through google glasses
0 sorry for X posting! 1 hello, i'm christian, i am doing an artistic research @ the moment with the subject »distance through images« that means, i say (oh and i have also to say: sorry for my bad english i'm not used to writing in english) and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty once said is: "everything which i see - is in principle within my range, at least within the range of my sight - and is therefore noted on the map of »i can«" and i am really happy that i found these words once, cause they describe it much better than i could ever do. the whole research is based on this sentence, and i have been working for years on it, on this thesis, and i work and write in form of essays in different fields, from cryptography, over surveillance studies / societies of control over GUI's, over Interpreter (geeqie, vim, vlc, etc. i think u know what i mean...or?) over “time” and how our perception of time changed through cybernetics & through tick tack and how f. ex. farmers found their own ways to fight against it? over human as data (especially in the 3.rich) over my-toilet-room_as-a-multimedia-spectacle or readymade-through-automatisation over angry adobe critics (the adobe suite, the fucking opposite of good old UNIX-philosophy, the fucking opposite of finding my own, me as artist, me as a citizen, finding my own way of aesthetics, of expression, of communication through images, the fucking opposite of a cultural process but an standing image of.) & over & over through how-to-see? my main interest in this research is the perception of daily life, our daily life, how we see the world in our daily life and through this seeing-the-world, how we see us-into-this-world? so if i say that: me personally, if i see a great danger in the upcoming of google glass in society, much more danger then from private-market controlled&developed image-manipulating-software and i see this danger not just about the surveillance-of-daily-life-from-my-counterparts/friends but also and if i think on the words of Merleau-Ponty, also the distance to my counterpart. if i do not decide anymore to lower my head to watch at a virtualized world but have it directly in my daily view. short intermezzo: just one hour ago, on my way to the institute (the institute i'm in, as a student, is the institute of art_in_context) i missed my bus here in berlin, the bus i normally take, so i took another one. it was, for my surprise, an very old one, one from the eighties so i said hello to the bus driver, took my seat, the seat was like a sofa, so i was sitting there and watching out of the window. before the next bus-stop, i heard a voice saying: "Nächste Haltestelle ist der Theodor-Heuss Platz, dort könnt ihr umsteigen in die U2, Richtung Pankow und in die Busse (i have forgot the numbers he said" what the fuck, i thought. it is a human being who is talking to me!?! and he was talking to me in words. and in whole sentences. and he moved his mouth while talking to me. do you understand a little bit what i am trying to say? me personally, i'm afraid to loose completely the (in german we say: den draht zur welt (not to mix up mit Fassbinder's Welt am Draht ^_*)) i'm afraid of. ok, so thats my personal fear and i will not bother you with this... if you think it is stupid, maybe you are right... ...me i see a whole tradition of this fear. i wanted to ask you, if one of you is interested on working/writing with me together on this subject and/or if one of you have already had experience with google glass and likes to share it with me/us? and/or if one of you based in berlin have google glasses to share with me/us that i/we also can make my/our own experience with it? cause of course, i'm writing about...but, like Rolf Dieter Brinkmann said once in his poem »a poem«: Hier steht ein Gedicht ohne einen Helden. In diesem Gedicht gibts keine Bäume. Kein Zimmer zum Hineingehen und Schlafen ist hier in dem Gedicht. Keine Farbe kannst du in diesem Gedicht hier sehen. Keine Gefühle sind in dem Gedicht. Nichts ist in diesem Gedicht hier zum Anfassen. Es gibt keine Gerüche hier in diesem Gedicht i need experience with it, and for this reason, i say, yes of course, everybody needs to have @ least for once, some fucking google glasses between his eyes and the world! to see the distance through and not the...(thank you Mr. Fernando Pessoa) ...but also like i said already before, it was never on my nose, ...only words i wanna stop now, and hopefully some of you can help me out a little, to make this research not alone and not without experience. thank you all in advance in hope, i did not stole your »time« have a nice evening greets from berlin p.s. if u wanna contact me in private you will find the key for my e-mail adress: chr [at] noparts (dot) org here: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x69A54224 and if you wanna know who am i, or better said: what am i doing the whole day long if i do not write long e-mails, take a look here: http://nopa
Re: a free letter to cultural institutions
