of extreme interest, re the nudge-horizon of compression/containment
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, tbyfield wrote:
(I just dug this up -- maybe of interest.)
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I'm on it because there are a number of new media artists/writers/etc.
including myself who form somewhat of a community - it's a way to
distribute work, especially if one's not in academia or media industry.
It's brutally flawed but also useful and it gives more scope to textual
work than I
some being-in-common).
So, in the end, I understand?that something would be lost by leaving FB -
hence my first question! - but would it be possible to say that the loss is
even more important while not quitting FB?
My best,
FN
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 11:14 AM Alan Sondheim wrote:
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, mp wrote:
On 03/11/2019 20:36, Alan Sondheim wrote:
The loss is more important to me
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for sure;?
2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the
lines of plugins that remove algorithmic
recommendation features, deliberate scrambling/obfuscation of users' data
and trackable behaviours, etc. might be more successful in empowering users
than simply encouraging them to leave the platform entirely.
craig fahner - https://www.craigfahner.com/
everywhere, reading
documents from Nauru re: refugee conditions.
- Alan
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, tac...@riseup.net wrote:
other social networks are possible
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50127713
Em 2019-11-04 21:29, Alan Sondheim escreveu:
I'm in agreement here; I leave as little trac
Yes always good to attack each other's pain.
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) wrote:
Dear David and all,
Oh boohoo. Nick Couldry cum suis are rather late to the party of general
hopelessness and lack of future perspective that so many others have
suffered from for decades already.
For me, this depends on whose future, not an abstracted one, but one
within which genocide all too easily inheres, where the extinction of a
species is absolute; a few years ago Johannes Birringer and I co-moderated
a discussion on empyre on absolute terror which centered, for me, around
scor
Oh hell, Ted. I worked with him in Cape Breton and elsewhere in NS on
Wiring Nova Scotia; we were close until he moved west. We worked together
in Sydney; it was wonderful and necessary work. I hadn't heard from him in
a while. Thank you for passing this on.
He was amazing.
Best, Alan
On
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Working with Mike Gurstein
http://www.alansondheim.org/mike.txt
From 1997, Nova Scotia, mainly Sydney, working with Mike Gurstein
Revisiting, Notes and Pieces
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The fascist creep in action:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Wednesday that he reserves
the right to jail journalists, if we have to.
Here's his exchange with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) during a Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing:
KLOBUCHAR: Will you commit to not putting reporters i
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html
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I want to thank Stephen and Sebastian for their responses, particularly
Stephen's.
- Alan
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Query - again, I'm admittedly naive in these matters -
Here's a current stat on Fb -
As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active
users. In the third quarter of 2012, the number of active Facebook users
had surpassed 1 billion, making it the first social network ev
On Sat, 28 Apr 2018, sebast...@rolux.org wrote:
On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:07 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
Query - again, I'm admittedly naive in these matters -
Here's a current stat on Fb - As of the fourth quarter of 2017,
Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active users. In the third
(9) Google "Jessi
Slaughter", for starters
Am 28/04/18 um 18:34 schrieb Alan Sondheim:
I do wonder if hate speech isn't precisely the languages of desire? TV
advertising around here is now based on jealousy and putdowns - buy
this car and you'll triumph over your neighbors. Just t
On Sat, 5 May 2018, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
Alan,
Am 05/05/18 um 04:53 schrieb Alan Sondheim:
Isnt that in the story of the Tower of Babel? Maybe we should read it
again.
or the opposite, every thing and every one speaking exactly the same
digital terrain, the same protocols. even in
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Action: failed
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Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; can't create user output file
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Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 23:15:34
From: Alan Sondheim
To: Heiko Recktenwald
Cc: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
Subject: Re:
surely of interest here.
