Ongjen Strpic wrote:
>"visionary" (see http://www.foresight.org/EOC) nanoscience is
>increasingly abandoned and seems to be thought of as a dead end:
nanobusiness is what's going on now.
Eduardo Navas, writing about a nanotech researcher:
Banks were very interested in this particular project, an
David Garcia writes:
>There are many hells in this world and many (admittedly by no means
>all) of the worst occur when not only through oppressive by states,
>but when states break down.
Without going so far as Gide's "fear and trembling" (David, does
rhetorical excess produce rhetorical coun
emologically questionable -
>as some found), but Brian Holmes & Co are aiming at an even more
mind-boggling form of representing these relationships of power...
I must nip a potential misunderstanding in the bud: this should read
"Bureau d'Etudes and Co.", 'cause th
Ryan Griffis wrote:
>i'm just wondering what it means to break politics
>down into 3 categories that distinguish between
>"markets, governments and voluntary associations," and
>saying they are representative of all modern social
>activity.
The theoretical point of looking at human organization i
Just to continue this dialogue with Ryan on the idea of concieving
society as a force field between three poles:
>the US New Deal policies could be seen as restrictive
>on markets or as a tactic of preservation of them by
>the state.
Those policies did both: and don't forget the threat posed to
ous when someone has an idea dangerous
enough to the equilibrium of our cream-puff-and-horror-show society,
that publishing it anonymously will be a necessity and no longer just
a demonstration of modesty or dandyism.
still waiting for a little less consensus,
Brian Holmes
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ions that make the decay of our democracy appear
quite plausible and "normal." And look where that has got us. On a
road which appears, in many ways, to defy reason.
still waiting for a little less consensus,
Brian Holmes
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popular and may lead to
outraged accusations that I am something less than a democrat.
Unfortunately (I mean this last word in a strong sense) democracy
also appears to be something less than what it has claimed.
best, Brian Holmes
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So: news is out that Russia is toying with the idea of trading its
oil in euros.
In this context (which has in fact been developing over the past 3
years, and not only with Russia), the US appears to be playing a
dangerous, double-handed monetary game whose aims seem to me rather
illegible, i
Following is the text I read in one of those rather disagreeable
places to which art circles sometimes lead you. This time, the Tate
Modern.
The conference, held this Saturday October 25, was called Diffusion:
Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Art. Also present were Bureau
d'Etudes, Franc
Ryan Griffis quoted a New Hampshire woman on the libertarian Free
State project:
>I don't like to go places that don't let me have my gun," said Ms.
>Casey, 33 ..."I want to be a billionaire in my lifetime " she added,
>"and I don't want to live among people who think that's bad."
In a strange
>Via our friends Patrice Riemens and, apparently, John Armitage,
>grist for the mill of our eternal friend and ally (but please, w/o
>any Schmittian overtones!) Kermit Snelson, and maybe a look for
>y'all into Open Democracy if you don't yet know that bit of "civil
>society" -
I hereby presen
Shock art turns on the Tate
'I'd rather go to Alton Towers than Tate Modern,' says rebel artist Chapman
David Smith, arts and media correspondent
Sunday November 2, 2003
The Observer
They have turned shock and awe into an art form and set the agenda for the
tumult over the Turner Prize. Now the
it does. The least we can do is look for more reliable
information, and try to shift the debates in our own countries,
circles and professions, towards a consideration of realities in
which all the globalized classes now participate.
best,
Brian Holmes
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time. But let's hope that such nightmares remain in
their cardboard boxes. The important thing is to invent and institute
new models of social development which redress the gross inequalities
that have accumulated over the past thirty years. I think it's a
matter for everyone to be con
Geert just posted some recent thoughts that Marion von Osten and I came up with
on the contradictions of cultural labor. Here's a few observations about what
can be done, subversively speaking. Best to all, Brian
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Reverse Imagineering:
Toward the New Urban Struggles
Or: Why smash the state whe
Matze writes:
>i cannot see why the capital should change the basis conditions of
>salaried labour and the social relations.
Indeed. Capital, as a principle of accumulation which can only be realized
by the exploitation of labor, will always tend to reinstate the same kinds
of social relations, w
> the end of ' the dictatorship
>of the proletariat", or of unionised and regulated labour in this case,
>facilitates the reproduction of bonded slavery as a substitute for the
>proletariat...
>
>the reality is that thousands of bonded workers are doing the jobs
>britons don't want to do, fro
[apologies for cross posting, and - ]
My appreciation to those who let it all hang out and cooperate in Buffalo, and
generally on the Free Cooperation list. I personally had a great time and
Nathalie Magnan back in gay Paree was with us in spirit retrospectively as I
told her all about it!
