-- 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:

1) audience (access / participation)
2) social inclusion / resilience (disabilities, minorities, socially marginalised)
3) sustainability
4) digital
5) international exchange

SCORING ON:

Relevance
Quality
Project Management and Dissemination

WORKING PACKAGES (pre-given):
1) Management and Coordination
2) Communication and Dissemination
3) Artistic Content
4) Capacity Building
5) Networking and Knowledge

We should add:
6) Research

SMALL: 3 partners / 200k 240.000 EUR total budget (80% is from EU)
MEDIUM: 5 partners / 1m (70% is from EU)
LARGE: 10 partners / 2m (60% is from EU)

LENGHT: All project can be up to 48 months / 4 years
24 months an ideal stage, as after that you must produce an interim report

Activities & Outputs (to be discussed):

Desk & Online Research: collection of concepts & stories
Campfire events in several places + online: exchange of stories
Sandpoints (process) publication: editorial of concepts & stories
Play production: new cheats (artworks)
Storytelling: presentation of stories in different forms (publication, comic books, video, website, tweets, etc.)
Sharing the results: exhibitions, conferences
+
Management, administration & coordination
Promotion of the activities on social media, newsletters, websites, gadgets, etc.

#### TASKS:

NAME: CHEAT THE POWER - ŠKART will explore different possibilites in this week

MEETIN GWITH PARTNERS BY mid FEB: Davor, Ivana, Tomi

WRITE UP OF CONCEPT NOTE: Everyone needs to contribute, V coordinates

AFter Wednesday 9yh we get in touch - Proposed meeting with partners on Monday 14th

Cheat the power
1. theoretical research
2. collecting stories (documenting phenomena)
3. play moment (producing cheats)
4. presentation formats (thinking out of the box)

### DISCUSSION:

Art field as a fild of research itself
Also the digital sphere

Shame is often associated with this practices - interveneing in self-perception might be meaningful
Also, to contrast the idea that more 'law and order' is the solution in complex times

#### ACTIVITIES:

Tomi: carbon offsets cheats - those who claim credit how do they cheat
Mara, Valeria...: STAGED conversations around the fire...we are storytellers...intimate conversations facilitated..
PROTA: Produce something that we can leave behind..Reality change areas (ex. closure of a factory etc.) and how people cope
BITNIK: Alghorythmic systems and the diminishing of open spaces; digital practices around migration; (football shirts are spotted by border control)

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#### CONCEPT NOTE:

**Our point of inspiration**

'Snađi se, druže!' - in English 'get along, comrade' or 'figure it out, love/little man/mate' - an exhortation to survive as you can - is a common notion used in former Yugoslavia and across its shared languages. It originated during the WWII among resistance movements indicating that partisans in action had to come up with solutions under extremely unfavorable conditions. The question, when given instructions for a guerrilla action, would often be "how do I do this?", and the answer would often be "figure it out, comrade". Later during the socialist period, this expression would be used when encountering bureaucratic or material constraints in everyday life. People would devise workarounds to circumvent those obstacles and this expression would capture a specific mentality and skill-set. The system is often not kind to a 'little man' and the 'little man' devises ways of getting by.

We understand such phenomena to be ubiquitous in the present in all social contexts. When systems and institutions fail specific constituencies and populations, these peoples have to develop such strategies of lying, cheating and stealing to counter their limited agency vis-a-vis these systems, under conditions of powerlessness. From the position of the dispossessed and excluded, then, actions and practices that would be condemned in the mainstream, assume a different ethical and political connotation. In popular knowledge, these practices and people are often celebrated as artful and crafty reworking, often embedded with humour and poetry.

Beyond 'Snađi se, druže!' as a localised culture , the practice is ubiquitous and different translations can be found across space and time, while often associated with marginal, peripheral and non-hegemonic peoples and spaces. Expressions such as 'by hook or by crook' (UK), 'pomoću štapa i kanapa' (RS), 'buscarse la vida' (ES), 'l'arte di arrangiarsi' (IT), 'juugaad' (IN) and more, are some examples of this attitude and skill-set. All these phrases indicate both the urgency of the situations and the ingenuity and playfulness it takes to address them. We all can tell exhilirating stories of every-day resourcefulness and resilience.

Moreover, beyond these specific locales, 'Snađi se, druže!' practices have now expanded into the digital sphere, where they are facing new kinds of power structures and also getting recombined in interesting ways. As dataveillance, algorithmic governance and digital profiling seep into mechanisms of exclusion and dispossession, from border controls to public transport, education, health and housing, emerge new workarounds, tinkerings and hacking.

INSERT SOME EXAMPLES HERE>>>>

-- using VPN as a common practice in countries where access is limited for reasons of political censorship or copyright policing
-- taqiyya, a practice of theologically permissable lying in Islam when at risk of death, to "regain control of the conditions under which one is being heard"
-- taking a home mortgage with the awareness that it can't be paid it off, because it provides migrants/racialised people in the West with the modicum of stability to live in society they have moved to
-- buying broken lightbulbs in a flea market to replace with the working ones at work, which are then taken home
-- web application Picidae (developed by Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud) that transforms websites into digital pictures enabling users to overcome internet censorship
-- poor families from South Serbia going to vacation in Greece to bake paprika because they are not paying electricity (only rental of the apartment) there that is a substantial cost in Ajvar production

**What can be derived from that notion, where do we see various elements of interest (from the board)**

Our interest in these practices pertains to their use as a form of resistance and tool for bypassing rules to obtain access to certain rights that are foreclosed for certain groups. They often emerge when rules cannot be changed or change cannot be obtained simply by changing rules. They emerge under conditions of class, race, gender domination, dispossession from fundamental means of survival vis-a-vis state repression. They allow groups to regain control of conditions under which they live and get by. Our aim is not to indiscriminately celebrate personal gain but to acknowledge the ingenuity that comes in finding a way out of an impossible situation.

However, lying, cheating and stealing, tinkering (Mol) and hacking, can be done from a position of power or powerlessness. However, this is a spectrum where it's not always clear whether something from a position of power or powerlessness and frequently there's an ambiguity that reflects the opacity (Glissant) of social situations and positions where different forms of power and powerlessness intersect. The valence and positionalities of these practices are thus profoundly contingent and contextual.

Rather than establishing a-priori moral and ethical criteria, we find politically fertile to engage with the ambiguities of the notion - without falling into easy associations between illegalism (Foucault) and destitution, where 'necessity' is defined as 'bare need' by the state or hegemonic understandings.

