Re: nettime In brig, WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning ordered to sleep without clothing
Manning's capability to taunt his jailers indicates his mental health is not a problem, thus undercutting accusations of deterioration due to, uh, torture. Standing nude, being gazed by beefy guards, is not all that bad. Manning has accomplished his life's wet dream, and for that he is to be pedestaled iconically. There remains the always auto-mesmerzing issue of masturbation, according to Jean Genet the favorite prison and military and collegiate activity (inside and outside family colonies), and its near endlessly variable attraction and repulsion of the jailers, as watchers, as cheerleaders, as participants, as connoisseurs of welcomely forbidden pleasures of sadism and masochism. That the brig is headed by a female Marine ratchets up the auto-stimulation to Nurse Ratchet's castrating diabolism, the Society for Cutting Up Men coming out of the bitch-hatchetry. Soon, the society of BGLT hackers and leakers, so to speak, will come out. Genet, and gobs of others, averred there is nothing to compare with the military for pansexuality perversity except the Church. Children preferred. Childlike adults delectable substitutes. Bradass87, bare assed and loving it, you couldn't make this up for a Cuckoo Nest flic. So how many of the Manning guards are female, gay, tranny -- pansexual hornism a given? Prepare to kill and die priapically, fuck mud Gyrenes! # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Twitter and the resignation of Germany's minister of defense
This has now become confusing to a red neck Tea Party anti-unionist contra-academic. If not plagiarism what was wrong with having a red neck Tea Party anti-unionist contra-academcie as Defense Minister? These are always the qualifications for war business ministers whereever the offenders of defense are allowed to pretend civilian control of the military. Texas A and M University welcomed Robert Gates as its president between stints as CIA hoodlum and Warmaking hustler. Universities and think ha, ha, ha tanks around the globe beg and grovel for national security bribery to sustain the illusion of liberality of fey-minded fakers in the, uh, humanities who know exactly who underwrites facilities, salaries, benefits and pensions faintly cloaked by the student loan scandal which was preceded by the defense funding of studenthood channeled through faculty finance overseers. Is the DE furor about tax booty for activists, now an interest group of grotesque hoodlumistic extortionate protection racketeering pretense? Why not call a con a con, a few bright bulbs claiming to represent the downtrodden and accusing their opponents of doing the same as if advised by the same publicity team for singular positioning on the political spectrum -- only us? Left is center is right, politics hustlers forever yelling the vile con is essential indeed the premier way for the citizenry to have a say despite all evidence demonstrating the opposite. Activism of Tea Party or high-minded defense of the people or any other political tripe is still secret machination for leaders to game the rubes. Is it still illegal in DE to call this perennial N-wordism what it is? Ha ha ha, as Freddie, the activist of ubermanism, deigns the unter-poli. At 11:10 PM 3/3/2011 +0100, you wrote: Hi, Am 03.03.11 11:57, schrieb Patrice Riemens: A great story, Anna! thanks! (i) What brought Count von und zu Guetenberg to plagiarize to such an extent? (300pages out of 400 are concerned, I read - that's rather massive) You're right: as far as I know not a lot of people have asked that question. I believe that most people think he just tried to get away with it, buying his way through academic necessities. It is also generally assumed that he didn't write the thesis himself - the ghost writer remains to be found. ... # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime David Solomonoff on the perils and pitfalls of InternetFreedom
Big hand for the nym punkcast, Joly. Yes, this is an argument going around to stigmatize those not already in the comfortable loop. Complete trust in the skills and integrity of the people providing those tools and services, is a classic defense of venal authoritatives hardly to be trusted unless you are inside their feralities. The cure could prove worse than the disease, is formulaic fear-mongering deployed by reputable mouthpieces, pick your favorite brand name amply funded to spread this cant. The racketeering media hoods are on a tear to promulagate this promo. Christ in a coffin, are these reputation mongerers illiterate or just maggoty plagiarists? Not that maggotry is wrong when deftly buttered as thine BBQ sauce. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Education costs; was How a Library Saved My Life.
Good points and applicable across many disciplines and endeavors which have succumbed to the star system and its attendant innumerable low- and not-so-low paid attendants which service, market and protect investment in the stars. Few of these attendants are educators, or warfighters, or doctors or architects or elected office holders. They do run the celebrity shows in the background and are the source of most budgetary increases while still flogging the high-value of the bold names to attact consumers, tax allocations and donations. This is not necessarily bad if those who run the show are provided with jobs, salaries and benefits to save them from a lifetime of drudgery and poverty. Indeed, for every star driven enterprise there are corollary benefits for those who support it and keep their mouths shut as Ted indelicately put it. To be sure there are predators who add little value to the star system but which most reap its rewards: investors, bankers, lawyers, university presidents and deans, publicists, gossips, critics, trophy mates, fashionistas, artistes, gallerists, liposuctionists, cosmetic surgeons, stylists, tv judges, comedians, talk show hosts, well, envy the welter of forums where stars and strivers and other idiots are marketed. Did I not mention architects, actual and metaphorical of wretchedly vulgar Raw Story excess? Still, education and health care grotesque wastage is minimal compared to that of national security manifold greater, now the driving force wastage, profiligacy, unaccountabiity, and destruction of life on earth and in space, corporeally and mentally. Secrecy about national security is the single greatest threat to democracy for it generates emulation and provides cover for all disciplines and endeavors. No federal institution exceeds the use of secrecy outside the national security apparatus except health care. And that is due to proprietary claims of the health care industry, pharmacalogical leading the pack of doctors and hospitals and unions and most of all, investors and aptly, secret doctor investors. Prepare to be shattered that there are educators secrety investing in edu-privatization way beyond high salaries and directors fees. Double check investors in student load predations working both sides of the racket. No private institution exceeds the use of secrecy outside the complicit federal reserve system than financial institutions. Swiss banks are chumps by comparison. The second massive attack on the US after 9/11 was planned and executed at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then headed by the current Secretary of the Treasury. That attack continues pretty muchly unabated while the monstrous reconstruction of WTC proceeds camouflaged by sappy memorialization and military-grade defiance, aided and abetted, as ever, by the Justice System which punishes little and excuses much. Nobody yet whacked for allowing 9/11. All praise for the shitty jobs Finance and Justice and Defense and Government and Entgertainment and Sports and Best Universities provides for, ahem, working people, particularly for the heavily stigmatized still facing humongous prejudice by the highly select Star System. All shame to those who believe this cannot be bettered, call them apologists for Status Quo, the oldest profession. Status Quo as in don't ask for givebacks or clawbacks or confessions of ill-doing. Blame those other criminals. Want a piece of my culpa over drinks at the Century or MOMA? I can get you on Rachel, or better Spitzer. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Questions concerning Wikileaks
The use of wiki was and is a marketing schtick, it was never intended, never tried. WL was conceived as an authoritative initiative cloaked as public interest as is wont with authoritatives. Authoritatives are worse than authoritarians for they dissemble about their manipulations of the public to diminish the likelihood of opposition. Submissions were never as open nor as secure as claimed. Many of WL submissions did not come from the outside, that too is dissimulative. Assange bragged of have millions of documents at the very beginning before submissions were proffered as a marketing device. Domscheit-Berg has been coy about exactly what he took away for security and which he claims will be returned when assured proper WL security is available. This too is common marketing flim-flam. WL ratcheting up numbers is patently shysterist, first millions of files on hand, then a few hunded high quality gradually published, then an astounding thousands of Congressional Research Reports, then singular blockblusters, then more hundreds of thousands of Afgan and Iraq files all heavily doctored for public consumption, no raw files published at all thoughout WL's history. Now lately hundreds of millions of words flaunted to balloon file claims. Submissions and publication have stopped and started more than once for dramatic effect, crisis upon crisis. This is trite market teasing to be sure not uncommon among public interest authoritatives run out to the point of idiocy-panels on PBS. For some years WL was very hostile to working with journalism and other media, and that was a virtue which distinguished it from most who cannot conceive of operating without tongues deeply embedded in well-reamed assholes. The change, according Domscheit-Berg occurred when Assange was seduced by a seasoned publicist-hack in Iceland to hyper-monetize Wikileaks with the gunship video. It was obvious that WL had abandoned its hostility to the media with the gunship campaign roll-out in the National Press Club preceded by market teasing previews. This publicist-hack is now the WL spokesperson. And according to DDB this hack orchestrated the conflict between Julian and Daniel with whispers about financial irregularities, aided and abetted by another publicist speech writer nanny who plotted with the hack to take over the Wikileaks-Assange brand as their own. This led to the redesign of the Web site to feature Julian's glamorizing fake-journalist headshot, which just happened to exactly copy what was done with Wikipedia and its heroic founder for a major funding campaign, as if the same designer did both for a cut-rate. More likely simple plagiarism. This campaign to convert Wikileaks into a commercial journalism outlet led to the involvement of the Guardian which was then used to draw in the others, and more others thereafter. This laid the foundation for journalistic protection of a commercial operation which almost worked. However in the long tradition of journalists screwing each other as scoundrels must, the multiple deals fell apart when Julian began to smell a rat. Not the rat advising him but the rats the main rat bred suspicion about. It should be expected that Julian will be royally fucked, and stay fucked by the rats now running his once noble venture. Was he too susceptible to skilled Machiavellis, as little princes always are? Or is he sufficiently shrewd to fuck the fuckers in the media milking his danger to the max, and there are hundreds of them, just think of who has come to prominence on Julian's risk, merely search Wikileaks to see their names brightly at the top, flogging their books, their weekly updates, their appearances of TV, their sharp wisdom on panels, their pithy scholarship, their nominations for awards, their bountiful cliches, all the claptrap of publicity whores, sorry, pros. Some of us hope those courteseans get old-style Wikileak reamed, for Anonymous to expose their emails and cell records, their bank accounts, their deals with officials, their lawyers' files, their tips and tricks to feed the mill, their backroom slurs of Wikileaks and others like it and their crows about the endless supply of suckers. Read the end of DDB's book where he poses a series of questions deserving answers. Then imagine what lies behind that publicity screen. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime The Art of the Undercommons
Didn't Sartre surpass Kant's ego-driven judgment in Critique of Dialectical Reason and in Transcendence of the Ego surpass Husserl's blinding conceit of paramountcy? Kant is, with Husserl, no question are masterful thinkers. But masterfully, paramountly above the fray, not at all physically risky. No punishing hemlock for them. I rescued a number of neophyte artists hunkering in windowless, unsafe cellars of million-dollar lofts of megawatt artists (Serra, i.e.) who allowed the occupancy for small rent or for free, magisterially, as if housing abandoned animals. The youngsters created wondrous objects highly inappropriate for museums and galleries, many obscene, filthy, dangerous, using bizarre materials salvaged from global capital crud, so fragile they could not be moved, so prickly they could not be touched, so noisy they could not listened, so kaliedoscopic they could not be seen. So it seemed to me as I searched with flashlight and ear plugs and rubber boots and fire extinguisher to spot a wall location to chop a safe exit with stairs to the street. You may not know that artists in NYC are treated like imbecilic nobility (like leashed philosophers astroll), with special laws governing their lofts to allow regally gruesome auto-abuse to occur. These galvanic-ego-carapaces have placards blaring, no shit, Artist in Residence. Which indicates to the cynical (there are none other in NYC) no art made here, just talk, prate, snarl about marketing and what rich cur is cash machining fine art investment. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime The Art of the Undercommons
