Parallel Polis Congress 2-4.10.2015 in Prague / Central Europe

Pavol Luptak wilder at trip.sk
Mon Aug 31 03:09:59 PDT 2015


See http://hcpp.cz/eng/

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:05:01PM +0200, Pavol Luptak wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> it would be my pleasure to invite you to cypherpunk conference Parallel Polis 
> Congress 2015 that will take place during 2-4.10.2015 in Prague / Central
> Europe.
> 
> Don't hesitate and join this great and unique event (more information below). 
> 
> Last year we had more than 1000 visitors from different countries, see the
> schedule
> http://www.paralelnipolis.cz/308/hackers-congress-paralelni-polis-2014-schedule/
> 
> Speakers already confirmed for this year - Lyn Ulbricht, Paul Rosenberg,
> !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, Julia Tourianski,
> Smuggler, Frank Braun, Slush, Stef, ..and much more.
> 
> * Parallel Polis in theory
> 
> Parallel Polis is a theoretical concept developed by Czech dissident Vaclav 
> Benda (1942–1999) during the height of communist domination in Czechoslovakia 
> in the 1970s. It was translated into English in 1978.
> Benda argues that in a repressed state, it is impossible to overturn corrupt 
> social, economic and political institutions. Such efforts are futile.
> Instead, he suggests the creation of new "parallel institutions" that are more 
> responsible to human needs.
> 
> * Parallel Polis in practice
> 
> We were impressed by the concept of Vaclav Benda’s Parallel Polis and 
> Timothy C May’s Crypto Anarchistic Manifesto and Cyphernomicon. 
> 
> Embracing the current crypto-technologies we have realized a practical 
> feasibility of these utopian theories and started a unique freedom think tank 
> focused on the promotion of digital freedom, cryptocurrencies, anonymization 
> networks and free markets.
> 
> For this purpose we decided to rent a big 3-floor house (with almost 1000m2) 
> in the center of Prague (Holešovice) - one floor dedicated to Bitcoin 
> coffee-house, hub and hackerspace called Institute of Cryptoanarchy. :)
> 
> * Founders of Parallel Polis
> 
> Parallel polis is 100% state-free project, based on voluntary contributions 
> only of our members and donors.
> Founding members are people from Czech contemporary-art group Ztohoven 
> (http://ztohoven.com/) and group of cryptoanarchists from Czech and Slovak 
> hackerspaces, see their recent projects Moral Reform (hack of Czech 
> Parliament) http://juraj.bednar.sk/blog/2013/01/06/moral-reform-by-ztohoven-an-ultimate-hack/ and Citizen K ( http://artoftheprank.com/2010/06/19/ztohoven-art-collective-launch-citizen-k-identity-swap/ )
> 
> * Parallel Polis Congress and why we need you!
> 
> Parallel Polis Congress is a 1-birthday party of a new era of our freedom. 
> For such a unique event, we decided to invite all speakers whom we have loved 
> and respected for a long time.
> 
> * When & Where
> 
> Parallel Polis Congress takes place in Parallel Polis building (Dělnická 43, 
> Prague) during 2-4.10.2015.
> If you prefer to take public transport, take the tram number 1, 12, 14, 25, 53 
> or 54 to the tram station Dělnická.
> 
> * Stay in touch
> 
> http://hcpp.cz/
> http://www.paralelnipolis.cz
> https://www.facebook.com/events/111132575904264/
> https://twitter.com/Paralelni_polis
> -- 
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> [Parallel Polis - Bitcoin Coffee House, Hub and Cryptoanarchy hackerspace]



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