nettime /etc 2007 July 11-15 in Linz, Austria - watch the streams!
Eclectic Tech Carnival aka /etc 2007 will held from: Wed 11 to Sun 15 july, 2007 in Linz, Austria http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/ The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women interested in technology. It's held once a year, each time in a venue where there has been an interest in hosting one. The first was in Pula, Croatia in 2002, followed by Athens (2003), Belgrade (2004), Graz (2005) and Timisoara (2006). The event grew out of the Gender Changer's hardware and FLOSS courses. Women from all over the world organise the /etc through mailing lists, IRC and IRL meetings - and women come from all over the world to the /etc itself. The week-long carnival includes workshops on installing free and open source software, the hardware crash course, soldering, building websites plus art exhibitions, performances, cultural discussions and related presentations. The program will be streamed from the following url's: Location Stwst-Saal: http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/stwst-saal.ogg Location Maiz: http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/maiz.ogg Evening Performances Location Cafe Strom http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/strom.ogg Use fabulous VLC media player on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux to play all your media files, including the above mentioned .ogg streams! Download at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ You can find details about the workshops, lectures, play labs and performances here: http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/workshops http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/lecture http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/PlayLab http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/performances+ BOF -- Birds of a Feather - sessions are ad hoc small gatherings of women who share an interest in specific topics. The program may still change, please check the website! And the program is... Wednesday July 11 = 12:00-13:30 --- Stwst-Saal Introduction/Welcome to Eclectic Tech Carnival 14:00-17:00 --- Maiz Tools used by /ETC participants for communication 21:30 - Cafe Strom Grace Marta Latigo Life Act: Signorina Alos DJ Maiz Thursday July 12 11:00-14:30 --- Stwst-Saal Web Content from Front to Back (Gloria Willadsen) Maiz Hardware Crash Course (Donna Metzlar) 14:30-17:45 --- Stwst-Saal HTML/CSS (Audrey Samson/Urska Merc) Maiz Ubuntu Basics (Paula Graham) 19:30-21:30 --- Stwst Lectures Free Software with a Female Touch (Fernanda G. Weiden, Brazil) Lucynix (Biruktait Fekeremariam, Ethiopia) 21:30 - Cafe Strom Celeste Hutchins, USA Friday July 13 = 10:00-11:00 --- Stwst-Saal GIMP (Urska Merc) 11:00-13:00 --- Stwst-Saal UpStage (Marischka Klinkhamer/Helen Varley Jamieson) Maiz PlayLab: Hardware Two - Blingbling (Sara Platon) 13:30-17:45 --- Stwst-Saal Migrazine (Cristiane Tatsino/MAIZ) Maiz Beyond digital/DIY sex toys; Soldering (Orit Kruglanski/Carla Peirano) 19:30-21:00 --- Stwst-Saal Lecture: Chain Reaction (Reni Hofmueller) 21:00 - Cafe Strom Cherry Sunkist with visuals by Doris Prlic Saturday July 14 11:00-14:00 --- Stwst-Saal Web Content from Front to Back (Gloria Willadsen) Maiz Ubuntu Basics (Paula Graham) 14:30-17:45 --- Stwst-Saal lela code (Donestech: Eva Cruells/Alex Hache) Maiz Migrazine (Cristiane Tatsino/MAIZ) 19:30-21:00 --- Stwst-Saal Lecture: Computing / Life / Female Geek (Gloria Willadsen) 21:00-22:00 --- Stwst-Saal Lecture: Data Mining (Lize De Clercq) 22:00 - Cafe Strom Polyphonic Ensemble (Reni Hofmueller) Life Act: HEIDI MORTENSON Sunday July 15 == 11:00-14:00 --- Stwst-Saal BOF MAIZ Ubuntu Basics (Paula Graham) Foyer BOF 14:30-17:00 --- Stwst-Saal BOF MAIZ BOF 17:00-18:00 --- Cafe Strom Life Act: Schwestern Bruell and the Unknown Drummer 19:30-21:00 --- Stwst-Saal BOF 21:00-22:30 --- Stwst-Saal BOF -- http://keys.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/lookup?op=getsearch=ECE49D5C jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Textile Activism: Srebrenica Memorial Quilt Unites Massacre Survivors in Bosnia and America
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Re: nettime Essay, minus poor translations of punctuation.
Patrick Lichty schrieb: as opposed to Manovich, Csuri, Kluver, Ascott, Davies, Verostko, Cosic, Schwartz, et al. That IS a neat list, but I guess, you know that. :) Anyway, thanks for that insightful piece. Yet, one questions remains: how many square meters of valuable MOMA space does this show actually take? For someone who can only look at the website it seems a bit like a show that you can fit into a room, with all those videos etc... -- Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel Film Institute, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines www.tilmanbaumgaertel.net # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Organic Intellectual Work: Interview with Andrew Ross [REVISED]
in both directions, they know so little about the corporate world that they can't see how the mentality and customs of academic life are being transplanted into knowledge firms, whose research is increasingly conducted along similar lines. The truth of the matter is we are living through the formative stages of a mode of production marked by a quasi-convergence of the academy and the knowledge corporation. Neither is what it used to be; both are mutating into new species that share and trade many characteristics, and these changes are part and parcel of the economic environment in which they function. GL: You touched on the creative economy. As you know, we've been dealing with this in the MyCreativity project that my institute in Amsterdam co-initiated. What should the critical research in this field look into? There is a call to go beyond the hype bashing and look into the labour precarity issue. Still, the consensus-driven hegemony of business consultants seems strong and uncontested. What work could be done to open the field and make space for other voices and practices? Are there ways to obtain cultural hegemony these days? AR: That's a good question, and should be at the heart of anyone interested in a sustainable job economy. It's not all that productive to scoff at policy initiatives that might just be capable of generating a better deal for creative labour. As I see it, critical research ought to be doing what governments are not, and that is coming up with qualitative profiles of what a good creative job should look like, based on ethnographic methods. Currently, all we have are productivity and GDP statistics, on the government side, and, on the other side, a cumulative pile of scepticism based on the well-known perils of precarity that afflict creative work, dating back to the rise of culture markets in the late eighteenth century. I have yet to see a mapping of the creative sector that includes factors relating to the quality of work life. It wasn't that long ago, in the 1970s, in response to the so-called revolt against work, that governments actively championed quality of work life. Of course, corporations came up with their own versions of innovative alternatives to the humdrum routines of standard industrial employment, but the hunger for mentally challenging work in a secure workplace has undergirded and outlived all the management fads that followed. For those with an appetite for a dialogue with the policy-makers, I'd say that the qualitative research about good jobs is a plausible way to go (and I'm talking about fully-loaded jobs, not simply work opportunities). It wouldn't take all that much to come up with some proposals for guidelines, if not outright guarantees, about income and security, based on that kind of research. The goal would be to offer a sustainable alternative to the IP jackpot economy that currently drives the consultants' world-view. I'm not sure if the result would be what you would call cultural hegemony, but if the challenge to existing hegemony is going to draw on labour power in any way then it's in our interest to ensure that there will be a robust employment sector there to provide heft and volume to these challenges. Clearly, the strategies for organizing have to be re-thought in ever more ingenious ways, but there are no good substitutes for organizing, as far as I can see. Tactics like culture jamming or brand busting have their uses, and they have served as appropriate tools, but you can't give up on the power of numbers. (edited by Ned Rossiter) # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime Virtual Dreams, Real Politics
Attention conservation notice: this is a rant. Oh noes, the ideology-free Internet turns out to be not only a military project, but specifically an ideological reaction to CyberCommunists plotting Red revolution (apologies to Velvet Acid Christ) and not just a defense against atomic attack. Embarrassing for Californian cyber-hippies, thinking themselves post-ideological libertarians, already downplaying the internet's military (subsidy) antecedents, only to be further tagged with anti-Communist dogma. Gentlemen, gentlemen! We must not allow...a knowledge gap! An RFC specifying IP packet headers that spelled out In God We Trust in hex would just be icing on the cake, wouldn't it? Hard to upload yer consciousness with all that baggage. The Singularity just receded further into the horizon. As the Soup Nazi might have said, no cyber- transcendence for *you.* Seriously, if the Interweb has accommodated local regimes (China, Bush's America) more often than it's transformed them (erm...), you have to wonder just how big a threat an internet would really have been to the Soviet system. If Manuel Castells is right that the Soviet system had no real pipeline between military technology and the consumer market like in the US, then a Soviet internet could have been limited, like the real internet of the 1970s and 1980s (or the Iraqi internet in the 1990s)--minimal, with e-mail addresses with bangs (!'s), a few newsgroups, some Gopher and Archie sites). It could have had a moderating, not a revolutionary effect, on the USSR. There was a tiny Soviet internet, registered as .su in 1990 . People make a big deal of the Fax Effect in stopping the August 1991 attempt to stop Perestroika and bring back the Brezhnev 1970s, as if there's some sort of historical inevitability to communications- driven revolutions. But coups are more contingent than people think. Because they succeeded, people think they would always succeed. The 1953 Iran coup, for example, almost collapsed. The abortive Venezuelan CIA-sponsored coup certainly did. The Soviet plotters were mounting yesterday's (re)coup, like Khruschev and Zhukov shut down Beria's power grab in 1953. But these Great Patriotic War vets didn't see how the USSR had changed, had become collectively more intelligent since the 1970s and certainly since the 1940s. But going back to the 1960s, suppose the Soviet bureaucrats hadn't lost their nerve...GosNet 1967! On the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, Socialism scores another triumph on the wires like it did in space 10 years ago! Academicians swapping recipes and Beatles guitar chords in the 1970s beef up the technocratic class that came up in the 1980s. GosNet 1987 connects the democratic people's republics of Eastern Europe to Africa to the Middle East to Cuba! In the USSR, perestroika comes but the Soviet Union continues, Berlin Wall gone, sure, maybe devolving to a Soviet Confederation, a sort of Yugoslavic Eastern Europe, soldiering on in the name of Marxist- Leninism, a better place to live and denying Reaganite triumphalists the spectacular victory of capitalism over the Communism in our timeline. Dare I hope for a new sci-fi / slipstream genre: Commiepunk? Carl On 9-jul-2007, at 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Virtual Dreams, Real Politics http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/ http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalisation/visions_reflections/ virtual_politics ?What are we fighting Communism for? We are the most Communist people in world history.? - Marshall McLuhan, 1969. In 1961, at its 22nd Congress, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union formally adopted the goal of spreading the benefits of computerisation across the whole economy. Over the next two decades, the information ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime ISEA2008 air deadline - 30th of june
Dear Nettimers, the deadline for the ISEA2008 Artist in Residency call is coming up on the 30th of June. the exhibition part of the symposium is focusing on initiating the production of at least 20 new projects which would constitute the major exhibition. (there won't be any other calls for the exhibition) Artists have a great opportunity to work with some of the labs from National University of Singapore that will support the production of the projects. information about the participating labs: http://isea2008.org/air2.html we are welcoming project proposals that address any of the 5 themes: http://isea2008.org/themes.html please distribute the call to any potential participants, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us. http://isea2008.org/contact.html thanks.. best wishes, v vladimir todorovic tadar.net syntfarm.org/projects/btc/ rastergroup.com/projects # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Gnat swarming behavior
(This strongly relates to the construct of avatars in Second Life; think of the gnats as prims. Their homeostatic behavior is amazing. Hieroglyphs of an ancient species... Also check http://nikuko.blogspot.com ) Gnat swarming behavior The following video was made about 100 meters from the Jordan River trail in Salt Lake City (West Jordan / Midvale), Utah. The site is a pond per- haps one or two acres across; there are numerous birds (swallows, swifts, red-wing and yellow-head blackbirds, etc.) around. When I first saw the gnats, near sundown, they swarmed in a typical ellipsoidal fashion, i.e. similar to a free-falling water balloon in slow motion. I noticed several columns forming; in a short while, they became vertical, long and narrow. They swayed and held shape. In gnat swarms, males and females behave differently; in one of the vertical columns, a roughly spherical 'head' is visible to one side, and I wonder if there might be sexual differentiation here. What is fascinating to me is the relationship of millions of gnats to an over-arching geometry; this parallels slime mold behavior to some extent. I've seen lots of gnat swarms before, but nothing like this. We're leaving the Salt Lake City area today, so I have no time to investigate this further at the moment (we're leaving today), but I'm interested in any further input, images, videos, you might have. http://www.asondheim.org/gnats.mp4 Radio 'Radio' - modified recording in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir building; note the laptop in the foreground which controls and monitors the organ, light- ing, recording, etc., as far as I can tell. http://www.asondheim.org/radio.mp4 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Essay, minus poor translations of punctuation.
, as opposed to New Media artists' ambivalence to art. This ambivalence, not by the artists as much as the curators, is part of the ongoing dialogue to understand the role of digital technology and its intricacies in a contemporary scene still dominated by Pop/Neo-Pop and the Sublime. The fractured dialogue between cultural clades is well illustrated through a personal experience. is encapsulated in a personal experience. In Fall of 1999, I was given a Best in Show in a regional exhibition in Northeast Ohio for a large mixed-media digital print based on recontextualized Japanese pornography. When awards were given, and I stepped down, the curator proclaimed to the audience, By the way, the Best in Show was done with a computer! For the next three hours, almost every conversation entailed analogies of programs and oil paints, and little about the content at all. But this is a relatively universal experience for the digital, let alone New Media artist, and endemic of the era. What is evident in Automatic Update is a quirky show on artists and computers, and one that does not engage the issues and genres related to new media, despite its linkage through the mention of the waning of the era. The idiosyncratic Walker-esque design, combined with ironic, Neo-Pop/ 8-Bit sensibilities with the focus on 'younger artists' is in line with contemporary culture's Nintendo nostalgia. Automatic Update does try to address a desire to understand how artists could make use computers to make contemporary art, and address that to an audience (MoMA) who (apologetically) has a large non/pre-digital audience. The mass audience is wrestling with contemporary art/entertainment issues in the mass culture, and are still unreconciled with Duchamp, let alone Lippard, and how that could possibly relate to technology or even personal computers. As mentioned earlier, Automatic Update is a Contemporary Art show, and not one that addresses the New Media art movement, its cultural specificities and formalist concerns. The issues here are ones that stem from Duchamp. Paik, Rauschenberg, and include Anderson. Actually, they seem to be more akin to Murakami, Warhol, and Nauman. as opposed to Manovich, Csuri, Kluver, Ascott, Davies, Verostko, Cosic, Schwartz, et al. Again, as part of this conversation, Furthermore, Whitney New Media curator Christiane Paul noted on the CRUMB New Media Curating list that Automatic Update appears to be a show compiled from the collection works from the MoMA. This may be just the case, and as such, presents an interesting set of works in an odd juxtaposition that illustrates the uneasy cultural dialogue about art and technology, whether New Media has reached an apex, and what the perceptual difference between practitioners, public, and institutions regarding tech and art might be. References [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] NASDAQ charts online, http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/dynamic/IndexChart.asp?symbol=IXICdesc=NASDAQ +Compositesec=nasdaqsite=nasdaqmonths=84 [10] http://www.boingboing.net/blogosphere.html [13] http://www.totse.com/en/ego/literary_genius/mThe issue of timeondo2k.html # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Virtual Dreams, Real Politics
creativity would be the order of the day. But, until this happy moment arrived, humanity required the guidance of the cybernetic elite to reach the promised land. Ironically, in the 2000s, the boosters of the information society - like the Stalinists before them - are unexpectedly faced with the problem of living within their own future. Confounding the McLuhanist credo, the advent of the Net hasn?t marked the birth of a new humanistic and equalitarian civilisation. For more than four decades, the knowledge elite have asserted its control over space through ownership of time. Now, in the early-twenty-first century, the imaginary future of the information society is materialising in the present. What the McLuhanists have to explain is why utopia has been delayed. When the users of the Net are both consumers and producers of media, the vanguard has lost its ideological monopoly. Yet, at the same time, the arrival of the information society hasn?t precipitated a wider social transformation. Cybernetic communism is quite compatible with dotcom capitalism. Contrary to the tenets of McLuhanism, the convergence of media, telecommunications and computing has not ? and never will ? liberate humanity. The Net is a useful tool not a mechanical saviour. In the 2000s, ordinary people have taken control of sophisticated information technologies to improve their everyday lives and their social conditions. Freed from the preordained futures of McLuhanism, this emancipatory achievement can provide inspiration for new anticipations of the shape of things to come. Cooperative creativity and participatory democracy need to be extended from the virtual world into all areas of life. Rather than disciplining the present, our futurist visions should be open-ended and flexible. We are the inventors of our own technologies. We can intervene in history to realise our own interests. Our utopias provide the direction for the path of human progress. Let?s be hopeful and courageous when we imagine the better futures of libertarian social democracy. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Conferences as a touristic product.
For some time, I have been saying that conferences, as a format, suck and should be discarded altogether - well, at least be sensibly curtailed. Proof of concept seems that the format has now metastasied into an entertainment/touristic formula, to witt, the e-amail I received today (and many of you undoubtedly too) cheers from Barcelona, patrizio and Dnooos! - Forwarded message from IPSI Conferences [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Invitation to Montenegro and Italy; c/bp From: IPSI Conferences [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Dear potential speaker: We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to one of the following multi, inter, and trans disciplinary conferences dedicated to advances in computer/internet science and engineering (papers with impacts on other scientific fields are given advantage): Montenegro Mountain Safari, September 13 to 16, 2007, Villa Bianca, Kolasin (Podgorica), see James Bond movie Casino Royale, Keynote: Prof. H. Fujii, The 10km Space Elevator Project, Japan; Last deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2007 Papers: 15 August 2007 Montenegro Seaside Safari, September 16 to 19, 2007 Hotel Sveti Stefan (Tivat), see James Bond movie Casino Royale, Keynotes: Rectors. L. Stankovic, Montenegro, + B. Kovacevic, Serbia; Last deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2007 Papers: 15 August 2007 ... also we remind you to submit papers to these two popular conferences: VIPSI-2007 FLORENCE Hotel Miravalle, San Miniato (between Florence and Pisa), Arrival: 20 August 2007 / departure: 23 August 2007 Last deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2007 Papers: 15 July 2007 Keynote: Prof. Antonio Prete, University of Pisa, Italy; VIPSI-2007 ITALY - PESCARA Castello Chiola (medieval castle from century IX), Loreto Aprutino (Pescara, relatively near Rome), Arrival: 23 August 2007 / departure: 26 August 2007 Last deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2007 Papers: 15 July 2007 Keynote: Prof. Veljko Milutinovic, Fellow of the IEEE; * * * We promote the concept of small family style conferences, with the stress on discussions and elaborations of joint future activities (cooperation, research proposals, outsourcing). All those who attended our conferences once, love to come back. For more information, reply to this email, or contact us via our web page, and the conference management will write to you. Sincerely Yours, Program Committee PS - If you like to submit a paper to one of our journals, rather than attending a conference, please let us know. If you reply (with SUBSCRIBE in the subject), we will be informing you about our future conferences, 4 times per year. If you do not reply, we will not be contacting you again after the current academic year is over. * * * CONTROLLING OUR E-MAILS TO YOU * * * If you like to obtain more information about a conference from this call, please reply with the conference CITY and COUNTRY in the subject. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime no comments?
with Murakami KaiKai Kiki. The importance of these linkages is that my assertion that Automatic Update is only superficially about New Media, but actually it illustrates the art worldâs ambivalence to the ongoing procession of technological forms and methods, as opposed to New Media artistsâ ambivalence to art. This ambivalence, not by the artists as much as the curators, is part of the ongoing dialogue to understand the role of digital technology and its intricacies in a contemporary scene still dominated by Pop/Neo-Pop and the Sublime. The fractured dialogue between cultural clades is well illustrated through a personal experience. is encapsulated in a personal experience. In Fall of1999, I was given a Best in Show in a regional exhibition in Northeast Ohio for a large mixed-media digital print based on recontextualized Japanese pornography. When awards were given, and I stepped down, the curator proclaimed to the audience, By the way, the Best in Show was done with a computer! For the next three hours, almost every conversation entailed analogies of programs and oil paints, and little about the content at all. But this is a relatively universal experience for the digital, let alone New Media artist, and endemic of the era. What is evident in Automatic Update is a quirky show on artists and computers, and one that does not engage the issues and genres related to new media, despite its linkage through the mention of the âwaningâ of the era. The idiosyncratic Walker-esque design, combined with ironic, Neo-Pop/ 8-Bit sensibilities with the focus on 'younger artists' is in line with contemporary culture's Nintendo nostalgia. Automatic Update does try to address a desire to understand how artists could make use computers to make contemporary art, and address that to an audience (MoMA) who (apologetically) has a large non/pre-digital audience. The mass audience is wrestling with contemporary art/entertainment issues in the mass culture, and are still unreconciled with Duchamp, let alone Lippard, and how that could possibly relate to technology or even personal computers. As mentioned earlier, Automatic Update is a Contemporary Art show, and not one that addresses the New Media art movement its cultural specificities and formalist concerns. The issues here are ones that stem from Duchamp. Paik, Rauschenberg, and include Anderson. Actually, they seem to be more akin to Murakami, Warhol, and Nauman. as opposed to Manovich, Csuri, Kluver, Ascott, Davies, Verostko, Cosic, Schwartz, et al. Again, as part of this conversation, Furthermore, Whitney New Media curator Christiane Paul noted on the CRUMB New Media Curating list that Automatic Update appears to be a show compiled from the collection works from the MoMA. This may be just the case, and as such, presents an interesting set of works in an odd juxtaposition that illustrates the uneasy cultural dialogue about art and technology, whether New Media has reached an apex, and what the perceptual difference between practitioners, public, and institutions regarding tech and art might be. References [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] NASDAQ charts online, http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/dynamic/IndexChart.asp?symbol=IXICdesc=NASDAQ +Compositesec=nasdaqsite=nasdaqmonths=84 [10] http://www.boingboing.net/blogosphere.html [13] http://www.totse.com/en/ego/literary_genius/mThe issue of timeondo2k.html - End forwarded message - # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime no comments?
