Re: thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last

2015-11-23 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
which country is this coming from? which "nation"? Am 23.11.15 um 06:49 schrieb nettime's_occupant: >< http://www.thedemands.org/ > > >Across the nation, students have risen up to demand an end >to systemic and structural racism on campus. Here are their >demands. > >Note: These demands were comp

Re: Luc le Vaillant: Don't _pray_ for Paris

2015-11-23 Thread Janos Sugar
for those who read german, a critical voice: Georg Diez: Terror in Paris, Hedonism and Hate http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/paris-terror-hedonismus-und-hass-a-1063818.html At 1:53 PM +0100 11/22/15, seb olma wrote: Exactly, or, in the words of Charlie Hebdo, 'Screw them, we've got cha

Re: thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last updated 11.21.15)

2015-11-23 Thread David Mandl
Core issues aside (no reasonable person could oppose an anti-racism movement on campuses), I find the trend toward demanding public apologies--a "hand-written apology," no less!--kind of bizarre. There are plenty of reasonable ways to acknowledge and confront racial injustice, but this just seems l

FP > Christian Cary > Burma Gives a Big Thumbs-Up to Facebook

2015-11-23 Thread nettime's big_thumb
< http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/13/burma-gives-a-big-thumbs-up-to-facebook/ > Burma Gives a Big Thumbs-Up to Facebook Four years ago Facebook didn't exist in Burma. Now it's the country's most important source of information. * By Christian Caryl -- Christian Caryl is the author of