Re-commonizing Cyberspace?
Is It Possible For Lightning To Be Disciplined?
film screening and discussion with Ma Yongfeng
September 7, 2024
This event consists of the screening of Is It Possible For Lightning To Be Disciplined? (2024) by Ma Yongfeng and a follow-up discussion that addresses whether it is possible to change the hierarchies of oppression and exploitation behind algorithms, and to re-establish a mutually empowering cyberspace.
In this discussion, we invite the participants to co-imagine how a possible “better cyberspace” could look like:
- What do you want this “better” cyberspace to be able to do?
- What practices or attitudes does it foster?
- What activities are better happening there (online) instead of here (offline)?
- What are the difficulties in creating such a cyberspace?
- What can everyone do in the meantime to protect ourselves and each other from being exploited by data extractivism and digital censorship?
Feel free to share your active practice of sabotage or re-construction.
This screening also includes a short conversation with the filmmaker Ma Yongfeng. Ma will share his observations that inspired the film and some questions he still wonders about:
- Who is/are dominating the new order of algorithmic society today?
- What kind of hierarchies exist under algorithmic governance?
- How can the democratization and decentralization of algorithms be achieved?
- Is it possible to re-commonize cyberspace?
- How can we constantly reinvent hands-on (algorithmic) resistances in our times?
Discussion facilitated by Yuanfang Ding (Wyvern Art Fund)
Join a group of digital protocol builders, designers, and online & offline community practitioners to co-explore inspirations for our future practices!
C-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin
Food: snacks available