Tonight, ORF2 will be showing a documentary about Weibel which moved me
quite a bit when I first saw it in 2010. It includes scenes of Weibel
revisiting some of the places of his difficult childhood.
I advertise this here because I think that Weibel was an important, if
sometimes controversial
(apropos cybernetics, society, urban planning - a parallel Greek case to
the chilean CyberSyn?)
Betreff: Onassis Stegi presents The Machine at the Heart of Man:
Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism
Datum: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 11:00:07 +
Von:e-flux
The Machine at the Heart o
Folks,
Maybe, more productively, and as Allan has suggested, people can write
small reports here about how (exactly) they are using the new Mastodon
instance, and what their experiences are. I'd find that useful, and
maybe it's a good time to learn and play together.
Regards,
-a
PS: Geoff,
folks,
i'll just chip in my 2 cents worth: i hear the different arguments, i
see the problems of the nettime project as it is (just look at the
apparent demographics of those responding to this thread!), and i would
probably abstain from a vote on the issue just because i'm in more than
two m
> Subject: Dodomenta, Diary from Kassel
> From: "Jo van der Spek M2M"
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:13:25 +0200
Folks, for those interested in a look at the discussions around
documenta fifteen from outside the lumbung (dare I say, bubble), one way
to start is this interview (in German) with
Here's my two cents worth, as a contribution to the debate; I concur
with most of Alex's description of the German scenario, and would like
to point out two things - but really just as footnotes:
German "Russo-philia" has many names; there were ties between the
monarchies at least since the 18
Folks,
I'm not sure whether the following is useful for the forensis, but when
I read this passage in Applebaum's piece:
"From the first days of the war, it was evident that the Russian
military had planned in advance for many civilians, perhaps millions, to
be killed, wounded, or displaced
Am 08.04.22 um 08:38 schrieb Geert Lovink:
One day, soon, people will wake up in disbelief, realizing that data is
dead. The point is not to overcome the dark side of data, regulate IT
giants and establish ‘responsible’ governance but to lay networked data
amassing aside. Once system maintena
On the topic of the Orthodox Church, it is worth taking notice of the
slightly confusing fact that there are three separate religious units
involved:
- the Russian Orthodox Church [RPTs]
- the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate [UPTsMP]
- the Orthodox Church of Ukraine [PTsU]
> Some European countries, such as Germany, have left themselves little
> choice but to buy Russian gas.
Since this is a major point of current debates, here's a piece of info
regarding the respective dependency on Russian gas imports by different
European countries:
https://infogram.com/1plr
Folks,
I want to add two thoughts to this discussion. They both concern the
terminology of the "spheres of influence" and "imperialism".
I'm not a political scientist and presume that there are elaborate
debates about this elsewhere. What I notice in the current discussions
is that this nar
paign, at the end of which
they will without doubt stand as the parias of the world, as the Cain
who killed his Ukranian siblings. That part of the story will also not
end, if the war is not ended very soon.
Andreas Broeckmann
# distributed via : no commercial use without permission
#is a mo
Dear David,
please, fact-check; this is incorrect:
> the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is
> the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials
You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in fact
elections and democratic confirmations:
"The president
please (Daniel Ross), define "absolute failure (of the West)".
-a
ps: i suggest to leave room, in this definition, for failures of yet
other proportions.
pps: looks like adjectives are generally up for grabs these days and
might become redundant rubble, if not signifiers of the opposites, li
t of the conceptualisation and realisation of this
important historical project.
Best regards,
Andreas
--
On Epreuves d'écriture, the collaborative writing project of Les Immatériaux
Andreas Broeckmann
When the exhibition Les Immatériaux opened at the Centre Georges
Pompidou in Paris in M
hey brian, thanks for sending this moving report.
it strikes me that these Treaty People actually have treaties to refer
to which, if they were honoured, would create bearable situations -- in
comparison with so many other situations where there are only bad deals
or "contracts" that were rott
,
Amelie Baumann, Paula Bialski, Andreas Broeckmann, Heath Bunting, Martin
De Bie, Bureau d’études, Jacob Copeman, Abigail Curlew, Stéphane
Degoutin, Simon Farid, Parastou Forouhar, Randi Heinrichs, Anna Henke,
Michi Knecht, knowbotiq, Gertraud Koch, Julien McHardy, Helen
Nissenbaum, Gerald Raunig
eople hopping between denial, apology, and
assertion (at that time, with regard to the USSR, but exactly at the
pitch you also choose to singsing).