I disagree with this letter since I am working for a small cultural venue (WORM in Rotterdam) myself and see a discrepancy between good intentions and not-so-good practical consequences. First of all: the release of work as free culture (according to the standards of freedomdefined.org or the FSF Free Software Definition) should be intrinsically motivated and a decision of those who created the work. It should not something forced upon by an institution/venue which would then use its institutional power to force upon modalities of distribution - i.e. you can't play/exhibit/work here if your work isn't released under a free license. It is not upon an institution to dictate ways of distribution outside that institution. If, for example, a punk band would decide that it is not releasing its recordings under a free license - for which it might have sound political arguments -, it would, under your model, be banned from all punk venues to perform. This would boil down to the creation and enforcement of purity laws, the typical knee-jerk reflex of the radical left and trap into which it is running into again and again. To clarify: At WORM, we have fostered, (co-)hosted and co-instigated a whole range of free culture projects, such as the Hotglue and now SuperGlue web site creation system, the Libre Graphics Research Unit, the Free?! conference last fall, a number of Crypto Parties; our office computers run on GNU/Linux and our streaming server streams Ogg Vorbis. But we also don't think that it is forbidden if an underground band sells its self-made small edition LP after a concert with no whatsoever free license because it can't live from the kind of artists' fees we pay. Florian On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:17 PM, ozgur k. wrote: > a free letter to cultural institutions, > > please do not fund/exhibit/distribute/promote any non-free cultural > works.(see freedomdefined.org for the definition of free cultural > works) > > please approach your audience as peers and give them the freedom to > build on what you make them experience. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: To-morrow the Minitel! (!)
Also in France in 1985, Roy Ascott used the Minitel system in his work Organe et function d'Alice aux pays des merveilles, a mash-up of a bio text and the fairy tale, for the exhibition "Les Immateriaux", Centre Pompidou, curated by Lyotard. Ed Shanken www.artexetra.com Art and Electronic Media www.artelectronicmedia.wordpress.com Art and Electronic Media Online Companion www.artelectronicmedia.com On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:30 AM, olivier auber wrote: > My madeleine > > Telematic art / French side story <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
World Cup, the Internet & the New Brasilian Insurrection
World Cup, the Internet & the New Brasilian Insurrection - by Atchu Sao Paulo, 06/11/2014 tonight at midnight we should know if the subway workers union will strike again, effectively cutting off the main form of transportation to the opening game Stadium, the red subway line, which travels East through the city taking people from the epicenter of Sao Paulo near Av. Paulista to where the game will take place, at Corinthians-Itaquera. The police created a 2 km radius "freeze-zone" around the Stadium to protect against protestors, but the greatest weakness in the security detail might not be from stereotyped black-blocs or cardboard signs, but rather an auspicious conjoining of forces. the radicalized labor movement, students and specially the Passe-Livre anarchyvists #together might be an explosive formula to put down the state-capitalist goliath. During their first strike about a week ago, the metroviarios demanded "padrao FIFA" (FIFA Standard) transportation for the people, as well as better salaries and working conditions. many stations were closed or picketed, causing city-wide chaos in traffic costing people's medical appointments, schools had to close earlier, a mayhem. The Judicial branch intervened, siding with the right-wing governor and the financial class that simply can't afford this Copa do Mundo to fail and dictated that the strike was "abusive" and therefore the union was sentenced to terminate the strike or face a daily fine of R$ 500,000 per day, about US$ 220,000 per day. Choked financially, the union scheduled an emergency general assembly to decide the future of the movement this Wednesday, specially eager to discuss solidarity measures for reinstatement of the 42 workers fired in the beginning of the strike last week for using the PA system to promote the strike. This event radicalized the workers. With the solidarity of other important issue-based social movements, like Passe Livre, the transportation-issue movement that sparked the June demonstrations of 2013, they threatened to strike again on the opening day of the World Cup if subway management and the governor did not hire their comrades back by midnight this Wednesday. With no indication that Geraldo Alckmin, the Governor of Sao Paulo, will back down and accept this demand, another strike is imminent. Or at least a huge mess on the making when the anarchist black-blocs do what they do very well: direct action. Without the red line, the main artery that communicates the downtown area with Corinthians-Itaquera where the game will be, the vicinities of the Stadium might turn out to be a living hell, since other road alternatives aren't capable to absorb the extra amount of traffic coming and going to the newly founded Stadium if the subway line is somehow compromised. For the Governor, the only way to avoid the shame of players being parachuted by choppers in the stadium and playing for empty stands is to use the riot police to guarantee safe passage. right-of-way either to the workers crossing the picket line if the strike happens or to clear road blocks made by protestors. He already used this tactic, and nothing suggests he won't do it again. The key advantage that labor and radicalized youth have in this scenario is the impossibility for police to kettle an entire railroad track heading east to the Stadium connecting downtown Sao Paulo to the outskirt of the city. 300 or so radicalized workers and/or protestors could burn piles of trash or tires on the tracks and effectively stopping the trains. if shit goes South sa the saying goes, radicals might jump in groups on the tracks to force the trains to a halt. this might be another David vs Goliath story. the next few hours will tell. https://m.facebook.com/groups/351319721624587?view=permalink&id=651840251572531 -- Alexandre Machado de Sant'Anna Carvalho, M.D./MPH #OWS Revolutionary Games @revplay www.revolutionarygames.net 2009 Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship "Imagine Impossibilities" - James Joyce # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Gabriel Kolko RIP (Portside Obit)
