[NetBehaviour] necessity

2016-04-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
necessity http://www.alansondheim.org/necessary.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/necessary.mp4 (the necessity of surrealism = the lack of imagination) the necessity of coherent chat dissolved in the fury of seductive fountains. the amusement of drizzled sound in the midst of curious lozenges.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-29 Thread erik zepka
I'm not sure there's novelty in open cultural and scientific concepts, quite the contrary they are interested in being general/social and consensual. Advisory committees I think are a great example of providing instances of some of the steps that can be taken elsewhere - take for instance a bioeth

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-29 Thread Simon Biggs
In response to Erik’s posting - this actually sounds as if Accelerationism is a moralist project, at least here: "a weird utopia of everyone [snip] being in the conversation and allowing that broader counterpoint to qualify and correct expert views”. This is why advisory committees are often com

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-29 Thread erik zepka
I want to reply to this and Gretta's message that preceded it in a manner that mediates the two perspectives. In this way, perhaps we could talk about something like a dilettante accelerationism, but I will look a little outside this to what I might term a genealogy of the accelerationist, that fl

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist health policy

2016-04-29 Thread rinus van alebeek
used to work for marketing research bureau, endless questionairies over the phone about smoking. philip morris had paid for this research, but this shouldn't be mentioned. questions about new versions of marlboro. the name marlboro had to be repeated over and over again. ( which I skipped in this

[NetBehaviour] Accelerationist health policy

2016-04-29 Thread Edward Picot
The Royal College of Physicians have just announced their approval of e-cigarettes. Since the reason smokers smoke is in order to get nicotine, but the thing that makes smoking bad for your health is tar, e-cigarettes evidently reduce the harm caused by smoking by 95%, which means that actually

[NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-29 Thread Michael Szpakowski
Hi all the college where I teach has enthusiastically taken to heart the government's Islamophobic "prevent" strategy. Last week they made it compulsory for every further education student to attend ( and I am not making this up) a puppet show about "prevent" and put pressure on HE lecturers to

[NetBehaviour] Even Salon: Anti-Natural online publication

2016-04-29 Thread jk
It is with great delight that we share with you this publication from the first Even Salon, Anti-Natural, a compendium of contributions made by the salon's 16 participants. This is a digital extension of the event and is devoted to reprising and deepening those interventions made on the night on

[NetBehaviour] ghost

2016-04-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-29 Thread Pall Thayer
I love those NASA posters and actually have one hanging on my wall! On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:04 AM Rob Myers wrote: > On 24/04/16 03:22 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote: > > > > I just watched Ruth's work again, I like the reflexion it brings, how it > > articulates all these times. > > Yes it increas

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote: An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls' proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the gallery declined). It would have been a critical exposure of knowledge about the art world, enabling us to understand

[NetBehaviour] Summer program in Berlin: Art, Surveillance, and openframeworks

2016-04-29 Thread Winnie
[image: Inline image 1] Instructor Chris Sugrue with her computer vision-based project 'Delicate Boundaries'. School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe *Call for Applications | Summer 2016 Programs* *PROGRAM DATES::* *See Or Be Seen* (topic: Computer Vision): 6 June - 1 July *Early applica

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/04/16 03:22 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote: > > I just watched Ruth's work again, I like the reflexion it brings, how it > articulates all these times. Yes it increases our ability to reflect on and dare I say reason about this. Which is Accelerationist-y. It's a very eloquent work however one lo