Totalism.org hackbase / CHT is an infrastructure project in Canary Islands (Spain), researching, developing & practicing the transitional technologies, theory, tactics and arts of post-capitalism.
Since 2011. ###Currently organizing experimental off-grid desert camps around 50% of the year, that are open to all, no matter if already trained in these domains or not. Everyone can plan to attend. Subscribe to the mailing 🔗list, or ###follow on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.
Right now !
[ Last updated : 2020-05-03 ]
CHT Season 7-B: See next.totalism.org !
January - (SHELTERING IN PLACE) 2020
Register here to visit: 🔗planning
Table of Contents
| 1 | Right now ! |
| 2 | Sitemap |
| 3 | *** INDEX |
| 3.1 | Basics |
| 3.2 | Protocols |
| 3.3 | Projects |
| 3.4 | Systematics |
| 3.5 | Inhabitation & Transport |
| 3.6 | Groupware |
| 3.7 | Economics |
| 3.8 | RFC !!! |
| 3.9 | (Supporting ...) |
| 4 | *** About the base |
| 4.1 | Dear Comrades ! |
| 4.1.1 | Project Abstract |
| 4.1.2 | Core interests |
| 4.1.3 | Current camps ! |
| 4.1.3.1 | When? |
| 4.1.3.2 | Where? |
| 4.1.3.3 | How? |
| 4.2 | Past camps + photos |
| 4.2.1 | CHT4-A (2014/Nov, Dec) |
| 4.2.2 | CHT4-B (2015/April, May, June) |
| 4.2.3 | CHT4-C (2016/February, March) |
| 4.2.4 | CHT4-D (2016/May, June, July) |
| 4.2.5 | CHT5-A (2017/Jan, Feb) |
| 4.2.6 | CHT5-B (2017/Nov, Dec) |
| 4.2.7 | CHT 6 |
| 4.2.8 | CHT 7 |
| 4.2.9 | Future |
| 4.3 | More general info |
| 5 | *** Come to CHT |
| 5.1 | Economy: Mutualism - Communism |
| 5.2 | Where? Why? What? |
| 5.3 | Trivia |
| 6 | *** PAD |
| 6.1 | RELEASE CHECKLIST |
Sitemap
(Cluster of basic documentation, interactive at 🔗grahp3)
*** INDEX
Basics
### 🔗contact includes public Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
🔗puzzles : basic project parts
🔗why-how-what : "Why? How to do that? What is the project?"
🔗stuff (space equipment list)
🔗commonground (manifesto / conceptuals / ideology)
🔗faq (ask anything - Frequently Asked Questions)
🔗season4 (full hackbase season plan, 2014-2016)
🔗list (the project mailing list)
🔗events (past events CHT has participated at)
🔗donate
Protocols
🔗planning : join next base organisation here!
🔗roles (how to co-organize inside a running subseason)
🔗newcomers (what to be personally prepared for, do before/during/after, etc)
🔗subfinance (accounting system + detailed costs info)
🔗flocking (how to self-organize a subseason)
🔗manual (was used at CHT 2011-2014, not used now; reference manual for 🔗hackbase-type1)
Projects
🔗projects - all projects for next subseason
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🔗E2H (collaborative hypermedia platform, using Etherpad)
🔗coop-index - quit your rent and your job, (work 10h/week, always on a hypertrip)
🔗lim0 - supplier cooperative, economic model
🔗trucko (1984 VW LT2.8 van)
🔗hacking-housing (Urbanism law <-> Hacker architecture)
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🔗dev-index
🔗slo-zadruge
🔗hackbase-type2 (abstraction & replication of the nomadic base)
🔗solar (the renewable energy setup)
🔗base-eu (replicating the nomadic base in mainland EU)
🔗text (Text.Totalism Hypertext Library: Software + Content)
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🔗metrics (Lifestyle representation research)
in 🔗season4#Season_Projects_–_Priorities
in past subseasons archive pages, see 🔗camps!
in next subseason ( https://next.totalism.org )
Systematics
General:
🔗calendar (complete European scene calendar: tech, theory & avant-art)
🔗maps and 🔗mapping:
(🔗lanzarote 🔗canarias 🔗london 🔗berlin Hamburg Amsterdam 🔗brussels 🔗paris 🔗ljubljana ...)
