I will pass this on thanks Ruth On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:25 PM, ruth catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org>wrote:
> On 28/12/2011 12:22, manik wrote: > > ...HI RUTH & OTHER...ROB IS DEFINITIVE 'MAN OF THE YEAR' ON > NETBEHAVIOUR...WE WISH TO ADD;'INOO' MOST IMPORTANT /BESIDE ALL OTHER > POINTZ/ IS THAT NEW PEOPLE ON NB AT LEAST TRY TO GET INVOLVE IN SOCIAL > STREAM TROUGH DISCUS AND PARTICIPATE ON OTHER WAYZ ON NB...WE ARE > AWARE THAT MOST OF US HAVE NO FRESH IDEA/HOPPE IT'S TEMPORARY/ HOW TO > GIVE CONTRIBUTION TO UNAVOIDABLE NEW DISCOURSE IN GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE IN > THE WORLD/THAT MEAN TO CHANGE THING FROM BAD TO GOOD ON GLOBAL LEVEL/ ...WE > ALL FEEL IN OUR HEARTS THAT CHANGE MUST BE... BUT CAN'T EXPLICATE RIGHT > NOW...BEST WISHES FOR HOLLYDAYS...MANIK...DECEMBER...2011... > > Hi MANIK > you make good points. > I agree that we probably share an urgent and heartfelt sense of need for > fundamental Global Change. > > This competition has just been announced. Asking people to write a > paragraph reversing the Panopticon effect of the Internet of Things to > envision the City of Trust in the freedom society. > http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/new-years-contest-panopticon-metaphor-internet-things-%E2%80%93-why-not-if-it-were-opposite > > " What could be the metaphor of a free society where individuals are > endowed with the capability to exploit their talents and realise their > dreams, where social groups stand together, and where organisations adopt > an ethical conduct? If we accept that Panopticon can be the metaphor for > the surveillance society, the City of Control, the human enslaved by his > objects, what could be the opposite concept for the freedom society, the > City of Trust, the empowered individual?" > > I think it's an excellent question. > > Answers anyone? > > cheers > Ruth > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* helen varley jamieson <he...@creative-catalyst.com> > *To:* netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:02 AM > *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] nominated for Father Christmas > > thanks to you too, ruth! :) hope you & marc are having a good break & > keeping warm. > waving from the southern summer :) > > On 25/12/11 12:50 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > > I was about to nominate Rob (and his links series) for this year's Year > Round Father Christmas of Netbehaviour- a combo of timely, informative and > pleasurable resources- each collection hangs together with mysterious and > joyous coherence. > > Then I thought of all the other sparkly wonders that have dropped into my > inbox from all you others NBers > > These are some of the things I have particularly loved in NB this year > > - invitations to live networked performances: music, cyberformance, > collaborative (bodily and avatar) performance > - collaborations and streams of drawings, paintings, videos, sound: > everyday, visceral, playful, strange, brain-shape-shifting, machinic > - steady attention and inventive responses to the many upheavals in > the wider world > - people new to NB finding wayz to introduce themselves, their > practices and join the conversation > - tributes and memorials to the passing of many fine, strange and > imaginative people > - torrents of (sometimes unprocessable) practice and theory springing > up and washing all over the place > - all the conversations: thoughtful, grouchy, bitter, funny, informed, > informing, theoretical, flippant, just-plain-wrong, brutal, embarrassing > and illuminating. > > Thanks and warm festive fuzzies to you all. > > Ruth > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > > helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst he...@creative-catalyst.com > http://www.creative-catalyst.comhttp://www.make-shift.nethttp://www.upstage.org.nz > ____________________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > listNetBehaviour@netbehaviour.orghttp://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > http://www.bram.org http://aabrahams.wordpress.com
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