At the end of the 20th century, hacking was bleeding edge. When the ideas, practices and pranks of this experimental niche of technophiles attracted the attention of a handful of activists in Italy, they understood that information and communication were what would give shape and voice to social, political, and cultural processes in the near future.+KAOS is a cut and paste of interviews, like a documentary film transposed on paper. It describes the peculiar relationship between hacktivism and activism, in Italy and beyond, highlighting the importance of maintaining digital infrastructures. While this may not sound as glamorous as sneaking into a server and leaking data, it is a fundamental topic: not even the most emblematic group of hacktivists can operate without the services of radical server collectives.
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Bestaande methodieken voor risico-inschatting van medische hulpmiddelen worden ingehaald door de snelle opkomst en beschibaarheid van apps, serious games en online e-health applicaties. Er is gebrek aan transparantie voor eindgebruikers (consumenten, patienten, zorgprofessionals en –bemiddelaars en zorgverzekeraars) over de status, werking en effectiviteit van deze nieuwe middelen. Tegelijkertijd leiden bestaande filters voor risico-inschatting van medische hulpmiddelen voor vaak onterecht tot (te) zware validatie-eisen aan deze nieuwe middelen, wat hun mogelijke bijdrage aan betere en betaalbare zorg voor de patiënt belemmert. Ook werpt het barrières op voor nieuwe ondernemende toetreders tot de zorgmarkt en hun innovatieve ideeën. Van groot belang bij een verbeterd systeem is een zo kort mogelijke doorlooptijd van deze vorm van kwaliteitszorg gezien de snelheid van technologische ontwikkelingen in zowel de technische platformen als de daarop draaiende applicaties (critical time-to-market) zodat producten niet hun waarde verliezen voor ze op de markt hebben kunnen komen.
The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of a radio documentary.Zig-zagging through the lanes of Govindpuri, Listening into Others explores the vibrant sounds emanating from slum culture. Redefining ethnography as listening in passing, Chandola excels at narrating the stories of the everyday. The ubiquity of smartphones, sonic selfies, wailing, the ethics of wearing jeans, the crossroad rituals of elections, the political agency of slum-dwellers, the war of the sexes through bodily gestures, and conflicts over ownership of both property and sound generated in the slums — these are among the many encounters Chandola opens up to the reader.Slums are anxious spaces in the materiality, experience, and imagination of a city. They are the by-products of the violent and exploitative mechanisms of urbanization. What becomes of the slum-dwellers, who universally, across centuries, cities and continents, befall similar fates of being discriminated, reckoned to be the scum of the earth, and a burden on society? By listening to identified others and amplifying their voices in their own vocabularies and grammar, Tripta Chandola’s praxis creates a methodological, political, and poetic rupture. Slums, she finds, are not anathema to the city’s past, present, or future. They are an integral component of urbanization and a foundational part of the city.With Listening into Others, Tripta Chandola poses the question: ‘Who owns the slum, and who determines which voices are heard? From where you are, listen with me.’
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