{"id":147,"date":"2019-05-29T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org\/specfic\/?p=147"},"modified":"2019-05-29T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:16:21","slug":"futurotopias-communities-technologies-and-feminisms-at-hack-the-earth-publishedby-benjamin-cadon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org\/specfic\/2019\/05\/29\/futurotopias-communities-technologies-and-feminisms-at-hack-the-earth-publishedby-benjamin-cadon\/","title":{"rendered":"Futurotopias: communities, technologies and feminisms at Hack The Earth Published\tby Benjamin Cadon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hack The Earth 2019 took place on April 19-22, organized by the Catalonian colony of Calafou\u2014where liberating fantasies weave desirable futures.<\/h2>\n

Calafou (Catalonia, Spain), correspondence<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing like a catchy title to suck you in.\u00a0Hack The Earth<\/a>\u00a0is, more precisely, about \u201cSpeculative practices and imaginaries, degrowth and feminist practices, joyful actions and radical tenderness.\u201d That is to say, workshops, talks, performances, round tables, concerts and remote connections over four days to explore speculative methodologies, feminist science-fiction, DIY environmental monitoring, precious plastics, a museum of patriarchy, other virtual realities, feminist servers \u201cand in general processes of all kinds to liberate matter and minds\u201d.<\/p>\n

All this in a former industrial colony that is gradually getting back into shape after decades of slumber, like an old industrial monster that mutates after each resurrection. This project, like many others, implements at its own scale alternative ways of collectively weaving futures. \u201cCommunities to change everything\u201d: a chronological narrative of Hack The Earth within nested timeframes.<\/p>\n

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Sewing workshop Banc Expropiat, to make reusable compresses out of bamboo fabric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Futurotopias ! = Utopias <> Dystopias<\/h3>\n

Back to Calafou, after\u00a0our last report two years ago<\/a>, for a new edition of Hack The Earth oriented toward the future, or futures, collectively designed to avoid the dystopic perspectives of Californian techno-transhumanism and instead imagine other technologies, other relationships with nature and the economy, projecting other imaginary landscapes like self-fulfilling prophecies.<\/p>\n

One person\u2019s utopia may indeed be another person\u2019s dystopia, but the whole point of an event such as Hack The Earth is to confront, crossover, interweave and assemble points of view. According to one of the organizers: \u201cMaking futurotopias together is another way to counteract the era of extreme extractivism (earth, soil, nature, species, bodies, data and dreams) in which we live and which also endangers our ability to dream and desire other worlds together. Making futurotopias together is a matter of healing and affection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event was divided into three themes: imaginaries, techniques and struggles. Here are some of the highlights.<\/p>\n

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Scenes of Calafou. \u00a9 Nani & Julbel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dissident fantasies<\/h3>\n

Several worshops invited poetical, political and ecological perspectives on\u00a0feminist futurotopias<\/a>, invented technologies that are voluntarily detached from actual physical and biological contingencies\u2014producing ecofictions that wandered from filmic fantasies to speculative scenarios, writing reparative stories as ointments for your inner body, exploring dreams to satisfy desires or\u00a0liberate your alien<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0possible bodies<\/a>. Not to mention a visit to MAMI, the Archaeological Museum of Immemorial Machismo, by the artist\u00a0Luc\u00eda Ega\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bibliophile table of feminist science-fiction. \u00a9 Spideralex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ecofiction or building a collection of eco-futurist fantasies and para-human realities. \u00a9 Nani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Futurotopic techniques<\/h3>\n

Here we begin by taking simple steps to make our smartphones secure, we analyze the quality of river water downstream through low-tech microscopes, we build a giant weaving loom and periodic protections at the sewing workshop Banc Expropiat (\u201cExpropriated Bank\u201d).<\/p>\n

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Workshop for building everyday objects. \u00a9 Nani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On another level, we talk about developing feminist servers and the\u00a0Anarchaserver<\/a>\u00a0project, we do networked\u00a0Live coding<\/a>, we consider the blockchain as\u00a0complementary social currency<\/a>, we exchange bodies with another person through\u00a0altered-reality headsets<\/a>\u00a0courtesy of\u00a0BeAnotherLab<\/a>\u00a0based in Barcelona. Also in Catalonia, the collective\u00a0Precious Plastic<\/a>\u00a0formed during the\u00a0Kunlabora<\/a>\u00a0conference to create a DIY space for upcycling plastics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Machine to Be Another\u201d by BeAnotherLab \u00a9 Nani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Struggles to defend the future<\/h3>\n

Echoing the\u00a0\u201cLetter from the Zapatista Women to Women in Struggle Around the World\u201d<\/a>, futurological horizons are hardly sunny, and activism deployed by South American collectives is all the more valuable and necessary, as affirmed via videoconference by several cyberfeminists and defenders of lands in Guatemala, Chile and Mexico.<\/p>\n

We also heard from\u00a0Women Help Women<\/a>, which advocates for the sovereignty of our bodies, the right to legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina, as well as the Barcelonian project\u00a0Metzineres<\/a>\u00a0to reduce risks to female drug users who are also victims of violence\u2014imagining a \u201cnarco-feminist\u201d world that is liberated from the war on drugs, where technologies, techno-sciences and infrastructures provide\u00a0holistic<\/a>\u00a0protection.<\/p>\n

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git branch TransHackFeminismo \u00a9 Anamhoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Within this sensitive time-space, a global book launch:\u00a0Leia, Rihanna i Trump, de com el feminisme ha transformat la cultura pop i de com el masclisme reacciona amb terror<\/em>\u00a0(Leia, Rihanna and Trump, how feminism has transformed popular culture and how machismo is reacting in terror), freshly written by\u00a0Proyecto Una<\/a>, published by\u00a0Descontrol<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the rural side, the\u00a0Sol Nascente<\/a>\u00a0project develops forest communities, beginning in the north of Portugal, where participants in the\u00a0World Social Forum of Transformative Economies<\/a>\u00a0spoke humorously about what followed their actions, debated the theme of antifascism throughout history, the situation in Brazil and local dynamics on the eve of a national election in which the Spanish extreme right party Vox was almost represented in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Promotional video for the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies to be held in Barcelona in May 2020:<\/strong><\/p>\n