Patrice Riemens
Encyclopedia
Patrice Riemens is a geographer and currently the Fellow of the Waag Society in Amsterdam. He is a promoter of Open Knowledge and Free Software
, and has been involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software movements) at the Asia Source and Africa Source camps, held in 2005 and 2006 to promote FLOSS among non-governmental organisations. He is a member of the staff of Multitudes
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Riemens' has been described as a "private intellectual (and sometimes internet activist) by choosing" http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/riemensbio.html. De Waag Center for Old and New Media, where he is based, is in an old castle in Amsterdam
and works on the cutting edge of technology, culture, education and industry.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
, and has been involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software movements) at the Asia Source and Africa Source camps, held in 2005 and 2006 to promote FLOSS among non-governmental organisations. He is a member of the staff of Multitudes
Multitudes
Multitudes is a French philosophical, political and artistic monthly journal founded in 2000 by Yann Moulier-Boutang. It is thematically situated in the theoretical framework of the seminal work Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt...
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Riemens' has been described as a "private intellectual (and sometimes internet activist) by choosing" http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/riemensbio.html. De Waag Center for Old and New Media, where he is based, is in an old castle in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
and works on the cutting edge of technology, culture, education and industry.
External links
- Patrice Riemens' bio
- Two percent of a Source camp... interview with Patrice Riemens
- Amsterdam Public Digital Culture 2000 On the Contradictions Among Users Profiles, article by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
- 'Hacker Culture' articleHack-TicHack-Tic was a Dutch hacker magazine published between 1989 and 1993. Throughout its existence, Hack-Tic obtained a cult following and upset the authorities beyond the Dutch borders.- History :...
- Communitarian dynamics, electro-electives affinities and networked memories in the contemporary cyberculture: the nettime list. Interview with Patrice Riemens.