This is what Rhizome made of it... Anyone at nettime has already seen this show and would like to comment on it? Best, Geert New Media History Refreshed As with any vibrant art form, new media finds itself historicized in multiple and evolving ways. Significant attention has been paid to whether the field is alive, dead (date negotiable), or risen from the grave, and to defining its constituent elements. Automatic Update, an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art organized by Barbara London, argues that new forms of media art rose with the swell of the dot-com era and became mainstream in its wake. The five installations included, all drawn from the moment after the bubble burst, speak less to the internet or interactivity and more to a culture saturated with media of all kinds. As markers of this designated cultural moment, the works on view vary widely in their ideas and approaches. Jennifer and Kevin McCoy explore the interplay between the construction of cinematic genre and the development of personal history in Our Second Date (2004). Xu Bing ponders remote communication in Book from the Ground (2007, and in! -progress) in which a dialogue between two individuals, separated by a mylar screen, is translated into a vocabulary of computer-like icons. Also featured are new and recent works by Cory Arcangel, Paul Pfeiffer, and Rafael Lozano-Hammer. It's arguable whether new media art has become mainstream, yet the assertion that the Internet has fundamentally changed contemporary culture and propelled new art forms is undeniable. This influence is explored in screenings organized by London with Hanne Mugaas that run concurrently with the exhibition, including signature works by film and video-makers such as Iara Lee, Kristin Lucas, Takeshi Murata, Miranda July and Marcin Ramocki, among others. Automatic Update is on view until September 10th. - Lauren Cornell http://moma.org/exhibitions/2007/automatic_update/index.html # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime molleindustria and noblogs censored in italy for game pretofilia (priestophilia)
the request came from a centrist catholic mp who's notorious for his crusades against any form of dissent targeting the vatican. the center-left gov't complied. here's the game: http://babau.indivia.net/ciarpame/pretofilia.swf where you're a cardinal that has to prevent news of sexual abuses by priests on children from spreading out from alarmed parents to to police and media clerical obscurantism really seems in full bloom in spaghettiland, lx -- Forwarded message -- From: hop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 3, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: [RK] la madonna non =E8 libera di piangere sperma e noblogs viene censurato To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] con preghiera di diffusione da ieri notte il circuito noblogs.org (autistici/inventati) =E8 in down per ingiunzione ministeriale in quando resosi reo di ospitare il giochino pretofilia sviluppato dal gruppo molleindustria. si richiede di mirrorare e diffondere il giochino il pi=F9 possibile. Lo travate qui, su server olandesi, che del vaticano se ne fregano alquanto= : http://babau.indivia.net/ciarpame/pretofilia.swf comunicato di molleindustria: http://www.molleindustria.it/pivot/entry.php?id=3D144 -- +-[ Public KEY ] 0xBDAACCF28A2EB682 at http://pgp.mit.edu +-[ Public KEY ] ---[ RK ] + http://liste.rekombinant.org/wws/subrequest/rekombinant + http://www.rekombinant.org # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Last night god called America
Here a report from autistici/inventati italian independent server, being censored after mirroring the latest flash game released by Molleindustria, Pretophilia (available at http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/385299). report this and spread onto your blogs espanz --- Last Night God called America Molleindustria.it is a site publishing satirical flash games with provocative political content. Its last game, called =93Pretofilia=94 (i.e. Priestophilia), is a denunciation of the widespread use of pedophilia as an excuse for censorship, and of the widespread abuse on children in the catholic church. After its publishing, the site has been immediately subjected to the attention of the Italian Parliament and the Interior Ministry answered prompting the police to act against the site. Molleindustria decided then to remove the game, but the file had already been spread far and wide on the Internet. Soon after the news of the censorship threat was made known on the website, the game was mirrored even more, eventually also on some blogs on our noblogs.org platform. After all that had been said and done on this harmless satire, we would not dare to say we did not expect some threats to our servers, but we would not have imagined that a small swf file could wake up someone so up above us to block all of noblogs.org (including all the blogs used by hundreds of people for their daily communication). And when we say so up above us, we mean it! Last night God itself called the provider hosting noblogs.org and demanded the whole server to be shut down. In the heavens above there are no fax machines, so the Almighty has deemed its voice by phone to be authoritative enough. Unfortunately God never minds the Unbelievers. Apart from being nerds, we are also strongly skeptical by default and we tend not to believe what anyone tells us unless we can touch it and feel it with our own hands. So we do not trust God=92s voice by phone to be authoritative enough and are asking for a concrete and official injunction to shut down the site. While we wait for the Almighty to have some of its representatives on Earth send a very material letter or order, we mean to reopen noblogs.org as soon as possible with all its content (and nothing less). In the meantime, we would like to stress that in our opinion Pretofilia has nothing to do with pedopornography and that we deem it a very good satire against children abuses. It could at worst wake up some criticism on how much priest=92s abuses are hidden and silenced, but lately satire on the matter has been far from random. That is why we ask anyone caring for the freedom of speech and satire to mirror the game, knowing that it could imply a fair degree of legal issues and attacks by the Italian government, the Vatican, and their lot. We ask anyone to publish a link to these mirrors in the comments to our blog. If the wrath of God Almighty comes down on us, do not fear: file will prevail on p2p networks! mininova - slotorrent - ed2k link # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Busy Balkan's digest [4x]
Robbins Street Rutland VT 05701 802.775.7257 [EMAIL PROTECTED] balkansnet.org -- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:39:42 -0400 From: Ivo Skoric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lesson by Thompson http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/01/europe/croatia.php Croatian folk-rock performer Marko Perkovic Thompson made a career, not to mention tons of money, exploring the nastiest deep instincts of youth that grew up in war. But I don't think that he should be banned. It would just make matters worse, perhaps. It is a problem when majority of youth starts worshiping nazi symbols, salutes and paraphernalia. Croatia should pass laws, similar to German laws, outlawing nazi paraphernalia, to stop this madness, before it takes too many heads. And educators should teach history that shows Croatian WW II nazi collaborators in the right light, instead of making them romanticized heroes, just because they happened to have fought Serbs. ivo- Ivo Skoric 105 Robbins Street Rutland VT 05701 802.775.7257 [EMAIL PROTECTED] balkansnet.org # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime nettime / OURSPACE: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture
Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to nettime. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu Culture jamming is so twentieth century! What?s next? OURSPACE: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture Christine Harold University of Minnesota Press | 232 pages | 2007 ISBN 978-0-8166-4954-9 | hardcover | $24.95 In OurSpace, Christine Harold examines the deployment and limitations of ?culture jamming? by activists. For Harold, it is a different type of opposition that offers a genuine alternative to corporate consumerism. Exploring the revolutionary Creative Commons movement, copyleft, and open source technology, Harold advocates a more inclusive approach to intellectual property that invites innovation and wider participation in the creative process. ?This book deftly navigates the borders between markets and publics. And it offers us strategies of survival in and resistance to the increasingly corporatized digital realm.? ?Siva Vaidhyanathan ?OurSpace is a handy how-to primer, with illustrations, on subversion tactics and culture-jamming that is a must-read for anyone with an anti-establishment itch to scratch, a sense of humor, and no clue what the etymology of the word ?detournement? is.? ? Baltimore City Paper ?A follow-up to the bible of brand resistance, Naomi Klein?s No Logo, Harold?s book is an academic survey of and intense meditation on the efficacy of current culture jams. She explores the limitations of sabotage, the role of parody and models of success. Adbusters, Barbie Liberation Organization, Yes Men are all placed under her scrutiny. I was familiar with all of the above, but OurSpace led me also into new territory.? --Jim Poyser, NUVO Please contribute your thoughts, links, ideas, oppositions, and provocations to the new OurSpace wiki: http://www.upress.umn.edu/wiki/index.php/OurSpace For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book?s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/harold_ourspace.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime weblogs as research tools
Hello I am doing some research about the use of weblogs as research tools and interested in anyone passing me relevant urls. What I am looking for are weblogs that are documenting research or being creatively employed (e.g. the weblog is not just documentation but integral to the research in some way) as part of research (traditional, practice-based etc.). The weblogs can be in any area (or combination) of the arts, humanities and new technologies with particular emphasis on creative output primarily as artistic work but design, architecture etc. are also relevant. The research does not have to be text based, it could be visual, aural etc. but must be focused to some degree / have some running theme, please do not send me review sites of new media art. Most of this seems to fit under three possible categories: 1) Weblogs documenting PhD's (and MA's) progress e.g. http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/. 2) Weblogs documenting other types of research by organisations or individuals which is specific and possibly a set duration e.g. http://www.nearfield.org/, http://sketchblog.ecal.ch/variable_environment/ 3) Weblogs documenting other types of research by organisations or individuals which is ongoing e.g. http://research.techkwondo.com/. Anything that anybody can send me that fits into this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. a+ gar _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asquare.org/ http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime Tactical Media Efforts of the Iraqi Sunni Insurgency -- an extensive case study
On 6/29/07, Bruce Sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biographies of the best-known martyrs are sometimes lavish affairs, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, the most famous jihadist to have died in Iraq, was the subject of a downloadable encyclopedia that includes not on numerous materials on the Jordanian militant's life, but also a complete collection of his statements, essays on his beliefs and influence, and statements on the jihad in Iraq by Osama bin Laden. Formatted as a 7.7-megabyte self-contained mini-browser, the encyclopedia provides users with a table of contents and a conventient graphics interface. Man, I wonder who's the audience for something like this? Do we have millions of desert jihadists with hundred-dollar laptops downloading this fat bit of ebook? Our was it created hoping to win the hearts and minds of young urban professional jihadists (yupjies)? ~ Jon -- Jon Lebkowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Polycot Associates http://polycot.com http://weblogsky.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime New Business Heaven in Europe
www.investinmacedonia.com This week's The Economist features full page color ad (probably expensive) Invest in Macedonia - New Business Heaven in Europe, all with the graph of (growing, of course) MBI-10 Macedonian Stock Exchange Index. All post-communist countries today proudly flout their stock exchanges, trading dozen or so stocks, like some sort of tropheys. I found myself chuckling at claims about excellent infrastructure, because I travelled through Macedonia a couple of times during 1980- s, and I think it is slightly preposterous to advertise free access to large market of 650 million customers, that includes 27 EU an d 13 other European countries with which Macedonia has Free Trade Agreements: you can open a business in Austria and be closer to that market, with advantages of even more excellent infrastructure. Also, with probably a decade before it is accepted in the EU, Macedonia is presented as EU NATO candidate country (the official name of FYROM is mentioned nowhere in the ad): but Europe is full of countries that already are NATO and EU countries, so being a candidate can obviously not be sold as an advantage. But there are things about Macedonia that can: 10% flat tax, lure of laissez fair corporate pundits, both corporate and personal income flat tax, and 10 years FREE of corporate tax if your business is in one of the two designated Free Economic Zones Technology Parks (Skopje and Stip). Besides liberal approach to taxation, the other advantage, shamelessly advetised both in The Economist and on the website, is CHEAP LABOR: abundant and competitive labour with 370 euros a month average gross salary. That's $480/month - average, so politicians, lawyers and doctors included - real laborers salary is perhaps much lower. That sure is an incentive for multi-national corporations to move in. But this is the first time I see a country so openly advertising that its primary advantage is having tons of people willing to work for peanuts! The abundance of labour is clearly defined by the highest unemployment rate in CEE (over 40% - http://www.stat.fi/isi99/proceedings/arkisto/varasto/naum0031.pdf), and this could be the last ditch effort to draw some foreign investment to the place among former Yugoslavs best remembered for failed factories (Femi). Worldbank's country brief on Macedonia in 2006 puts the unemployment rate at 37.2%, and foreign direct investment at 1.7% - this initiative surely aims to lower the first by raising the later percentage rate. More importantly, the ad promises fast company registration - 2 days; Worldbank assessed the time required to start a business at - 48 days.. (cutting red tape follows the Croatian example - hitro.hr). Good luck, Macedonia. http://www.worldbank.org.mk/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/ECAEXT/MACEDONIA EXTN/0,,contentMDK:20630587~menuPK:304480~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~th eSitePK:304473,00.html?gclid=CPeW7vbz_owCFQZiOAod7wu0Dg ivo # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Fwdfyi: GPLv3 officially released (on June 29th) some comments.
Bwo Pranesh Prakash, Commons-Law list Mon, 2 Jul 2007 (I did 'some' - p... - editing) Dear All, On Friday, June 29, 2007, GPL Version 3 was officially released. Around ten days back, Bruce Perens published a really good article on Technocrat, titled Clearing up anti-GPL3 http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/22/16651. In that article, Perens argues that GPL3 is necessary to keep up with changing technologies and to prevent innovative ways in which GPL2 could be by-passed (which was revealed during GPL3's draft stages by last year's Novell-Microsoft deal http://news.com.com/Microsoft+paying+Novell+308+million+for+Linux+pact/2100-1014_3-6133361.html(also see this humourous visual timeline of the deal, http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20070128.ars and vehemently (and successfully, IMHO) contests charges that GPL3 seeks to weaken DRMs. (These charges, I might add, were more than valid up to the 2nd draft of GPL3, when DRMs were outright banned http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060120-6024.html. He also give reasons for why the Linux kernel should shift to GPL3 (noting that there have been reservations towards this end by core kernel authors, including Linus Torvalds). However, as an article in Ars Technica (see below) notes, Torvalds has recently shifted his stance and has become more receptive of GPL3. Easy to link plain text (.txt) version of GPL3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt FSF's press release for GPL 3 http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3_launched Text of GPL3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html Statement by RMS on why one should upgrade to v3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html --- From Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070629-gpl-3-officially-released.html GPL 3 officially released By Ryan Paul | Published: June 29, 2007 - 07:57PM CT After four drafts, broad discussion, and extensive public review, the FSF has finally published the official, much-anticipated GPL revision 3 (GPL 3). The new version aims to clarify aspects of the previous version, strengthen unencumbered redistribution by imposing new patent licensing requirements, and protect the user's right to modify GPL software on embedded systems. The GPL is the most popular open-source software license, and it is used by many high-profile open-source software projects, including the Linux kernel. Unlike proprietary software licenses, the GPL explicitly guarantees users the right to modify, repurpose, and redistribute software. Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom, says FSF president Richard Stallman in a statement. Most of these programs use the GNU GPL to guarantee every user the freedom to run, study, adapt, improve, and redistribute the program. Many contentious issues in the GPL 3 caused controversy and debate throughout the draft process: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070329-new-gpl-3-draft-resolves-some-contentious-issues.htmladdressed An unexpected patent agreement between Microsoft and Novell compelled the FSF to revise the patent licensing language in a late GPL 3 draft in an effort to block deals in the future. http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20070128.ars and http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-how-the-last-call-draft-of-the-gpl-3-impacts-the-microsoftnovell-agreement.htmlsimilar Despite the controversy and debate, the highly transparent draft process has ensured that the GPL 3 is the product of broad consensus. By hearing from so many different groups in a public drafting process, we have been able to write a license that successfully addresses a broad spectrum of concerns, says FSF executive director Peter Brown in a statement. But even more importantly, these different groups have had an opportunity to find common ground on important issues facing the free software community today, such as patents, tivoization, and Treacherous Computing. Now that the GPL 3 has been released, it is likely that it will be broadly adopted within the open-source software community. Although Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds initially rejected the possibility of migrating the kernel from the GPL 2 to the GPL 3, the developer has recently statedhttp://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070613-schwartz-torvalds-talk-gpl3-and-potential-for-collaboration.htmlthat the possibility is once again under consideration. ___ commons-law mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/commons-law # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
Re: nettime Tactical Media Efforts of the Iraqi Sunni Insurgency -- an extensive case study
It's like Tiger Beat for teenage boys with high-speed internet, probably like the kids who pestered some Amsterdam gallery owners, including my girlfriend, for awhile. One of the kids signed the guestbook SHIRA, like the logo of a Swedish black metal band. Shira means someone who has sold himself to God, but this particular kid was just a schlub. They all drifted away eventually, and the majority of the kids who download al-Zarqawi's bio (likes: shura, veiled sisters; dislikes: Jews, Crusaders) probably just delete it later. Speaking of entertaining downloads, the fabled Jihad Manual should carry a disclaimer about making car bombs when you don't have access to Semtex and all the other evil professional-grade toys a war zone and helpful foreigners have to offer. Two duds and a flaming slapfight with a Glasgow cop were just embarrassing--Anarchist Cookbook-level stuff. Carl # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Tactical Media Efforts of the Iraqi Sunni Insurgency -- an extensive case study
(((My, this extensive document certainly rewards close study by the digital-media and graphic-design scholar.))) RFE/RL has released a book-length study entitled 'Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War Of Images And Ideas.' The study documents the media efforts of the Iraqi insurgency and how global jihadists are using those efforts to spread their destructive message. http://www.rferl.org/insurgentmediareport (((A few choice excerpts:))) Biographies of the best-known martyrs are sometimes lavish affairs, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, the most famous jihadist to have died in Iraq, was the subject of a downloadable encyclopedia that includes not on numerous materials on the Jordanian militant's life, but also a complete collection of his statements, essays on his beliefs and influence, and statements on the jihad in Iraq by Osama bin Laden. Formatted as a 7.7-megabyte self-contained mini-browser, the encyclopedia provides users with a table of contents and a conventient graphics interface. The development of martyr biographies illustrates the growing professionailism of the insurgent media network. In May 2005, a participant in a jihadist Internet forum posted a collection of 430 biographies of martyrs in Iraq culled from newspaper accounts, forum posts, and transcribed wills recorded by suicide bombers before their final attacks. Formatted simply as a Microsoft Word document, the biographies are uneven in length and tone, and the overall impression of the collection is somewhat chaotic. A collection titled *Stories of the Martyrs of Mesopotamia,* though undated, appears to have been published later. Produced by the Mujahidin Shura Council, it is formatted more elaborately, with a full-cover cover, graphic logos, and a background for each page. Moreover, some of the martyrs who appeared in the collection in May 2005 as single-line entries, such as Abu Ahmad al-Karbuli, are the subjects of multi-page texts in the Mujahidin Shura Council collection (...) A number of insurgent groups and sympathetic media units produce monthly and weekly publications. These are usually posted to forums through free upload/download services as both Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat documents. The more sophisticated periodicals are professionally laid out and feature lavishly formatted covers, full- color photographs, and charts and graphs. (...) Just as the operational press release is the basic unit of insurgent textual production, visual records of attacks are the basic units of insurgent video production. The two genres are closely related, and insurgent groups sometimes issue operational press releases along with links to download a video record of the attack. (...) Most insurgent groups take care to brand themselves, placing their logos in a corner of the screen for the duration of the video... Films cover a variety of subjects but break down into a number of established genres. The most common of these are: *Compilations of attack videos, frequently organized as a greatest hits collection.(...) *Profiles of martyrs and insurgents(...) *Detailed overviews of individual operations and campaigns(...) *Motivational films on the outrages and excesses committed by insurgents' enemies. (...) The impressive array of products Sunni-Iraq insurgents and their supporters create suggests the existence of a veritable multimedia empire. But this impression is misleading. The insurgent media network has no identifiable brick-and-mortar presence, no headquarters, and no bureaucracy. It relies instead on a decentralized, collaborative production model that utilizes the skills of a community of like-minded individuals. (...) # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime ICANN meeting... a report from San Juan (Deirdre Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Bytesforall)
Join the BytesForAll network :: working in South Asia, with a global focus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/join ICANN meeting - San Juan ...a correction and more Deirdre Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] First a correction - Basanta (from Nepal) is a computer programmer. He has brought with him copies of a CD Guide to OS Software, developed by the NepalLinux Team of which he is a member. More details at www.PANL10n.net He tells me that although he doesn't belong to Bytesforall, some of his friends do, so please, if you can hear me in Kathmandu and I have made another mistake - correct me :-) Yesterday I spent most of my time at the country code Name Support Organisation (ccNSO) meeting, where they were discussing the implementation of international domain names and thus use of other than Latin scripts. This naturally brought with it issues of language and culture which are my own particular interest. All of the conference documents are available on the ICANN website http://www.icann.org/, and your participation is actively (and genuinely) sought. Comments from remote participants are heard and noted. On Friday, starting at 8.30am here (1.30 pm in London, in the late afternoon or evening for many of you) the ICANN Board will hold its meeting - you can participate via an internet connection, and give your support to issues like translation which I am sure are just as important (if not more so) to you as they are to me. Another big issue here has been IPv6 which kind Dev from the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society patiently explained to me in layman's language yesterday. What it appears to boil down to is more numbers in the string and therefore a huge increase in the number of unique numbers (hence IP addresses) possible. By the time we use all of those numbers we will have a different problem - there won't be any space left for human beings :-) My observations so far suggest to me that there is a genuine opportunity for truly international participation in the management of ICANN, but one has to make the effort to speak. Don't worry if you don't speak English - send your thoughts anyway in your own language. There is a major initiative for serious consideration of translation issues - and that goes far beyond English, French and Spanish :-) Best wishes Deirdre -- FN: Frederick Noronha http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts Phone 0091-832-2409490 Cell: 091-9822122436 or 9970157402 (after 1 pm) Copying a film on copyright! GOOD COPY BAD COPY: a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime The Solemn Promise of the New Captain Cooks.
