Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)

2007-06-12 Thread Ana Peraica
the role of the war reporter that has emancipated indicating a cultural Well, the text not immediately on that, but... need for the distant trauma in public Sometimes it's not so distant. People in Iraq do watch TV news reports about the war going on around them. Good if they have the

Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)

2007-06-12 Thread Benjamin Geer
On 11/06/07, Ana Peraica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking again on the role of the war reporter that has emancipated indicating a cultural need for the distant trauma in public Sometimes it's not so distant. People in Iraq do watch TV news reports about the war going on around them.

nettime ephemera Immaterial and affective labor: explored issue released

2007-06-12 Thread stevphen shukaitis
ephemera Immaterial and affective labor: explored issue released The new issue (7.1) of ephemera: theory politics in organization, entitled immaterial and affective labor: explored, has just been published at http://www.ephemeraweb.org. This latest special issue offers a critical

Re: nettime The Society of the Unspectacular

2007-06-12 Thread Keith Sanborn
We all like to stand on the corpses of giants; it makes us seem taller, but one should note, that it makes the footing mushy. A superficial attachment of the historical limits of the situationists to a particular set of technologies or their social configurations is very old and very tired

Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)

2007-06-12 Thread Ana Peraica
Good if they have the electricity! Not quite common for war zones. Some people apparently have electricity often enough to make scathing comments about what they see on TV; blogger Riverbend is an example: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ good one! I actually believe more can be done with