nettime revenge of the concept

2003-01-21 Thread Keith Hart
? At the very least, read Mauss's essay and ask yourself what you think he is trying to say. Keith Hart # 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 revenge of the concept

2003-01-22 Thread Keith Hart
, and the totalizing form of exploitation and accumulation-for-accumulation's-sake that's currently being passed off as the universal, abstract language of self-regulating markets. Amen to that. So let's get on with making the economic forms we need, not just protesting against them. Keith Hart

nettime Rhizome's revenge

2003-01-26 Thread Keith Hart
in information technology and money markets, as well of course as by the emancipation of women since the 1960s. So, if capitalism's moral economy is still with us, its social and technological foundations are definitely moving fast. Keith Hart # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without

nettime basic terms in the IP discusssion

2003-08-28 Thread Keith Hart
Felix, You have opened up a can of worms with these definitions which seem to float between universal usage and specific application to information. I have always found the introductory chapter of C.B. Macpherson ed Property (U. of Toronto Press, 1978), The meaning of property, useful and

Re: nettime A Puff Piece on Wikipedia (Fwd)

2003-10-03 Thread Keith Hart
have several in mind, but I prefer for now to ask you, dear reader, what you think it might be. Keith Hart # 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 A Puff Piece on Wikipedia (Fwd)

2003-10-06 Thread Keith Hart
responsibility which can and must involve being personal at times, but should not, according to him, impinge unnecessarily on his audience's sensibilities. This contradictory rule of style is hard to follow in practice and may account for the lapse of judgment at the end of my previous post. Keith Hart

Re: nettime A Puff Piece on Wikipedia (Fwd)

2003-10-09 Thread Keith Hart
World War III Blues Bob Dylan There is no need to feel guilty just because they only hand out brains one at a time.And my friend Jim Murray said that. Keith Hart # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism

nettime New Media Education and Its Discontent

2003-10-12 Thread Keith Hart
It is these places [some universities] that are the guardians of intellectual lifeThey cannot teach the qualities that people need in politics and business. Nor can they teach culture and wisdom, any more than theologians teach holiness, or philosophers goodness or sociologists a blueprint

Re: nettime christmas/chomsky/baghdad digest

2003-12-30 Thread Keith Hart
Dan, Thanks for the moving and eloquent confession of an American activist. I don't doubt your honesty for a moment. But there is a blinkered aspect to the way you represent yourself and others like you. It seems as if you are trapped inside an insular American nationalism that your ancestors and

Re: nettime The Art of Sweatshops

2004-08-05 Thread Keith Hart
to this tendency. Keith Hart # 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-l in the msg body # archive: http

nettime The Hitman's Dilemma

2004-11-19 Thread Keith Hart
this and another book in the works, T/he African Revolution /(Polity Press). http://www.thememorybank.co.uk/blog/simpleblog_view But first I thought I would solicit feedback from the nettime list which has provided me with much nourishment of the ideas I explore here. Keith Hart 1. 'Don't take

nettimethe dollar's demise (and the rise of Asia)

2004-11-30 Thread Keith Hart
to invade right now. Anyway, read on, nettimers, and contemplate the end of the world as we=20 know it. Or at least get out while you can. Keith Hart The dollar=92s demise Nov 23rd 2004 From The Economist Global Agenda http://www.economist.com/agenda Is the dollar=92s role as the world=92s reserve

nettime The Hit Man's Dilemma

2005-02-20 Thread Keith Hart
on denying the drive for a genuine democracy. My essay has aimed to clarify who the sides and what the stakes are in this struggle for world society. Keith Hart # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative

nettime The Hit Man's Dilemma

2005-03-28 Thread Keith Hart
I have completed my longish essay, The Hit Man's Dilemma: on business, personal and impersonal. Even if it is not obvious, it was written in some sort of dialogue with members of this list. It can be found at http://www.thememorybank.co.uk/publications/thmd and will be published shortly by

Re: nettime The Ghost in the Network

2005-05-17 Thread Keith Hart
of stasis, randomness and atomism which can't make sense of network growth with preferences. Keith Hart # 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 The hope and reality of money

2005-06-28 Thread Keith Hart
The link to Kushner on Miller should be http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050613s=kushner # 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 #

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2005-12-06 Thread Keith Hart
by an alliance of the Irish Free State (de Valeira), South Africa (Malan) and Canada (Mackenzie King), all of whom wanted to get out, but found it practical to stay in and make trouble. Imagine the Canadians in such company, but they wanted their independence too -- and got it. Keith Hart # distributed

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

2006-03-30 Thread Keith Hart
; Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle; Roger Osborne, author of Civilization: A New History of the Western World and Jeremy Stangroom, co-founder, The Philosophers' Magazine. Wed 19 Apr 19:00 Nash Room And on that suicide note, Cheers, Keith Hart # distributed via nettime

Re: nettime Mona Cholet/ le Monde Diplolmatique: France's precarious graduate

2006-05-20 Thread Keith Hart
On her anonymous blog, Séverine, a 28-year-old Parisian graduate, posted this: I'm from the intellectual underclass. One of those who fry their brains, read megabytes of books, magazines, web pages, political pamphlets and petitions, and never get anything out of it. I'm like an engine

Re: nettime Technologies of Resistance: Transgression and Solidarity in Tactical Media

2006-06-02 Thread Keith Hart
Hi Brian, Jackie Dugard did a Cambridge University PhD on informal economy and violence in post-apartheid South Africa a few years back. It was specifically about the 'taxi wars' in Johannesburg/Pretoria and Cape Town, armed conflict between gangs for control of the minibus passenger transport

Re: nettime money is always personal and impersonal

2007-02-09 Thread Keith Hart
Ben, Thanks for your immediate and detailed response. The issues you raise go to the heart of what I was exploring and I could reply at greater length, but I will restrict myself here to some headlines. What you seem to be getting at here is that in order to assume responsibility for life