commonsphere / CC in the world
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Re: A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)
One night on the road when the campground at lovely Morro Rock near San Luis Obispo was full, I found myself in an odd, impersonal sort of campsite a few miles further down the interstate, where to my surprise (and I don't really know what must have gone through my French companion's mind) we were awakened in the middle of the night by gunshots, explosions, the ra-tat-tat and boom-boom-boom of warfare in peaceful 1990s California. Now at last I know exactly where this came from. Though I obviously had immediately figured out that these were army exercises, or at least, after the first few minutes! Michael H Goldhaber wrote: > "Three small buildings"! A joke! The danger is that these nitwits will > take their wargames there to be a realistic exercise and plunge the > world into future Iraqs. We only aid that by taking this seriously. Unfortunately those nitwits do take their games seriously and they have a lot of help from the Israelis after the invasions of Jenine and Nablus -- I watched videos gathered by Eyal Weisman where an Israeli officer explained, in a kind of Derridean way, that everything has to do with how you interpret a city. You can interpret the walls, for instance, as solid, or as permeable- In Nablus they intererpreted them as permeable, bored systematically through them, and were able to attack and destroy the Palestinian resistance from behind. They seem to have applied a swarming doctrine, gathering around the city, pulsing inward, retreating, and then pulsing again from other directions. It is a commonplace to say that the Israelis have replaced the British as the chief purveyors of urban battle strategy, but I wonder if anyone on the list has good bibliography on that subject. best, Brian # 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
Continental Drift
supranational regions engulf ever-larger populations and the passage of shifting borders becomes an ever-more common activity, geopolitics is increasingly experienced in the flesh and in the imaginary. I think it can be very interesting, and even practically useful, to develop a way to interpret artworks and artistic-activist interventions so as to highlight the forms taken by the geopolitical imaginary in daily life. Going further, one could hope to approach the "diagrammatic" level where the cartography of sensation is reconfigured through experimentation. Because of the transverse nature of world flows, it is possible to draw on the experiences of far-away acts of resistance in the midst of one's own confrontations with power, both in its brute objective forms, and in its subtle interiorizations. The relation between the Argentine pot-banging cazerolazos and the almost continuous urban mobilizations in Spain, from Febuary 15 2003 to the ouster of the mendacious and power-hungry Aznar government in March of last year, is a large-scale example of what I'm talking about. To sense the dynamics of resistance and creation across the interlinked world space is a necessary part of the formation of solidarities and modes of cooperation that have slowly been emerging since the late 1990s. I am personally trying to reach this diagrammatic level in my critical writing, but it's essentially useless if it remains just the production of an individual. The reason for attempting a networked seminar is to seek out the capillary extension, multiplication and reciprocal transformation of these kinds of interpretations, which necessarily focus on the danger zones of all kinds of transitions in the contemporary social structure: the threshold-experiences of border crossing, of assimilation or acculturation to the imperial order, of commodification of self and other, of regionalization and absorption into massive bureaucracies, of militarization and subjection to brutal authority. At the same time as it is urgent to develop a pragmatic and precise map of the way these technopolitical transformations are implemented, it is also urgent to develop a more fluid and improvisational culture of persuasive and sane response, in order to contribute to the periods of short-term massive civil disobedience and long-term micro- and macro constructive effort that undoubtedly lie ahead, for all those who do not just want to cynically or masochistically submit to the process of capitalism swallowing its own tail - that is, all of us. These are heady declarations, and I guess I sould excuse myself for being so immodest as to basically say what I think and feel. Somehow the mask came off when the hurricane hit New Orleans. In the face of the social and ecological crises that unlimited capitalism creates, and refuses to see (in the wide world, only the Bush administration now refuses to acknowledge the scientific evidence of global warming), the only response is to send in the troops to protect property and restore order. Next we will see the plans for an entrepreneurial reconstruction of the city, similar to the mercenary reconstruction of Iraq. Everything is coming to a head, but the long-term consequences of neglect and a misguided, power-seeking approach to world problems will never be dissipated by any single crisis. I really think it is time for people everywhere to begin reconstructing an ability to understand the dangers of the moment from below, and to impose much saner forms of conduct on our governments. Otherwise the only shake-out from all this can be further and more destructive war. On that the lessons of history are all too clear. There is no more time to be blase about it. One of the forms of a positive social power is to argue clearly, persuasively and publicly with those who think that tomorrow can just be business as usual, and therefore would foreclose any serious critical discussions about what's going wrong today. And that's as true in Europe or Latin America as it is in the USA. Anyway, I would certainly appreciate any comments or responses to the texts I have indicated above, and anyone who wants to participate in the further development of the seminars is welcome. best to all, Brian Holmes # 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: Continental Drift
Hello Joseph - Thanks for such an interesting comment. The referendum on the EU constitution was a turning point, definitely. I found myself in disagreement with the majority of my colleagues in the journal Multitudes, not so much because they voted yes, but because even when the victory of the non was clear, they never saw its political potential. Constitution or not, I am really uncertain whether the present balance of powers in the EU can produce a democratic alternative, and not just a new parliamentary vei l over the deals that power cuts with business. The point is to have stron ger transnational social movements and a more informed, critical public opinio n when the next crisis comes. Meanwhile, I am tempted to say, anything can happen in a French election. .. Like, if the electorate on the right were to grow disgusted enough with th e UMP, you could have Bove versus Le Pen in the first round. In which case Bove would win. But that's about the only winning scenario. Remember, it took Lula four tries and then, as you say, they got what they got, i.e. not much except what looks like the end of the fabulous adventure of the PT. The interesting thing, to my mind, is that we could be at the outset of a new adventure in France: a long-term mobilization on the Left outside the umbrella of the socialists. Many people on the further Left are very bit ter about participating in the Socialists' failure to go beyond a kind of self-defeating reformism which is undone by the next "alternance." The question is not so much whether we could have Bove for President. The question is how to take a highly active and fairly large minority and make it effective, not just at a specific moment where something can be blocked , but over the middle and long term where specific policy options can be durably cut off and others put in motion, at both the national and European levels. I'm not exactly talking about activism here. If I just allow myself to imagine what could produce a real effect, it would be broadly interconnected transnational network of locally well-established groups, highly informed, semi-disciplined but not bound in a hierarchy where the only option is obey or exit, willing and able to support each other across national boundaries but also able to move decisively within them, capable both of acting on conscience and of arguing scientifically, and fully understanding that their force is not yet to be a majority, not yet to be a presidential party, but rather to develop an analysis and a mode of organization that can really do something over the long haul - rather than caving in immediately, Lula-esque, when some figurehead finds him or herself isolated at the top, without the knowledge and agency to intervene , unable to stand up decisively against the class power of the corporations and their CEOs, owners, government allies and private beneficiaries, who together constitute the real antagonist, the one whose name we so rarely pronounce. This kind of network has begun to exist, but what it can do is still uncertain. That said, as far as I can see, there is still something very positive about the kind of "telluric shocks" you mention, which in a way the no vot e already was, since it sent out the powerful signal that miserable wasn't enough, that a certain number of people were no longer willing to accept a deeply flawed social order just because it could be worse. The question is, how to produce such a shock on a fully European level, and then translate it into effective politics3F Apparently some of my colleagues would say: that was already done, by Genoa, September 11, February 15, the specter an d then reality of a second Bush administration; and the political translatio n was the larger scope of parliamentary powers offered by the EU constitution. But they are wrong, because what the demographics of the French vote showed is that those gain the material privileges of the EU vote for it; while those who don't vote massively against it. Until ther e is a way for intellectuals to build real alliances with those on the bottom, without becoming national-consumerist in the bargain, the Left is a joke. The work is really ahead of us. best, Brian # 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
The Scandal of the Word "Class"