When considering the corpus outlined above, it becomes immediately clear that cultures of 'Snađi se, druže!' have often been spatialised in terms of a North / South divide, where the North (but also West) is identified with productive efficiency, accomplished democracy and modernity, while the South (but also the East) is portrayed as its defective counterpart.

Such rhetoric is easily found, for instance, in the recent dichotomous representation of Europe, where a virtuous North is able to keep up with the austerity policies and the lazy Mediterranean Southern countries fail. The assonance between the acronym PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Spain and Greece) and the English term pigs, often played upon by the media, betrays a specific form of racism, a repulsion against a “Mediterranean indolence, to living beyond one's means, to corruption, to the lack of rules, to the absence of that ethics of rigor and business, of moderation and work that Max Weber already posed as a sine qua non condition of capitalism" (Curcio 2012).

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, author of Epistemologies of the South, however insists that “The global South is not a geographical concept, even though the great majority of its populations live in countries of the Southern hemisphere. The South is rather a metaphor for the human suffering caused by capitalism and colonialism on the global level, as well as for the resistance to overcoming or minimising such suffering.”

Therefore, no matter where they take place geographically, 'Snađi se, druže!' practices are peripheral and non-hegemonic.

We identified two definitional axes for 'Snađi se, druže!' practices:

1) They are not merely remedial and adaptive, but these practices challenge a skewed system by exposing or jamming the very mechanisms by which it is unjust, exclusionary, racist , etc. (Katz, 2001, 'resistance, resilience, reworking')

2) They address a power imbalance by 'punching up' (redistributing the risks and costs to those in better situations) and not by 'dumping down' the consequences of a problem in terms of social composition.

**Why is this relevant**

In the face of growing inequality, dispossession and precarization within and between societies, there is a diminishing space for making do and survival.
Crisis conditions proliferate, and greater numbers of people and places are affected. Of these, we identify:

* everyday bordering and extraterritorial policing;
* planetary ecological breakdown, making large territories increasingly unlivable for humans and non-humans;
* diminishing space for negotiation due to digital capture and algorithmic regimes.

There is a crisis of global governance that would effectively address the growing precarity of the large parts of the global population, extractivism and climate breakdown, dataveillance. These combined effects of growing inequality and failed governance is leaving ever larger groups of people to their own devices to regain some control of the conditions under which they survive. With this project we want to lend a listening ear to such phenomena and practices of adaptation, resourcefulness and resilience, practices that will define the social and environmental futures of many in the decades to come.

It is important, however, to note that (with the exception of planetary ecological breakdwon) these mechanisms are not equally dominating all areas of society, and to acknowledge that geopolitical powers and platform infrastructures of control and filtering are also changing and entering into decline.

As crisis conditions are transforming, so are 'snađi se, druže!' practices. In this shifting terrain, issues that we think are in urgent need to be explored include:

* the tensions between property and labour;
* the possibility of finding allies and solidarity within institutional system failure (the thick/thin skin of institutions), the possibility of intermediation, mitigation and empathy by people in position of relative power;
* tensions between digital platforms and users (both within digital spaces and in their material implications, struggles around the 'right to repair' in software/hardware proprietary regimes);
* the moral legitimacy of lying and partial truths as a way of regaining control of the conditions under which one is heard;
* forms of resistance to bureaucracy and state-power.

**What do we envision as forms of methodology, approach, how do we propose to work together with partners**

Two poles of activities: TELL (exploring stories of people figuring things out) and PLAY (speculative interventions reflecting on system failures)

Interdisciplinary practice using different methodologies and approaches, adapted to the specific practices and social spaces.

TELL __ Story-telling and -retelling: collecting stories and presenting them, translations

_Mapping (or not, ethics of in/visibility) the journeys of 'finding a way' and the spaces of negotiation ('pasillos' -ES; 'lobbying' - EN)
_Retelling the ingenuity / craft(iness) of snađi se, druže. MEMEs (Snalažijiv in Serbian)
_Instructions for exploring obstacles and possibilities (scores)

PLAY __ Intervening and playing within/in/the systems (note: 'tinkering' is too associated with fablab culture) ['play the system', 'dribble with the system']

_Workshops with external participants and groups, interventions specific to conditions/places

*KINDS OF ACTIVITIES/ work packages?:*

- Phenomena (practices in society, stories to collect via ethnography, archival... etc.)
- Projects to invite exhibit/perform (artistic, activist or cultural projects that deliberatly engage in SSD -type activities)
- Concepts and problematics - research and theory - conference, publication...
- Linguistic expressions to map (how do people talk about it in various countries, etc. (ex. Jugaad, etc..))
- Activations we might do (workshops and activities we might activate in various locales with specific constituencies)

*PHASES:*
1) research visits in different places to collect stories - embed in each

Performing our way to Malta...then we have a local team there...we meet institutions on the way...then have a symposium in Malta...etc...Also leave something behind in every local we visit...

**Applications we have in mind**

Creative Europe

WORK PACKAGES:

1) Management Administration Coordination
2) Communication and Dissemination
3) Artistic and Creative Expression (exhibitions, festivals)
4) Capacity Building
5) Networking and Knowledge Sharing (conferences, workshops, etc)

we should add

6) Research

Write the WP as Activities and Deliverables

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FEEDBACK PUBLIC SESSION 15/1/2022:

The phrase is really linked to Yugoslav regional history and culture. Mb for the project / grant we need a different, less connoted title. Is it necessarily connected to socialist bureaucracy, socialist systems? Is the position of the 'little man' always subordinate and in the same ways everywhere?

[laughter, humour] - start with examples

Avoiding rules as 'acts of resistance', or to get on with everyday life? Question of 'forced' and 'voluntary' risk taking. Distinction needs and desires (relative/absolute poverty, for example).
The question of consciousness in small acts of breaking rules (strong theory of resistance where 'political' equals to ).
Production of subjectivities & self-determination.

The situation where practices that have a long trajectory suddenly are made illegal by border regimes and control: ex. healing the sick for a doctor; captain of a ship rescuing people at risk of death at sea; a parent cheating to buy a mobile phone for their children who would otherwise been excluded/mocked.

The horizon of a system (quote, Marcell?) always present.

Question of self-determination & constructing alternative ways of life.

Playfulness, craft, ingenuity. Respect to cunningness, smartness. 'furbo' in Italian (see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142538.The_Dark_Heart_of_Italy). The prestige / cool / power economy that comes with being the person who has or can bend rules, find ways around.

System failure - for some people, systems are designed to fail.

Moral condemnation of some. 'mildly criminal' behaviours, some accepted some unaccepted. Societal systems of justifications emerge, acceptance, tolerance.

