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Technopolis –
Unraveling the Net of Technological Domination

Three days of learning, discussion and games
to explore new technologies of control and our resistance to them.








































Welcome to the Machine!

The machine is all around us, omnipresent and omniscient. It's the camera on
the street corner, the chip in your debit card and the number allotted to your
child at birth. The machine is without and within. It's in the way we have been
trained and domesticated since birth to fit into a mechanical world dictated by
capital and the tick, tick, tick of its clock.

Those who want to increase control and domination over our lives have
invented increasingly pervasive technologies. From biotech to nanotech, through
RFID, gait analysis and new 'non lethal' weapons to aid crowd control: they are
all further attempts to quantify and standardise our
lives.

We see these 'new technologies of control' as part of a wider project of a
new wave of enclosure by capital.

We are calling this gathering in order to discuss and analyse
the implications of these new technologies of control, alongside potential
responses of resistance that do not merely fall into playing out stock
responses, and fulfilling the role of 'loyal


opposition'.

 

 

 





Topics we
hope to cover;

·        
Nanotechnology

·        
Biometrics, RFID chips, gait analysis, etc.

·        
The GM battle and other struggles against
encroaching technologies

·        
Architectures of control

·        
Prison technologies

·        
CCTV tour

·        
Psychologies of control

·        
Technology, capital and class

·        
Terminator technology

·        
Biopiracy



We will provide a fuller list of confirmed discussions / workshops on
our website closer to the time.



Flyers
and posters are available for download as PDF’s on
the website. There is also a reading list for those that want to become
familiarized with the subjects and a discussion board so that people can
contribute ideas for the gathering. PGP keys are also available.

Crash
accommodation will be provided. All food will be by donation and be suitable
for vegans.



LOCATION: somewhere in Leeds, June 9th - 12th 2005
Location details to be announced.

Available from the web-site and on 07913
216260 from noon on Tues 7th June.

 

for more info or to offer help
email:   technopolis@hushmail.com

www.eco-action.org/technopolis