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Minority News
April 26, 2011
http://www.blackradio
[the following text was to be delivered at epoetry - it's an enlargement of the
outline I sent out a week or so ago. I'm sick and unable to attend in person,
and Loss Glazier refused, as a matter of principle (if someone can't attend the
conference in person, hir paper can't be presented), to ha
It's true. If you find a copy of the World Radio-TV Handbook (WRTH),
perhaps the largest US entry and one of the largest in the book, is that
of Family Radio; in this country they broadcast all over the shortwave
spectrum, drowning out other stations. They have to have a huge amount of
money fo
This kind of stuff is fairly hidden here - Alan
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Enter Third Week
Protests Gr
Interview with Katherine DiPierro, re: my Eyebeam residency
http://eyebeam.org/blogs/katherinedipierro/eye-to-eyebeam-a-conversation-with-alan-sondheim
(her other interviews are excellent as well)
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Uncomfortable notes on the poetics of captured human behavior: Part
cauterization of the sublime
Mis/take (self-interrogation)
Propeller
Here's the Thing, two texts
Worry
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Alan Sondheim
PAIN.TXT: On (severe) Pain
War Against War, Krieg dem Kriege
in silence here
the idiotic poverty of pain
For Occupy Wall Street, Jesus' Third Way *
Eyebeam Window Gallery Installation
Po
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Alan Sondheim
PAIN.TXT: On (severe) Pain
War Against War, Krieg dem Kriege
in silence here
the idiotic poverty of pain
For Occupy Wall Street, Jesus' Third Way *
Eyebeam Window Gallery Installation
Po
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From performance with Monika Weiss, text written over six hours, at
Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Feb 6, 2012:
flying blind means working without network or planning
this is flying blind. this is a broken network.
w
This articles, composed of ten panels, fascinates me in its illustration
of the somewhat clandestine; Information Week tends to remain corporate
from top to bottom but makes for interesting reading.
"Mathew J. Schwartz 02/07/2012 Anonymous 'hacktivists' aim to expose what
they call government
Prisonhouse of Age
Something has to be said about age and ageism, which is so pervasive in
our culture, that we're held down, tied up, unable to move. I'm told I
look good for my age; that I play like a much younger person. In a
performance I hear that a dancer, who died at 68, was in the middle
Aesthetics of Improvisation:
Intermissions, Interruptions, and Digressions in Performance
At the Sunday talk/video/dance given by Foofwa at the 92nd St. Y, he
talked about the relationship between complex choreography and inter-
ruptions in his piece based on Cage, THiRtEEn. We talked about thi
PCMs
Years ago I designed a PCM, this was around 1970 maybe. PCM stands for
Parameter Control Module; the idea was to create a unit which could
connect and control other similar units. PCMs were digital but they didn't
need to be. There were any number of inputs and outputs. The idea was tha
What's Left: The Crisis of Philosophy and Thought in the World
(I've been thinking along these lines for quite a while now, skittering
from one article or book of physics/cosmology to another. Now a similar
debate is occurring, from Scientific American to the New York Times and
across the Net. T
Recent Books I'm In and Why They're Good
Ok, this is a bad way to begin reviews/announcements of some recent books
that discuss my work (in the midst of others of course); I'm not sure how
to do this modestly, or whether modesty would even be an issue. For me
these books have been important
You might want to check the following out; one of the things that
fascinates me is the enormity of the next - and yet we continue to
theorize as if it's somehow comprehended. I'm part of the Electronic
Literature Organization for example, and mostly see the same names over
and over again - and
Carrie Ahern's Borrowed Prey
Carrie Ahern is a dancer and performer I met at Mount Tremper
a few years ago. She has recently completed and performed, at
Dickson's Farmstand Meats, Borrowed Prey, one of the most
interesting, and, I think, 'important,' works I've seen. The
piece, roughly an hour lon
RATTLING THE REPUBLICANS
http://www.alansondheim.org/rattling.mp3
I want to rattle the Republicans; I want to SHAMANIZE them
I want to rattle their evil I want to SEND THEM TO HELL
All I can do is PLAY my MUSIC and play my SHAMANIC TRANCE
I did do TRANCE along with the DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
I
the difference between the new fiction and the old
is simple: we're increasingly forced to recognize
that we're buffeted in the universe, that we're
atom to mountain, that we're increasingly irrelevant
outside our own self-interest. so the narratives
are narratives of buffeting, of forces beyo
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dead music
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i do dead music: music of the dead, music by the dead, music for the dead.
