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SPCC A Casa Amarela
  • Introduction
  • Intro
  • Macieira
  • 001 opening story
  • 002 first weeks of SPCC
  • 003 first informal group meeting
  • 004 SPCC - the start
  • 005 another day, another floor
  • 007 it lives!
  • 006 Rainbow Rooms
  • 008 didn't do shit
  • 009 no water again
  • 010 More work done!
  • 011 waterworks
  • 012 a third of a wall
  • 013 First room
  • 014 One wood wall up and Fuchsia room up!
  • 015 yes officer
  • 016 red room
  • 017 shower
  • 018 hydrant fixed
  • 019 decor
  • 020 orange room
  • 021 Latest News
  • 022 Windows and etc.
  • 023 Electricity!
  • Hydro Pole
  • 024 ARRRRRRRRRRRR
  • 026 squats, social centres, free spaces...
  • 025 squats, social centres, free spaces...
  • 027 Personalitty issues
  • 029 new website look
  • 030 S's Birthday Party!
  • 031 spoils of war
  • 032 water and doors
  • 033 entropy of partying
  • 035 work
  • 034 house meeting
  • 036 yellow room
  • 037 pics
  • 038 visitors
  • 028 an emphasis on exuberance
  • 040 builder gathering
  • 039 progress?
  • 042 Update
  • 043 barbecue
  • 044 tiki bar
  • 045 a valued location
  • 046 teste
  • 047 Gallery
  • 048 first CS guests
  • 049 Chill Out progress
  • 050 tipping point
  • 051 swimming pool
  • 053 the reality of good and evil in all of us
  • 054 Uff
  • 052 Harald's birthday
  • 055 positive derivative
  • 056 Free Shop
  • 057 New era?
  • 058 helpex approved!
  • 060 another party another breakthrough
  • 062 back to basics
  • 063 sunshine AC
  • 064 our DIY photovoltaic system
  • 065 ghetto techno
  • 066 churrasco anti nacionalista + kawak kay sound system
  • 067 dug up roots
  • 068 Christian Louboutin
  • 069 we did it!
  • 070 First RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!
  • 072 our first humanure factory
  • 073 blue thursday
  • 074 short stop
  • 075 indulge
  • 076 thank you
  • 077 Kat's account of her stay (and their trip)
  • 078 first request study results
  • 079 humanure
  • 080 Chill Out bar progress
  • 081 low tech hiatus
  • 082 mini rave + kawak kay sound system + free food + free booze
  • 083 free means fun
  • 084 dinner + kawak kay sound system + R's birthday party
  • 085 heat wave hangover
  • 086 Dry toilets, humanure, and closing the sewage loop
  • 087 mild frustration
  • 088 never there when shit happens
  • 089 Enough is enough!
  • 091 good times are back
  • 092 Naked man, pushing shopping cart with a shot gun?
  • 093 Solar panel photos
  • 094 best registry cleaner
  • 095 3ꠁniversᲩo Associaη£― Musical INDUSTRIAL PT / 3rd anniversary of the INDUSTRIAL PT non-profit musi
  • 096 new BFB (Big Fucking Battery)
  • 097 new subwoofer, extra hands
  • 098 hitchhiker gathering craze
  • 099 hitchhiker gathering flash rave + KKSS
  • 100 new work ethics thanks to... work ethics
  • 101 Hitch hikers invasion, part 2, can it be?
  • 102 windmills, swimming pools, cane constructions, gardens and anarcho-syndicalism
  • 059 Nomad Base
  • 103 power struggles, again
  • 104 Big issues, and big decisions to be made
  • 105 solar workshop
  • 106 Today's game
  • 108 parties, philosophies and cultural exchange
  • 107 Flash workshop day + communal dinner + debate
  • 109 fire sculptures and bunker tracks
  • 110 solar energy shortcomings
  • 090 cane frames
  • 111 Hitchhiking gathering and issues gone
  • 112 plumbing fire
  • 113 big brother okupa
  • 114 power
  • 116 holidays and post boomers
  • 117 Return to the squat
  • 118 first google guest
  • 119 on planning
  • 120 Two weeks at SPCC
  • 121 Demolishing is coming!!
  • 122 paintathon
  • 123 A journey
  • 124 why i choose to celebrate the demolition
  • 126 More signs of demolition
  • 127 Baile da Contra Cultura
  • 128 what works, what doesn't work
  • 129 Topographers on site, and kids.
  • 130 the demolition crew and the freeloader crew
  • 131 2 weeks to close the squat!
  • 132 impromptu meeting, couriers and our deadline
  • 134 another paintathon
  • 135 facts, stories and politics
  • 133 THE BIG DEMOLITION PARTY - PAINT THE FUCK UP
  • 136 party people
  • 137 dear spcc
  • 138 Last words
  • 139 How to make a solar panel
  • 141 demolition on its way, but not today
  • 061 About
  • 142 follow up on our characters
  • 143 can't trust a contractor
  • 144 the big demolition party short video
  • 145 new dates for the demolition
  • 146 moving on digitally
  • 147 all gone! SPCC has been cleared!
  • 115 thanks and more
  • 148 SPCC featured in the german Jungle World
  • 150 where you can find me
  • 151 Acts change Facts: Nicolas's movie about SPCC
  • medo e ignorΓ’ncia no controlo policial
  • 152 SPCC featured in the travel comic compilation "Boring Europa"
  • 153 my experience at SPCC featured in an interview about my experience as an engineering student
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From: starstuffharvestingstarlight Date: 2010-04-20 21:11:44 Title: an emphasis on exuberance

