'Mental Participation': anti-globalisation protestors arrested for
thoughtcrime
Amongst the 23 anti-globalisation protestors questioned and arrested today
in Italy there are some who are accused not of acts of violence but of
'mental participation' ('compartecipazione psichica') and 'pscyhological
Hiya,
>One only has to look at the flurry of legislation --
>the Communications Act and Digital Millenium Copyright Act in the US.
>Or the remarkable amount of GATT and then WTO time taken up with
>issues of patent and copyright protection. These are relatively new
>developments, and their signifi
The noglobal protesters who had been arrested in Cosenza two weeks ago have
been released. They were accused of subversion.
The same day of their liberation, 22 people in various Italian cities have
been arrested. They are accused of illegal actions against the State during
the Genova antiG8 de
Since many people responded to me off-list, I should write a postscript
to my posting. Everyone seems to have overlooked that the
correspondence between John Berndt (a Neoist and experimental musician
from Baltimore) and LLoyd Dunn (editor of the Mail Art/anticopyright
zine PhotoStatic/Retrofuturi
[Those of you who were at the No Border camp in Strasbourg last
summer, or at the Hub in Florence during the ESF, probably received a
copy of the maps made by Bureau d'Etudes with collaboration from
several others (including myself). You can find one example at
http://utangente.free.fr/index2.h
Felix,
I am not suggesting that Manhattan in 2000 is the same as Constantinople
in 1000. Obviously two centuries of machine revolution have made a big
difference to the way we live. I was just trying to correct a myopic
tendency to think of change as whatever is considered new by a
self-selected m
From: "Bruce Sterling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:17 PM
Subject: Viridian Note 00351: Decaying Media
Key concepts: intellectual property, planned obsolescence,
DVDs, Viridian Embrace Decay Principle
Attention Conservation Notice: It's really a "Dead Media
Project" n