This is certainly is fresh veggies, to disgest deeply and ponder the equal uselessness of politics and art, not hoary either/or complicity of mock, laborious, sterile opposition, plagiarism, copying, or as Brian Holmes is quoted, downright lying, meaning, wink, CIA fronting or some other long-toothed cretinism. A smiley to ya, Brian. A cocked brow to the assholes unnameable, disrespectfully. Politics and art have long played this charade of overweening self-importance, at the beginning of WTF, at times jokingly, avant-gardishly and advocating bold new, cliche-driven, candidacies of the outsider, at other times, murderously, by reputation boosting initially to gain attention then enlisting as propagandists for the bloodletting in defense of cartoonish patriotism and its faux anti-. Both cartels glamorize extended war (and momentary peace) while pretending to be against war and peace, for it makes them money and compensable stature, all too often as ghoulish, quite venal, dissenters deliriously riding the bandwagon, while not few vote in secret for prolongation of the godsend windfall ratcheting up war and then its winddown. As in the current environment, as in this anthill of busybodies avid for conflict to muse, ahem, ridiculously and gravely. War and anti-war, what are they good for. Museums and cemetaries abound to answer ostentatiously with carved majestically arrayed headstones and architectural monstrosities on the Malls of Earth Tourism. The essay offers worthy, nourishly windy (I like long texts, too, fuck tweets and idiot pitheries), comment on the marketing of politics and art, and as ever their obligatory anti's, by those who only know these enterprises as just that escapist opportunism injected into the mind-bodies of recruits, branded as higher ed and its vulgar PR-tool, criticism, the glibber, feyer and espicene the better to signal to like sensitive mind-bodies what daring darlings we be on the transgendered cutting edge, the bleeding edge, the leading edge, the loss leaders, pro bonos, NGOs, pro publico politico culturalist hoes. Cite bold names here or fuck off. Neologistic undercommons is a sweetie-pie transgendering of underground and commons, blessed be they contra stratospheric eggheadism, coolish hottie hybridization of creative plagiarism, i.e, publicity fecund. Reminds of the faux dispute over theft of Obama's brand-imagery from AP by whatshisname, not Bootsie, the other who flasher. Buffoon disaster-works, politics and art, and attract the scummiest of parasites sucking unearned rewards with most villainous of camouflage of perfidy. Mea culpa minima, windily. Autonomedia is pretty damn good reading and ponderingly-ful, pardon a kiss of death to y'all gardeners. For gut-trembling revulsion gobble Encyclopediadramatica.org on Wikileaks bullshit and Cryptome's. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Wisconsin report
Left, right, progressive, Tea Party, stooges? WTF? Are you idiots? OK, so that is a requirement of ideological conviction. And comforting chants and epithets, too. Now, you've blown your nose and sphincter, offer a bit of argument. OK, that's asking too much. Then a bit of humor about yourself and me and our shallow convictions. Sarcastic ridicule is swell inspiration. This all-too-serious gravitas, cliche alert, is destroying the funhouse of democracy. Pretend you are a really serious ideologue bristling with outrage at the other ideologues threatening sacred democracy, i.e, union perqs. Cluck cuckoo. Awaiting are a huge wad of infected sanctimonies begging lancing by wit, dim and lit. Bite the bait. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks
The exploits of Anonymous to hack the systems of firms providing spying services to governments and corporations suggest that the WikiLeaks mini-era has been surpassed. Much of WikiLeaks promise to protect sources is useless if the sources are not whistleblowers needing a forum for publication. Instead publishers of secret information grab it directly for posting to Torrent for anybody to access without mediation and mark-up by self-esteemed peddlers of protection, interpretationa and authentication, including media cum scholars. Arstechnica descriptions of the how the Anonymous hack are the best reading of Internet derring-do yet and far exceeds the much simpler version of WikiLeaks carefully bruited as if precious but is not according to Daniel Domscheit-Berg's revelations. AnonLeaks.ru is a remarkable advance of WikiLeaks. And promises much more by the same means and methods most associated with official spies -- NSA and CIA run the Special Collections Service to do exactly that kind of criminal aggression, along with black bag burglaries, surveillance and bugging. Contractors hiring ex-spies do much of this highly classified work as well and invent and supply the gadgets and front organizations required. Not least of importance of the Anonymous hack and the many preceding it is the revelation of how commercial firms have been exploiting public ignorance of their spying capacity. That they are themselves vulnerable is a surprise to them, as it must be to those who hire them and, in the case of governments, provide legal cover for criminal actions. This is not news, to be sure, for it has been alleged and reported on for decades but mostly in technical journals and conferences where offerers strut their malwares to buyers of perfidium. Imagine that instead of the many iterations of Wikileaks now appearing to receive and publish documents, that more of the Anonymous-type hacks simply steal the family jewels of the spies, officials, lobbyists and corporations believing they own the territory in order to show the extent of their secret predations on the public. The digitization of vast archives of government, commercial and non-governmental organizations to facilitate their hegemony provides a bounty to be hacked repeatedly despite attempts to prevent it by vainly inept cybersecurity agencies and firms. The cyber officials yell, hit the Internet Switch. Too late, too late. Anonymous controls the switch. Sure, Anonymous can be compromised with sufficient hostile and friendly inducements, but so can the predators, perhaps moreso the latter. I like that venerable Anonymous and the promise it offers as the Nymous authoritatives of secrecy frantically attempt to ban its privilege. For the WL era dutifully enshrine Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, give them Medals of Freedom as icons of what led to the rise of Unnamables worldwide. I commend Ketih for that unbreakable domain name. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime The second American revolution?
A commendably hopeful essay. So far the Egyptian initiative has lofted a Mubarak stooge in his place and the elevated overt military control. These are not hopeful yet, and based on past examples of exactly these non-revolutionary, reactionary shifts, not much can be expected beyond paternalism toward the protestors narcotized by celebrity, and if that does not work, sniping and disappearing leaders, then if that doesn't work, set loose goons to rape and kill to provoke violence in return and threatening civil war, assuring continued military control always cloaked in what's best for protection of the nation and its all-too-manipulable people from opportunistic ideologues and outside agitators. That worked in much of South America for a century and still working in China and North Korea, and Venezuela and Cuba and Pakistan and Afghanistan and Jordan and Israel and Great Britain and the United States of America, indeed, there is hardly a true democracy anywhere on earth, instead pseudo democracies abound completely controlled by military cum financial cartels. There is little chance of ensconced and comfortable intellectuals to forego their perks beyond dissimulation and pretentious strut which are quite well funded and celebrated and magnified by the panoply of media everready to vaunt bloviation to lure eyeballs to ads. Al Jazeera is a lucrative business not a public service, and in that it is merely another self-promoting journalistic conceit like CNN, NYT and the others. Dare to challenge an Al Jazeera reporter and experience hysterical recitation of credentials, all based on lurid stories with superficial content -- exactly what comes from every other journalist associated with the most famous of outlets. The blogs no different. Except for the very few who have the guts to cross the line into criminality, not once for effect, but enduringly as the line of acceptable criminality shifts to embrace the celebrated dissidents as participants in quelling the unknowns. It is disheartening to see Obama and others citing the giants of dissent, metronomically, stupidly, and never the unknown dwarfs and those less than photogenic and memnonic dwarfs: the people en masse, undividuated except as cartoons, as if Marxian mob-stooges for a grand stage of intellectual posturing about historical forces and the will of the people with formulaic vapidity fit for vanishing down the memoryless media hole as a momentary inconsequence. Imagine a gathering of Egyptian proportion in DC Mall, some 4-5 million bellowing discontents demanding the shutdown of the 3 branches of government as sinkholes of corruption. Imagine the Pentagon keeping hands off, not using 1 of every hundred dissidents and not a few of their leaders as spies, not recording every face and chant and poster for future targeting, not arranging the complicity media to cover the protest like mere entertainment and warning against crossing the line. Imagine the Egyptian protest is somehow hopefully different from the dutiful Parks Department regulated DC protests, that it will not take a generation or more for a perduable benefit. Imagine your rebellious children, fed up with faux adult concern, are slaughtered and disappeared in the military charnelhouse and holdng pens of protestation while your clubhouse gang muses historical significance. But then Obama is a millionaire, as the giants became as their hard-fought individual efforts became national and global enterprises. So what else is new. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime monitoring and surveillance
Odd that the Weimar-Princeton announcement makes no mention of scholars and researchers gathering, aggregating, mining and messing with Internet users data under guise of investigating and analyzing the world's greatest-ever spying machine by spying on the gullible users to protect them, the motto of secret agents forever. Bundles of irresistable funding for that, indeed, alliances and standards-setting bodies have been established to bless this villainy and the finely-coutured apologists for the villainous institutions and leading scholars. Be sure tell the public right away with every media study announcement about the spy agencies' multi-millions being distributed to eager institutions to foster open source spying, spy training, covert spying and camouflage thereof. Admire the spread of euphemistic security studies and surveillance studies and social media studies and in particular open source studies. Even the spy agencies vaunt these luser lures in their recruiting materials. High-tech seekers, media mavens especially solicited by CIA University, rush to intern in home bases of spies and pursue advanced degrees in their cash-rich outliers in universities. Note who runs these social studies programs ever adaptable to the king's coin. Remember the invention by Plato of Socrates, a friendly fellow favoring open discourse, to undergird the highly privileged philosopher as king. Machiavelli adored Plato's conceit. Remember the invention of philosophy to undergird dissimulation, wise faculty club debate tea cup held with little finger poised just so to signal how pleasurable it is to outsmart. Meta surveillance studies presumably sanitizes the vile practice of social studies long invested in codifying human behavior, first as allegedly disinterested scholarship, then to repackage and sell as means of political control to full-spectrum authoritatives ever indebted to funding sources open and secret, especially the secret which requires non-disclosure as a condition of scholarly bribery. Dissimulation provides an escape from complicity, thank heavens for duplictious obfuscation. I had no idea my work would be used that way. Here's a suggestion: if any use of scholarly research is ever used for secret purposes the original scholars shall be hung until dead from Alma Mater, left to rot as a signal of why secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy. Monitoring the extended use of scholarly research shall no longer be forgiven by exculpatory sophistry. No more excusing the study of complicity by deeper treachery of exploiting hard-up students to do spies' dirty work. Oops that is the name of a famous spy story dissimulation. Odd that the illegality of data gathering on the Internet is never admitted by overseers of the intellectual commonweal. Odd that privacy policies are always taken very seriously, but never disclosed as duplicitous. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Leaks do an end around the media mix?
