Re: nettime Internet Freedom and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance
hi michael you might find one of bruce schneier's recent guardian pieces interesting: 'The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back' http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betray ed-internet-nsa-spying it resonates with yours in many ways, but from a different starting ipoint .e. internet engineering. fwiw we'll be holding a festival of crypto at goldsmiths college at the end of november which will try to walk the line between discourse tech; it'll be practical (like a cryptoparty) but also aiming squarely at the wider field of internet freedom. best dan On 24 September 2013 23:37, michael gurstein gurst...@gmail.com wrote: With links http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/internet-freedom-and-post-snowden-g lobal-internet-governance/ http://tinyurl.com/n3onw87 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Review of Gregory Sholette's Dark Matter - corrected
We go on picking the rags, but every now and again, this other social snip... sourcing. The archive has split open. We are its dead capital. It is the dawn of the dead. This blatant appeal to the use-value of our necrophilia, artistic waste, the products of our labor and time, runs throughout an historical text, alternately conscious of its own limitations and brilliantly pervasive in its political critique and arts research. Molly -- this resonates with the idea of a bio-system where there is an excess of information -- that is, too much genetic diversity -- such that the need to procreate does not sit so heavily on individual organisms and that 'creative' energy can be expressed in non-essential forms. (Think of the myriad anecdotal ways that procreating changes the (perhaps your!) expression of 'artistic' energy). This situation, the opposite to, for example, needing to breed -- 12 children so that 2 survive to sustain a clan system -- may only arise where/when there is a surfeit of energy available. It is (merely) one expression of energy glut. It will correct itself in time ... fluff of many sorts will dissipate in the entropic decline of the post-hydrocarbon world. jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD ensconced, unarmed and dangerous, in an ultra-conservative stronghold http://neoscenes.net/ http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime The secret financial market only robots can see
As someone intimately involved in this area for some time, and also privy enough to the dialogue in the academic non-practitioner space, in addition to the professional space, I am always amused to the extent with which electronic/hft/algo trading is misinterpreted and in many instances blatantly misunderstood. I know for many participants in this list, this subject is very controversial and hits very close to home - hence out of respect for a civilized discouse on the subject, I think generally before someone quotes 'NANEX' again, we would all do well to remember that overall having a debate about the ethics surrounding degrees of speculation in markets is highy ludic. The same technical parallax we use to communicate via nettime is also the mechanism utilized for deployment of sophistcated trading models. Machines being leveraged to generate resources is a legacy of our civilization - and arguing about the ethics of this specific incarnation of capital is reactionary and we need to do better. The conversation should be less emotional about the implications of this systemically, and instead how much novelty gets generated in culture as a afterimage of electonic market making. Robots trading was a forgone conclusion when NYSE SuperDOT came on the scene. Earlier, Reuter revolutions infomation arbitrage with the uilization of passerger pigeons to exploit data leakage between markets. I'm pleased to see that Brian Holmes stepped in to comment, as I respect his views on things nettime. However, I think we need to sharper with our critical analysis of this aesthetic and not dismiss this simply because the old media latches onto it as a point of controversy. /chadscoville /www.riftrouter.cx -Original Message- From: Brian Holmes [mailto:bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 12:20 PM To: nettim...@kein.org Subject: Re: nettime The secret financial market only robots can see ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