udgets. Such a transformation, which has clearly become urgent, would require reinforcement from every direction ? including art and culture. The situation is not so dissimilar in many European countries. To generate the resolve needed to form cross-class alliances and to seriously oppose the agenda that now traverses both sides of the mainstream political spectrum, would middle- class cultural producers and "symbolic analysts" (to use Robert Reich's phrase) not have to give up every kind of tacit complicity with the corporate program? But could they gain the strength to do this by denying key issues that emerged in the 1960s, and attempting instead to reconfigure an address to working classes that have been so extensively targeted by a reactionary nationalist rhetoric? The other major cultural issue that arises from consideration of the ways that neoliberal theory translates into popular common sense has to do with the emergence of the neoconservative position, first in the US, but now with an increasing carry-over into Europe, via the repressive strategies of figures such as Blair, Sarkozy, etc. Here, Harvey follows Polanyi in suggesting that neoliberalism ? the contemporary form of Polanyi's "laissez-faire economics" ? can only resort to authoritarianism, once its own reduction of all human relationships to contracts has definitively undermined the solidarities and reciprocities that make social life viable. Neoconservativism, he notes, "has reshaped neoliberal practice in two fundamental respects: first, in its concern for order as an answer to the chaos of individual interests, and second, in its concern for an overweening morality as the necessary social glue to keep the body politic secure in the face of internal and external dangers The neoconservatives therefore emphasize militarization as an answer to the chaos of individual interests" (p. 82). It goes without saying that they make an equally strong appeal to religion, to ethnic or even racial identity and indeed to nationalism (which in most countries, for the time being, is still distinct from militarization). How can these appeals be countered? What kinds of beliefs and daily practices ? or "structures of feeling," as Raymond Williams might have said ? can achieve greater persuasive force than the recourse to traditional values, with all the emotion and adherence they can so readily evoke? The substance of belief, or better, the sources of shared conviction, emerges as the ultimate political question. Early on in his precise and powerful book, Harvey points out how "common sense" can be "profoundly misleading, obfuscating or disguising real problems under cultural prejudices." He goes on to quote Gramsci's conclusion that "political questions become 'insoluble' when 'disguised as cultural ones'" (p. 39). This was already the position he had adopted in The Condition of Postmodernity, in 1990. His latest study, imbued both with the urgency of looming crisis and with the renewed strength of the oppositional movements that have gathered since that time, goes a good deal further in marshaling the arguments that can convince even the most reticent reader that what we have seen in the last three decades is effectively a restoration of upper- class power, which now demands a concerted response. How can those arguments be translated into what he calls "good sense" ? that is, a reasoned and deeply felt conviction that a more egalitarian and less drastically exploitative way of organizing social relations is both possible and necessary? What transformation in the common language would be required to bring a word like "class" back to the lips of those who have been so concretely disempowered by the upper classes? In its Greek etymology, the word "scandal" designates a stumbling block, a hidden stone on the path before you. Later it came to mean an offense to religion by the reprehensible behavior of a cleric, before taking on the modern sense of a revelation causing damage to a private reputation. Today's secular clerks ? who don't call themselves intellectuals anymore, but often prefer the name of cultural producers ? have become ashamed to use the word "class" in conversation with those who, like them, occupy the uncertain middle ranks of society, and wish neither to fall into necessity, nor to be tripped up on a possible path to comfort and ease. But the disproportionate power of those in the highest ranks now appears as a radical offense to any belief in a viable future on the shared ground of this planet. For all the precision and power of its arguments, David Harvey's book may not yet have invented the complex cultural and affective languages ? or the renewed understandings of Polanyi's notion of "freedom in a complex society" ? that could help entire populations forge broad alliances against the nakedly clear effects of ruling-class power, in the world of Halliburton, BP, Fidelity Investments, Elf-Total-Fina, Bill Gates, Siemens, Baron Seilli?res, Carlos Slim, Bloomberg's, Union des Banques Suisses, Telefonica, and all the other proper names that have gradually found their place on our mental maps. But this succinctly written book affirms ? with scandalous good sense ? the intensifying need and desire for that new tongue. # 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: 12th night
Thanks, Brian. I've been sitting out this whole thing in Switzerland, having and recovering from an eye operation. It's a relief to get a report from you on the spot. The debate, such at it is, has an excluded middle so large as to swallow up rational thought. The organized left has nothing to say. The weak economy has added to the hopeless misery of the kids on the estates. We all know that the public sector has to be reformed. Here the iconic case is the bankrupt Corsica ferry and its featherbedded union. How can the case against the right and neoliberalism be made, if this issue can't be discussed from the left? Sarkozy, apart from inflaming everyone with his use of street language, is the only politician proposing to shake up the job market with a view to making more room for outsiders. But it's too confusing to consider his populism as a distinctive response to neoliberalism and not just the thing itself. And even the French press, not just the self-congratulatory Brits with their smug multi-culturalism, are talking about the end of the republican ideal, as if it can't be distinguished from the nationalism and racism tha= t actually undermines equal citizenship. It's one thing to vote 'no' in an EU referendum, quite another to tackle what stands in the way of a viable social democracy for France. After living in Paris for almost a decade, I have come to cherish the palpable existence of a 'public', of the public thing, res publica, that everyone belongs to and can contest the politicians' claim to own. I knew something like it when I grew up in Manchester after the war and I thought it had gone for ever. I would like to see a real debate about how such a social vision might be affirmed while responding to the deep causes of the riots. But I am not holding my breath. Keith # 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: Diminishing Freedoms
e point where I've deliberately gone back to translating, to make sure that I'm not tempted to write texts or do talks just for the payoff at the end. It's easy to get confused in a great big media machine that is also made (or at lest functions) to produce confusion. But what's mainly lacking, from my viewpoint, are not only audacious direct action stunts, and not only (though this is of course more important) forms of political engagement that can reach huge numbers of participants and give them an effective way to help change society. What's also missing are artworks that cut through the trendy flaky fashions, and go beyond the old modernist definitions of art for art's sake, to touch the core of the human quandry and help you transform your self and your relation to the others, at a moment when things go on getting worse and worse and worse. Garcia quotes Terry Eagleton to talk about how the women's movements totally changed politics, by making what appear as cultural issues inseparable from the economic ones. He could have drawn his examples (and probably would have, if he'd been here) from the 6th World Social Forum in Caracas, where you could see and hear and feel, in almost every talk and study session and activist planning round, that the old ways of doing politics have changed. Particularly, but not only, by the fact that women and indigenous people are participating everywhere, and often taking the most prominent roles. I did not see much cutting edge art at the social forum, certainly not in the concentrated forms that derive from the western tradition. But a strong point of the forum for me was the way that it put forth the irreducible presence of a plurality of cosmovisions. Yes, that's they say. And you could hear it, you could feel it. At one point, Maya and Qechua women completed a ceremony on stage in the context of a panel which was refusing the patenting of women's knowledge. In the Q and A that followed, one of the women said more or less this: "Our god is not up above in the sky. Our god is in the earth. It is in us. It is us." I had a kind of insight at that point, or maybe something I had learned from deconstruction finally made tangible sense to me. I realized that the whole Christian recovery and reinterpretation of Platonic idealism was inseparable from abstract, Cartesian, metaphysical, alienating representation. The spectacle society. The military surveillance grid. And I realized that what we were involved with was not that kind of representation. But there I go again talking again, spouting off. Who wants to make me feel guilty about it? While those women were performing their ritual, there was a TV cameraman crowding on the stage. It was so annoying, this guy crowding in on our intimacy. And then I remembered that this was being broadcast by the Bolivarian TV stations. The revolutionary TV stations. Like Catia TV, where I saw a fantastic montage-analysis of the way that the commercial TV channels had sought throughout the late nineties and early years of this decade to impose a reactionary reading on crucial events in the streets that have led, each time, to the continuation of the revolutionary project here in Venezuela. What you could see in action, on broadcast TV, was a critical and transformative kind of mass representation. At one point, on broadcast TV, they were showing an interview of an Italian guy from Telestreet, talking about the urgent situation in Italy where Berlusconi controls all the broadcast media. I like art. I like activism. While hanging out in Caracas, I would sift through my mail in cybercafes, like all the gringos and all the latinos. I get so many ads for high-class art and pseudo activist events put on by the European social democratic institutions. One mail said: Art's good for nothing, that's its whole necessity. The hackneyed French academic modernist version of elite vanguard art. Another mail said: If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution. The happy-go-lucky disco Dutch populist version of activist cooptation. I admit it, at times I feel impatient and even angry about all that schlock. Philistinism? Well, sometimes I also just feel very very bored. best, Brian # 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
IMAGES OF FIRE
nt veins of welfare-state capitalism, which is still massively Fordist, despite everything about the factory system that has ended in failure. So now I want to suggest a kind of thought experiment. Next time you see images of fire, with smashed schools, burning cars, and confrontations with the cops, think about all that's behind them, and try asking a few questions. What would it take for every group of people, with their faces, their problems, their qualities, their locations, to become visible to each other in a society that wasn't sealed off into hermetic zones and dead-end streets? What sort of education could be an entirely liberating experience, that gives direct access to tools you can use? What kinds of mobility can be built into the urban fabric, and how do people find their paths through a society that has become radically unequal? Finally, what confrontations could be staged with the outdated forms of the state, that wouldn't always bring us face to face with the eternal return of the police? If it becomes possible to see the images of fire in this way, as a blazing language of unanswered questions, then maybe, just maybe, Bouna Traore and Zyed Benna won't be dead for nothing ? "mort pour rien," the words you could read on the tee-shirts, as the witnesses walked silently through the city of Clichy-sous-Bois on Saturday the 29th of October, 2005. last image: http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/edt/ill/2005/11/02/h_4_ill_705884_par443783.j pg Brian Holmes - www.u-tangente.org # 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: Up Close and Impersonal
