal or ideational sense: If, according to Markus Rediker, historical piracy was a (class) struggle for the pirate's own life, which presupposed sheer defiance of death itself[^4], then civil sea rescue activism is primarily a fight in solidarity, starting off from the privileged position that it is not the activist's own life that is at stake. Nonetheless, the parallels that Matteo Salvini's repeated accusations of piracy unintentionally point to can't be ignored when looking at civil sea rescue as an act of pirate care: "the term pirate has been highly ideological from antiquity forward, functioning more or less as the maritime equivalent of barbarian—that is, anyone who was an enemy of the Romans."[^5] While the sea rescuers were surely declared public enemy Numero Uno in Rome, at least in the first half of 2019, the question arises; does their intervention represent a modern act of symbolic piracy (in the best sense)? Or, in other words: can humanitarian emergency aid also be an act of political resistance? The state's reaction surely suggests so. While the Atlantic pirates of the golden age – a tellingly short time from 1716 until 1727 – were quickly faced with a campaign of terror by "royal officials, attorneys, merchants, publicists, clergymen, and writers who created, through proclamations, legal briefs, petitions, pamphlets, sermons, and newspaper articles, an image of the pirate that would legitimate his annihilation"[^6a] the modern nation states of the EU undertook their very own campaign to 'cleanse the seas'. But let's start from the beginning: From Illegal Immigration to Humanitarian Border Management After heavily relying on low-cost migrant labour in the years after the second world war, due to reconstruction and a lack of 'manpower', the Oil Shock in 1973 turned the tables and brought the economical boom to an abrupt end. One of the reactions of the countries affected was to restrict labour immigration. [^11] The tightening of the visa regime not only laid the foundation for today's European border policy – and thus the so-called "refugee crisis in the Mediterranean" – but also set its constitutive dispositif: illegality. As Philippe Fargues summed it up for the International Organization for Migration (IOM): "It is common sense to state that illegality is a product of how legality is defined and the law enforced, and this applies to migration just as to any other phenomenon."
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  • Article 3 --> Article 178 Scientific and cultural heritage institutions with lawful access are allowed unrestricted mining. For institutions of science, this can be done only on non-profit scientific basis and the access to the results cannot be provided on a privileged access basis to an enterpreneur that has a defining impact on that organisation: There is a requirement of storing the copies of works created through data mining securely (Para 6) and the rightsholder can use technical measures to probe the security of networks and bases where the works are stored (Para 7). These measures must be proportional and limited, and cannot limit the exception set out under this article. Users are required to cooperate with the rightsholder to agree on best practices to implement secure storage and security probes (Para 8). TO DO: rejecting specific requirements around secure storage and third parties holding data. BOGOTAJ:
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  • Politicising solidarity in the time of quarantine This is a collective note-taking effort to document and learn from the organising of solidarity in response to the urgency of care precipitated by the pandemic of Coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2). The first round of notes, protocols and instructions, or sessions as we categories them here in the syllabus, reflects, in particular, the experience of organising amidst outbreak and lockdown in Italy. In keeping with the spirit of this syllabus, we focus on those practices that foreground care, labour, technology and disobedience. They are meant to offer both practical guidance and inspiration to organising and living with the outbreak elsewhere. But are also meant to help articulate demands to shift our societies from capitalism, productivism, patriarchy and racism to societies centred on collectivising the shared task of regenerating the interdependent well-being of humans and nature. Unlike the remaining topics in this Pirate Care Syllabus, this one is closely following developments that are unfolding. It is thus partial and provisional to the Italian, Croatian and British context from which we write. However, we encourage others to contribute to building a larger body of notes documenting solidarity in the time of quarantine. Please get in touch with us and propose practices you would like to document, either through our email info@pirate.care, Facebook page, Facebook group, Telegram or Matrix. "Flatten the Curve, Grow the Care" "Flatten the Curve" has become both a guiding principle for public health responses and a rallying call encouraging people to actively pursue social distancing. The spread of the virus should be slowed down so that around 20% of those who hospitalisation and around 5% of those who require intensive care remain at any moment low enough in number so that hospitals have enough of staff and equipment to provide everyone with the best chances of recovery and survival. The spikes caused by the exponential spread of the virus and medical cases have cripled the healthcare systems in Wuhan and across Italy, and this is what we want to avoid. Hence, "Flatten the Curve".
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  • The next session focuses on large repositories of digital text, so called shadow libraries, that are technologically organised around actions of upload and download to and from server infrastructures. The session introduce learners to: a) workflows used in text sharing, collection-building and collection-maitaining; b) three shadow libraries: Library Genesis, Aaaaarg and Memory of the World, and the legal pressures they face; c) politicising interventions that articulate practices of text sharing as massive, collective and commoning. Learners will get acquainted with three shadow libraries that are created by communities of contributors and benefit a larger public. The fact that they maintain centralised repositories and they do not obfuscate their own existence entails a need for articulation of politics of collective disobedience and practice of collective custodianship. This session covers a lot of practical ground and different debates, requiring more time than the remaining sessions in this topic. You can break up these segments into separate chunks of time or re-organise them into one longer workshop. Depending on the number of participants and their skills, the time needed for each segments might vary from what is proposed. Segment 1: Download / Upload Duration: 90 minutes
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