Dramaturgically: the audience will need to compare the practices we are interested in with some white collar / elite / powerful examples.

PRESENTING SOME CAVEATS - What is not snadi se druze? Ex.: why is snadi se druze different from mafia? [context, conditions, *who pays the price*, it comes from a position of power] -
Situations where changing the rules will not change the conditions of injustice / inability to meet survival.

also: the construction of characters (dramaturgically), how characters perceive themselves and their power/powerlessness.

Story telling - negotiating collectively whether an anecdote is or isn't snadi se druze?

Context: illegalism pushed by the far right (seditionist, cheating, anti-vax tactics, online trolling etc) is pushing the left to - simplistically - take on board the position of legalism by contrast.

Snasi se druze from above: when in the 1990s the kind of Belgium abdicated for one day to avoid signing into law the decision by the parliament to make abortion legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudouin_of_Belgium#Refusal_to_assent_to_abortion_law

Bureacratic systems that don't talk to each other by design, the politics of opacity. Ex. not checking immigration status in children's schooling, or in health provision.
As opposed to > fascist mentality (defined as: when every function of a system is to police, ex. Prevent in the UK)

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#### POTENTIAL PARTNERS:

criteria:
- link with the audience
- transnational mobility / multiple countries
- needs to be a constituted entity
- small organisations better than large for managing grants

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From V text:
Literature review
The body of work that accounts for what I named institutional tinkering is scattered across a range of disciplines, which implies that my investigation will survey and bring together an array of diverse concepts and practices.

For instance, Amit Rai reports how in India the practice of jugaad—finding DIY solutions or hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation (Rai, 2019).
Argentinian sociologist Veronica Gago qualifies as “baroque” the “dynamic informality” of plebeian cultures in Latin America, a mix of “logics and rationalities that tend to be portrayed (in economic and political theories) as incompatible…In Latin America, the baroque persists as a set of interlaced modes of doing, thinking, perceiving, fighting, and working; as that which supposes the superimposition of non-reconciled terms in permanent re-creation.”

Thinking of Southern Italy, Walter Benjamin coined the concept of "porosity” to account for the Neapolitan otherness, which he compared to German rationality. While Berlin reminded him of military barracks, he saw Naples as a place where no form – social or architectural – should be taken as permanent, were everything is in constant state of transformation and readaptation. And indeed, in Italy the southern way of living has long been the subject of a heated political debate, which runs from Gramsci’s La questione meridionale (1930) to the more recent books by Franco Piperno, Elogio dello spirito pubblico meridionale. Genius loci e individuo sociale (1997), and Franco Cassano, Il Pensiero Meridiano (1996). Even Alfred Sohn-Rethel in his The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical reflected on how in the Neapolitan poverty-stricken everyday the technical objects of modernity get their proper social use only once they are broken and then reused with "tinkering proficiency", thus become des-alienated from the realm of capitalist commodities. And already in 1600s, a Neapolitan intellectual named Torquato Accetto, a member of the Accademia degli Oziosi, (a peculiar cultural institution dedicated to the “art of free time”), was considering the merits “of honest dissimulation”, to which he dedicated a pamphlet with the same title (Della dissimulazione onesta), later re-discovered by Benedetto Croce at the beginning of the XX century.

Édouard Glissant’s seminal essay on “The Right to Opacity” (1990) provides yet another key point of entry into the matter. Glissant’s notion of opacity shatters one of the fundamental tenets of the Enlightenment project by arguing that clarity and transparency are far from being universal positive values. Rather, they have been routinely utilized in colonialism to reduce the texture of diverse realities. Stemming from the resistance of enslaved people to the master’s fixation on their measurability and knowability, the right to opacity is for Glissant the foundational theoretical concept for a philosophy of difference that can be summarised as the possibility of giving hospitality for the Other without pretension of reducing her to what can be known or understood. More recently, commentators are re-activating the concept of opacity “not as a built-in protection of a population or as a summary term for cultural difference, but rather as a political accomplishment” (Davis, 2019) relevant for the ongoing decolonial work that today is taking place in institutions such as the museum and the academy.

Echoing Glissant, Beirut-based artist Lawrence Abu Hadman has been excavating the practice of taqiyya, a term belonging to Shia Islamic jurisprudence that connotes a legal dispensation for those who must dissimulate their faith when at risk of persecution. For Hadman taqiyya is “an admission that free speech is not about speaking freely, but reclaiming control over the very conditions under which one is being heard”.

Here you can enter your notes:

language, making visible of practices, moralities of lying, what can be known.
Neapolitan 'aumm aumm' (hush hush)

Here you can enter links to references:

Hannah Arendt Lying in Politics, 1969
Colin Crouch: "Post-democracy"
Amit Rai: "Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India"
Edouard Glissant: "On the Right to Opacity"
Alfred Sohn-Rethel: "The Ideal of the Broken-down: On the Napoleatan Approach to Things Technical"
Alex J. Feldman: "Foucault's Concept of Illegalism" (https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/ejop.12501)
Howard Becker: "Outsiders"
Annemarie Mol, Ingunn Moser, Jeannette Pols (eds.) Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms
Alexandre Koyré The Political Function of the Modern Lie, 1943
Alan W. Moore, Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City, Autonomedia, 2011 (ISBN: 978-1570272370)
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough

On the BONNOT GANG (ILLIGALISM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnot_Gang

"Pills and porridge: prisons in crisis as struggling pensioners turn to crime": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/japan
Greek doctors antivaxxers, double agents