Thanks for the Zizek review, Ed. Your idea of passionate impersonality made me think. Max Weber has these two great essays on politics as a vocation and science as a vocation. Politics is about passion and the power it mobilizes, but a good politician has to be reasonable too or he is unconvincing. Similarly science is about reason, but the best sceintists are always enthusiasts. And so it goes, politics and the intellectual life, passion and reason in their eternal dance. The game is to combine them in idiosyncratic ways. Foucault is the master of the genre, as you say. I love his writing, but I have never been able to use it explicitly, until the other day I gave a talk in Bologna and this guy said he knew it would offend me, but I was doing a Foucault. I almost kissed him. I have struggled to liberate myself from internalized structures (which I think of as 'the state') mainly through oral performance and by trying out non-academic genres of writing. But it is all relative. Your response to Ziz's version of the dialectic brought all that to life for me. I was trying to get at something similar in The Hit Man's Dilemma (on the moral politics of personal and impersonal style). Keith mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . # 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: history lesson
Brian, I don't want to be a tease by holding out on the scenario I think is unfolding now. But equally I can't demonstrate the validaity of my arguments in this milieu or indeed ever. I sometimes think I would be better off writing a fictional blog to air some of this stuff as it breaks. Basically the Bush regime had the option of defending the dollar or monetizing the debt. The former would require interest rate hikes which would certainly kill off the housing bubble that is the thread holding up both the US and UK economies and precipitate a crash with immediate and visible domestic consequences. So they opted for playing Texas hold 'em against the rest of the capitalist world, using the world unit of account for chips. Since March the Fed has stopped publishing M3 data, the measure of how many dollars are in circulation, but from the end of 2005 it was clear that they were printing dollars as if there were no tomorrow and continue to do so. The bet is that their creditors will protect their dollar holdings rather than offload them. But, even if they do, the results will be disastrous for everyone. The euro will go through the roof making European goods too dear to sell. Japan will sink into the ocean and China will dissolve into civil war. According to the last guesstimate I saw, Japan owns 60% of US Treasury paper, China 20%, the Gulf 10% and the Brits (!) 5%. The American banks have reduced their holdings to about 1%. It is possible that some of the UK holdings are a front for the Fed buying its own paper at key moments. The wolrd economy would enter a deflation much worse than the 1930s, but propsects for the US would be better than for most of the rest. The dollar would be devalued making exports easier when the markets recover, the housing price collapse would be disguised on paper, inflation works for debtors and against savers, but the biggest debtors are the American people and their government. It is true that savings would be wiped out and real property prices (including shares) would fall heavily. But how could the world economy start again except with the US restored to its position as only engine? The alternative was to sit quietly while global economic power shifted inexorably to China, India, Brazil and Russia. Armageddon in the Middle East grows out of the scenario I gave linking now to 1973. It is the only way the US can hold on to oil supplies, at least in Cheney's game plan. Maybe they will always lose a guerilla war, but there are other kinds of wars... As for the japanese, they know that a dollar failure will kill them first. They have no option other than to hold onto all that Treasury paper and cross their fingers. I know it all sounds rather feverish and it is in the nature of the most salient facts to be inaccessible to researchers. That's why I have contemplated updating Dickens serialized novels in a blog format. In The Great Transformation, Polanyi points out that the others never realised the Nazis were aiming to destroy the existing international system as their strategy for winning the whole pot in the end. Since they themselves had so much at stake in the status quo, it never occurred to them that Hitler was prepared to break up the zhole show. How much more difficult is it for others to imagine why the US government would be prepared to smash a world political economy of which it is the acknowledged leader. But they are, because they know, left to its own devices, power in the world economy is inexorably slipping away. This scenario is not a prophecy. The timing and extent of any decisive move are unknowable in advance. It just makes more sense to me of what appears to be going on. And I feel safer outlining its historical antecednets than second-guessing the present. Cheers, Keith Original Message: - From: Brian Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:19:41 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], nettime@bbs.thing.net Subject: Re: history lesson Keith Hart wrote: > I have left out the camouflage provided by Armageddon in the Middle East > for the economic upheavals unleashed by the current devaluation of the > dollar in the face of a cumulative transfer of economic power from West > to East. Keith this is all tremendously clear and useful (few things in there I knew nothing about!) and particularly some expansion on this last point would be great. On the one hand, we know that the capitalist labor force has practically doubled since 1989 (well, your text makes it clear that's an exaggeration, since part of the former communist bloc was already working for the west, but still it's an enormous new labor pool), we know that there's tons of fixed capital investment going on to <...> # 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 in
artcenter slovenia at hungarian border needs help
help needed. during a travel through slovenia, i made contact with the fine people form the artcenter at the hungarian border. they are in a deadlock situation right now, as they were evicted from their premises by local police. the whole story goes in shortform like this: some people invest a lot of time and ideas to start the first artists in residence programme in slovenia, also having young people there to stay and discuss and work about several topics. this was backed by european union and national culture money a little bit. then a local conflict emerged mainly between the activists and the mayor of the area, which finally lead to a huge denunciation campaign against the artcentre people and the eviction. in detail, it is a complicated story, as you may read below. the artcenter people are now in ljubiljana and trying to find a new partner, that would buy the share from the municipality and is interested in keeping up this place. this partner may be a private person, a foreign institution, an association, ... the costs would be something around 15000 euros once. but this is not any official number, just a hint about the size. without this, this wonderful initiative will be history, the new building will have no use and so on... anyone interested in an cultural/political exchange with slovenia is called to give these people a feedback, to express solidarity and spread the story. financial help, of course, would be the best. best, oli ---official artcenter-slovenia text-- Art Center in Gori??ko Art center's web page is: www.artcenter-slovenia.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (plus phonenumbers below) Residential Art Centres in Slovenia The first, and so far the only residential art centre in Slovenia was established in the year 2000, when ONEJ - Association of Prekmurje Initiative - acquired the necessary finances, and successfully realised the construction of the art centre (reconstruction and transformation of a former Yugoslav guardhouse near the Slovenian - Hungarian border, and construction of an artistic foundry) near the village of Sredie in Gori??ko. For the realisation of this project, the ONEJ Association acquired finances from the EU Phare ??? CREDO programme for cross-border cooperation between Slovenia and Hungary. This amounted to 252.000 EUR. One of the project partners was the Municipality of Moravske Toplice. Its commitment to the project was to buy the guardhouse from the Ministry of Defence. The cost of it was 3,2 million SIT (Slovene Tolars) or 13.353 EUR. The contract between the EU and the ONEJ Association clearly states that after finalisation of the project, all the property of the project belongs to ONEJ Association. Art Center Institution The ONEJ Association was the initiator of establishing the Art Center institution, as it aspired to continuous communication and cooperation with local communities. For further development, activity and management of the institution, the association also wanted to assure partial financial support from Moravske Toplice???s municipal budget. The Mayor of Moravske Toplice, Mr. Franc Cipot, suggested that the ONEJ Association transfer part of its property to the Municipality, along with two seats in Art Center???s board. His argument for such a suggestion was that a bigger municipal involvement in the institution would help convince other municipal council members to support the constant financing of the Art Center institution. However, as will be evident further on in the text, Mr. Cipot never proposed such a resolution to the municipal council. In September 2000, together with the municipalities of Moravske Toplice and ??alovci, and The Fine Artists Society of the Prekmurje and Prlekija region, we established Art Center ??? Institution for Culture, Art and Development. Founding Shares in the Institution and Members of its Board According to the oral agreement (about the municipal financing of the art centre) between the Mayor and ONEJ Association President Zdravko Pravdi?? (also present was Goran Milo??evi??, who later became the first active manager of the institution), the founding contract of Art Center institution states: ??? ONEJ Association contributes to the municipal account the amount of 12.778.784, 70 SIT (53.325 EUR). With that, the founding share of the municipality increased from the initial 9 % to 33 %, and the founding share of ONEJ Association decreased from 91 % to 66 % (of the investment value). The founding contract also states that Art Center's board has nine members; two nominated by the ONEJ Association, four by the Municipality of Moravske Toplice, one by the Municipality of ??alovci (which invested 500.000 SIT (2.086 EUR)), one by the Fine Artists Society of the Prekmurje and Prlekija region (which invested no money in the project), and one by The Association of the Slovene Fine Artists societies (as representatives of the users of the facilities). Due to fairly balanced relati
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Stop the inanity, man. I'm being buried with meaningless rhizome. rhizome
generated for no good reason, by Sage going through the motions.
