nettime Regulation on Postcolonial Studies

2003-11-10 Thread Martin Hardie

Obviously the proposed regulation (details posted last week by Eduardo Navas) 
is part of a larger picture, in relation to the education sphere in the US 
recall the committeee of which Mrs Cheney forms a part concerning  
un-American academics, but it also reachers wider and further than that. 

I thought this Fisk article was of interest as it describes a wider circle of 
activities invloved in this tendency and it also shows that such tendencies 
in thre age of Empire are not confined to the US. As with many things we talk 
about here they are not purely US issues but gobal issues that take their own 
peculiar form throughout the globe (in this case as the Aussies will 
recognise Griener-peculiar). 

we should also take note of the way the late Edward Said is portayed as some 
sort of intellectual terrorist jamming America's intellectual radar 
...maybe thus allowing the gound to be laid for other darstardly (?) deads.

Anyway here is the start of the Fisk article and the link to the rest below 
it:

-- November 4, 2003

When Did Arab Become a Dirty Word?
Smearing Said and Hanan Ashrawi
By ROBERT FISK

Is Palestinian now just a dirty word? Or is Arab the dirty word? Let's 
start with the late Edward Said, the brilliant and passionate 
Palestinian-American academic who wrote--among many other books--Orientalism, 
the ground-breaking work which first explored our imperial Western fantasies 
about the Middle East. After he died of leukaemia last month, Zev Chafets 
sneered at him in the New York Daily News in the following words: As an 
Episcopalian, he's ineligible for the customary 72 virgins, but I wouldn't be 
surprised if he's honoured with a couple of female doctoral graduates.


According to Chafets, who (says the Post) spent 33 years in politics, 
government and journalism in Jerusalem, Orientalism rests on a simple 
thesis: Westerners are inherently unable to fairly judge, or even grasp, the 
Arab world. Said didn't blow up the Marines in Lebanon in 1983 ... he 
certainly didn't fly a plane into the World Trade Centre. What he did was to 
jam America's intellectual radar.

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk11042003.html
   
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Re: nettime WSJ: Can Copyright Be Saved?

2003-11-10 Thread Heiko Recktenwald

Well, to correct myself, things are complicated ;-)
As much as I hate DRM, yesterday, I saw something in the german Bild
Zeitung, well, thats what many people read, an interesting piece of shit
or literature, something to read, food for the eyes, not really a
newspaper, something else, and they announced a pay per view solution of
cinema, developped by german telecom. Why not? I asked myself. There is
no privat copying possible, but if you go into a cinema, you would not copy
the movie too. You have no right to do so too.

The DRM problem has many sides, maybe the price is something that solves
things. DVDs should be copyed, well, thats a thing, a truc, like a record,
but it is more expensiv than pay per view.

H.

 Copyright nd DRM are two completely different things anyway. Copyright is
 something human, a social something, DRM is technic. Copyright has
 exeptions and an end, DRM not. DRM kills copyright as a social thing, DRM
 is just tyranny. The main point is: You cannot obey the law if you cant
 break it, if you cant break it, thats DRM, the law just disappears.

 It is a strange optic to say the digital times kill copyright. They have
 made copying just easier. A lot of people used Napster etc, but not all.

 And so on. Nothing against creative commons, it is just another use of
 copyright.


 H.

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