[NetBehaviour] Fwd: vote bart in beck/charlotte gainsbourg remix context

2012-02-05 Thread IR3ABF
Vote for my friend Bart!A.Sent from my eXtended BodYBegin forwarded message:From: bart plantenga ninpl...@xs4all.nlDate: 2 februari 2012 11:32:11 GMT+01:00To: Black Sifichi sifi...@free.fr, Laurent Diouf wtm_laur...@yahoo.frSubject: vote bart  in beck/charlotte gainsbourg remix contextvote by listening oftenBECK/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - "PARADISCO" REMIX CONTESTPARADISCO CHARLOTTE FOREVER [WRECK THIS MESS REMIX]


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[NetBehaviour] Jacques Katmor again

2012-01-26 Thread IR3ABF
see:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-black-hole-that-was-jacques-katmor-1.405804

and of course

http://nictoglobe.com

enjoy!

A.

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[NetBehaviour] Update: Friction Research Issue #4: Reclaim the Mind

2012-01-23 Thread IR3ABF
Friction Research Issue #4: Reclaim the Mind 

http://nictoglobe.com/frictionresearch

Amsterdam January 25 2012

Due to a severe lack of financial resources the continuation of the project is 
currently on hold.

When - according to the indetermined, erratic will of the Gods of Economics - 
prosperious times will arrive I am more than happy to continue the project and 
publish and by other means make public the remaining submissions. Until these 
happy days arrive the publication will be very, very sporadic and irregular

Any sugestions regarding obtaining sufficient funding will be appreciated, 
please contact me at:

frictionresearch [at] nictoglobe [dot] com

-- Andreas Maria Jacobs, editor/publisher

Nictoglobe Online Magazine, http://nictoglobe.com
La Resocialista Internacional, http://burgerwaanzin.nl

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[NetBehaviour] The Third Eye, Jacques Katmor retrospective

2012-01-22 Thread IR3ABF
The Third Eye

Ori Drumer succeeded in bringing together various fragments of Jacques Katmor's 
artistique oeuvre at the exhibition The Third Eye in Tel Aviv, Israel

http://www.gutmanmuseum.co.il/Exhibition.aspx?ExhibitionAlias=Exhibition_216


Looking for Jacques Katmor Part I, Tel Aviv May 4 2011

Interview with Ori Drumer, last spring in Tel Aviv, when I was looking for 
Jacques Katmor

http://nictoglobe.com/new/query2.html?d=edgarallanf=text


Enjoy,

Andreas Maria Jacobs (Agam Andreas)

Nictoglobe Online Magazine, http://nictoglobe.com
La Resocialista Internacional, http://burgerwaanzin.nl


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[NetBehaviour] Looking for Mao (Drawing exercises Nr. 24 25, Jan. 19 2012)

2012-01-21 Thread IR3ABF
http://nictoglobe.com/drawingexcersises

Enjoy!

A.A.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Vincent Browne v The ECB

2012-01-20 Thread IR3ABF
thanks for the link dave, 

gives me a good feeling that someone is able to confront financial power with a 
simple question which is not answered as a political tactic - or the lack 
thereof - of the ecb, they steal, humilate and bankrupt countries for there own 
sake. 

Democracy is a hollow phrase for them, in Holland a bill is silently passed 
giving the ecb  - or one of its institutions - the *right* to be supplied with 
dutch tax payers money, when they  - the ecb faction - asks for it , without 
any restrictions and they insist to have complete juridical immunity in the 
effectuation of their demands.

Welcome to world of high finances, these people are scumbags, rats and should 
be drowned

BTW currently reading:


The Long Twentieth Century

Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times

• GIOVANNI ARRIGHI 



see:



http://205.196.122.24/ef3wofrlgg8g/et82d9g8b9dk4r6/Arrighi+-+The+Long+Twentieth+Century+-+Money%2C+Power%2C+and+the+Origins+of+Our+Times.pdf

Andreas, 

On 20 jan. 2012, at 21:45, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:

 At last - someone stands up to the bankers.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=HAf7J4a_T1g
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2012-01-18 Thread IR3ABF
hi list

maybe an interesting read for some

http://www.shekhovtsov.org/articles/Anton_Shekhovtsov-Apoliteic_Music.html

Andreas

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On 18 jan. 2012, at 20:13, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:

 New Metamute site!:
 
 http://www.metamute.org/
 
 
 Apple removed this from their App Store. Boo!:
 
 http://situationistapp.com/
 
 
 Teenages share passwords as a show of affection:
 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/us/teenagers-sharing-passwords-as-show-of-affection.html?_r=1hp
 
 
 In pictures: Collages question our perception of war:
 
 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/18/wartime-explosion-art
 
 
 Google workers caught 'vandalising' open source maps:
 
 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/18/google-vandals
 
 
 Artists In the 1%:
 
 http://feeds.hyperallergic.com/~r/hyperallergic/~3/kh55ov5XrJU/
 
 
 Microsoft SkyDrive ‘Confuses Naked With Nude’, Art Account Frozen:
 
 http://paidcontent.org/article/419-art-blogger-microsoft-skydrive-confuses-naked-with-nude-freezes-account/
 
 
 The Power of Making at the VA:
 
 http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/17/the-power-of-making-at-the-va/
 