If this was a conversation, I might ask what, in your view, is "Stalinism".
Regards,
-a
Am 18.01.21 um 22:03 schrieb Dmytri Kleiner:
On 202
folks, i know that there are peace negotiations under way among left
intellectuals and activists on this list; i hope they will be fruitful.
i find it unbearable though to see untenable claims of "mccarthyism"
made against somebody who just stays in an argument, when anybody in his
right min
Sean, Brian, others, thank you for the interesting and engaging
contributions. (Some of it gets a bit cryptic since it refers to
political discourses that are not immediately apparent, at least to this
reader, but that's generally OK for a most-of-the-time lurker.)
Sean Cubitt wrote (Nov 24, 2
Dear friends,
thank you for this strange conversation.
To start somewhere: Like some others I don't think that media art
festivals etc. should be considered as gateways to museal recognition.
They are sites of discourse and celebration, and laboratories, where of
course a lot of the time thin
what some others think and say:
"Cancel Culture": free speech in danger? (15 July 2020)
https://www.eurotopics.net/en/243756/cancel-culture-free-speech-in-danger#
After an open letter in which more than 150 authors, scientists and
activists including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Noam C
folks, has somebody made a detailled, media-critical comparison
between these different systems and their functionality? (for the
teaching i did, we used "Cisco Webex Meetings")
just my two-pennies worth this monday morning: one of the complicating
issues is, for me, that depending on the choices
Folks,
thank you for these insightful reflections on the situation in the US;
I would like to come back to a point that Felix made in his initial
question:
I, like probably most nettimers, I have been observing the
fracturing of the US with increasing horror (knowing that Europe,
over the last
friends, is my impression right and does this text really employ no
international perspective whatsoever, its "our political horizons"
being firmly limited to those of the US of A?
what an amazing way of thinking about the ongoing processes in a
globalised economy...
... and maybe, given the top
... the PDF has now been made available:
https://v2.nl/archive/articles/free-access-to-pdfs
Am 23.03.20 um 10:34 schrieb Andreas Broeckmann:
On the question of "care", which he importantly raises, I have greatly
benefited from reading the essays in "To Mind Is to Care",
folks, it's probably no surprise that we are getting, only this morning,
two reposts that advocate a more aggressive employment of data-driven
measures, both implying that data privacy may have to be curtailed in
the service of public health. (i've excerpted the crucial passages from
both messa
folks, thanks for the repost of the thoughtful text by Panagiotis
Sotiris. For me an important question about this discourse of
responsibility and solidarity is, in how far it can be scaled to
larger populations, and transnationally. People need emotional
reference points for this...
On the quest
Hey Felix,
thanks for describing the cascade... Since you do not address the
question, even though you quote it, I presume the implicit answer you
offer is that under the current regime "suspending these obligations"
is not an option, or unthinkable? (or taboo?)
How is that to be understood...?
Dear Sean, folks,
thanks for the useful historical references. I've already gone on
record here as being against speculations on who should die in what
way.
I do ask myself, though, about the role of capital, rent, and
interest, in the current crisis. There will be people, here and
elsewhere,
Hey Brian, folks,
the question is well put - thanks for this.
One aspect to add is that most of these data are already available to
the GAFAM complex, and (more or less) voluntarily delivered to them by
smartphone users all the time; so one may want to ask just _how_ making
them available to
folks,
maybe a stupid question, but do we know which data exactly are being
handed over to authorities here? are they, for instance, GPS data
collected by and harvested from the devices, or login data from
transmission units?
and another point: what is actually being tracked here is of course
no
Rebecca Barrett-Fox offers thoughtful advice for lecturers and
professors considering to move their teaching online:
Please do a bad job of putting your courses online
I’m absolutely serious.