#### LIST OF RANDOM SSD examples:

24 vaccines guy in Slovenia
Serbian families renting in Greece to make ajvar
Laudrimats in Berlin as a meeting place for delivery guys
Ikea in Coventry - the cafe as cheap and accessible meeting space for the homeless
Split region - building a house illegally to then later negotiate with the State - then putting Tito's pictures up to avoid demolition
Reverse Strikes in Italy 50s - first unemployed would build a road, then ask the State to pay them
Welfare mother in US working illegally because the benefits are not enough , but the salary alone would also not be enough....catch 22
Refugees lying about their political involvment or dangers back home
Cheating surveillance systems on those working from home - mouse-shakers, etc.
Unfit Bits - project by...?
Single mothers cheating housing benefits in UK - they are not really single but they can gat more space if the father registers independently
Vikendice in Yugo built by stealing materials from public works
People using their UK address in the UK to function as an adddress for various businesses
Taxi drivers in Berlin hussling to help you get a licence plate during lockdonw
Agricultural workers from Romania in Germany - operating showers with 'coins' made out of beer bottles with frozen water (Project by..?)
Hot water meters in UK homes also operated with coins but many families would find other objects to put in = the collectr would not denounce them
Daniel Knorr hacking the door in Venice Biennial
Barcelona - solidarity between electrical workers and squatters - they would take a pic of disconnected electricity (for the companies) but then teach them or give tools to connect the cables back
Elephant paths in parks / Desire lines as design principle
Florida covid data - open letter denouncing the fraud to keep numbers low
Scart hiring workers as artists in Venice Biennale
John Deer tractors hacks
ReBiennale group in Venice reclycles to materials for other art projects
Wuhan students action against the learning app - uploading negative reviews on apple store so that the app dropped off the downloadable list
Whatsapp groups to subscribe to newspapers cheaply through sharing the costs collectively
Simulators of disturbances for Zoom
KPop campain to buy all seats for trump presentations to leave them empty
Black families deliberatly not planning to pay back morganges as one of the causes of subprime crisis
Japanese pensioners wanting to be put to jail to receive meals and medicines
Cassie Thorton - letters for indebted people
Bitnik supermarket card
collecting bottles in Croatia from Bosnia with fishing nets then let them flow downstreams across borders to collect payment
Bottles in HR
Cleaning street in Torino by unemployed migrants
Fake recomandation letters
Night trains between eastern countries and vienna to smuggle sigarettes
Real insta and fake insta
teens switching off their facebook accounts
hormons for queer individuals

#### ARTISTIC/ CULTURAL PROJECTS:

#### ACTIVATIONS:

Transnational conversations? (like the Radical Housing Journal)

#### ISSUES:

Turning a blind eye - allies from inside
By hook or by crook - by all means necessary
Double standards - rules reflect class divisions
Good poor - cheating poor (PAH problem)
White collar crime/ anarchic illegalism
Legitimacy / Illegality
SSD stories elicit a laughter - is this a criteria to recognise them?
From which position do you act?
The importance of contexts to read the politcs of an act

#### FORMATS

Trying to solve speculative a problem together in SSD fashion
Bureau of consultancy with SSD experts in specific areas
Storytelling dispositives (confessionals, interviews, etc.)

#### Reference: This book needs an update

Handbuch der Kommunikationsguerilla
Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst. Hamburg, Berlin, Göttingen
autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-gruppe, Luther Blissett, Sonja Brünzels (1997)
First edition: 1997, second (unchanged) edition: 1998, third edition: 1999, fourth edition: 2001, fifth edition: 2012
http://kguerilla.org/de/handbuch-der-kommunikationsguerilla

##### References: Tricking Surveillance Systems & Exploitation Apparatuses

Wuhan students tried to boot remote learning app from the App Store by leaving bad reviews
Afterward, DingTalk was using social media to beg for its life
Bijan Stephen
09.03.2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/9/21171495/wuhan-students-dingtalk-hooky-nyc-columbia-princeton-app-store-reviews

Unfit Bits (2015)
Tega Brain in collaboration with Surya Mattu.
http://tegabrain.com/Unfit-Bits
http://unfitbits.com
Does your lifestyle prevent you from qualifying for insurance discounts? Do you lack sufficient time for exercise or have limited access to sports facilities? Maybe you just want to keep your personal data private without having to pay higher insurance premiums for the privilege? Unfit Bits provides solutions. It provides simple techniques for generating great fitness data no matter what your lifestyle. At Unfit Bits, we are investigating DIY fitness spoofing techniques to allow you to create walking datasets without actually having to share your personal data. These techniques help produce personal data to qualify you for insurance rewards even if you can't afford a high exercise lifestyle.
Free your fitness. Free yourself. Earn Rewards.

Mouse Jigglers on amazon:
https://www.amazon.de/s?k=mouse+jigglers

The rise of performative work
Bartelby
08.01.2022
“When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you’re busy.” In comments posted below this clip on YouTube, visitors report with delight that the tactic really does work and offer a few tips of their own: walk around the office carrying manila envelopes, advises one.And a third is hinted at in recent research, from academics at two French business schools, which found that white-collar professionals are drawn to a level of “optimal busyness”, which neither overwhelms them nor leaves them with much time to think.
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/08/the-rise-of-performative-work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RAEJRGQqHUg

Remote workers find ways to trick ‘bossware’ spying
As we move into another work from home (WFH) epidemic, a new game of cat and mouse has emerged where employees are using ‘mouse mover’ devices to escape the micromanaging surveillance of their bosses.
Norman Lewis
11.12.2021
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/542905-bossware-spying-mouse-mover/

How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.
Adam Satariano
06.05.2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html

New TEMPOralities: the Xenogeneses of SF
Exhibition curated by Stefan Tiron
01.10.-21.11.2021
Containing the installation by Centrul Dialectic (Mihai Lukacs and Bogdan Popa) which retells the story of Romanian migrants in Germany in the 90s, who used beer caps filled with ice instead of the paid tokens they needed to use the heaters in their accommodation.
http://dialectic.ro/project/bani-gheata/
https://e-zeppelin.ro/timpuri-noi-xenogeneze-ale-sf-lui/
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13256/a-pop-culture-show-explores-romanian-sci-fi-fandom
https://issuu.com/ephemair_association/docs/smalltn_bw_final48pag_289x400mm_bleed5mm

##### Data Spoofing

SkyLift (2017)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/skylift/
SkyLift is a WiFi geolocation spoofing device that virtually relocates visitors to Julian Assange’s residence at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The device was made for !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s Assange room and works by broadcasting WiFi signals (beacon frames) that exploit WiFi geolocation services.
SkyLift works by broadcasting MAC addresses that are associated with WiFi routers in a different location. WiFi geolocation services rely on the assumed stable location of home and commercial routers to return accurate geolocation information. Because space-based GPS signals are attenuated in dense urban areas, WiFi became a viable alternative for location services in consumer tech. However, it's also vulnerable to spoofing attacks as discovered by researchers at ETH Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2008.

Data Pools (2018)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/datapools/
DataPools is a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project that virtually relocates your phone to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite. It includes a catalog and a SkyLift device with 12 pre-programmed locations. DataPools was produced for the Tropez summer art event in Berlin

Google Maps Hacks (2020)
Simon Weckert
http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html
"99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. " #googlemapshacks
With its Geo Tools, Google has created a platform that allows users and businesses to interact with maps in a novel way. This means that questions relating to power in the discourse of cartography have to be reformulated. But what is the relationship between the art of enabling and techniques of supervision, control and regulation in Google’s maps? Do these maps function as dispositive nets that determine the behaviour, opinions and images of living beings, exercising power and controlling knowledge? Maps, which themselves are the product of a combination of states of knowledge and states of power, have an inscribed power dispositive. Google’s simulation-based map and world models determine the actuality and perception of physical spaces and the development of action models.