a controversial plan to combat widespread child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities. Indigenous leaders presented a letter bearing more than 90 signatures to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Mal Brough on Tuesday condemning the plan, which involves Canberra taking control of leases on Aboriginal land for five years. Pat Turner, who was once Australia's most senior Aboriginal bureaucrat, said Howard's conservative government was trying to reverse hard-fought indigenous land rights. We believe that this government is using child sexual abuse as the Trojan horse to resume total control of our land, she told reporters. No compensation will ever, ever replace our land ownership rights. The crackdown including bans on alcohol and pornography, as well as medical check-ups for all children under the age of 16 follows a damning government report into child abuse in indigenous communities. *Strong action was needed* While critics have branded it a paternalistic return to the past, Howard said strong action was needed to address a national failure comparable to Washington's botched response when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. Many Australians, myself included, looked aghast at the failure of the American federal system of government to cope adequately with Hurricane Katrina and the human misery and lawlessness that engulfed New Orleans in 2005, Howard said in a speech late on Monday. We should have been more humble. We have our Katrina, here and now. That it has unfolded more slowly and absent the hand of God should make us humbler still. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/06/26/2003366917 Australian army, police move into Aboriginal zones CONTROVERSIAL: Police and the military seized control of villages in the Northern Territory, where they will enforce bans on alcohol and pornography AFP, SYDNEY Tuesday, Jun 26, 2007, Page 5 Police and soldiers began deploying to outback Australia yesterday as part of a radical plan to end child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities, a move that has been criticized as a return to the nation's paternalistic past. Australian Prime Minister John Howard last week announced he would use police backed by military logistics to seize control of indigenous camps in the Northern Territory to protect women and children. The controversial decision, which includes bans on alcohol and pornography and medical check-ups for all children under the age of 16, was taken following a damning government report into child abuse in indigenous communities. Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough said 20 Australian Defence Force personnel were already on the ground and their number would be boosted in coming days as they prepared to deploy to remote communities. Right now I'm trying to stabilize in the order of 70-odd towns in the territory -- that is a massive undertaking, Brough said. Federal police also began arriving in the Northern Territory capital, Darwin, yesterday, along with those from several states, each of which has been asked to contribute 10 officers. But one of the most troubled communities, Mutitjulu, near Uluru, has questioned what some of its leaders termed a military occupation. The fact that we hold this community together with no money, no help, no doctor and no government support is a miracle, community leaders Bob and Dorothea Randall said in a statement released by their lawyer. Police and the military are fine for logistics and coordination, but healthcare, youth services, education and basic housing are more essential, she said. They also questioned whether children should undergo medical checks. Of course, any child that is vulnerable or at risk should be immediately protected, but a wholesale intrusion into our women and children's privacy is a violation of our human and sacred rights, the Randalls said. Former conservative prime minister Malcolm Fraser also criticized the plan as a throwback to paternalistic practices of the past, such as the removal of Aboriginal children from their families. People must be treated with respect, and in relation to this point they have not been, Fraser told ABC. In relation to that, I said it was a throwback to past paternalism because it clearly this time has been put in place, announced without any consultation with the communities, he said. Howard dismissed accusations of high-handedness over the plan, which was devised without consultation with Northern Territory leaders. I have no doubt that the women and children of indigenous communities will warmly welcome the federal government's actions, he said. -- #+34 666519359 auskadi.mjzhosting.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime We are negative
anywhere. That there had been no confrontations and protests for more than a week revealed the true purpose: to create fear. 6. The events in Copenhagen are connected to a broader global development. The repression sweeping across Copenhagen is just the latest step in a much more extensive campaign. Since the early 1970's we have been confronted with a conscious counter offensive against the last great working class resistance manifesting itself in the 1960's. The period after 1973 has been characterised by the emergence of neo-liberalism and it took almost 30 years before a new resistance was able to manifest itself again and challenge neo-liberalism. In the late 1990s it was no longer just one class fighting. The UPS strike in the States in 1997 and the protests of the counter globalisation movement in London and Seattle in 1999 opened a new frontline that was broadened with the wave of strikes spreading across Western Europe and the United States. The 'state of war' that the American president declared after 9/11 is an attempt to counter this development and as such it represents yet another turning point. With 'the war on terror' the repression that is organised in accordance with the needs of the economy is permanent everywhere through peacekeeping missions, police actions and humanitarian aid. In this world there is no difference between peace and war. We now live in a permanent state of exception, a kind of generalised civil war. 7. We expect nothing from the representation in the media. No matter what is being uttered; when passed on it will be a distortion. For the media it is of pivotal importance who says what: has-been artists or opportunistic academics cannot represent the plurality of voices that are slowly making themselves audible. We are many and our cacophonic voices all of a sudden shatter what is called the public sphere but which is in reality nothing but a closed circuit of spin, advertising and detached political phrases. Remember: We are more than they say and we say something they don't understand. We are negative. Imaginary Fraction, MayDay 2007 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime ICTY gave list of names to ICE, ICE made arrests
http://findingkaradzic.blogspot.com/2007/02/not-smart.html In the last two years, a military intelligence analyst working at the Hague combed all ICTY testimony for names of Bosnian Serb men who may bear a connection to war crimes. The resulting list of 14,000 was handed off to US immigration officials,... http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/070621chicago.htm CHICAGO - Four Bosnian men residing in local suburbs were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents Tuesday for concealing their prior service in the Bosnian-Serb military so they could enter the United States as refugees. I am curious where they are going to be deported - Bosnia or Serbia? Are they going to be treated unfairly, and perhaps cruelly in Bosnia, because of the perceived war crimes? Are they going to be unduly pampered in Serbia (because of the same)? Does anybody knows them in Bosnia - do they have friends and/or enemies, Dalibor Butina, 33; Radovan Jankovic, 61; Vlado Kecojevic, 53; Branislaw Cancar, 47? ivo- Ivo Skoric 105 Robbins Street Rutland VT 05701 802.775.7257 [EMAIL PROTECTED] balkansnet.org # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Political opposition and communication technology in Egypt
This is an English translation of the transcript of a meeting entitled Bloggers in Prison, Too, which took place on 18 March 2007 at the Centre for Socialist Studies in Cairo, Egypt: http://www.political-explorations.info/en/wiki/Bloggers_in_Prison%2C_Too The background for the meeting was the case of Abd Al-Karim Nabil Sulaiman, an Egyptian blogger sentenced to four years in prison for 'contempt of religion'[1]. The discussion touched on many subjects, including the worldwide battle against freedom of expression, the state of Egypt's opposition groups, young people's participation in protests, the political role of blogs, the loss of privacy and the spread of wireless Internet technology. Some excerpts from Alaa Seif's talk: Most of those tools [for protecting privacy on the Internet] have been designed on the basis of the assumption that kidnapping and torture have a very high financial and social cost So if they got a copy of that encrypted email and wanted to decrypt it, the cost of breaking the code would be ten thousand times more than the cost of kidnapping you and torturing you and saying: 'Tell us what you said in that email.' [laughter] But that's based on the cost of kidnapping and torturing you where? In Switzerland. [laughter] Great! OK, what's the cost of kidnapping and torturing you in Egypt? About 5 Egyptian pounds [i.e. next to nothing]. [laughter] See what I mean? I'm totally serious. Today if you go to my home town... you'll find wireless Internet antennas on the towers in which pigeons are raised. That's a local area network. They can block web sites so that when I'm sitting in Egypt I can't see what's out there, but as soon as something gets into our local area network, it will spread. This wireless technology is very cheap, very easy to use, and it's the sort of thing Egyptians are good at. You know, just like we've got car mechanics who know how do things that nobody else knows how to do, just wait until you see what will happen with wireless technology in Egypt. One important thing is that we have to get in early as creators and inventors. What's happened now is that we reuse technology that was designed for us elsewhere, and we're very good at putting things to new uses. But for some things... that might not be good enough in some cases, so we need to come up with solutions ourselves. Ben [1] http://www.freekareem.org/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime long war, long art, long digest [robinson x2, peraica]
Re: [YASMIN-msg] War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007) Zev Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zev Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ana Peraica [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Zev Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [YASMIN-msg] War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:34:11 +0200 It's not that I necessarily disagree with a lot of what you say, Ana, but I do think it's a more complex issue. The media may in some senses promote passivism, but also encourages, in some, activism. The effect of the media in ending the war in Vietnam has been long commented on, and I think it has had a role to play in changing public opinion and increasing awareness of certain situations. How people react to it is another question. Certain war photographers are activists, do what they do for strong convictions. Again, see the War Photographer documentary on James Natchwey, or read Magnum, Fifty Years in the Front line of History. you went to Venice, as did I - that time and money could have been spent helping war or poverty victims in a variety of ways. did you also go to protest at the g8 conference? Also, as individuals we are a mix of being passive and active, and virtually all of us in the developed world are overconsumers, and use our oil and other resources, and so we are all sponsors of crimes. None of us are innocent. Best, Zev Zev Robinson www.artafterscience.com www.zrdesign.co.uk - Original Message - From: Ana Peraica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: YASMIN-messages [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nettime-l@bbs.thing.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [YASMIN-msg] War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007) Dear Zev, The discussion can go many directions, especially those of ethics of reporting, I am forwarding to you some of them from the Nettime list: ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Zev Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [YASMIN-msg] War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:34:19 +0200 Hi Ana, If I remember correctly, that was Susan Sontag's position in On = Photography. But it's not necessarily true, it's based on the assumption = of a dichotomy between physically taking care of someone, and taking a = photograph. If a war photographer wasn't taking pictures, he probably = wouldn't be in that area at all in the first place, maybe he'd be taking = fashion or sports photographs. And when we, who aren't photographers, = see a homeless person, very few of us stop and ask what his needs or = problems are and what we can do to really help. So if a war photographer = wasn't taking photographs, the victims of war wouldn't be any better = off. When we're writing emails, or going to art shows, or watching the = news, we're not actually helping any victims either. You also trivialize the impact of the photographs by saying it's for = someone else's coffee break (or for Sontag to write a book on). Although = that may often be the case, and certainly there's a process of becoming = desensitised from an overexposure to images, photographs, and the media = in general with all its faults, have an important role in our political = and social awareness, and taken in a wider context, can and have been a = catalyst for positive change.=20 If we didn't have Cartier-Bresson or Robert Capa or James Natchwey, or = the BBC or CNN, or Apocalypse Now or The Thin Red Line, our awareness = would be lessened, our culture (even more) impoverished, and those who = commit war crimes all the happier. Best, Zev Zev Robinson www.artafterscience.com www.zrdesign.co.uk I've seen photos of wounded children, you have seen them probably = too... ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:50:31 +0200 From: Ana Peraica [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [YASMIN-msg] War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007) Dear Zev, I understand you think I am Spanish (there is a letter missing in transcription of my family name). Actually I am Croatian and I went to Venice hitchhiking last time, but this time there was also a trouble for arriving there . http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20070531/kultura01.asp (if you read Croatian) it is actual 10 years long unemployment in the post-war very corrupted country - so I actually know quite some on war, profiteerism etc... Moreover, my grand-father was a well known and awarded war photographer (with the letter I lost j in the family name) and I write you (at this moment) from the photo atelier. best, Ana hola Ana, perdon para escribirte off-list, pero si quieres una copia de War Photographer en version divx, mandame una direccion. me lo dio un amigo de madrid, y ha tenido mucho impacto. Zev It's not that I
nettime Tamil Media Website Blocked in Sri Lanka
Hi, During the past couple of days reports had surfaced from various people about the difficulty of accessing TamilNet - the pro Tamil Tiger website. Now it seems to official - TamilNet.com has been blocked by the Sri Lankan Government. As of this moment (20 June 2007), it is not possible to access www.tamilnet.com via an ISP in Sri Lanka. TamilNet is NOT an independent media, however it's an important source of information for those living in Sri Lanka. http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/ And for it to be described as the voice of a liberation movement, depends on the way the Tamil Tigers (or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam / LTTE) are perceived. The LTTE are labeled a terrorist organisation by the US, EU, India and Canada. They have a persistent track record of recruiting child soldiers. They popularised the suicide bomber. The LTTE, for the past 25 years, claimed to be fighting for a separate homeland for the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka, who they claim they represent. It is next to impossible to determine how much support the LTTE really has. But, the Sri Lankan State - according to your perspective, is no better. Abductions, killings, extortion and intimidation allegations have been leveled against the Government and its proxies. The Sri Lankan Government's human rights record is condemned internationally. For some background, read: http://nautilus.rmit.edu.au/forum-reports/0712a-de-silva.html In Sri Lanka, the media is in crisis. Earlier this year, . There is the State run media - which is effectively a propaganda channel for the Government. Then there are a number of private media that shape their output depending on their own interests. In order to ascertain a picture of Sri Lanka - it's essential to read across many media, and that includes reading what TamilNet publishes. ## Call to mirror TamilNet.com It would be an interesting action for a tech-group or individual to mirror www.TamilNet.com under another URL. This would make obsolete the blocks already in place. It is possible to access the website via Google - but the browsing conditions aren't ideal. It may be that the website has already been mirrored... For more information about media freedom in Sri Lanka, http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20798 Best, Sam. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Clamping down on the Internet: The ban on Tamilnet in Sri Lanka
*From: *FMM [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Date: *20 June 2007 9:30 AM *To: *'free media movement' [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: **FMM press release* *Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka | Hotline +94 (0) 777289289* * * *Clamping down on the Internet: The ban on Tamilnet in Sri Lanka* /20^th June 2007, Colombo, Sri Lanka/: The Free Media Movement is deeply disturbed to learn that Tamilnet -- www.tamilnet.com http://www.tamilnet.com/ - a web based Tamil news website, is now being blocked by all major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Sri Lanka on the orders of the government. This is a significant turn in the erosion of media freedom in Sri Lanka and clearly demonstrates the extent to which media is censored and the free flow of information curtailed, without any accountability, transparency or judicial oversight. Tamilnet is one of most widely visited and well-known news websites in Sri Lanka. Hosted abroad, the website is frequented by journalists from all ethnicities, civil society and the donor and diplomatic community as well as the diaspora for situation updates, analysis and feature articles. Popularised from relative obscurity by the late Tamil journalist Sivaram Dharmaratnam, who up until his murder in April 2005 was its Editor. Though widely considered to be biased towards the LTTE, Tamilnet offers alternative perspectives, insight and information not often featured on other websites and in mainstream print electronic media in Sri Lanka. The ban on Tamilnet is the first instance of what the FMM believes may soon be a slippery slope of web Internet censorship in Sri Lanka. It is also a regrettable yet revealing extension of this Government's threats against and coercion of print and electronic media in Sri Lanka since assuming office in late 2005. The ban damningly occurs at a time when an International Mission on Press Freedom and the Freedom of Expression is in Sri Lanka to ascertain and alert stakeholders to the chilling decline in media freedom, violence against journalists and an unbridled culture of impunity. The FMM stresses that the danger of censoring the web Internet is that it gives a Government and State agencies with no demonstrable track record of protecting strengthening human rights and media freedom flimsy grounds to violate privacy, curtail the free flow of information and restrict freedom of expression - thus adding a heavy price in terms of diminished civil liberties to the high toll exacted by terrorism itself. The action by the Sri Lankan Government also contravenes established best practices in the free flow of information on the Internet and internationally recognised principles of the Freedom of Expression on the web. In particular, the ban goes against the declaration by Reporters Without Borders and the OSCE on Freedom of the Media in 2005 that states, /inter alia/; #2. In a democratic and open society it is up to the citizens to decide what they wish to access and view on the Internet. Filtering or rating of online content by governments is unacceptable... Any policy of filtering, be it at a national or local level, conflicts with the principle of free flow of information. #4. ... A decision on whether a website is legal or illegal can only be taken by a judge, not by a service provider. Such proceedings should guarantee transparency, accountability and the right to appeal. Blocking access to media and restricting information are characteristic of the reprehensible strategies adopted by terrorists. The FMM is gravely concerned that the Sri Lankan government, in adopting the same tactics and strategies, severely undermines media freedom and the freedom of expression and calls upon it and relevant State authorities to immediately rescind the orders to block the access to Tamilnet. Sunanda Deshapriya Convenor Free Media Movement *for more information** - (+94) 777 315665** Spokesperson- S. Sivakumar 0777 315665* Convenor -- Sunanda Deshapriya ( 0777 312457) -- Secretary -- Sunil Jayasekara ( 011 2851672/3) No. 237/22, Wijeya Kumaratunga Road, Colombo - 05., Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], www.freemediasrilanka.org http://www.freemediasrilanka.org/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Workshop on Art Activism and the Camp for Climate Action
Departure Lounge: A weekend workshop designing creative resistance against the root causes of Climate Change. 13 â 15 July, near Heathrow, London.  I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. â Dennis Potter, in The Sunday Times, 4 June 1978. Some of the most successful political movements have been those that have developed creative forms of protest: the suffragettes chaining themselves to buildings, the beautiful tree houses of the anti roads protesters, the Zapatistas with their poetic communiqués and masks, Reclaim the Streets' rebel carnivals, the Italian white overalls' imaginative take on civil disobedience. All these forms have emerged when the unbridled imagination of art mixes with the deep social engagement of politics. The growing radical movement for climate justice needs its own new forms. Departure Lounge is a weekend workshop where we will collectively explore the spaces between art and activism and design creative actions in preparation for the Camp for Climate Action - http:// www.climatecamp.org.uk - The Camp, which takes place near Heathrow from 14th to 21st August, has been described by the Independent as âGlastonbury, science seminar and protest all in oneâ. It mixes low-impact ecological living, dozens of workshops and mass direct action aimed at the root causes of climate change. This year it will be targeting the aviation industry and airport expansion. At the workshop we will work together to create imaginative new forms of protest, share skills and ideas, and design events/actions that will take place during the Camp to engage, delight, provoke, challenge and encourage participation. The weekend is suitable for those who are interested in work that does not merely ârepresentâ a political issue, nor serves as propaganda but directly confronts and transforms the issue itself. If you are interested in radically engaged practices that look neither like art nor activism but take the best of both of these worlds, that sit somewhere between direct action and performance, resistance and creativity then this workshop is for you. A key inspiration for the workshop will be Steven Duncombeâs concept of creating âEthical Spectaclesâ â see http://turbulence.org.uk/ politicsinanageo.html Taking place from the evening of Friday 13th July to late Sunday afternoon, 15th July, the workshop will be funded on a donations basis. We hope to be in one of the villages threatened with destruction by the expansion of Heathrow airport. The exact location will be confirmed later. Facilitated by artist/activist John Jordan, and writer/activist Katharine Ainger, the workshop aims to inject a large dose of radical imagination into the rising movements for climate justice. Places will be limited so please fill in the attached form and email it to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- before the 29th June. We will confirm your place by 1st July. Even if you have done nothing like this before, please consider applying. We are looking for a diversity of perspectives. If you have special needs for attendance please let us know once your application has been received and accepted.  âHeathrow is its own city, a Vatican of the western suburbs⦠The airport complex with its international hotels, storage facilities, semi-private roads, is as detached from the shabby entropy of the metropolis as is the City, the original walled settlement. They have their own rules, their own security forces, the arrogance of global capitalism. They service Moloch in whatever form he chooses to reveal himself; they facilitate drug/armament, blood/oil economies.â - Ian Sinclair, âLondon Orbitalâ  The Camp for Climate Action - 2007 - August 14th-21st - http:// www.climatecamp.org.uk # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Re: [YASMIN-msg] War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)
Dear Zev, The discussion can go many directions, especially those of ethics of reporting, I am forwarding to you some of them from the Nettime list: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0706/msg00022.html http://nettime.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2007/06/13/re-nettime-war-profiteers-in-art-biennale-di-venezia-2007-4.html http://www.mail-archive.com/nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg04218.html http://www.mail-archive.com/nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg04225.html There are plenty of reasons why to think about that imagery and various perspectives which should be brought to publi discussion. Namely, the possibility that the public is actually participating in a crime of war is enormous (by indolence, by passivity, or even by perverse consummation that co-produces war by media interest in war continuation - as the third side) and that comes obvious when someone makes art out of that. I can be more radical for this particular media interest and say - some TV stations are actually producing SNUFF movies. Their reports are not serving for the recognition of victims or helping victims but are proliferating images of death for own reason producing a Big Brother / reality show of war as genre. That imagery does not serve to help victims but is even more making them - objects of perverse consumption (which is known symptom of all victims reports, for example a women reports on the rape in police station asking for more and more of details) no more satisfied with WW2 movies. If you accept that difference, which actually exists in movie industry for the same imagery as genre and rating in genre, not separating real or not-real images you can ask yourself are we are sponsoring a crime? best, Ana I can't comment about the specific works refered to as I havent seen them, and I consider a lot, but certainly not all, of what the art world shows frivolous, whether on the subject of war or not. Nor do I disagree with what you say, Ana, it's just that it's more complex than that. Viewing photographs and newsreels is certainly removed from seeing an actual event, but at the same time press coverage played a large role in ending the war in Vietnam, and subsequently there has been a concerted effort to control and limit images of death and destruction (especially of those of US soldiers in Iraq) in the press. So tho they may be a step removed from actual reality, images have a powerful impact. How they impact, and how we act and react as individuals, is again, extremely complex. Sontag went to Sarejevo not to be a nurse and care for the wounded, but to write, and to write for a relatively small audience at that. Art, the art world, and its relationship to culture in its wider sense is complex. Certainly, some artists use topical issues as a means of getting attention, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything about the works themselves. War profiteers and others of dubious moral standing have been patrons of the arts, and have been portrayed and glorified in art, in what is considered great art. There are press photographers waiting eagerly for the next war so that they can get their adreline rush, get paid, have a career, but with the result that an awareness of certain events is brought to the larger world, albeit at a safe distance. Perhaps the reporting and images were a factor in Sontag's visit to Sarajevo. I recently saw the excellent and highly recommended documentary War Photographer on James Natchwey, who has gone to the some of the worst places in the world, confront humanity at its worst and ugliest, and whether what you say, Ana, may or may not apply to him, or to yourself, or to me, he goes to these places with uncompromising commitment, whereas you and I go to Venice. Best, Zev Zev Robinson www.artafterscience.com www.zrdesign.co.uk - Original Message - From: rmalina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: YASMIN-messages [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [YASMIN-msg] War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007) Ana I have been thinking for a few days how to reply to your very thougtful email about the Venice Biennale and the way that war has become a way for the commercial art marketplace to get attention= as you say in a way that is more like war tourism than any real approach to human solidarity. And also how the wars that are shown are the ones that are politically and ideologically convenient for people in the commercial art marketplace. ( It is so much easier to attack injustice in a foreign country that to talk about the injustice in ones own) So what are artists and scientists to do in times of war ? This was the question that Michele Emmer asked at the time when he was in italy under the flight paths of bombers on their way to Kosovo. today in med rim we have terrible pain and suffering again in Lebanon, there is a conflict about to explode between turkey and the kurdish part of iraq
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http://www.radio101.hr/?section=1page=1item=28608 (article in Croatian) Feral Tribune, for 14 years the Croatian pre-eminent political satire magazine, responsible for broadening the press freedoms in the emerging post-Yugoslav states, stopped publishing today. What neither war, nor communism, nor Tudjman, nor rabid nationalism, nor cruel forces of the free market could accomplish, quiet but persistent force of bureaucracy did. Feral was dealt blow after blow by judicial awards for emotional suffering to various Croatian public figures claiming being insulted by Feral's clever photo-montage or irreverent comments. While advertisers kept clear from controversial publication starving it of resources, the final nail in the coffin was nabbed by the Financial Ministry, slapping Feral with the $100k bill in back taxes, charged under Croatian medieval tax code, where State takes 22% - more than 1/5 - of every financial transaction. Debate to save Feral from untimely death is presently under way in Croatian cabinet and Croatian parliament. ivo # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime The Society of the Unspectacular
I'll propose a purely information-theory and somewhat mechanical answer to this issue. As the art is effected through the exposure to information (which will hopefully fire some unused synapses and modify the future behaviour of its customers,) the real change with the networked society is that the noise floor of the information intake is going up. Until up to few decades ago, information feed was mostly a matter of choice - one would go to the church, read a book, watch something on the screen, peep through the hole, etc. Today the choice is mostly about which information gets stopped - our decision efforts are about what we don't want to find out - we are burning brain cycles not for seeking but for defense. Getting less shit is considered to be a success. There are few resources left for finding gems. It's like wartime - you are lucky to find uncontaminated food and bullet-proof shelter, there is no time for chefs and architects. Unlike regular war where most eventually get pissed at the carnage, it is not clear that there is a viable opposition to the information carpet bombing. It is clear, however, that while it's going on you can forget about art. end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime inquiry for Chlebnikov recordings
For one of my ongoing things I'm rather desperately looking for recordings made of/by a Russian native speaker reading/performing Velemir Chlebnikov's Zangezi pieces. There's an old Italian recording available at Ubu web, but unfortunately that is quite useless for my needs. What I need is a reading/performance allowing a non-Russian speaking person like myself to get a feel for the text based on correct pronunciation , and , if possible, a somewhat coherent interpretation/understanding of the texts. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone on either of these lists could point me to an existing recording. Thank you, dirk Dirk Vekemans, poet freelance webdeveloper www.vilt.net www.viltdigitalvision.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
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nettime Venice Biennial Africa Pavilion: Electric Africa and the digital
One of the things that intrigues me the most these days in the kinds of discussions like nettime or IDC is the relentless fact that culture plays such a pivotal role of what acts as a strange attractor to sites like myspace and facebook, but is given relatively short shrift in the dialog about how digital media actually functions in daily life. Why would someone want to turn their life inside out to become loenlygirl15? Why would someone rename themself Kool Keith? Hip hop and electronic music have paved the way for so much of the discourse of what makes the social fabric of the web function - from grafiti tags to instant messages, from audio logos and mixtapes to podcasts, the parallels are still enmeshed in the division the academy tends to foster. I like to think of it as the politics of perception. At any rate, I thought I'd send the list a brief about a mix CD of digital music from throughout Africa that was put together for the Venice Biennial. The CD I made of hip hop and electronic music from all over Africa is now online free - you can check the podcast mix out at http://djspooky.com/articles/venice_2007.html the CD will be given away at select events for the rest of the year. And yes folks, it's contemporary art. in peace, Paul aka Dj Spooky Blurb: Electric Africa Brian Eno once famously remarked that the problem with computers is that there isn't enough Africa in them. I kind of think that its the opposite: they're bringing the ideals of Africa: after all, computers are about connectivity, shareware, a sense of global discussion about topics and issues, the relentless density of info overload, and above all the willingness to engage and discuss it all - that's something you could find on any street corner in Africa. I just wanted to highlight the point: Digital Africa is here, and has been here for a while. This isn't retro - it's about the future. For the Venice Biennial 2007 I decided to go through alot of my files of music from around the African Continent to accompany my installation for the Africa Pavilion. I looked through my record collection for non cliche kinds of stuff like the Baka People who make drums out the way they play in water or the Car Horn Orchestra of Ghana which has a gathering of many taxi drivers who converge in downtown Accra to make a large symphony of honks from their taxis at the end of the work day or for funerals of drivers. When I was a kid I went through different parts of Africa with my mother: we went to Kenya, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Egypt, and this was the first time I'd been to Angola. The mix reflects alot of my interests in electronic music from the continent, and the way they've shaped and moulded alot of material in the New World. The Ghost World mix is all about the multiple rhythms and languages of Africa, but it makes no attempt to give you everything - it's from my record collection. That's why the story of the mix is about: polyrhythm, multiplex reality. There's even more current material like the Kuduru sounds of Luanda (who says Techno doesn't exist in Africa!?) and old school hip hop like Zimbabwe Legit from the early 90's of classic conscious school hip hop. Yes there's material from Akon, but he gets mixed with Nelson Mandela, or MC Solaar, but I looked for material of his that combined with jazz, so Ron Carter's brilliant bass playing worked out with that. There's even material from my favorite South African composer, Abdullah Ibrahim or vocal outtakes from David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life in The Bush of Ghosts and various guest appearances by African dictator Idi Amin or the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo talking about democracy in Nigeria. Pretty ironic, eh? From the Northern part of the continent groups like the Lotfi Double Kanon or the Master Musicians of Jajouka represent radically different approaches to history and contemporary Arab culture's complex hybridity, as does the legendary voice of Egypt, Oum Kalthoum. It'd be a pretty wild party to see them all hanging out together!!! Anyway, contemporary Africa is a place of paradox where some of the world's most resource rich countries are bound hand and foot by corruption, human malice, and the basic sense that the continent has been left out of the march of progress of many of the rich nations of the world. I made elements of this mix when I was in Luanda, Angola, getting ready for the Venice Biennial, and the sound that was coming out of all the clubs and soundsystems was Kuduru a kind of relentlessly fast minimalist rhythm that combines hiphop and techno. I like to think of this mix as a homage to Ben Okri's novels and the classic works of Amos Tutuola. William Gibson said back in the ancient early 90's: The future is already here, it's unevenly distributed. I like to think that the mix is about the future of Africa and its global diaspora as much as it is about the past. History is never
Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)