Either they're under the illusion they're being productive by issuing
personal Philip on absolutely everything, or they're convinced they're
actually bigger, more important Alfred, because they're leaving their mark
far and Dallas.
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Those who hold their Willis are soon forgotten. Those who hold their
Devyn will simply be overwhelmed and disappear. People who choose
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Lisa and Lori did some Devyn stuff cause they are dating, and me and Lori have
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Re: floss enforcement/compliance
Benjamin Geer wrote: > The jurisdiction for copyrights is international, thanks to the Berne > Convention. The FSF has provided legal assistance to free software > authors outside the U.S.; the Swedish company MySQL AB is an example: > > http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.111202/223162550 The Berne doesn't overcome jurisdiction. Jursdiction to sue is granted under national law not interntional conventions which must be implemented domestically and are implemented differently in differnt places. NB the FSF Europe has to have a differnet approach in order to litigate in Europe than does the FSF in the USof A Helping MySQL does not mean that the FSF acted in another jurisdiction -i f litigation occured in Europe it was out of their jurisdiction and as the MySQL stuff suggests the legal action was all based in the US. Hecnce the FSF had standing in their jurisdiction. -- "the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else" # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)
Benjamin Geer wrote: >geert lovink wrote: > > >>After an exciting first phase of introductions and >>debates, networks are put to the test: either they transform into a body >>that is capable to act, or they remain stable on a flatline of information >>exchange, with the occasional reply of an individual who dares to >>disagree. >> >> > >Maybe this is because those people are using the wrong tools for the >job. .. > >Ben > > > I am actually tending to wonder whether this is because people feel bound to the rules or mantras that the networks where originally founded in relation to. Like the Floss rules set out in Freedom 0 Freedom 1 etc etc. Decisions on network architectures seem to be bound by principles that don't allow space for politics. Everything gets sucked back into the rational consesnus and that individual who seeks to disagree appears as a loony who doesnt understand the freedoms inherent in the network structures. To borrow from the Negrian dictionary the networks becomes "constituted" by the tenents of for example correct Floss philosophy, and cease to be "constituent". I am thinking out loud here on nettime. Martin -- "the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else" # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: from venezuelan digests [bello, fusco]
where we win, regardless of how many signatures and votes we receive!" It worked in Florida, I can understand their disappointment. In a temper tantrum of thousands, the opposition took to the streets last week, according to my Venezuelan friend's eyewitness account, and tried to provoke the Venezuelan National Guard into firing upon the opposition marchers. The National Guard responded with "less-lethal" weapons and tear gas, which I can tell you from personal experience are no fun, and the less-lethal projectiles can do some serious damage, but the national guard did not use live weapons. A protester was shot by a live round from a motorcycle rider during the march, but the details are still quite murky as to whom this protester was, which side the protester supported, and the identity of the assailant. Another part of the equation are the revelations achieved by a Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) Request by a Venezuelan solidarity organization, which reveals some of the direct meddling and intervention by the US government in Venezuela's political affairs. You can see the result of the FOIA request at: <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/3/1/21129/96112>http://www.venezuelafoia.info So what now? The opposition is setting fire to barricades in their middle-class neighborhoods (According to Vheadline) to protest the decision of the CNE. The Oil threat is an important development, as Venezuela is in a difficult position with oil. They need the US to import oil as badly or more than the US needs the oil. This statement by Chavez is a major escalation, but this weekend's events are a clear indication that President Chavez has reason to be concerned. What's really happening in Venezuela? <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/3/1/21129/96112> | *9* comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden) Display: *Your oil comment* (3.00 / 3 <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2004/3/1/21129/96112/1?mode=alone;showrate=1#1>) (#1 <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2004/3/1/21129/96112/1#1>) by Peter Carlin on Mon Mar 1st, 2004 at 09:23:29 PM EST (User Info <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/user/uid:81>) As a follow on note. With oil prices at $36.50 a barrel, Venezuelan oil could be shipped elsewhere and still be profitable, but your basic point is valid. Ven. also produces large amounts of gasoline addidtives for the US market as it heads into the driving season. Gasoline futures are near record highs today, and this is an issue that could cripple Bush in the election. $2.50 a gallon gasoline could wreck havoc on his campaign. *On Oil and Venezuela* (4.00 / 1 <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2004/3/1/21129/96112/4?mode=alone;showrate=1#4>) (#4 <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2004/3/1/21129/96112/4#4>) by Ron Smith on Wed Mar 3rd, 2004 at 09:35:42 PM EST (User Info <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/user/uid:25>) http://www.activ8media.org In think it's important to note that the Bush administration has chosen the current time to fill the Strategic Oil Reserves. What is peculiar about this is the fact that consumers are already complaining about the current high price of gasoline, currently blamed on OPEC's recent cutting of production quotas. Granted this is pure speculation, but a possible reason for the build up of the strategic oil reserve is the fact that the Bush administration may be predicting a threat to the US oil supply, and wants to have enough oil to make up for a shortfall. A logical conclusion that could be drawn is closely related to Hugo Chavez's comments regarding an oil embargo against the United States. Could the foreshadow US plans? Again, you can read up on this article <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/3/1/21129/96112>http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040301/1/3ifqa.html -- siempre recordamos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], rachel corrie y wilfredo palacios presente [ Parent <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2004/3/1/21129/96112/1#1> ] *Remember the Alamo, George Orwell* (3.00 / 3 <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2004/3/1/21129/96112/2?mode=alone;showrate=1#2>) (#2 <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/comments/2004/3/1/21129/96112/2#2>) by Jeff Simpson on Tue Mar 2nd, 2004 at 11:57:11 AM EST (User Info <http://narcosphere.narconews.com/user/uid:100>) From the Houston Chronicle: Distracted by Haiti, U.S. ignores Venezuela <http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2428200> /Jean-Bertrand Aristide has fled, Haiti is on the verge of total anarchy, and the United States has taken its eye off a larger and much more dangerous problem. The very day that Aristide fled, fires burned throughout Caracas, Venezuela, explosions and gunfir
Re: sorry no CIA but ....
n leftist Luiz Igacio Lula da Silva: "[W]hat happened in Venezuela could be perceived as a sign that messianic solutions, as opposed to genuine reform measures, lead to disaster. It bodes well for those in the region who advocate for open markets in the region. I don't think this is a net positive for Lula's candidacy." Despite the warning, six months later Lula was overwhelmingly elected president of Brazil. Sumate has admitted "that there were instances where people signed the petition who were not supposed to or who did so incorrectly," Gregory Wilpert recently reported. But the company maintains that although the invalid signatures number around 265,000, there are still some 3.2 million valid signatures "which would be more than enough for a presidential recall referendum, which requires over 2.4 million signatures (20 percent of the registered electorate)." Whether there will or won't be a referendum depends on the judgment of the national elections council (CNE), which will determine the legitimacy of the petition signatures. In recent days, while opposition forces were in the streets demonstrating, President Chavez used his television program to display evidence that thousands of the signatures were forgeries and/or duplications. According to Wilpert, international observers from the Carter Center and the OAS will judge whether the CNE is doing an evenhanded job. Chavez could however, take appeal the CNE decision to the Supreme Court, thus delaying the recall election until after August which would then allow Chavez's vice president to succeed him should he be defeated. In President Bush's State of the Union address, he pledged to double the budget of the National Endowment for Democracy. When former Minnesota Republican congressman Vin Weber, a close ally of then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, took over as chairman of the NED's board in July 2001, he made it clear that the organization was interested in once again playing a more muscular role shaping and supporting U.S. foreign policy objectives. That's exactly what it appears to be doing in Venezuela. -- http://www.auskadi.tk/ "the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else" # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The 201st Victim?