Amazon Drivers are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to get more Work
01.09.2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work
https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/amazon-drivers-hanging-phones-in-trees-to-beat-competition/
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-drivers-whole-foods-deliveries-hang-phones-in-trees-2020-9

Shanghai AIS data spoofing
MIT Technology Review: Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
by Mark Harris - Nov 15, 2019
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/
https://cn.bing.com/maps?osid=dd570083-ede3-4421-ae36-d3e164c99240&cp=31.322267~121.559426&lvl=16&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/dxtctd/investigators_of_shanghai_gps_spoofing_mystery/

##### New modes of surveillance

Albatrosses to detect illegal fishing off the coast of Argentina (2020)
https://twitter.com/eu_mare/status/1268918173216145410?lang=cs
https://insightcrime.org/news/gamechangers-2021-iuu-fishing-plundered-latin-americas-oceans/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/albatrosses-outfitted-with-gps-detect-illegal-fishing-vessels-180974054/
https://www.science.org/content/article/seabird-cops-spy-sneaky-fishing-vessels

References from Geography - thinking about space/power and politics of practice

'Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction' - Cindi Katz - 2001
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8330.00207

&
Feminist geographer > makes a distinction between resistance, resilience and reworking in relation to economic restructuring
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/growing-up-global

paprika story is connected with people miming bitcoins in kosovo and not paying electricity there

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jugaad

-- If we don't fight collectively, you will loose individually - Darko Suvin

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#### Reference: This book needs an update

Handbuch der Kommunikationsguerilla
Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst. Hamburg, Berlin, Göttingen
autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-gruppe, Luther Blissett, Sonja Brünzels (1997)
First edition: 1997, second (unchanged) edition: 1998, third edition: 1999, fourth edition: 2001, fifth edition: 2012
http://kguerilla.org/de/handbuch-der-kommunikationsguerilla

##### References: Tricking Surveillance Systems & Exploitation Apparatuses

Wuhan students tried to boot remote learning app from the App Store by leaving bad reviews
Afterward, DingTalk was using social media to beg for its life
Bijan Stephen
09.03.2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/9/21171495/wuhan-students-dingtalk-hooky-nyc-columbia-princeton-app-store-reviews

Unfit Bits (2015)
Tega Brain in collaboration with Surya Mattu.
http://tegabrain.com/Unfit-Bits
http://unfitbits.com
Does your lifestyle prevent you from qualifying for insurance discounts? Do you lack sufficient time for exercise or have limited access to sports facilities? Maybe you just want to keep your personal data private without having to pay higher insurance premiums for the privilege? Unfit Bits provides solutions. It provides simple techniques for generating great fitness data no matter what your lifestyle. At Unfit Bits, we are investigating DIY fitness spoofing techniques to allow you to create walking datasets without actually having to share your personal data. These techniques help produce personal data to qualify you for insurance rewards even if you can't afford a high exercise lifestyle.
Free your fitness. Free yourself. Earn Rewards.

Mouse Jigglers on amazon:
https://www.amazon.de/s?k=mouse+jigglers

The rise of performative work
Bartelby
08.01.2022
“When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you’re busy.” In comments posted below this clip on YouTube, visitors report with delight that the tactic really does work and offer a few tips of their own: walk around the office carrying manila envelopes, advises one.And a third is hinted at in recent research, from academics at two French business schools, which found that white-collar professionals are drawn to a level of “optimal busyness”, which neither overwhelms them nor leaves them with much time to think.
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/08/the-rise-of-performative-work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RAEJRGQqHUg

Remote workers find ways to trick ‘bossware’ spying
As we move into another work from home (WFH) epidemic, a new game of cat and mouse has emerged where employees are using ‘mouse mover’ devices to escape the micromanaging surveillance of their bosses.
Norman Lewis
11.12.2021
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/542905-bossware-spying-mouse-mover/

How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.
Adam Satariano
06.05.2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html

New TEMPOralities: the Xenogeneses of SF
Exhibition curated by Stefan Tiron
01.10.-21.11.2021
Containing the installation by Centrul Dialectic (Mihai Lukacs and Bogdan Popa) which retells the story of Romanian migrants in Germany in the 90s, who used beer caps filled with ice instead of the paid tokens they needed to use the heaters in their accommodation.
http://dialectic.ro/project/bani-gheata/
https://e-zeppelin.ro/timpuri-noi-xenogeneze-ale-sf-lui/
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13256/a-pop-culture-show-explores-romanian-sci-fi-fandom
https://issuu.com/ephemair_association/docs/smalltn_bw_final48pag_289x400mm_bleed5mm

##### Data Spoofing

SkyLift (2017)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/skylift/
SkyLift is a WiFi geolocation spoofing device that virtually relocates visitors to Julian Assange’s residence at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The device was made for !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s Assange room and works by broadcasting WiFi signals (beacon frames) that exploit WiFi geolocation services.
SkyLift works by broadcasting MAC addresses that are associated with WiFi routers in a different location. WiFi geolocation services rely on the assumed stable location of home and commercial routers to return accurate geolocation information. Because space-based GPS signals are attenuated in dense urban areas, WiFi became a viable alternative for location services in consumer tech. However, it's also vulnerable to spoofing attacks as discovered by researchers at ETH Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2008.

Data Pools (2018)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/datapools/
DataPools is a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project that virtually relocates your phone to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite. It includes a catalog and a SkyLift device with 12 pre-programmed locations. DataPools was produced for the Tropez summer art event in Berlin

Google Maps Hacks (2020)
Simon Weckert
http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html
"99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. " #googlemapshacks
With its Geo Tools, Google has created a platform that allows users and businesses to interact with maps in a novel way. This means that questions relating to power in the discourse of cartography have to be reformulated. But what is the relationship between the art of enabling and techniques of supervision, control and regulation in Google’s maps? Do these maps function as dispositive nets that determine the behaviour, opinions and images of living beings, exercising power and controlling knowledge? Maps, which themselves are the product of a combination of states of knowledge and states of power, have an inscribed power dispositive. Google’s simulation-based map and world models determine the actuality and perception of physical spaces and the development of action models.