 
 Homeland Security Hires Military Contractor To Monitor Social Media:
 
 http://www.disinfo.com/2012/01/homeland-security-hires-military-contractor-to-monitor-social-media/
 
 
 Apple to announce tools, platform to ‘digitally destroy’ textbook
 publishing:
 
 http://www.kurzweilai.net/apple-to-announce-tools-platform-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing
 
 
 Biohackers Get Their Own Space:
 
 http://www.kurzweilai.net/biohackers-get-their-own-space-to-create
 
 
 P2P religion criticized by the Catholic Church:
 
 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/cR-QZ0wCJWE/17
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[NetBehaviour] Warzone Europe

2012-01-07 Thread IR3ABF
inline: image.jpeg

Our gentrificated/destroyed studio, with in the background the Dutch Chamber of 
Commerce

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On 7 jan. 2012, at 16:50, IR3ABF aj...@xs4all.nl wrote:

 image.png
 
 
 Me after losing my job, I'm feeling better now, thank you
 
 photo by Arnout Camerlinckx
 
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 On 7 jan. 2012, at 12:12, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 thanks Rob - have Oracle bought Sun?
 
 dave
 
 On 7 January 2012 10:58, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:
 On 07/01/12 10:51, dave miller wrote:
 This is a great idea - have signed up, just hope it's not a lot of work!
 
 Also - I need to learn java this year. Anyone recommend a good
 starting point? I know php already
 
 Sun -er- Oracle have some good tutorials on their site -
 
 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
 
 O'Reilly's Java tutorial is a couple of versions behind the current Java
 version but they're usually good -
 
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596008734.do
 
 - Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Learn To Code

2012-01-07 Thread IR3ABF
I don't know Rob,

I could afford maintaining my wife and childrens life by working as a  
'code monkey'.

As an outcome of the crisis in the 80ties, the Dutch government issued  
a program to train jobless academics (including me) by cooperating  
with the demands of the cooperative forces and a huge number of former  
philosophers, historicians, musiciens and other 'trained and skilled'  
people found jobs in the IT industry in late 90ties, early 2000nds

When the financial crisis hits really hard the industry reacted by  
disposing these group first, aged between 45 and 60, what effective  
way is there left to (re)gain a living apart from being a 'outsider',  
guised under the name of activist/artist/pauper or being dependent on  
welfare as earning money (to pay for the financial demands modern life  
imposes on every single individual) by practising cultural/software/ 
creative activities not as part of the cultural/software/creative  
industry is by far too less to survive decently.

It is one thing to discuss things from a comfortable position, backed  
by whatever institutions who pay the expenses and the rent, but a  
complete different thing when that is not the case, when there is  
nothing to hold on

What remains then is something else, not expressable in 'jargon' or  
'code', and I wonder where exactly the divide between 'leisure/fun'  
and 'work/labour' lies if not in the differences between having a job  
- whether as a 'code monkey' or as 'paid' artist or as a 'cultural/ 
creative/sex worker - and not having a job, or should I go into the  
streets and fellate white collar workers to maintain my family?

Send with consent from Judith V. - artist by birth - mother and lover

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On 7 jan. 2012, at 16:54, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:

 On 07/01/12 15:18, Andreas Maria Jacobs wrote:

 Where and how are software skills degraded from a professional craft
 to a hobby 'free' time occupation?

 There are two reasons why I suggest people on Netbehaviour learn to
 program using these resources. Neither is so they can get jobs as code
 monkeys.

 The first is so that they can get a feel for how code works. So they  
 can
 gain an insight into how the software they use every day, and that
 affects their entire lives, works. This is important for thinking
 critically and realistically about software.

 The second is so that they can use code as a tool to achieve their own
 ends using software, less constrained by the fixed affordances of
 applications and web sites. Data visualisation, digital humanities
 techniques and web scripting are all useful ways of doing things with
 software.

 What are the benefits from it when being outsourced and jobless?

 Software should not be an economic end in itself. It is a tool for
 achieving other ends. This is its benefit to artists and activists and
 academics, not that they might be able to make a living by writing  
 code
 for multinationals.

 The naivity - also expressed in this list - surrounding software
 practices is astonishing

 We don't leave culture to the culture industry or sex to the sex
 industry. We shouldn't leave software to the software industry.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Psychogeodata (3/3)

2011-12-31 Thread IR3ABF
hi Rob

thanks for these excellent series

best wishes for '2012' (TM)

Andreas

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On 31 dec. 2011, at 14:06, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:

 Blog post with picture, links and better formatting:
 
 http://robmyers.org/2011/12/31/psychogeodata-33/
 
 The examples of Psychogeodata given so far have used properties of the
 geodata graph and of street names to guide generation of Dérive. There
 are many more ways that Psychogeodata can be processed, some as simple
 as those already discussed, some much more complex.
 General Strategies
 
 There are some general strategies that most of the following techniques
 can be used as part of.
 
Joining the two highest or lowest examples of a particular measure.
 
Joining the longest run of the highest or lowest examples of a
 particular measure.
 
Joining a series of destination waypoints chosen using a particular
 measure.
 
 The paths constructed using these strategies can also be forced to be
 non-intersecting, and/or the waypoints re-ordered to find the shortest
 journey between them.
 Mathematics
 
 Other mathematical properties of graphs can produce interesting walks.
 The length of edges or ways can be used to find sequences of long or
 short distances.
 
