RE: cybernetics and the Internet

2006-06-12 Thread kenneth c. werbin
Hi Brian- Thanks so much for your depthful thoughts, compliments and for the link to your work. I look forward to reading it. These ideas come from my dissertation work entitled 'The List Serves: Bare Life in Open Social Order' which I am getting closer and closer to completing at Concordia Unive

two forwards on canada's terror campaign

2006-06-12 Thread Gita Hashemi
i'm forwarding two items below (Statement on anti-terror arrests by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War, and Wounded Sentiments: Multiculturalism, the "Toronto 17", and the National Imaginary by Sumayya Kassamali & Usamah Ahmad) as some people may be interested to know the local take on the r

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mini CPR, Was Re: nettime as idea

2006-06-12 Thread Gita Hashemi
At 10:39 AM +0200 6/12/06, David Garcia wrote: >I would argue that any movement for radical change should be carried >out in close collaboration with the moderators and should take a very >different approach and tone from some of the peremptory notifications >we have seen on this thread. And above

Re: nettime as idea

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Benson
I haven't posted to nettime in what a Slovene friend would no doubt call "the age of a dog," but read it quite regularly and still consider it a kind of ongoing online cornerstone, and have to say that my vote (be it worthless for the above reasons, or not), is in kinship with David Garcia's el

Re: report_on_NNA

2006-06-12 Thread Newmedia
Richard: > No I didn't! I was - and still am - a *left* social democrat. H -- DEJA VU all over again . . . http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9903/msg00138.html I especially like Ted Byfield's "editorial" about what belongs on nettime! [nettime isn't the best venue for un

Re: nettime as idea

2006-06-12 Thread David Garcia
On Jun 11, 2006, at 5:57 PM, A. G-C wrote: > From this point of view, I think that Geert's provocation on closing > the list to have it reborning from this new time, it is really > interesting as logical activist attitude happening in real time of > the mails against misunderstanding and mortifica

nettime as practice

2006-06-12 Thread Felix Stalder
On Sunday, 11. June 2006 02:21, John Hopkins wrote: > In this Light, I would challenge Felix and Ted (and any others > feeling qualified) to write a brief task description of the > (different) roles/positions necessary to run nettime as it is today. > Put it out here. I certainly have some interes

FYI: Beauty & East IRC log...

2006-06-12 Thread John Hopkins
Just as a passing note for the record -- I have the Beauty and the East IRC log online at http://www.neoscenes.net/projects/logs/beauty.html For me the atmosphere invokes the same kind of activity that Tobias facilitated. The more the better... Cheers John # distributed via : no commercia