nettime Open Knowledge Festival (September 17th – 22nd 2012, Helsinki)

2012-08-31 Thread Fuster, Mayo
Hello! See below the info on the Open Knowledge Festival (Sept. 17th – 22nd 2012, Helsinki) an international event to build a free and open movement/society this year. Cheers! Mayo OPEN KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL (September 17th – 22nd, Helsinki) The event of the year to build a free and open

Re: nettime crowd-funding on nettime

2012-08-31 Thread Felix Stalder
I haven't fully made up my mind yet when it comes to crowd-funding (CF). There are some definitely positive potentials to it. For example, it point towards a cultural economy that does not depend on the standard copyright model where investments in the first copy are regained through

Re: nettime please kill me [4x: sanborn, simpson]

2012-08-31 Thread Murray Simpson
If this is a reference to me, then I'm not sure I recognise it. I didn't challenge the veracity of the information. What I'm trying, with little success, clearly, is to invite people to tell us why they think that some lives are 'unworthy of living'. Is a contribution from Agamben's

nettime Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes

2012-08-31 Thread nettime's avid reader
By Christina Bonnington and Spencer Ackerman August 30, 201 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/drone-app/ It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America’s many undeclared wars. But Apple keeps