Amazon Drivers are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to get more Work
01.09.2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work
https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/amazon-drivers-hanging-phones-in-trees-to-beat-competition/
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-drivers-whole-foods-deliveries-hang-phones-in-trees-2020-9

Shanghai AIS data spoofing
MIT Technology Review: Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
by Mark Harris - Nov 15, 2019
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/
https://cn.bing.com/maps?osid=dd570083-ede3-4421-ae36-d3e164c99240&cp=31.322267~121.559426&lvl=16&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/dxtctd/investigators_of_shanghai_gps_spoofing_mystery/

##### New modes of surveillance

Albatrosses to detect illegal fishing off the coast of Argentina (2020)
https://twitter.com/eu_mare/status/1268918173216145410?lang=cs
https://insightcrime.org/news/gamechangers-2021-iuu-fishing-plundered-latin-americas-oceans/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/albatrosses-outfitted-with-gps-detect-illegal-fishing-vessels-180974054/
https://www.science.org/content/article/seabird-cops-spy-sneaky-fishing-vessels

References from Geography - thinking about space/power and politics of practice

'Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction' - Cindi Katz - 2001
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8330.00207
Feminist geographer > made a distinction between resistance, resilience and reworking in response to economic restructuring > see: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/growing-up-global

Anthropology of illegality / informality in Italy (planning, construction):
Rules, Transgressions and Nomotropism: The Complex Relationship between Planning and Italian Abusivismo - Elisabetta Rosa
https://grf.bgu.ac.il/index.php/GRF/article/view/495

on digital housing informalisation (polemic, first notes - Ferreri & Sanyal 2021: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2021.2009779

The idea of hustle economy & everydayness
Thieme, T.A. (2018) The hustle economy: informality, uncertainty and the geographies of getting by, Progress in Human Geography, 42, pp. 529–548.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132517690039

PROTA: Feathers and wetness to make them heavier
TOMI: Students sharing lecture notes across generations

Dorde: THe user manual of survival - with prisoners and thiefs BOOK/PROJECT BY

#### Guy Debord, Panegyric I - on the morals of lying

The Gypsies rightly contend that one is never obliged
to speak the truth except in one 's own language; in
the enemy's language the lie must reign. (p.9, english translation)

### tinkering as fixing objects/systems that don't work - in the digital age
Cory Doctorow's novel 'Unauthorised Bread, in Radicalised

-- If we don't fight collectively, you will lose individually - Darko Suvin

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language, making visible of practices, moralities of lying, what can be known.
Neapolitan 'aumm aumm' (hush hush)

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Hannah Arendt Lying in Politics, 1969
Colin Crouch: "Post-democracy"
Amit Rai: "Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India"
Edouard Glissant: "On the Right to Opacity"
Alfred Sohn-Rethel: "The Ideal of the Broken-down: On the Napoleatan Approach to Things Technical"
Alex J. Feldman: "Foucault's Concept of Illegalism" (https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/ejop.12501)
Howard Becker: "Outsiders"
Annemarie Mol, Ingunn Moser, Jeannette Pols (eds.) Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms
Alexandre Koyré The Political Function of the Modern Lie, 1943
Alan W. Moore, Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City, Autonomedia, 2011 (ISBN: 978-1570272370)
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough

On the BONNOT GANG (ILLIGALISM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnot_Gang

"Pills and porridge: prisons in crisis as struggling pensioners turn to crime": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/japan
Greek doctors antivaxxers, double agents

#### LIST OF RANDOM SSD examples:

24 vaccines guy in Slovenia
Serbian families renting in Greece to make ajvar
Laudrimats in Berlin as a meeting place for delivery guys
Ikea in Coventry - the cafe as cheap and accessible meeting space for the homeless
Split region - building a house illegally to then later negotiate with the State - then putting Tito's pictures up to avoid demolition
Reverse Strikes in Italy 50s - first unemployed would build a road, then ask the State to pay them
Welfare mother in US working illegally because the benefits are not enough , but the salary alone would also not be enough....catch 22
Refugees lying about their political involvment or dangers back home
Cheating surveillance systems on those working from home - mouse-shakers, etc.
Unfit Bits - project by...?
Single mothers cheating housing benefits in UK - they are not really single but they can gat more space if the father registers independently
Vikendice in Yugo built by stealing materials from public works
People using their UK address in the UK to function as an adddress for various businesses
Taxi drivers in Berlin hussling

#### Reference: This book needs an update

Handbuch der Kommunikationsguerilla
Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst. Hamburg, Berlin, Göttingen
autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-gruppe, Luther Blissett, Sonja Brünzels (1997)
First edition: 1997, second (unchanged) edition: 1998, third edition: 1999, fourth edition: 2001, fifth edition: 2012
http://kguerilla.org/de/handbuch-der-kommunikationsguerilla

##### References: Tricking Surveillance Systems & Exploitation Apparatuses

Wuhan students tried to boot remote learning app from the App Store by leaving bad reviews
Afterward, DingTalk was using social media to beg for its life
Bijan Stephen
09.03.2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/9/21171495/wuhan-students-dingtalk-hooky-nyc-columbia-princeton-app-store-reviews

Unfit Bits (2015)
Tega Brain in collaboration with Surya Mattu.
http://tegabrain.com/Unfit-Bits
http://unfitbits.com
Does your lifestyle prevent you from qualifying for insurance discounts? Do you lack sufficient time for exercise or have limited access to sports facilities? Maybe you just want to keep your personal data private without having to pay higher insurance premiums for the privilege? Unfit Bits provides solutions. It provides simple techniques for generating great fitness data no matter what your lifestyle. At Unfit Bits, we are investigating DIY fitness spoofing techniques to allow you to create walking datasets without actually having to share your personal data. These techniques help produce personal data to qualify you for insurance rewards even if you can't afford a high exercise lifestyle.
Free your fitness. Free yourself. Earn Rewards.

