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Ambiguity City: By ELIZA LEVINSONJUNE. The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin “Berlin, which has always been the meeting point of East and West Germany, now finds itself in the ideological lurch between the city’s seemingly interminable attractiveness to massive, international Big Tech corporations and the long-standing anti-capitalist tendencies intrinsic to the East.” “In October 2018, then, international outlets and activists alike were taken aback to see that activists in Kreuzberg had successfully pushed out one of the city’s most prominent new projects: a Google campus, the seventh of the company’s worldwide “campi,” with siblings in tech-savvy (already gentrified) cities like San Francisco and London and financially precarious ones like Warsaw. The activists’ victory, hard won through weekly protest, partisan publications, political pressure, and glittery banners, resonated as a David-beats-Goliath-style unexpected victory for the gentrifying city in the Google age. Today, these organizers are now mobilizing again to protest another major Big Tech incursion, a massive Amazon location directly between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, right behind the Warschauer Straße bridge.” “Berlin’s culture, cheap rents, and unconventionality. For all of us, there is a tantalizing sense of some kind of vacuum in Berlin — a chasm of impossibly open space, of the ever elusive blend of urbanity and anti-capitalist freedom, emphasized with the sweet promise of successful democratic socialism — hovering in that void between the cool and the crumbling, the romantic notion of a city defined by its persistent rebelliousness instead of its acquiescence.”
Ambiguity City: By ELIZA LEVINSONJUNE. The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin “Berlin, which has always been the meeting point of East and West Germany, now finds itself in the ideological lurch between the city’s seemingly interminable attractiveness to massive, international Big Tech corporations and the long-standing anti-capitalist tendencies intrinsic to the East.” “In October 2018, then, international outlets and activists alike were taken aback to see that activists in Kreuzberg had successfully pushed out one of the city’s most prominent new projects: a Google campus, the seventh of the company’s worldwide “campi,” with siblings in tech-savvy (already gentrified) cities like San Francisco and London and financially precarious ones like Warsaw. The activists’ victory, hard won through weekly protest, partisan publications, political pressure, and glittery banners, resonated as a David-beats-Goliath-style unexpected victory for the gentrifying city in the Google age. Today, these organizers are now mobilizing again to protest another major Big Tech incursion, a massive Amazon location directly between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, right behind the Warschauer Straße bridge.” “Berlin’s culture, cheap rents, and unconventionality. For all of us, there is a tantalizing sense of some kind of vacuum in Berlin — a chasm of impossibly open space, of the ever elusive blend of urbanity and anti-capitalist freedom, emphasized with the sweet promise of successful democratic socialism — hovering in that void between the cool and the crumbling, the romantic notion of a city defined by its persistent rebelliousness instead of its acquiescence.”
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