 Machine learning techniques, such as clustering, can arrange nodes
 spatially or semantically.
 
 Simple left/right choices and fixed or varying degrees can create
 zig-zag or spiral paths for set distances or until the path self-intersects.
 Map Properties
 
 Find long or short street names or street names with the most or fewest
 words or syllables and find runs of them or use them as waypoints.
 
 Find all the street names on a particular theme (colours, saints' names,
 trees) and use them as waypoints to be joined in a walk.
 
 Streets that are particularly straight or crooked can be joined to
 create rough or smooth paths to follow.
 
 If height information can be added to the geodata graph, node elevation
 can be used as a property for routing. Join high and low points, flow
 downhill like water, or find the longest runs of valleys or ridges.
 
 Information about Named entities extracted from street, location and
 district names from services such as DBPedia or Freebase and used to
 connect them. Dates, historical locations, historical facts,
 biographical or scientific information and other properties are
 available from such services in a machine-readable form.
 
 Routing between peaks and troughs in sociological information such as
 population, demographics, crime occurrence, ploitical affiliation,
 property prices can produce a journey through the social landscape.
 Locations of Interest
 
 Points of interest in OpenStreetMap's data are represented by nodes
 tagged as historic, amenity, leisure, etc. . It is trivial to find
 these nodes to use as destinations for walks across the geodata graph.
 They can then be grouped and used as waypoints in a route that will
 visit every coffee shop in a town, or one of each kind of amenity in
 alphabetical order, in an open or closed path for example. Making a
 journey joining each location with a central base will produce a star shape.
 
 Places of worship (or former Woolworth stores can be used to find
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_line using linear regression or the
 techniques discussed below in Geometry and Computer Graphics.
 Semantics
 
 The words of poems or song lyrics (less stopwords), matched either
 directly or through hypernyms using Wordnet, can be searched for in
 street and location names to use as waypoints in a path. Likewise named
 entities extracted from stories, news items and historical accounts.
 
 More abstract narratives can be constructed using concepts from The
 Hero's Journey.
 
 Nodes found using any other technique can be grouped or sequenced
 semantically as waypoints using Wordnet hypernym matching.
 Isomorphism
 
 Renamed Tube maps, and journeys through one city navigated using a map
 of another, are examples of using isomorphism in Psychogeography.
 
 Entire city graphs are very unlikely to be isomorphic, and the routes
 between famous locations will contain only a few streets anyway, so
 sub-graphs are both easier and more useful for matching. Better
 geographic correlations between locations can be made by scoring
 possible matches using the lengths of ways and the angles of junctions.
 Match accuracy can be varied by changing the tolerances used when scoring.
 
 Simple isomorphism checking can be performed using The NetworkX
 library's functions . Projecting points from a subgraph onto a target
 graph then brute-force searching for matches by varying the matrix used
 in the projection and scoring each attempt based on how closely the
 points match . Or Isomorphisms can be bred using genetic algorithms,
 using degree of isomorphism as the fitness function and proposed
 subgraphs as the population.
 The Social Graph
 
 Another key contemporary application of graph theory is 

Re: [NetBehaviour] OOQ – Object-Oriented-Questions.

2011-12-30 Thread IR3ABF
What should object oriented philosophy be about in an age where the 
paradigmatic divide between object and subject is a long past station?

To me it appears to be a rather 'subjective' way to connect a 'popular' issue 
i.e. programming practices with a vague notion of 'philosophy' and should not 
be taken too seriously

Same goes for OOP as the 'only just' way to formalize current programming 
techniques as it is just a way among others to 'look' at a certain field of 
theoretical approaches to practical problems i.e. optimizing code, for we have 
had before 'lineair coding', heuristic coding(spaghetti) and other 'schools' of 
best practise

During my training as software engineer early 90ties different -commercialized 
and evangelized -methods were accentuated (RUP, Agile a.o.) wheras during my 
mathematics and informatics studies - late 70ties, beginning 80ties - more 
accent was given to 'result driven' approaches such as assembler/compiler 
techniques

Comparing these two, give rise to suspect that whatever is 'a la mode' gets the 
most attention and followers, complete with a course/certification industry to 
serve the corporate trendy attitude

I never figured out althought on what premisses these paradigma shift were 
grounded apart for the gain in 'time to market' and not in anyway based on 
scientifically based decisions

BTW have a look at my 'new' FB bashing program (written in js and php):

http://apps.facebook.com/whathef-/

(FB login required)

and have a look at the simple straightforward code, with a nice example of 
using recursion in js -

function vote(obj){
...
setTimeout(vote(obj), 200), raises/lowers the percentages automatically
...
}

whereas with the following simple php code snippet the program is able to track 
the ip nr's and eventually corresponding domains from every visitor/user:

fwrite($file,$REMOTE_ADDR)

Currently I am working to gather all the public available information about 
users/visitors to be logged using the 'Open Graph API' from FB, which by the 
way is heavily structured around a object oriented coding 'view'

In the making: a same kind of simple program to mess with the Dow 
Jones/Euronext indices, just for the fun of subverting extremely influential 
figures

Andreas Maria Jacobs
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w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl

On Dec 30, 2011, at 19:23, Pall Thayer pallt...@gmail.com wrote:

 There is no question in my mind that object oriented philosophy is
 borne from and related to notions of object oriented programming. If
 we accept that, then it's interesting to see yet another way in which
 computer programming and code-concepts are permeating our contemporary
 culture. However, I'm not quite sure I see the point. It looks like
 they're essentially taking age-old philosophical concepts and
 considerations and putting them in a new wrapper. If nothing else then
 perhaps it will make it easier for programmers to understand some
 philosophical concepts.
 
