Is technology “political”?
Technology is a myth. It is believed to organise itself, to hold power over us.
But Technology is made by people.
That is the political.
Is that the political?
The town meeting is the most basic principle of action, in which people can organise their affairs face-to-face.
What happens with internet protesting?
There is a new way of protesting on the internet where you create an event and everyone clicks on interested or going but there is a possibility that no one will show up. How does this setting events on facebook change the actual action that is being taken in physical space?
And how does this facebook event actually have to do anything with an actual event?
Technology does not steer, people do.
Images and information do not represent and steer, people do.
(german) The town meeting is the most basic principle of action, in which people can organize their affairs face-to-face. Is this how action and power come together?
(german)
Fines are a necessary evil for society to function.
Are fines just bureaucracy?
We all stand in solidarity.
But many people dismiss such a practice, regarding its principle with cynicism, reducing it to hollow terms like “discourse,” “consensus” or “participation.”
We are all different. We are equal.
We all could have made this performance. It would have only turned out differently.
(german) Real politics is the antithesis of bureaucracy and office.
(english) Real politics is hidden under a barrage of protocols and information.

The stagnant, two-dimensional map is lacking in a particular experiential, auditory dimension. A visual supremacy takes hold, which dominates the auditory, and sound is simply seen as a by-product of a static environment. The map is a cartography of the flat; it fails to speak to what it is like to move through a city. Sound, on the other hand, is a physical modality—the subject is ‘touched’ by a sound wave. In this way, sound creates an alternative cartography, one that physically links its participants. Another dimension that is missing to the traditional visual map is time, which is the only way to understand sound. Visual maps do not convey the dimension of time and as such lose this particular temporal experience of a city.