It was
Call it "mediology" - if you must. By way of Giselle Donnard.
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Remember Falluja
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/421014.html
By Orit Shohat
During the first two weeks of this month, the American army committed war
crimes in Falluja on a scale unprecedented for this war. According to the
relativ
preemptive chance to PERCEIVE THE WORLD
SITUATION, before embarking on a new and even more intensive round of planetary
shadow-boxing which can only profit the military-entertainment complex - that
is to say, a few well-placed politician-generals, and a considerably larger
number of rapacious corporation
hines
begins with the power of exodus, in a kind of passion that "pays for itself in
a currency of its own fabrication." But to reassert an expressive politics, and
in this way, to invent a new form of public existence, more adequate to the
complex demands of the present, but also more abl
haring (see nettime,
13/7/04, and below). Is a flatrate better than Digital Rights Management
as it's beginning to emerge? No doubt, but it isn't a reason to stop
thinking about a world that you'd really like to live in. - BH]
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THREE PROPOSALS FOR A REAL DEMOCRACY
Information-Sha
Hmm, Felix, I was led off the track by your use of the word
commune, which I thought was surely a typo - since in
American English, a commune denotes a hippie community that
has exchanged utopia for history! Cooperatives are more
easily understood as attempts at doing things together,
producin
Albert Hupa wrote:
>Let's consciously combine two meanings of a network: a map, a set of
>relations
>analyzed from ecological point of view and the kind of behaviour That
>is
>why I think of using the notion of swarm - its emergent behaviour cannot be
>described as unpredictable. We may fin
Some thoughts about power
Foucault conceived a mode of sovereign power, related to the
functioning of law in the Middle Ages (transcendent power of
life and death, power to banish); a mode of disciplinary
power, related to the functioning of institutions from the
16th century onward (collecti
Prem Chandavarkar wrote:
>To me, the power of Kaikini's observations lay in:
>
> 1. The transcendent can be found in what is immediately adjacent.
> 2. We inhabit a reality that does not exist only on one level.
> Reality is multi-leveled and complex, and our sense of being
> shifts
Here's an article from Pacific News Service:
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77
Americans, check out what the departing Bush team is leaving
behind for you. - BH
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Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
News Anal
Here is a tightly argued text, qualifying an important act,
by a rare category of the human species: a curator with an
ethics of solidarity. - BH
Chris Gilbert - statement on resigning 5/21/06
I made the decision to resign as Matrix Curator on April 28,
but my struggles with the Berkeley Art
Miguel Afonso Caetano wrote:
>I have recently finished a M.A. dissertation about Tactical Media
>that I've talked about here a few years ago
I'd be totally interested to read your dissertation Miguel, is it
online?
>I think it would be good to start a debate here in the list about the
>actual re
It's fascinating, funny and welcome, to read the debates arising from
the efforts of that long list of people whom Tobias has named as the
movers, shakers and happening-makers of nettime's assymetrical 10th
birthday party. Wish I could've made it. Thought about it but it
proved impossible. Sounds l
Dear Kenneth Werbin and everybody -
By a simple, ironic fact of "information overload" (an
overfull mailbox) I missed what is, to my mind, the most
interesting post I have read on this list for years, which
Mark Stahlman and Ronda Hauben then responded to, but in
ways which have not, I think,
[- In the summer of 2002 I wrote a post to nettime called
"Deflation, anyone?" which observed the transformations of
the world economy after the krach of the Internet bubble,
and speculated about the underlying reasons for the emerging
war regime. This led to renewed curiosity about political
Alex Foti writes:
"In Castellsian terms (tell me Felix if I got it right),
bushist occidentalism is a legitimizing identity and
shia/sunni fundamentalism is a resistance identity. Castells
contrasts these two forms of social identity (for him,
networks and identities are all there is on the gl
[Post from Benjamin Geer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], addressed
2 days ago to me and nettime, never made it on nettime. -BH]
On 01/08/06, Brian Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What kind of culture, what kind of shared horizon can
> help us get there? [...]
> A political culture t
[Post from Ed Philips, [EMAIL PROTECTED], addressed maybe 10
days ago to me and nettime, never made it on nettime. -BH]
Brian, thanks for posting another thoughtful essay to nettime:
I want to start this response by saying that I agree with
your assessment that we are in your words "lacking a
Ed Philips wrote:
>Arrighi's long twentieth century thesis which is a kind of
>rethinking of Marx'x MCM formula has some fitness as well.
