Brian's original Stormy Weather post semed designed to wake up the many
of us who feel we are all sleep walking towards the precipice. I
couldn't help remembering the book “Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War
in 1914” (Christopher Clark. 2012).
The title alone seems an apt way to describe
It’s a Language Thing
In a brilliant article in the FT, last September, Janen Ganesh correctly
predicted that as ever the US mid term elections would be obsessively
followed by the English political elite when many of the same people
would struggle to name a cabinet minister in Berlin or
Nothing brings the gently glowing embers of
nettime to life quite like the prospect
of its immanent demise, when the mods launch
one of their cunningly infrequent "shake-em-up"
interventions.
Whatever the outcome of this latest experiment
the kick-up-the-arse alone makes it worthwhile.
Thank
Yesterday at a ripe old age of 93 Claes Oldenburg died. For those who
may know him only as a purveyor of bloated corporate pop art of his
later years may be surprised just how radical he was when he started out
and just how different he was from the pop-artists who bought
uncritically into
Hi Andreas,
many thanks for the detailed fact-check and yes I should have been more
careful.
I do recognise that calling the Commissioners "unelected" was simplistic
given
that there the EU parliament must approve the appointments presented to
them. But
if I am honest this generally seems
Thanks Paolo for this very interesting article. Just a few questions
that I imagine will be answered by reading the book.
I am unclear what is meant here by ‘the state’. Is it interchangeable
with ‘government’? Does the argument that neoliberalism (market
fundamentalism) is being replaced by
Hi Ryan, thanks for the encouraging words and the link to what looks
a very useful book by Debbie Gould.. I know it a little but have not
yet fully engaged but I will.
There is one general point I would add to what I took from Schulman's
book
and that is the answer to the question of what
Let the Archive Speak
All this week I’ve been reading (or rather devouring) Sarah Schulman’s
book ‘Let the Record Show’ A Political History of ACT UP New York,
1987-1983, a stunning history of the New York branch of the legendary
campaigning ‘AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power” (ACT UP).
This is article and book is a great reminder of the amazing ACT UP
movement . Attending their meetings in Cooper Union in the early 90s was
one of the most memorable moments of my life. It had impact on the fight
against AIDS it also changed people's ideas about everything that
activism
On 2021-06-02 18:54, Ryan Griffis wrote:
Hi all.
This is maybe jumping the tracks of this thread started by David's
essay, or maybe it’s actually bringing it back online… not sure. But,
Patrick’s anecdote about verbalizing the urgency of the climate
catastrophe is something many of us here, I’m
Telepresence to Teletrust
Call for Expressions of Interest to Participate in Day 2 of an Online
Symposium 2021
The Telepresence to Teletrust Symposium is a two-day event focusing on
the
‘third space’ between tangible and mediated presence’. The event takes
place on-line
on 8-9 July 2021 and
Hi Ryan, yes I take your point that calling Silent Spring 'fiction'
when maybe the word fable might have been more appropriate was a
mistake.
I guess this usage followed without enough reflection on from work I
have been doing over the last few years around the idea of 'fiction
as method'
Full text: http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/net-zero-democracy/
Net Zero Democracy
“by the end of the twentieth century, the era of party democracy had
effectively passed: although parties themselves remain they have become
so disconnected from wider society and pursue a form of
Hi
I think that some attention needs to be paid to some institutional
changes that occurred in the Netherlands (I don't live there anymore
so some of this maybe behind the curve).
Out of the anti-modern art blood bath of recent years in NL that
was concurrent with the populist ascendancy. This
But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more
compelling than all
of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate
relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,'
it's time for a rethink.
I found Ted's list of articles is very useful
But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more
compelling than all
of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate
relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,'
it's time for a rethink.
I found Ted's list of articles is very useful
On 2021-04-24 08:10, Geert Lovink wrote:
And do not forget the term 'deep Europe', one of the many inventions
coming from the nettime scene… neither East nor West or
continental… https://v2.nl/events/deep-europe/view
We could track contemporary versions of the so called ‘depth narrative’
back
In 1977 the Tate gallery bought the work 'Equivalent VIII' from US
minimalist Carl Andre.
It was a rectangular arrangement of 120 fire bricks all of which shared
the same height, mass and volume and were therefore ‘equivalent’ to each
other. Andre used common industrial materials that could
Very much looking forward to this discussion...
The approach of Q's followers (along with myriad other conspiracy
theorists) reflects
the Ninth lesson from historian Timothy Snyder’s text ‘On Tyranny:
Twenty Lessons for the 20th Century’
which begins with the sentence: ‘Investigate. Figure
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:20 PM Sean Cubitt
wrote:
‘The unthinkable has to be thought.’ Sean Cubitt
‘An eco-state’ Brian Holmes
The wretchedness of Covid has gifted one important good. It is easier to
*think the unthinkable* as the unthinkable has already happened. The
revelation I’m
This recent piece in the New Yorker (below) shows that Felix's anxieties
are well unfounded. And ably facilitated by the rise and rise of Don
Junior the once despised prodigal son who has morphed into the
formidable and terrifying heir apparent's fascistic rants about 'total
war', aided and
Hi Max et al,
In terms of how things look from here, Biden as a candidate cuts a
distinctly unimpressive figure. Not only is he the ultimate compromise
candidate (a political 'weather vane' as Brian Holmes put it) but also
his age and frailty stands in stark contrast to Trump’s remarkable
Thanks Felix, yes I take your point about the importance of adjusting
our/my
frame of reference. And yes I got a bit 'up myself' so would like to
apologise
to Ingrid for (Ted's term) the snarky reaction.
Best
David
On 2020-09-28 15:51, Felix Stalder wrote:
Hi David,
Nobody doubts the
Boohoo indeed Ingrid,
strange that you think this is a condition only suffered by white males
in these weird and particular times.
In the UK at least Black and Asian minorities are disproportionally
affected by the pandemic and so also highly likely to
be disorientated not just in the old but
Just read an eerie and insightful essay by Nick Couldry and Bruce
Schneier's
'The unrelenting horizonlessness of the Covid world'
which Identifies the fact that although we may not all be depressed we
are more likely be suffering from the condition of Acedia. A malady of
medieval monks
Before the digital cultures insurgency of the 1990s the previous decade
had seen a similar burst of excitement around so called video art. Like
"new media” or digital cultures movement the power of the video moment
came from the breadth of its reach and multiple touch points in art,
political
How to survive the American autumn?
How to de-nazify the USA?
How to set up new local, national and regional systems for the heavy
weather that's coming - the heavy weather of the Anthropocene?
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Dear Brian, thank you for rattling
Just Like Us: From Cyber-Separatism to the Politics of Anyone
Can the occupation of the cyber mainstream of the big social media
platforms by post 2011 political protesters be seen as the repudiation of
the cyber separatism of the Indymedia of the 90s and early Noughties?
Could this development
Re: The Techtopus:
How Silicon Valley?s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech
engineers?
wages
By Mark Ames
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This story reinforces the need to focus more analytical energy and imagination
on the wider problem of how to re-connect political activism to some form of
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