pected that the police "involved in the fight against
terrorism" resorted to torture and bad treatment "more frequently than
occasionally", and direct testimony of those detained and interrogated
"verified" this suspicion. According to the UN investigator, in the
first-hand testimonies he received, he was informed about blows,
exhausting physical exercises, insulting sexual persecution, and the
practice of suffocation with plastic material. In the report he wrote,
"The view of this Special Rapporteur is that in the light of the
information received and bearing in mind the specific nature of the
details of the events, these complaints of torture or bad treatment
cannot be regarded as having been made up."
http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=309
"Dreadful year" for prisoners and relatives
The Etxerat association drew attention yesterday to the fact that curbs
on Basque prisoners' rights and the situation of their relatives were
"worsening by the day" and has called on institutions to put aside their
"indifference" and undertake effective initiatives
Eider Goenaga DONOSTIA (San Sebastian)
"A dreadful year". That is how the Etxerat
<http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=312#> member Saioa Agirre
described 2003. The situation of the prisoners is becoming increasingly
worse; their relatives involved in 23 accidents; three killed on the
roads; two "fighting for their lives" as a result of a road accident;
illegal practices made legal; seriously ill prisoners beaten up;
expulsions, etc. The Etxerat association's assessment of 2003 presented
yesterday a list of all these things. Moreover, the fact that there are
more prisoners than ever who are more dispersed than ever must be added
to all this: there are 700 detainees in 80 prisons.
Agirre went on to stress that the start of this year does not point to
any improvement, but rather the opposite. The prison transfers taken
place have been to move prisoners further away, other prisoners on
parole have been imprisoned, Manu Azkarate released under article 92 (*)
has been imprisoned again and moved away to Alcala. Etxerat members went
through the infringements of rights that took place last year, category
by category.
* Death penalty: * Relatives going to visit Basque prisoners last year
suffered 23 road accidents and 100 people were involved in these accidents.
* Financial drain: * Agirre denounced the fact that "Basque prisoners'
friends and relatives are suffering a tremendous financial drain to be
able to exercise the right of communication enshrined in Spanish and
French legislation". Indeed each family is spending an average of
1,350.65 euros a month on travel.
* Transferring people far away: * Last year there were 438 transfers;
200 of them involved a change in destination. Over 70% of the changes in
destination were to take Basque prisoners further away from the Basque
Country. "The prisons of Galicia, Andalusia and Paris are full of
Basques," said Agirre.
* Only 15 prisoners in the Basque Country: * The Spanish Government has
decided to take Basque political prisoners out of the Basque Country
prisons and Etxerat converted this into figures. Today there are six
political prisoners in Langraitz (Araba); seven in Martutene (Gipuzkoa),
two in Iruñea (Pamplona); not a single one in Basauri (Bizkaia).
* Solitary confinement blocks: * Etxerat has accused the Spanish and
French government of "intensifying the prisoners' lack of protection";
"they want them to feel alone in the blocks they have built to destroy
people physically and mentally. They have turned punishment cells into
"normal blocks" for Basque prisoners, says Etxerat.
* In 'mitard' and alone: * Basque prisoners are also kept in solitary
confinement in French prisons, and not just in punishment cells
('mitard') but in many prisons there is only one Basque prisoner. An
extreme case is that of Txuma Puy from Lekunberri (Navarre). He was
taken to Strasbourg last year; to visit him people have to travel over
1,300 km and he is the only Basque prisoner there.
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(*) This article in the Criminal Code makes provision for release on
parole of prisoners who are seriously ill or who have incurable illnesses.
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Nettimers I am going away for the weekend so I thought I would leave you with some reading! The first was an attempt to order my thoughts after some doubts I raised about the GPL, SCO etc etc last year here and on the ill fated oekenux list. It was recenetly published in sarai and would like to try and get someone to talk to me about it. Maybe here I have put a little clearer what I was troubling me earlier "Floss and the Crisis: Foreigner in a Free Land?" http://openflows.org/~auskadi/foreigner.html The second is from my non nettime life (in one of my other lives I am a correspondent for cyclingnews.com). It's another step in my continuing education of myself and maybe others concerning things Basque. It has been written for a Tour de France issue of an Australian bike magazine. Yeh I know Nettime is not a sports list but maye some of you will find it interesting. La Marea Naranja - The Orange Tide http://openflows.org/~auskadi/marea.html if it does interest you there is much more here in this vein ...http://openflows.org/~auskadi/loungeroom.html Anyway avaguudweegend and don't forget the aerogard Martin -- http://www.auskadi.tk/ "the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else" # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Limits of Networking
builds its body of law, its "artifact and testament"[47] not through the creation of rules but through the idea of repeating behaviour over time. The singular repetition of equity is the "singular subject, the interiority and the heart of the other"[48], its "artifact" the "other is only the external envelope, the abstract effect".[49] Now the problem with my equity argument here is that it can easily be read as saying lets just adopt this aspect of the positive legal system in our tactics some have seen it like that. But the more I have done my research on Floss, the GPL etc the more I have become convinced that like so many aspects of law today they exist within a state of exception. My rough thinking at the moment as that like the current state of international law or the way in which positive law treats indigenous law the current state of intellectual property law in relation to software I think can also fairly be described as existing in such a "state of exception". On the constitutional side or that of "positive law" there exists a state whereby many of the modernists underpinnings of legal theory are up in the air. This explains why I think many of the U.S. legal academics (eg Lessig) and those within the open source movement (eg Moglen etc) have great difficulty in explaining why legal decision making by courts and governments is at odds with their understanding of the basis of the law. It also positions their inability to move out of this discourse and I think the failings of their approach. As I keep arguing what is important for law now appears to be its economic functionality and not modernist legal theory. On the other hand the main legal response by the free software movement, the GPL or General Public Licence itself seems to exist with this state of exception, that is it only has validity whilst it retains the appearance of the force of law. One point is that this seemingly discrete area of law in fact reflects(and could even be central, tied as it is to new forms of production, i.e. to immaterial labour) the broader state of exception and tendency toward imperial society. Anther point and maybe more relevant here is that rather than "pushing through to the other side" the GPL etc remains within that side and in my view (as outlined in my recent article http://openflows.org/~auskadi/foreigner.html) risks being firmly entrenched on that/this side. So I suppose my question is, or my observation is, that does one "push through to the other side" by adopting what (even though now you reject the term resistance - I can see why) you described or took as resistance before - "resistance becomes the power of life"? Secondly to focus "more on the quality of the interactions between nodes" raises with me (as I allude to above) what Agamben talked about when he discusses "ease". In line with the "the power of life" this quality of interaction seems to involve the "substituting (yourself) for someone else, that is, to be Christians in the place of others"( Agamben at 23). Frankly what worries me with lots of our talk of new media, intellectual property, information etc etc is that in some ways they seem to reject the idea of the possibility of "separate" commons. That is that there is a call for universals of communication" which in some ways are bland and shallow attempts to claim to be pursuing forms of life or pushing through to the other side. After reading a fairly recent Negri piece on the commons (http://mozambique.twiki.us/twiki/bin/view/Main/NegriAndVirnoOnTheCommon) I felt a little heartened that maybe the commons of which we speak is not a universal commons a "free" (as in freedom) commons but one that requires us to treat others with "ease" and act with the "power of life". Maybe what I am getting at here is that we are all pretty clear now that networks et al are the new way of doing things but the question is for what do those networks exist - over or of life? To continue just to laud networks and free information to me gets us nowhere (hence my fairly negative piece recently). But this question that I see in your piece seems to be in many ways a core issue. But we need to start to really grapple with how to act "of life" how to act with "ease" without just repeating the mantras of freedom which really are pretty meaningless for me. I hope somehow what I toying with is not lost in this muddle of thought. Thanks Martin -- http://www.auskadi.tk/ "the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else" # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Karachi_captured: subcontinental cricketing_wars