Mouse Jigglers on amazon:
https://www.amazon.de/s?k=mouse+jigglers

The rise of performative work
Bartelby
08.01.2022
“When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you’re busy.” In comments posted below this clip on YouTube, visitors report with delight that the tactic really does work and offer a few tips of their own: walk around the office carrying manila envelopes, advises one.And a third is hinted at in recent research, from academics at two French business schools, which found that white-collar professionals are drawn to a level of “optimal busyness”, which neither overwhelms them nor leaves them with much time to think.
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/08/the-rise-of-performative-work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RAEJRGQqHUg

Remote workers find ways to trick ‘bossware’ spying
As we move into another work from home (WFH) epidemic, a new game of cat and mouse has emerged where employees are using ‘mouse mover’ devices to escape the micromanaging surveillance of their bosses.
Norman Lewis
11.12.2021
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/542905-bossware-spying-mouse-mover/

How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.
Adam Satariano
06.05.2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html

New TEMPOralities: the Xenogeneses of SF
Exhibition curated by Stefan Tiron
01.10.-21.11.2021
Containing the installation by Centrul Dialectic (Mihai Lukacs and Bogdan Popa) which retells the story of Romanian migrants in Germany in the 90s, who used beer caps filled with ice instead of the paid tokens they needed to use the heaters in their accommodation.
http://dialectic.ro/project/bani-gheata/
https://e-zeppelin.ro/timpuri-noi-xenogeneze-ale-sf-lui/
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13256/a-pop-culture-show-explores-romanian-sci-fi-fandom
https://issuu.com/ephemair_association/docs/smalltn_bw_final48pag_289x400mm_bleed5mm

##### Data Spoofing

SkyLift (2017)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/skylift/
SkyLift is a WiFi geolocation spoofing device that virtually relocates visitors to Julian Assange’s residence at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The device was made for !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s Assange room and works by broadcasting WiFi signals (beacon frames) that exploit WiFi geolocation services.
SkyLift works by broadcasting MAC addresses that are associated with WiFi routers in a different location. WiFi geolocation services rely on the assumed stable location of home and commercial routers to return accurate geolocation information. Because space-based GPS signals are attenuated in dense urban areas, WiFi became a viable alternative for location services in consumer tech. However, it's also vulnerable to spoofing attacks as discovered by researchers at ETH Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2008.

Data Pools (2018)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/datapools/
DataPools is a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project that virtually relocates your phone to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite. It includes a catalog and a SkyLift device with 12 pre-programmed locations. DataPools was produced for the Tropez summer art event in Berlin

Google Maps Hacks (2020)
Simon Weckert
http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html
"99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. " #googlemapshacks
With its Geo Tools, Google has created a platform that allows users and businesses to interact with maps in a novel way. This means that questions relating to power in the discourse of cartography have to be reformulated. But what is the relationship between the art of enabling and techniques of supervision, control and regulation in Google’s maps? Do these maps function as dispositive nets that determine the behaviour, opinions and images of living beings, exercising power and controlling knowledge? Maps, which themselves are the product of a combination of states of knowledge and states of power, have an inscribed power dispositive. Google’s simulation-based map and world models determine the actuality and perception of physical spaces and the development of action models.

Amazon Drivers are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to get more Work
01.09.2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work
https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/amazon-drivers-hanging-phones-in-trees-to-beat-competition/
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-drivers-whole-foods-deliveries-hang-phones-in-trees-2020-9

Shanghai AIS data spoofing
MIT Technology Review: Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
by Mark Harris - Nov 15, 2019
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/
https://cn.bing.com/maps?osid=dd570083-ede3-4421-ae36-d3e164c99240&cp=31.322267~121.559426&lvl=16&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/dxtctd/investigators_of_shanghai_gps_spoofing_mystery/

##### New modes of surveillance

Albatrosses to detect illegal fishing off the coast of Argentina (2020)
https://twitter.com/eu_mare/status/1268918173216145410?lang=cs
https://insightcrime.org/news/gamechangers-2021-iuu-fishing-plundered-latin-americas-oceans/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/albatrosses-outfitted-with-gps-detect-illegal-fishing-vessels-180974054/
https://www.science.org/content/article/seabird-cops-spy-sneaky-fishing-vessels

References from Geography - thinking about space/power and politics of practice

'Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction' - Cindi Katz - 2001
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8330.00207

&
Feminist geographer > makes a distinction between resistance, resilience and reworking in relation to economic restructuring
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/growing-up-global

REFERENCES FROM V:

jugaad

-- If we don't fight collectively, you will loose individually - Darko Suvin

Here you can enter your notes:

Here you can enter links to references:Here you can enter your notes:

Here you can enter links to references:

#### Reference: This book needs an update

Handbuch der Kommunikationsguerilla
Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst. Hamburg, Berlin, Göttingen
autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-gruppe, Luther Blissett, Sonja Brünzels (1997)
First edition: 1997, second (unchanged) edition: 1998, third edition: 1999, fourth edition: 2001, fifth edition: 2012
http://kguerilla.org/de/handbuch-der-kommunikationsguerilla

##### References: Tricking Surveillance Systems & Exploitation Apparatuses

Wuhan students tried to boot remote learning app from the App Store by leaving bad reviews
Afterward, DingTalk was using social media to beg for its life
Bijan Stephen
09.03.2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/9/21171495/wuhan-students-dingtalk-hooky-nyc-columbia-princeton-app-store-reviews

Unfit Bits (2015)
Tega Brain in collaboration with Surya Mattu.
http://tegabrain.com/Unfit-Bits
http://unfitbits.com
Does your lifestyle prevent you from qualifying for insurance discounts? Do you lack sufficient time for exercise or have limited access to sports facilities? Maybe you just want to keep your personal data private without having to pay higher insurance premiums for the privilege? Unfit Bits provides solutions. It provides simple techniques for generating great fitness data no matter what your lifestyle. At Unfit Bits, we are investigating DIY fitness spoofing techniques to allow you to create walking datasets without actually having to share your personal data. These techniques help produce personal data to qualify you for insurance rewards even if you can't afford a high exercise lifestyle.
Free your fitness. Free yourself. Earn Rewards.

Mouse Jigglers on amazon:
https://www.amazon.de/s?k=mouse+jigglers

The rise of performative work
Bartelby
08.01.2022
“When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you’re busy.” In comments posted below this clip on YouTube, visitors report with delight that the tactic really does work and offer a few tips of their own: walk around the office carrying manila envelopes, advises one.And a third is hinted at in recent research, from academics at two French business schools, which found that white-collar professionals are drawn to a level of “optimal busyness”, which neither overwhelms them nor leaves them with much time to think.
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/08/the-rise-of-performative-work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RAEJRGQqHUg

Remote workers find ways to trick ‘bossware’ spying
As we move into another work from home (WFH) epidemic, a new game of cat and mouse has emerged where employees are using ‘mouse mover’ devices to escape the micromanaging surveillance of their bosses.
Norman Lewis
11.12.2021
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/542905-bossware-spying-mouse-mover/

How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.
Adam Satariano
06.05.2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html

New TEMPOralities: the Xenogeneses of SF
Exhibition curated by Stefan Tiron
01.10.-21.11.2021
Containing the installation by Centrul Dialectic (Mihai Lukacs and Bogdan Popa) which retells the story of Romanian migrants in Germany in the 90s, who used beer caps filled with ice instead of the paid tokens they needed to use the heaters in their accommodation.
http://dialectic.ro/project/bani-gheata/
https://e-zeppelin.ro/timpuri-noi-xenogeneze-ale-sf-lui/
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13256/a-pop-culture-show-explores-romanian-sci-fi-fandom
https://issuu.com/ephemair_association/docs/smalltn_bw_final48pag_289x400mm_bleed5mm

##### Data Spoofing

SkyLift (2017)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/skylift/
SkyLift is a WiFi geolocation spoofing device that virtually relocates visitors to Julian Assange’s residence at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The device was made for !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s Assange room and works by broadcasting WiFi signals (beacon frames) that exploit WiFi geolocation services.
SkyLift works by broadcasting MAC addresses that are associated with WiFi routers in a different location. WiFi geolocation services rely on the assumed stable location of home and commercial routers to return accurate geolocation information. Because space-based GPS signals are attenuated in dense urban areas, WiFi became a viable alternative for location services in consumer tech. However, it's also vulnerable to spoofing attacks as discovered by researchers at ETH Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2008.

