What's next for Barcelona?

2019-05-27 Thread Felix Stalder
Who can make sense out of yesterday's municipal elections in Barcelona? The left-wing separatist candidate, Ernest Maragall, narrowly beating Ada Colau. Is this another case of separatism crowding out ecological and social issues, thus preserving conventional political structures (even if with new

Re: Remember shih-chieh ilya li

2019-05-27 Thread Patrice Riemens
Beautiful Obits for 'Ilya Lee'. R.I.P. The two nettime posts by him Geert refers to are here: https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9912/msg00140.html (1999) https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0107/msg00508.html (2001) and they are well worth (re)reading! Ciaoui, p+2D

*Farage's as Hyper-leader * A Knoweledge Free Zone* - by Design

2019-05-27 Thread David Garcia
*Farage's as Hyper-leader and the cult of disintermediation* It is no longer news (if it ever was) that the big winners in the UK’s European Parliamentary elections were the Bexit Party or rather the Nigel Farage party. This was a remarkable achievement bearing in mind his party has only been