Lecture on alt-right - connections by Florian Cramer
Hi nettime - here is a link to the video version of Florian's lecture recently delivered - I picked it up off Facebook where there are 53 shares and 166 Comments because I assumed many nettimers are "FB adverse" and wanted it to get to the list given recent events and desire to examine connections between our own sorry state in US with tentacles of white supremacy as they mesh with Europe and are manifest in websites, networks. Ugh. Thank you for this most interesting lecture! https://www.pzimediadesign.nl/av/FlorianCramer-AltRight-2016_11_28.mp4 Sent from my iPhone # 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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Fwd: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory
Hi John, Europe's population expansion was made possible by death rates falling faster than birth rates for a century (the US by European immigration and later from all over). After which birth rates fell to the point where Europeans can no longer reproduce or defend themselves and they hate the migrants who work to pay for ther pensions. Asia is rapidly heading the same way. Africa is the only major region today with net population growth rates (2.5% p.a., doubling every 30-odd years). This was a consequence of industrial capitalism, through better food, sanitation, health, urbanisation, machines and yes inanimate energy for many, which only began to affect the general urban population in their everyday lives from the 1860s. The electricity grids and Edison's etc inventions from the 1880's allowed most Americans to have convenient energy in their homes for the first time in the interwar period. Mortality rates for the poor are still shockingly high there. We were using coal with the odd light bulb in Manchester in the 1950s. The Victorians valued plumbing at home and the ability to kill natives at distance abroad more than steam engines as such. Their racism was based on thinking they were smarter than the rest, not riding a coal boom. WWI gave them a salutary lesson. Attribution in an essay of that scope and under 2,000 words? In order to satisfy cranks? To paraphrase Dylan at the end of Talking World War 3 Blues, "You can be in my dream, but I don't want to be in yours". Keith On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 5:54 PM, John Hopkins wrote: > > On 24/Nov/16 02:50, Keith Hart wrote: > >> including lands of temperate zone new settlement). Its expansion >> was fuelleded by a demographic explosion, 1830-1930. It was the >> main centre for imperialism and machine industry; Africa had a >> share of only 7.5%, hardly any cities and almost no machines -- the >> 'scramble for Africa' from the >> > > The expansion was fueled by coal energy which 'allowed' for > population growth... attribution is important in this regard -- > population doesn't just 'grow' on nothing, it has to have a 'real' > energy source to drive that expansion of the ordered expression of > life... > > jh # 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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: BComu Global: America needs a network of rebel cities
While this is good to remember, it is not the only step to take. It reminds me eerily of the last ditch claims of "states' rights" in the 1960s in attempting to resist the enforcement of the voting rights act. Think: George Wallace on the steps of the Alabama Governor's Mansion, or the blocking of the entrance to the University of Mississippi by State Troopers. The rhetoric constructs it as an attack on local sovereignty, which it is. It's a short step from there to water canons and police dogs, the kind deployed in Mississippi in the past and employed now against the sovereign nations resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline. If Brexit goes forward, I think Scotland will exit the UK and possibly Northern Ireland. In short, the breakup of the UK. Those seem not to be viable options in the US. The US Civil War was fought over just such concerns. Or maybe we will see the break up of the United States? That wd be a wet dream for the radical right. It is a strategy also employed by the far right as they attempted to resist the civil right of marriage equality: passing discriminatory state and local legislation, the kind that backfired economically on Mike Pence and North Carolina. In the latter case, things fell into place only after the supreme courtin the majority radical right wingmade an unequivocal decision. I am not against this strategy but it is not enough. New York State by an executive order by Mario Cuomo and a radical pro-Likud lobbying group prohibits the state of new york from doing business with any firms participating in the BDS movement against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. This underscores just how powerful a weapon economic boycotts can be. We cannot allow this weapon to be taken away from us. Boycotting the red states economically is an option. A difficult complex one, but one with effect. We need to resist at every level to slow down the swing to the right in the us and abroad. It will become more difficult to resist with each day and the consequences more dire. The final ironyfor the momentis that while in the transformation from what might be called the "dualistic" spectacle (my way of referring to Debord's formulation of the concentrated vs the diffuse soectacle) to the integrated spectacle, China moved closer to capitalism for growth, Europe, the US, Australia, et al. have moved closer to China and Russia in authoritarianism. Keith Sanborn > On Nov 28, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Sandra Braman wrote: > > Over 350 cities in the US took the position that they would not go along > with particular provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. > # 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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Fwd: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory
On 24/Nov/16 02:50, Keith Hart wrote: including lands of temperate zone new settlement). Its expansion was fuelleded by a demographic explosion, 1830-1930. It was the main centre for imperialism and machine industry; Africa had a share of only 7.5%, hardly any cities and almost no machines -- the 'scramble for Africa' from the The expansion was fueled by coal energy which 'allowed' for population growth... attribution is important in this regard -- population doesn't just 'grow' on nothing, it has to have a 'real' energy source to drive that expansion of the ordered expression of life... jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD levitating on bentonite twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ # 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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: BComu Global: America needs a network of rebel cities
Over 350 cities in the US took the position that they would not go along with particular provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:59 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote: > America needs a network of rebel cities to stand up to Trump > > https://medium.com/@BComuGlobal/america-needs-a- > network-of-rebel-cities-to-stand-up-to-trump-7c07202e7cc2#.isym9broh <...> # 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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