original to: https://portside.org/2014-06-11/gabriel-kolko-left-leaning-historian-us-policy-dies-81 Gabriel Kolko, Left-Leaning Historian of U.S. Policy, Dies at 81 Gabriel Kolko, an influential left-leaning historian who argued that American domestic and international policies have long been driven more by the interests of big business than by the interests of the people, died on May 19 at his home in Amsterdam. He was 81. He had a progressive neurological disorder and chose euthanasia under Dutch law, said Pim van den Berg, a longtime friend. In a series of books on turning points in American history, from the westward expansion of the railroads in the 19th century to the Cold War, Vietnam and the war on terrorism, Professor Kolko carved a distinct and sometimes groundbreaking path. He made the case that alliances between government and business, rather than between government and the people, were the essential drivers of regulatory policy, social programs and foreign affairs an idea that came to be called corporate liberalism. He was regarded as a cage-rattling New Left historian in the 1960s, and he was active in leftist causes, but over time he provoked thinkers of various stripes. By his late 30s, he had established himself as unconventional. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Herbert Donald called him a lonely figure among radical historians. Rarely appearing at historical conventions, rarely contributing to the little magazines of the left, Kolko is an impressively productive scholar, Mr. Donald wrote in The New York Times Book Review in July 1970 in an overview titled Radical Historians on the Move. Though most historians have written of Progressivism as a movement of middle-class reformers to regulate corporate monopoly, Mr. Donald continued, Kolko argues that it was business itself that sought federal regulation, partly to escape Populist legislation by the state legislatures, chiefly to rationalize its own economic order. Professor Kolko had already written two of his most notable works, The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916 (1963) and The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943-1945 (1968). In them, he argued that much of American policy at home and abroad was meant to suppress the left and preserve corporate power and peace. His books generally did not reach popular audiences. His prose was often described as wooden. Some critics saw conflict in the high standards to which he held the United States while seeming more forgiving of other countries shortcomings. Some spotted factual errors. Some saw his leftist bias as distorting. But many acknowledged his rigor and originality of thought. This book is simultaneously original and dogmatic, perceptive and blind, clearly reasoned and clogged by ambiguity and awkward prose, Gaddis Smith, the Yale historian of American diplomacy, wrote in a review of The Politics of War in The Times. It is also the most important and stimulating discussion of American policy during World War II to appear in more than a decade. Professor Kolko wrote many more books, moving through history in the approximate order in which it unfolded. With his wife, Joyce, he wrote about the early Cold War in The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 (1972). In 1985, he wrote Anatomy of a War: The United States, Vietnam and the Modern Historical Experience. Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story In the 1950s, Professor Kolko wrote pamphlets for the leftist Student League for Industrial Democracy. In the 1960s, he supported the North Vietnamese, and he testified at the tribunal organized by the philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1967 to investigate war crimes in Vietnam. He also criticized his employer, the University of Pennsylvania, for allowing research on Agent Orange, the toxic chemical used by the United States in Vietnam an act that played a role in his decision to leave the university in the 1960s. Gabriel Morris Kolko was born on Aug. 17, 1932, in Paterson, N.J. His father, Philip, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, was a Yiddish scholar who struggled to find work in the United States. His mother, Lillian, was a schoolteacher. When Gabriel was a boy, his family moved to Akron, Ohio, where he became interested in the citys active labor movement. No immediate family members survive. Professor Kolkos wife of 57 years, the former Joyce Manning, a historian, died in 2012. In 1954, Professor Kolko received a bachelors degree in economic history from Kent State University. The next year he received a masters in American social history from the University of Wisconsin, where he was influenced by the revisionist leftist historian William Appleman Williams. He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1962. Professor Kolko taught at Penn and the State University of New York at Buffa
