A message from David Adler
Tecnicamente gli USA entrano in condizione di guerra civile. Il razzismo colonialista globale si prepara alla guerra più demente di tutti i tempi.
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Mentre la Flotilla si avvicina alle acque prospicienti Gaza e l’alleanza colonialista si prepara all’assalto finale contro il genere umano, in Virginia si riunisce l’assemblea generale delle Forze Armate nordamericane. Il violentatore Hegseth ordina ai generali di essere veri maschi e Donald Trump annuncia che il principale obiettivo dell’azione armata è sconfiggere “the internal enemy”.
“We’re under invasion from within,” Trump said. “No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don’t wear uniforms.”
He added: “In our inner cities – which we’re going to be talking about because it’s a big part of war now. It’s a big part of war.”
At another point: “I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military – National Guard, but military. Because we’re going into Chicago very soon.”
Gli Stati Uniti d’America entrano tecnicamente in condizione di guerra civile.
Ma di che guerra civile si tratta?
Prossimamente ce ne occuperemo, perché forse il futuro del genere umano dipende dall’evoluzione della guerra civile demente che il razzismo colonialista nella sua fase senescente ha scatenato contro il caos.
Senza sapere, naturalmente, che chi fa la guerra al caos la perde, perché il caos si alimenta della guerra.
Those who wage war against chaos will lose because chaos feeds upon war
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Livestream dalla Flotilla
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un messaggio di David Adler, dalla Flotilla
Pubblicate post su Instagram, urlate contro i nostri patetici rappresentanti e unitevi alla nostra richiesta di un corridoio ora. Non come un sogno, ma come una politica concreta. Le infrastrutture che non siamo riusciti a completare, gli stati devono costruirle. L’assedio che siamo venuti a spezzare, deve finire una volta per tutte. Se c’è una cosa che ho imparato in questo viaggio, circondato da questi straordinari nuovi amici provenienti da ogni angolo del mondo, è questa: che l’azione collettiva è davvero una cosa meravigliosa. Quando ci rifiutiamo di accettare l’inaccettabile, quando mettiamo i nostri corpi tra l’ingiustizia e le sue vittime, possiamo davvero cambiare il corso della storia, per quanto modestamente. Credo che più di ogni altra cosa, voglio ringraziarvi tutti per il vostro sostegno, il vostro amore e la vostra compagnia in questa missione. Spero che non passi troppo tempo prima di rivedervi dall’altra parte. Con affetto, David.
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A message from David Adler:
I fear this will be the last letter
Dear friends, I fear this will be the final letter that I write to you from the Global Sumud Flotilla — now just 120 NM from the shores of Gaza. Last night, several Israeli naval ships menaced our convoy. They attacked our vessels, intimidated our crew, and disabled our communications. We recognize these tactics from previous flotilla missions. We know that they are the precursor to what we have long feared: illegal Israeli abduction in international waters. As I write this, we are preparing ourselves for such an imminent attack. We know the procedures. We know the protocols. When they board our boats, we will not resist. We are ready. From our cell phones and our CCTVs, we will do our best to document everything. We will transmit it to the world. And we will rely on you to spread the word about this criminal attack. But before they intercept us, I want to say something — corny, I know; copium, possibly — but that I truly believe nonetheless: that even if we do not complete our mission this time, the Sumud flotilla has already achieved so much. The flotilla has rallied the world’s attention once again to the suffering of the people of Gaza. The flotilla has joined land and sea in the mass mobilization of millions. And the flotilla has forced reluctant states into active confrontation with the illegal siege that has starved the people of Palestine and robbed them of their right to self-determination. Above all, the flotilla has proven that ordinary people – doctors, fishermen, students, journalists, lawyers, clergymen, and retirees from 44 countries – can not only unite around a sense moral outrage, but also take matters into their own hands to do something about it. We set sail from Barcelona not just as a symbolic gesture of solidarity — but as an act of construction: to build a permanent humanitarian corridor to reach the people of Gaza by sea. And while our boats may be intercepted, that idea cannot detained. The demand for a corridor will outlive this flotilla; a new fleet of ships is already on its way from Corsica to break the siege. Our movement only grows. When Israeli authorities forcibly board our vessels in the coming hours, please know that they will be committing an act of piracy. They will be violating the sovereignty of the seas. They will be obstructing a peaceful humanitarian mission witnessed by the entire world. Let them try to justify it. Let them explain to the international community why our humble effort to feed the starving people of Gaza represents some threat to their national security. No one will believe them. The Hasbara simply doesn’t hit anymore. From here on the Ohwayla, I can say that we are not afraid of interception, interrogation, or incarceration. What we fear is a world where such abductions become routine. Where humanitarians are treated as criminals. Where bringing food to hungry children is called terrorism. So when you hear that we have been intercepted – and you will hear it, within the coming hours – please do not fear for us. We knew what we were sailing toward. We made this choice with open eyes and full hearts. Instead, let’s raise hell!
