
Chronologies are an exercise
of mapping the beats of collectives actions, the frequencies and rhymes of desires,
necessities and actions develop by a group of actors involved with social transformation.
Chronologies
are a tool to communicate resistances and fights to the rest of the world; it
is used by actors inside social movements and activist research. It is a way to
listen and feel the rumours of resistances with their specific histories, reasons,
goals and means.
This database is thought to help activist communities and
social movements to develop their collective memory and to see how their own collective
memory sum up and join other dynamics of transformation elsewhere.
The Chronos
project is also a tool so people can explore and learn more about social and political
mobilizations.
Learning about each event: When, where, why, what and who? The user of the database
can search for those informations, he can check for the existing available online
qualitative documents related to the event, and he can also add its comments,
insert new events or develop his subjective narrative about how significant was
this event for him/her.
In that sense, the chronos project is a tool to insert factual information about social and political events, it is also a tool to organize and compile qualitative documents that are building the knowledge generated by the event, and it is a place where to develop and share storytelling in a subjective way.
The result
of those three levels is a technopolitic composite that
allows its users to
travel around the stories drawn by the collective memory of the resistances, struggles
and fights. In a certain way, this tool is like science fiction, uchrony, like
folk resistant songs, like call for actions, and its contents are collective names
composing the cultural activist imaginaries moving around. Leaving, freezing and
reappearing like shiny phoenix.
Our hearts, hears, eyes, hands, feeling ideas, watching tactics, smelling emotions,
trying to build records and documentaries about the vital energies that pushed
through social and political mobilizations; making of each event a swarm of
personal and collective, political, philosophical and technical praxis. How
do we communicate those things? - sympathy, decision, seriousness, dignity,
rage, people behaving together in name of social transformation anyway anywhere..
Dreams, utopia, desires, thoughts, reflections and knowledge
are mixed up, they don't develop themselves alone inside separated bottles of
cristal glass, they mixed up inside conversations, networked exchanges, inside
communities that share collective
sweating to make reality pieces of these ideas, materiality of desires, desires
of immateriality, communicating the facts and the subjective perspectives of
the event: social and political
mobilizations are the rhythms of the social transformation desires, beat, bit,
bite...