Re: Latin as revolutionary act? (Morlock Elloi)

Isn’t this what Esperanto was made for? Let’s speak Klingon! > On Nov 11, 2019, at 6:00 AM, Renée Lynn Reizman wrote: > > Ignoring that this is one of the most classist, awful things I've seen > proposed, you're making big assumptions that everyone has the same learning > styles and abilities

Re: rage against the machine

Agreed. Peace and Hope from Abu Dhabi. -Patrick Lichty > On Mar 23, 2019, at 2:54 PM, 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 say this also because this flippant >

Re: rage against the machine

Yes, and sorry for being silent so long. "It would cost a fortune a decade ago to create robotic suicide vehicle bomber, so humans were used. Today anyone with basic skills can buy one of these and hack the controls. It's 100% software job. Add some ML and the vehicle can pick victims on its

Re: The Geert thing

Perhaps not. Some of us are slowly coming back to life after years-long shock of adapting to the Middle East. Out of order, as in unacceptable or asynchronous? (honest question) > On Dec 13, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Tilman Baumgärtel > wrote: > > Is nettime again turning into the exclusive

Re: Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice (whole Version)

I know this is three weeks old, but I just got back from Issy Kul in Kyrgyzstan and, well, the internet isn’t great there. I read the full text, and this is my response. Marc, You spell out a great schematic that points at certain conditions of art, its production, power and the various

Re: Art on the Internet and the Digital Public Sphere, 1994 - 2003

As part of one of the collectives focused on in this dissertation, I'm really humbled. -Original Message- From: nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org On Behalf Of Cornelia Sollfrank Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2018 2:05 PM To: nettim...@kein.org Subject: Art on the Internet and the Digital

The New Metropolis: The Neoliberal/vectoral Carrots, labor and education.

I’ve been sitting down here from my science fiction scenario perch in the Middle East, and see the following in my old home, the US, but see echoes in Europe as well. There is a cultural scaffold unfolding regarding education, labour, and capital that concerns me greatly, and most of the

Constitutioanl radicalism

This might seem a bit dated but perhaps not. In response to Brian Holmes' notion that the moderates are now the new radicals, I was reflecting on the July 4th 2017 tweeting of the Declaration of Independence by US National Public Radio. The Trump-base replies of putting radical and subversive

Re: England leaves Europe

What do you think of the idea of separatism as being a casino tactic for creating a set of financial, social and labor crises that set up conditions for the global plutocracy to systematically game out capital from the state to the uber-rich until the world is turned into an utterly balkanized

Institutionalized Masochism

>Day after day, I get some amazing posts from LinkedIn job seeker (I never >bothered to unsubscribe, as I find it fascinating) - things like >corporate mindfulness, and ³Thanks for the rejection letterŠ² The >ceaselessly positive attitude of American corporate culture, and the >ruthless,

Re: Robert Adrian, 1935 - 2015

This is a loss here as well, as I just began getting acquainted with Robert¹s body of work over the past few years. My presentation of the formation of the SSTV Art Open Archive at Media Art Histories will dedicated to him. On 9/10/15, 8:46 AM, "Hank Bull" wrote: > Dear

Re: nettime Touch the Blue Sky

Just a note from a student of the subarctic and Beringia; I highly question the viability of a 60 mile Beringian Tunnel because of the geological instability of the region unless the tunnel were flexible and sealed... Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Brian Holmes

nettime The first Documented Flight of the DIY Drone Brigade against the KXL Pipeline.

As part of the massive outcry against the Keystone XL Pipeline, the DIY Drone Brigade took flight last night in Milwaukee to support its friends in the Overpass Light Brigade! http://occupyriverwest.com/us/no-kxl-vigils http://vimeo.com/85790921 The DIY Drone Brigade puts the ominous tools of

nettime Remote lockdown/General Purpose Computing

Not unexpected. Capitalism, command, and control of material are linked. I also offered up this musing on the general purpose computer... http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2008/09/29/patrick-lichtys-manifesto-the-50 -year-computer/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without

Re: nettime the middle class doesn't exist

What I find interesting is the realization of the Randian dream through the refocusing on skills rather than credentials - one of my students just quit school because of the crushing debt he was going to incur because of the turning away of the state from higher education, privatization of loans,

nettime Rough notes - On Amorphous Politics

On Amorphous Politics Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a turn toward new forms of sociopolitical dissent. These include strategies such as cellular forms or resistance like asymmetrical warfare in terms of global insurgencies, the use of social media like Twitter and Facebook

nettime Ideas for the Occupy Movement

I've been watching and producing media for the Occupy Movement, and from my experience, there is a represented lack of focus in the media, which isn't entirely true when you get to the meetings. But this is democracy in action. What I want to do is just throw my two cents in and offer my

Re: nettime ISEA 2011 fees

Nick, I am in complete agreement with this. This is a big issue with a lot of the ISEAs as severely hegemonic space, despite its rhetoric of openness, and I am not entirely sure that the attendees realize that if we stay on Taksim Square, that the shuttles to Sabanci are a significant amount