FCC Scandal Explodes - Second Revelation of Suppressed Media Ownership Research (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:29:44 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FCC Scandal Explodes - Second Revelation of Suppressed Media Ownership Research FCC Scandal Explodes with Second Revelation of Suppressed Media Ownership Research by Robert W. McChesney Published on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 by CommonDreams.org http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0919-27.htm Last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer rocked the re- confirmation hearings for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin when she released a suppressed FCC study from 2004 - leaked to her by an FCC whistleblower - that indicated locally owned television stations did far more local news programming than TV stations owned by big conglomerates. A former FCC lawyer acknowledged that agency officials ordered the report and all supporting material be destroyed. Martin, who was on the FCC in 2004 but not yet its Chairman, said he had no idea the report had been done in the first place and knew nothing about its disappearance. Then-FCC Chairman Michael Powell also claims he knew nothing about it, and, in classic Bush- era fashion, he took no responsibility for what transpired under his command. In their minds, this was some sort of clerical error -- and the sooner everyone forgot about it, the better. The FCC could go back to its time-honored job of doling out tens of billions of dollars in monopoly privileges to massive media and communication firms in relative anonymity. That PR approach collapsed this week on Monday, Sept. 18, when another repressed FCC study was leaked to Senator Boxer by an FCC whistleblower. This study demonstrated that independent radio ownership plummeted after the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, even though the number of commercial radio stations actually increased. As with the first study, by all accounts it was grade-A empirical research of the highest quality. Apparently that was the problem. Martin finally agreed to an independent investigation on Monday night, though no timetable has been set. But -- and this is crucial --he apparently does not intend to delay his mad rush to relax ownership rules until the investigation has been completed and steps have been implemented to address the problem. It is full speed ahead. So right now this looks more like a PR stunt than a genuine effort to get at the truth and deal with its implications for policy making. In view of Martin's and the FCC's record, skepticism is not only justified, but warranted. Let me explain. This scandal could not have hit the FCC at a worse time from Martin's vantage point. Right now, the FCC is formally reviewing its local media ownership rules and is prepared to vote on relaxing or eliminating them as soon as the end of the year. In 2003, when Powell tried to eliminate any restrictions on local media ownership, the public revolted, with an extraordinary left-right coalition that generated nearly 3 million letters to the FCC and Congress. Powell announced plans for numerous public hearings on media localism across the country as he tried to persuade Congress he was actually listening to the people. The federal courts eventually rejected Powell???s plan to relax media ownership rules in 2004, and he resigned as a failure in 2005. Powell's plans for hearings on localism were quietly dropped after Powell learned in no uncertain terms at the tumultuous hearings he attended that the public wanted more locally owned broadcast media and wanted rules to reverse media consolidation, not permit it. Kevin Martin now has been tasked by the Bush administration to do the job his predecessor couldn't: Eliminate the restrictions on local media ownership so the big media firms, like Tribune, Sinclair, News Corp., Clear Channel, Gannett, Belo and Media General, -- which have been so supportive of the Bush administration -- could build local monopolies by gobbling up most of the media in communities around America. Their vision is of owning an empire of company media towns with one monopoly newsroom servicing all the outlets in a town, and a massive reliance on inexpensive syndicated fare. A dream for the company that holds the monopoly - and for the politicians it supports - but a nightmare for everyone else. Martin has promised to hold as many as six official public hearings but has so far only committed to one in Los Angeles on October 3. He and the Republican majority are unequivocally in favor of scrapping rules limiting local media monopolies, but they have to at least make it look like they care about the public and due process - because that's what the law requires - to get their gift to big media approved by the courts. But this scandal has thrown a monkey wrench into Martin???s and the Bush administration???s best-laid plans. Core research that undermines the argument for relaxing media ownership rules has been suppressed by the agency that is legally obligated to
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Physics News Update 793
PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 793 September 20, 2006 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and Davide Castelvecchiwww.aip.org/pnu STRONGER HURRICANES LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE. A new study of climate data suggests that global warming is causing the Atlantic Ocean to generate deadlier hurricanes. Hurricanes have become stronger in recent decades, in apparent correlation with the raise in atmospheric temperatures. Indeed James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee reports in Geophysical Research Letters that there is in fact a clear cause-and-effect link. Less than three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, a study published in Science showed that, while the number of tropical cyclones had not increased between 1970 and 2004, their strength had surged: Category-4 or -5 hurricanes where more than 50 percent more frequent in the second half of that