For my colleagues who are now being instructed to put some or all of
the remainder of their semester
nst ageism
ever since i start to turn old myself ;)) who are posting here,
what would be the solution: Older men mentoring younger women??
...
...
(don't need to comment on that ;))
...
...
Best N
*Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2019 um 16:06 Uhr
*Von:* "Andreas Broeckmann"
*An:* ne
panos, friends,
i like this idea, especially because it highlights what is valuable
about many of the exchanges that include the conviviality of arguing.
(once upon a time, in the later 1990s, there was a string of such
meetings... [incl. big arguments about joint projects like the READ ME
pu
is: don't let your language be
carried away by your anger, even if that anger is due.
be safe,
-a
Am 23.03.19 um 18:00 schrieb tbyfield:
(2)
On 23 Mar 2019, at 6:54, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
friends, call me over-sensitive, but i think that nobody should be
burned at the stake for an
friends, call me over-sensitive, but i think that nobody should be
burned at the stake for anything in any country; i say this also because
this flippant kind of rhetoric poisons the reasonable debate that is so
urgently needed on the matters at issue here. (to the contrary, i am
glad that some
Folks, what a situation!... I like how Stephen Bush writes:
"[May's] motion, unless amended, has no more force and will have no more
impact than if MPs voted against the forces of gravity. You cannot vote
against falling off the cliff when you have already jumped off the
cliff, which is what M
The headline ready "Overview of types of negative-decadent youths in the
GDR" - useful when you're out observing people and you want to get it
right in your report... - or useful when in conversation with your
Führungsoffizier, your leading officer, to specify the negative
tendencies you've spo
friends, i'm an active lurker on this list since 1996; my answer to
angela's question ("What is Nettime's policy on whether or not it should
give fascists a platform from which to recruit?") would be that
"nettime" probably doesn't have a "policy" on anything, other than the
openness to questio
oh, but Olia, don't be surprised, you know this from way back when...:
these kinds of ideological tropes appear as _essential_ and _truthful_
to the believers and the ideologues, whereas they appear as "arbitrary,
inconsistent and meaningless" only to skeptics and non-believers. (And
we know wh
Call for Proposals
Conference
POLITICS OF THE MACHINES – ART AND AFTER
EVA-Copenhagen 15-17 May 2018
Deadline (500 word proposals): 22 December, 2017
http://www.eva-copenhagen.dk
The question of how the machine impacts and contextualizes artistic
production and perception is the overall topi
This is very sad news. The worrying started when Armin could not come to
set up the Technopolitics Timeline exhibition at NGBK in Berlin last
month - and it is now a shock to hear that he passed away so soon...
This thread on nettime has become, with its autobiographical
reminiscences, somew
... and a rare occasion to see and hear Berger speak - he gave almost no
interviews in his later years:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/062921-000-A/john-berger-oder-die-kunst-des-sehens
(luckily, much of this recent German-French documentary is subtitled)
-a
Am 02.01.17 um 20:53 schrieb Felix S
... what a sad piece of news... Nathalie was an amazing, cheerful,
unrelenting activist, a great teacher and friend.
Here on nettime, she should also be remembered for editing, together
with Annick Bureaud, a French language publication of a number of texts
and theories that have informed and
Is it perhaps part of the political problem of our time
... that some people actually believe that it is possible to change and
repair social and political structures that have evolved over decades,
within just a brief period of time, -- if only the collaborating
"developers, hackers, artists,
On this question of deception of robotic vision systems, it is worth
re-reading Paul Virilio who may have been the first to engage with the
epistemological, strategic, and aesthetic aspects of such technical
vision systems that Manaugh speculates on in reaction to the Tesla
accident. Importantl
just an aside: the artist Simon Denny participates in this year's 9th
Berlin Biennial with a three-part installation; each part looks like (or
rather, is) a trade fare-style booth for a company that is in the
crypto-currency business (Ethereum, 21 Inc, and Digital Asset Holdings);
together with
Am 10.06.16 um 18:30 schrieb Frank Rieger:
I do see a large difference between the US and the European scene
though. The "celebrity" problem you diagnosed is most prevalent in the
US. The idea of "rockstar" hackers, programmers etc. has never taken so
much hold in Europe or Germany.
