PLENUM - Public Ruling Tournament For a Network Usurpation Module. A workout session about issues which affect self-organising communities

PLENUM – Public Ruling Tournament For a Network Usurpation Module.

Kingdom of Piracy aims to develop a 'rule out work out' module that can variably be adapted to a number of issues affecting communities, initiatives within the independent, self-organising framework of net culture.

PLENUM refers to the space of open public meetings and debate as a commons, investigating the mechanisms by which discussions usually get structured. Whereas self-organising groups often claim to be open and transparent, hidden social group dynamics come into play. But how autonomous and open can we really be? Who is setting the agenda?

Kingdom of Piracy tests the limits of the commons of the open sea and seeks to shelter dissenting voices and the self-exiled, while noting that the seized power can be an imagined one. As the Chinese saying goes, "The sky is high and the emperor is far away." In the networked culture, who is the emperor of old who needs to get RULED OUT? Who is the new emperor that replaced the old? Ultimately, do we need an emperor? Or a rule for ruling out, a sort of safety break?