period than in the first (Webster et al., Science,16 September 2005, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/309/5742/1844). The same period saw a rise in global atmospheric temperatures-- widely attributed to the accumulation of greenhouse gases such as CO2--and in sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic, where hurricanes are born. Some climatologists believe that global (atmospheric) warming is causing the oceans' temperatures to rise, and that warmer sea surfaces can in turn add to a hurricane's strength. But others attributed nature's increased wrath to a long-term cyclic fluctuation in sea temperatures called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Opinions also varied on whether a warmer atmosphere can significantly make the oceans warmer, and on the extent to which sea temperatures contribute to hurricane strength. Elsner ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 850-644-8374) used an elaborate statistical method (first devised by economics Nobel Prize winner Clive Granger) to answer the first of those two questions. He examined spikes in global atmospheric temperature (using satellite and ground-based data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and compared them to seasonal changes in average sea-surface temperatures for the entire northern-hemisphere part of the Atlantic (based on National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration data). His analysis showed that the spikes in atmospheric temperature mostly tended to come right before hurricane-season spikes in oceanic temperature, suggesting that the first were causing the second. Global warming could indeed be causing stronger hurricanes. (Geophysical Research Letters, 23 August) ROOM-TEMPERATURE SPIN HALL EFFECT. A new experiment by David Awschalom and his colleagues at UC Santa Barbara plus collaborators from Penn State shoots a stream of electrons through a sample of ZnSe, a non-magnetic semiconductor, and segregates the electrons in such a way that those with spins pointing up are steered to the left while those with downward pointing spins deflect to the right. They also demonstrated that they could polarize the electrons (orient their spins) using only electric fields at room temperature as well, a great boon for prospective spintronics circuitry that would fashion a new form of electronics in which both charge and spin provide ways of storing and processing data. Strangely, Awschalom's new results---showing a spin current all the way up to room temperature---is conducted not in GaAs, where most previous observations of the spin Hall effect have been made, but in ZnSe, which should not be as efficient at electrically polarizing spins. Awschalom ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 805-893-2121) says that the evidence that the spin Hall effect is strong even in a material where it should be weak will kindle further the interesting controversy swirling around interpretations of the spin Hall effect. The new experiment is a spin equivalent of the conventional Hall effect known since the 19th century. In the old Hall effect electrons, moving longitudinally through a sample under the force of an applied electric field will, if exposed to a vertically oriented magnetic field, be deflected slightly to one side of the sample. Two years ago physicists showed that a kind of Hall effect could be used to steer spins (to be more exact, electrons polarized with spins up or down) so that even while no pileup of electric charges at the edge of the sample would occur a net pileup of spins would occur (see Physics Today, Feb 2005). In another recent experiment, Awschalom and colleagues showed that the spins wouldn't just pile up; they could be led off into a wire and constitute a polarized current, where they would be to a spintronic circuit of spin transistors what an ordinary current is to ordinary electronics. (Two articles in Physical Review Letters: Sih et al., in the 1 September 2006 issue and Stern et al. in the 22 September 2006 issue) *** PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE is a digest of physics news items arising from physics meetings,
Happy 15th Birthday, World Wide Web; Is Apple Becoming Less Secure? (fwd)
This stuff is so damn new! - Alan blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search Alan Sondheim http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:02:08 -0400 (EDT) From: NWC Online Newsletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Happy 15th Birthday, World Wide Web; Is Apple Becoming Less Secure? Network Computing Online Newsletter Wednesday September 20, 2006 Gather round and raise your voices: Happy 15th birthday to the World Wide Web. Yep--15 years! In late summer 1991, an information technology consultant named Tim Berners-Lee posted an unassuming message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, making public a project he had been working on for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He began, The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere. And from that the Web was born. To mark the occasion--now 15 years later--check out our wide-ranging package exploring the history and impact of the Web, including our exhaustive history of its past, present and future. http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0EmCW0FH Also, don't miss our look back--and a sneak peak ahead--at the browser wars. http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0EmCX0FI Not to mention a look at what's next, namely the emergence and promise of Web 2.0. http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0EmCY0FJ Also, don't miss our investigation into Apple's (diminishing) security story. Apple-lovers love to bash Windows for its security concerns. But with the latest large sets of security patches and an alleged wireless driver vulnerability, Mac OS X no longer seems invincible. Our expert delves into the real threats in the Apple world and outlines simple steps you can take to protect yourself. http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0EmCZ0FK --Rich Karpinski, NetworkComputing.com