I am not sure if there are two Benjamins or one (I copy pasted emails that did not appear on the list) ? I forward these emails to Nettime ana benjamin wrote: interesting points on an ever-open issue. consider that without mass-media, would it be possible to say that very few people would hear about the grievances of the world? news spread without media, gossip is still faster than the press if so it could be said that the mass-media is both guilty of supplying information and more often than not, yes - they live on that first of all. imagine no war on the planet for a year: CNN becoming a peace station - falling number of the public - loosing jobs war reporters. no brave prefix to journalist heroes leaving it's observers totally helpless towards being able to influence. on the other hand; in following a story, the observer is able to satisfy their caring impulses by being able to express their concern with other sharers of the mass's global information media - to neutralize such impulses through passive engagement in the materials without which there would have most probably been no issue in the first place. yes entertainment for the compassionate soul? what can we learn of humanitarian impulses when drawing a distinction with say sexual impulses for example? mean like eros and thanatos consuming. but these images are different in peace and war society. afterthought: what differences and similarities lay between the mass-media of a country with a functioning economy and working public, and the mass-media of a country which does not have this stability?... pacification/motivation ? i don't think it matters. advertising and propaganda do function the same way, only goals are different. Benjamin Geer wrote: The night they showed POWs and the dead soldiers, Al Jazeera showed them, it was powerful, because Americans don't show those kinds of images. In most of the news, America won't show really gory images, and this showed American soldiers in uniform, strewn about a floor, a cold tile floor, and it was revolting. It was absolutely revolting. It made me sick at my stomach. And then what hit me was, the night before, there had been some kind of bombing in Basra, and Al Jazeera had shown images of the people, and they were equally if not more horrifying, the images were. And I remember having seen it in the Al Jazeera office and thought to myself, 'Wow, that's gross. That's bad.' And then going away and probably eating dinner or something, and you know, it didn't affect me as much. So the impact that had on me made me realise that I just saw people on the other side, and those people in the Al Jazeera office must have felt the way I was feeling that night. And it upset me on a profound level that I wasn't bothered as much the night before. I found this very strange. Why was it different for him to see dead American bodies than to see dead Iraqi bodies? The only explanation I can think of is nationalism. Nationalism makes you feel compassion for some people and not others. But that is media intoxication. Show him ANY body not telling the nation and ask how he feels and you can see only two things: a human or a psychopath. If the second - deal with care... So you're right that showing dead bodies isn't necessarily going to make any difference. But the media play an important role in constructing people's nationalist feelings, in teaching people that some dead bodies matter more than others. That is the actual calculation with death, but media is supporting that as if the number matters!!! No number matters as those are persons, and for their families only some matter. The calculation of numbers of dead people is really, really necrophiliac. But what matters are their families - so what you have at the end is families of 8500 people and it is natural that everyone tries to find some meaning in death (a big deal of the civilization based on that quest). And when none recognizes their lost it is what you get. First one that say it was not without reason are getting them into more and more of troubles, nation is one explanation, it can be religion too, social explanation But, the worst is that after becoming a number - they are used to provoke a new conflict which probably they would not approve themselves if they would be alive. If there were no news about the war, nobody outside Iraq would even be aware that there's a war going on. One may give the opposite argument: if there would be no report on war on Iraq it would never been used in different campaigns so - less evil would happen. I don't understand. What campaigns? Do you mean the anti-war campaigns? Also war campaign. Here in Egypt where I live at the moment, nearly everyone seems to watch Al Jazeera. I watch it, too. Practically every evening, the lead story is about the dead and wounded in Iraq or the occupied Palestinian
nettime A youtube for the activist world
smaller for easier and faster transport on the web, or so it will fit on a disc. Roughly, in DV format, only four minutes of video will fit in one gigabyte of space. This is too big to transfer over the internet, or even put on disc. So you need to compress your video. There are varied tools with which one can compress a video. First, one needs to export the file from your non-linear editing program such as Premiere, Vegas Video, iMovie OR Final Cut. In terms of video compression tools, there are currently a number of softwares available. From the world of proprietorial software these include Cleaner, Canopus ProCoder, Quicktime Pro, Flash etc. In the case of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (or shareware), there's Virtual Dub and Media Coder FOR PC, ffmpegX for Mac, Gtranscode for GNU/Linux and mencoder also for GNU/Linux. Video compression terminology needs some understanding. It has various standards -- MPEG1, MPEG2, H.264 (which are mostly rules set by Motion Pictures Experts Group). Compression formats or containers have file-endings like .avi, .mpg, .mov, or .ogg. These are the wrapper for the audio/video information. CodecS -- the algorithm for compressing and decompressing -- include the video codecs Theora, XviD AND Sorenson 3 and the audio codecs AAC or lame MP3. There are a number of software players for video files. One which is attracting the most attention nowadays is VLC. This is free software and open source-based and also cross-platform so will work on Mac, PC and GNU/Linux But there are also others like Democracy, Mplayer, Quicktime, Flash, Windows Media or Real Media. Browser plugins that enable you to watch video in Firefox or Internet Explorer include VLC, Cortado java applet, Quicktime, Flash, Windows Media and Real Media. Your video settings depend on the screening quality required. You could opt for the .avi format and the XviD codec TO enable your audience to download a decent copy to screen on a TV or in a cinema. For web-streaming, the .mov (QT progressive) format is suitable together with the Sorensen 3 codec. For video screening quality, you need a data rate of approximiately 1200 kbits/sec, and the resolution should be either PAL or NTSC, whichever was the original format. Web streaming comes out good enough if you have a data rate of 128-300 kbits/sec, with a resolution of 320x240. For audio settings (screening quality), use a data rate of 128 kbits/sec, with the codec of Lame .mp3. Web streaming suffices with around 64 kbits/sec and a codec of Lame .mp3. How does one test whether a file would work? Says Anna: Test your compression settings by outputting a 30 second clip of your movie first. Try different settings until you get the result you want. Try videohelp.com for more info or the Guide to Digital Video Distribution and tutorials available on www.engagemedia.org There is a new documentation project being set up to aid video makers in the use of FLOSS video tools by the Transmission Network, a collaboration between www.ourvideo.org and www.flossmanuals.org. Check these sites for details. -- FN: Frederick Noronha Phone 0091-832-2409490 http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)
the role of the war reporter that has emancipated indicating a cultural Well, the text not immediately on that, but... need for the distant trauma in public Sometimes it's not so distant. People in Iraq do watch TV news reports about the war going on around them. Good if they have the electricity! Not quite common for war zones. But, reporting within a war serves for the immediate civilian function, but war reporting for people that do not do anything about the war - but only watch it on a daily base (see Sontag: Regarding the pain of others) actually turns out only into an adrenaline provoking to the society of the spectacle. So the difference is TO WHOM you are reporting: to people you save immediately or to those that will just browse channels / or walk through an exhibition. You can simply see the number of CNN public and see how many of people do see those news and do nothing about it. And it is indeed a difference of the owner of the media for whom you are reporting as it can also make much more of damage, becoming a propaganda for getting new elections of a single person, for example. As as most of the media is owned by interested owners they turn out to propaganda, which is the question FOR WHAT purpose. It indeed reminded me of plenty of conferences on war topics in which speakers were caught in war for a day, having all kinds of bullet-protection jackets and who had only made troubles to local police that had to cover them up instead of taking care for children, old people and women in danger that would not be able to escape, as these reporters A lot of reporters have been killed in Iraq, and quite a few of them have been Iraqis: http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3 Yes, it is sad for any person, but in the amount of people getting killed over there that would stay anonymous. To get a sense of why some journalists risk their lives to cover wars, you could have a look at the BBC documentary Control Room, about Al-Jazeera's coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, perhaps especially the part about Al-Jazeera journalist Tariq Ayyoub, who was killed by an American air strike on the Al Jazeera office in Baghdad, and the statement by his widow, in which she implores a gathering of journalists to persist in telling the truth about the war. One question, the same one: has that truth helped to Srebrenica? I am sorry for enforcing this issue but it happens now and the media seems to be interesting only when the massacre was going on: media has abandoned them. I do not expect to be corrected in theory there or numbers of killed journalists, no number of those that got killed should ever server for another ones to suffer, as that is actually the war logic. It is a matter of doing. Ana # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)
On 11/06/07, Ana Peraica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking again on the role of the war reporter that has emancipated indicating a cultural need for the distant trauma in public Sometimes it's not so distant. People in Iraq do watch TV news reports about the war going on around them. It indeed reminded me of plenty of conferences on war topics in which speakers were caught in war for a day, having all kinds of bullet-protection jackets and who had only made troubles to local police that had to cover them up instead of taking care for children, old people and women in danger that would not be able to escape, as these reporters A lot of reporters have been killed in Iraq, and quite a few of them have been Iraqis: http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3 To get a sense of why some journalists risk their lives to cover wars, you could have a look at the BBC documentary Control Room, about Al-Jazeera's coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, perhaps especially the part about Al-Jazeera journalist Tariq Ayyoub, who was killed by an American air strike on the Al Jazeera office in Baghdad, and the statement by his widow, in which she implores a gathering of journalists to persist in telling the truth about the war. Ben # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime ephemera Immaterial and affective labor: explored issue released
ephemera Immaterial and affective labor: explored issue released The new issue (7.1) of ephemera: theory politics in organization, entitled immaterial and affective labor: explored, has just been published at http://www.ephemeraweb.org. This latest special issue offers a critical engagement with the conceptual and political territory animated by the deployment of such ideas in the work of Hardt, Negri, Lazzarato, Virno and others, and follows previous explorations of class composition and politics in ephemera (for instance in the issues on 'the theory of the multitude' and 'writing: labour'). That it refers to both a conceptual and a political territory means two things: on the one hand, that the critical engagements herein are not aimed at theoretical clarification alone, but seek to address directly the questions and practices of politics and organisation thrown up by debates on immaterial and affective labour; on the other, that the form of the engagement is not reduced to the field of (post-)Operaismo, but aims at bringing together empirical insights into the present forms of organisation of labour, and is open to inflections coming from other disciplines and areas, such as organisation studies and labour process theory. As our guest editors suggest, the space in which these debates take place is defined by a 'double ambivalence' deriving from, on the one hand, the excess that labour always produces and that capital always necessarily needs to recuperate, and, on the other, the particular novelty of contemporary cycles of struggle, that is, their capacity to intercommunicate and the heightened attention to the composition of difference they require. It is this ambivalence that makes questions of flight and capture, 'victory' and 'defeat', impossible to pose and foreclose within a general theoretical framework. This is what necessitates an analysis of resistance and struggle, class composition as well as political organization, as an enquiry placed alongside the actual practices of those who work and struggle today: theory as an element in organisation, rather than as an end in itself. editorial Emma Dowling, Rodrigo Nunes and Ben Trott Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored articles Adam Arvidsson Creative Class or Administrative Class? On Advertising and the 'Underground' George Caffentzis Crystals and Analytical Engines: Historical and Conceptual Preliminaries to a New Theory of Machines Kristin Carls Affective Labour in Milanese Large Scale Retailing: Labour Control and E mp loyees' Coping Strategies Patricia Ticineto Clough, Greg Goldberg, Rachel Schiff, Aaron Weeks and Craig Willse Notes Towards a Theory of Affect-Itself Antonio Conti, Anna Curcio, Alberto De Nicola, Paolo Do, Serena Fredda, Margherita Emiletti, Serena Orazi, Gigi Roggero, Davide Sacco, Giuliana Visco The Anamorphosis of Living Labour Mark Coté and Jennifer Pybus Learning to Immaterial Labour 2.0 Mariarosa Dalla Costa Rustic and Ethical Emma Dowling Producing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker Experimental Chair on the Production of Subjectivity Call Center : The Art of Virtual Control Leopoldina Fortunati Immaterial Labor and Its Machinization Max Henninger Doing the Math: Reflections on the Alleged Obsolescence of the Law of Value under Post-Fordism Rodrigo Nunes 'Forward How? Forward Where?' I: (Post-) Operaismo Beyond the Immaterial Labour Thesis Ben Trott Immaterial Labour and World Order: An Evaluation of a Thesis Kathi Weeks Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics Elizabeth Wissinger Modelling a Way of Life: Immaterial and Affective Labour in the Fashion Modelling Industry Steve Wright Back to the Future: Italian Workerists Reflect Upon The Operaista Project See details of how to be regularly informed about new ephemera issues at: http://www.ephemeraweb.org/emailalerts -- Stevphen Shukaitis Autonomedia Editorial Collective http://www.autonomedia.org http://slash.interactivist.net Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master's rule. - subRosa Collective # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list
Re: nettime The Society of the Unspectacular
We all like to stand on the corpses of giants; it makes us seem taller, but one should note, that it makes the footing mushy. A superficial attachment of the historical limits of the situationists to a particular set of technologies or their social configurations is very old and very tired news, nor is it particularly accurate. The same condition of pseudo-agency, which the situationists described as the spectacle-once again: not a collection of images but a relationship among people mediated by images-can be seen to reign in the inter-passivity of the internet. What once reigned in the corridors of domestic architecture devoted to worshipping television, now reigns on the screens of laptops in Starbuckstm worldwide. The commodity form still reigns, but it reigns as information. Its masters may have become more shadowy, but they exist. What's the difference between banks of films, tapes, and servers? Youtube has, in fact, become yet another parasitic distribution medium for the materials of the spectacle, the way tv became a distribution medium for cinema; Youtube is now a distribution medium for tv. There is revolutionary potential in the new media--it should never be referred to without quotation marks-, lest it be naturalized i.e. reified--remains. It was there in the old media, but not in its dna, in its social use. It was just more difficult of access. And if you made something, the community of individuals who would see it, would likely be small as your work would get lost amidst the noise of the spectacle--advertising. While there is interest in the fact that your postage stamp sized video may be seen by hundreds of thousands, it will still be accompanied by the ads in which google or youtube embeds your material; like those embedded journalists, who became infected by the spirit of the mission. You remain part of the spectacle of pseudo-agency, just the way you did when you bought the star commodities advertised on tv. The difference is the more direct appeal to narcissism, in order to seduce you into producing the visual trappings proper to selling products--think of the cost saving to industry. The labor of commercial making has simply been displaced on to the users of Youtube, keeping in its familiar place the relationship between those who think they are consuming and those who are actually consuming them. We are again the authors of our own slavery. The search engines which make it possible for others to find your work on Youtube are simply the latest attempt of the basic motors of capitalism to observe the myth Marx refers to in a footnote to the beginning of Kapital: capital is predicated on the myth that buyers have an encyclopediac knowledge of commodities. Of course there is potential for subversion. The way google bombing can work, or browser sit-ins, or the way the do-it-yourself car ads were subverted for statements about the damage done to the environment, but the dream of being famous for 15 minutes--is it still that long, Andy?--is just another phantasm of the unconscious of capital. Plus ça change... Keith Sanborn # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)
the argument? it is not about arguments, it is about Srebrenica. Do correct me if I am wrong - send your reporters to help those people to regain pride for their victims *AND I WILL GLADLY ACKNOWLEDGE I AM WRONG!* but do correct me in practice not by emails. best, Ana # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime The Society of the Unspectacular
On Sunday, 10. June 2007 19:42, Morlock Elloi wrote: If empowerment of the public by cheap self-publishing has demonstrated anything, it is that a vast majority has nothing to say, lacks any detectable talent and mimicks TV in publishing the void of own life (but unlike TV they derive no income from commercials.) If media are made by, and for, one's own community (which might be very small) then talent and excitement are measured very differently. The material on youtube etc is boring, mainly, I guess, because it was not made for you. Most of us produce lots of stuff that is boring to all but a hand full of people. But to them, it's great. It's the stuff that used to be called private, but is now online because it's the easiest way to get to the intended audience of 5 (or 500, or 5000). So I wouldn't say that the classical notion of public has changed in the sense that it got fragmented around new media. It's new media giving content-free personal smalltalk the ability to be globally visible (not that anyone looks at it in practice, but they could, in theory.) The technical possibility that everyone can watch it is pointing into the totally wrong direction. It's doesn't mean that everyone should watch it, it only means that the size of the audience is not determined on the level of the technical protocol but can scale freely up or down. This does, in some from, lead to a fragmentation of the public, not the least because the public in modern democracies was constituted through the narrow bandwidth of mass media. Though I'm not sure if this is the reason, as Eric suspects, for the very manifest trend of governments withdrawing from public discourse. Yet, for whatever reason, there seems to be a inverse relationship between the degree of privacy of ordinary people and the secrecy of governments. Felix --- http://felix.openflows.com - out now: *|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 *|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Fragments on Machinic Intellectuals
of the Multitude, 68. [xxxii] Ibid, 70. [xxxiii] Ibid, 71. [xxxiv] Michel Foucault, Truth and Power, 127. in Power/Knowledge. C. Gordon Ed., (New York: Pantheon, 1980): 109-133. [xxxv] Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995): 92. [xxxvi] Dyer-Witheford, Cyber-Marx, 234. [xxxvii] Ibid, 227. [xxxviii] David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004.). [xxxix] Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis, 129. [xl] And this is just limited to the North American context. For a more global autonomist perspective on communications and media, see the work of Bifo, Tiziana Terranova. Network Culture: Politics and the Information Age (London: Pluto Books, 2004), Brian Holmes, and many of the researchers associated with Nettime (including the recent special issue of Fibreculture called Multitudes, Creative Organisation and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour at http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue5/index.html). [xli] Sterne, Jonathan. Academic Pro Bono Cultural Studies = Critical Methodologies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 219-222 (2004). [xlii] Dyer-Witheford, Cyber-Marx, 233. # distributed via nettime
nettime BYTESFORALL [May 2007] Software 'piracy' ... poverty and copyrights... other updates from South Asia
://www.zdnetindia.com/zdnetnew2007/index.php?action=articleprodid=5692 * * * CPRsouth2: Empowering rural communities through ICT policy and research December 15-17, 2007 in Chennai, India. Organized by LIRNEasia TeNeT Group and RTBI, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, supported by IDRC-Canada. Visit http://www.cprsouth.org for more information about the conference. * * * PEER-TO-PEER: Valentin Spirik [EMAIL PROTECTED], who is also the author of the popular guide for autonomous video production at http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Audiovisual , has produced a four-minute video presentation of the main peer to peer ideas ... http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-is-peer-to-peer-4-min-version-of-michel-bauwens-video-interview-featuring-cc-licensed-music/2007/05/04 * * * INDIAN RIGHT TO INFO LINKS: http://indiarti.blogspot.com (Pune activist Vishal Kudchadkar's initiative from via California, US, where he's based); http://righttoinformation.gov.in (official site); http://parivartan.com (site of the Delhi-based Parivartan); http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/programmes/ai/rti/india/india.htm (comprehensive web pages on RTI packed with info including a users' guide); http://www.agnimumbai.org/rti2005.pdf (Mumbai-based AGNI, Action for Good Governance and Networking in India) on RTI); http://cic.gov.in (Central Information Commissioner); http://sic.maharastra.gov.in (Maharasthra State Information Commision, in Marathi). * * * PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE AN ANOMALY: Free and open source software researcher Rishab Ayer Ghosh says that just 16 percent of software spend is on pre-packaged software and the majority of programmers work outside the pre-packaged software sector. 'Proprietary software is an anomaly,' says Ghosh. http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1468s=news * * * GNU/LINUX ... STAMP-SIZE: Yet, it has all the power of a full-sized board complete with 32 megabytes of memory; 16 MB of storage and the interconnects needed to fuel any standard Linux application. The Bangalore-based EI Labs India has just released LinSeed version 1, a single chip embedded Linux computer that original equipment-makers can use to create a host of handy devices, including wirelessly connected pocket computers. It will save device-makers from having to create their own custom chips -- and almost halve the cost of the end product, explained Krishna Vaidyanathan, EI Labs founder and Chief Executive. If bought in quantity, the LinSeed will cost around $100 a piece -- and the company also offers an evaluation board which developers can use to build their applications around the LinSeed chip. http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/06/stories/2007050600241200.htm * * * SIMPUTER, NOT YET GIVING UP: Some recent interesting discussions on the Simputer, which is not giving up yet. Check it out: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/simputer/ * * * FREE MEDIA VS FREE BEER (By Andrew L): The free beer Richard Stallman loathes is everywhere. Media companies are currently falling over themselves to produce the new hive for user generated content. The names have rapidly become common place - YouTube, MySpace, Flickr - and their affect has been enormous, dramatically changing the production and distribution of media globally. Free beer pours from the taps of these new hubs of participatory media as they clamor to get you in the door. But free beer, as Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has always emphasised, is not the same as freedom. http://nettime.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2007/05/04/nettime-free-media-vs-free-beer-by-andrew-l.html OR http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/andrewl/news/freebeer/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To join the mailing list http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/join OR contact fred at bytesforall.org and request to be subscribed. 1682 members. Founded June 2001. Reaches all those who care about the social impact and fairness of computing and information technology. This issue compiled by: Frederick Noronha, co-founder. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST) Skype: fredericknoronha Yahoochat: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Email fred at bytesforall.org Res: 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Book Reviews - Books I like and some hardware/software as well
- mental in an environment of over a billion communicators. That said, this, for me, has been one of the most interesting accounts of at least some online work; Carnivore, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Jodi, Natalie Jeremijenko, etc. are included. I'd get this one and then get as many others as possible and then stay online for hours on end, read the entire archives of nettime, install linux, check out all the websites you can; then you might get at least an image of new media, or maybe not, and you'd have to repeat the whole thing the following week anyway. Film as a Subversive Art, Amos Vogel, Random House, 1974. Find this, buy this, read it. This is one of the most inspiring books on film, from experimental to counter-culture to, yes, subversive, ever. If you're making film, read this; if you're watching Turner Classic Movies late- night, read this. The book is heavy on the 60s, but does a good job on very early cinema as well - and it stresses those auteurs, etc. who turned film and culture upside-down. There's an image of Fred Baker's Events with the comment The most dangerous image known to man (sic.) Though it por- trays the most universal, most fundamental, most desired human act, it must not be shown (either in its joining of bodies or coupling of organs), be it because sex is (still) considered sinful or because of an atavistic fear that the act will spring from the screen and invade the audience with its heavenly power. As long as this image is forbidden, its presentation will be a liberating act. There's a romanticism in this and the book as a whole for that matter, but its emphasis on the materiality of film and filmic representation is a great antidote to the smooth swallowing of current mass media. Bharata, The Natyasastra, Kapila Vatsyayan, Sahitya Akademi, 1996, and Dr. Manomohan Ghosh's translation of the full Natyasastra by Bharata in two volumes, Calcutta, various editions. The first is somewhat of an explica- tion of the second, and invaluable in its analysis of the 'implicit and explicit text'; it also lists all the known mss. of the Natyasastra. The original may or may not have been written between 200 b.c.e. and 100 a.c.e. or earlier. It is a compendium of Indian dramaturgical theory which includes poetry, song, drama, dance, art, theater construct, and music; it is perhaps the first phenomenological treatise of performance and its theory of rasa is still influential today. I've used the work in my own studies and writings on performance. I can't say enough good about it! One has to wade through endless listings, read between the lines and as many introductions as one can find, in order to understand the theory and its foundation. But such a reading provides an inexhaustible sourcebook for current art - particularly for understanding avatars and their positioning culturally and in relation to the body. You can find cheap editions on abe and other second-hand sources; order both volumes (as well as Vatsyayan's introduction) from India. How to Play Tabla and Bongo-Congo with Pictures; and How to Play Flute, both by Vikas Aggarwal, Creative Publication, Delhi. These are excellent introductions to Indian music and tabla/flute technique (forget the bongo- congo (sic)!), although the English is so bad, and there are so many untranslated terms, that I've been literally driven crazy, trying to make heads or tails out of these. But if you have patience, look up the terms online, and so forth, these will prove quite useful. Order from India; when they're imported, the prices seem to rise unacceptably. Avatars of Story, Marie-Laurie Ryan, Minnesota, 2006. I love this book, although my method of reading has been to bounce around in it. Everything from offline through Eliza and Olia Lialina is considered in terms of avatar and narrative; there's a useful typology of games and a discussion of narrative metalepsis, transgressive break of the 'narrative stack.' Codework and Memmott and Cayley are brought up in relation to this. I must admit I don't see Cayley's work as 'codework' but he's cited over and over again; I'd be a lot happier with Cramer or Baldwin or anyone else really working in the area (obviously I have a stake in this). If we don't get down to the abject heart of the semiotic, we'll never understand this area, if area it is. Ah well; do read the book; again, it expands the notion of avatar/s which seems to dominate these reviews. The Barons' Wars, Mymphidia, and Other Poems, Michael Drayton, Routledge, 1887. He's a contemporary and probably friend of Shakespeare. I've been reading his sonnets, which seem half towards Donne and half oddly post- modern and for that reason alone, they're really worth a look. The Singing Life of Birds, The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong, with CD, Donald Kroodsma, Houghton Mifflin, 2005. If anything this book indicates how deaf we really are; birdsongs are amazing, starlings sing recursively (previously thought a primary condition of human
nettime GSA: ET Biopolitics and Creative Industries
to secure property against some other. Deimos and Phobos, the gods of panic, angst and terror dominate the omni-directional realm of geo-psychological strategies in an asymmetric world war against invisible enemies without qualities. Market concentrations benefit neo-feudal power structures that know how to use access to media, private security and intelligence services to advance their interests. Private oligarchic networks of finance and business cartels cultivate relations to governmental entities controlling state agencies and military units. Media narratives and public relations strategies transform synthetic fear into advantages that produce windfalls of power and profit. This theater of fear is a skillful interplay of compartmentalized information units, privatized command centers, loyal officials and gatekeepers as well as professional Special Forces. Productions of artificial angst call for scenarios of counter-terrorist theater rehearsals and paramilitary actors as well as the professional staging of scapegoats and dupes. The dark networks draw on privatized intelligence units, so called asteroids, business entities which provide cover for compartmentalized operations. Space was formerly known as heaven and manned space flight from earth could be understood as mechanical equivalent to an ascent to divinity. Johannes Kepler suspected paradise to be located on the moon and Konstantin Tsiolkowsky, the Russian pioneer of modern rocket science, saw manned space flight as a freeway to the supernatural. In his novel Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon contemplates the ambiguous interrelations between sex, rockets and magic. Jack Parsons, a key figure in American rocketry, lost his reputation and security clearance in obsessive pursuit of occult rituals and sexual mumbo-jumbo before he diffused into space in a lab explosion in 1952. A crater on the dark side of the moon is named in memory of Parsons, a tribute to the shady cofounder of the famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The 19th century spiritualist pseudoscience of a world of ghosts and occult belief in spirits, a complex adaptation to modernity, has morphed into 20th century sciences. From social theories and optimization of the workplace, from operations research to scientific communication and applied psychology, many genres of academic disciplines and the influence business are rooted in the twilight zone of the netherworlds. When Norbert Wiener, who developed his work on cybernetics from ballistics research, writes that Communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life, even as they belong to his life in society he evokes the ancient art of assessing the human personality and exploiting motivations. Developed out of clandestine mind control programs in the 1960's, the methodical application of Personality Assessment Systems became standard operating procedure in business and intelligence. Systems of discipline and control which took shape in the 19th century on the basis of earlier procedures have mutated into new and aggressive forms, beyond simplistic theories of state and sovereignty. In the past, the science of power branched into the twin vectors of political control and control of the self. In the 21st century the technologies of material control and subjective internalization are in a process of converging. The traditional twin operations, with which the authorities aim to win the hearts and minds, the binding maneuvers of law enforcement and the dazzling illusionist control of the imagination, are transforming into each other. Not unlike werewolves using the powers of the moon for a violent metamorphosis, contemporary agencies of power turn into shape shifters and fluctuating modes of dominance. Star Wars technology shape-shifts into applications of creative industries, into the domain of desire, imagination and mediated lunacy. Technologies of individualization bound to controllable identities and the global machinery of homogenization are superimposing to a double-bind of contemporary power structures. The renaissance heretic Giordano Bruno anticipates these developments in his visionary treatise De Vinculis in Genere - a general account of bonding - on operational phantasms and the libidinal manipulation of the human spirit. The disputatious philosopher of an infinite universe, beyond his unique investigation into the imaginary and the persuasion of masses and the individual, also challenged the ontological separation between the spheres of the heavens and the sublunary world of his time. Today, in a technological marriage of heaven and earth, there is a full spectrum military entertainment fusion of global conflict management. A strategic analysis of the enforced colonization of space and mind will certainly provide a more comprehensive understanding of the parameters of life and death on planet Earth. Konrad Becker - Global Security Alliance # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission
nettime Copies contexts in the age of cultural abundance
in the back of the room? According to rock ideology, live music authenticates the recorded object, and the recording is imagined as a document of something that once happened live. But the recorded object may not be re-performed, according to this ideology. (Just think about the silly character of the air guitar player...) This dualism between live and recording is pure mystification, and an obstacle for any serious attempt to reconsider the role of the performative. Obviously, examples from DJ culture works a lot better. For the dub DJ, the sounds produced by operating echo deks or turntables are not less live or real-time, than the sounds produced by a human voice, a trumpet or whatever. But this is not about putting different musical genres against each other. Culture, including end products like music recordings, always gets its meaning from humans, in real-time and contained within the limits of a certain context regardless if the context is a physical or virtual space, or if it includes just a couple of persons or millions of them. It is not so much about a return of living music on behalf of the dead, recorded object. Instead, what happens is that the concepts of live, communication, interactivity and performability in themselves become transformed by technology. The main challenge is about how to widen our definition of the live. How can music as a real-time experience be re-thought, as an aesthetic and an economic activity? Our experience from the copyfight is that the discussion has focused entirely on the production of new culture, while ignoring how culture is used and by whom. So the real question should be: How do we create meaningful contexts around music? Let's try to define what a live performance is: Something that happens in real-time, a specific time and place. Something establishing an relation between different people sharing a similar taste for something. An experience you are part of creating. These features can also be observed in the actual uses of recorded music; in the domains where people share music, meta-data, tags, ratings and stories. Think about sharing musical taste with Last.fm. The most significant effect it has on us, is that it suddenly makes listening to MP3's a two-way activity: While music is streaming from our loudspeakers, metadata are sent back to a central server, continually building on your personal profile, which you know will be used not only by the system for calibrating you personal radio, but also by other humans to judge you. In short, that makes listening to MP3's a performative act. Listening overtakes traits from artistic performance, to some extent. Do we actually want this? Let's leave that question open. Maybe it would be nicer to keep a more ephemeral way of listening, less focused on producing visible metadata, while letting the will to perform take other outlets. Anyhow, this is something we should talk a lot more about. The time and place of culture today is dictated by digital media. Culture, as human communication par excellence, is as it were technical. A live gig, a club or a conference today can hardly be imagined without internet buzz, friends coordinating online, blogs writing it up, digital cameras and mobile phones documenting it and users commenting afterwards. So what we have here is not so much, or at least not only, technology being humanized but new domains of the human experience being subjected to a new technology. What we are looking for now is something completely different from the imaginary utopia of a perfectly working copyright economy, that all coordinates remain the same, only shifted to a new map. What we are looking for here is realistic utopia. From an analysis of the present condition think the unthought. There are still hidden performativities remaining to be discovered! MAGNUS ERIKSSON RASMUS FLEISCHER [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copenhagen, 1 June 2007 http://www.piratbyran.org/?view=articlesid=114 http://www.reboot.dk/artefact-2318-en.html http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1098484580210269821 http://copyriot.se/reboot9/Reboot9.pdf http://www.piratbyran.org/walpurgis/ http://nettime.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2007/05/05/nettime-four- shreddings-and-a-funeral.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnaol8QQruw # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime BMM by a Knock Out!
