Hackbases - infrastructure to intervene in the broken technology-capital-commons dynamic
Submitted to CFP for Chaos Communication Camp (happening August 2015 near Berlin.)

Status [2015-07-09]:
    Missed deadline
    CFP was announced mid-April and lasted until mid-May, while CHT-4B was happening in the desert

___________ ABSTRACT
To describe a common hacker is to describe a hobbyist - hanging out and playing with personal projects after necessary main work that covers their subsistence. Often hailed as some ultimate constructive and radical force, hackers are subsumed by the life logic of current advanced capitalist societies.
Hackbases are currently existing live-in hacklabs, an independent and replicable model for urgent intervention. This is a missing infrastructure model to enable full-time vanguard technologist lifestyles, serving the commons.
This talk should equip and inspire you to visit or start one!

___________ DESC
Hackbases are live-in hackerspaces, the missing infrastructure to enable full-time vanguard technologist lifestyles. To describe a common hacker is to describe a hobbyist - hanging out in a third space, playing with personal projects after necessary main work that covers their subsistence. Often hailed as some ultimate constructive and radical force, hackers are subsumed by the life logic of current advanced capitalist societies. As such, they are at least complicit, and possibly assisting how technology is redefining base societal dynamics - inducing the end of work through work and process automation; powering a neoliberal political reality disassembling accessible education and healthcare; an ongoing ecocide, etc. These are as insufficiently addressed by big corporate, startup or academic systems, as by current hackerspaces.

Hackbases are an independent and replicable model for urgent intervention, an infrastructure for designing a truly free and inclusive lifestyle of research and development for the commons.

This talk should equip and inspire you to visit, move to, or start one!