Data Pools (2018)
Adam Harvey
https://ahprojects.com/datapools/
DataPools is a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project that virtually relocates your phone to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite. It includes a catalog and a SkyLift device with 12 pre-programmed locations. DataPools was produced for the Tropez summer art event in Berlin

Google Maps Hacks (2020)
Simon Weckert
http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html
"99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. " #googlemapshacks
With its Geo Tools, Google has created a platform that allows users and businesses to interact with maps in a novel way. This means that questions relating to power in the discourse of cartography have to be reformulated. But what is the relationship between the art of enabling and techniques of supervision, control and regulation in Google’s maps? Do these maps function as dispositive nets that determine the behaviour, opinions and images of living beings, exercising power and controlling knowledge? Maps, which themselves are the product of a combination of states of knowledge and states of power, have an inscribed power dispositive. Google’s simulation-based map and world models determine the actuality and perception of physical spaces and the development of action models.

Amazon Drivers are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to get more Work
01.09.2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work
https://nypost.com/2020/09/03/amazon-drivers-hanging-phones-in-trees-to-beat-competition/
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-drivers-whole-foods-deliveries-hang-phones-in-trees-2020-9

Shanghai AIS data spoofing
MIT Technology Review: Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
by Mark Harris - Nov 15, 2019
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/
https://cn.bing.com/maps?osid=dd570083-ede3-4421-ae36-d3e164c99240&cp=31.322267~121.559426&lvl=16&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/dxtctd/investigators_of_shanghai_gps_spoofing_mystery/

##### New modes of surveillance

Albatrosses to detect illegal fishing off the coast of Argentina (2020)
https://twitter.com/eu_mare/status/1268918173216145410?lang=cs
https://insightcrime.org/news/gamechangers-2021-iuu-fishing-plundered-latin-americas-oceans/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/albatrosses-outfitted-with-gps-detect-illegal-fishing-vessels-180974054/
https://www.science.org/content/article/seabird-cops-spy-sneaky-fishing-vessels

References from Geography - thinking about space/power and politics of practice

'Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction' - Cindi Katz - 2001
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8330.00207
Feminist geographer > made a distinction between resistance, resilience and reworking in response to economic restructuring > see: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/growing-up-global

Anthropology of illegality / informality in Italy (planning, construction):
Rules, Transgressions and Nomotropism: The Complex Relationship between Planning and Italian Abusivismo - Elisabetta Rosa
https://grf.bgu.ac.il/index.php/GRF/article/view/495

on housing/digital informalisation (polemic, first notes): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2021.2009779

The idea of hustle economy & everydayness
Thieme, T.A. (2018) The hustle economy: informality, uncertainty and the geographies of getting by, Progress in Human Geography, 42, pp. 529–548.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132517690039

#### Guy Debord, Panegyric I - on the morals of lying

The Gypsies rightly contend that one is never obliged
to speak the truth except in one 's own language; in
the enemy's language the lie must reign. (p.9, english translation)

### tinkering as fixing objects/systems that don't work - in the digital age
Cory Doctorow's novel 'Unauthorised Bread'

Medieval miniature of a shepard harvesting wood by 'crook'

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/by-hook-or-by-crook.html

FILM > L'arte di arrangiarsi (1954)

Andare ai resti. Banditi, rapinatori, guerriglieri nell'Italia degli anni Settanta - Emilio Quadrelli

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MINT Sweden
Sale Docks Venice

http://artscollaboratory.org/ - Casco Arts Centre

Katerina Gkoutziouli / Voltnoi Brege
Freelance Curator, Researcher & Project Management
Web: https://therestis.art

Bani Brusadin, Barcelona
https://theinfluencers.org/en/bani-brusadin
https://www.cccb.org/en/participants/file/bani-brusadin/37757
https://freeport.institute/
https://aksioma.org/fog.of.systems
https://tentacular.es/en/

RYBN
http://rybn.org/
http://drugo-more.hr/en/rybn-offshore-tour-operator/

Adnan Hadzisemilovic
University of Malta
https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/adnanhadziselimovic
https://radicalnetworks.org/archives/2018/participants/adnan-hadzi/
https://radical-openness.org/en/vortragende/adnan-hadzi

Ex Asilo Filangieri, NAPLES
http://www.exasilofilangieri.it/ (unconstituted, but could use proxy to support)
The space and its activities as included in the European Union URBACT Good Practice database ad “collective urban and civic use” in the city of Naples.

Unies & research spaces:

Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, JLU Giessen (Bojana Kunst)

IUAV - Venice University

Roma 3 - Master in Gender Studies (their arts module collaborates with Short Festival in Rome)

DAI Art Institute Netherlands
https://dutchartinstitute.eu/people/office

Open Universities / learning networks:

- In Barcelona /
Bani Brusadin https://freeport.institute/
Universitat Popular Autogestionada http://upa.cat/

- Near Paris Benjamin Gaulon:
https://www.noschoolnevers.com/

Constituted research collective (social science, social movement) based in Catalonia:
https://www.laciutatinvisible.coop/

http://www.bcnuej.org/ - this is a research center of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (so potentially hard to manage admin and grant, but would be interested in environmental / housing politics)

https://www.medialab-matadero.es/noticias/medialab-presenta-sus-lineas-de-investigacion-2022-2023 (Madrid)

Francesca Corona, Artistic Director at Festival d'Automne à Paris
https://www.festival-automne.com/

Exhibition spaces:
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
https://gaite-lyrique.net/en/cycle/et-bien-dansez-maintenant

Radical Housing Journal (as invited, supported or affiliated organisation..)
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/ (not constituted)