BMM by a Knock Out !
Last night Dutch reality TV and shocksploitation giants BMM ('Barts
Never-ending Network) won the world 'tactical guerilla media
championship' of the world with a stunning first round knock out.
The unexpected result left the assembled world press, gathered last
night at Hilversum stunned, as they stood eagerly waiting to gawk
and to fulminate at the latest example of the Dutch commercial
medias capacity to invent ever more outrageous reality TV. But in
the dying moments of the event, the moral credibility tables were
turned. The media world (not to mention the entire Dutch political
establishment) were rocked and awed by the revelation that the world
title (previously held by Orson Wells) for most daring media hoax now
resides in the Netherlands.
Is this it? Have we reached it, tactical medias final frontier.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6714287.stm
David Garcia
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nettime Current State of Political Debate on the Left
Hello All, Below please find the full text of an editorial recently run in the Wall Street Journial. In it the author makes a claim that I believe to be worthy of consideration by the Nettime readership. While this piece specifically focuses on US politics, those readers from Europe and elsewhere may also find something here worth considering. Is Peter Berkowitz's statement that the the political discussion on the Left is stagnant with little debate on the major issues? If not, what evidence of a lively debate in political opinion can be brought to bear in demolishing this audacious claim? Kind regards, John http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010137 The Conservative Mind The American right is a cauldron of debate; the left isn't. BY PETER BERKOWITZ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT The left prides itself on, and frequently boasts of, its superior appreciation of the complexity and depth of moral and political life. But political debate in America today tells a different story. On a variety of issues that currently divide the nation, those to the left of center seem to be converging, their ranks increasingly untroubled by debate or dissent, except on daily tactics and long-term strategy. Meanwhile, those to the right of center are engaged in an intense intra-party struggle to balance competing principles and goods. One source of the divisions evident today is the tension in modern conservatism between its commitment to individual liberty, and its lively appreciation of the need to preserve the beliefs, practices, associations and institutions that form citizens capable of preserving liberty. The conservative reflex to resist change must often be overcome, because prudent change is necessary to defend liberty. Yet the tension within often compels conservatives to wrestle with the consequences of change more fully than progressives--for whom change itself is often seen as good, and change that contributes to the equalization of social conditions as a very important good. To be sure, some standard-order issues remain easy for both sides. Democrats instinctively want to repeal the Bush tax cuts, establish government supervised universal healthcare, and impose greater regulation on trade. Just as instinctively Republicans wish to extend the Bush tax cuts, find market mechanisms to broaden health care coverage and reduce limitations on trade. But on non-standard issues--involving dramatic changes in national security and foreign affairs, the power of medicine and technology to intervene at the early stages of life, and the social meaning of marriage and family, the partisans show a clear difference: the left is more and more of one mind while divisions on the right deepen. Consider Iraq. The split among conservatives has widened since Saddam was toppled in the spring of 2003. Traditional realists continue to put their trust in containment, and reject nation-building on the grounds that we lack both a moral obligation and the requisite knowledge of Arabic, Iraqi culture and politics, and Islam. Supporters of the war still argue that, in an age of mega-terror, planting the seeds of liberty and democracy in the Muslim Middle East is a reasonable response to the poverty, illiteracy, authoritarianism, violence and religious fanaticism that plagues the region. In contrast, Democrats today are nearly united in the belief that the invasion has been a fiasco and that we must withdraw promptly. Indeed, rare is the Democrat (Sen. Joe Lieberman was compelled to run as an Independent) who does not sound like a traditional realist denying both America's moral obligation to remain in Iraq and its capacity to bring order to the country. Consider also abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research. Here too, the right is torn, with the social conservative wing opposed to both, and the small government, libertarian wing supporting both. No such major divisions are in evidence on the left. Rare is the progressive man or woman who opposes abortion rights, or who regards the destruction of embryos as the taking of human life, or even as a dangerous precedent corroding our respect for the most vulnerable among us. And look at same-sex marriage. Again, the right is rent by serious difference of opinion. A crucial segment of those who voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 think that the Constitution should be amended to protect the traditional understanding of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Another crucial segment of the Republican coalition rejects alteration of the Constitution to advance debatable social policy, preferring that states function as laboratories of innovation. Meanwhile, on the left, despite ambivalence among the rank and file, all that remains to be decided at the elite level is how and in what ways to endorse same-sex marriage. Few doubt that presidential candidate John Kerry's opposition to same
Re: nettime For any reason or no reason - on virtual (extra-)territoriality
How is the credibility of the fiction of the government diluted by subjecting one of its manifestations to the good will of a private corporation, whose only motive for not flipping the switch off is accounts receivable? Or is this just a start of the new strain of banana republics, Sweden being the first one? We need a new name for that, for states not controlling ICANN, ARIN and major search and social networking engines. Browsepublics? The 30th of May, Sweden will be the first country in the world to open an official Embassy within Second Life, the online 3D multi user end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Fwd: Prelude to the G8: Tearing it up in Hamburg
, move. Down this alley way! Ok. Wait, are we all together? This leads almost any march or demonstration to be an exercise in frustration, a chess game where both sides try to bend, but not break, the rules through a strict process of negotiation. Or at least until breaking the rules is advantageous. While marching, German anarchists more or less engage with the police in careful negotiations until the permitted demonstration gets as close to the desired location as possible (such as a financial district, a fascist demonstration, or in this case the EU-ASEM Summit meeting in the town hall), and then, all bets are off. The demonstration will then generally be aggressive towards police lines, attempting to wreck havoc by escaping off the official route as a bloc, or break into small affinity groups to build barricades and attack police cars. There is also an apparent tradition of regrouping the night of the action for even more fun in the streets. I think I'm trapped. Don't panic. Look around. They're gonna do a mass arrest. Ok, black-clad cops over there. Try this. Nope, green cops. Damn, turn around. Fuck, the blue ones. Ok. Surrounded. Where's my group? Doesn't matter, I need to find a way out. Option 1: join the bloc and fight your way out. How many of us are there? Not enough. Option 2: act stupid and sneak by. Let's see if that works. Police tactics in Germany seem to be a combination of psychological warfare and shows of overwhelming force, with the emphasis on show, for they seem unable to act unless provoked and do not generally mass arrest protesters, but just surround the march on all sides to maintain order. Police can be divided into distinct groups. First, there are the local and federal police, who wear blue and green. Within this group there are inexperienced barrack-based police who can be identified by an A on their helmets. However, the real reason to be worried is the intensive surveillance done by the police (although unlike the UK, there are few CCTVs anywhere), who send undercovers to demonstrations to identify those who have broken laws, and have uniformed cameramen directly outside to tape protestors and identify them (using rather clever techniques like identifying Black Bloc members by their shoes). There is also a special police snatch-squad unit, dressed all in black like stormtroopers, who will quickly and brutally move in and make arrests like sharks. However bad this sounds, it is important to note that the procedure German police use in crowd control is actually quite predictable, and as long as one stays in tight groups, one is unlikely to be snatched. The German police are far from invincible despite their pretensions, and a victory over them should be possible. Close, too close. I know. We were gonna go back and get you. What? That's insane, they would've grabbed you too. Hey look, they're sending in more. Did they declare a state of emergency? I heard that too. Shit, there's waves and waves of them. Back to the Flora? No, its' not safe. Ok, then, disappear. A massive thousand person Black Bloc at ASEM, cop cars destroyed, a skirmish in front of the convergence center - not bad for a day´s work. Now, there are many debates over what exactly to do over the next few days. The demonstrations are so decentralized and yet actively planned, that it is hard for even the German anarchists to predict where the sites of intense struggle will be: there are convergences in three cities, an anti-fascist counter-protest against a thousand fascists in the streets AND a huge rally in Rostock against the G8 on the same day, decentralized blockades of roads and airport blockades, as well as countless marches and demonstrations near Heiligdamm and in Rostock. Regardless of the particulars, the energy amongst anarchists in Europe has been built to a frenzied height, and if one thing can be assured over the next week- there will be a reckoning. Thousands of us in the march. Hundreds rampaging in the streets. About eighty-five arrested. Not bad for a start. Nope, not bad at all. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Bytes For All... March 2007
society No more endorsement language BY-SA compatibility structure is included Clarifications negotiated with Debian and MIT Details of the changes are described at http://wiki. creativecommons. org/Version_ 3. Bytes for All: www.bytesforall.org or www.bytesforall.net Bytes for All Readers Discussion: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compiled by Farah Mahmood, Bytes for All, Pakistan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST) Skype: fredericknoronha Yahoochat: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Email fred at bytesforall.org Res: 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime CEI 3 - Forum: Continental Breakfast. Outposts 2007', June 7th
and moreover discussions and roundtable should be opened as once triggered the dynamics made by art will continue by itself as the goal of curators should be to find individuals in the public to address the individualism of art. *Are there any exhibitions that supply, at least on a general level, supplementary tools for the formation of the individual?* I have curated a project, for which I am originally invited to this meeting, named Women at the crossroad of ideologies. The program was fully orientated to a public, including the possibility to download the program and a reader being produced. It was consisting of many of entrances for different kind of public all addressing the same issue women's rights, so there were exhibitions, concerts, public lectures of scientists, talks with artists, round table discussions, but also a small library opened. An especial interest has been given to advertising of the project, this one being done by an artist Andreja Kulunc(ic', whose interactive installation in public space has given results of anonymous voters and street passengers none could neglect, demonstratively giving quite alarming results of the discrimination. At the same time public was constantly invited to interact, to help producing a reader. Given the opportunity to show they are not a public but individuals they have attempted to clear up their voices. The most interesting interaction was done on questions and answers part of the lecture and roundtable program, but also one may note individualism has shown up in official publishing -- writing in newspaper and new way of publishing -- blogs. I actually give a lot of hope to the new blog phenomena that it would show up individualism and particular view even in the most ownership censored mass society. I hope that new public -- the one that can read about artworks, download preview movies, but also say something about it (and the matter of curators is to listen those historically silent voices, too), will manage to break through the universe of adds and engineered market of art simulation. One may give different statistics of the show, like presenting 70 presenters from 20 countries, 400 people for the opening, 300 for a lecture, 200 people a day on the exhibition, which indeed are truth, but I would like to say more of my public. Rarely someone in the public knew each other before, they were rarely communicating to each other. Mostly they were women, which was predictable, but there were men there too, and they were brave which after they were admitted made them proud and loud. Older women were more able to express themselves, still younger had more vibrant voices and they were active in publishing. Part of them wanted to educate further, so they were following everything which was allowed by the program set up always for 18 PM so an ordinary worker can arrive having own time after the working day. Some of them were ashamed, probably thinking they would be not fit there. But what was emphasized every day is -- they are all more than welcome. Some mothers and daughters appeared together but at the end only daughter would stay, probably to get rid of the first sense of being lost in the group, After emancipating a public was really consisting of individual voices; some decided to read own poem to a small group, some have stolen the mic from presenters, having own small talk-shows. Some were SMS-ing during round tables and these messages you may find in the book were great. Some copied Breda Beban's video with a mobile phone so the video doesn't run away, thought it was forbidden. But this effect says a lots, really a lots on art. A week latter I got the phone-call a music number from her video is a radio hit, two Gipsy music parties were organized Some unknown people told me they want to go to Venice to see it again. Maybe they would be there and I started to be curious whom they are, one of them repairing motorcycles and it was his first encounter with the video art. This would underline my thesis -- the public of art - is not a group. Post n www.anarchiva.blogspot.com http://www.artandeducation.net/display.php?file=message_1179780867.txt # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Fwd: Make the G8 Precarious (FelS G8 Call to Action)
by capital have adorned white to symbolise their invisibility and reduction to a faceless commodity. For the same reason, in Germany, the Superfluous wear white masks: A face for the faceless. In reality, though, the masks reveal far more than they conceal: commonality. It is through the constitution of this commonality that the Superfluous are able to go about collective re-appropriation: of life's essentials, life's luxuries, life itself. Capitalism is superfluous! www.ueberfluessig.tk ++ Box #2 Precarious Superheroes The reproduction of neoliberal social relations demands superheroism. Ever more mobility, flexibility, multitask-ability. Superhero subjectivities ready fo r super-exploitation. Yet everywhere, the figure of the superhero is becoming a symbol of resistance. From Superbarrio, who for over a decade has fought fo r Mexico City's poor; over the Unbeatables (like SpiderMom and SuperFlex) o f the Milanese Euromayday; to the superheroes of Hamburg, who redistributed luxur ies they appropriated from a delicatessen. More and more people are discovering that with their extra-ordinary powers, they can make another world possible . berlin.euromayday.org // hamburg.euromayday.org // euromayday.org ++ Box #3 FelS (For a Leftwing Current) is a Berlin-based group which, since the early-1990s, has attempted to intervene in and influence the direction of various social and political struggles in Germany and beyond. The group see ks to articulate a radical-left politics, and to develop new forms of politica l practice, within the context of broad coalitions and social networks. FelS was involved with the 2006 and 2007 Mayday Parades in Berlin, and is mobilising to Heiligendamm against the G8 Summit. The group produces the quarterly magazi ne arranca! and belongs to the Interventionist Left. www.fels-berlin.de // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www.g8-2007.de ++ Box #4 Useful Contacts Rostock Camp Info Line: +49 (0) 1577 230 2168 // Reddelich Camp Info Line: +49 (0) 1577 463 0055 // Mobile Info Point (5 and 6 June only): +49 (0) 175 892 78 68 // Medics: +49 (0)178 654 1308 // Legal Team (EA): +49 (0) 38204 768111 (www.ermittlungsausschuss.antifa.net) ++ -- FelS c/o Schwarze Risse Gneisenaustrasse 2a 10961 Berlin http://www.fels-berlin.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime For any reason or no reason - on virtual (extra-)territoriality
/04/04/division-of- labor/ [27] Alvar C.H Freude: Warum Second Life kein Web 3.0 ist p.24 - a power point presentation http://alvar.a-blast.org/vortraege/webmontag/second-life/second-life- vortrag.pdf [28] The various parts of the building - a tour - Background material - House of Sweden, p 7 http://www.sfv.se/cms/showdocument/documents/sfv/engelska/house_of_sweden/ba ckground_material_the_building_the_artwork_etc_.pdf [29] The various parts of the building - a tour - Background material - House of Sweden, p 5 http://www.sfv.se/cms/showdocument/documents/sfv/engelska/house_of_sweden/ba ckground_material_the_building_the_artwork_etc_.pdf [30]Article 1, Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Missions, 1961: http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pd f [31] General Provisions - Terms of Service: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php [32] First paragraph - Terms of Service: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php [33] The string no liability appears 3 times, any reason or no reason appears six times and sole discretion appearing 17 times in the Terms of Service. [34] According to http://mindbluff.com/askread.htm#5 [35] Olle Wästberg as quoted by in Alexandra Hernadi in Svenska dagbladet - http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/inrikes/did_14523659.asp [my translation from Swedish] [36] Article 22.1 and 22.2 - Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Missions, 1961: http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pd f [37] 5.3 Terms of Service. See also similar statements in 1.4; 1.6; 2.6 and 3.2b: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php [38] Article 22.3 and 24 - Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Missions, 1961: http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pd f [39] 6.1 Terms of Service: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php [40] 6.1 Terms of Service: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php [41] 6.2 Terms of Service: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php [42] Article 29 (see also 30.2) - Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Missions, 1961: http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pd f [43] 2.3 Terms of Service: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php [44] Second Life's Terms of Use, first paragraph: http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php as of 29th of April 2007 [45] Stefan Geens at http://secondhouseofsweden.com/faqs/ [46] Stefan Geens at http://secondhouseofsweden.com/faqs/ [47] Olle Wästberg quoted at the webpage of the Swedish Institute - http://www.si.se/templates/CommonPage3052.aspx [48] http://www.si.se/templates/CommonPage3052.aspx [49] http://secondlife.com/whatis/ [50] Factiva: Percentage increase comparisons of media coverage about Second Life between months of August 2006 and January 2007 as quoted by Joel Cere: http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/ampersand/articles/7359.aspx#footnote 1 [51] BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6310915.stm ; India News: http://www.indiaenews.com/europe/20070130/37547.htm [52] Stefan Geens at: http://secondhouseofsweden.com/2007/03/20/more-faqs- were-in-it-for-the-long-haul/ [53] We used Online Traveler in 2000 as a platform for online access to the electrohype2000 conference in Malmö, Sweden: http://www.electrohype.org/electrohype2000/rapport/rapport.pdf [54] In croquet both server and client are open source in opposition to Second Life which only has opened the source code to the client - the viewer, but not to the servers: http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page p d f - f o r m a t: - http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~lhilfling/documentation/for_any_reason_or_no_reason_hilfling.pdf # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime The Life of Information
. Information is today becoming perishable and for that reason easily disposable. Market information, for instance, that reaches stock exchanges all over the world in terms of price changes often lasts no more than few minutes. Traffic information, so useful in the rush hours, is of no use a little later. Information as Niklas Luhmann suggests is no more than an event, a semantic flash created against the background of memory and knowledge to which it is assimilated. In so doing however the value of information is consumed. The pending evaporation of information triggers a complex institutional game to maintain its value through a variety of mechanisms. Key among them is the ceaseless updatability of technological information and the constant expansion of the data universe it leads to. Without constant updating, stock markets, to mention the same example, around the world would collapse or become seriously impeded. Paradoxically, the more frequently information is updated the faster it becomes out-dated. Thus understood, the prevalence of information inflates the present and makes the event and its ephemeral constitution central elements of social and institutional life. There is little doubt that a variety of objections could be raised as regards the particular methodologies employed to measure and document the growth of information. But this should not be the major point. The recent attempts to estimate the amount of information mark the growing awareness of which most of us bear a clear testimony: information and the artefacts and technologies by which it is produced penetrate deeper and deeper into the fabric of everyday life. They remake, often quite imperceptibly, a large range of everyday tasks, redefine the meaning of established practices and modes of doing things and introduce new habits and activities. Looked upon at an aggregate level and over larger time spans, these developments reshuffle the balance between things and images, objects and representations, reality and artifice. How many fictional or semi-fictional characters are really created by the algorithmic techniques of data mining and profiling (the construction of individuals out of data)? Be that as it may, the developments underlying information growth do lend empirical support to the speculative, albeit highly original, and dystopian visions of Virilio, Baudrillard and others. Technological information segments, dissolves and transposes social life to digital marks. Once a description of reality, it is increasingly becoming reality itself. Some of these phenomena are analyzed in significant detail in the recent book by Jannis Kallinikos, http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=3814; The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change, published by Elgar in 2006. Jannis Kallinikos is Professor at the Department of Management, London School of Economics (LSE) and leader of The Information Growth and Internet Research (TIGAIR) project. Jose Carlos Mariategui is an image/media art expert and member of The Information Growth and Internet Research (TIGAIR) project at LSE. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime SUMMIT in Berlin - Florian Schneider opens
ground or common agenda and i promise you: there won't be anything like that. Non-alignment is a non-identitarian and non-representative category. It is neither nor. It does not call for unity, it does not claim a territory, it rather tries to overcome blockages, escape dichotomies and liberate itself from a self-inflicted immaturity and dependence. We are perfectly aware that on this basis we can only produce misunderstandings and i really do hope that these misunderstandings become as creative, enlightening, unexpected as possible. So, what can be the goal of SUMMIT? What can we achieve in these four or five days? I do not believe that we should try to start a new project. Most of us are already busy enough and can hardly manage to cope with our manifolded commitments, mostly unpaid and extremely urgent. i also believe, that we do not just have to renovate and realign an existing body of knowledge, update its organizational structure and methodologies. No, we really need entirely new terminologies, we urgently need really new concepts and new categories... I am very confident that these four days offer us the extraordinary opportunity to formulate the challenges and demands, compile the sources and release a program that might outline the main characteristics, lay out the infrastructure and make available the pre-requisites of a multitude of networked educational, pedagogical projects. Please allow me to mention quickly three points that seem important to me and might work as an example how we could proceed last but not least in terms of an impossible declaration or action plan: 1. open source radicalism We are not satisfied by the wikipedia. The button with the logo of the creative commons license is defientely not enough. If free software is not free beer, free knowledge is more than information about some ingredients and on this basis we want to take over and run the entire brewerie and create two, three, four, many open, free, nomad, monad, pirate, peer-to-peer universities 2. new configurations of the self in order to struggle against the ongoing privatization and proprietarization of knowledge production we need to invent and create new models of multiple ownership. This seems to me the only chance to deal with increasingly fluid forms knowledge and would enable us leave the common notion of individual mastery behind. A generecally open notion of mutual owenership that might enable us to reappropriate the means of immaterial production 3. increasing complexities we all know, that we live in a world that undergoes dramatic changes and is commonly perceived as increasingly complex. Instead of reducing these complexities, simplfying them, the enormous challenge we are currently facing is to fold and unfold, or better: multiply complexity. Tomorrow night we have scheduled the first session with a public editing of the declaration and we are going to use that opportunity to start from scratch, with a blank sheet of paper and Ladies and Gentlemen, dear SUMMIT delegates, we are all more or less familiar with the fundamental problem of emancipatory pedagogy: in the moment when I try to teach somebody how to liberate him or herself, i re-align to an infinite line of regression and power reappears even stronger than before. The more I try to explain, mediate, communicate or teach, the more I reaffirm the distance, inequality and dependency of those who lack knowledge on those who seem to possess it. Lets cut this gordic knot, lets take advantage of a this enormously privileged situation where we have the opportunity to meet and discuss, argue with each others and question ourselves in such a great company for about four days and nights. Lets come forth and lets unalign! Thank you very much! # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime call for help: about T. Nelson's Literary Machines
Dear nettimers, A year ago I had the opportunity to read in an original edition of Theodor Nelson's Literary Machines, at SUNY Buffalo's Poetry Archive. I took extensive notes and put the book back on the shelf. Now today I am about to finish my master's thesis which deals (among other things) with the controversies between scientists and engineers on one side and human scientists and artists on the other, about software (and software art, and the art of programming). I am suddenly reminded that Nelson invented a couple of polarized and comical terms to distinguish those two kinds of thinkers that he wanted to reunite in the visionary work of Xanadu. I am afraid I lost my notes, and I am not able to order the book today, nor retrieve it in a library. Could someone refresh my memory and remind me of this terminology, and maybe add a couple of quotes? Camille P-B. http://eduspaces.net/cpb/weblog (only Firefox until it's fixed please!) # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime The Revival Of No Border Camps
, we fight. Come camp with us. Web (soon) : http://noborders.org.uk Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List: Please subscribe the public mailing list at http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/gatwick07 Meetings: A public meeting for those who want to get involved in the preparation, around the end of June, will be announced soon. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Debris from Paris Epoetry performance
