gender and (how happy are) you etc digest [x6]

2006-10-08 Thread nettime's_indigestive_system
"Melissa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> how happy are you John Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Gender and You Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> re: etc. Wayne Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Gender and You Kali Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Gender an

Further Expansion of Internet Surveillance

2006-10-08 Thread Eric Stewart
I find this disturbing but, then again, I am almost becoming jaded as to loss of rights. It really seems anyway that it takes technical know-how to have real privacy, given the fact that I and others have experienced electronic harrasment in forms that supposedly don't even exist, according to som

Re: Gender and You

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
I'm not sure how much longer nettime will let me go on, but I feel again I have to respond; now I'm an Orientalist as well as sexist. This is one of the ugliest exchanges I've had - maybe the ugliest - but I can't let it go. On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Kali Tal wrote: > I do find the Nikuko pieces Orie

Re: Gender and You

2006-10-08 Thread coco fusco
Dear Kali Thank you for your important statements and also for sticking to your guns on these questions, which have always been difficult for active nettimers ( who are largely white, male and straight) to respond to without knee jerk deployment of terms such as "essentialist" which are used as e

Re: Torture, Torture, Torture!!!

2006-10-08 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Bla, bla, bla!!! The world is laughing at America, not because you torture, have fun, but because you started those wars. Torture is the most boring detail. H. Paul D. Miller wrote: > This is a cross post of an mini essay by Naeem Mohaiemen. > > read on! > Paul > > State Of Exception, After

Re: Gender and You

2006-10-08 Thread Kali Tal
Alan and I simply disagree on identity politics. I don't think that "male baggage" can be left behind ; I think that social/cultural/ gender location is crucially important in any analysis; I think it's impossible to do good analysis at all if race/gender/class isn't part of the critique. I

Re: Invisible States: Europe in the Age of Capital Failure

2006-10-08 Thread Keith Hart
Ben, >How could a society (or, say, a social movement or group of social movements) support secondary knowledge production so that people can get the information they need, from credible sources, in a form they can understand, in time to act on it?< Thanks for this interesting reflection on B

Human rights in Thailand

2006-10-08 Thread ericbj
Since this subject has been broached here quite recently, I take the liberty of pasting below a message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The implications are wider than the regional issue, for it raises the question of to what extent major media (and telecoms companies) dominated by big busines