🔗alike (list of similar spaces: hackbases, nomadbases, etc)
🔗non-shitty (As part of 🔗coop: relatively non-bullshit places to labour for money)
🔗postuni (tactical academia? universities, institutes, theory, design, etc)
🔗grants (hack-related grants and CFP resources)
Topical:
🔗representation.systems
🔗canarias : overview of related institutions on Canary Islands
🔗resources (non-profit basic resources for all, by locality)
🔗workflow (collaborative technology choices for bases: software, hardware, etc)
Overviews:
🔗ecology
Inhabitation & Transport
🔗trucko : the project van ( also 🔗trucko-new and 🔗trucko-now )
🔗trucko-mobile : taking Trucko van around Canarias
🔗hacking-housing : hacking architecture (project manifesto)
🔗hacking-housing-pad : hacking architecture (practice)
🔗hackbases :
🔗hackbase-type1 - fluid shared rented/owned place
🔗hackbase-type2 - permanently temporary nomadic base
🔗hackbase-type3 - bought land with
🔗hackbase-type4 - mobility and harbours (vans, trucks, buses, boats)
Groupware
🔗E2H : content system (also runs this site)
🔗workflow-ethering : how to effectively use 🔗E2H ?
🔗graph-index
🔗workflow-basics : computer-use basics
🔗laptop : cooperative laptop distribution
Economics
🔗lim0 : postcapitalist goods
🔗resources-ship : peer-to-peer logistics: "What to bring from where?"
RFC !!!
Request For Comment !
🔗graph-postapple
🔗tech-tree
🔗hacker-tools
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(Supporting ...)
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*** About the base
Dear Comrades !
Project Abstract
(Too long? Skip and just read the annotations.)
This hackbase is an infrastructure project, designing and deploying a free living habitat. Meaning: it's researching a general recipe to organize a new and completely different lifestyle around, and also a real place, practicing this.
Hackbases are live-in hackerspaces, the critically missing infrastructure to enable full-time vanguard technologist lifestyles. A common hacker is a hobbyist, hanging out at the local hackerspace, playing with personal projects after necessary main work that covers their subsistence, and then going home to an often expensive urban-area apartment. Sometimes hailed as some ultimate constructive and radical force, hackers are subsumed by the life logic of current advanced capitalist societies.
The point is to change this, and shift a negative trend of how technology is redefining societies. Currently, with "the end of work" (through work and process automation), hackers with normal day jobs are powering a bullshit neoliberal political reality, which is destroying the basic pillars of public life, like free accessible education and healthcare, rising city rents and gentrification, an ongoing ecocide, etc.
These problems are as insufficiently addressed, and structurally cannot be solved by big corporate, startup, non-governmental or academic organisations, as well as by current hackerspaces.
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Hackbases come from the ethos of hackerspaces.
The critically missing infrastructure to enable full-time vanguard technologist lifestyles.
How are hackbases different from hackerspaces?
A common hacker is a hobbyist, hanging out at the local hackerspace, playing with personal projects after necessary main work that covers their subsistence, and then going home to an often expensive urban-area apartment. Sometimes hailed as some ultimate constructive and radical force, hackers are subsumed by the life logic of current advanced capitalist societies.
The point is to change this, and shift a negative trend of how technology is redefining societies. Currently, with "the end of work" (through work and process automation), hackers with normal day jobs are powering a bullshit neoliberal political reality, which is destroying the basic pillars of public life, like free accessible education and healthcare, rising city rents and gentrification, an ongoing ecocide, etc.
These problems are as insufficiently addressed, and structurally cannot be solved by big corporate, startup, non-governmental or academic organisations, as well as by current hackerspaces.
This hackbase began as "Cyberhippietotalism" or "CHT#1" in 2011. After 3 years as a rented house, the second version of the base restarted in November 2014, as an experimental off-grid habitat research initiative, scheming to buy first plot of land and settle in the same area: North of Lanzarote, Canary Islands . A series of over 100 experimental living situation/camps have been performed since the 2014/2015 season:
See 🔗camps !
Core interests
Self-sustainability, off-grid, autarky / resilience and temporary architecture research & alternative construction // Free software and free hardware development / GNU/Linux / Free Industry // Open data, workflow and organisational technology, Tektology // Hypermedia // Digital nomadism // Critical theory // Sound studio, bands, Intermedia Art // Growing food // Renewable energy technologies // Nootropics // A nomad hacker lifestyle in a network of hacklabs // "Coliving" and "Coworking" // Hacker camp // Financial and temporal freedom // Autonomy // "Open source ecology" // Anthropocene, Environment regeneration
Also see:
* 🔗commonground - conceptuals / manifesto
* 🔗projects - current projects
Current camps !
Season 4 & 5 are experimental camping (see 🔗season4): focusing on new nomadic tech 🔗stuff and know-how, and sites in Lanzarote.
When?
Anyone can come at any time, either:
* join a planned subseasons. How - check 🔗next.
* start a new subseason - fly in, and unpack the base following 🔗flocking (self-organisation protocols).
Where?
* Currently the project has no fixed house or territory. It operates as temporary camps on temporary grounds, researching and experimenting with different approaches
* We understand the territory through 🔗maps, and develop existing and new sites for temporary inhabitation.
How?
* The immediate, short-term goal is to choose and buy own land
* Between current temporary camps, the base's 🔗stuff is in storage
* Focus is on off-the-grid temporary architecture: hexayurts / woodsheds / polytarp / DIY tents / dugouts / camouflage shelters / ..., with own renewable energy, water and food systems.