following the motto of inspiration, i thought i'd also provide a perspective of my personal references and what i'll be standing for at SPCC.

though i've been involved politically since my teens, my main references are philosophy and mathematics. here is a short list. 1) , the german mathematician. I'm profoundly influenced by his , and use it as a basis for most of my reasoning. it states:

If the system is consistent, it cannot be complete. The consistency of the axioms cannot be proven within the system.

2) , discovered by many, but probably most famously enunciated by as "The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.". though this might seem odd, to me it provides two main things any group of people should consider: their actions are useless because and entropy always increases but can have locally negative values. personally, i like to think of this as the evidence for a) life as a pointless process and b) humans (and life) as agents of negative entropy. negative entropy, or order, or Exuberance like i like to call it, is when the mess of a pile of rocks becomes a cathedral, or when jars of paint become a painting. that, to me, is the deepest truth about our cosmos and to understand the value of the second law, is to understand how a) we need to be generators of negative entropy and b) we should fight the generators of entropy that are not providers for negative agents of entropy. for example, we should always make things more beautiful, and should fight whoever destroys of hinders the exuberance of our planet. obviously, an entropic energy source like the sun, being the provider for the negative entropy agents, is a necessity (you can't macroscopically break the second law). my focus is, and has always been, to promote this negative entropy behavior, or, as i like to call it, to be a promoter of exuberance. when we started SPCC, we were to make it a test case for the Exuberantist ideology. since then, our group has become more diverse. but the focus remains, at least on my part, to make SPCC an Exuberantist organization, or at least, to make it the most Exuberant possible.

3) the greek philosopher . root of Utilitarianism, he might sound like a strange source for an Anarchist ideology, but they are not incompatible at all. i believe that our life is lived to the fullest when we seek and enjoy the advancement personal and group knowledge, and that this should be our main focus. i practice many of his principles, mostly on promoting knowledge, critical thinking, meaningful discussions, non-materialism, justice and friendship.

4) the scientific method as a key to critical thinking. this needs no explanation, but it is common for communities to use other knowledge-seeking systems. i personally favor scientific knowledge, and will promote it at SPCC. besides the Anarcho-Syndicalist organization, we are also saying that it was meant to be an Atheist Anarco-Syndicalist. for now, i think this principle is holding up.

despite all these intellectual issues, my main focus is on getting the place to work properly in every way and making it as sustainable and legal as possible, so in practice these references are little more than that. as for communities, i am mostly driving my work from the knowledge i accumulated from my previous project, .

godspeed starstuff β˜†β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†

joao@hipercubo.net
Kurt Gâdel
Incompleteness Theorem
the second law of thermodynamics
Rudolf Clausius
the universe will end in a cold death
Epicurus
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