Last Thursday night, I spent a couple of hours walking the streets of Bangalore with a strange assortment of others, shouting out Kannada variants of "Software! SOFTWAAARE! Get your software!" We had a push-cart, like the vegetable sellers here use, a heap of handwritten signs offering "Free software USB stick, only Rs 250!", and a … Continue reading “Come, brother, come, sister, look at this software!”: Activism and Play
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Being present in public space
There's a line from one of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books about homeless people that sticks in my mind: all that anyone wants from them is their absence. But everyone has to be somewhere. In cities throughout the world, there are struggles going on over who gets to be present in public spaces, and what … Continue reading Being present in public space
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