Hackney Anarchists present HACKY Anarchists; a digital utopia for our moribund times. 

When the pirate cries ‘Aarghh me hearties’ is this a cry for help or a call to arms? Many digital utopians fled the complexities of the world for the hope of better possibilities in the last century. These early sailors charted whole new possibilities for play, communication, experimentation and politics on servers and online. Did they expect, could they have imagined, the online and the digital as the capitalists moved in?

What are the capacities for revolution and revolt, secrecy and sedition in this current world? Which elements of this construct have the modern anarchists, born into the digital, found to hide and proliferate in? What of the millenials with a foot in both worlds doggedly sticking to pirate bay in a world of streaming giants. What of the architecture the anarchists have created and sustained in the last 30 years for our movements round the world, where sharing solidarity is as easy and meaningful as the click of a button? What of the freaks, fighting against the totalised state and the totalised digital construct at the same time?

Another world is possible! But it might require different tech! 

Come and find out – 12-8pm at LARC. 62 Fieldgate Street. E1 1ES. 

Saturday 23 May 2026

SCHEDULING  
TIME    TITLE    TYPE  
12.10-12.40    Another tech is possible      
12.50-13.25    Phreaks & Phreaking     
13.35-14.15    Piracy: Intro and Basics     
14.25-15.10    I’m like a girl but a pdf    
15.20-15.50    Down with this sort of thing   &    Break  
16.05-16.40    PGP  for encrypted comms  
16.50-17.20    Global Village     
17.30-18.00    VPN     
18.10-18.15    Hacktion Lab announcement      
18.15-18.45    Doing money differently     
18.55-19.55    Tech Utopia Workshop    
18.55-19.55    Ai-Z Zine Making     
20-22    Social