 On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Yann Le Guennec i...@x-arn.org wrote:
 very confusing...
 
 about the relation (or not) between Object Oriented Philosophy  Object
 Oriented Programming
 
 http://www.bogost.com/blog/objectoriented_p.shtml
 
 
 
 
 
 Le 30/12/2011 18:50, Rob Myers a écrit :
 On 30/12/11 17:10, Simon Biggs wrote:
 The programming dimension seems to be at the heart of the argument.
 
 There are various different versions of OOP:
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming
 
 In particular, multimethod-based OOP doesn't require that objects own or
 contain the actions that can be performed upon them:
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimethod
 
 And there are more modern programming paradigms than OOP:
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigms
 
 OOP is certainly still current in programming, but there are other
 programming paradigms that mesh better with the philosophy of
 mathematics at least.
 
 - Rob.
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On 30 dec. 2011, at 19:23, Pall Thayer pallt...@gmail.com wrote:

 There is no question in my mind that object oriented philosophy is
 borne from and related to notions of object oriented programming. If
 we accept that, then it's interesting to see yet another way in which
 computer programming and code-concepts are permeating our contemporary
 culture. However, I'm not quite sure I see the point. It 

Re: [NetBehaviour] fb bashing app [was: Object-Oriented-Questions]

2011-12-30 Thread IR3ABF
Hi Pall, James, Yann ( et al)

I just read some definitions of de-obfuscating code, and suddenly recognised 
that I am a very naive coder! -;)

But nevertheless still enjoying doing it, maybe because all that cryptic secret 
stuff is something not directly connected to coding 'an sich' but has more to 
do with protecting source/code in an environment where maliciousness is an 
apparently dominant practice

The 'evil doers' - spam, cialis, viagra etc - you pointed to in your link are 
more or less negative creatives, whereas I and - I think - a lot of others are 
just 'creatives'.

Then I wonder if a felt - or lived - 'naivity' will not - in the long term - 
survive as a 'positive' force contrary to the 'negative' forces of the 'spam' 
politics of 'the war on terror', built on a 'negative' and de/fensive 
philosophy, resulting in ... well obfuscating even our 'lived' environment, 
examplified by borders, fences, certificates, examination and more 'artificial' 
coded social and relational 'programs'

To critisize these phenomena one needs to able to both code and de/code these 
constructs and therefore step outside that same positive 'naivity'.

So to recap the comparision between OOPh and OOP can give insights in terrains 
not being connected at first sight, but when put in a broader context have more 
in common than we maybe want them to have, the 'contemporary' is yet so 
obfuscated that is a necessity to de/obfuscate it in a way directly connected 
to our societal 'existence' , which makes it a 'philosophical' issue par 
excellence!

Andreas
 
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On 30 dec. 2011, at 22:08, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote:

 On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:05:41 +
 James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote:
 
 BTW have a look at my 'new' FB bashing program (written in js and
 php):
 
 http://apps.facebook.com/whathef-/
 
 (FB login required)
 
 
 I'm really hesitant to try fb apps, I have a distrust of them... and
 the ones I've seen are really just excuses for inflicting more
 marketing shite at me...
 
 Btw, what does your fb app do?  If I knew perhaps I'd be more inclined
 to make an exception to my zero-tolerance of fb-apps policy :-)
 
 
 Besides which Firefox also says:
 This Connection is Untrusted You have asked Firefox to connect
 securely to nictoglobe.com, but we can't confirm that your connection
 is secure. blah blah blah.
 
 
 What Should I Do?
 
 
 James.
 
 
 Andreas Maria Jacobs
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 w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

2011-12-27 Thread IR3ABF
see also:

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/CIAcultCW.html



http://nictoglobe.com/new/query2.html?d=articlesf=finality

A.


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On 27 dec. 2011, at 14:28, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote:

 Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
 
 Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and 
 de Kooning in a cultural Cold War.
 
 For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it 
 is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American 
 modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, 
 Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in 
 the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it 
 acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract 
 Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
 
 The connection is improbable. This was a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, 
 when the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern 
 art - President Truman summed up the popular view when he said: If 
 that's art, then I'm a Hottentot. As for the artists themselves, many 
 were ex- com- munists barely acceptable in the America of the 
 McCarthyite era, and certainly not the sort of people normally likely to 
 receive US government backing.
 
 more...
 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
 
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[NetBehaviour] merry x-mas

2011-12-25 Thread IR3ABF
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from ancient times when coders made games for coders and gamers!

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[NetBehaviour] Merry x-mas

2011-12-25 Thread IR3ABF
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from ancient times when coders made games for coders and gamers!

Andreas

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Re: [NetBehaviour] draft letter to the bank

2011-12-22 Thread IR3ABF
Haa

reminds me of the fact that some insane European crisis mitigating financial 
vehicle (ECB ?) can borrow 500 biljard € for an interest of 1 %, wheras I have 
to pay 9.1 % for a lousy 7.500 € 

That is what I call injustice

Andreas 

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On 23 dec. 2011, at 03:47, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote:

 
 unsend
 
 
 
 On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:35:17 +
 James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote:
 
 
 Hi,
 
 On the 21st of November my current a/c balance went from £45.19 down
 to £0.82. The next day it was overdrawn by £16.08 and on that day I
 transferred £250 into the same a/c.
 
