Re: <nettime> ttip: digital respect and resistance

[Susanne Gerber <cu@cucusi.de>]

Dear Kristoffer, dear all,
i went to the demonstration against TTIP and CETA today together with 
250 000 other people from everywhere in Germany. That was quite an 
impressive statement organized by 38 Political Parties, Unions and NGOs. 
As far as i heard, already 3 000 000 persons signed protest letters 
against TTIP. What we see is a numerous and politically wide spread 
movement articulating its further willingness to stop TTIP and CETA. It 
seems not to be too late for a coalition of the digital culture. But 
where is the digital culture? Where are the digital activists with 
capacities for coalition? Tele-presence doesn't just mean sitting behind 
the computer. It might mean beeing German, having a teaching job in 
Shanghai and a flat in NYC. Tele-present people might be American 
citizens and have also an EU passport.They call Berlin home, but San 
Diego in California as well. They are delocated like data in a cloud. 
They already are inhabitants of that global organized world and market 
TTIP is going to shape. There is a huge resistance now, but will not 
anyone be tele-present sooner or later? So what are the demands digital 
culture can rise in the fight against a global regulation of the 
regulation? And if digital culture will find a position from where to 
speak and articulate a political program, how will that be related to 
the other TTIP opponents like for instant the resistance against 
gen-manipulation? Is it not possible, that digital culture, or at least 
parts of it, in the meantime has switched sides and belongs already more 
to the TTIP creators? Then we have to rethink the whole context and 
'Berührungsangst' would mean something else.

Susanne Gerber
artist and writer
Berlin

On 10.10.2015 00:48, Kristoffer Gansing wrote:

> Dear old nettimers,
>
> I am not a particularly regular contributor here, but as long time
> lurker, occasional event announcer and artistic director of transmediale
> in Berlin, I would like to share with you a short statement that I
> prepared for my presentation at the Werkleitz Festival 2015 ".move ON"
> in Halle on October 10.
<...>


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