Bear in mind that despite the blovia about 250,000 cables allegedly to be released, only 2,017 have been made public, less than 1 percent. Not in waves but in very slow drips with days when none appear despite tongues drooling in expectation. It remains to be seen what the full collection will reveal about the first tiny biased batch which was apparently selected for highest dramatic impact and as the article states, controversy, in accord with Wikileaks' intention, with ever greater hyperbolic bombshells since the fall of 2009. A comprehensive grasp of the Cablegate-branded cache is yet to come, for now only artful and dreadful extrapolation fed very carefully by WL and its media partners for commercial rewards -- rewards which they admittedly relish bragging about yet continue to beg for more under various schemes of imaginary threat and insistence on public protection against boogeymen all too like themselves. Due to the lack of transparency in Wikileaks and its MSM partners, all of which claim confidentiality about their finances, sources, editorial policy and complicity with authorities, and all of whom have refused to provide to the public the raw, undoctored, unspun, files to which they have full, privileged access, it is not possible to verify much of anything that has been claimed by the Wikileaks business cartel hiding behind public benefit cloaks -- typical of scoundrels. They presume to claim their trustworthiness compared to those they allegedly oppose but do not disclose their own secrets, in effect mirroring those they claim to challenge, in behavior, in braggardy, in disdain for criticism, in vaunting their importance, in unceasing appeal financial and, ye gads get in bed with the enemy, legislative protection to head off rather long-toothed conventional threats that are no different in vaporosity from opponents. This lack of imagination by Wikileaks and cohorts could be excused if it was seen as carnivalesque clownism. Or lower spinal stem advertisment. Or fey ignorant anti-intellectualism favored by bald and shaggy maned continentals. Or Onion grade sophmoric halitosic humor. Or simply tawdry political cupidity. These are all successful, and thus highly reproducible in the abysmal standards of screedism, not to tar all honest journalists with this brush but very much to mastic their editors, publishers and the investors jerking the strings of the craven wretches. To wit, old fart Pilger sucking Julian's pickle in The New Statesman, aping Ellsberg's shamelessness. There will be those who will find gold among this dross, and to those a salute, the venals will profit from your freely given investigation which they will take credit for as Wikileaks has fucked Bradley Manning and other sources kept secret nor for their safety but for the benefit of the public fuckers. Bear too in mind little light has been shed on secret operations of authoritatives, Wikileaks among them, instead the informative light has grown dimmer as the celebrity spotlights increase luminosity of the stars and their sucklings. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Interview with Tommaso Debenedetti and Matze Schmidtabout WikiLeaks
Yes, quite true. Bear with this: Yesterday RT TV conducted an interview at its fourth or fifth New York bureau location. A person was videoed by an unstaffed camera being coached by an earpod from voices at the DC or Moscow control room, ye gads, Moscow Central is alive at the Counterrrorism Center, Mclean, VA. The stooge watched his image tilting forward a la Charlies Rose stupor with an inserted background of teeming 3rd Avenue outside not the actual background drooping black fabric, surgical clogs and getaway bags. An engineer had arranged the mic and earbud and checked the camera then left for lunch or a secret mission to climb into the ceiling above to capture brainwaves, or plant a tiny seed in the noggin of the dupe, or wank a wad of infinite jest. Nobody below in the news bureau except the dolt yarping artless drivel to monodical questions of an android unseen being patched into the show, live, it was lied, but probably a staff lunchroom comedy lampooning eager beggars of attention at the bottom of the TV cess spew. RT TV in NYC is located amidst the UN missionary-rich SIGINT-capacious nabe of copious diplomatic cablings of neant cum dasein cum dang an sich. Viewable panning in neighbhood windows are pan-national cameras capturing the UN Central urgency of how little is happening outside the overtaxed homelands. Shortly a live butt-heaving beauty enters the suite, declaiming, that was fantastic, the best we've ever had. We want you back, what's your availability frame? Hypnotic smile, a squeeze of your bicep, leg akimbo. Well, you blurt, pumped with range-free lust , I'm free all week. That's fantastic, she says, fantastic, let me check with headquarters, I'll email you in an hour. You were great, just great. Thank you for coming. Cheek kiss, not air, real gloss to mark you pwned. You wait in the hall for the elevator. The bureau emits telltale SIGINT hoots. No email, nothing, that's it, fake-humped and forgotten. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Interview with Tommaso Debenedetti and Matze Schmidt about WikiLeaks
Are not all interviews fraudulent? The inept preparation, the phony stage sets, the hiddent gang supporting and directing the narrowscoped performance (phonily exposed in the making of the dreck), the cosmetics of face, behavior, dress, sound and close-ups, the very concept is simulacra of a disorganized discourse, heavily edited afterwards, harshly scheduled and negotiated beforehand, positioned in a schedule of peurile dissemblings and advertisements even on those fora for advertising governments, perhaps especially those propagandistic shenanigans, especially those on RFE and public television, radio and free newsprint. No doubt Google books and edu lectures and trade seminars and promotional colloquia and vacuous conferences on idiotic topics are just as senseless log-rolling backscratching, the couldn't give a shit audiences mindwandering far away until the chance to interject a spasm of unct or disfunct. God's will is to constrict bladders in the most seasoned to shorten offensive presence. I say, speaking for yourself? Mention should be made of the seminal initiative of Alan Sonheim's Fiction of Philosophy which demonstrated how to do this suicidal smackdown. Hi Alan. You are being read and adhered closely. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Pollock, Art History and Cold War [was: Wikileaks is old hat]
Sartre, among others, claimed that lumping the arts into the term art diminshes them all. Each art is unique, he said, and by extension each art work is unique even when executed by among the works of a single artist. He was uneasy with the term artist due to its generalizing suppression of the individual into a category. Hypostatizing into art, and worse, in the art world, quite granular single works, in some cases of performance art a singluar event not repeatable, some intended to be such, is the madness of bad-art aggegators, whether curators, critics, gallerists, historians, aesthetes, collectors, donors, publicists, agents, inheritors, the lot of confidence artists, the number of which surely outranks those they demean in general and glorify in genius. Recitation of the names of famous artists is a sure sign of incapacity to grasp a singular work, unfinished, unresolved, contrary to conquest, a snarling bitch of materiality, sound and fury utterly resisting the human grappling with self-deity certain of failure, condemned to continue. No art work is ever finished it persists incomplete into another struggle. Damn those demanding closure, deadline up, show is opening, the crowd abaying, critics bloodthirsty. High art, elite art, famous art, the best art, the award winners, classical art, left-footed art, one-eyebrow art, art for the ages, eternally beautiful art, priceless art, mansions and warehouses of art, feh. Sartre cited Dewey in claiming the un-special art work, free of Art, a democratizing mundane work along with cooking, farming, machining, child raising, schooling, and should not valorized over the others. To be sure, these others have become valorized into high-profit enterprises, most of them kissing up to be art of cooking, art of this and that. Feh 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime [Fwd: [Goanet-News] Offtopic: Wikileaks and India]
Quite funny listing, if dinky. Consider blovia: Google shows this morning 452 million hits for Wikileaks. One year ago the hits were about 300,000. Two years ago the hits were about 100,000. Three years the hits were about 5,000. Four years ago, the hits were less than zero, the hit hurrah machine overloaded with richochets, spam, precursors of sock-puppetry and blog-amoebia. Five years ago Julian Assange was being stalked by Asian teens, he says. Looking for squinty gash, he moans. Not appealing, the chicks giggled, he stink. Six years ago Julian Assange had an idea for a leak site, registered the name leak.org. Pounding his IQ.org with thoughts and plans for Ghandian, Gramsian prison redux. Seven years ago Julian Assange was at a loss about what to do with his less than zero life. Not for long. Angry bile was seeping to the noggin top. His hair turning white with skull concussive Eurekas! Hurrahs aborning. Eight years ago Julian Assange was completing a world travel trip during which he wrote essays about what the world needed, a soothseer. Fore and aft SDTs were itching. Home remedies applied, Dr, Gurus galore. Far eastern poultices and hickory stick whacking. Hurt lockering, go down dick. Nine years ago Julian assange was in the midst of a world travel trip. Money almost gone. Pan-sexual services bartered for house and food. Condoms aweigh, youth conquers all. Ten years ago Julian Assange was fed up with online meandering and planned a world trap to clear his mind. Lovelorn, aching with shame, diseased mind and body. Penile weariness, so many hackers, so many holes. Eleven years ago Julian Assange ... and so on with auto-ficitonalization. Now ensconced and ankled bejeweled in a country estate, the media begging for his blovia, Julian is defiant, a century of anger ready for tapping, he keens, he says it again, his media sock-puppets repeats ad nauseum, his precious hornyisms sock-rocketed by Google 500 million times and soon, he warns, thermonuclear armageddon. The aged little girls and guys swoon and scream as if it was the 60s again when Youth reigned futurelessly. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Wikileaks and spam