ebb doorway sandy Taifun: a small creature half-hidden in red seaweed gleaming brown in drag of undertow hermit crab shell smelled moist ebb doorway sandy Taifun: this machine: undoes his belt buckle for him, finds the right diagram with which to support my weight, tongue, zone, other love sandy Taifun: MOUTH LETS GO OF CHAINS OF SENTENCES, RAMPLES, GIGGLES, TONGUES SPREAD WET OUT OVER LIPS, LEAKS, COLLAPSES, MELTS, HIS FINGERS sandy Taifun: construction torsion near avatar edge-space. the limits of avatar are the limits of world. sandy Taifun: avatar anorectic sandy Taifun: jellies and dark dreams, there is space enough for your soft limbs, for mine... sandy Taifun: the matrix saves us, there is no beginning and ending, nothing but liquid pureness of language salvaging these spaces... sandy Taifun: skirt heels depilated legs and nose job musculature buildt in gym scar liquid hand movement i want a man i want a woman i want sandy Taifun: acquire all baody parts of others - blood milk urine shit face value social universal perversion contract law coordinate field sandy Taifun: root of the avatar is elsewhere sandy Taifun: The disappearance of the branch into hardened rock and occasional artifacts. sandy Taifun: the avatar itself, the image-avatar, is ghost. The ghost travels through anything of course; nothing more than coordinates sandy Taifun: tacit knowledge through electronic avatar sandy Taifun: Every symbol is a ligament of avatar; every referent is a gesture; every gesture procures the body; every body is a speaking sandy Taifun: ghost avatar spectre doll faerie wraithe hobgoblin troll tengu kappa presence sandy Taifun: cloth stitch suture binding closing damming holding fabric velvet cotton wool silk sandy Taifun: Consider the next smearing of your thinking skin.\n; sandy Taifun: tacit knowledge through electronic avatar sandy Taifun: Every symbol is a ligament of avatar; every referent is a gesture; every gesture procures the body; every body is a speaking sandy Taifun: cloth stitch suture binding closing damming holding fabric velvet cotton wool silk sandy Taifun: Consider the next smearing of your thinking skin.\n; sandy Taifun: cloth stitch suture binding closing damming holding fabric velvet cotton wool silk sandy Taifun: Consider the next smearing of your thinking skin.\n; sandy Taifun: tacit knowledge through electronic avatar sandy Taifun: Every symbol is a ligament of avatar; every referent is a gesture; every gesture procures the body; every body is a speaking sandy Taifun: red pepper boiling vinegar teach marks PHILOSOPHY OF VIRTUAL BEDROOM AVATAR immortal space sacred heater language train pet sandy Taifun: cloth stitch suture binding closing damming holding fabric velvet cotton wool silk sandy Taifun: Consider the next smearing of your thinking skin.\n; sandy Taifun: cloth stitch suture binding closing damming holding fabric velvet cotton wool silk sandy Taifun: Consider the next smearing of your thinking skin.\n; sandy Taifun: PEFORATED LOBES OF EARS HIS NOSTRILS HIS ARMS HIS TUSKS HIS BEAKS HIS CLAWS HIS PLUMES HIS SHELLS HIS PATHS HIS BLOOD FEAST sandy Taifun: cloth stitch suture binding closing damming holding fabric velvet cotton wool silk sandy Taifun: Consider the next smearing of your thinking skin.\n; sandy Taifun: criminalization of society = transactions with body parts = portions feed decay = protodocument of libertinage = rules for you sandy Taifun: outcries screams unnatural acts after-image liquefy vaporize crime shortcircuit dissipate thickness passion trigger calculate sandy Taifun: Kamishibai, virtual idols, and PlayKiss sandy Taifun: Nikuko, Meat-Girl, (among others) an avatar or 'emanation' sandy Taifun: tacit knowledge through electronic avatar sandy Taifun: Every symbol is a ligament of avatar; every referent is a gesture; every gesture procures the body; every body is a speaking sandy Taifun: my eyes is the corpse of light and color my nose is all that remains of odors when their unreality has been demonstrated sandy Taifun: cloth stitch suture binding closing damming holding fabric velvet cotton wool silk sandy Taifun: Consider the next smearing of your thinking skin.\n; sandy Taifun: Kamishibai, virtual idols, and PlayKiss sandy Taifun: Nikuko, Meat-Girl, (among others) an avatar or 'emanation' sandy Taifun: discourse cipher OUTRAGE THE NORM ASSAULT AS SUCH EQUILIBRIUM BLAZE SCREAM solitude is essential limit of stranger shout sandy Taifun is Offline # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime ICT-for-D books... sharable and otherwise
Maxigas of Green Spider in Hungary asked me about some ICT-for-D books mentioned recently. These books are (just sharing the same with some additional ones, in case any one is interested): *** Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_Collaborative_Ownership_and_the_Digital_= Commons *** Codev2 by Lawrence Lessig From the Preface: This is a translation of an old book=97indeed, in Internet time, it is a translation of an ancient text. That text is Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. The second version of that book is Code v2. The aim of Code v2 is to update the earlier work, making its argument more relevant to the current internet. Download the book free: http://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf *** Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Communication_and_Society:_A_Global_Per= spective *** Another interesting book I came across (and shared some of my notes via the Wikipedia, please do too if you can, w.r.t. ICT-for-development books specially ) is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenging_The_Chip *** Then, take a look at Coding Cultures (Francesca da Rimini, ed): A Handbook for Coding Cultures provides a lasting companion to the inspiring projects and topical currents of thought explored in the Coding Cultures Symposium and Concept Lab. Six invited writers and groups from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, Italy and Hong Kong share their experiences of building imaginative digital tools, social networks, open labs and internet-based knowledge platforms for communication and creativity. Complementing these commissioned texts are contributions from our guest artists from Canada, England and Jamaica. Artist statements from Symposium speakers completes this snapshot of contemporary cultural practice. Keeping true to the traditions of the free circulation of knowledge and culture, the Coding Cultures Handbook is available free of charge. A limited print edition of the Handbook was launched at the Coding Cultures Symposium on 9 March 2007. The complete Handbook can be viewed or downloaded below. Alternatively, essays can also be downloaded individually (see List of Contents below) and where available, a link to the Author's online essay is also provided. You can download this book free. http://www.dlux.org.au/codingcultures/handbook.html *** Free As In Education: a 2003 Finnish study on Free Software/Open Source in the developing world. By Niranjan Rajani et al (sharable)... am still trying to get the chapters on Asia, Africa and Latin America, as the downloadable links seem broken. Write to me for a copy of the main report (minus the regional chapters) if interested. Please share any other interesting books if you come across these. Rgds, FN/Frederick Noronha-Goa, India -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST) Skype: fredericknoronha Yahoochat: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Email fred at bytesforall.org Res: 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Job search - Postdoctoral Researcher in software studies at UCSD
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER POSITION University of California, San Diego (UCSD) We are currently recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join a new Software Studies initiative at UCSD. The researcher will work with Dr. Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts ) and Dr. Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Assistant Professor, Communication ) and will play a key role in research and field-building activities. The goals of Software Studies initiative http://softwaretheory.net/ at UCSD are: * to foster research and develop models and tools for the study of software from the perspectives of cultural criticism, humanities, and social sciences; * to help establish the new field of software studies which will complement existing research in cyberculture and new media; * to investigate how next generation cyberinfrastructure technologies can be used by humanists, social scientists, and cultural practitioners For an introduction to software studies, see: Software Studies Workshop, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, February 2006 http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/softstudworkshop POSITION DETAILS The position is full time (40 hrs/week). The initial appointment is for 1 year, with the possibility for renewal. The position comes with full benefits covered by UCSD (http://research.ucsd.edu/postdoc/benefits.aspx). The starting salary range is USD 38,000 - 42,000. The selected candidate can start immediately. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: * a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, information science, or related interdisciplinary area which is completed and defended before starting the position at UCSD; * broad understanding of contemporary global culture and familiarity with current debates in one or more cultural fields; * familiarity with current IT developments, and understanding of Web 2.0 concepts and social media optimization; * the ability to write engaging and jargon-free texts that are accessible to diverse global audiences DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: * experience installing and using research-oriented software tools (e.g., data mining tools, GIS packages, visualization technologies, databases, and/or other software used in digital humanities); * understanding of programming language and system integration concepts; some practical experience with computer programming or scripting; * previous experience working with computer scientists on joint projects; * previous research projects and/or publications which address software from the perspectives of the humanities, social sciences, or cultural criticism (for example: the history of software forms, work practices shaped by software infrastructures, studies of software operations and/or code). This position is supported by the UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) . Housing over 900 faculty, graduate students, and staff researchers, Calit2 is developing next-generation cyberinfrastructure tools with a particular focus on multidisciplinary collaboration. Calit2 is located on UCSD campus which is internationally renowned as a place for study and research in digital art, computer music, and digital theory. Between the departments of Visual Arts, Music, and Communication, there are close to 30 full-time faculty working in these areas. The technical facilities and staff support for research in digital media on the UCSD campus are among the best in the world. They include a number of state-of-the-art research labs and performance spaces which provide both current and next-generation tools for immersive visualization, multi-channel audio spatialization, digital cinema, motion capture, interactive performance, 3-D fabrication, and computer gaming research. HOW TO APPLY The position is open until filled, but we will begin reviewing applications June 10th, 2007. For priority consideration, candidates are encouraged to apply before this date. Applicants should send a current CV with cover letter to Helena Bristow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with subject line Application for Software Studies Postdoc Position. Manovich and Wardrip-Fruin will be available for preliminary interviews at the 2007 Digital Humanities conference during the first week of June, 2007 (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/). Please indicate whether you will be attending DH '07 in your application. For further information, please contact: Helena Bristow, Administrative Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime Brazil puts patients before patents
The problem down in Brazil is not that the drug companies are charging too much for AIDS drugs. The problem is that Brazil is refusing to budget sufficient money to cover the costs associated with dealing with the AIDS problem the country is sadly faced with. Instead they're simply robbing drug companies. The large drug manufacturing consortium should consider a boycott on Brazil over the complete range of the rest of their drug products or simply don't send any of the newer drugs as they enter the market down there so Brazil can't steal them too. The idea that drug companies be offered a 'reward' instead of letting market price be tied to RD is a bad one. Say what you will about the evils of capitalism, but the one truth remains that individuals and companies will produce more (to the benefit of the community at large) when they can anticipate a greater benefit to themselves for doing so. Finding good drugs that cure nasty diseases is expensive no matter how you look at it. Governments are neither willing nor able to spend the necessary money. The only way that private enterprise is going to step up and do this is if it pays them extremely well. I for one would like to see the day where one of these big companies find a final cure for AIDS and cancer. It's just unfortunate that no more reasonable alternative to that end exists. Regards, John S. Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:04:33 -0100 From: nettime's_busy_reader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime Brazil puts patients before patents http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/brazil-puts-patients-befo_b_47651.html May 4, 2007 The Huffington Post James Love Brazil puts patients before patents, rejects Bush administration pressure and issues compulsory license on important AIDS drug ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Media Art Histories review
Revolution². Part Two ³Machine-Media-Exhibition², goes further and tries to clarify some of the key terms in media art theory. But the concrete forms that nourish media art today are also of great importance, therefore ³Pop and Science²the third partexamines the contemporary cultural context. Finally, Part Four, ³Image Science², deals with what already was mentioned above, the need to establish a functional ³image science². As is the case with almost every edited book, the texts gathered in this volume are not equal in terms of value or ³scientific weight². Nor do the authors have the same calibre. But Grau knew to find the necessary balance between the more general, lighter texts and the ³heavy-duty², theoretically solid and accomplished writings. Among the contributors are: Rudolf Arnheim, Peter Weibel, Dieter Daniels, Edmond Couchot, Christiane Paul, Lev Manovich, W.J.T. Mitchell, Ron Burnett etc. New media (art) is primarily characterized by immediacy, by the use of ephemeral images, therefore discussing in the first essay the ³coming and going² status of image is an indispensable starting point (Rudolf Arnheim, ³The Coming and Going of Images²). With its programmatic tone, this text is a call for considering imageseven temporary onesnecessarily in relationship with a more stable historical context. The essays of the first section actually try to consider such a context (see for example Peter Weibel¹s discussion of (neo)-constructivist and kinetic experiments, Dieter Daniels¹ treatment of Duchamp¹s bachelor machines as ³universal machines², or Grau¹s examination of the tradition of a ³cultural technique of immersion²). Doesn¹t matter how ³new² new media art is, it stands in a continuum with previous practices, even if lots of its intrinsic aspects (especially technical) are radically changed. This is, at least, what the majority of the texts in the second section let us understand. For example, the tendency toward automation can be traced down to primitive art (Edmond Couchot, ³The Automatization of Figurative Techniques: Toward the Autonomous Image²), or, as Andreas Broeckmann demonstrates, there is an aesthetic continuity between analog and digital in what concerns the experiential qualities of art (³Image, Process, Performance, Machine: Aspects of an Aesthetics of the Machinic²). If there is not a clear dividing line between past/analog and present/digital, new media brings, however, some profound changes. The third section discusses these transformations and one of them is blurring the differences between producer and consumer through interactivity: responding to an old desire, new media offers the viewer ³fully embodied experiences with screen-based media². (Ron Burnett, ³Projecting Minds²). Another aspect of these changes is, according to Lev Manovich (³Abstraction and Complexity²), the fact that contemporary software abstraction relies rather on a paradigm of complexity than on reduction and essentialism like the modernist painting. Indeed, new media brought image to an unprecedented status, and at the same time they place image at the center of an interdisciplinary analytic debate, one that is called ³New Image Science² (section four). The questioning of the image as a purely visual medium is only one aspect of this debate, and advocating medium¹s intrinsically mixed status is W.J.T. Mitchell¹s goal in his provocative essay ³There Are No Visual Media². A good point is that the book opens media art histories also toward non-Western territories (for example, medieval Arab automata and contemporary Japanese art). Significantly, the editor avoids to dedicate analmost mandatory, in academic publicationssection devoted to gender and sexual aspects of the problem. Media Art Histories prefers to talk about art and media themselves and not about the sexuality of those involved in them. Despite the fact that it lacks the so-useful index, overall, the book can be a good tool for research especially by keeping a fine equilibrium between art history, media theory, philosophy, cultural studies, image science and computer science. Media Art Histories provides a wide view on the complex, in-progress field of media art, in which this volume intends to stand as one of the main bibliographical reference points. Horea AVRAM Horea AVRAM is Ph.D. candidate in Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. FQRSC doctoral fellowship holder. Art critic and independent curator from 1996. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime [Fwd: [nobordercamp2007-sd] Circus of (Im)Migration tour reportback]
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nettime MUTE VOL 2 #5 - Climate Change Issue
M | U | T | E | __ rread it! __ 10 May 2007_ MUTE VOL 2 #5 SPRING/SUMMER ISSUE MAY '07 It's Not Easy Being Green - The Climate Change Issue is out now online and in print: http://www.metamute.org/en/Mute-Vol-2-5-Its-Not-Easy-Being-Green-The-Climate-Change-Issue This issue of Mute seeks to defuse the ideological bomb of climate change, expose the plundering and non-reproduction of global resources as a problem of capital not mankind per se, and investigate the ends to which the spectre of eco-catastrophe is being used Articles include: * Capital Climes by Will Barnes Liberal critics assume that climate change is a ?man-made? process, not a natural phenomenon. Against this view, Will Barnes argues that global warming does indeed have an inhuman agent behind it ? not nature but capital http://www.metamute.org/en/Capital-Climes * Act Macro: Technological Alternatives to Green Austerity By James Woudhuysen The emerging capitalist War On Global Warming concentrates on adapting technology and behaviour ? particularly other nation-states? ? to mitigate environmental damage. Transformative technological and social innovation is better than meddling micro-action, argues James Woudhuysen http://www.metamute.org/en/Act-Macro-Technological-Alternatives-to-Green-Austerity * Climate Change CO2lonialism By Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young In their tango with grassroots green activists, inter-governmental policy makers are taking the lead. Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young analyse the ?new green order? and the carbon offset colonialism that accompanies it http://www.metamute.org/en/Climate-Change-CO2lonialism * Promised Lands By Kate Rich It?s not just the founders of hippy communes or artists like Amy Balkin who are looking for ?a breathing space from the State? in which to experiment with freedom and free-time. Big IT companies like Google apparently share their ideals. With a commitment to ?me time?, the production of ?universal access?, and (energy) sovereignty, corporates are leveraging the dream of the commons http://www.metamute.org/en/Promised-Lands-Google-and-Morningstar * Apocalypse and/or Business as Usual? The Energy Debate After the 2004 US Presidential Elections By George Caffentzis Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush?s republican party has turned curiously green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America?s unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an ?anti-neoliberal? class of oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to ecowarrior http://www.metamute.org/en/Apocalypse-and-or-Business-as-Usual.-The-Energy-Debate-After-the-2004-US-Presidential-Elections * Heavy Opera By Anthony Iles John Jordan and James Marriott's operatic audio tour set in London?s Square Mile is intended to awaken city workers to the impact of financial systems on climate change. But not only does And While London Burns misgauge how much the suits already know, its hysterical tone also harmonises too easily with the coming new eco-order. Review by Anthony Iles http://www.metamute.org/en/Heavy-Opera * BPerkeley Inc.? By Iain A. Boal As a lead in to Mute?s climate change special issue, Iain Boal reports on BP?s recent biofuel deal with University of California, Berkeley. In the name of a planetary emergency, the oil behemoth has both managed to greenwash biotech research and further entrench campus capitalism http://www.metamute.org/en/BPerkeley-Inc * Also in this issue... Zombie Nation By Paul Helliwell As the scarcity essential to the cultural commodity is undermined by digital abundance and social networking, social relations and the unique ?live? performance are all that's left to sell. Mass market music increasingly resembles relational art with its dream of waking the ?zombies? of consumer culture, but are the citizens of Web 2.0 society born again or undead? Paul Helliwell shuffles through the mall... http://www.metamute.org/en/Zombie-Nation * Expropriate, Accumulate, Financialise By Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez David Harvey is an influential academic theorist of the spatial, cultural and economic forms of neoliberal capitalism. Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez contrast his analysis with that of Michael Hudson, whose Super Imperialism exposed the fiscal foundations of neoliberalism some 30 years earlier http://www.metamute.org/en/Expropriate-accumulate-financialise * Further articles and reviews, already announced, are by Anthony Davies, Howard Slater and Peter Suchin * SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.metamute.org/taxonomy/term/3480 FOR A LIST OF STOCKISTS: http://www.metamute.org/node/254 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering
nettime Can Organized Networks Make Money for Designers
Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, Rotterdam: NAi Publications, 2006, http:// www.naipublishers.nl/art/organized_networks_e.html # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Fwd: [g8-int] international press group meeting
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nettime Interview with Vito Campanelli about Web Aesthetics
and contexts we are creating the masses have also produced an incredible amount of content. If that is actually what we define as popular culture, then the questions are: what are we supposed to do with all this stuff? Is this cultural production significant? Should we spend our time in studying and analyzing it? For sure we dont have time to do that, so (usually) we limit ourselves to give a bit of our attention to the events that, pushed by mass media, bounce under our noses. The most interesting thing for me is to observe how the top rated/most viewed videos on YouTube are all commercial TV like products; the usual Second Life public spaces (streets and buildings) are crowded with more advertising than Las Vegas (most of them are dedicated to sex); the stick memories of the average MP3 players are filled with the same music you can listen to on any commercial radio station, and shall we talk about the subjects of the photos stored in millions of digital cameras? What Im trying to mark is that with new media we are repeating the stupidity and the uselessness of our TV formats, the advertisings invasion of any public space, the boredom of the pop music scene, etc... Vulgarity and the dissipation of any significance are moving from old media to new media, and I dont see any good reason to spend my time with such popular culture. Besides this, its also very interesting to observe how the old media are becoming more and more permeable to blogs and D.I.Y. information. This phenomenon is not due to a fascination in more democratic information sources (the traditional media holders hate new media and people involved with it), on the contrary - the pressure is rising due to the growth of the eyes (digital cameras and all the new devices) that are watching the same events that mainstream media are reporting to us: the possibility of being uncovered are too many and broadcast journalists are forced to tell the truth (or at least a plausible version of it). As a consequence, blogs have become the major source of news and information about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal (a scandal born thanks to modern digital devices) and the Iraq War. Then the question is: what impact is the blogosphere having on the traditional medias control over news and information? We also have to consider that bloggers are often the only real journalists, as they (at their own risk) provide independent news in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under control. GL: Is it your aim to promote sophistication in web design? How can we identify, and then design sophisticated communication? VC: I dont like sophistication very much, I prefer a minimalist approach to web design, with clear and linear interfaces that give intuitive access to sophisticated and very structured data. When you have to manage complex data sets or very rich multimedia contents, the best you can do is design a structure that is very minimal. Indeed, you dont have to add meaning to the content you are representing, otherwise you make it useless and baroque. Nevertheless, minimalist doesnt mean careless or dull, instead it means not one sign more than necessary, it means taking care of details, it means being moderate and objective. We also have to consider that there are so many kinds of data that there cant be one universal formula of access. In fact, some information, such as the structure of a network, need graphic expedients to be understood. Also, there are many realities that have no meaning if showed only in a textual format. In those cases we use graphs, charts, etc., and very often we obtain wonderful and unexpected forms. For example, if you look at the Manuel Limas project, Visual Complexity (www.visualcomplexity.com), youll easily find many wonderful visualizations of complex networks. In view of such artistic representation of data the problem becomes: where is the line? How much graphic sophistication (or embellishment) do we need to solve a visualization problem? I guess the answer can found on a case-by-case basis, and the only line we can certainly detect is the one between the amount of complexity required by a representation (objective factor) and the self-satisfaction that pushes any designer into going over what is required (subjective factor). (edited by Henry Warwick) -- URLs: Vito Campanellis home page: http://www.vitocampanelli.it/ Media Arts Office: http://www.mediartsoffice.eu/ Web designers collective Klash: http://www.klash.it The Net Observer: http://www.thenetobserver.net Boiler magazine: http://www.boilermag.it # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Fwd: [Pressrelease] Operation aimless
-- Forwarded message -- From: Presswork G8 2007 (english) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 10, 2007 11:36 PM Subject: [Pressrelease] Operation aimless To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raids against G8 opponents: Operation aimless by Federal Supreme Court prosecutors triggers even more mobilization capacity for G8 protests *Press release by the persons concerned* Berlin, May 10th 2007 Yesterday a nationwide search of left projects and individuals was taking place in Germany. The Federal Supreme Court prosecutor Monika Harms aimed with these searches on a criminalization and split of the broad resistance against the G8. The raids proved to be a total failure. The intended intimidation of the left scene and the entire G8 protest movement did not succeed. Yesterday evening, more than 10.000 people in several German and European cities took to the street, to express spontaneously their solidarity. The wave of repression has triggered an even larger mobilization against the G8 summit that will take place from 6-8 of June in Northern Germany. Thanks Miss Harms, you scored an own goal! Comparing the different raids in 40 places reveals the picture of an uncoordinated and aimless operation of the investigation authorities. Some examples: at least two of the accused persons have not been searched at all. Others have been searched carefully, while some just superficially. Some persons have been subjected to lengthy identification procedures and have been forced to make a DNA test, but not all of them. ___ Find more International Press on G8 2007: https://www.jpberlin.de/badespasz/presse/wp/?cat=4 ___ Mailinglist Presswork G8 2007, Heiligendamm/ Germany Subscribe/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.nadir.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gipfelsoli-presse-en # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime Emergence of Citizen Journalism in the US and Bill Moyers
The concept of citizen journalism was first popularized by the Korean online newspaper OhmyNews. Ok, I'll take the bait. I don't mean to question the evidently positive achievements of OhmyNews, but it would appear that 'citizen journalism' has been around for much, much longer than 2000. One could say citizen journalism is the condition in which 'journalism' as a profession sprung forth, if one takes the birth of the newspaper into account in the 18th century. And certainly in more recent examples, everything from '60s counterculture publications such as Rolling Stone and Spider to '80s DiY 'zines, the longstanding campus and community radio networks worldwide to the birth of IndyMedia circa 1997 in Seattle/Vancouver are all outstanding examples of 'citizen journalism'. Unless 'citizen journalism' is some kind of reinvigorated and totally new meaning as well as historical context that diverts from this lineage? I get the impression here that citizen journalism as defined by Ohmynews (with its CEO) has more to do with setting up institutional counter-institutions and thus sees itself as the founder of 'citizen journalism' on a broad scale, but then wouldn't it be necessary to question as to what basis one is engaging in 'citizen journalism' with this kind of institutional hierarchy? Glad to see Bill Moyer back on PBS mind you. Mornin' Nettime. tV tobias c. van Veen --- http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- McGill Communication Philosophy # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Fwd: [Radical-europe] Wave of Repression against G8 Structures - Today !!
