English
(Puy Pinillos' Logo the Fifth Column)
The first Fifth Column Hyperpolitics text is the book by Cybergolem:
La quinta columna digital. Anti-tratado sobre hiperpolítica
(Gedisa, Barcelona, 2005)
Other references are:
- “La quinta columna digital” en Tester. Trabajo de nodos
(Fundación Rodríguez/Arteleku, Donostia, 2004-
www.e-tester.net )
Who is Cybergolem
Cybergolem is the collective person name by Andoni Alonso and Iñaki
Arzoz. Both authors have published together different books and articles
about criticism and art like the following
Euskal Herri Digitala 1.0. Gaiak, Donostia, 1999
La Nueva Ciudad de Dios. Un juego cibercultural sobre el tecno-hermetismo.
Siruela, Madrid, 2002
Basque Cyberculture. University of Nevada, Reno, 2003
Carta al homo ciberneticus. Edaf, Madrid, 2003
Bestiario del futuro. Libro-catálogo. El Pasillo/Ayuntamiento
de Pamplona, 2004
Cybergolem was born as entity incide the New City of God
Project devoted to techno-hermetic criticism and digitalist religion as
it appears in its first step with a book and its complementary CD-Rom.
It can be seen at www.siruela.es/ncd
What is hyperpolitics
Hyperpolitics is a term borrowed from the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk
(“Therefore, whatever hyperpolitics could be –is the first
politics for the last men”. In the same boat) that we have transformed
in a fifth column fashion. It means in a provisional way:Citizen’s
politics in realms not political necessarily in the era of globalization
and made possible by the use of new technologies.
Hyperpolitics is one of the many names for a participatory democracy that
experts as Antonio Negri and Benjamín Barber try to develop in
a theoretical way. But now we apply a practical and activist perspectiva
like alterglobalization movemeQué es el quintacolumnismo/ What
is Fifth Column strategy
Fifht column strategy – a term used as “fifth column”
during the Spanish Civil war- is one of the alternate and activist strategies
for hyperpolitics. It Works inside the global Republic that world consists
now, and it works both in real space and cyberspace.
The main feature of fifth column activist is its networked activity inside
institutions and organizations for all the social, working, scientific
or cultural realms to promote hyperpolitics.
ifth column activism is also defined by its criticism on techno –utopias,
its radical pacifism and it libertarian posibilism.
What is hyperphilosophy
Hyperphilosopy –taking the idea from hypertext-
is the communitarian thinking using texts and images and arrayed essentialy
with hypertext and network patterns. Hyperphilosophy also is submitted
to indefinite criticism, variations, versions and transformation.
Hyperphilosopy is the thought free software in the realm of cyberculture
(See. De la hiperfilosofía in La Nueva Ciudad de Dios)
During first working steps on hyperpolitics, in 2005, Cybergolem asked
the contributions of different thinkers and artists. Their answer can
be seen in Tester Project.
This fistr group of fifth column friends conforms in their own the Fifth
Column cruise. We hope that this kernel World eventually extend the hyperpolitics
rebelión in the world and cyberworld, using the ideas of the digital
fifth column.
Members of the fifht column cruise:
Javier del Arco -philosopher and expert in corporate ethics and Vodafone
Foundation advisor, Madrid
Ignacio Ayestarán- philosopher of technology at the Basque Country
University, San Sebastián
Francisco
Baño Burgos- Master in Education and Researcher at
the University
of
Valencia
Joaquim Dols- art historian at the Barcelona University
Ali Hassan, critic of culture, University of Granada
Marina Grzinic, Professor, artist
and essayist Ljubljana/Vienna
Juan Miguel León -matemathician at the Extremadura Univeristy,
Cáceres
Tomás Maldonado -architect and thinker, University of Milan
Geert Lovink -media critic and thinker, Research Media Insititute, Amsterdam
Carl Mitcham -philosopher of technology, Golden Mines University (Colorado, USA)
Pedro Oiarzabal, historian and media analyst, Reno University
(Nevada)
Puy Pinillos- artist and photographer, web designer, London
Radix Project -Pamplona
José Luis Redón -analyst, militant of Espai Alternatiu (Torrent, Valencia)
Juan Antonio Recio- technology historian and activist,
Cáceres
Enrique Santos- philologist and Extremadura University, Cáceres
Victor Sampedro, journalist University Rey Juan Carlos,
Madrid
Jabier Villarreal- artist and professor at the Basque Country University,
Huarte
Fundación Rodríguez - Natxo Rodríguez Arkaute &
Arturo Rodríguez Bornaetxea, Vitoria
Tester Project
Tester Project is the realm for the first steps of the Digital Fifth Column. Tester belongs to Rodríguez Foundation and Arteleku, the center for the arts by the Guipuzcoako regional governemnt and sponsored by the Basque Government made it posible
Tester aims to build a global network including alternative art nodes.
Tester’s first result, apart from the web page
www.e-tester.net ) has been the book Tester. Trabajo de Nodos/ Adabegiak
lanean/ Nodos at work (Fundación Rodríguez/Arteleku,
San Sebastián/Donostia, 2004) where they present the projects
developped by the different nodes.
Right now Rodríguez Foundation Works in the editon of a CD-Ron
and a DVD to gather the work of the different nodes.
Who is Cybergolem
Cybergolem the founding entity of the Digital Fifth Column
in colaboration with that network of friends –the Fifth column cruise-
calls for the first Potlach of fifth column hyperpolitics in the net.
Send your ideas about fifth column strategies and tactics, both tested
or simply theoretical about the different reales of free cyberculture:
like techno-science, education, journalism, arts, Science Fiction or politics.
Your proposal will be carefully evaluated by the Cybergolem and made public
in the web page and distgributed among collaborator and friend network.
Reflecton and evaluation of this potlach will serve to make the Cybergolem’s
next tasks like the project Behemot vs. Leviatán .
Digital Fifht Column projects
Apart from the first Fifht Column Potlach, Cybergolem
is developing different projects. Any sugesttion will be welcome
- Techno-Hermetism today
-Collective reflection about the hyperpolitical ethics of cell phone.
-Selected texts, bibliography and webgraphy on fifht column estrategias
and tactics
- Broadening the Fifht Column cruise for hyperpolitics.
- Hyperhilosophical exercices on hyperpolitcs.
-Hyperphilosophical laboratory on the process program
-Hyperpolitical design of virtual nations
- Free software and hyperphilosophy
-AI’s Bill of Rights
- Digital and hyperpolitical rights
- Against a Techno-Hermetic Democracy (pamphlet)
- Towards a hyperpolitical art (art project)
-Hyper Europe 05 and fifth column compromise
- Behemot 1. Artificial Intelligence vs. Communal Intelligence
Invitation for the Fifth Column Project
1st Potlach for Fifth Column Strategies and Tactics
The Basque Fifth Column and in PDF
V for Vendetta; A Fifth Column Vendetta and in pdf.