Robtex.com shows a wondrous slew of brazen Net predators for 92.241.190.202. Some might even be real criminals rather than cops and their hired hackers on the prowl to steal data and call it freedom of information. Recall that Wikileaks in its earlier promotional material bragged of predating, sorry, liberating, over 1 million files through Tor siphoning, aided and abetted by the noble-branded bandits Chinese dissidents. After an outcry of betrayal of the trust of Tor, and Tor's own tut-tut to keep its gaping security quiet, WL dropped that ad of the daring hacker outlaw campaign but several recent news reports continue to recycle it. Wikileaks like cops and hackers cannot overstate numbers, to wit, WL's recent promotion of the number of words in upcoming releases. Next, the count of alphanumerics, punctuation and spaces to match the sock-puppeted WL followers on Twitter and Facebook and holiest of all, Google hits. Circling back to the start: Mirror.wikileaks.info has an about page which tells, or pretends to tell, how the site got started and how it distances itself with a Russian-Chinese dissident bear hug from The Original Wikileaks. http://mirror.wikileaks.info/about.html Malware in the Wikileaks releases is a provocative suggestion. Certainly the technology for that is readily available and the practice obligatory, usually as a security feature, sometimes called a hash or cookie or watermark or copyright-tracker or privacy protection. Wait a minute, did you say privacy protection. Get out of here, Demosthenes, there exists nonesuch except self-throttling. Phoenix University Professor Cynic proclaims the insurance.aes256 file is nothing but malware ready to explode red-dye onto decrypters. Kaplan Most Venerable Counterprofessor Agnostic retorts: fie on your mendacious contra-idealism, knuckle rapping the Auth lockbox. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime A thesis on WL theses and a suggestion
Locations of nukes worldwide, their count, their megadeath capacity, their factories and bases, have been available for decades, thanks to the Federation of American Scientists (fas.org), the National Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org), National Security Archive (Google its vast collection), Cuill.org, and others of these large repositiories of leaked and hard-dugged information which Wikileaks deliberately, vaingloriously, ignores as if ex nihilo. Petty bullshitters driven by PR. Perfect for new media and old media wanting an injection. Otherwise, what else is new medical in the daily dose of cables. Catch a breath, derush adrenline, peruse a few of those hundreds which preceded the virgin birth of Wikileaks in Sensitive Information Security Sources and Breaches: http://cryptome.org/0002/siss.htm Har, the MSM being stooged by WL are also parading the wee he-devils as if the first to defy Olympus, well, merely re-invent fire aka freedom of information. Forbes today milking its inside sources avidly as Time aiming for yearly virginal sacrifice. Silly vainglorious names of media: The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Times iterations galore, News beyond count, El Pais, The Nation, Gawker, Raw Story, Inside Sources, Pro-Publica, The People's Daily, Granma, Pravda, bleh. Mea culpa, a brand always outsells the honest truth told by individuals, oops, that's the brand of thousands of mail lists and their bastard ego-blogs. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:37:51 -0500 To: intelfo...@his.com From: John Young j...@pipeline.com Subject: Re: Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures I must have missed most of this thread. Ex-spies pretending to be ex- despite lifetime requirements to remain secretly active, covertly, or openly as critics, whistleblowers, dissidents, novelists, informants, professors, contractors, movie stars, chefs, ministers, retirees, AFIOs, FOIA officers, NARA files watchdogs, conference promoters, lobbyists, private eyes, lawyers, NGOs, politicians, bloggers, spy site operators, indeed the full range of skills and professions and opinion manipulators they were hired and trained for, is a fruitful topic of discussion. How did the bizarrely incredible deception of ex-spy originate? No spy can be ex and live to tell about it. Agee not excepted. The Agee ploy deserves better analysis. Perhaps the fanciful notion arose from the equally bizarre notion of the turncoat which drove Angleton mad when nobody would believe his justifiable and logical paranoia that there is no such thing as a turncoat, having himself deployed that trick and learned it was a surefire sentence of death, or if not death, lifetime incarceration in a cocoon of suspicion. Perhaps the ex-spy was invented by Conrad, Greene, Le Carre or another artful inventor of fiction to lend credence that spying could come to an end and promise to free the spy of tormenta only to be betrayed once again and again by his merciless and cruel runner, corporeal or self-inflicted Cartesian doubt. Perhaps ex-spy was invented like so many other terms of spy euphemisms, like the high-faluting term intelligence, for being on the dole like other over the hill deadbeats embarassed without a dramatic title to excuse the failure to make it without welfare. That may be an unfair characterization of what is common among ordinary folks to camouflage who they are and what little favorable deals they have devised to keep over-weaning self-esteem in check, and certainly under the radar of those they have harmed, for noble purposes as ever, as well as debtors and vicious in-laws. Why would anyone use the term ex-spy except to ensnare the dumbest believer in salvation through confession of sin? That could be it, Augustinian, it takes one to spy one up to no good. Careful, cynicism is a sign of the Id beast running the ego toward a superego punji trap. Does this have anything to do with Wikileaks. No except to solicit secret and surefire returns on tulips. John Young ___ IntelForum mailing list intelfo...@lists101.his.com http://lists101.his.com/mailman/listinfo/intelforum - # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime FW: [IP] WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website's co-founder
This should not be news to those who have followed the world of hackers -- religion and NGOs. They have been selling restricted information from the beginning of their enterprises. Some do it as employees and off-the-books agents of governments and business and individuals, some do it as rogue entrepreneurs like Wikileaks, or more commonly, investigative reporters, private eyes and holy workers -- and, ahem, high-minded scholars. It is an ancient industry, as old as human intercourse where cheating and hoodwinking and treachery are obligatory to survive against those who do the same. Nearly all who do it claim it to be necessary because others do it, to protect our tribe, to protect our hordes of food, wealth, faith and means and methods of counterspying. And as ever, because we are superior and thus have the right to be worse than our imputed enemies -- mostly imaginary, often our own villainous agents plotting with others of their kind pretending to be enemies to keep their racket lucrative. Religious warfare had to be invented to excuse the slaughter of infidels. Messianism of Wikileaks is comical but it has worked multitudes for millennia with imaginary danger and protection. Do tithe. Kissinger and Giuliani and Chertoff and thousands of insiders -- call them ph d candidates -- go on to greater wealth outside, switching back and forth to keep the flim-flam flowing. All intelligence operations -- knowledge industry -- are illicit by design to exaggerate significance and risk, that way law (the most devious of all), mundane and heavenly, blesses them with powerful advertizing. They are all in cahoots. Wikileaks emulates an eternal business model, that is to lie and exaggerate about what it is doing. Every academic is familiar with these means and method, avid promoters of it, get some of that old time higher education, a certificate for excellence, a license to recruit and train newcomers, a pretense of opposition ie, high-level critique, ever plotting and dealing for perqs and advantages of salary, space, reputation, rank, and showtime. Selling classified information is what the knowledge industry was invented for. Now Wikileaks is a challenge to the highly organized operations of state, church, university, military, corporation, NGO (spit), media and unaffiliated (watch out for these cutthroat mercenaries alway betraying those stupid enough to outsource to the temps stealing the jewels). Assange stated at the beginning of Wikileaks it expected to make big bucks, $5M the first year he wrote on a private mail list -- among other pimping messages later published on Cryptome. The free stuff is meant lure volunteers and promote high-profile public service, lipsticked with risk, with the enterprise funded by selling costly material sold on the black market of worldwide spying in the tradition of public benefit ops, id, spies and ever more spies. No better customers for illicit information that those with depthless pockets. Soros and the Kochs have their lesser-known Internet promoters backing Wikileaks generously. And they expect good return on their investment, not just the freebies used to attact attention. Watch out for the public interest data miners of the Internet, and leakers and whistleblowers, bandits stealing data, marking it up with glamorous titles, ie deeply researched, classified, actionable, nation threatening, liberating, etc, reselling publicly thourgh gadzillion press operations and secretly through those who pretend to avoid limelight. Think Archive.org, think Wikipedia, think Google, think this list and your crafty mangy boil-ridden carcass. Mea culpa. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Twitter fails to jump to Dept of State's defence.
