nettime Is the Internet Dying?

2003-09-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
Is the Internet Dying? Recently there has been a great deal of discussion of Is the Internet Dying which is a very controversial issue. Some say the Internet is dying and will not survive. Others say the Internet will continue forever and it is fine. I think the Internet is going through

nettime call for a campaign to save amsterdams free media

2003-09-05 Thread geert lovink
(posted to nettime-l with the permission of the authors. there are efforts under way to get this campaign up and running. a lot of the communication will in the first instance be coordinated via nettime-nl. more information such as email addresses, lists and blogs will be available next week

Re: nettime iranonymity digest [manetas, guderian]

2003-09-05 Thread Shaun Rolph
- Original Message - From: MANETAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nettime Iranonymity ... The only really controversial websites and subversive opinions are the porn sites. ... J.G. Ballard wrote that pornography was the most political fiction - being principally about how we use

nettime DNA and computers

2003-09-05 Thread Ryan Griffis
anyone seen the recent HP ads for nanotech? http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957089.html trees morphing into circuitry...talk about greening the molecular invasion we're made to feel good about the progress while watching fantastic dystopias that reafirm us as human (GATTACA, the Matrix, Terminator,

nettime Washington sniper belt-zapped

2003-09-05 Thread Will Meister
The report below appeared in the Sept 6 2003 paper edition of 'The Week', a UK international news digest. It is based on a report by Jonathan Turley which appeared in the Washington Post, but in fact expands the scope of that report considerably into a short general discussion of the use of stun

Re: nettime DNA and computers

2003-09-05 Thread Ognjen Strpic
Ryan Griffis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...talk about greening the molecular invasion we're made to feel good about the progress while watching fantastic dystopias that reafirm us as human (GATTACA, the Matrix, Terminator, etc.), meanwhile no discussion in public arenas of current realities. well,

nettime Next 5 Minutes - final program on-line

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Kluitenberg
NEXT 5 MINUTES 4 International Festival of Tactical Media De Balie / Paradiso / Melkweg / Waag Society NIM Montevideo / Imagine IC / SALTO FINAL FESTIVAL PROGRAM NOW ON-LINE http://www.next5minutes.org - Program-overview, see: Program - Program day-by-day, see: Schedule - Participants see:

Re: nettime Notes on the Politics of Software Culture

2003-09-05 Thread Zeljko Blace
This is great openning for discussion for both N5M and AE participants who deal with this topic as thay share some commonalities but tend to take further more political (N5M) or economical (AE) argumentation. Additionaly it would be interesting to reflect on the impact of new media Art/Cultural

nettime Drawing the map of the world stored in our collective conscience

2003-09-05 Thread Douwe Osinga
Hi Nettimers, I have always been fascinated by maps. Maps are not only a picture of the world, they also picture out mind. Let somebody draw a map of the world and you'll get a map of her/his world. That's why Europe is in the middle of a European map, China in the middle of a Chinese map and

nettime Energy to Internet outages?

2003-09-05 Thread human being
[this essay was from Orion Magazine was posted on the alternative energy (ae) list and it brings together various economic, social, and political aspects of today's energy issues, in relation to the past through retelling of a story. questioning whether today's technologies (and also our