 I'll be generous and say I was overdrawn for one whole day, for which
 I'm being charged £0.28 interest - a small price to pay for being
 able to spend more money than I have I am sure.
 
 But let's contrast this with the interest I receive for your
 establishment holding 34 times the amount I borrowed for 30 times
 longer...
 
 £0.28 for £16 @ 1 day 
 
 versus
 
 £0.09 for £550 @ 30 days.
 
 How do you justify that to your customers without squirming on your
 seats like the smarmy filth you must be?
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

2011-12-19 Thread IR3ABF
Reading the PostScript link, I recall I once rewrote an Unix program - 
transcoding and recompiling it from C to C++ to be run on a Mac computer - 
capable of printing high quality lute tabulature and like to direct your (all) 
attention to the incredible fruitfull works of Donald Knuth on Tex / LaTex and 
much more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

thanks for the links!

Andreas


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 Program In PostScript!:
 
 http://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/direct.html
 
 
 Learn the command line!:
 
 http://learncodethehardway.org/cli/
 
 
 Make a homebrew 3D scanner!:
 
 http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/FabScan
 
 
 monb科学省:
 
 http://monbjp.tumblr.com/#13824587357
 
 
 Crafting a New Counterculture: The XFF Inside Scoop:
 
 https://queersingularity.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/crafting-a-new-counterculture-the-xff-inside-scoop/
 
 
 What could possibly go wrong with personal devices broadcasting your
 identity to everyone in range?:
 
 http://magnetu.com/
 
 
 What Is Security Culture?:
 
 http://destroycreateagitate.tumblr.com/post/13732044581
 
 
 The Crypto Project:
 
 https://crypto.is/
 
 
 Personal cloud computing:
 
 http://owncloud.org/
 
 
 Shannon's original essay on communication:
 
 http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf
 
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[NetBehaviour] New FB app

2011-12-15 Thread IR3ABF
hi all

please have a try with my new Facebook Application

http://apps.facebook.com/whathef-/

comments are welcome

enjoy!

Andreas Maria Jacobs

http://nictoglobe.com (Indepent Art Magazine since 1986)
http://burgerwaanzin.nl (La Resocialista Internacional)
http://nictoglobe.com/Cigarette-Girl (current artproject)

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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Politics of Digital Poetry

2011-12-11 Thread IR3ABF
in case you could not make it yesterday to amsterdam, the audio-part from the 
live performance is available at:

http://nictoglobe.com/AudioPerdu10122011/listen.m3u

Enjoy!

AA

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 The Politics of Digital Poetry 
 
 11 ways to escape the symbolic field
 
 1.   Destruction/Art in the 21st Century
 2.   Augury/Judith's Dream
 3.   Die Wahrheit/Definitions for Poets
 4.   Premonition/Sfinx
 5.   Subversion/Sins  Tears, an Elegy for a Lybian Clown
 6.   Community/Art (nouns)
 7.   Absolute/About me
 8.   Catastrophe/Are we real or a Fantasy
 9.   Architecture/Your kisses for a Cigarette
 10. Fluidal/Art is as
 11. Revolve/Artv(verbs)
 
 Setlist for 2nite's performance
 
 @perdu amsterdam 20:55 CEST
 
 see: http://perdu.nl (agenda)
 
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[NetBehaviour] The Politics of Digital Poetry

2011-12-10 Thread IR3ABF
The Politics of Digital Poetry 

11 ways to escape the symbolic field

1.   Destruction/Art in the 21st Century
2.   Augury/Judith's Dream
3.   Die Wahrheit/Definitions for Poets
4.   Premonition/Sfinx
5.   Subversion/Sins  Tears, an Elegy for a Lybian Clown
6.   Community/Art (nouns)
7.   Absolute/About me
8.   Catastrophe/Are we real or a Fantasy
9.   Architecture/Your kisses for a Cigarette
10. Fluidal/Art is as
11. Revolve/Artv(verbs)

Setlist for 2nite's performance

@perdu amsterdam 20:55 CEST

see: http://perdu.nl (agenda)

Andreas Maria Jacobs

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Re: [NetBehaviour] The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line.

2011-12-02 Thread IR3ABF

hi Marc and list

UK had its BBC Micro, while at the same time in continental Europe, Commodore 
introduced the famous VIC20, the *Volkscomputer* with about the same specs 
apart from its slower microprocessor, both equiped with the famous 6502 

the acronym i.e. ARM is somewhat misleading as it suggest an A(dvanced) 
R(educed instruction set) M(icroprocessor) which was certaintly not the case 
with the 6502, which had a huge set of ASM 6502 machine instructions as was the 
first commercially succesfull Apple IIe

I wonder how first generation programmers (like I did with the VIC 20) used the 
Acorn in The UK to create, well pieces of the practice formerly called art? I 
remember there was and there still is a lively demoscene using asm 6502 or 
derivates as language of choice

Would be nice to somehow showcase these early examples at -for instance- 
Furtherfield?