WL dark observers want what Twitter offers without signing up, one follower, one cable. A honeypot. SOP. WL knows that and pads the tweets, thumb on the scale. The gaga Assange boytoy promotion is a marketing ploy, him witting or unwitting as his Mom ear-licked her little man, as did Obama's, pretending teenage-grade bedazzle for the horny-pud. No need to recount how age-old this narcotic is. Civilizing begets over-uncivilizing, to wit, obedience innerly driven concealed with high-faluting faux resistance. Higher standards of ethics and morals the advertisements. Could Assange be clearer about what he is up to, an authoritative terrified of being not-god. Same shit is used to hypnotize teenage soldiers and college-bred pilots to RL kill-slaughter with relish -- ever in the national interest or sumpin glorious. Same shit is used to hypnotize suicide bombers and IED mechanics and State Department and CIA pussyfooting vainglory wankers. Panetta a feeble emulator of Hillary as an auto-speed-twatler victim and prick-teasing victimizer, channeling age-old god-fucked Eves and Marys the guys bellow, the girls yelling god's a dickless motherfucker honey. The hoary debate between parental liberty and tweenie freedom is two-backed. The first demands order within constraints of authority, the second, if not a subterfuge or suck-up of authority, bites the hand offered in threatening peace and beneficence, then kisses the hand's mangy ass with mouthngs of ways to kill former friends and supporters who told all to BFF. Insurance pre-positioned is the rat's surefire investment. The WL vile practice of redaction is a sign the fix is in, bribes have been paid to act responsibly, future celebrity assured. Old timers call that turncoat, themselves having done just that and then paid and pensioned and best-sellered, if not tenured and lecture- circuited, to condemn it. Ellsburg. Chomsky. Sy Hersh. Ex-spies, aka unicorns. None suffer after coming in from the cold. Fake moans of the beastliness known but dare not reveal. To protect the unknowing. To foster unknowiness. To keep the secrets of how sweet it is to be a keeper. Hoo-hah. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Steve Coll: Leaks (The New Yorker)
Jealousy is the lifeblood of ambition, Assange is a victim, and who is not? Sorry to say Brian, for you customarily offer unusually trenchant commentary, your comments indicate a lack of awareness of the diverse and multiple forums which offer material similar, and in many cases superior, to that of Wikileaks -- offered long before as well as after its inititation. The leaks conceit of Wikileaks is deliberate, better known as breaking news, attention getting, the Wiki as false as democracy, the promise of openness never fulfilled due to security needs of the sponsor. What is unique about Wikileaks is its publicity capability and for that it deserves credit to bring to a non-institutional initiative, thanks to the momentarily cheap Internet megaphone, the slick braggardy well known as the key element for the reputation, responsibility and trustworthyiness of big institutions from their origin millennia ago. Promoting established institutions is what the media -- journalism, publishing, entertainment, advertising -- were invented to do by creating the illusion that individuals have a say in what's going on. But never invited into the sanctums where decisions are made about the means and methods for promulgating illusions. All this has been said tiresomely (arch ouch) overmuch. So what else is new about Wikileaks type initiatives that the hullabaloo can advance? One is to contain enthusiasm, if you will, about the uniquenss of Wikileaks. It is not unique in the content it provides: there is much more and better available by less celebrated means and methods, once called research, reflection and reassement, continually done, even non-institutionally, perhaps that most so, not reduced to crowd-arousing bombshells in which the tiniest of comment is viralized to thousands of sites -- try it: post anything with the word Wikileaks in its title and watch it richochet in synapases of worldbrain. To advance the much larger body of material it would be useful to develop a battery of such socio-political-rich words which would assure attention to an inititiative that might be otherwise swamped by orchestrated viralization, ie, advertising. Che once did that, as do Obama and Assange now, albeit somewhat smeared by assholes unable to dream of less than godlike perfection. Your point about jealous of other blogs has become a knee-jerker that shows ignorance, well, lack of appreciation, of other initiatives which have not been catapulted to the media stage where nearly every commentator derives daily doses of inspiration to get off ass and be a player. Which means worthy of paying attention to. How to get from being a non-entity to being a player is what Assange has demonstrated. Not enough attention has been paid to how he imagined Wikileaks for that, although a lot of superficial reporting has been done on the person and personality of Assange. Assange is more complicated and inscrutable than he has been caricatured to be -- ie, mediaized. But then so are all heroes manufactured in that mold and buried in that sarcophagus. Agreed that much better analysis is needed for those who yearn for that comfort food never available on blogs and the daily beasts. Better than analysis though is to do more of what Wikileaks does to get forbidden information into public hands, minds and hearts, unanalyzed, and most crucially unmediated. That might mean fighting the mediaized Internet addiction, say, for a day or two a week, gradually assemble your own material and formulate its significance -- and do not rush to post the drivel, ponder, reassemble, exchange it quietly, redo, rejigger, reflect, sit on it. Arguing about fucking Wikileaks has led me to write more bombast in the past six months than in the previous 14 years, as you can readily see, and curtailed research and publication of unanalyzed materials. The issue is infectious and induces Mailer's advertisements for himself. The Wikileaks initiative is now in grave danger of being destroyed by the attention Assange yearned for and assumed would be easy to handle. He is its Achilles heel. Not the first time that has happened, again merely look at the over-celebrated who are over-loaded with our cowardly aspirations that they do for us what we are too lazy or inept to do for ourselves, everready to blame the socio-political gods that failed, everready to vote in Time's Persons of the Year proffered by manipulative authoritatives. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Steve Coll: Leaks (The New Yorker)
Like many supporters and detractors of Wikileaks Coll underestimates the intent of the initiative. The comparison to media is fatuous as though media, if not scholars, should be the dominant source of public information about governments and other authoritative institutions. Media and scholars are themselves authoritatives more like governments than different, enjoying privileges and protection all sides grant one another while condemning those outside their fold. None of the authoritatives are insurgencies and assuredly will find ways to critique whatever disturbs their perquisites and opportunities, using concepts and language meant to defuse and stigmatize threats. There is overmuch circularity in Coll's apolgia for media in which he presumes an enduring value in responsible media and scholarhip that has been squandered by timid rumination. This marks a failure to go beyond convention. One might suspect Wikileaks is laughing its ass off at the high-value conceit of supporters and detractors who are out to advance their own initiatives under guise of pondering the Wikileaks each has confected for that purpose -- and avoiding the high-risk of taking on a true threat to authoritatives. To be sure, Wikileaks as it has been might morph into a tamed beast like so many short-lived, opportunisticly aggressive insurgencies brought into submission with valorization, condemnation, attention, praise, notoriety, bribery, prizes and embrasure by mightily crafty and extremely well-endowed authoritatives who gobble up ambitious rebels like sweetmeats. Wikileaks would be smart to pull back from Ellsberg and those working diligently to manage it in the most favored direction, the prefabricated heroic, that is, all hat and no cattle. Another New Yorker article this week explores the self-affirming drive toward heroism. If not Assange's heroicly defiant Wikileaks peters out then many others more variable and durable, and that seems to be what's developing under the radar of all too delusional incisiveness. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant? The Christian Science Monitor
A thrilling story, a perfect storm for the cyber war storm chasers and funders. Odd that Russia is not named, along with the other usual suspects, the US and Israel, as a likely producer of the weapon of industrial destruction. Suspected distributor, yes, but not the maker. Somewhere a genius reverse engineer is working on a classified at birth answer to this titillating threat. Meanwhile we get the unclassified versions along with dramatic ruminations, lab rats phantasms. No way to know if any of this true as befitting the most powerful threats delivered by weapons of media consumption. Not a single proof offered for the direity. A perfect metaphysical argument for whatever stimulates fear and trembling and their hideously expensive soporifics. Now, a really horrific industrial meltdown, WMD laboratory blow-up, urban incineration, might validate the admittedly hyperbole of potential deviousness by wee thumbdrives of sneakernet -- which will have to be confiscated at choke- and checkpoints growing innumerably. Inventions for body cavity probes pouring out of garages, hot damn, to wind farm the hurricane of mandatory raping and buggery. Imagine a series of skirts for assay of privates arrayed at check-in of every public facility, penetrations by the dozen every day, a perfect Genet dreamworld. Sorry, this meanders, but you see: alarms arouse the snoring pineal gland into revenge for being disturbed. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Christian Christensen: Wikileaks: Three Digital Myths
This does not rise to the level of the ten theses, instead overmuch valorizes authoritatives. To be sure Wikileaks has gotten in bed with the three cited and reportedly is juming from bed to bed with an even larger group of authoritatives to prepare for a humogous dump of Iraq files -- the Tweet demurral notwithstanding. Wikileaks valorization and its opposite by teeming authoritatives constitute a niche industry of scholars and media sniffing the hot sheets in recent weeks. Nearly all of these metas transparently are valorizing themselves in accord with the iron laws of valorization meta-toppling one after the other. How distant to be to appear more distinterested is a challenge. One dissent to the valorization - devalorization cartel wonders if the Wikileaks compendium of documents has been studied instead of metaing the much shallower mediaization of the Wikileaks brand of ovrstatement. Little is said about security cheating by the org, for only one WL advisor, Ben Laurie, has said to not believe the promises of anonymity of contributors. He knows better, check his resume. Moreover few commenters appeared to have studied the Afghan War Diary compendium in depth and with a careful attention to the inherent bombast of intelligence reports, admittedly a laborious task, much less the thousands of leaked documents published over three years -- the CRS reports alone would blind and lobotomize. The easily consumed bombshells of the Reuters killing video and the readers-digested by the three media stars of the war diary have unleashed a madcap of misfires, a bounty of duds nearly all composed of casual surveys of media reports and subsequent media-media and meta-media-media-meta. For and against Wikileaks the laziest misrepresentations. Not that any of this dreck is not useful for publicity and fund-raising chest-thumping by all participants, or as a sub-meta-meta might dis-valorize them, opportunists, even might be too flattering. The rape ploy was masterful agogment for those desperate to keep the dwindling flame burning, verily Hollywood grade. Assange deftly bragged of six million hits on the rape rubric with his name embedded. Publicist genius, the lanky lad auto-eroticized. Any how, scholarly ruminations of the frenzy are welcome cold water to douse the artificial heat. Any devalorization of newspapers and scholarly authoritatives has value to aid and abet alternative jackasses. Where and when will the Wikileaks consortium offer humor about themselves. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Autonomy and Control in the Era of Post-Privacy
The opiate of the intellectual elite is to know it all, all being the drug of desire to be deity with a god's eye brimming with what is worth knowing, the rest insignificantly contemptuous. Having it all varies as the total, the comprehensive, the summation, the fully embracing scheme to replicate, plagiarize, ape, the giants of deep and vast thinking who have had no raison d'etre except to imagine the whole, entire, give or take 99% of humankind, shebang of their times. No matter each is later ridiculed, or more often valorized and hyped and taught unreflectively, for vainglorizing, in our day resume inflating, the futile effort to oversee a chimera confected to banish fear of the incomprehensible, i.e., to have no compensable employment. For every dietic, heroic, grand aggregation of the day's best visions of being and time, there is a countervailing destruction, debunking, of the compulsion, even insane, to hold it all in a mind drunk on pretentiousness. Adherents, believers, naysayers, bloom for both pathologies. The 99.9% are ignorant of all this, meaning it couldn't give a shit that a tiny priesthood is determined to think it all through once and for all, goddam it, listen up. So what do you think about this, any chance of it snagging a paid invite? Another asshole, huh? # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Critical strategies in art and media gets it wrong
The radical right of radical rights of extreme self-interest could be added to the list of pre-1968 influences. And the aesthiticization of politics and culture was on the rise, again, then getting a toehold, now a hegemon, primarily through the supremacism of literature over the other arts, succinctly through the vaunting of criticism -- alway text, blind to other types -- then, the hypervaluation of critical theorism now, legal theory the undergirder of privileged discourse. The mutual admiration of critical theorists and lawyers and their hegemonic declaration of a nation of laws, not of men, nicely comports the demand that literacy is must have to be a responsible citizen, that is a believer in writ. It is not often noted that critical theorists and lawyers are conjoined in the radical rights of extreme self-interest, indolent and duplicitous. Other hegemons pre-68 are the rise of publishing, including publish or perish employment terrorism which produced agri-businesses of printed matter of much bulk and low nourishment, volumes as well as fattened bibliographies and resumes. Perhaps most pertinent for this hangout is the rise of academies of great bulk and low nourishment which herded youngsters into forced feeding pens, still going on, under the rubric of necessity of higher education or else marginalization and you bet, terrrifying poverty. Those to whom this was done are compelled to repeat it. Yes, there were subcultures of this in the arts and sciences, learning from the success model of the BBA and MBA. 1968 was a peak aestheticization of politics without risk. That drug of pretenstiousness is still widely consumed. Ponder May 68 in France: its delirium remains insurpassable, while 68 elsewhere is imginary nostalgia of the deadhead. Pre-68 sex and rock and roll was mostly prophilactic braggardy, when exposed to the post-68 actuality, STD, AIDS and overdose cleansed the experimenters seduced by marketers, then and now aided and abetted by aged addicts practicing critical theorists peddling apologia for justice system incarceraters. In 68 youthism became the superdrug, and still is the elitism of choice for marketers of education in bulk via this very medium. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime The Return of DRM
Excellent points by Zeljko. The easy work of the early Internet now requires greater effort and determination. Fighting corruption that inevitably sets in after a revolution, especially among the leaders of revolt, is harder and less rewarding. The tempation is to recall the glory days and bemoan what has become of the nascent intitiatives. And to castigate those who have capitalized, literally and figuratively, on success at moving beyond innovation to peddling wildly popular rip-offs -- commercial and academic. Plenitude of products to be critically studied plenitudiously. Is there no part of the Internet blob that is not studies to death voluminously, no. Still few studiers write the code or run the systems. Few are insiders of or knowledgeable about the innards of the realm. Few sit at the keyboards of control. For those reasons critical studies are condemned to be tautological. For the very few technical innovators there are tens of thousands metacommenters dependent upon the hard labor of the innovators -- who, may Nietzche harangue them, do not closely read texts. What they do instead is a alphanumeric mystery of zero interest to alphabetical texters. Arrange a visit to an Amazon data hotel, ponder what you can't see going on there. Wait, don't admit defeat, get a job there to get inside the headlessness of the apparatus. May require crushing your skull. For the blind-faithers in NYC, beg a social media friend to get you into one of the six transworld hubs of all Internet traffic, ask to touch the hummer that sucks your best and most private thoughts and vile web sites visited. Then the hummers that suck Goldman Sachs. Ask for a sample of that beer, sign the NDA to make a sysadmin nest egg. Enjoy free sex of the Net again. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime fun with ACTA astrohoovering (was Re: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!)