Read the original Type 2 Hackbase operation plan: 🔗season4 (2014-).
Past camps + photos
CHT4-A (2014/Nov, Dec)
"Experimental Hacker Campground"
CHT4-B (2015/April, May, June)
"Desert Autarky Sketch"
CHT4-C (2016/February, March)
"Advanced Permanently-Temporary Resilience"
CHT4-D (2016/May, June, July)
"New typologies"
CHT5-A (2017/Jan, Feb)
"Nomadic Maintenance Research Culture"
CHT5-B (2017/Nov, Dec)
"Repetition"
CHT 6
* 🔗season6-A: CHT6-A + CHT6-B (2018/Nov - 2019/Mar)
* 🔗season6-C]: CHT6-C (2019/June, July)
CHT 7
* 🔗season6-A: CHT6-A + CHT6-B (2018/Nov - 2019/Mar)
* 🔗season6-C]: CHT6-C (2019/June, July)
Future
See 🔗next for current & future plans !
More general info
:
* 🔗contact & social media
* channel #hackbases on Freenode
* mailing list: 🔗list
* write to info@totalism.org
*** Come to CHT
Next camp: https://next.totalism.org .
But generally:
* 🔗contact the base. If there is no ongoing Subseason, you have to set one up & tear it down yourself - see 🔗flocking.
* Everything you need is here (full camping gear for >10 people, diesel generator, solar, tools, network equipment, etc). More info on equipment: 🔗stuff.
* The base is open to everyone (not only computer programmers)! >200 people have stayed at the base, with ~5-10 averages, and 15 maximums.
* The Lanzarote island has a well-connected airport in Arrecife.
* A flight from EU should be 30-100€, check Skyscanner
Economy: Mutualism - Communism
Costs of imported goods and maintenance are shared as expenses.
Additionaly the investment tax & donations are spent on new things - see 🔗ordering
The base minimizes dependence on money, and so the need to do work for money, and so maximizes independence. Costs of life are ~ 100€/week per person (400€/month) and this is for everything (place to stay, food, power, water, tools and investments, etc). The remainder can be earned as part of the 🔗coop. There is a limited chance for a starving rate (if you are broke, unemployed, and break nothing) going <300€/month.
The space owns 🔗stuff and tools that is shared and can be used by anyone.
Currently buying: 🔗ordering.
If you have work, please consider a donation: 🔗donate.
For much more accounting details, see 🔗subfinance.
Where? Why? What?
The base was originally started in Lanzarote, Canary Islands (wiki, map), a UNESCO protected 40x20km Spanish island 100km West off Africa. It seemed a good idea to spend winters living in a constant 20°C average climate, with year-long ocean swimming.
Canonical hackerspace design says that "|people shouldn't ever sleep there", but hackbases take the ethos a step further. Hackerspaces are only hobbyist places, while hackbases aim to be fully integrated institutions, reinventing the basic ways to live & work.
The long term plan is to develop recipes for self-sufficiency with means of open technology, get rid of money-dependence for a good life, that can be generally used.
If you want to come around just get a cheap flight. Anyone can stay here on a micro-budget, build up and use the lab and workshop, co-curate the e-archive of books, films and music, hang out, focus on your projects, and connect them into the general theory/practice of the space, plus whatever's specifically going on then. Includes great local food, the weather and the nature (ocean, volcanoes and desert). See https://next.totalism.org.
Equipment wise, see 🔗stuff. The base has everything you need to live and work here: basic electronics/DIY/hardware tools, collection of random stuff and materials to hack, internet access and independent LAN with selfhosted local services. People donate more new stuff all the time.
The space has hosted over 150 people so far.
Trivia
♪ The hackbase is EU's second-most southernmost and westernmost hackerspace ↙ ↙ ↙ ↙
♪ Similar to hacker camps (like OHM2013 and CCC Camp) but less flashy and more permanent
♪ Current weather is awesome
♪ Please bring cool 🔗stuff we are 🔗ordering
♪ Guerrilla food growing; plan going large scale with equal parts permaculture and cybernetics
♪ Biggest influences are Wiki🔗Ted_Nelson and Wiki🔗Alexander_Bogdanov
♪ All pages on this site are open-editable Etherpads (see bottom of page!)
♪ Maybe we can have camels in the future
♪ Old house location was (in this village) but not anymore
*** PAD
RELEASE CHECKLIST
CRITICAL:
* separate mobile theme (gradients don't work well there)
* check with other people if it looks OK
* upload missing photos:
* for missing subseasons
* poster.png
* dyntoc:
* lock overflow-x (should be no slider)
* make left/right edge bigger
* [...]
(missing):
* E2H: good [pics] query taking also number
* E2H: ... with sensible auto-crop css
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(Site generated by E2H, an "Etherpad hypermedia" project by @dcht00).
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