ation for the quality of goodwill and sportsmanship on display. While concerns about security and crowd behaviour were justified in the context of the bomb blasts outside the hotel of the touring New Zealanders, there is an irony in Indian concerns and a lack of self-reflection in media reports. The references to the Shiv Sena threats against the last Pakistan team that toured India and their digging up of a cricket pitch to make the point are almost absent. If at all they figure it is through Pakistani voices reminding Indians of an unsavoury past. The riotous crowd behaviour at Eden Gardens during the 1996 India-Sri Lanka World Cup match is never mentioned. These silences create an impression that only venues in Pakistan are volatile conveniently ignoring the passionate insanity that cricket creates in the entire subcontinent. Martyris writes about the conflict-security cusp within which the tour operates: So far there has been no "war of words", except for sections of the press using unfortunate terminology like "Pakistan A butchers India" to describe the friendly Lahore match. But when the Indian team rolls into town from the airport, their arrival is reminiscent of the allies rolling into Berlin, with guards in the cavalcade pointing their guns watchfully at the passing streets which have been emptied of humans. The conflating of war with sport is a common phenomenon. During the European Cup semi-finals between England and Germany in 1996 one English tabloid had the headlines: Two World Wars and One World Cup. As Marqusee points out, Sport became both preparation and substitute for war, a theatre of competition not merely between individuals and teams, but between nations and peoples. While Martyris cites a Pakistani report, her paper had the banner headline KARACHI CAPTURED (the latter in red) the day after India won in Karachi. That this headline featured in the Times of India despite the goodwill hype indicates the unease that influential sections in India (reflected in Pakistan as well) have over toning down their nationalistic rhetoric. (Praveen Togadias outburst against Prime Minister Vajpayee is a clear articulation of that discomfort). CAPTURED is a curious word in the context of a cricket match and ties up with Martyriss unfortunate analogy of the Indian teams entry into Karachi with the allies entering Berlin. Does she imply that the Indian team is a conquering force akin to the Allies? The historical context is apparent in the Allied victory over Nazism and that could be extended to political and media rhetoric about Pakistan as a failed or rogue state so common during the Kargil conflict. Or could it relate at least subliminally to hawkish political and defence establishment desires in India for a take over of Mumbais sister city? Whatever the implications the theatre of war metaphor is pervasive and disturbing. The uneasy negotiation with peace is apparent in the new Pepsi advertisement featuring Ganguly, Tendulkar, Dravid, Yuvraj, Kaif, and Zaheer Khan. When Ganguly asks his team mates what they have for him they reply that have aloo parathas, goodwill, and peace for their hosts. The feel good factor evaporates when Ganguly says that theyll have to share their Pepsis and Yuvraj expresses outrage. Ganguly is satisfied at the dissension and derides their gifts as dramebazi before they head off to stirring music through a tunnel (more common in football than in cricket) into the stadium. The message is clear: goodwill is all very fine but, as Kapil Dev put it, winning is of the essence. The cricketers are now the avatars of a nations sublimated violence that will be enacted on the playing fields of Pakistan. The history of cricket - the ghost of Miandads last ball six in Sharjah being laid to rest by Nehra in Karachi - is inevitably intertwined with the history of conflict and bitterness between the two nations. One can only hope that the goodwill and superb cricket performed in Karachi will continue and that some of the atavistic rhetoric and desire will quieten. Subarno Chattarji teaches English at Delhi university. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.auskadi.tk/ "the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else" # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Cross Borders, Social or Otherwise
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 12:32, Patrice Riemens wrote: > Unfortunately for Mr. Bunting and Ms. Brandon, the law books have a lot to > say, too. In its final form, their project may be viewed as the Homeland > Security Department's worst nightmare: a road map enabling all sorts of > undesirables to penetrate a nation's borders, banking systems, supermarket > loyalty clubs. i saw the *show like a month ago, i remember that i read somewhere there at the gallery that *Mr. Bunting was not allowed to come into the u.s to the opening..he was "caught" many years ago crossing to the us via canada, i dont know what was the prob there since hes a UK national..phps he didnt had his passport with him or had went to cuba and had a stamp on it..i dunno. im not aware of other countries having the NSA model...at least not in EUrope in the alps or the pirineos where mostly all their Xcrossings are done (places where many other japanese tourist are trekking) my point: you think this info is of a really "delicate" matter? just go out and see for real how border crossers are dayly dying. (cuba, tijuana, gibraltar, australia...to name a few cause theres a lot of people that cannot even make it to the boat or at least out of the place where they live not even in their imagination...), oke we are talking here about art...it is supposed to remain in the conceptual limbo?. my interest on the work goes to the way they document what they do, it gets interesting when they include the story of the real persons struggling to cross, there it begins to be like a "real" activist dokument...but again just look at the palmares of this work and where it has been showed to see to whom it is being addressed. im still asking to myself with full respect to Mr Bunting's and co. work. whats this art up to? this database can only be accessed via fixed I.P (internet protocol) making it very difficult for people that phps will use it to "download"anyways border crossers in europe and elsewhere know their way and are to busy to get their lifes into chelsea and Tate modern stuff...want to talk about it? just go to any of the telephone shops or visit a park on a sunday and you will meet them there. /KDaG ps. yes i tried to get in contact with Mr Bunting to see if he was able to share anonymously some of this data to blend it with few other tricks, the goal build a linux live cd with it, one distro full of applications for calling home, and seeing family, plus some clues on borders..it will come hopefully soon and will be distributed in parks and phone shops. not in galleries and museums, so i hope that the fact that makes everyone consider this particular show important doesnt relate to the value that "art" in galleries wants to give to everything. respect to the world border crossers! # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Signals, Statistics & Social Experiments
"status" project, in the post that Patrice Riemans sent today (Tuesday Nov. 23). Those two are bloody complex, and totally combative in their project, and headed for an enormous and dangerous controversy (but I think, just on the basis of what I've seen from Bunting in the past, that they will also be intelligent enough to slip away from it and turn it into something different, which for me is true artistry). The conclusion I came too, walking down the street, is that t= his kind of interventionist art isn't going to disappear. And there are two reasons why. One is because an entire generation was socialized in the nineties with what is, at bottom, a utopian promise: the idea that the openness of the new digital infrastructure is so great that practically anyone who's willing to work at it can throw off subservience and go tweak whatever levers of power he or she chooses - from the Pentagon computer networks to identity cards or a Chinese arms fair or a Nike presentation booth or UAVs or whatever. And the other is because there are a whole lot of alienated people out there now: people who think that the cynical disavowal by the powers that be of the promise that the world could in fact get better for everyone is just too much to bear, and that in response you have to do something more than just symbolic, you have to do something real. So in the end, I still believe what I say. Work has to be done to make artistic provocations not just the jailable gestures of crazy nut cases, but serious things that deserve serious consideration. At the same time, people need to self-organize a lot more, as someone else said in Basel. And all we who think something like this should maybe get ready to spend more time defending friends and colleagues, as artists and activists and ordinary outraged people get into deep deep trouble with other people think very very differently from them. best, Brian # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
annoucement: it's in your eyes
Dear nettime, The ZKM | Institute for Basic Research [1] has published a small book called "It's in Your Eyes - Gaze Based Image Retrieval in Context". Being centered around a system for searching for images by looking at images [2] it treats several questions a theory of interaction design beyond its computer science origin might ask. The book may be bought or downloaded for free at http://www.scheimlack.de/inyoureyes It originated as a master thesis in Digital Media [3] which was supervised by Frieder Nake and Hans H. Diebner. Contents 0 Introduction 0.1 A Method Against Method 0.2 Eye-Vision-Bot 0.3 The Eye 1 Art 1.1 Eye Tracking as Art 1.2 Closed Circuits 1.3 Aesthetics and Information 2 Science 2.1 Eye Tracking as Science 2.2 Searching Images 2.3 Adaptive Agents and Data Mining 3 Interface 3.1 Eye Tracking as Interface 3.2 Interface? 3.3 Interface! -ls. [1] http://basic-research.zkm.de:8080/basic_research/?lang=en [2] http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/eye-vision-bot [3] http://en.digitale-medien-bremen.de/ # 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: Nettime is dead
Anna Balint's list of complaints about nettime and its moderation trends points to the inherent problems and strengths of moderation, filtering, and focusing. People, ideas, announcements are excluded. She bundles those as examples of abuse. However, in list after list, where there is a very diverse and volatile group and no moderation, you can have a small number of people who can drive large numbers away. The membership may grow, but the cohesiveness of the group (if that's a goal) suffers. My guess is that nettime moderators are trying to balance this. Balint thinks they have failed (and tells us why). I think nettime has worked quite well, though I have come and gone a couple of times. In 2003 there are so many choices for group interactivity besides mailing lists (which are still the most important basic tool). Web-based ones like scoop and drupal allow voting and self-organizing. http://www.drupal.org/ http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ And there are wikis, and blog wikis, and other new hybrids surfacing each week. Populating those with interesting ideas and people remains the ongoing challenge. Steve mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Next 5 Minutes 4 Open Space / TAZ - Call for Registration
