Re: Use of Computers in Preschools
I recently read "The Flickering Mind" by Todd Oppenheimer which is an excellent antidote to the kind of thinking that puts a computer into every classroom, and I remember reading something by Theodore Roszak many years ago which had a similar thrust (I can't remember the name of that one). The biggest problem with computers in schools is that there are very few teachers who know enough about computers and their limitations to use them effectively as an educational tool. Instead, the kids learn how to use the latest-but-one version of Word, and mostly use the computers to play games and surf for porn. In the rare cases where computers are used effectively, they can be a useful (but not indespensible) tool, but generally teachers are too overworked to have the time or the energy to work out how to do this. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: Libre Commons = Libre Culture + Radical Democracy
You argue against the supposed moralism and apoliticism of the Free Software movement, but your own agenda is nothing but moralist and apolitical itself: > >1. This work is outside of all legal jurisdictions and takes its This is an romantic apolitical position because such a space "outside of all legal jurisdictions" does not exist. Wake up and get a life. -F -- http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70 gopher://cramer.plaintext.cc # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
performance text, Sarah Lawrence, 12/08/05
performance text, Sarah Lawrence, 12/08/05 i is cold here are you is cold. arrgh. should there be rhyme? this is close to the apocalypse. it's daytime in iraq. the 9/11 commission: "we fail." this is live. "this is memorex." it's i'm not sure what time in pakistan. winter's coming in. winter's coming into thailand isn't it? perhaps thailand is in south america. i don't know. something happened there and a lot of people died. these images... sometime after abu gharayb i began dreaming of torn bodies. no that's not true, it happened a lot earlier, but abu gharayb confirmed things, that the united states was as capable of as much slaughter as any fascist country, thank you condaleeza. however you spel your nam. when you take a program and run it to its limits, you get these figures. the program tries to makesense of the files just as i try to make sense of the world but the world is going much too fast. every time i wake iin the middle of the night my entire life flies before my eyes. or rather i hear it before or within my ears. it's fast and furious. it's mapped everywhere. when i showed this work recently someone said it was just likie bush torturing people. i walked ou on him and almost came to blows but i avoided blows later someone else said i was closer to the apocalypse than anyone he knew. how close can you get to the apocalypse? answer: 1.3 yards. we are learning new ways to march which is all to the better. imitation is the best policy in guiding our young people in their future choise of carerrs. what is surprising is that one wants to write anything these days. given the world-wide slaughter going on, it's hard to concentrate on a proper metaphor, what would work in a reading/writing, what wouldn't. even sending these images to the sky, absolutely a failure in the guise of someone on the ground just shot or blown up in iraq or on the streets of new york city. i just can't get enough of drumming. maybe if it wasn't so cold i'd be better able to think. welll i was away a few days ago and sat at harriet beecher stowe's desk where she wrote uncle tom's cabin so i sat at the desk and wrote to my uncle hymie. this is the wolf at the door. after the bombing of the world trade center. shot obviouslly in the 'bathtub area' of the ruins. well i'd write some lyric poetry but my uncle adorno said i wasn't allowed to after auschwitz. well, i don't know whether i can agree with him or not but at least at this point i've forgotten how to rhyme. this is gerald edelman at a recent conference explaining how the brain works. well, i was jealous and all i could do was destroy his speech. heres an island for you. its reallly oil derricks off of long beach in california. people live out there. you could swim out to the derricks and the water is clean. or at least i think it is. gary came to the door at 3am and said the water main broke and we went out and filmed it as the water went throgh the subway system and flooded through the cracks in the street. now... you might not noticve it, but this war, these wars, now they're continuous, there's no break, in war/terrorism/disease, whatever your pleasure, but these wars, they're really about the body, they're econsconsed in the body, i think that's not the way it's spelled, all this torture, lydnie englang posing with capitves all these signals, secret signs, the beheadings, if nothing else, you might want to watch one... on the internet, they're there, show you what's going on, someone else was killed, how? , today, bodies are turned into substance, that's the way apocaypse works - these were produced in west virginia, near ground zero of abu gharayb - i've tried god kknows i've tried to