Ian Alan Paul /// Work

I just finished another itteration of my twitter project, this time around for following the demonstrations and uprisings going on across Egypt.

Check it out by clicking here: Follow #Egypt

Because the western media has been failing to report on the Tunisian insurrection, I decided to quickly piece together a website that displays various twitter feeds covering different aspects of the uprising and making it easier to follow.

You can view it by clicking here: Follow Tunisia

It’s a combination of simple html/css, and some slightly modified twitter javascript. If you’re interested in hosting it yourself, you can download the files here:followtunisia.rar . Happy twittering!

by Ian Alan Paul

[originally published in
DRIFT magazine.]
Link to .pdf

On November 2nd of 2010, San Franciscans voted in Proposition L, making it illegal to sit or lie down on public sidewalks in the city between the hours of 7am and 11pm. The law is shocking in its institutionalization of anti-poor sentiments, but what is perhaps most disturbing is that it conceptualizes and territorializes the public space (and the subjects in it) as a territory in need of protecting, policing and disciplining. Not only does the law create new opportunities and justifications for police officers to harass the homeless and poor people of the city, it also generates a politics of social health, where the health of the social body (the singular society or community) comes to be the organism that is defended and protected from the individual subjects that make it up.

(download the .pdf for the rest of the article)

The Network for Netwar will be showing its project “Border Ghost in the Machine” at SFAI’s swell gallery from Novemeber 20th through December 4th. The opening reception will be on Thursday, December 2nd. Please do come by if you have the time to see the work installed and running.

I’ll be DJ’ing another party this coming friday. This time it’s a benefit for Regeneración Radio and The Anarchist Black Cross in Mexico City. Come out and support antiauthoritarian/anticapitalist movements in the global south!

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152425634799461

Benefiting:

Cruz Negra Anarquista DF- http://abajolosmuros.wordpress.com/

Project Regeneración Radio: http://www.regeneracionradio.org/