>To quote Arrighi, "financialization (the capacity of finance
>capital 'to take over and dominate, for a while at least,
>all the activities of the business
Hello Alex, Felix, Ed, Benjamin, everyone,
I'm intrigued to the fullest by the responses to the paper I
posted (why else does one write?), and by the chance to dig deeper
into what's become a much more interesting subject. Alex has my
three cheers for bringing the regulation school ideas into our
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Rene Oswin, fictive HUD representative, dons the mask to
speak the truth in New Orleans.
Read all about it in dozens of newspapers.
Guy Fawkes' Day coming
[I would like to publish on nettime this rather long essay, which was
commissioned for Capital (It Fails Us Now) - not only a song by the
Gang of Four, but also an exhibition held in Oslo at the end of last
year and in Tallinn at the very beginnning of this one. The reason
for publishing this text
.16beavergroup.org/drift
best to all, BH]
Continental Drift II:
Articulating the Cracks in the Worlds of Power
16 Beaver Group talking with Brian Holmes
16 Beaver: When we started thinking about doing something
like a seminar together, a few ideas emerged:
A. We didn't want it to be a seminar i
Below is the exhibition review of The Maghreb Connection, which I wrote
at the request of eipcp's Transform project:
http://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1166295344
The ambition of Transform is to explore how mainstream institutions can
be adapted to support, extend and distribute some of t
Patrice Riemens wrote:
>" The result was Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulation FD ('Fair Disclosure', aka
>'Fear and Doubt' - PR), and stock option valuation (by the IRS -PR)- three
>great lessons in the law of unintended consequences. Let's do our own
>accounting: Thanks to this troika, fewer companies are
The notion of a teachable moment is fundamental. I take it to mean, a
moment when every thoughtful and responsible American, in whatever
medium, arena, theater, conversation or public or private function they
occupy or can open up, should seize the occasion of widespread
uncertainty, failed pol
Michael, Benjamin -
This is a really interesting non-argument. Both the sides you are
arguing are correct. US foreign policy is a complex thing. It is often
possible to reconcile the interests of domestically oriented
politicians, expansive corporations, and military-economic strategists,
in a
Michael Goldhaber wrote:
>I agree with most of what Brian wrote, except for his urging us to
>read a two-year-supply of books.
Michael, you will have noticed that I always take a keen interest in
your writing, so please don't take the following as any sign of
disrespect or animosity.
It is
Keith Hart wrote:
>I have left out the camouflage provided by Armageddon in the Middle East
>for the economic upheavals unleashed by the current devaluation of the
>dollar in the face of a cumulative transfer of economic power from West
>to East.
Keith this is all tremendously clear and usefu
right here and now. And then he
disappeared into the metro.
Ricardo, thanks for the feeling of welcome that you brought to the
world.
Brian Holmes
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Being an amateur social psychologist, I'm intrigued to see someone mention
"The Authoritarian Personality" on nettime, and actually consider the range
of mentalities that have succeeded each other from the early 20th century
to now.
However, the McLuhanesque "media instrumentality" and implicit co
kly. It's all
very well to feel optimistic about governance theory, and to talk about
power rising from below - but the question of what exactly happens on the
way up can no longer be overlooked. Much more concerted efforts will have
to be made, at a higher level of critique and political de
[The allegations here concerning the role of Cheney, Rumsfeld and
Wolfowitz in concocting the 'second Cold War' that emerged under the
Reagan administration give you the sickening feeling that comes from
understanding the success of long- term strategies. As for the composition
and actions of T
As a critic it's important to read your peers, and try to assess the
pertinence of your own work in the mirror of theirs. So I was curious to
read Coco Fusco's recent article on mapping
[www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/ questioning_the_frame].
However, I must say that her continuous assertio
Hello Nettime -
Seems like a million years since I last posted here. Anyway, to get back
in the swing of things, this is an essay that I first read at KLARTEXT
in Berlin, and have just published in the current, quite excellent issue
of the Dutch magazine OPEN, on the theme of "(in)visibility."
Bu
After Dan Wang's report on Microsoft democracy along the Yangtzee, here's
another
China question for you:
According to a useful-looking page of Internet stats, 34% of those connected to
the
net worldwide are in Asia, and of those, 31.1% - that is, 94 million - are in
China:
http://www.internetw
I would just like to thank all the people who founded, worked at and closely
collaborated with the former Public Netbase, for having created and maintained
one
of the most advanced centers for internet experimentation, intellectual inquiry,
activism and art tout court.
In my experience this was c
Florian, with full respect for you and all the good things
you have done over the years, allow me to clarify.