A good occasion to note that all Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are bogus -- terms of artifice to evade responsibility and in the worse cases subterfuges to covertly spy on citizenry and site visitors for commercial and authoritative purposes. All of them are lies and indicate that the promulgator is your enemy. When all CAPS a surefire FUCK YOU. There was a time when the Internet did not spread such bullshit, you used it without need of warnings and privacy protection. The warnings arose when the predators came and needed protection from their hypnotized-policy prey. Go to any major web site, down at the bottom, read all the exclupatory garbage linked there and see it for what it is: you, dear visitor, have just been data-minely fucked by clicking these links. Before that perp-ID'd by log files. Artists and liberation-by-Internet defenders have hardly diminished this predation, indeed, are universally complicitous, self-mesmerized by applause of hits and log files -- the last the worst privacy-denying tool ever, a necessity, admins scream, to assure system health, aping the authoritative SOPdeception: acoute - I log file therefore I exist to gaze you. Gaze the vigilante counter-terrorist web sites reporting on what they claim to see on the demon Internet, all hide behind secrecy about who they are, conceal funding sources, use sophmoric humor and bile from the privacy-protected suburbs and secret police bunkers as if tony galleries pimping for hedge funders. As if a non-profit begging at a high level. Think hard about abandoning the glorious Internet. Before, raise the black flag, cut throats via DDOS, virii, logic bombs, worms, backdoors, code holes, stings, honey pots, weak crypto -- the means and methods of authoriative security hustlers. Forget about fey cutsie taunts and spoofs and ironic distancing, those are embraced by authoriatives as their own, as camouflage for agent provocateurs and informants and investment-cheat forensics. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime A scenario for World War III
The writings and lectures of Robert Mundell are relevant to this. Mundell, Economic Nobelist, provided the intellectual framework for the Euro and is now a prime advisor to the Peoples Republic of China -- which has established an ecomomics institute to train in and advance his philosophy. A Canadian by birth, long in the United States, educated in the Chicago School and distinguished professor at Columbia Univeristy, Mundell is usually associated with supply siders and conservatives but is considerably more subtle and complex than these terms suggest. His work with the Euro and the PRC indicate a multi-nationalism favored by market-driven globalists who much prefer mutually beneficial economic persuasion over wasteful war. The short-term benefits of war for the national security industry may lift a nation or a coaltion out of depression or recession but paying the very expensive bills for profligate warmaking and its corollary standing militaries is contrary to comprehensive economic health. Better to foster markets and consumers than slaughter and tending the wounded (which reduces the number of consumers, fear and anxiety diminishes their buying confidence, and increased taxation drains their spending capability). What needs sustained examination is the form of multi-national government Mundell advances against the unilateral big power of the US and formerly the USSR and always the bugaboo of less powerful nations so useful in keeping their inhabitants fearfully obedient. Europe might aspire to big power status except the cost of a military to undergird that wasteful if politically seductive conceit is far from economically rational, the ancient nations know the terrible cost of war best of all, and even capitalists can see that national threats are a confidence game to inflate the role of criminally inefficient, irresponsbile governments. The few capitalist industries which benefit from national security ideology during spasms of induced crisis also disrupt orderly markets with spikes in profits and disturbance of happy customers not to say dreadful scenes of flag-draped coffins and carnage in the media which so aggrieves smiley-faced advertisers and cheers pulpiteer doomsayers. It may be fanciful to imagine war could be avoided by relieving grievance with economic benefits, spreading the wealth, distributing resources more equitably. Still, economists are sufficiently conceited to believe they can offer an alternative to the ancient legacy of warmaking which inevitably distorts the fair sharing of benefits among the poplulace, indeed generates a cariacature of friendly capitalism with piggish profiteers and bloody-toothed ideologues. More fanciful is to imagine economists, particularly political economists, teaching, preaching and advising against their short-term profits so easily marketed to short-term marketeers and lobby-drunk electees. The fees for flattering the powerful are irresistable, prizes and prestige are not given for going against the giant egos, not really, although pretending to be a critical contrarian master of the op-ed is pretty lucrative and shrewdly realistically dirty as well. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime anybody knowing how much a Zizek gig costs?
Depends on how many persons are invited to a dinner to watch him eat ravenously and monologue, eat and razor, eat and slash, eat and disembowel. Bring a largish wallet, he can empty awesome buckets while expounding torrents of verbal mesmer. Push back your chair toward the end, there will be a thunderous acidic belch, a roving eye will lock onto a hypnotized female as an eagle spies a rodent, then, swoosh, off he will fly scattering crumbs and clouds of halitosis, the ecstatic untenured feebly yodeling. The performance is worth every centavo, and there's nothing to match it from a stage without food to energize his engine or with lumbering idiots trying to sabotage his Formula 1 casanovaic. There will be blood when his manifold servants complete their theses of warlockery. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Iceland's fight for press freedom
Yes, both are essential -- establishmentarian, reputable (best, slightly disreputable for edgy allure) outlets for those who must have an authoritative source of information and outlets for those who must ignore established, partonizing, parental, authoritative outlets. Both feed each other and act as checks on vainglory and corruption inevitable in closed enterprises, and both seed each other with inspiration and revulsion. Learned from the Internet hegemon is that it is not trustworthy, but that it is not untrustworthy, it is a mix of the two and for that reason beneficial in the spread of skepticism about unilateral solutions for information sharing whether police-spy centralized or outlaw-paranoic diffuse, Mossad and Hamas forever bound in mutual gratitude. Fantastically diffuse social media, lawful or unlawful, has fast become too trivial and voluminous to absorb, as with the bulk of human babble, now Musakish, electromagnetic staticky. Where once email hawked and spat now Twitter projectile vomits. Aside: moderating of email, policing, has almost killed it, certainly robbed its vitality of disputation and passionate discourtesy. Exception: Nettime's cops are dirty by design. But then in the face of this shift in public fascination with its own navel rather than lipsmacking at the celebrated's, the authoritative media have beefed up shallowness, imitation, plagiarism, phoniness, endlessly breaking news and unauthorized-to-speak unnamed sources, to be indistinguishable from resume padding and spin-doctoring -- advertising editorialism, compulsive exaggeration, ombudsperson apologia tomfoolery. Disreputable sources of information, leaks. are a branded, copyrightish product, imitating the samzidat, the storefront art gallery, the little-known genius MacArthur grantee, the You Name It without Borders. That's just evidence of success by carefully limited risk-taking, the last also a registered authorial conceit requiring LOC protection. Control of centralized outlets of information will always be possible through finance due to the high cost of centralization, and loss of control of the control of these nodes will always be generated by internal corruption of and competition among the staff and leaders and the staff's hatred and envy of those at the top of the centralizing heirarchy. For the gangs amok, sell-out and co-op and rat-finking are unavoidable. Che will be betrayed for marketing his vaunted resume, more valuable dead than Mandellized. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Iceland's fight for press freedom
Already working below the surface of this noble initiative are those who will use it to set up honey pots and stings. The more trust is engendered the more subterfuge to abuse it. What is needed is not a single, centralized, highly-vaunted, easily targeted, information protection regime, instead a welter of widespread, little-known outlets for secret and confidential information, a tissue of sources, ever-changing in location, operation and duration. A static Maginot Line defense, an impenetrable fortress, will be forever breached, like the spin on unbreakable encryption. By faulty contruction, by vainglorious touting of certainty, by betrayal of insiders, by unexpected attacks, by complacency bred by seeming initial success, by suspicion of an orchestrated ploy like Crypto-AG. Iceland, on its knees, is a perfect place to set up a classic bait and switch deception operation. Switzerland's and other off-shores' collapse as secret banking hideouts is instructive. Still, the initiative will divert attention from more diverse, hard to identify, alternatives operating out of the limelit -- deeply policed and subterraneanly spied -- portions of the Internet. One site for one leak, then vanish; unending leakage to undermine the secrecy dam foundation. It is possible that the Iceland initiative is deliberately deceptive to serve the purpose of diversion from superior means and methods not publicized as a singular bullseye to invite destruction. More power to it as a ruse. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime fast-changing propaganda website archiving tools?