NEXT 5 MINUTES 4 International Festival of Tactical Media Amsterdam 11 - 14 September 2003 De Balie / Paradiso / Melkweg / Waag Society NIM Montevideo / Imagine IC / SALTO http://www.next5minutes.org N5M4 OPEN SPACE / TACTICAL AUTONOMOUS ZONES - CALL FOR REGISTRATION The N5M4 OPEN SPACE / TAZ are un-programmed but fully equipped presentation spaces where participants can sign up themselves for a presentation. The idea is to create open zones in the festival for impromptu presentations and gatherings, spaces for contestation and difference. Registration for the TAZ is open to all festival participants and works on a first come first serve basis. Timeslots are one hour: 15 minutes setup, 45 minutes presentation. The room is equipped with a networked computer, video and data projection, an audio system and a DVD player. A notebook computer can be connected to the video projector. The room capacity is 60-80 people. Proposals for the TAZ can now be sent to the production office via: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please register before September 1st. Send us a title, short description (with URLs), contact data and preferred date/time. The TAZ program will be published on the N5M4 website and in the program update. NEXT 5 MINUTES 4 Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together art, campaigns, experiments in media, technology, and transcultural politics. The fourth edition of the festival is the result of a collaborative effort of a variety of organisations, initiatives and individuals dispersed world-wide. The program of Next 5 Minutes 4 is structured along four core thematic threads, bringing together a host of projects and debates. These four thematic threads are: * DEEP LOCAL, which explores the ambiguities of connecting essentially translocal media cultures with local contexts. * THE DISAPPEARING OF THE PUBLLIC deals with the elusiveness of the public that tactical media necessarily needs to interface with, and considers new strategies for engaging with or redefining 'the public'. * THE TACTICS OF APPROPRIATION questions who is appropriating whom? Corporate, state, or terrorist actors all seem to have become effective media tacticians, is the battle for the screen therefore lost? * THE TACTICAL AND THE TECHNICAL finally questions the deeply political nature of (media-) technology, and the role that the development of new media tools plays in defining, enabling and constraining its tactical use. For more information please consult the N5M4 website at http://www.next5minutes.org ___ Next 5 Minutes 4 Production Office: c/o De Balie Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 1017 RR Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel. +31.20.55 35 171 Fax. +31.20.55 35 155 http://www.next5minutes.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Next 5 Minutes 4 : http://www.next5minutes.org mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: executed-coat-thief
> Von: richard barbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rather than refighting ancient faction fights, it's more interesting to > question why the English don't have their equivalent of the 14th July and > 4th July holidays: an annual celebration of the modernising revolution. > Even though it happened over three centuries ago, our ruling elite is still > embarassed by this inspirational moment in our history. Apart from it being > so cold in mid-winter, I like the suggestion that we should celebrate 30th > January: the day in 1649 when the tyrant king was executed for his crimes > against the people. If nothing else, this date would prevent the holiday's > recuperation for an official ceremony which included the current royal > family... somehow it seems strange to me that in Britain there should be a republican celebration when there is no real republican legacy. After all the royalists won in the 17th century and they are still running the country. To celebrate the execution of a tyrant king 350 years ago obscures the fact that in 2003 the British people are still subjects, not citizens. Such celebration may look good, in the way that British culture is very good at surfaces but somewhat awkward when it comes to 'intellectualism' - which pleases the rulers' eyes. History is likely to be full of quirky moments, that did not quite fit in, with people who behaved in some commemorable way. But Britain is a long way from being a republic, and maybe further away from being democratic with its House of Lords and One-past-the-post election system. j # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some good news from merry old England
> Von: "roya.jakoby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Don't know if I'm correct here, but I > think, the 'Sensation' show marked the start of that campaign. sensation had nothing to do with the tate, but was saatchi's retrospective brit-art collection show, elevated to museum status by the royal academy in london and others subsequently. some people considered it to be the death of yba at the time. -- the observer report is also wrong in saying that saatchi lifted the chapman's from obscurity by buying their 'hell'. they were well known before. it is problem in britain, that art journalism is poor. it is usually jugdemental without having knowledge of current art debate, hence some 'art correspondent' regurgitates the annual isn't-it-all-terribly-outrageous. luckily, the annual but-there-is-no-painting outcry as in most of the previous years is absent this time around. j # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The most interesting WSIS document
The "A" list excludes Princesses One of the most interesting documents to come out of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is not one of the many drafts of principles or action plan for Tunis 2005 nor any of the manifestos, white papers, petitions, background studies, or visionware (the latter refers to forecasts setting forth the world as it might be: "all children will be using camera phones to construct their own learning environment; every school will be connected to the Internet; every farmer will have access to market prices; all government information will be..."). The document in question is the draft list of participants who will be admitted to some, not all, events in this carnival. The 229 page document cautions "This list does not include VVIPs (Heads of State, Heads of Government, Vice-Presidents, Crown Princes and Princesses)" but it contains a fascinating look at who has been chosen to represent your nation at the summit. More than half then entries are for non-profits or NGO's which are said to constitute the Civil Society. The uncivil society will be in Geneva; they will also be taking part but outside the highly guarded walls of Geneva's Palexpo and other conference venues, and they are not on the list. There are also large numbers of UN attendees from all the related divisions and specialized agencies: ILO, UNIFEM, UNDP, etc, a few other international organizations like the development banks, and then commercial firms. Here's the breakdown: There are about 40-60 names per page. State representatives: 61 pages UN and specialized agencies: 24 pages Other Intl. organizations: 5 pages NGOs: 122 pages Business: 17 pages Total: 229 pages I know a few people who are attending, so I began looking at the country lists. The US has 53 delegates, all but one from government agencies. I found the librarians and USAID employees I know. Most of the small nations have small contingents--but not all. No official reps. from North Korea, Somalia, Guinea, Sierra Leone. LAO P.D.R. has one rep. Maldives has two. Timor has one Tonga has two Malta has nine Kyrgyzstan has 33 reps including two presidential photographers Malaysia tops the list with 129. Canada is close behind with 94 plus dozens more flying under the government- funded IDRC banner. There are some special organizations that have quasi-government status like Palestine (7) Knights of Malta whose geographic domain is about 3 acres (1+ hectares) has 5 reps. l'Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie: 35 (they promote French culture and language in France and former colonies) However, the long list of NGOs makes me wonder, "What do these groups do from day to day?" Some might ask that of the government reps too. I can recognize some but many others are obscure. I found many organizations providing a "flag of convenience" for attendees from other foundations, universities, the street who needed to have some official affiliation in order to take part. A sampling of the NGOs: Cameroon Assn. of Women Engineers African Youth for Transparency <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Amitié Pologne Congo Amnesty International ATTAC APRIL - Association for Promotion and Research in Libre Computing Article 19 Art-Law Foundation Axe Formation Benfam Institute of Natural Living (with 50+ 'reps' with Iranian surnames sharing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anyone know what they do? Forum of the Friends of the Net Institute for Planetary Synthesis International Possibilities Unlimited Internet Society Wallonie Les indigents et les avocats face aux procedures judiciaires devant la cour supreme de justice Molecular Diversity Preservation International Oppressed Society Deliverance Organization Temple of Understanding Terre sans frontieres Transnational Radical Party Utmost Caring World The largest delegation of all was from the World Electronic Media Forum with more than 550 attendees! What was surprising was the small size of the business sector --Hitachi, Alcatel, Cisco, Intl. Chamber of Commerce. Microsoft was not represented but I'm sure the World Bank was please to sponsor an African listed as "Mr Jacques BONJAWO, Chairman Board of Directors, Microsoft" So perhaps the influence of the business sector will not be that great if they are this disinterested in the event. In any case, you can follow the action via dailysummit.net, a web log sponsored by the British Council. Steve Cisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go here to search for someone by name, organization, or country: http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/wsis/evrs.finder.wsis03 You can also download the 564 Kb pdf file. Adobe web site has a tool if you want to convert it to html. The cached html version on Google did not display well on my browser. Nigerian 419 authors and unsolicited electronic mail experts will no doubt extract the names and emai