And to juxtapoint contentinental versus UK approaches and trying to point to a 
certain distinction between the two, as for instance: subject matter, technical 
point of view, art historical context, the role of BBC compared to educational 
programs from ZDF, NOS nl (which happened to broadcast 6502 code hidden in 
television transmission signal in the 1980ties), the role of influential 
technical publishers like Data Becker, Germany and finally the impact of the 
commercial take-over around 1989 by AOL et al US which gave rise to the 
mainstream popularity of Home Computers (PC's)

Just wondering

Best

Andreas


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On 2 dec. 2011, at 11:55, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote:

 The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line.
 
 The BBC has an article on the BBC Microcomputer, designed and 
 manufactured by Acorn Computers for the BBC's Computer Literacy project. 
 It is now 30 years since the first BBC Micro came out — a machine with a 
 2 MHz 6502 — remarkably fast for its day; the Commodore machines at the 
 time only ran at 1MHz. While most U.S. readers will never have heard of 
 the BBC Micro, the BBC's Computer Literacy project has had a huge impact 
 worldwide since the ARM (originally meaning 'Acorn Risc Machine') was 
 designed for the follow-on version of the BBC Micro, the Archimedes, 
 also sold under the BBC Microcomputer label by Acorn. The original ARM 
 CPU was specified in just over 800 lines of BBC BASIC. The ARM CPU now 
 outsells all other CPU architectures put together. The BBC Micro has 
 arguably been the most influential 8 bit computer the world had thanks 
 to its success creating the seed for the ARM, even if the 'Beeb' was not 
 well known outside of the UK.
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Read Marx’s “Capital” at Goldsmiths: everybody is welcome (unless your name is David Willetts)

2011-12-02 Thread IR3ABF
See also the project by Patrick Fontana et al:


http://fofana.free.fr/eng/menu.html


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On 2 dec. 2011, at 11:46, info i...@furtherfield.org wrote:

 Read Marx’s “Capital” at Goldsmiths: everybody is welcome (unless your 
 name is David Willetts)
 
 Capitalism and Cultural Studies – Prof John Hutnyk.
 http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/read-marxs-capital-at-goldsmiths-all-welcome/
 
 tuesday evenings from january 10, 2012 – 5pm-7pm Goldsmiths RHB 309 Free 
 – all welcome.
 
 No fee (unless, sorry, you are doing this for award - and that, friends, 
 is Willetts’ fault – though the Labour Party have a share of the blame too).
 
 
 This course involves a close reading of Karl Marx’s Capital (Volume One).
 
 The connections between cultural studies and critiques of capitalism are 
 considered in an interdisciplinary context (cinema studies, 
 anthropology, musicology, international relations, and philosophy) which 
 reaches from Marx through to Film Studies, from ethnographic approaches 
 to Heidegger, from anarchism and surrealism to German critical theory 
 and poststructuralism/post-colonialism/post-early-for-christmas. Topics 
 covered include: alienation, commodification, production, technology, 
 education, subsumption, anti-imperialism, anti-war movement and 
 complicity. Using a series of illustrative films (documentary and 
 fiction) and key theoretical texts (read alongside the text of Capital), 
 we examine contemporary capitalism as it shifts, changes, lurches 
 through its very late 20th and early 21st century manifestations – we 
 will look at how cultural studies copes with (or does not cope with) 
 class struggle, anti-colonialism, new subjectivities, cultural politics, 
 media, virtual and corporate worlds.
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line.

2011-12-02 Thread IR3ABF
hi 

I found three pieces produced with a VIC20 in my personal archive:

1: 4 = ANGST - La Vie Russe, 1987 an animation about the then new epidemic 
AIDS

http://burgerwaanzin.nl/vic20/4=angst.mp4

2: OOSTENRIJK, 1987 an animation about the troubled historical past of Austria

http://burgerwaanzin.nl/vic20/oostenrijk.mp4

3: SCHIZOFRAMES, 1987 balancing the border between sane and insane, an 
animation for a VIC20 computer and a cathode ray-tube television set

http://burgerwaanzin.nl/vic20/schizo.mp4

Animated lettering system written in ASM 6502 injected directly into 
memoryspace, recorded and played back with cassette tape, video recordings from 
old weared and teared Betamax recordings, my medium of choice from that days. 

NB Lack of affordable equipment gave rise to film these excerpts with a 
handheld samsung smartphone

best

Andreas


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On 2 dec. 2011, at 13:20, Simon Biggs si...@littlepig.org.uk wrote:

 The examples of practice formerly known as art, linked to below, were not 
 produced using a BBC as these machines were not readily available in 
 Australia. They predate the release of the BBC and Commodore 64 by a couple 
 of years. However, the machine used (a homebuilt S-100 based system with Z80 
 CPU) was a similar specification. These are stills from realtime animations, 
 initially written in hexadecimal, then machine code and latterly C. I have QT 
 versions and should upload them sometime. They are very crude but have a 
 certain charm indicative of their time and my naivety.
 
 http://www.littlepig.org.uk/videos/pieces79/pieces79.htm
 http://www.littlepig.org.uk/videos/pieces81/pieces81.htm
 http://www.littlepig.org.uk/videos/pieces82/pieces82.htm
 
 Anyway, although I wasn't a BBC user I would see myself as belonging to that 
 generation of practitioners who began engaging computers at the end of the 
 1970's and which would include the Altair, BBC, Commodore and other early PC 
 users. Thus, the 30 year anniversary for the BBC Micro has some resonance for 
 me.
 