Am 10.06.1
Felix, I find it somewhat relieving to be told in such clear prose.
And at least one of the task for Nettimers seems set, too: identify
Eric's 12 apostles! Applicants must have:
- led large private and public organizations (maybe it should say "or"?);
- experience in Silicon Valley (strange ru
Hey Patrice,
yes, good news, but let's not forget that the same sovereign voted
"against mass immigration" two years ago (Feb 2014), bringing
Switzerland into direct conflict with the EU which, for instance,
immediately cancelled collaboration on the EU student exchange program
Erasmus becaus
dear esther,
probably also affected is this excellent work by Marc Lee from Switzerland:
http://www.1go1.net/index.php/Main/PicMe
project page: http://www.pic-me.com
(for me it works best using Safari, not Firefox)
greetings,
-a
Am 03.12.15 um 09:52 schrieb Esther Polak:
Dear Group,
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
Am 27.09.15 um 23:09 schrieb Florian Cramer:
WWII. As far as I know, all profits that the state of Lower Saxony
makes from its remaining 20% share go into the endowment. And, Leuphana
is a state university of Lower Saxony.
(marginalia)
folks, i think this is besides the point, but
hey geert,
i quite like the project as a piece of public art that invite people to
participate and identify with an attitude of braveness. i don't see the
celebration of particular personalities, certainly not heroism. the fact
that the figures are all standing on chairs suggests that they hav
armin, folks,
i agree that it is urgent to complement the important humanistic
concerns with a re-politicisation of the so-called crisis; it is
important that we understand that the current arrival of refugees in
(some) european countries, as much as the turbulences on the global
financial market
Dear Bifo,
with all due respect, I find your argument untenable and
counter-productive. I would particularly want to take issue with the way
in which you call up the spectre of "the German nation" as a key agent
in the current political and economic crisis of Greece.
As far as I can see, the
Am 10.03.14 02:58, schrieb Nick:
> Quoth Felix Stalder:
>
>> Enzensberger's text was just a joke, and the FAZ printed
>> it because it would stir controversy, not because it had much to
>> offer intellectually.
>
> Was it really just a joke? I'm not so sure dismissing it as that is
> appropriate.
I don't think that Enzensberger's text is to be taken seriously - the
tone is so light-hearted that it might well be that it isn't even
intended to be. His suggestions are so far off the social reality of
technical systems and media usage, that it is hard to take them as
anything but the flippa
dear michael, dear friends,
Am 02.01.14 06:06, schrieb michael gurstein:
Whether we will live in a world where one country and its 5 allies
have access to all worthwhile information which allows them to
control any possibility of dissent (even before it happens), control
the inputs into and out
the following might be of interest. comments are welcome, -a
Andreas Broeckmann: "Postmedia" Discourses. A Working Paper. (2013)
Abstract
The notion of "postmedia" has been the subject of debate for several
decades. This text tries to highlight the main trends of thos
from: Horea Avram
date: Sep 13, 2013
subject: CFP: Adaptation, Manipulation, Quotation in the Digital Age
Deadline: Sep 30, 2013
Call For Papers
EKPHRASIS. Images, Cinema, Theatre, Media
Vol. 2 (10)/2013
Recycling Images: Adaptation, Manipulation, Quotation in the Digital Age
Having long play
from the archives:
ON TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY
Lev Manovich, 03.04.1996
... as a post-communist subject, I cannot but see Internet as a communal
apartment of Stalin era: no privacy, everybody spies on everybody else,
always present line for common areas such as the toilet or the kitchen.
