nettime The Living Reality of Military-Economic Fascism

2007-01-22 Thread Ewen Chardronnet
http://www.mises.org/story/2450 «/Participants in the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) are routinely blamed for mismanagement, not infrequently they are accused of waste, fraud, and abuse, and from time to time a few of them are indicted for criminal offenses (Higgs 1988, 1990,

Re: nettime shocklogs wikipedia entry

2007-01-22 Thread Geert Lovink
Update: Wikipedia editors are again considering to delete the shocklog entry. Interesting remark is this context is their suspicion of 'foreign language' blogs being involved as references. But who is foreign in this case? English for those write Dutch? Or Dutch for those know only English?

Re: nettime history lesson

2007-01-22 Thread Quirk
Thanks Keith for the great thread, I have just ordered your book. BTW, I am quite interested in the special status of East Germany granted by the Treaty of Rome and the possibility of this resulting in a form Comprador Bourgeoisie within the GDR. Any more information regarding this is much

nettime act 4 radical europe: rejoinder

2007-01-22 Thread Alex Foti
Thanks to Nico and Marcelo and everybody else for taking the time to read and discuss the document. Nico says that a noborder approach is incompatible with a european strategy. In very abstract terms that might be true, but don't you think there can be wide convergence among european radicals of

Re: nettime shocklogs wikipedia entry

2007-01-22 Thread mgurst
Hmmm, how about trying the non-neologism Schlocks q.v. http://www.wordreference.com/definition/shlock, or the interesting not quite neologism Schlogks, MG Update: Wikipedia editors are again considering to delete the shocklog entry. Interesting remark is this context is their suspicion of

nettime strange collisiion of porn and tech

2007-01-22 Thread Kimberly De Vries
Some of you might find this NY Times article interesting; apparently porn manufacturers feels HD will let viewers feel even closer to the action, closer to reality, but it turns out that reality is not what it's cracked up to be. Many of us were onto that idea already; I think that while on the