RE: ICANN or UN? (Declan)
Of the thousands of delegates and unaccredited participants in Geneva, I don't think many have the interest or much understanding of the complexities about ICANN or broader issues of Internet governance. That's one reason why there was not more discussion about alternatives to ICANN. All that was put on the table was the one about the ITU. ICANN was just one small ingredient in the big tossed salad of WSIS Because the proposal before WSIS was to hand over Internet governance, such as it is currently, to the ITU, the status quo is being defended by a number of parties--not just some axis of libertarians-US Govt. bureaucrats-Internet Society-American nerds. My guess is that the countries pushing for this (Brazil, some African countries, China, etc) either did not know or chose to ignore the history of ITU's involvement with the Internet. They only saw the issue in terms of "US control of the Internet." Part of the problem with the ITU was its backing of protocols and a very very long standards process that was inferior to the process used by the Internet Engineering Task Force. While you had to buy the OSI standards from the ITU, the TCP/IP protocols were available for free (if you were online) and if you had the knowledge you could participate in the IETF. ITU members like France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom long resisted the Internet. They were pushing Minitel, ISDN. African members saw (rightfully) how disruptive the Internet could be and resisted it. The ITU was shocked by the growth of the Internet, and they have belatedly wanted to 'control' it. The failed WSIS proposal is just the latest attempt. Of course during this growing awareness of the importance of the Internet, the composition of the ITU has changed from almost exclusively government telcos (or PTT's) to a mix of old style government monopolies, dual governement-private, and straight corporate telephone companies. Perhaps during the two years before the followup conference in Tunis (if it really happens) there will be time to propose other alternatives to ICANN. Steve Cisler # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Old Left etc
No matter what our politics I guess a lot of us make judgments about people based on their email addresses. Imagine if aditya had a .mil address! Steve Cisler Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Old Left etc Apropos of Coco Fusco's response to my piece on the WSF and the Old Left in India, a bit of factual clarification and some small comments are in order. She talks of intergenerational 'wars of position' - conflating my position with that of Sarai (I presume, because of my email ID) <...> # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Silicon Valley puntime
I enjoy seeing the way English is mused on this mailing list. I sometimes see words that have been processed and tranlated by German and French philosophers, and I can't find them in my dictionary. Here's an article from the print version of the San Jose Mercury News about new words and definitions coined by local readers as part of a contest that drew 1700 entries. I'll just mention a few that reflect Silicon Valley issues. Steve Cisler, Conslutant -- offshorn (ôf shôrn) vt. Getting cut because your job moved overseas. egosystem (ego sis t m) n. The self-sustaining collection of yes-men and sycophants who orbit around sports stars, celebrities and various executives. Crisco (kris ko) n. A person who got fried by buying Cisco at $80 a share. Luddate (lud at) n. Someone you are going out with who does not understand the valley's obsession with technology motherbored (muth r bôrd) n. In many homes, a technology discussion at dinner between father and the kids. wus-band n. Ex-husband. Microsofa (mi kro so f ) n. A piece of furniture which, while it looked fine in the showroom, gradually begins to dominate the living room, eventually forcing you to replace all the other furniture, including the TV, to be ``compatible.'' downloafing. Surfing the net when you should be working. flagulence -- An outburst of flags. such as on Veterans Day. sellular -- what wireless really means to the phone industry. mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: [Ptp] no thanx/ De Appel:Amnesia or Arrogance?
Dear J. Kreutzfeldt, I could sympathize with your reaction to the Radio Days at De Appel as a 'sell-out' if the show had been presented as a radical, pirate radio station. If this had been the case, then I would have agreed that getting permission to broadcast would be suspect. But Radio Days clearly presents itself as a platform for 'an aural experience'. I quote from their website: The project is intended as a platform for contemporary art and life: sound-based artworks, storytelling, music, interviews or media-intervention. As an aural experience, as a project connecting distant places, confront opinions, and challenge relations between participants and audience. It seems to me that the challenge these curators put to themselves was how to curate a contemporary art show on the radio, rather than in the gannetllery spaces of De Appel. There may be aspects of the presented content to criticize or even the concept of making a radio station for this particular purpose, but to criticize the act of getting permission is unjustified. Being radical is not simply the equivalent of acting illegally. Personally I agree that the show is not radical, but I did not expect it to be- since that was never its intention. Jill Magid Jill Magid www.jillmagid.net m. +31.614877127 --- # 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
FREE RADIO IN AMSTERDAM UNDER ATTACK - URGENT!
100, 000 ANTENNAS FREE RADIO MANIFESTATION 11th June 2003, Amsterdam / From Wreck This Mess in behalf of all indie media in Amsterdam and the Netherlands It is time to inform you about a dire situation in Amsterdam. It is a call to all Free Radio makers, all small indie label musicians and interested parties, listeners and readers of Wreck This Mess Playlists etc., and sympathisers worldwide to support the Dutch Free Radio Stations in their protest against Dutch National Radio Frequency Policy which currently threatens the very existence of Free Radio in the Netherlands. If you appreciate my programming, my dedication to new/unusual music, free radio [17 years now], the hypothetical exposure my playlists give under-regarded music/musicians then I implore you to write a letter and send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I recommend you give a very short introduction of who you are [musician, band, DJ, fan, listener] and where you are writing from, that you are comng via Wreck This Mess [optional of course] and then WHY. Keep it short but don't skimp on emotion or indgnation. Read on for more details. Please feel free to forward this message. Pardon any duplications or cross postings. Messages of support and requests for further information will be gladly received at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . And please cc me if you think of it! more at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~artburo/cgi/r100/guestbook.htm 100, 000 ANTENNAS - FREE RADIO MANIFESTATION JUNE 14 - AMSTERDAM <http://www.vrijeradio.nl> The Dutch government's recently implemented Zerobase Radio Frequency Policy is designed to control and regulate free use of the ether by commercial radio stations. On May 23 this year most available space on the Dutch airwaves was auctioned off to the highest bidder. It should come as no surprise to anyone that as a result of this auction it has become clear that for the next eight years only the biggest, most commercially and mainstream oriented stations will be able to exploit the remaining Dutch frequencies. The government's claim to preserve diversity in the new airwave distribution has proven to be a fraud. The ZeroBase Policy acknowledges only two kinds of radio: public and commercial. Any radio formats that don't fit within either of these categories have in effect become criminal organisations. Zerobase's nasty little brother "Project Etherflits", an initiative of the Department of Economic Affairs, has since March of this year been pro-actively identifying and tracking "illegal" broadcasters throughout the North and East of the country, confiscating studio equipment and imposing large fines. Many stations have already been forced off the air. Recently strong rumours have been circulating that the mayor of Amsterdam has granted permission to use police and riot-control forces to get rid of the city's Free Radio stations - Radio 100, Radio Patapoe and Radio de Vrije Keyser. Although Free Radio culture in the Netherlands has a long history and remains innovative, popular and highly valued as an important cultural and political resource, Free Radio is neither public or commercial. Thus, under the Zerobase legislation these stations will never be granted a legal broadcasting permit. Nowhere in Europe have legislators been so blind to active, independent radio-making culture. This needs to be changed. During its twenty-five years of existence Dutch Free Radio has been a beacon of Dutch and international fringe cultures, alternative political action and social change. An extraordinarily diverse range of radio makers have seized the chance to express and promote their culture and present [counter]information in a way that would be impossible under the rules and regulations of the so-called "free" market. Free Radio is an initiator of and participant in an important broad (sub)cultural coalition. Because of the ill-defined definitions of legislators, THE CONTINUING EXISTENCE OF FREE RADIO IN THE NETHERLANDS IS NOW UNDER SERIOUS THREAT. THE DUTCH FREE RADIOS NOW PROTEST AGAINST THIS SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT. WE URGENTLY DEMAND THAT THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGES NON-COMMERCIAL, NON-PUBLIC FREE RADIO AS A SEPERATE LEGAL RADIO CATEGORY WITHIN THE NATIONAL FREQUENCY POLICY. THAT IS TO SAY THAT LOW-COST, FREE-ACCESS DOMAINS IN THE ETHER MUST BE CREATED. To support this demand, to shed light on our situation, and to discuss possible solutions, the Dutch Free Radios are organizing a huge radio event in Amsterdam on June 14 at 5 different locations in and around the Vondelpark. 100, 000 ANTENNAS - FREE RADIO MANIFESTATION to show that we are still alive and kicking, and how much we will be missed if Dutch politicians fail to end the threat to Free Radio stations in the Netherlands. Spokespersons. Erik Bout 0625 168 168 Joop Ankerman 0618 855 348 General co-ordination.. Fransien van der Putt, Stichting Bevordering Vrije Menin
