Re: nettime actors wanted

2006-08-27 Thread John Hopkins
Could a terrorism theme park be not far away? /jc + From a UCSD press release August 22, 2006 Operation College Freedom Hi Jordan -- While I also find this next step in the militaristic show of force on campus repugnant, those of you docked and living in SoCal (NoCal as well) might well

Re: nettime IDF reading Deleuze and Guattari (and Debord)

2006-08-27 Thread John Hopkins
There is a need to build a new old language of critique, not simply rely upon the recycled reactions of a strain of the left from '68. Bravo Daniel for stating that up front and clearly!! To use Debord might be an oversimplification of his work, just as it is to use D+G. But we must ask, what

Re: nettime report_on_NNA

2006-06-10 Thread John Hopkins
Not directly but in any community/collective I know if someone 'stands up in a meeting' and makes a suggestion involving work then such an intervention carries with it the implication (and perhaps responsibility) that they are also willing to share in that work. Otherwise the intervention could

Re: nettime report_on_NNA

2006-06-07 Thread John Hopkins
Thanks Tobias for the report -- I was a bit dismayed to receive the email announcing the stream too late to tune in, as I had wanted to. Although many of the issues definitely hit home, I guess I have found that nettime front-channel is what it is. I rely on it for noisy and occasionally

Re: nettime report_on_NNA

2006-06-07 Thread John Hopkins
Let's say for the sake of argument that nettime is actually run by Satan himself. Do his motives matter? For most subscribers' purposes I think the answer is probably no. The very worst I could do is a pale shadow by comparison with him, so it seems like my motives would be that much less

Re: nettime call to nettime moderators to change email address/systems [u]

2005-11-02 Thread John Hopkins
Hello Felix -- Nettime gets about 1000 spam messages per day. About 95% of this is filtered out automatically by SpamAssassin, installed on bbs.thing.net and configured by nettime, the rest slips through and is deleted manually. Having worked with SpamAssassin for some years, I can't believe

nettime Fwd: [iDC] interesting article on new media scene in LA

2005-10-31 Thread John Hopkins
Forwarded from the iDC list -- I thought it might bring back memories of the discussions around the California Ideology at the beginning of the nettime list... Cheers John + ++ Hi iDC list, The LA Weekly article reproduced

Re: nettime More new orleans

2005-09-14 Thread John Hopkins
Hallo nettimers -- I thought to remind you of Jacob Holdt, the Danish citizen who traveled in the US, making informal snapshots of the people -- mostly impoverished Southerners -- that he met back in the 70's. While I believe much of the photojournalism from Katrina is simply more of the same

Re: nettime Re: Signals, Statistics Social Experiments

2004-11-25 Thread John Hopkins
Having gone through that entire process though, I think Ayreen and I experienced/learned something quite specific, which was that as long as this sort of jamming happens to an outside force, things are, at least within the art context, all ok, but turned inside out, blurred, and when the art

Re: nettime Notes on the Politics of Software Culture

2003-09-06 Thread John Hopkins
This is great openning for discussion for both N5M and AE participants who deal with this topic as thay share some commonalities but tend to take further more political (N5M) or economical ...snip websites...avoiding to dig deeper into the messy and fuzzy work of geeks and nerds who lack sence of

nettime Iceland info

2003-01-30 Thread John Hopkins
a side battle of globalization... This may seem on the 'fringe' literally and figuratively, but for obvious reasons, on the scale of the damming of the Colorado River which destroyed entire riparian environments in the west of the US -- now there are plans for an enormous hydro plant in the