Re: nettime Justice Department attempting to remove public documents from libraries

2004-08-05 Thread John
This is good, too: http://cryptome.org/doj-killbooks.htm Both GPO and the Department of Justice regret any inconvenience resulting from the initial request for withdrawal. Judy Russell Judith C. Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of

Re: nettime The Art of Sweatshops [4x]

2004-08-11 Thread John
Look for China to implode medium term: Signs of overheating are unmistakable: an explosion of credit; rampant overcapacity (nine tenths of manufacturing goods are in oversupply); and the return of inflation (2.8% in the first quarter of 2004). President Hu Jintao, and his prime minister, Wen

Re: nettime Hackers Take Aim at GOP + CrimeInc LOGISTICS ENCLOSED

2004-08-21 Thread John
[ In a Mr. Burns voice, Excellent... ] But on a serious note, do you folks think this is an effective form of protest? Or just geeks wanking off? Could a short term disruption have a meaningful affect on them? If moveon.org was shutdown completely I could see it having an affect on the

Re: nettime Brazil puts patients before patents

2007-05-19 Thread John
would like to see the day where one of these big companies find a final cure for AIDS and cancer. It's just unfortunate that no more reasonable alternative to that end exists. Regards, John S. Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:04:33 -0100 From: nettime's_busy_reader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

nettime Current State of Political Debate on the Left

2007-06-02 Thread John
this audacious claim? Kind regards, John http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010137 The Conservative Mind The American right is a cauldron of debate; the left isn't. BY PETER BERKOWITZ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT The left prides itself on, and frequently boasts of, its

Re: nettime War Economics 101

2003-01-28 Thread John Horvath
of the Iraq issue, the markets went up and the dollar strengthened. Likewise, now that the war seems imminent, so too does the DOW slipping well below 8,000 points and the euro surpassing $1.10 for a USD. John # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated

nettime Iceland info

2003-01-30 Thread John Hopkins
a side battle of globalization... This may seem on the 'fringe' literally and figuratively, but for obvious reasons, on the scale of the damming of the Colorado River which destroyed entire riparian environments in the west of the US -- now there are plans for an enormous hydro plant in the

Re: nettime Notes on the Politics of Software Culture

2003-09-06 Thread John Hopkins
to -- meanwhile, lives go on, deeper than that surface view can ever deconvolve. Maybe it's better to not invert an old, tired equation, but to simply make a new descriptive system, a new way. Cheers John -- -~ tech-no-mad : hypnostatic domain: http://neoscenes.net mobile

Re: nettime Re: [0100101110110101.ORG] FOR SALE

2003-10-29 Thread John Berndt
one which reverses the values put forth by nearly all AS other culture). The most typical formation is to see the Strike's AS primary organizers as Artists for whom the public strike is a AS conceptual art piece. John Berndt # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission

nettime Choking Fidel and Us

2004-06-17 Thread John Young
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued for public comment new restrictions on travel to Cuba with increased penalties for violations. The proclaimed intent is to harm Cuba's economy by reducing income from tourism and educational travel.

Re: nettime Choking Cuban writers

2004-06-20 Thread John Young
What is troubling is that the US is singling out Cuba for economic warfare while doing its damnest to promote economic bear-hugging other socialist and ropgue states, presumably on the premise that economic well-being will persuade the citzenry to vote with their pocketbooks by buying and

Re: nettime Will Rational Exuberance Prevail?

2004-10-27 Thread John Young
No doubt the thing to do is to relax, don't overly fret about the US election outcome, why bother to organize, do legwork, serve on dreary election committees, seek out and listen to those who you've never spoken to as an equal to learn from them what's eating their gizzards, to hear what they

Re: nettime Re: Signals, Statistics Social Experiments

2004-11-25 Thread John Hopkins
Having gone through that entire process though, I think Ayreen and I experienced/learned something quite specific, which was that as long as this sort of jamming happens to an outside force, things are, at least within the art context, all ok, but turned inside out, blurred, and when the art

Re: nettime Southeast Asia Tsunami and the Effective ...

2005-01-02 Thread John Young
What is disturbing about lack of information from the South Asia tsunami is whether allegedly missing persons being memoralized by nations of origin with candlelights and moments of grieving, are dead, injured, or merely unaware they are preceived to be missing and thus do not contact those

Re: nettime Just do it! - Intellectual theft as a curatorial

2005-07-08 Thread John Young
There is nothing beyond happenstance convention which assures a creator credit, recognition, monetary payment, praise, security from appropriation. Much, perhaps all, of the argument in the exhortive post is that used by commercial approriators, thieves and bandits, their henchpersons and sharks,

Re: nettime More new orleans

2005-09-14 Thread John Hopkins
on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, based out of the Mississippi delta town of Houma. So it goes... John # 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

