Recently I saw a movie on the life and death of Aaron Swartz, who is nowadays often called a martyr for the freedom of the Internet. People, nations and governments… Read the rest of the article: Hacker Hymn [Jasmina Tesanovic]

[Editor's Note: Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been expelled from Italy's senate after two decades in government.] My American friend wrote me this morning: How does it feel… Read the rest of the article: Berlusconi's "decadenza"

Writer, filmmaker, and "humanitarian bombing" survivor Jasmina Tesanovic reflects on the similarities between the war she experienced, and the strikes proposed by the United States against Syria.

Authors Jasmina Tesanovic and Bruce Sterling attended Republika, a three-day seaside meeting of futurists and forward-thinkers, organized in part by Share Cyberpunk Academy. About a hundred activists, artists, and tech experts gathered in Croatia to meet and speak to attendees from around the world. Jasmina shares her account of the gathering here, a portion of which took place on a historic boat.

Writer Jasmina Tesanovic lost her homeland in The Yugoslav Wars, and says she can relate to the statelessness of Edward Snowden, who is seeking asylum while waiting in a no-mans-land at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.

There is something perverse and voyeuristic about visiting the private homes of famous people. Yet, as time goes by, I find the grand fame of public figures less interesting than… Read the rest of the article: Kafka and d'Annunzio, and the mysteries to be revealed in their former homes

Writers Jasmina Tesanovic and Bruce Sterling visit the Sardinia Radio Telescope, a large, fully steerable radio telescope currently which was recently completed near San Basilio, in province of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy.

Photo: Jasmina Tesanovic The Golden Quadrilateral in today's Milan is composed of haute couture shops, jewelry emporia, and nouveau riche tourists. It's the geographic square that once sheltered the novelist… Read the rest of the article: Milan Wired Next

Photo: Bruce Sterling First things first: oh, you world travelers, for pleasure or for work, never, ever fly Baltic Airlines. First they will stiff you by making you pay sixty… Read the rest of the article: E-Stonia: where the free internet now flows like water

Image: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic image from Tim Regan's photostream I must start with a tweet from my wise friend Xeni Jardin: "Some of you have asked why I'm… Read the rest of the article: Occupy SXSW 2013

Photo: Bruce Sterling I've been to tech conferences all over the world, but this one may be the most radical: Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand. It's about web designers as… Read the rest of the article: A report from Webstock 2013: Jasmina Tesanovic

Why are women first to pay for every crisis? In every society, capitalist, socialist, or transition? It's because the bodies of women are expendable. I always noticed how women over… Read the rest of the article: Amazons with a Cause

"Lunchtime at Rosa House, a woman-run shelter in Zagreb, Croatia. Photo by Center for Women War Victims. From "The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia." A couple of days… Read the rest of the article: The Likes of Me: a dispatch from Jasmina Tesanovic

When I myself was a protesting student, I remember vividly remembered the cold warning in the text by Pier Paolo Pasolini. He reminded us youngsters that the police we faced… Read the rest of the article: Student Riots in Italy: a dispatch from Jasmina Tesanovic

The Italian scientific community was stunned when Italian scientists, seismologists, were recently sentenced to years of prison for manslaughter, for failing to predict the lethal earthquake in Aquila in 2009. Other scientists have resigned to their jobs in protest, and even some relatives of the victims condemned the sentence as ridiculous.

Years ago during the reign of Milosevic in Serbia I wrote an essay called "Decent people". It was about that 80 percent of Serbian people, the classic silent majority, who… Read the rest of the article: The Decent People: LGBT pride in the former Yugoslavia

The International Space Orchestra in front of Vacuum Chambers, NASA Ames Research Center. Photo: Neil Berrett. I never dreamed I would be in a NASA base in California, singing and… Read the rest of the article: My night with the International Space Orchestra: Jasmina Tesanovic

I used to say, "This will not be my war anyway" to my daughter, to my young colleagues, and friends feminists or not: to girls. We fought in the seventies… Read the rest of the article: Free Pussy Riot [Jasmina Tesanovic]

[Video Link.] A weekend of fear and mourning in Italy. Early this Sunday morning, an earthquake struck near Bologna: at least six killed (ceramic workers, and a hundred year old… Read the rest of the article: Earthquake and bombs in Italy: An eyewitness report from Jasmina Tesanovic

Photo: Jasmina in a former prison. "Despite the scale of the facility, it was densely crowded once." Shot by Bruce Sterling. This morning, The Hague tribunal commenced the trial of… Read the rest of the article: War Crimes trial for Ratko Mladic begins in The Hague