Re: Peter Weibel

2023-03-06 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Fwd: The Machine at the Heart of Man: Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism

2023-01-30 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
(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

Re: Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

2022-12-15 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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:

Re: Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

2022-12-06 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Dodomenta, Diary from Kassel

2022-09-15 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
> 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

Re: The German "Open Letter" on Ukraine

2022-05-18 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Anne Applebaum

2022-05-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Proposition on Peak Data

2022-04-08 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Further on Russian Orthodoxy vs Ukraine

2022-04-08 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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]

Re: The War to come ... / dependency on Russian gas imports

2022-03-11 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
> 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:

Re: The War to come ...

2022-03-11 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Russia lost the war already

2022-03-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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 moderated mailing list

Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-15 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Covid and the crisis of neo-liberalism

2021-09-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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,

Les Immatériaux, working paper about Epreuves d'écriture (1985)

2021-06-25 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
he 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 March 1985, its

Re: TREATY PEOPLE

2021-06-13 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

(fwd) Book of Anonymity – fresh from the press!

2021-04-13 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
, 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

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-18 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
etween 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 2021-01-18 21:09, An

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-18 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: [EXT] Re: Thoughts on coups

2020-11-25 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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,

Re: on the embarrassment of digital art

2020-09-24 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: notes on cancel culture

2020-08-19 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: discussing zoom fatigue

2020-07-06 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: what exactly is breaking?

2020-06-01 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Ben Tarnoff: These Are Conditions in Which Revolution

2020-04-20 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: V2 publication, To Mind Is to Care, now available as PDF

2020-04-03 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
... 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",

Re: Il Manifesto: Let's get the network data

2020-03-26 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?

2020-03-23 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

2020-03-20 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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...?

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

2020-03-20 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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,

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

2020-03-19 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Should mobile phone data be used to monitor public

2020-03-18 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

FWD: re: switching to teaching online

2020-03-18 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: less (net time) is more

2019-06-12 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
eism 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:* nettime *Be

Re: less (net time) is more

2019-06-12 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: two 'meta' notes (was Re: rage against the machine)

2019-03-24 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
ge 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 anything in any country; i s

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-23 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: It is the table

2019-03-13 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Find your identity

2018-11-26 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: apropos "relax dear"

2018-11-06 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Please show some conscience

2018-03-23 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

CFP: Conf. Politics of the Machine (Aalborg, May 2018), deadline 22 Dec 2017

2017-11-23 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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,

Re: John_Berger (5 November 1926 - 2 January 2017)

2017-01-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
... 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

Re: RIP Nathalie Magnan

2016-10-16 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
... 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

Re: Bankers on ecstasy (but is the party over?)

2016-06-21 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of

2016-06-11 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon

2016-03-03 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: "A traumatic day for the SVP, a Great Day for

2016-03-01 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: Art and Google Earth API question

2015-12-03 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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,

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

Re: VW

2015-09-28 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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,

Re: "Speak Out with Snowden, Assange and Manning"

2015-09-15 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: what if we were all right but all wrong?

2015-09-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: nettime Franco Berardi 'Bifo': I refuse to visit Germany [two

2015-07-27 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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,

Re: nettime Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Rules for the digital world

2014-03-10 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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. Sure it

Re: nettime Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Rules for the digital world

2014-03-03 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: nettime So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World

2014-01-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

nettime text about Postmedia Discourses

2013-11-26 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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 those debates. My first

nettime from the archives: Internet as communal appartment and mass panopticon (Manovich 1996)

2013-09-10 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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.

Re: nettime crowd-funding on nettime

2012-08-28 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: nettime crowd-funding on nettime

2012-08-27 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: nettime Fwd: e-flux's vision for the .art domain

2012-08-10 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

nettime Fwd: e-flux's vision for the .art domain

2012-08-09 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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 i...@mailer.e-flux.com The .art domain Visit http://www.artdomaincommunity.com to learn more about our vision for the domain, the

nettime Fwd: Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks, 30.08.-01.09.2012

2012-07-14 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
Datum: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:11:53 +0200 Von: Sebastian Vehlken sebastian.vehl...@leuphana.de 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

nettime Fwd: The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid

2012-06-20 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
Original-Nachricht Betreff:The Art domain Datum: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:02:40 -0400 Von:Art-Agenda art-age...@mailer.e-flux.com *e-flux applies to develop the new .art internet domain* Dear Colleagues, We are writing to inform you about a new development

nettime (fwd) Michael J. Gross on the upcoming I.T.U. meeting in Dubai

2012-04-17 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

Re: nettime FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT: ART / KNOWLEDGE / POLITICS

2012-03-23 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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

nettime Friedrich A. Kittler, 1943-2011

2011-10-19 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
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