What I am saying is not that the enemy of my enemy is my
friend. The people who burned Danish embassies and the
governments who let that happen are not my friends and I
make no claims
In the previous thread on "Organized Networks," Felix
Stalder wrote:
--I always thought that networks are a basic type of
organization (as are hierachies, markets, and communes, in
fact, standard theory assumes that there are only these four
basic forms)...
Shannon Clark replied:
--what "sta
[hi, nettimers -- someone kindly pointed out brian's original
message, below, had somehow been lost in the nettime.org ar-
chives and replaced with keith hart's response. since We Do
Not Meddle With The Archives, the simple solution is to send
it to the list again. sorr
"Hayeck is dead. But who killed him and how?" This would be as good a
way as any to describe the stakes of this thread. Because Friedrich
von Hayeck (the economist/philosopher behind the Thatcher/Reagan
program) seems to have had his day in the sun. His exaltation of
individual entrepreneurship
m of communication, in whispers that become a roar.
Prepare for what? A total stoppage of all the world's cities in the
event of war: an exodus from hell on earth, reasonable, deliberate,
peaceful and unbending. We plebeians can break the power that calls
for a world of war.
Brian Holmes
ical exchange
that helps explore the realities, so that with neither naivete nor
ideology, the possibilities and traps of an emergent institutional
form can be assessed by the people who are going to have to decide,
each time, whether to participate or not.
best to all, Brian Holmes
on of people around
the world who simply refuse the kind of future that is offered by
this war.
The main thing is this: the war is going to be deadly quick. When it
happens, protests have to be total. The strength of the protest will
directly determine the shape of our lives over the next decade.
rifying opposites: in
this case, George Bush. The speculative bubble of the roaring 90s is
as close to the wartime terror of the collapsing 00s as Doctor Jekyll
is to Mister Hyde. So what was the secret potion that put one of them
inside the other's skin? It was the "magic of the mar
nt of truth, I'd appreciate it if people
currently inside the US could give their observations on the way this
first test unfolds.
Brian Holmes
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how to effectively
oppose it. Thus my question.
best, Brian Holmes
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ir local neighborhood with the same illegally acquired
firearm in the glovebox of, probably, a beat-up Japanese car which
grates on their sense of national identity. I would submit that the
question, what they do with the firearm, and who allows them to do
it, would then very likely become
This nettime thread has run exactly parallel to the real-time
politics and its multiple echoes, which anyway shows how integrated
we all are. I'm sure people have noticed a stream of relevant things
in the expanded media, including all the links I received:
- a failure to even begin thinking ab
Here's an initiative that could work. We should figure out how to do a
parallel one in Europe.. -BH
How We Will Reach One Million Votes The Each One, Reach One Campaign Dear
VoteToImpeach Member,
Last month Ramsey Clark appealed to the 250,000 VoteToImpeach members to
help build the campaig
Henning writes:
>The current debates about George Bush knowingly presenting fraudulent
>evidence have been interpreted in some of the better German newspapers
>as a relatively meaningless issue. Of course the evidence was made up...
Well, it's always possible to abandon any question of making d
This sentence from Joxe is terribly intriguing:
"In the current disorder, it is preferable to organize a sphere of
political fraternity with citizens and without states, rather than
sitting back to watch the victory of the transnational wealthy
classes and their smiling neofascism."
Can you ex
abor," De
Landa's borrowings from Braudel on small-scale markets)? And don't
those kinds of alternative economies also depend on the existence of
socialized commons? Sounds like multitudes to me. Not all the Left is
against that kind of thinking. But whatever you want to call it,
consolidated -
but the best way to do so is to maintain other urgencies, which
cannot be treated within any of the specialized subsystems.
Perhaps one such urgency can be expressed as a question, for
artists and activists who must now address increasing levels of
confrontation in the world
McKenzie Wark writes:
the abstraction of property has proceeded through three rough phases. 1.
The astraction of land as property... 2. The abstraction of the thing from
the land... 3. The abstraction of information from the thing...
Ken, concerning your three phases of abstraction, I'm just an
[Following is the lecture I gave at the expo "Geography - and the
Politics of Mobility" in Vienna. It revists the gift economy debates,
via Karl Polanyi, with some new ideas thanks to the talks at the
WorldInfoCon, all in the hope of understanding networked
mobilizations. Plenty of things for n
Keith Hart says that my text
> ...legitimately invokes the work of Karl Polanyi in
>support of an anti-market economics, but he does not point out that Polanyi
>looked to the planning structures of socialist states to implement
>redistribution as an alternative to the market.
True enough - I'm m
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