 best
 
 Simon
 
 
 On 2 Dec 2011, at 11:38, IR3ABF wrote:
 
 
 hi Marc and list
 
 UK had its BBC Micro, while at the same time in continental Europe, 
 Commodore introduced the famous VIC20, the *Volkscomputer* with about the 
 same specs apart from its slower microprocessor, both equiped with the 
 famous 6502 
 
 the acronym i.e. ARM is somewhat misleading as it suggest an A(dvanced) 
 R(educed instruction set) M(icroprocessor) which was certaintly not the case 
 with the 6502, which had a huge set of ASM 6502 machine instructions as was 
 the first commercially succesfull Apple IIe
 
 I wonder how first generation programmers (like I did with the VIC 20) used 
 the Acorn in The UK to create, well pieces of the practice formerly called 
 art? I remember there was and there still is a lively demoscene using asm 
 6502 or derivates as language of choice
 
 Would be nice to somehow showcase these early examples at -for instance- 
 Furtherfield?
 
 And to juxtapoint contentinental versus UK approaches and trying to point to 
 a certain distinction between the two, as for instance: subject matter, 
 technical point of view, art historical context, the role of BBC compared to 
 educational programs from ZDF, NOS nl (which happened to broadcast 6502 code 
 hidden in television transmission signal in the 1980ties), the role of 
 influential technical publishers like Data Becker, Germany and finally the 
 impact of the commercial take-over around 1989 by AOL et al US which gave 
 rise to the mainstream popularity of Home Computers (PC's)
 
 Just wondering
 
 Best
 
 Andreas
 
 
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 On 2 dec. 2011, at 11:55, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote:
 
 The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line.
 
 The BBC has an article on the BBC Microcomputer, designed and 
 manufactured by Acorn Computers for the BBC's Computer Literacy project. 
 It is now 30 years since the first BBC Micro came out — a machine with a 
 2 MHz 6502 — remarkably fast for its day; the Commodore machines at the 
 time only ran at 1MHz. While most U.S. readers will never have heard of 
 the BBC Micro, the BBC's Computer Literacy project has had a huge impact 
 worldwide since the ARM (originally meaning 'Acorn Risc Machine') was 
 designed for the follow-on version of the BBC Micro, the Archimedes, 
 also sold under the BBC Microcomputer label by Acorn. The original ARM 
 CPU was specified in just over 800 lines of BBC BASIC. The ARM CPU now 
 outsells all other CPU architectures put together. The BBC Micro has 
 arguably been the most influential 8 bit computer the world had thanks 
 to its success creating the seed for the ARM, even if the 'Beeb' was not 
 well known outside of the UK.
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065
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[NetBehaviour] Nictoglobe Online Magazine Vol. 19 Issue #4 Fall 2011 Update

2011-12-01 Thread IR3ABF
new content:

Art: Asemic Robots by A.Andreas
http://nictoglobe.com/gallery

Reviews: Shirin Neshat, Fervor by Arelis Eleftherios
http://nictoglobe.com/reviews

Poetry: Ors Vibranter Wurld by A.Andreas
http://nictoglobe.com/poetry

Radio: Recordings from the Asemic Poetry evening at Perdu Amsterdam
http://nictoglobe.com/radio

Research: Reclaim the Mind with Fredrik de Wilde
http://nictoglobe.com/frictionresearch

Enjoy!

Andreas Maria Jacobs - Editor
nictoglobe online magazine

http://nictoglobe.com

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Re: [NetBehaviour] How art killed our cult your

2011-11-28 Thread IR3ABF
Andy Warhol did it!

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On 28 nov. 2011, at 11:43, Simon Mclennan mitjafash...@hotmail.com wrote:

 INNIT
 
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/mar/06/ 
 capitalism-culture-art-market?fb_action_ids=10150429824029057% 
 2C10150429823414057%2C324914130868477% 
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 Id9KRf-CFCONX01FRS-33jqhXXX%2CU-7rddXQYdJqXN45ZoId9KRf- 
 CFCONX01FRS-25pf5XXX%2CU-Q69RoubidQab43P9Im7Ujd-CFCONX01FRS-33t77XXX% 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] How art killed our cult your

2011-11-28 Thread IR3ABF
Seeing the destructiveness of pop-art and the hegemony of consumer led *dirty 
three letter word* markets makes me sick, and yes prefering to exile, to leave 
behind this worldy breakers of truth

should we take note of Kittler's words and accept that there *is* no *meaning* 
left?

50 years of post war development led to one conclusion:

society as a bounding construct to maintain and safeguard human relational 
existing *in* society has failed. 

What are the next steps to take not to fall in a sustained and prolonged 
digestion of defunct post-post-post paradigma's? Like stubornly holding to a 
democratic solution, when even the simplest 
demands will meet the huge barriers of corporate capital. When life is measured 
according to but only one rule: its profitibility. When sadness becomes a last 
resort, when inactivity leads to silent dead and silent erasures. Homeless, 
needless, wordless, meaningless. When positions are already taken before birth, 
when accounting is more valued than health, when the EMF is *legally* excluded 
from every eventual financial and societal responsibility

What is to be done? Chto delat?