-- Forwarded message -- From: liaphine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 9, 2007 12:04 PM Subject: [Radical-europe] Wave of Repression against G8 Structures - Today !! To: oddvar uthus [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rupture [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Lagren [EMAIL PROTECTED] * wave of repression against Anti G8 Structures in Germany *Structure of communication in target to be disturbed Press Release: Since this morning 8 o clock a german wide wave of raids against the leftist Strcutures takes place. Affected are Projects and private Persons which are engaged against the G8 Summit - or to be held as such. In Berling are at least 7 houses and office rooms affected, amongst them 2 offices in Bethanien as well the Fusion Shop in the Skalitzer Street. The place where the Antifashist left Berlin and the Network interventionistische Linke organize themselves. As well afflicted is the Bookshop in Mehringhof and the offices of scores of alternative media Projects in the Lausitzer Street. Particularly attention the BKA ( Federal criminal Police Office ) pays to the Server SO?.net. Many leftist and alternative Projects have their Web pages, mailinglists and mailadresses located there. With that one tries to disturb the structure of communication of the Anti G8 Movement massivly. In Hamburg the repressions affect the Rote Flora and diverse House Projects. Also in the Berlin hinterland raids take place. As well raids are alert from Bremen. The adudication of search is exposed for ? 129a: formation of a terrorist coalition to avert the G8 The crass assortment of leftist House Projects and Infrastructure makes clear that the enquiries are taken as false pretences to randomly act against the left mobilization. Pretences of enquiry might be diverse damages to propperty which have been comitted in relation to the G8, assumes the campinski press group. In the same relation the Kampinski Hotel has been attacked with paintballs. The latitude of a ?129a operation are used to collect Datas and beyound by all means the effect of intimidation. merely 2% of all cases according on ?129a result in condemnation. Neverthelss: who invites the G8 Summit, invites also the Protests !, announced Mister Jobst of the Bethanien office in Berlin. All trials of crominalizatin won?t change the fact, that we will take the G8 as occasion to give a highlight to the injustice on the world. The repression of the BKA ( Federal criminal Police Office ) doesn?t appear surprisingly. The left and radical left Resistance against the G8 has taken dimensions the Police can?t handle anymore. Until now the Police has only tried to split the Resistance and create a phantom of the army of chaots via Media, explains Jobst. Noticable is that the raids are aginst all spectra of the resistance, which don?t adress any requirements to the G8, but dismisses the G8 as Institution entirely. says a spokeswoman of the Gipfelsoli Info Group. [Gipfelsoli Infogroup | Campinski Pressgroup] Protest + resistance: http://de.indymedia.org/g8heiligendamm ___ Radical-europe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listes.agora.eu.org/listinfo/radical-europe # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Emergence of Citizen Journalism in the US and Bill Moyers
An article from OhmyNews International that I thought folks on Nettime would find of interest. Bill Moyers and the Emergence of U.S. Citizen Journalism Power of government creates need for investigative news by Ronda Hauben Bill Moyers is a highly respected professional journalist, an American journalist who stands out as one who is willing to speak truth to power, even at the risk of losing his job. Moyers has been a journalist since he was 15 years old, and yet he considers himself a citizen journalist. After an absence of more than two years, Moyers returned to PBS (public broadcasting system) on Friday, April 27 with the return of his show the Bill Moyers Journal. (1) This initial Friday night program provides a helpful framework to use in looking at the nature of citizen journalism and considering what are the essential factors needed for citizen journalism to develop in the U.S. Often citizen journalism has been referred to as a journalism of amateurs as opposed to professionals, as two prominent Columbia Journalism School professionals Samuel Freedman (2) and Nicholas Leeman (3) have argued, or as a journalism of those who lack training as journalists in contrast to those who are trained journalists, as a recent article in LinuxInsider proposes. (4) The origin and development of citizen journalism presents the basis for a very different model, however. The basis is for a collaboration of journalists as a Fourth Estate, and of citizens who are concerned with overseeing what government does so as to monitor the use and abuse of power. The concept of citizen journalism was first popularized by the Korean online newspaper OhmyNews. When OhmyNews was started in February 2000, it was with the goal of transforming the conservative domination of the media landscape in South Korea. Oh Yeon-ho, the founder and CEO of OhmyNews, had worked as a journalist for the progressive publication Mal for the previous decade. His experience taught him that even when he wrote a significant story, it received little attention. When one of the conservative newspapers in South Korea covered a comparable story, however, other conservative news media provided coverage, so the story received serious attention. In starting OhmyNews, Oh was determined to bring about a change in the media environment in South Korea so that 'the quality of news determined whether it won or lost,' not the power and prestige of the media organization that printed the article. (5) The creation of OhmyNews originally took the form of a media organization with a small staff of reporters and editors who focused on covering a carefully chosen but limited set of stories. With the concept every citizen is a reporter, however, readers were invited to submit articles, many of which were included as part of the OhmyNews publication. The writers whose articles appeared in OhmyNews were paid a small fee. Since then OhmyNews has grown substantially. The question is raised whether there is any similar development growing up in the U.S. In order to answer the question, it is important to determine the necessary characteristics for a media to be called citizen journalism. On the first regular episode of the Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers invited Jon Stewart and Josh Marshall as his guests. Stewart insists he isn't a journalist though Moyers differs. Stewart's program The Daily Show which appears on cable television, is considered by many of his devoted fans to be closer to what is news than the majority of programs which call themselves news or news media. Stewart, however, describes his show as close to an editorial cartoon. On his initial Friday evening show, Moyers played some clips from a recent Daily Show. One clip was an extract from the testimony presented to the U.S. congress by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The clip showed Gonzales claiming I can't recall in many different instances in response to nearly all the questions he was asked by the congress. Stewart comments that at first he didn't understand what the significance was of Gonzales' response. Eventually, however, he began to think he had figured out what it represented. Describing the motives of those in the Bush administration, he says: (6) They would rather us believe them to be wildly incompetent and inarticulate than to let us know anything about how they operate. And so, they do constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't -- they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent. Stewart is commenting on why Gonzales' testimony on April 19, 2007 to the U.S. congress did not explain anything about how the decision had been made in the situation that was the subject of the hearing. Eight U.S. attorneys appointed by the justice department which Gonzales heads were fired. These attorneys were from different regions of the U.S. and so at first the pattern of justice department activity was not obvious to congress which
Re: nettime Free Media vs Free Beer (By Andrew L)]
Free Media vs Free Beer by Andrew =97 last modified 2007-04-15 13:23 [...] * EngageMedia.org - an Australian based free software project and video sharing site for social and environmental justice film from Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. * Transmission.cc - a new global network of social change online video projects co-founded by EngageMedia. While I'm happy to see things like this happening, it seems strange to me that those two web sites are entirely in English, and barely touch on the issue of language and translation, and then only in the context of making subtitles for videos. EngageMedia.org has videos about many countries in Southeast Asia, but doesn't even seem to have a way of indicating which language a video is in, apparently because they're all assumed to be in English. EngageMedia's project brief says: We are focussing on Australia, the Pacific and South East Asia, as we want to build cross-border cultural relations within the region and facilitate this sharing of cultures through grassroots communication networks. The project aims to provide a global distribution tool for local community media makers who would otherwise be unable to distribute their film widely. How can you make a regional media distribution tool, never mind a global one, that doesn't at least attempt to treat all languages equally? Also, translation is more than subtitling. Not all videos are self-explanatory to all audiences. If you're Australian and you don't know anything about, say, Indonesia, maybe you can understand a video about Indonesia made by Australians for an Australian audience. But I suspect you won't necessarily understand a video about Indonesia made by Indonesians for an Indonesian audience, even if it's subtitled in English. You might need an introductory text, potentially a long and detailed one, to give you the necessary background knowledge and put the video in context. (I could give specific examples of Egyptian films and videos that would be very hard to understand for someone who hasn't lived in Egypt.) Ben # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime The Three Basic Forms of Remix, by Eduardo Navas
History Birmington,http://arthist.binghamton.edu/duchamp/fountain.html , (November 2006). [11] For an online reproduction of Levine¹s appropriation visit ³Sherrie Levine,² Artnet, http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/cfinch/finch5-7-4.asp, (October, 2006). [12] For an image of Heartfield¹s Superman, see: Towson.edu, http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/images/Adolf_the_Superman.jpg, (October, 2006). [13] For an image of Heartfield¹s Butter¹s all Gone, see http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/images/Hurrah_the_Butter_is_all_gone.jpg, (October, 2006). [14] For an image of Grotesque visit Adam Art Gallery http://www.vuw.ac.nz/adamartgal/exhibitions/2002/big/lightsandshadows-Höch-l g.html, (October, 2006). [15] For an image of Tamar ,visit ³Hannah Höch: Dompteuse(Tamar)¹,² http://www.yellowbellywebdesign.com/Höch/dompu.html, (October, 2006). # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime en) Ukraine, No border camp
from different anti-authoritarian collectives and movements in Ukraine, Russia and other 'post-soviet' countries involved with the migration-related issues; mobilize people for struggle against racism, criminalization of migration and deportation camps system. We will discuss the possible ways and perhaps we will do some actions (but not in the very region of camp; it has been advised by everybody who's in touch with the region that any confrontational actions done by activists from outside on such a sensitive issue could make the situation worse, not better). So first of all it will not be an action camp but a camp for communication, networking, planning and popular education. Another event that is going to take place in the camp is an International Food Not Bombs gathering. There is an explosion of Food Not Bombs activities in Eastern Europe. In Russia alone there are about 50 groups that are regularly doing actions. We already started to form a program of workshops, discussions, practical trainings etc. But we prefer the program of the camp to be formed by the people who will come there. So if you've got something to share or contribute ? please let us know now! It can be any topic you are interested in, not only the main topic of the camp. Please take into account that Ukraine has cancelled the visa regime for the citizens of the European Union, the USA and some other countries, so if you have a passport of some Western country you probably do not need any visa to join us. Feel free to spread this call-out through your contacts. More information and contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe/unsubscribe, change your address on the list etc. you can find help at: http://help.riseup.net/lists/subscribers/ -- the ankle bone, connected to the thigh bone ;) http://del.icio.us/dr.w http://www.aut-op-sy.org http://narconews.com http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~archive/chiapas95/ http://noborder.org http://slash.interactivist.net/ http://ainfos.ca http://www.metamute.org http://lists.perthimc.asn.au/pipermail/blackgreensolidarity/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity http://www.metamute.org/en/Precarious-Reader https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/ipsm-l/2005-July/000781.html http://www.deletetheborder.org http://www.nettime.org http://www.pochanostra.com/dialogues/ http://www.aspaceoutside.org/wp-content/uploads/Space_Outside_Reader.pdf http://www.prol-position.net/ http://stateofemergency.nomasters.org/ http://www.infoshop.org/inews http://www.eco-action.org/dod http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/overview.htm http://ww4report.com/blog # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Out now on Metamute.org
Hi, hope these stories will be of interest to some people on this list - excuse the spamming. Ben M | U | T | E | __ rread it! __27 April 07 _ OUT NOW ON METAMUTE.ORG: Take Me I'm Yours: Neoliberalising the Cultural Institution by Anthony Davies 'Talking about precariousness in the McBa is like taking a nutrition seminar at McDonalds' The discourse of precariousness is thriving in cultural and political forums. But 'progressive institutions - from museums to art schools - do not always practice what they preach. Anthony Davies looks behind the scenes of radical reformism. http://www.metamute.org/en/Take-Me-Im-Yours * The End of Copenhagen? by Stewart Home '[Alex] Fotis anarcho-syndicalism is a variant of Leninist vanguardism, the old idealist fallacy of Holy Spirit descending into unconscious (or at best semi-conscious) matter, of (white) 'consciousness being brought in from outside'. The Situationists and the Creative Class are neck and neck in the competition for most mythologised avant garde. In riot-torn Copenhagen at the end of last month the two converged. While the conference There's Life After Death Scandinavian Situationism in Perspective was laying to rest delusions about the SI, partisans of the creative class seized on the riots as a victory for the new creative vanguardists. Stewart Home rattles some cage. http://www.metamute.org/en/End-of-Copenhagen * SUBSCRIBE TO MUTE MAGAZINE HERE: http://www.metamute.org/taxonomy/term/3480 FOR A LIST OF STOCKISTS: http://www.metamute.org/node/254 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime sad news
I heard just yesterday upsetting (given his youth the shocking) news of Ricardo's death. I came to know Ricardo first through reading and admiring his writing. His texts (I refuse to say was) are so valuable because they offer a window into vibrant world of Brazilian free media activism. They are illuminating precisely because he refuses to buy into the hype of the revolutionary 'open source Brazil' that is maybe still fashionable. The writing is critical but without rancor his observations always diffused the observed through a sensibility which is simultaneously gentle and rigorous, affectionate and skeptical. But because his critique is delivered not in text alone but by practicing alternatives it is able to show the particular power and potential of Brazilian media activism. My encounter with this aspect of Ricardo's work came from the piece which Brian Holmes describes earlier in this thread. The Autolabs project in which he was part of a team and a passionate advocate. Worked actively mentoring teen agers in free media practice in the poor districts of Sao Paulo The power of the Autolabs project is that embodied everything which the state sponsored Telecenters claimed to be but in Ricardo's view were not. I know he did many other things which have been identified by Lucas Bambozzi and I am sure there is much more that will emerge but these are my memories While I stayed in Sao Paulo Ricardo (and others in the team) gave me so much in terms of hospitality, warmth and education, changing the way I saw many things. As Ricardo is no longer here in person nettime (I hope he might agree) is as good a place as anywhere to say goodbye. David Garcia # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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: nettime sad news
This is very sad news, indeed. As Trebor Scholz wrote Ricardo Rosas saw and established connections where few people could perceive them, let alone could make them work. Yet, once he pointed them out and set out to bring them into the world, they were natural. He introduced a lot of people, including myself, to Brazil and to a world of ideas, cosmoplitan and uniquely personal at the same time. He did so in the most humane way possible, by having long conversations, zig-zaging through Sao Paolo, disappearing and turing up again with more people, more connections, more things to do. I was always convinced our paths would cross again, there would be plenty of time for more drinks, walks, and conversations. It would have been the most natural thing in the world. Now it won't be. Felix --- http://felix.openflows.com - out now: *|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 *|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime MANIFESTO FOR CCTV FILMMAKERS
in surveillance, the proliferation of miniature mobile cameras (many built into phones and other handheld devices) has led to the phenomenon of sous-veillance activities carried out by the population at large. News services now actively solicit amateur recordings from camcorders and even mobile phones, often combining them with CCTV footage where they have access to it, when reporting from scenes of crimes, accidents or natural disasters. The manifesto can be extended to provide a framework for films that work with acts of sous-veillance. (**) Data Protection Act 1998 Chapter 29 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1998/19980029.htm (***) CCTV systems and the Data Protection Act JB v.5 http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk () Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (CCTV and the Human Rights Act) http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/cctv13.htm (*) CCTV Guidance and the Data Protection Act - Good Practice Note http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/eventual.aspx?id=5740 - - / ___manu Luksch__/ _ mobile: (+44) 780 7474 378 __ (+43) 650 9977 988 skype: manulita __ http://www.ambientTV.NET _/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime My Lost Films
My Lost Films I made films from 1969-1993; most of them were carried by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. The films are all mast prints; I didn't copy them, but showed the originals, since I wanted to use what little funds I had to produce more. They were shown periodically at Millennium in New York, and occasionally elsewhere, but they've never been part of the film community; as a result, they've hardly been shown. Canyon Cinema returned them after the board voted against handling masters, which could be damaged during a screening of course. They were then placed at the Filmmakers Coop here in NY, where they've remained on the shelf for fifteen years; I doubt anyone has rented or seen them. I don't know their condition at this point; many of the 16mm ones had mag stripe sound on them, which is susceptible to print-through. They were featured prominently in the 1992 Canyon Cinema catalog, just before Canyon changed its mind about handling them. (I should add that my videos have been available at times from places like Printed Matter or Art Metropole, but these can be duplicated.) I'm saddened that they remain unscreened - there are probably 15-24 hours worth. There are a large number of them; for a while, when I was teaching at UCLA, I made a film every week, mostly 16mm black and white sound, imitating the older silent film production strategies and rates. For me the films broke a lot of new ground - not least, in optical/magnetic soundtrack experimentation, but they're quiet, moot on that point. So I recently found a copy of the 1992 catalog and xeroxed the six pages that describe my work. I am forced to think of the pages themselves as a new film, made from the silence of the old; they read as a narrative of concerns, experimentations, confusions, and theory-work changing over a twenty-year period (although to be fair, most were made between 1980 and 1992). The image URLs are given below. Read the texts, imagine watching the films, and maybe in some absurd future, they'll come to life again. http://www.asondheim.org/canyonfilm1.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/canyonfilm2.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/canyonfilm3.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/canyonfilm4.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/canyonfilm5.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/canyonfilm6.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/canyonfilm7.jpg # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Weak participation on Web 2.0 sites
Study finds weak participation on Web 2.0 sites By Reuters http://news.com.com/Study+finds+weak+participation+on+Web+2.0+sites/2100-1032_3-6177059.html Story last modified Tue Apr 17 23:11:19 PDT 2007 Web 2.0, a catchphrase for the latest generation of Web sites where users contribute their own text, pictures and video content, is far less participatory than commonly assumed, a study showed on Tuesday. A tiny 0.16 percent of visits to Google's top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others to watch, according to a study of online surfing data by Bill Tancer, an analyst with Web audience measurement firm Hitwise. Similarly, only two-tenths of one percent of visits to Flickr, a popular photo-editing site owned by Yahoo, are to upload new photos, the Hitwise study found. The vast majority of visitors are the Internet equivalent of the television generation's couch potatoes--voyeurs who like to watch rather than create, Tancer's statistics show. Wikipedia, the anyone-can-edit online encyclopedia, is the one exception cited in the Hitwise study: 4.6 percent of all visits to Wikipedia pages are to edit entries on the site. But despite relatively low-user involvement, visits to Web 2.0-style sites have spiked 668 percent in two years, Tancer said. Web 2.0 and participatory sites (are) really gaining traction, he told an audience of roughly 3,000 Internet entrepreneurs, developers and financiers attending the Web 2.0 Expo industry conference in San Francisco this week. Web 2.0, a phrase popularized by conference organizer Tim O'Reilly, refers to the current generation of Web sites that seek to turn viewers into contributors by giving them tools to write, post, comment and upload their own creative work. Besides Wikipedia, other well-known Web 2.0 destinations are social-network sites like News Corp.'s MySpace and Facebook and photo-sharing site Photobucket. Visits by Web users to the category of participatory Web 2.0 sites account for 12 percent of U.S. Web activity, up from only 2 percent two years ago, the study showed. Web 2.0 photo-sharing sites now account for 56 percent of visits to all online photo sites. Of that, Photobucket alone accounts for 41 percent of the traffic, Hitwise data shows. An older, first generation of sites, now in the minority, are photo-finishing sites that give users the ability to store, share and print photos. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Limits of the World
Limits of the World Gamespace is bracketed by the _blank_ and the _edge._ Unlike the physical world, gamespace isn't fractal: moving closer to a surface results in pixel enlargement (or penetration). This is the blank of gamespace. The blank isn't unknown; the blank is entirely known. The blank is the death-limit, absence, unforgiveness. Traveling across (parallel vectoring the surface) leads towards a limit. This is the edge of gamespace. (Not all games have edges.) The edge is unknown; the edge is the failure of rule-binding, identity, physics. The edge is the life-limit, presence, forgetting. (What came before isn't relative.) The game occurs before the blank (play with a sufficient pixel raster); the game exists beyond the frozen zone of the edge. (The frozen zone: where media play.) Both blank and edge are spaces of negotiation. These are the limits set by the contract or rule-governing of the game. To understand the game, play it; to comprehend the game: move from blank to edge, edge to blank. The mute blank: One speaks before it. The activated / activating edge: One moves across it. To cross the edge of gamespace is to be drawn Elsewhere. To be drawn in gamespace: to play. Drawing is always redrawing. (Ontology is rewrite.) Gamespace: One speaks within it. Blankspace: The Unspeakable. Physical world (let's call it realspace): The deeper one proceeds, the greater utilization of economic resources (colliders increasing in size and power, etc.). The smaller the realspace object, the greater degree of virtuality. (Perhaps gamespace and realspace meet at the hypothetical infinitely small.) The virtual is the foundation of the hierarchy/holarchy of realspace. The edges of realspace, gamespace, are the jectivity of transgression. Or certain edges are, or certain transgressions. The blank is withdrawal, catatonia, the virtual-real, the inert, obdurate. Transgression means always having to look back (return the gaze, appear across the edge). Blank is never-looking (nothing to look at, unable to look). Culture flourishes in the liminal. Theorizing from the inside-out, theorizing from the deconstructed basis. The blank: broken writing-pad, magic slate, inviolate sheet of assertion, defuge, decathected. The edge, the stylus. Fulcrum or balance for the interior. Tottering, toppling (inward). The transgression in realspace is the occasion of death. In gamespace, return. In gamespace, return of the repressed. The analog of gamespace: psychoanalytical oozing, blank and edge. The digital of realspace: apparatus, mechanics, closing-down of the liminal. (Drawing a blank.) (Reading Ken Wark's Gamer Theory, playing in SL, teaching in Providence) # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Media Culture chat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, do you know if there is a chat focusing on media culture topic? smt like freenode chat server, but based on speculation. bye -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJlhWEKPBKo/sQ6IRAu3MAKDf/DFNqF7IdKhRIUe5YOEscyzUBwCg2Y87 gPt20oGVHEl9s+J4RdPITZk= =Yrf7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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]
nettime Parable of the return
Parable of the return Having perfected the machine which allowed us to travel backwards in time, we decided to visit the very origins of humankind, that savanna where proto-hominids roamed, beginning their conquest of the flora and fauna of the planet. We returned to a period before the great dispersion, before the diasporic spread of humans fearful of themselves. We brought clubs, knives, guns, explosives; we brought encapsulated germs and plagues. Around eleven o'clock in the morning, we appeared on the savanna. The hominids, tearing a sloth to pieces, were everywhere. They carried clubs, hand axes, crude knives. We knew the slaughter would kill us as well. We imagined the arrival of other intelligent species who might know better, or who would also send expeditions of destruction into their pasts. We were prepared for death, an oddly retroactive form of suicide. We began the slaughter; clubs and knives did not become us. We began shooting and the hominids ran in all directions. We still survived. We bombed their gathering places. We killed families indiscriminately. We released smallpox, measles, plagues of all sorts. We machine-gunned men, women, and children. We were harbingers of death. And yet we survived. We checked our demographies; we were at the center of the holocaust We were the holocaust. We knew one or two might escape; we were prepared for that. The future, our present, would be transformed. Hominids would either go extinct or become a minor species with an ecological niche in some savanna backwater. We discovered this: We changed evolution utterly. We changed it towards ourselves, the most violent of the futures of the hominids. The ones that escaped would live to slaughter others. It was slaughter that guided them all along. It was slaughter that created us. For those that escaped, wounded, life would be constant fury. We had set the script of revenge into motion. We produced ourselves. We knew then that attempts to change the past only produced it. We knew then that there was no escape; life itself would wane as plants and animals hurtled towards extinction. Our return had created our return; our return from the botched journey produced at best a botched species. We had only ourselves to blame; our ancestors, each and every one, were innocent, following the path we had set for them. We knew then that we followed the same path, that we were determined as well, produced by the circularity of our return. We were at the birth of the wounded, the birth of indiscriminate slaughter. We were at our own birth as well. We understood that there was nothing to do, nothing to be done, that death was always in the doing, that violence was mandated from our own beginnings. We knew then that we would die soon, just as others died, fellow travelers back in time, fellow architects of doom. http://www.asondheim.org/vishamyati.mov http://www.asondheim.org/slatter.mp4 http://www.asondheim.org/moon.mp4 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime Revelation Vertigo
form of autonomy that Castoriadis describes in the quote that opens this article might indeed not have existed until those acting based upon it already existing by their actions take part in creating it. Whether this autonomy really existed is not necessarily important compared to how this presumption, resting on a virtual and undetermined capacity for autonomy, takes part in the process of its actualization. Such a process is not necessarily positive or negative, but depends on other processes and dynamics involved, and from whose perspective this judgment is being made. The task then is to work through how these formations occur, and whether they tend to move in directions we want them to go, or whether they come to be objectified and turned against us, where the tools and notions that once were helpful are nothing more than baggage at best, and phantoms and specters that continue to haunt us. You and I return to the scene of the crime Let's go out and wash our sins away Everyone's an actor in this play Trading lines with broken phantoms -- Mission of Burma, Fever Moon References Gavin Grindon (2007) The Breath of the Possible, Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization. Ed. Stevphen Shukaitis + David Graeber. Oakland: AK Press John Holloway (2003) In the Beginning Was the Scream, Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics. Ed. Werner Bonefeld. Brooklyn: Autonomedia Antonio Negri (1999) Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State. Trans. Maurizio Boscagli. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press Friedrich Nietzsche (1990) Beyond Good and Evil. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin Books Baruch Spinoza (1949) Ethics. New York: Hafner Publishing -- Stevphen Shukaitis Autonomedia Editorial Collective http://www.autonomedia.org http://slash.interactivist.net Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master's rule. - subRosa Collective # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime Jean Baudrillard brought to Second Life
6th April 2007 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/195/146/26 Jean Baudrillard brought to Second Life Ester Dreier and Lamb Lamont are proud to announce that Jean Baudrillard has been caught while floating around the Odyssey art gallery. Look at the amazing philosopher, take pictures and click on him to let him talk about death, life, and how is it to be a simulacrum! Baudrillard will be available in Odyssey art gallery as long as we can retain his soul. Jean Baudrillard was brought to Second Life by Ester Dreier (a.k.a. Paolo Ruffino) Lamb Lamont (a.k.a. Lamberto Azzariti) script by Masami Kuramoto texts by Matteo Bittanti special thanks to Sugar Seville 0100101110101101.org (a.k.a.Eva Franco Mattes) Gazira Babeli -- Paolo Ruffino [EMAIL PROTECTED] # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime Chernobille-sur-Loire, or the announced French nuclear meltdown...
