The Internet had its roots in the American military network ARPAnet, which is the actual birthplace of the information society: a society massively permeated by the sciences and technologies of information and telecommunications, using them to carry out the design of the planet or at least, that of its components (with design replacing politics). A society whose governmentality entails the knowledge of the real, that is to say, the transformation of reality into information.

Being a laboratory for segmenting the infosphere, the workshop discusses how in practice we could act within this system and how we can affect it. To be autonomous today means to have the capacity to cut off these networks. In order to measure our dependencies and interactivities with information technologies, the workshop starts with the physical identification of the information society's terminals in Halle (e.g. antennas for wireless telephony). The results of both research and discussion will later be visualised in a mapping.
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