Easy to verify my criticism, search on blocking bots. 75,000 hits. Many times that on variations of the topic. Htaccess can be bypassed despite being server-side. Again, auto-didact, search on htaccess bypass. 1,200 hits. Lots more on variations. The Httrack website offers a slyly informative guide to counter abuse in the spirit of commercial apologia for abetting miscreancy: http://www.httrack.com/html/abuse.html Disrespectfully, miming your style, you seem to have no technical or site operation experience beyond prissy rhetorizing: When you feel like making a real argument, supported by actual facts, do let us know. Plagiarism of cliche. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime fast-changing propaganda website archiving tools?
HTTrack, WGet and other rapacious downloaders are the most bandwidth wasteful and information limiting programs on the Internet. Site operators hate them for their indiscriminate and repetitive downloading of the same files over and over, often taking over low-powered sites so that users are excluded. Site operators are incensed that siphon users are too lazy to configure the programs to respect openness of sites, instead their abuse is causing to sites being closed to public access. There are way too many predating siphons set loose by hundreds of search engines and collators and resellers and packagers and media thieves, even public interest archivers. But worst of all are the innumerable individuals who use these dumb-shit siphons without regard to the harm they cause. Most are capable, indeed brag of, bypassing conventional blocks by robots.txt and htaccess. Even when blocked they continue to generate millions, probably billions, of 403 error messages endlessly, that too squanders bandwidth when multiplied by the huge volume of repeats 24 x 7 x 12 x eons. Such programs should at least have as a default setting to download no more than a hundred files a day from a site and that only after accepting an agreement to limit downloads from a site or the program will go into lock-down until the next day. Violations repeated should cause the programs to die forever and never again be usable from an violating IP address. Our site has done just that for hundreds of the narcissistic fuckers. They are a verminous scourge whose use should be allowed only to those who pay victimized sites a large penalty for squandered bandwidth. Best, the siphon program producers should post a huge deposit in a place where site operators can make withdrawals for bandwidth wastage and be licensed for making the damaging programs available to untrained users, say like gun and property peddlers. What would be a true public benefit is for each siphon producer to provide a 100% effective means to block its siphon. Dream on, to be sure, as if asking the military to provide means to defeat itself. Damn siphons to hell, there is no longer any public good that comes from their use, they serve only corporatized greed and individualized sloth and information-gobbling onanism. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Google CN Petering Out
In contrast to the early thousands of hits per day coming from Google CN when the ban was first lifted, now the hits have dwindled to 2 or 3 per day on our one site. Google.cn lists 61 files for Tiananmen Square massacre compared to Google.com's 325,000. Not sure if this means Google.cn is listing only the targeted files since the ban was lifted or if there is some other type filtering is being done. :xAny news on what Google is actually doing about its threat to stop censoring Google.cn? Has Google conclusively determined that that the attacks came from China. Not much since the initial spin which got an amazing amount of credulity. Follow-up questions about proof of the origin of the attacks remain unanswered, rather answered with equivocation. But lots of offical use of the alleged attacks to gear up for cyberwarfare hootenany. Cybersecurity mavens are ecstatic -- this is not to accuse these scoundrels of orchestrating the attacks, China will do that, but a few experienced skeptics say best not to believe anything about cybersecurity that is classified. Even the USG is propounding that skepticism, says the NY Times today, but defense mavens assure there are adequate protections, in the manner of Janet Napolitano. Smells fishy. Was Google bamboozled by DoD or one of its classified contractors or false flaggers My, false flaggers, haven't heard that hoary exculpation since the murder operations in Latin and Central America. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Google
Cryptome.org hosts photos of the Tiananmen Square massacre. http://cryptome.org/cn/tk/tiananmen-kill.htm Google.CN began pointing searches to the file at 20:54 ET (US), 12 January 2010. The cop-faked pedo porn was freed earlier. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Google
Based on the order of issues raised the SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, oh my out of the mouth of a mouthpiece, what bothers Google most is the attack on its corporate infrastructure and theft of intellectural property. No details on that. And then attacks on numerous corporations like itself. No details on that. Then the humans rights button is pushed, then faux-sacred Gmail user privacy. Lots of details on the upside of those but not the complicty in lack of protection. Then high-minded invocation of freedom of information and civil liberties. Lots about those. Nothing about Google's culture of top secrecy about user data. In legal and public relations worlds this approach is customarily deployed to divert attention from the perfidy of the accused caught by a sting or by tales told by an undercover agent -- i.e. Google.cn employee. Google offers nothing to show that Google was not caught red-handed at the corporate level meddling in Chinese affairs, for its own purposes or for that of its government, practice not unsuspected around the globe and especially within the US. Certainly Google's statement reads like many other corporate (and governmental) defenses when underhanded operations are discovered by alleged breach of confidential operations, heh, intellectual property. Yes, so far only words, no checkable details, no revelations that are different from a thousand other public appeals for sympathy from corporations loathe to open up to how they operate -- in secrecy before all else, except for push-button accusation when pants are down. Worse, is the suspicion that Google has joined the throng accusing China of espionage, as if counterespionage is not legitimate in the face of an unrelenting onslaught by corporations and governments eager to cultivate and harvest Chinese consumers. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Google
A point in Google's favor: At 20:54 ET yesterday Google.CN lifted its ban on images of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Huge number of downloads followed, and are continuing. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime CONFERENCE OPEN KNOWLEDGE, FREE C ULTURE at Royal University of Phnom Penh, Departmen t of Media and Communication
The laudable purpose of the conference might well be tempered by the rapid exploitation of open knowledge developments by the globe's spying enterprises -- governmental, commercial and individual. For an example of the premier governmental open knowledge spying enterprise see a solicitation announcement inviting bids by higher education institutions by the US Director of National Intelligence entitled 'Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination, December 22, 2009: http://cryptome.org/dni-kdd.pdf For the premier commercial open knowledge spying enterprises see Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Yandex and copycats galore. For the premier individual spying enterprises see the thousands of spiders and bots operated without ethical or moral constraint to grab the fruits of laborers hosting unrestricted web sites. These overlap and in some cases are identical to the governmental, commercial and educational siphons and bots who gluttonously bot and siphon one another. Common characteristics of these spying enterprises are: 1. They are asymmetrical in taking but not giving in equal measure. 2. They are insatiable, frantically gulping nutrients and garbag indiscriminately, presuming bulk more valuable than selectivity. 3. They do not explain to the purpose of their compilations, instead offer platitudes, do no evil each proclaim. 4. All are secretive about lack of full public disclosure. 5. All avow a public benefit purpose but do not demonstrate that purpose by their disclosure policy and practice. 6. All use technological and legal obfuscation to conceal their operations, while employing the same for predation. 7. All exploit public trust and loudly advertise the opposite. To be sure, a cynic will note that the public benefit racket has forever used these deceptive methods, cloaked itself in high-minded rationales, fostered self-serving careers and agendas, relied upon a host of apologists to camouflage ill intentions, promoted narrow-minded, evil and murderous ideologies from pinnacles of privilege and costumed finery, recruited adherents with baubles of fools gold, and promulgated elaborate accusations of perfidy by others to divert attention from deeper guilt. Even the open knowledge initiative has come to have an odor of trickery: give unto us sponsors of open fora your best and brightest, for that we give you a platform wired to the max for data gathering, name-taking, CV archiving, biometric data filing, siphoning laptop contents, sexual entrapment, the panoply of unctuousnesses. What better means for this than the open Internet tease, following the leadership of disinterested scholarshop (C) wherein truth is obtained by hammer blows of open discourse -- the biggest hammer prevails. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Twitter revolutionaries, unmade in the USA
While it is commonplace to charge that freedom fighters have been traced by the technology used to communicate, it is far more likely they are identified by spies placed among the fighters and then conceal the technology tracking used in order to conceal the inside betrayal. The lying about where spying fruit has been harvested has been the practice since spying was invented. There have been spying-deception technologies invented for this very purpose, particularly in the comsec branch such as encryption and secret writing. Protection of spying means and methods, and concomitant diverting cover stories, is the premier spying means and methods. It is fairly common to have cover stories based on technology fall apart under scrutiny in court, then the government declares state or national security pre-empts further challenge. Not to say the practice isn't effective, victims have be tortured, gulaged and excecuted on the basis of fabricated evidence allegedly derived from the day's credible discovery of irrefutable violations, from letters, to bank account sudden growth, to overheard talk in prison cells, from intercepts of radio, telephone and telegraph, to the current wild tales of lost official laptops, to leaky cellphones, to chat and the Internet haplessly employed by all-too-smart dumbasses begging for attention. A worldwide lucractive official racket against child porn is currently based entirely on the method. As if the Internet was invented to give dumbass cops playing lechers noble work. Not to be believed, at least not above consideration that your fellow freedom fighter or child porn lover or comsec advisor or ISP had a contract for covert services or had been turned by threats. This machiavellianism comes from the bible of that name, and its lesser known, deep secret, irrefutable sources. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime How right wing are the Pirates?