Online Editor, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLUS: Check out the latest issue of Network Computing online. We are going through a stretch of weekly issues (as opposed to our usual every other week schedule), so be sure to keep up. Live right now is our September 21 issue, including an analysis of the unified communications market, a comparative review of DNS/DHCP appliances and a TechTracker investigation of the new 802.11n standard. http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0Elfl0FC Also, take part in our annual reader survey, with a focus on letting you--the reader--vent about what you don't like about your jobs and the industry. Let us hear what you have to say. http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0EmGj0Fe .._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._ Focus on... e-Commerce Solutions Want to learn more about e-Commerce Solutions? Check out these sponsored links from Internap. Performance enhancing technology for gaming: http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0Ei3l0FI Build player loyalty bordering on fanaticism: http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0Ei3l0FI .._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._ Here's what's cooking on NWC Online this week: 1) New Online! - 15 Years of the World Wide Web - Has Apple Lost Its Security Shine? - Microsoft Windows Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh 2) The Daily Blog - On the Road to 4G 3) YackITyYack - Call for Entries: Top 11 Celebrity-Related Computer Attacks 4) In The News - New Trick: Managing Windows Servers Remotely With PDAs - Microsoft Warns August Patch Corrupts Data - Mobile VoIP Poised to Surpass Fixed Net Telephony - IE at Risk to New Unpatched Bug 5) Download Mania - FTP Master 2.4 - Handy Folders 3.0.1.788 6) Eye on Security - Alertcon: Microsoft - Security Threat Watch: Election Hacking 7) Coming Events - Webcast: State of Power and Network Continuity for the Data Center 8) Calling All Readers - TechSearch--One Site Fits All - TechCareers ._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._ 1) New Online! - 15 Years of the World Wide Web By George Jones, Mike Elgan and Valerie Potter In August, the World Wide Web celebrated its 15-year anniversary. Where did it come from, and how did we get to where we are today? We bring you an opinionated history of the WWW. http://update.networkcomputing.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/mzUw0GPwtO0G6u0EmCW0FH - Has Apple Lost Its Security Shine? By John C. Welch With the latest large sets of security patches and an alleged wireless driver vulnerability, Mac OS X no longer seems invincible. Our expert delves into the real threats in the Apple world and outlines
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Re: sexuality in performance and video
There's a link uniting performance art, risk, presence and, of course nudity. Not considering the fact that nudity, in various cases, do not attract the issue of sexuality in performance, it is, however, one of the most frequent procedures for it is at the core of any conception of artistic research taking body as a primary medium (Semitotics of Culture). I've been considering that one of the hypothesis for the insistence on nutidty in performance is the overall influence of Marcel Duchamp. His Nude descending the staircases imposed a certain new notion about nudity in art, proposing it as a continuous movement. One cannot despise de role of this image in post-modern/contemporary art's sensibility... greetings Lucio BR On 9/19/06, Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably not the first book; there are a lot of books on Gk Roman stuff and I have one on Egyptian sexuality revealed in graffiti etc. But maybe I'm wrong. - Alan blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search Alan Sondheim http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim
Re: sexuality in performance and video
After sending I'd also rememebered the concept of liminality proposed by Victor Turner/Richard Scbhechner. Expose itself nude in western societies tends to induce some states of perception analog to the risks concerned to some rituals (like walking on fire, etc.) Lucio On 9/20/06, Lucio Agra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a link uniting performance art, risk, presence and, of course nudity. Not considering the fact that nudity, in various cases, do not attract the issue of sexuality in performance, it is, however, one of the most frequent procedures for it is at the core of any conception of artistic research taking body as a primary medium (Semitotics of Culture). I've been considering that one of the hypothesis for the insistence on nutidty in performance is the overall influence of Marcel Duchamp. His Nude descending the staircases imposed a certain new notion about nudity in art, proposing it as a continuous movement. One cannot despise de role of this image in post-modern/contemporary art's sensibility... greetings Lucio BR On 9/19/06, Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably not the first book; there are a lot of books on Gk Roman stuff and I have one on Egyptian sexuality revealed in graffiti etc. But maybe I'm wrong. - Alan blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search Alan Sondheim http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim
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I love Jarmuschs work but missed Broken Flowers. This happens with me. I rent many more videos than I go to see movies in the theatre and sometimes will let one slide that I would like to see by never quite getting around to it. I greatly enjoyed Lost in Translation. Broken Flowers is a movie I should make it a point to see. Everyone edits and revises their own past to create an explanation of how they became who they think they are. One thing this means is that when you look up old girlfriends, you will probably find that, even if you are as important in her story as she is in yours, her story is not your story even though both stories are about the two of you. One of my favorite movies is Memento. This film is built around the trick of reversing the sequence of two moments by showing the moment that occurs later before the moment that occurs before. The central character of this film has suffered brain damage that makes it impossible to create new long-term memories. He thus has his past up until the moment of traumatic injury and the last two minutes forever with nothing in between. Reversing the chronology of moments is a wonderful way of capturing the reality of his world. Moments he does not remember are moments we have yet to see and, often, our confusion parallels his. Another interesting film is Timecode. The screen is divided into four frames where four stories unfold with characters that overlap. Not every character appears in all four frames and it is not possible to identify each frame with any one characters perspective. I cant watch Timecode without imagining a similar movie. In Frame1, we see a man and a woman, but never both together, talking to a therapist who is never seen or heard. We would know the setting from clues in the clients discourse. In Frame2, we see the man and the woman together. In Frame3, we see the woman interacting with various others, always in the mans absence. In Frame4, we see the man interacting with various others, always in the womans absence. Both often mention the other and their relationship in their absence. The man defines himself as a memory which acts. How can a memory ever be false?: is his constant question. The woman wants to know what really happened. She repeats constantly that she cannot know who she is until she knows what really happened. We never find out if they are seeing the same therapist or different therapists. Sometimes in Frame1, we also see a middle aged man but never see him with the man or the woman but always delivering a paper titled The persistence of memory and the continuity of identity across episodes in lives that are experienced as episodic: resources for revision. He takes questions from the audience that make it clear that his presentation has been based on two very detailed clinical case studies of clients whose sense of the relationship of memory to identity are diametrically opposed and, perhaps, painfully flawed in opposite extremes. His presentation could be a commentary on what we are seeing in the other three frames and the questions could be attempts to understand the story that would emerge if all three frames could merge into one narrative. The framing is temporal rather than spatial A single screen jumps from one frame to the next in fixed sequence one through four every five minutes without worrying a bit about continuity. Each temporal frame would be five snapshots of five minutes length not contiguous and not necessarily presented in chronological order within frames or between frames. The last five minute section and the first should both be in Frame1. The ending should be the first five minutes of the presentation and the beginning should be the five minutes immediately following. TMike In so far as literature turns back on itself and examines parodies or treats ironically its own signifying procedures, it becomes the most complex account of signification we possess. John Deely __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: I am your adjoining consecration
Who, my dear LQ, could have said this better than YOU? :)Gracias from a few paces north of the border! Sheila Ephanero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:this one feels like being pinned down by a masked mexican wrestler then told the deepest secret of ikebana mexican ikebana..nice one sheila. lq - Original Message - From: Sheila Murphy To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:32 PM Subject: I am your adjoining consecrationwhenit is time to roam toward sleep, one pencils in an attitude (not once have I begun to mourn in future tensehalf out of alignment with whatever was supposed (in a splintered derivation of replenishing I form the nextnowheld up to light into an afternoon (only supposing yours is the colonial impasse of worn feathersmade whole of an indifference perhaps time and a half (plebians count themselves into an ether that they ache to subdividethe hourto close the light according to the idiom (at last unexpected as peace always isyou will safen me and my endowments (typified by peacetimeI haveheld youhistory has gently meted out (my sound cave in which hurt is relieved this small rectangle ofus on the boat when we were there (you looked into the face of the photographer with such lovetogether impolitely toggling on and off our shared picture of the new world (requiring nothing more than our agreement balancing mid-breeze sheila e. murphy
Re: senti mental drivel - please define skiddish for me
sunset ( senti mental drivel ) this is what i do more more when not sacrificing myself to the whims of others: i sacrifice myself to the sunset asthis light changes i get caught up more in the changing light which traffics in its own whims i swim in its choppy reflection reflecting on dujour noir's transparent depths noirflame trickery dumbed down hydrop(h)onics there is this thing always about bobbing bouys whether balloons bouts with the spirit flesh jockies joggers reasonably secure mercantile minds dimmed some times by charade here perhaps is wind reflected off corporate plate glass the sport of back forthing life not always watching where it's going occasionally tripping over itself like a gerund or some other more than predictable ending enclosures that keep us in as much as out ( lost page ) am i somehow connected to this? spilling my guts at the sun's whim my stingy life less significant than a puddle or a dog walk or a stump or these waving weeds these dwellings that surround my skiddishemotions chance encounters LOST - i proclaim - always LOST why are these piles, these pillars these supports that were meant to hold up a pier still called by their names when there is no pier left? i fail again waiting, at the whims of friends who are late arriving pressed every second regretting this writing senti mental drivel this phoney love letter to the sun pressed to follow the sun to its best possible setting workshopping it like the dummy collaborator it has become the setting sun now completely at my whim. steve dalachinsky nyc spring street the river 9/18/06 edited at home 9/20/06