A nuclear power plant catastrophe in France - which will affect a large part of Western Europe, if not beyond - is not a question of if, but of when. This has little to do with the intrinsic technicalities of nuclear electricity production, but a lot to the current dictates of neo-capitalist flexible accumulation. France is very much dependent on nuclear energy and has a large number of nuclear power plants scattered all over the country (*), all owned by the French state company EDF (Electr=E9cit=E9 de France). EDF is currently th= e object of a heated privatisation debate. Whatever its outcome, the result remains the same: EDF is increasingly structured and run like a public limited company, and subjected to the 'discipline' of the market(s). Flexibility, profitability, efficiency, and competitiveness are key words here. They have displaced, if not replaced altogether, the ancient notion of public service, which was very strong in France, and near-exalted in state initiated technologicaly path-breaking enetrprises like telecoms, high speed railways - and nuclear energy. The latter had also to deal wit= h the reality of heightened risks - which have become graphically clear after the Chernobyl catastrophe. Security however has, within the neo-capitalist mode of production, been operationalised into yet another cost, to be factored within an insurance-type envelope of considerations, whose coverage and provision might well be diminished in the measure that its possibly negative (read here catastrophic) outcomes can be pushed back into the future - that is beyond, usually one, and rarely more than a few, fiscal years. EDF has already nicely absorbed these lessons from Ramonet's infamous On= e Idea System. In order to diminish costs, general maintenance has been outsourced, severing the link between everyday routine and damage control when an emergency arises (**). This has heightened the sense of=20 insecurity among the regular employees of nuclear power plants - which is already considerable at the best of times. Worse still, these are subjected to intense pressure to 'do more with less', and especially with less time - without any compensation whatsoever, all in name of increasing competition. So the 'weakest' of them - also often known as the most conscentious - commit suicide. As the - young, unsurprisingly - new CEO of the Chinon power plant (where the three suicided employees were working) admits it in today's newspeak: ou= r sector is one where the adaptation constraints are heavy indeed. Such a rhetoric, and the attitudes and practices behind it, bode extremely ill for the future, as one can easilly guess which short-term constraints are going to trump long term concerns in the absence of extremely strict, and thus in the present conjoncture, illusory regulation. And the excuse is already, shamefully there: when the announced catastrophe will ultimately take place (next year, or next decade) (a) it could not have been avoided, given the prevailing parameters; (b) it will have been caused by human error - of the operator= s of course, not of the decision makers. If they could draw any lesson from it, one could only wish the latter would die an as horrible death as the former. But even this non-consolation will elude us. Patrice Riemens, Hoeilaart, April 5, 2007 See on all this the article that triggered this post Le Monde of April 5= , 2007: 3rd suicide of an employee at the Chinon nuclear power plant since Augus= t 2006 (http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-891661,0.html) (*) Nuclear energy ratio: 75% of electricity produced. Number of nuclear power plants: 56. See map at : http://www.lesverts-lorraine.org/camac/reso/franucl.htm (**) Private contractors will withdraw workers when they reach a certain level of exposure to radiation - and put them to other duties, a 'flexibility' that cannot be attained with in-house (and vastly better paid) employees. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime call for blogging code of conduct
, and to provide platforms, e.g. on their blogs, for others to do so, she said. I think anyone who enjoys any aspect of the Live Web would celebrate this fact, and agree its vitality would be impaired if the law expected or required these ordinary people to envelop themselves and their sites in elaborate legal provisos and conditions if they hope to be shielded from potential responsibility for the bad acts of others, she said. The Kathy Sierra situation is, she said, forcing bloggers to examine their moral compasses on a number of fronts. But, ultimately self-regulation is the only way forward, she believes. Although, as a female blogger, she has not personally encountered bullying or sexism, she does think it can be tough to be a woman online. Despite my fortunately good experiences, I do think it's harder in some ways for women to blog. For women with families, it's constantly in the back of your mind that you're putting not just yourself but to some extent your family in the public eye, she said. It has long been accepted that online behaviour differs from the behaviour people would exhibit in the real world due, largely to the anonymity it allows. Technology blogger Sam Sethi agrees that blogging can bring out the worst in people. These young geek guys they feel that that they can say what they want and do it with anonymity. It can bring out the worst character behaviour because they feel that they are hidden. He agrees with Tim O'Reilly that the time is ripe for bloggers to have a code of conduct and like fellow bloggers, has turned off the facility on his blog that allows for anonymous posts. Too optimistic It could be that the time has come to professionalise what bloggers do, he said. It is up to the community to agree the rules and then it would simply be a line at the top of the blog to say only show me sites that adhere to this conduct, he said. For Ms Sierra the reasons behind the campaign against her remain elusive. Other than being a woman, she can see only one other reason for the hatred she has experienced in the last four weeks. They thought I was just too damned optimistic, she told the BBC News website. These people are interested in rage and they think that if you aren't enraged then you are part of the problem. It seems that they hate my optimism. They think I am poisoning peoples' minds with my positive outlook, she told the BBC News website. Such nihilism and anger have led her to consider hanging up her blogging software for good. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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 call for blogging code of conduct
Geert Lovink wrote: Dear nettimers, I wonder how many of you follow the 'Kathy Sierra' case and what you make of it. I wrote this reply to her, but apparently she didn't see my comment on her blog or doesn't care about autonomous community initiatives to try to create change in techno culture. Maybe since our event wasn't making any headlines, since the main sites like boingboing.net and slashdot refused to acknowledge it, it wasn't worth kathy's time either. /// my response is here, as well as in the comments of her blog: http://deletetheborder.org/node/2077 Wow. I'm so, so sorry that this has happened to you and it just fuels me even more to continue fighting sexism and misogyny in techno culture. You've probably never heard of me, but this past weekend I helped organize freEtech in San Diego, in response to the exclusivity, sexism and racism inherent in Etech and in the fact that it costs $1500. At freEtech we talked a lot about how sexism and racism function in techno culture and what can be done about it. Cory Doctorow, who's an editor of boingboing.net and is on the etech board, refused to post freEtech because it was too critical of Oreilly and he basically denied that there is a problem with sexism in techno culture, callimg our claims baseless. You can read about freEtech, read my emails to cory and read his replies here: http://deletetheborder.org/node/2053 http://deletetheborder.org/node/2057 http://deletetheborder.org/node/2065 Hopefully we can all work together to make this culture more what we want to see, with less sexism, racism and homophobia. I hope that you can eventually find the strength and courage to continue engaging with this community, especially now that you've seen its problems. No wonder we have a huge problem with sexism in techno culture when the most famous people in that culture refuse to admit that there's a problem. Maybe next year you can come to freEtech and give a talk there. /// Basically, it seems that all the problems of celebrity and centralization are on display in blogger culture and the marginalization of community efforts at change and dissenting voices is a clear example of that problem, just as the targeting of well known bloggers for sick misogynist fantasies is another example of that problem operating in concert with the patriarchical tendencies of United States. What we're seeing here is meatspace structuring cyberspace and taking away its utopian or liberatory potential. -- blog: http://deletetheborder.org/lotu5 gpg: 0x5B459C11 // encrypted email preferred gaim: djlotu5 // off the record messaging preferred # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime ODIHR, e-voting i-voting
ODIHR is the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (http://www.osce.org/odihr/) It was invited by the Dutch government to observe the working of the last parliamentary elections (of november 2006) against a background of mounting criticism regarding the near-universal use of voting computers in the Netherlands. This critique was largely spawned and fueled by the group (now a foundation) We Do Not Trust Voting Computers (http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English). The following is a translation of the item about ODIHR in the group's last newsletter. (http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/Nieuwsbrief_Nr._25_-_30_ maart_2007) (in Dutch) Oh Dear The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has as acronym ODIHR, usually pronouced Oh Dear, and one of its activities it carries for the 53 member states of the OSCE is to observe elections and oversee the fairness and correctness of electoral procedures. Quite understandably, the emphasis is on so-called 'new democracies' where those in power have a tendency to be somewhat creative with the democratic process if they possibly can get away with it. We have written in a previous newsletter about the rather critical report ODIHR's Election Assessment Mission had submitted about the last Dutch parliamentary elections. ODIHR has now observed a number of elections where voting took place with voting computers or over the Internet. As the organisation now realises that e-voting nd i-voting may potentially present grave problems as far as the controlability of the election process is concerned, it convened a working meeting with representatives of countries, electoral observers teams and external experts. This took place on March 22-23, and Rop Gonggrijp attended it for the 'wedonottrustvotingcomputers' foundation. It was quite a learning experience to come to know people who are familiar with the election process of so many countries. A number of participants were apparently still on the track that e-voting without a paper trail is perfectly controlable - if you go by the documentation accompanying certification papers and that sort of things. But in backroom discussions it appeared that the realisation is dawning that black box e-voting could be a boon for some big shots in some 'new democracies', saving them the inconveniance of dead journalists, banged-up opposition candidates and 'disapeared' ballot boxes - and that they might discover this rather sooner than later; The meeting's discussion focused on a document that mainly attempts to establish a check-list of sorts for observation teams to use when monitoring e-voting systems. Introduction of a paper trail is mentioned as one of the measures that might lead to a better controlability. Our group has requested that paper trail be given a more prominent and separate place and to define and distinguish two categories of e-voting. We do hope that the discussion will continue inside ODIHR, and that what has come out of this study will translate in new, additional directives. QD translation by patrice riemens # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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 interview with Gazira Babeli
Hi Tilman, Thanks for this interview. I'm glad to see someone is trying to do something interesting in SecondLife. I've poked around a little but so far have resisted it because most people there seem to either be just playing dress-up or running around shooting people at random. That's rather tiresome, but at the same time people seem to be hypersensitive to events or performances like Babeli's. It seems like a weird paradox. But getting to specifics, I was curious by what she meant saying that Second Life seems to offer a Renaissance Perspective. If she means a renewal of the sort of pranks she said she admires, then that would be welcome, but isn't SecondLife, having a fairly narrow audience, a very different kind of context? Or does she think the current press coverage of SL will allow her work and other's to jump the borders, as it were? -- Though maybe if there is more work like this on the horizon, more people will find a visit to SL worthwhile. Cheers, Kim On 3/22/07, Tilman Baumg=E4rtel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Here is an interview with Italian artists Gazira Babeli, who does interesting virtual performance pieces in Second Life. For more material, check her website at: http://www.gazirababeli.com/ (Gee, posting this interview to nettime, feels almost like way back in the glory days of net.art... ;) ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime Bjarke Nielsen: Lessons learned from DjurslandS.net
Djursland is the rural community in Denmark that, upon being refused ADSL connection by the big telecoms, embarked on setting up a WiFi network of its own that subsequently turned into a model famous worldwide. Bjarke Nielsen is Djursland founder and figurehaed ;-) http://www.djurslands.net (in Danish) http://www.diirwb.net/ (Djursland International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband (in English) - Forwarded message from Bjarke Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:13:59 +0200 Subject: [wsfii-discuss] In-Depth Case Study Lessons learned from the DjurslandS.net experience Dear friends of WSFII and community networks ! :-) Here you got a link to my report to InfoDev at the Worldbank on lessons learned from the DjurslandS.net: http://hos.nr-djurs.net/bjarke/In-Depht_Study_of_the_DjurslandS_net_experience.pdf _*Explanation:*_ One year ago about 30 open access network initiatives around the World had answered the questionnaire which people around the Freifunk.net had developed on behalf of OPLAN for InfoDev at the Worldbank. 7 of these about 30 networks - being very interesting and having distinct types of PPPs and project finance approaches - were during spring and summer 2006 asked to make assignment with InfoDev and deliver each their 50 pages Indepth Case Study with detailed data and information on their own local open access network. 3 of these 7 is networks established and run purely by volunteers, namely www.nepalwireless.net, www.wirelessghana.com and www.djurslands.net. Already last autumn reports were published from the first two of these 3 non-commercial networks, - now by this e-mail you got the link to the one coming from Djursland. As founder of DjurslandS.net and educational leader of the Djursland International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband (DIIRWB), InfoDev asked me to do the indepht study on behalf of the Djursland society. It is now finalized and it consist of 52 illustrated pages in letter format and it was send to InfoDev by the 6th of March 2007. It is called: Lessons learned from the DjurslandS.net experience - An In-Depth Case Study of the Huge Rural Area Wireless DjurslandS.net in Denmark. What we learned - and now can teach internationally - is really mind blowing and sensational, and it has the potential to bridge the technological and social devide between rich and poor societies around the World. - Please read it and - if you are not one already - become a bridge yourself ! ;-) With Smiles and Friendliness from Bjarke :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ wsfii-discuss mailing list wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime The importance of shit hitting the fan at moderate rates
Finally, a promising theory that may explain why too much peace or too much war is bad. For cognition-challenged, replace 'biofilm' with your favourite organisational form, nettime included, and pick your own 'evolved cheats' ;-) http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0960982207010664 Explaining cooperation is a challenge for evolutionary biology. Surprisingly, the role of extrinsic ecological parameters remains largely unconsidered. Disturbances are widespread in nature and have evolutionary consequences. We develop a mathematical model predicting that cooperative traits most readily evolve at intermediate disturbance. Under infrequent disturbance, cooperation breaks down through the accumulation of evolved cheats. Higher rates of disturbance prevent this because the resulting bottlenecks increase genetic structuring (relatedness) promoting kin selection for cooperation. However, cooperation cannot be sustained under very frequent disturbance if population density remains below the level required for successful cooperation. We tested these predictions by using cooperative biofilm formation by the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. The proportion of biofilm-forming bacteria peaked at intermediate disturbance, in a manner consistent with model predictions. Under infrequent and intermediate disturbance, most bacteria occupied the biofilm, but the proportion of cheats was higher under less frequent disturbance. Under frequent disturbance, many bacteria did not occupy the biofilm, suggesting that biofilm dwelling was not as beneficial under frequent versus intermediate disturbance. Given the ubiquity of disturbances in nature, these results suggest that they may play a major role in the evolution of social traits in microbes. end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself - Solidarity Link Action
Call for Support: Link to Google Will Eat Itself by Geert Lovink http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/2007/03/22/call-for-support-link- to-google-will-eat-itself/ Google Will Eat Itself ( http://www.gwei.org ) announced that is now fully censored on all Google Search-Indexes worldwide. What a scandal! The idea behind GWEI is simple: Google Will Eat Itself generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money GWEI automatically buy Google shares. GWEI buys Google via their own advertisment. Google eats itself - but in the end we own it. By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click- based economic model. After this process GWEI hands over the common ownership of our Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public. Let's break the silence and put a link to this project on our sites and blogs: http://www.gwei.org. Give Google back to people! GWEI is an interesting case how to imagine a new global public sphere. How to reverse privatization and rethink a truely public Internet without the Googles and Yahoos. Thanks for your support! The GWEI-Team Vienna, Bari, Turin, March 2007 UBERMORGEN.COM (Lizvlx/Hans Bernhard), Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio http://www.gwei.org --- Latest project by UBERMORGEN.COM, PAOLO CIRIO, ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO MISH - MASH - MESH http://www.amazon-noir.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime New Media Art in a Control Society
elders discovered, not without difficulty, the ultimate end of the disciplines. - Personal expression and human and artist centrality can be abandoned. - Complex machines are an emergent life form in the masturbatory fantasies of those siding with control. I distrust transhumanists but I want to be friends with a computer. - Any moralistic or spiritual pretension or representation purposes for art must be abandoned. - Primarily, based on your lifelong Frankenstein Radio Controls, especially your Eyesight TV, sight and sound recorded by your brain, your moon brain of the Computer God activates your Frankenstein threshold brainwash radio lifelong, inculcating conformist propaganda, even frightening you and mixing you up and the usual, Don't worry about it. - Professionalism in the arts (and the accompanying stratification of skills) must be abandoned in favor of a progressive (class-less) artistry of both a personal and collective nature. - Over the last decades, using positions of power in your STAGE- WORLD reality, THEY introduced their key words and also their sick DREAMWORLD- TO-SELL key ideas in every aspect of culture in the STAGE WORLD society where you live : songs, movies, humor, even propaganda. - Derive: An experimental mode of behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique for hastily passing through varied environments. - The economic and cultural exploitation of the artist has reached appalling proportions. The individual and/or collective artist, whose work is plagiarized as commercial 'technique', or exported as cultural commodity, has little control over these conditions. - Consciousness is not exclusively restricted to the brain. Human bodies have no boundaries. - The artist must be concerned with the moral relationship that his/ her endeavors have to the institutions within which he/she expresses his/her work. - The majority of what I've read has been shamelessly stolen from various sources: theoretical texts, artists' statements, manifestos and paranoid rambling. They stand as a collection of connections and disjunctions. I am, we are, a manner of speaking. - Art is not knowledge. - Art does not communicate. - There is nothing here for you. - Gilles Deleuze said that new situations could ...at first express new freedom, but they could participate as well in mechanisms of control that are equal to the harshest of confinements. There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
nettime Subvert Europe at 50!
Thinking about a European Youth Insurgency vs the present EU State of Emergency? Well, here's some subvertising ready for you: http://www.radicaleurope.org/ http://www.radicaleurope.org/retro1.html http://www.radicaleurope.org/retro2.html (from the site, you can also download hi-res files to print your own subvert europe cards...) Pink Revolt All Over Europe! neuroradical ciaos and mayday wishes, lx Radical Europe mailing list http://listes.agora.eu.org/listinfo/radical-europe # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime 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