Re: nettime Notes on Netporn

2005-10-10 Thread John Young
The operator of the war porn site Dery cites has been arrested: http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm6544_20051008.htm The ex-cop's web site, NowThatsFuckedUp.com, continues to offer cutting edge repugnant carnage ribaldry of the kind popularized by lit and flic of crime-war-faith fantasies

nettime Fwd: [iDC] interesting article on new media scene in LA

2005-10-31 Thread John Hopkins
Forwarded from the iDC list -- I thought it might bring back memories of the discussions around the California Ideology at the beginning of the nettime list... Cheers John + ++ Hi iDC list, The LA Weekly article reproduced

Re: nettime call to nettime moderators to change email address/systems [u]

2005-11-02 Thread John Hopkins
... Cheers John Hi iDC list, The LA Weekly article reproduced below links new media with Hollywood, business models and education. It ties in to some extent with what Anna, Ryan and Jon have been discussing. ... [remainder of the message removed @ nettime to avoid douplication. Original posting: http

Re: nettime Use of Computers in Preschools

2005-12-12 Thread John Young
A fair amount of this critique of computer use is applicable to business, government, education, religion and so on. The seniors, call them leaders, see computers only as tools to maximize worker productivity and for open and covert surveillance. They do not use them to set policy except to

Re: nettime The Sudden Stardom of the Third-World City

2006-03-31 Thread John Young
There is hardly a better prescription for dreaming of suicide, by cities, persons or ideoligies, than comfortable success and lack of a need to struggle to survive. The invention of the Third World brand came from the mental laziness non-western intellectuals and political ideolgues grown soft

Re: nettime hear ye, hear ye... truce for NNA discussion

2006-06-07 Thread John Young
Yes, the NNA report was somewhat informative but smeared, obscured, lipsmacked by the trivial sidebar complaint. What fear, of what or whom? Truce for what, a minor snit sniffle, piffle? And what is this illiteracy about stars and the little nobodies aching to lick their shriveleds as if

Re: nettime report_on_NNA

2006-06-07 Thread John Hopkins
input on how I can do that myself relatively easily. (It could also perhaps be instructive to compare my received-mail archive to the 'official one!) Cheers John # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism

Re: nettime report_on_NNA

2006-06-07 Thread John Hopkins
no position to be in when attempting this kind of facilitation... Facilitation is not about carrying crosses. Cheers JOhn # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics

Re: nettime report_on_NNA

2006-06-10 Thread John Hopkins
they are (technically and socially) accomplished... Cheers John # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime

nettime Over 100 detained in Russia! One disappeared!

2006-07-11 Thread John Jordan
repression russian style - Weitergeleitete Nachricht - Datum: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:41:40 +0400 Von: Trade Union Solidarity Action Committee of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region Betreff: [fse-esf] harassment and repressions in Russia Dear Friends and Comrades! We have to

Re: nettime actors wanted

2006-08-27 Thread John Hopkins
costal areas assuming that all elevated roads will be collapsed, and that you will have to carry all your water, food, and weapons to stay in possession of both, with you -- at least as far as the Arizona border. It won't be a theme park, it'll be REAL LIFE! Cheers John # distributed via

Re: nettime IDF reading Deleuze and Guattari (and Debord)

2006-08-27 Thread John Hopkins
unstable, dynamic, and active position to be in, rather than nodding in agreement with those old texts. It brings one to the front of living, where decisions must be made based on what is happening in the moment, not on what one was told to do in school... okay, cheers, John PS - and one might

RE: nettime Disordered thinking through the origin oflanguage

2006-09-08 Thread John Young
Words, coherent language, came from god, and if that anti-scientific premise is offensive, recall that the earliest philosophers, Thales et al in western canonicism, others earlier in Asia and Africa, argued that coherent language came from a humiliating sense of wonder, wonder at astonishing

Re: nettime Gender and You

2006-10-13 Thread John Young
Feminism is not the same as women, maybe not about most of them either. It addresses a fairly small set of some women's interests, and some of those women extrapolate their interests to women in general. And a small number of men use this as a means to presume to know what women are and, to be

nettime CLIMATE CHANGE OPERA OPENS IN LONDON'S SQUARE MILE

2006-12-05 Thread John Jordan
. This is a soundtrack for the era of climate change. John Jordan [5], fellow librettist, continued: We know the numbers, graphs, models and terrifying predictions of the climate catastrophe that faces us, but until we are truly moved to feel the scale of the crisis, then there is little hope that our society

Re: nettime WiReD: 'infectious blogs'

2004-03-15 Thread John von Seggern
on the left leaning side of things... John --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought this was great coming from WiReD: The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs There is a lot of speculation that really important

nettime no subject

2005-03-15 Thread Martin John Callanan
The Bush administration has produced look-alike news propaganda clips and then persuaded television stations across the country to air them uncritically and, often, uncut. As many as 20 government departments have produced fake news which stations broadcast as though they had produced the