make sense of the world! i'm doing it at the moment it's impossible, too many things, what you're hearing now, this isn't the nuclear family, these are sounds... emissions.. from auroras, lightning, cosmic rays, magnetic storms, sunspots, the fury of the universe picked up by these antennas, now you hear the family now you don't. in any case, as you know, ahem, sexuality has increased on television something like two hundred percent since 1750!!! what a waste. iin fact, there were very few instances of intercourse or other naughty bits during the whole nineteenth century... it wasn't for lack of trying, certainly high definition came in around 1830 buit the studios were slow... on trying to decide what exactly to show... it's ot silent, it's music for your ears i always love this one, it's west virginia at it's best, this kid can do this and it cn be heard for mielles, or at least into the other room - now here's a poe.m someone called me a poet recently and i almost killed him. what's a poet? if we're not working at the edge of things are we doing anything at all? this is all my visual work for the past twelve years, i wanted to present something to you showing hmmm... my entire oeuvre, i hope you're not disappointed, it's really the only way... to guage the life of an artist,
Re: Libre Commons = Libre Culture + Radical Democracy
Florian, Many thanks for your careful and thoughtful reply. On 8 Dec 2005, at 15:21, Florian Cramer wrote: > You argue against the supposed moralism and apoliticism of the Free > Software movement, but your own agenda is nothing but moralist and > apolitical itself: The nature of moral and apolitical arguments is to deny that these issues are open for political contestation. As we clearly and forcefully argue in the paper, we welcome political contestation of our work, indeed we make only a *political* justification for our position. Namely, it is on the basis of political praxis and not subject to a foundationalist claim to some kind of transcendental morality. As we point out repeatedly across the paper, the problem with moralistic claims is that they attempt to silence criticism with an attempt to define what is 'good' or 'evil'. Clearly, the evil is something beyond debate and cannot be the basis of discussion, thereby neatly silencing critics and alternative positions. In the case of apolitical claims, there is a similar process at work whereby the 'sensible', 'rational' or 'common-sense' is privileged and the Other (i.e. as political/moral/evil/irrational) and is excluded. >>> 1. This work is outside of all legal jurisdictions and takes its > > This is an romantic apolitical position because such a space > "outside of > all legal jurisdictions" does not exist. Wake up and get a life. > Clearly, we can imagine such a space as existing and therefore there is the possibility of rethinking spaces in terms of a political imaginary. To think only in terms of what currently exists is somewhat limiting and naturalises what is, in any event, a contingent reality. Incidentally, you may be interested to know that law requires a state to enforce it, and, to the best of my knowledge, we so not *yet* have a global state, and consequently the spaces between nation states (such as the high seas) are not subject to law as such (rather international treaties which attempt to govern these ungovernable spaces). You may well agree with Hardt & Negri that the rise of Empire is the rise of a global system of law, indeed some argue that Intellectual Property Law is the first such truly global system of law (though Maskus 2000, points out that it is still patchy and unequal). We feel that we are not yet in the grip of a completed hegemonic project surrounding us (i.e. as Empire), but do not preclude a rapidly changing global system is in evidence before us. In any case, you might note that we awoke from our dogmatic slumbers many years ago. Best regards David > -F > > -- > http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70 > gopher://cramer.plaintext.cc # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
FW: [IP] How planespotters turned into the scourge of the CIA
Note the role of the website www.airliners.net in all this! MG From: Brian Randell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: December 10, 2005 5:43:22 AM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How planespotters (+ the WWW) turned into the scourge of the CIA Dave: I don't know how fully the story of the information-gathering role played by plane spotters in the mounting controversy here in Europe about the CIA and "rendition" has featured in the US media, but in case it hasn't, you might want this for IP. Cheers Brian =3D=3D=3D=3D From the (UK) Guardian newspaper: How planespotters turned into the scourge of the CIA Gerard Seenan and Giles Tremlett Saturday December 10, 2005 The Guardian Paul last saw the Gulfstream V about 18 months ago. He comes down to Glasgow airport's planespotters' club most days. He had not seen the plane before so he marked the serial number down in his book. At the time, he did not think there was anything unusual about the Gulfstream being ushered to a stand away from