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📚Book launch📚 #London 13June 📚 
#Vienna 17June 2025 Rise of Network Commons #ArminMedosch a cultural history of #wireless community networks to shape future tech to serve local needs rather than commercial interests 📚print on demand + free PDF📚 @archive.org @odihq.bsky.social
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The book in your hands is a message in a bottle that has washed ashore ten years after it was sent. Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German only). He iteratively developed The Rise of the Network Commons in draft chapters published on his website The Next Layer before his untimely death in 2017. The Rise of the Network Commons is a cultural history of wireless community network projects that spread from their origins in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Copenhagen to Spain, Greece, North and South America, and Africa. The movement drew together a panoply of technical, social, and artistic hackers in the development of new computational and social technologies. Medosch develops a twofold thesis: that involving non-experts in building a network commons has a profound emancipatory effect on the participants, while also contributing to a radical democratisation of technology. In community, we begin to shape future technologies to serve local needs rather than commercial interests. Only growing in relevance since it was written, The Rise of the Network Commons reminds us how we build the data/information/knowledge commons – by becoming sovereign neighbours of practice and expertise.
June 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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This week in #linz join stadtwerkstatt 84x11 fog manifesto.

Our contributions:
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With @annakraher.bsky.social @sarahghp.bsky.social and many others
A quick thread for this week in #linz joins us #servusat  / #AMRO at the program of our sister initiative Stadtwerkstatt #STWST a new seven day format STWST84 // Fog Manifesto https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/ #stwst84 We have contributions from the 2025 Art Meets Radical Openness Research Labs 1) ::Politics of Isolation Lab / Anna Kraher, Road to Futures Past:: https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/road_to_futures_past *> More context in the current @versorgerin https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/08-2025/a-meta-level-up-into-isolation 2) ::Watery Networks Talks: Digital Waters / A Fluidic Cookbook / Coding Drops:: radio show on water and computation with RL artists Ioana Vreme Moser & Diane Pricop and servus member Christina Gruber. It will be aired on sunday on #radiofro > Here a previous conversation on Fluidics with Ioana and Diane https://cba.media/720402 > Another talk from the Archive “From Cloudy Ecologies to Thirsty Datacenters: AMRO RL 2019 Review” with Christina Gruber and Antonio Zingaro https://cba.fro.at/489462/ 3) ::Sat, 6th  Sept from 17:30:: CONVERSATION ::On Network Commons and Touring the Network::     • 17:30-19:00: Book presentation and discussion on “The Rise of the Network Commons” by Armin Medosch https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/the_rise_of_the_network_commons_by_armin_medosch     • 19:00-20:00: „Putting the Fog in Boxes” unboxing the permanently growing inhouse net (info and infra)structures / and the constant labor and negotiations required within socio-technical networks. https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/putting_the_fog_in_boxes ╚ Further checks with the servus/AMRO community: ::for "Meet the fog":: https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/meet_the_fog -> Tomorrow, Tue, 2nd Sep, 17:00 > Postcards against Chat Control @freebliss @aderieg @egarri -> Thu, 4th Sep, 17:00 NØ School /  with Dasha Ilina @dasha & @recyclism ::In the Clouded Exhibition:: > Clarification [Black Lotus XIII] by /g/o/d/ \Pamela Neuwirth \Harald Purrer https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/clarification_black_lotus_xiii > Lost in the Sauce (Illusions in the Fog) by @sarahghp https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/lost_in_the_sauce_illusions_in_the_fog + special things ++ ::A DYI thread of Media Arts:: Check the the Red Thread from our neighbors of piksel.no @Pikselfest  https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/diy_thread ::Nebel Kegeln Fri 5th & Sat 6th September:: Not to miss the Fog Bowling/Nebel Kegeln from the stwst! https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/nebelkegeln (Edit: adding masto handles)
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM