Linda Doyle

Linda Doyle (CTVR), Kevin McGinnis (FirstNet) Mark Gorenberg (Hummer Winblad Venture Partner), Dr. Joseph Mitola III (Mitola's STATISfaction), Richard Reinhart (NASA), Dr. Donald H. Steinbrecher (Navy Undersea Warfare Center) headline annual event

This is the first of three in a series of rejoinders commissioned from the Authors of FC-20 Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures ahead of a launch and workshop based on the issue, the forthcoming ‘Trolls CFP’, and the future of publishing. This rejoinder is written by Heather Davis of Concordia University. Heather co-authored of FCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias with Nathalie Casemajor Loustau. What strikes me when reviewing this collection of articles is the complicated relations of power that reside within software and hardware, in the everyday spaces of our lives that are now permeated by various kinds of technological apparatus, to the way in which this added layer poses new problems and new creative tactics of resistance to contemporary global capitalism. Although some of the articles are hopeful in their outlook, many share the astute comment made by Rachel O’Dwyer and Linda Doyle when they say, “We can therefore understand the idealised peer-to-peer economy as a gesture...

Twenty-four students and two teachers from a college in Germany near Stuttgart, which has links with Southam College, were welcomed in the Grange Hall by the Mayor, Councillor Mike Gaffney, this morning.

They were given a resume of the history and way the Town Council works.

After refreshments, they were shown around the hall and the Southam Tapestries before being taken on a tour of Southam by two guides, Bernard Cadogan and Linda Doyle from the Cardall Collection.

Vierundzwanzig Schüler und zwei Lehrer aus einer Schule in Deutschland der Nähe von Stuttgart, die Verbindungen mit Southam College hat, wurden in der Grange Hall durch den Bürgermeister, Stadtrat Mike Gaffney, begrüßte heute Morgen. Sie waren ein Resümee der Geschichte und Weg des Stadtrates Werke gegeben.

Nach Erfrischungen, waren sie in der Halle und die Southam Wandteppiche, bevor sie auf eine Tour durch Southam von zwei Führungen, Bernard Cadogan und Linda Doyle aus dem Cardall Sammlung aufgenommen gezeigt.