public view, one that could not be seen from the airport terminal or the club's prime view. But that flight this week was at the centre of a transatlantic row that saw the prime minister being put on the spot on the floor of the House of Commons and the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, forced on the defensive during a visit to Europe. The Gulfstream V has been identified as having been used by the CIA for "extraordinary renditions" - abducting terror suspects and taking them to secret prisons around the world where they may be tortured. The recording of flights by spotters like Paul from places as far afield as Bournemouth and Karachi has unintentionally played a significant role in helping journalists and human rights groups expose the scale of the CIA's renditions system. But his impact on such international intrigue largely passes Paul by. "It's not the CIA bit that interests us. You don't even know who owns the plane when you take down the serial number," he said, already distracted as something comes in to land through the grey drizzle. "You keep accurate logs, for your own records." . . . Despite the particular eccentricity of planespotting - and the obvious capacity for fun-poking - it is not a pastime limited to Britain. In Spain town planner Josep Manchado is part of a small group who gather with their long lenses and foil-wrapped sandwiches at Majorca's Son Sant Joan airport. In January last year Mr Manchado saw a Boeing 737 on the airport tarmac. He pressed his camera shutter button while speculating idly that some US millionaire was in town. Then he put the picture of the Boeing (tail fin number N313P) on airliners.net, and forgot about it. Within a few days Mr Manchado starting getting strange calls and emails. They came from the US and from Sweden. "People were asking me questions about the plane. They obviously weren't all planespotters because they were asking questions that people who know about planes don't ask," he said. Activists and journalists had become interested in the rendition flights. There were also, however, strange calls. "One man wanted to buy up all the photos. He eventually sent me a form in which he asked for everything, including my home address. I didn't give it to him and I never heard from him again," he said. . . . For those prepared to sift through the endless information complied by planespotters and posted on websites, there are many more clues to the CIA's activities to be found. In Ireland peace campaigners have turned themselves into planespotters. At Shannon airport Tim Hourigan uses a scanner that allows him to see what air traffic control sees, and he, and other activists, religiously note down the numbers of landing planes. Then, using a combination of Federal Airport Authority Records and planespotting websites, they can track the movements of intelligence planes across the world. "It is a tedious job looking through hundreds of pictures of planes," says Mr Hourigan, who is not a planespotting enthusiast. "But it allows you to confirm and expose the activities of the CIA and our own government." . . . Full story at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/ 0,7369,1664146,00.html -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL =3D [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE =3D +44 191 222 7923 FAX =3D +44 191 222 8232 URL =3D = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ - You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=3Dip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ - End forwarded message - # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg bod
Fwd: [faces] Copyright in France : petition against new law coming soon
D=E9but du message r=E9exp=E9di=E9 :
> De: saij netart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 7 d=E9cembre 2005 21:43:42 GMT+01:00
> =C0: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet: [faces] Copyright in France : petition against new law coming=20=
> soon
>
> Hi Faces,
>
> Sorry for crossposting.
>
> Here the link (in english) giving some information about the new law=20=
> concerning
> the copyright in France :
> http://eucd.info/index.php?English-readers
>
> Even if not directly said, the result will be to threaten the=20
> free/open source softwares
> and movement. Consequently the diffusion and sharing of culture and=20
> knowledge
> will be drastically reduced.
> It will be great to have the support of all the artists involved in=20
> the "free" culture :
> open source programmers, copyleft and creative commons activists,...
> Just sign the petition, click on the banner :
> "signez et faites signer la petition eucd.info"
> then click on :
> "signer la petition"
> and give :
> your name : "nom"
> first name : "prenom"
> information like activity, town or country : "informations=20
> compl=E9mentaires" (optional)
> email adress : "adresse electronique"
> Send the message : ">>signer<<"
> you will get a message back for confirmation ("demande de=20
> confirmation")
> just click on the link.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Isabel Saij
> Copyleft activist
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