Re: nettime closure of Media Lab Europe

2005-01-22 Thread daniel perlin
Although I am inclined to agree with many of the observations below, as they are of course self-evident, I think that Jonah Brucker-Cohen has clearly defined the major problem of media labs in general: isolation from local production. I have witnessed the dissolution of various programs and labs

nettime taking IPR to the next level

2005-01-22 Thread nettime's_roving_reporter
[slashdotted? fine. amazing nonetheless. it's more than a little interesting to speculate about what region-enocding could infect next. money? :) --mod (tb)] http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB110593238031627672-IFjgYNmlad4nJysa3qHa6yAm5,00.html Electronics With

nettime Oh! Freedom! (27 times) and al Qaeda

2005-01-22 Thread Michael H Goldhaber
According to NPR, Pres. Bush said the word freedom 27 times in his 21-minute inaugural speech yesterday ? an excellent example of misleading framing (in the sense recently popularized by George Lakoff). Even worse, Bush spoke again of the 9/11 attack as being an attack on freedom. This is