Events
Friday March 5, 2010
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Hacking the Grid: Does Electricity Want to Be Free?
Gary Genosko, Lakehead University
Abstract
Free 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).
Thursday March 25, 2010
Start: 8:11 pm
Start: 25 Mar 2010 - 8:11pm
End: 26 Mar 2010 - 2:11pm
Greg Elmer will be giving a keynote entitled "Thinking out of the Box: Towards a Progressive Politics of Live Research", and Ganaele Langlois will be presenting on "Tracking Networks: Notes on a Semio-Technical Approach".
Friday March 26, 2010
End: 2:11 pm
Start: 25 Mar 2010 - 8:11pm
End: 26 Mar 2010 - 2:11pm
Greg Elmer will be giving a keynote entitled "Thinking out of the Box: Towards a Progressive Politics of Live Research", and Ganaele Langlois will be presenting on "Tracking Networks: Notes on a Semio-Technical Approach".