O
Am 01.07.13 15:00, schrieb Armin Medosch:
But to pretend now that all that gets revealed by Snowden comes highly
surprising, that is really strange. It can only mean that a lot of
covering up has to be done ... or anyone any other ideas
maybe the current situation is not about the past, but abo
as far as i understand: if such/any announcements get posted, then it is
on the nettime-announcer list, which is where we suggested the
crowd-funding requests should also be posted; nett-ann ist suffering
from the fact that it needs volunteers to digest and edit the
announcements that come in.
folks,
first, in my experience, nothing takes 5-10 secs, and even if it does,
there are always at least 24 instances of this which makes it 2-4 mins,
plus x. (i think that proposals like keith's should come with a donation
of personal time to get such simple routines started.)
second, maybe
folks,
thanks for raising the question. my two euro-cents worth:
i think that the nettime list should not be used for crowd-funding
requests. this should continue to be a place of debate and
intellectual exchange, not another extension of the market of the
so-called social networks. nettime is
john, folks, just to clarify:
i forwarded the e-flux announcement to the nettime list to contribute
to the ongoing discussion about the topic; i share john's critique of
e-flux (and some of these people have names that are well-known in the
art world) posing as a community initiative when what t
Betreff: Our vision for the .art domain, the issues involved, and what
is at stake for the art community
Datum: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:07:06 -0400
Von:e-flux
The .art domain
Visit http://www.artdomaincommunity.com to
learn more about our vision for the domain, the issues involved, and
wh
Datum: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:11:53 +0200
Von: "Sebastian Vehlken"
Betreff: Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic
Networks, 30.08.-01.09.2012
Dear Colleagues,
we would like to inform you about the upcoming transdisciplinary conference
Neighborhood Technologies. Media and
Original-Nachricht
Betreff:The Art domain
Datum: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:02:40 -0400
Von:Art-Agenda
*e-flux applies to develop the new .art internet domain*
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to inform you about a new development that will have a
serious impac
http://www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de/index.php
Call for Papers, ZfM Nr. 8 (1/2013)
Special issue: Media aesthetics
Guest Editors: Erich Hörl (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Mark B. N. Hansen
(Duke University)
“The aesthetic power of feeling”, wrote the late Félix Guattari, seems
to be “on the verg
interesting read...
-a
World War 3.0
by Michael Joseph Gross
When the Internet was created, decades ago, one thing was inevitable:
the war today over how (or whether) to control it, and who should have
that power. Battle lines have been drawn between repressive regimes
and Western democracie
folks,
just an aside: i think it is _ironic_ that a well-established and
securely state-funded project like the Berlin-Biennale is seeking
"solidarity actions" from small and independent institutions and groups,
and that it is actually receiving such solidarity (solidary with what?),
possibly
Folks, a historical vignette:
I've been doing some research on Canadian artist David Rokeby where I
found reference to one "European Software Festival" which was, at the
time, initiated by the US-based business software company Borland (a
then competitor of Microsoft - check the interesting Wi
dear desiree, dear friends,
here's my two cents. i've been following the process for winning the bid
for ".berlin" in the last years ( http://www.dotberlin.de/ ); i cannot
say whether what has happened there is necessarily a model for what
would have to happen around ".art", but here we go:
Friedrich A. Kittler died yesterday, 18 October 2011, in Berlin.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,792511,00.html
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/zum-tod-von-friedrich-kittler-jede-liebe-war-eine-auf-den-ersten-blick-11497216.html
http://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article13
dear kevin, folks,
thanks for these interesting thoughts and your
description of the academic validation aspects. a
crucial problem seems to be that at ISEA two
different types meet: the academic e.a. people
who can raise money to speak at a conference
(unlike at cultural events, you pay to
dear friends,
What I would like to see coming out of this discussion is not a
critique directed towards ISEA, but a comprehensive and constructive
critique (and action) surrounding the way these events are
conceived, whom they are targeting, how we can (can we?) come out
with alternatives.
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