Hugo Chavez's Address to the United Nations: Rise Up Against the Empire (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:43:42 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hugo Chavez's Address to the United Nations: Rise Up Against the Empire Address to the United Nations Rise Up Against the Empire By HUGO CHAVEZ Counterpunch September 20, 2006 http://www.counterpunch.org/ Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.' [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.] It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet. The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time, [flips through the pages, which are numerous] I will just leave it as a recommendation. It reads easily, it is a very good book, I'm sure Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house. The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house. And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here. [crosses himself] And it smells of sulfur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world. I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: The Devil's Recipe. As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated. The world parent's statement -- cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy from the need they have to control everything. They say they want to impose a democratic model. But that's their democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very original democracy that's imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons. What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs? The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right here, in this room, and I'm quoting, Anywhere you look, you hear extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover your dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom. Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother -- he looks at your color, and he says, oh, there's an extremist. Evo Morales, the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him. The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over. And people are standing up. I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to live the rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us are standing up, all those who are rising up against American imperialism, who are shouting for equality, for respect, for the sovereignty of nations. Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up against the empire, against the model of domination. The president then -- and this he said himself, he said: I have come to speak directly to the populations in the Middle East, to tell them that my country wants peace. That's true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They'll say yes. But the government doesn't want peace. The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace. But what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? In Palestine?
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here's a calc- I made meself, says seven plus seven equals do-what-you-want-with-it-my-eyes-are-closed. (I've lost the urge to ratify.)get going onan earthen dowry. start gripping algorithmic trash. the tuppence one is worth two of the same unless we're splitting hairs again.my heirs are truant from the mix. have you been harboring resentment in accord with thispresentiment that loneliness can save the allocation near the ocean of dispatch?over time, the pace is ratcheted up phone poles and other relics. the spelling bee attracts concelebrantsfrommultiple denominations, eachproceeding on faith alone.sheila e. murphy
Re: sexuality in performance and video
This all sounds pretty accurate. I was writing to someone who works on occasion with sexuality (more in writing, I think, than anything else) - he wanted to discuss how it 'played out.' So I was thinking along prac- tical lines. In the last 15 years or so just about everyone is dealing with 'body' - most without any awareness of the history. But nudity in art well predates Duchamp - look at Courbet's Origin of the World (think that's the title) or Turner's drawings. I don't think even in performance it has much to do with Duchamp; I think nudity was present in early film as well as dance at the turn of the last century. - Alan On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Lucio Agra wrote: After sending I'd also rememebered the concept of liminality proposed by Victor Turner/Richard Scbhechner. Expose itself nude in western societies tends to induce some states of perception analog to the risks concerned to some rituals (like walking on fire, etc.) Lucio On 9/20/06, Lucio Agra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a link uniting performance art, risk, presence and, of course nudity. Not considering the fact that nudity, in various cases, do not attract the issue of sexuality in performance, it is, however, one of the most frequent procedures for it is at the core of any conception of artistic research taking body as a primary medium (Semitotics of Culture). I've been considering that one of the hypothesis for the insistence on nutidty in performance is the overall influence of Marcel Duchamp. His Nude descending the staircases imposed a certain new notion about nudity in art, proposing it as a continuous movement. One cannot despise de role of this image in post-modern/contemporary art's sensibility... greetings Lucio BR On 9/19/06, Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably not the first book; there are a lot of books on Gk Roman stuff and I have one on Egyptian sexuality revealed in graffiti etc. But maybe I'm wrong. - Alan blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search Alan Sondheim http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search Alan Sondheim http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim
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