sometimes someone listens over my shoulder until our bones fall off. our
bones are bright bracelets but the music goes out
[post dorner rhetoric: read this:
"San Bernardino County sheriff.s officials said they tried to force
the suspect to surrender before accidentally setting the cabin
where he was holed up on fire when they shot a pyrotechnic chemical
device inside." Yes - "accidently" because "pryotechnic" devic
(wrote the original around 1996, and I'm still talking about this stuff,
most recently at SXSW Interactive this year.)
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AVATARS AND THEORY
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I started working with avatars in text-based applications such as
newsgroups, email lists, MOOs, LPMUDs, and IRC.
Hi - some people couldn't open the http://www.alansondheim.org/hastac.docx
file; please try http://alansondheim.org/hastac.rtf - this might be easier.
Both will probably download the file to your download directory; it should be
easy to open from there. Feedback welcomed.
Thanks, Alan
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Incident at YYZ Toronto International Airport
We were in Toronto for the HASTAC Conference at York University.
We left Sunday late afternoon. At the airport we checked our bag.
We then took the bag through customs. We went through several
stages. We had the bag tagged. We showed our boarding
Do we still engage?
Do we still engage with Sartre? Do we still read Derrida? Do
they speak to us? Does Heidegger speak to us? Does Husserl? Is
Hegel still critical to our thinking? Does anyone read Sartre?
Does anyone think through Derrida? Do we think we've absorbed
Badiou? Is Badiou importa
Death of a Hospital
Today we went to the LICH, Long Island College Hospital, for
neurology issues. The hospital is being closed down so developers
can build condominiums there. In our area there are seven 30+
storey buildings, condominiums scheduled for the next few years.
Current condos go for ar
even in the u.s. - i was in Providence in the late 60s/early 70s doing
computer art, showing in 71; there were people working with lightshows
earlier than that. these histories are all canonic histories and ignore -
at least in this country - a lot of what went on. chris funkhouser's
Prehistori
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Game of extensions - m/art - currency and probably not
Consider a work of art as a pure item of exchange, that is, a
form of currency based on an identification between exchange
value and unique object. As such, it participates in currency
exchange, instead of a standardized marketplace emphas
ISIS: Logic of Universal Terror
[for all]X{not X --> 0}
Therefore not X is taken to 0 (null set)
Therefore not X is always already processed to 0
Therefore not X is equivalent to 0
Therefore not x is identical to 0
Therefore X --> V (universal set)
Therefore X is always already processed to V
debate on Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual], looking at
the ambivalences of terror, incomprehensible emotions, and our
own complicity in the production of 'common sense' around
terror.
Co-moderators: Johannes Birringer and Alan Sondheim.
About the empyre email l
Invisibility
http://www.alansondheim.org/cairn016.jpg
Invisibility is the problem of our time, but there are so many!
Most of our collapsing phenomenologies center on attention
economies, acceleration, dromodology; these are epistemological
problems, what might be examined, what should be examin
Broken World: Steerage and Steering Mechanisms
We are steerage. We do not arrive.
*/Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the
cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel
having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers
paying the lowest rate of fare
I want to apologize for not participating so much in the discussions
around netartizens; we just finished (today) a long-term intensive
collaborative (Azure Carter, Kathleen Ottinger, and myself) residency at
the Brown University Cave, out of which I have about 10 gigabytes of
material to de
that last post went to the wrong list, I've been getting almost no sleep
for weeks, apologies -
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I've been relatively quiet on nettime; I've submitted more than has been
allowed through, and I found that disenheartening. At one point, one of
the moderators answered with a critique that I felt should have appeared
on the list, instead of privately. What I find missing, what for me was
there
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