It was once conventional wisdom (TM) that the fartherest of left united with the fartherest of right, that is radical joined radical, both against adjectival diminution of the compromisers of left, right, center, liberal and conservative, were opposed to the cooperators, realists, crypto-realists, fanatical-realists, political partyists, ideologues, humanists (spit), intellectuals (puke), theorists (kill all first), apologists, democrats, republicans, socialists, capitalists, christians, zionists, radical socialists, environmentalists, greens, blues, reds, pinks, sexual liberationists, pro- and anti-abortionists, atheists, one worlders, anarchists, in short, any of those who believe working together under a banner or faith or belief or ideology or plain old opportunism, that is, the cowards and manipulators, the operators in secrecy, employers of spies and counterspies and agents provocateurs and bribers and extorters and tricksters and betrayers and murderers on behalf of a righteous campaign which makes up its own rules to fit its ambitions, that is, governments and political parties and those who want to be in charge of them to reap the perks of leadership (slit throats). You want to be an enemy of the state and the political snakeoilers or just a pretender, a lackey, a snitch, a spy, a judas, a peddler of your fit-for-all-messages piehole? Pirates have leaders and that is their common fault with the others who fear being alone, being your own god unaided by vacuous goals. Oh, Nietzsche mouthpieced by Sartre, why have you abandoned us? # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime flushing nettime-ann down the drain
I agree with suppressed anger. It is a Magic Mountain tonic to snarl at list administrators -- the idea they can play loose with their sanitization obligations is an abomination. Irate as hell, toward you Obama, stop the smiling, sure that's okay for a campaign, now take this in your teeth: Gimme what I want, now! Or get back to lecterning. Whatever happened to diginified sacrifice by stoning not ignominously stuffed in van at Dover Air Force Base? Who is Ann? Flushing may be too gentle. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Palin, Beck, Limbaugh: The Rabid Responders (fwd)
Screaming is screaming, pointless venting, a spoiled child substitute for slow deliberate and sustained action toward solving of specific problems with accurately developed and aimed solutions. Screaming about health care does not provide, nor did screaming about the Iraqi and Afghani wars prevented them. Then as now, the administration goes about its deeds as it chooses and sends organizers out to encourage the screamers to shout themselves into insensibility, to get them to feel they have made a difference. Meanwhile the backhall campaigns thrive amply hidden by the town halls and traveling presidential road shows orchestrated by all stripes across the spectrum. Witness the elections in Afghanistan and Iraq and other countries all too loudly professing democracy, as paid to do, ahem, following the western enlightened freedom-loving model beloved by well-funded if not entenured auth-oratorians. Deft contrasts of rhetorical ploys are the very means used to disreputate dissent that does not fit the majoratorian narrow-banded either-or choices (pathetic Kierkegaardianism). First year Polysci avidity which has to be beaten out of hard-nosed idealists when they hit the street. Prepare to be duped: Left and right are deadends, long ago adopted by sheniganianists all of whom are warlovers of the armchair. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime 'Wikipedia Art' Wikipedia entry deleted 15 February 2009
Wasn't it the intention of the Wikipedia Artists to be deleted, rejected, booted, driven outside the fold in order to raise hell about it, hurl rotten eggs at the temple of acceptability? Else why bother when there are so many slits online begging for glorifying disgust, why even counterterrorism weeps at its loss of cash register gravitas. True, oh so true, there is hardly a place online where illegitimate, much less illegal, worse, outright criminal, art can last for long in the face of near-absolute indifference, well, outside of capacious welcoming nirvana of pornography which remains the fertilist op for old time formulaic aesthetic protest to garner a smidgen of smitedness, well, excepting kiddie porn which breeds drooling cops and prosecutors as if there were no other useful jismatic sport for undercover curators forebad sex. Yeah, set a viewing spot for high-toned art of naked kids being mincemeated by CIA drones. This is the plasma screen fare on the Langley 7th floor corner office just occupied by Leon Panetta, shown to the mesmerized select guests in his private dining den, slurp, slurp. Wikipedia is a nice diversion for breaking free of Readers Digest, of the President's Daily Brief. Is it true that assassination can be done by injecting pure nicotine in the wall of the anus, allegedly done to Marilyn, so sayeth an artist of official despicability? # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Google's fast track
Lessig is wrong, and his apologia for the WSJ account is a waffle or worse, an attempt to deflect critique of his wrongness. May Obama take note. Key concept of Lessig's wrongess is greater access to the Internet for those able to pay for it. As if that is sufficient to justify exploitation of a public utility not solely, nor intended to be, a commercial operation. Call it privatization by checkbook, call it the Russia model. First build a system with public funds and develop it and promulgate its usefulness with low- or no-paid public participation, and then once it success is assured, take it private, Web 2.0 it. Call it the Google no-ads addiction, then voo-doo users with meds upon meds. Same for the Microsoft OS, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and more. It's all about rewarding investors before all else while calling it public service. Call it the FCC model. Dare Obama appoint Lessig to that post? You bet, along with other obliging commishes custom-trained by ICANN. Exclusive commercialization of some part of the Internet may be unstoppable but there is nothing wrong about demanding the dot-coms invent, develop, staff and pay for their peddling apparatus completely separtate from the public education part. Call that exclusively commercial Internet Intellnet 2.0, for it will be all about spying on users in secrecy just like the government spies do while users are divertingly entertained with fantasies of empowerment. Commingling commerce with the public Net is as wrong as expecting the government to protect privacy. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic
Let me declare bountiful satisfaction that Obama will soon take office even if he gets whacked before then, metaphorically or in deed. Pray not another dead Kennedy to erase failure with hagiography. It is nonsence that Obama's team will be maintained by the use of the Internet, if the mailings his campaign sent out are any indication. Not a single mailing to me had anything more than a panhandling single-mindedness about sending money. Every message begged for small change, just like street beggars -- give $5, or 10, anything. The latest offer T-shirts and mugs and other Obama doo-dads just like idiot branding advertisers. And Obama website was about as informative as a jingle. Come to think of so were his speeches, uplifting for a brief moment then almost instantly forgettable. What is impressive is the provision of of his content by the aspirations of others, here, as elsewhere amongst the vaunted multitudes. Is this his magic: to let us project onto his blank (white) screen whatever we most want? If so, how is the follow-through to be accomplished, how will we implement our hopes through a governmental system designed to place power in the hands of a small number of people and exclude most by far. The power of the ballot has been forever been dissipated in deed and overblown in promise. Try to vote in Congress, try to vote in the cabinet, try to vote in the vast bureaucracy from top to bottom. Hell even the FOIA is a sham, some say a deliberate form of drip-drip torture, and for the national security apparatus a nearly complete shut-out. Try to vote on the officers of the new administration, umpteen thousands of them. And the Obama transition is shaping up to be unprecedentally inaccessible, all in the name of discipline, for protection against the opposition, to maintain control, to get it right, and so on, the usual evasive crapola which if questioned is likely to evolve into a form of secrecy even more deeply conceal by vows of transparency, and, as ever, appeals for trust, declarations that its best for us. The ancient religions practiced this chicanery in the service of the holders of the privileges. Got to keep the devil out of the chapel. So here's to Obama the admirable human we voted for, and to hell with his all-too-elevated presidency. Could be he will give it a try for 6 months and say this is rotten to the core, no way to make it work. Call for a dissolution, scare the shit out of us to not have a scapegoat. To hell with the other top down systems too. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime the green and the black
As ever with liberal Democrats the biggest danger is that war will be embraced as a necessity to show that they are not weak in the face of accusations by the right -- both Democratic and Republican, not to say independents and radicals. The Democratic congress could not resist Bush's wars, nor will Obama and a stronger Democratic congress unless there are programs that compel popular support greater than righteous war narratives which remain the most powerful stories around the world. Invention, manufacture and trade in armaments, led by the US, deeply embedded in its economy and social institutions, will not lessen until better products are developed that provide greater rewards. Turning a blind eye to world addiction to armaments, again, fostered by the US, assuring officeholders to be the prime beneficiaries, is possible only by the refusal of the populace to forego patriotic war narratives of national security. Obama has not promised to change those stories, on the contrary he has affirmed their continuation. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime The Fiat of Last Resort
Well, yes, capitalism has a way of sucking everybody exposed to its beneficence into its gilded maw. And what of the ballooned higher education endowments and vast plans for enlargement. And the huge inflation of conferences and travel and books and grants and fellowships and student scholarships, not to mention easy loans to students who never believed they would have to really repay, debt forgiveness in the name of the future of the country divine. Faculty housing and pensions and salaries and staff up the kazoo. The lucky few who were invited to join corporate boards and more who received financial sponsorship (earmarks mostly) for market-targetted research under guise of disinterested pursuit of science, art, careers, secret deals with the bountifully endowed spies of commerce, advertising, publishing and human growth enzymes. Look into the mirror, Andrew Bacevich urges, to see those who welcome profligacy, demand their celebrated leaders promise the good life, debt be rolled over into to the future of the well-taught and -mentored students sent forth to do the same. And, to be sure, kill those who resist forked-tongued exculpation. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds
From Ethics-L http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=ETHICS-Lhttp://www.listserv.df n.de/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=ETHICS-L: Reminder: Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds Revised call for chapters Scholarly articles on emerging issues of life in virtual worlds such as Second Life are solicited. Work that connects streams of ethics research and theory to virtual worlds as they are and to what they are developing into is particularly sought. Among the virtual world issues explicitly invited are: privacy, monitoring and eavesdropping, the fear of being exploited, the loss of identity, ethical impacts of aesthetic decisions, values and ethics manifested in the social processes and their relevance for activities such as design there, professional ethics, standards of integrity given identity issues and practices, malevolence and altruism, legal and ethical doctrines of confidential and privileged information, ethics for students and instructors, ethical development stages and issues, vandalism, harassment and crime, how ethics and values are inscribed in the discourse and practices of social groups, and how they can change and emerge in the midst of pragmatic concerns, such as collective tasks. Proposals of any length are welcome, though the more detailed and clear the easier it will be for us to have it properly reviewed. Also, include your full contact information, institution affiliation and position. Please include information on your related publications and other work. Schedule. Proposals due August 15, 2008. Notification of acceptance/rejection decision after review process, September 1, 2008. First drafts of chapters due, January 15, 2009. Revised final drafts due, March 15, 2009. Publication, June 15, 2009 (Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC). Editors: Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York, and Shaun Malleck, University of California, Irvine. Send all correspondence to both 3d.htm[EMAIL PROTECTED] and 3d.htm[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Include in the subject field VW ETHICS. Board of Editorial Review Constantinos Athanasopoulos, University of Leeds Carol Haig, University of Salford Edward Lamoureux, Bradley University Stephen Marvin, West Chester University Elena Pasquinelli, Group Compas, de l Institut de l'Ecole Normale Superieure John S Fraker, University of Twente # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime The Irreducibly Complex Web Semantics of the diffuseNettime org
I'd plunk down a deal of hard cash for a nettime slide-projector festival just to see Bruce Sterling in its manifold configurations and impersonations. And the real Ted Byfield, having been stiffed by several pretenders and _their_ entourages. # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
