David, I agree that it's always great to see how Brian situates ideas
with incredible breadth. Maybe you should've asked him to write an essay
about nettime for your tactical media anthology. :^)
But I want to question your account of the time. The rubble of the twin
towers was an anthill comp
Dear nettimers,
It feels a bit awkward to respond in this thread as the co-editor of
the anthology this text is going to be part of, where I think the text
is going to be a great contribution, a fascinating account of twenty
years of from a first-hand perspective. However, I am dee
By providing freshly printed and essentially free money to private
banks (sometimes even foreign banks, in the US case) governments were
able to stop cascading failures and halt any drift toward a great
depression. In China a huge infrastructure program was undertaken. In
Japan mon
"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, now they must make amends."
Janis Joplin (modified)
You must see this Porsche Cayenne commercial from 2007:
https://vimeo.com/1713136
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/02/vw-emissions-scandal-widens-to-i
Great to once again be able to tune in to Brian's imaginative sweep.
Just to add to Brian's example below important but informal
collaborations connected to nettime I would definitely add all (except
edition 1) editions of Next 5 Minutes festivals of Tactical Media.
Nettime acted lik
> On 4 Nov 2015, at 9:23 a.m., Brian Holmes
> wrote:
> The crucial intervention so far has been the unprecedented injection of some
> 12 trillion USD into the global monetary system by central banks, which know
> very well what each other are doing. The next crucial intervention will be to
>