Make those Insta posts, yell at our pathetic representatives, and join our demand for a corridor now. Not as a dream, but as a concrete policy. The infrastructure we could not complete, states must build. The siege we came to break, they must end once and for all. If there is one thing I have learned on this journey, surrounded by these extraordinary new friends from every corner of the earth, it is this: that collective action really is a beautiful thing. When we refuse to accept the unacceptable, when we put our bodies between injustice and its victims, we really can alter the course of history, however modestly. I guess more than anything, I want to thank you all for your support, your love, and your company on this mission. I hope it is not too long before I see you on the other side. Yours with love, David
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Platform Brutality by Geert Lovink,
Valiz, Amsterdam, September 2025
The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news and make propaganda for extrme-right causes, to name just a few. This brutal turn ultimately affects all. The central thesis is that social media no longer just distracts—it wounds. And yet, we stay.
Technological violence is essentially remote, invisible and indirect. Exclusion, which many do not immediately notice, happens deep inside the code and network architecture. The answer will not be pacification or regulation but the dismantling of the platform principle itself.
Platform Brutality not just offers critical analyses but also dives into alternatives. Topics range from the violent turn of the internet and techno-feudalism debates, to loneliness on social media, radical data critique, mythologies that surround the smart phone, dreaming in the computer age, offline romanticism to question how to leave the platforms, bring back social networks and design a new balance between analogue and digital.
Design: Irene Stracuzzi
Series: Making Public
pb | 240 pp. | ISBN 978-94-93246-58-4 | € 26,50
Order here: https://valiz.nl/en/publications/platform-brutality
Book launches: Berlin (Disruptionlab, September 20, Warsaw (MSN, September 24), Rotterdam (V2, October 10)
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Contents
Introduction: From Radical Critique to Social Media Exit
1. Copium Compendium: How Do You Cope in this Digital Age of Permacrisis?
2 . On Platform Brutality
3. Debating Techno-Feudalism
4. Loneliness in the Social Media Age
5. What Is Radical Data Critique?
6. Smart Phone Mythologies
7. Nomos of the Network: Magna Digitalia Fragments
8. Principles of Figure Design
9. Probes into Dreamful Computing
10. Undoing Networks: A Response to Offline Romanticism
11. Expanded Publishing and the Stream Art Network
12. What’s Social Networking Today?
13. Via Tactica and the Principles of Perma-Hybridity
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un incontro ISSA sulle rive del mare di Komiza
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https://issa-school.org/october-school-2025/
Dear friends,
What kind of times are these, when
To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
This is the question Bertolt Brecht asked in a famous poem written during his exile in the times of WWII, Nazism and Holocaust. This summer we asked similar questions many times.
What kind of times are these, when to look forward to the coming olive harvest in Vis is almost a crime, because it implies silence about so many olive trees - almost a million - uprooted since 1967 in Palestine? What kind of times are these when enjoying early autumn in the Mediterranean feels like a crime because on the other side of it, Palestinians are slaughtered each day.
What kind of times are these, when Jeff Bezos’s $500 million superyacht cruises the Adriatic, while people fleeing death and destruction are drowning in the same sea in a desperate attempt to reach European shores? What kind of times are these when humanity continues with business as usual, while ecological breakdowns mount?
Aware of our times and our positionality, perhaps even futility of our endeavour, we kept busy thinking/enacting a life worth living, constructing and developing ISSA’s physical and organizational infrastructure, while at the same time preparing our October School , which is taking place on the island of Vis from 21-25th October, 2025 .
Under the title “ Reimagining Institutions” , together with our partners Museum of the Commons and Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb , and with local support, we will be (re)imagining, prefiguring and (re)building institutions for the future.
You can now check the detailed program , guidelines and house rules here:
issa-school.org/october-school-2025
While the workshops are full, all other programs are open to the public and free.
If you wish to join us for the public programs and working action uphill at ISSA, please make sure you send us an e-mail latest by October 10 with subject “October School registration” and you will receive further details.
With love from ISSA
If you like what we are doing, please consider supporting us.
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