AA

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On 28 nov. 2011, at 13:54, IR3ABF aj...@xs4all.nl wrote:

 Andy Warhol did it!
 
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 On 28 nov. 2011, at 11:43, Simon Mclennan mitjafash...@hotmail.com wrote:
 
 INNIT
 
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/mar/06/ 
 capitalism-culture-art-market?fb_action_ids=10150429824029057% 
 2C10150429823414057%2C324914130868477% 
 2C10150496240342049fb_action_types=news.readsfb_ref=U-7rddXQYdJqXN45Zo 
 Id9KRf-CFCONX01FRS-33jqhXXX%2CU-7rddXQYdJqXN45ZoId9KRf- 
 CFCONX01FRS-25pf5XXX%2CU-Q69RoubidQab43P9Im7Ujd-CFCONX01FRS-33t77XXX% 
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[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [New post] A Few Notes on the Eviction

2011-11-16 Thread IR3ABF


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 Date: 15 november 2011 21:25:34 GMT+01:00
 To: a.andr...@nictoglobe.com
 Subject: [New post] A Few Notes on the Eviction
 
 
 New post on chtodelat news
 
 
 A Few Notes on the Eviction
 by hecksinductionhour
 Derrick O'Keefe
 An open letter to 1 per cent: you cannot evict an idea whose time has come
 
 To the 1 per cent (you know who you are),
 
 I write to you, as a lowly ninety-nine percenter, to offer both my 
 congratulations and my condolences.
 
 First, my congratulations on sending in the NYPD to clear out Zuccotti Park 
 in the wee hours of the morning today. Congratulations for demonstrating, 
 with this cynically timed manoeuvre, that when push comes to shove the police 
 exist to serve and protect your vested interests. Congratulations on teaching 
 a new generation this painful but necessary lesson about the true function of 
 the police in a capitalist society. You deserve thanks for proving that when 
 consent falters you'll resort to force to maintain your hegemony -- liberal 
 democracy, when it is by and for the 1 per cent, must have its limits.
 
 Congratulations are also in order for the seamless way you have deployed your 
 media and your legal system against the Occupy encampments around North 
 America. From Oakland up to Vancouver, all the way over to Halifax and many 
 places in between, injunctions and smear campaigns have paved the way for 
 evictions. Congrats all around on the super job you've done reminding us of 
 the ultimate purpose of our society's superstructure.
 
 I also write, however, to offer my condolences. Because, for you, the sad 
 truth is that you can evict an encampment, but you cannot evict ideas whose 
 time has come.
 
 As it was with Cairo's Tahrir Square, I know that we, the 99 per cent, will 
 be back in New York's Liberty (Zuccotti) Park. And even if that takes some 
 time, I'm still sorry for you and your tiny minority, because you cannot 
 evict these ideas: they are simply too important, too long overdue, and too 
 big to fail.
 
 You cannot evict the idea -- at long last expressed in no uncertain terms -- 
 that you, the 1 per cent super-rich, have been getting away with crimes 
 against the people for far too long.
 
 You cannot evict the idea that the rich and the powerful are responsible for 
 the social and economic crisis we face.
 
 You cannot evict the idea that money must cease to dominate and corrupt 
 politics.
 
 You cannot evict the idea that everybody, all 100 per cent of us, deserves a 
 home, a permanent, safe and comfortable roof over their heads; this is an 
 idea that you cannot evict no matter in how many places you try to evict the 
 homeless who have joined our encampments. You cannot evict from sight and 
 from mind the social problems that your 1 per cent centric system has created 
 and perpetuated.
 
 You cannot evict the idea that the environmental crisis is driven by the 
 insatiable and irrational system of capital accumulation that you sit atop.
 
 You cannot evict the idea that the war machine is paid for with the blood and 
 treasure of the 99 per cent, and yet serves only your 1 per cent interests.
 
 You cannot evict the bonds of international solidarity that have already been 
 forged, with actions like the Egyptians' sharing lessons of struggle in New 
 York or the Boston Occupation of the Israeli consulate in solidarity with the 
 Freedom Waves flotilla to Gaza.
 
 You cannot evict this rebellion because it has become global, beginning in 
 Tunisia and spreading from there and picking up People Power and indignation 
 along the way.
 
 You cannot evict the joy we have all felt in joining a movement that has 
 finally spoken to class injustice, and to the exclusion of the 99 per cent 
 from power at all levels.
 
 You can clear out a park in the middle of the night, but you cannot evict 
 Occupy Wall Street, and you cannot evict this political moment and these 
 movements that have emerged.
 
 My condolences, again, to you the 1 per cent. Now that we've finally got 
 these ideas in our hearts and in our minds, you can never again evict the 99 
 per cent from political life and from the struggle to create a better society 
 and a better world.
 
 _
 
 
 
 
 
 _
 
 Glenn Greenwald
 A police raid suffused with symbolism
 November 15, 2011
 Salon.Com
 
 Following similar raids in St. Louis and Oakland, hordes of NYPD officers 
 this morning forcibly cleared Zuccotti Park in Manhattan of all protesters; 
 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took “credit” for this decision. That led to 
 this description of today’s events from an Occupy Wall Street media 
 spokesman, as reported by Salon‘s Justin Elliott:
 
 A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall 
 Street, ordered by a cold ruthless billionaire who bought his way into the 
 mayor’s office.
 
 If you think about it, that