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Start: 3:00 pm
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Hacking the Grid: Does Electricity Want to Be Free? Gary Genosko, Lakehead UniversityAbstractFree web content idealists believe that information wants to be free. My strategy in this presentation is to ask: does electricity want to be free? If so, on whose terms, and by what means? I want to look for preliminary answers to my questions in countercultural struggles against the electrical companies, namely, in Yippie technoculture, practices of rogue electricians in the cannabis culture of grow-ops, eco-warriors cutting down hydro towers, and alt-energy, off-the-grid, drop outs. In order to imagine what an electrical commons might look like, I regain some hard lessons from the history of black outs, especially large-scale events in the northeast such as New York City (1965) and Toronto (2003). | ||
