Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

2016-02-13 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
despite I would share amost all of the general goals of DiEM25, there are some remarkable procedural inconsistencies: - intransparency: how can you criticize the compositon of EU-closed meetings and apply the very same practice with a totally intransparent selection process for the core

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
could it be, that it's a kind of hoax? Like: two bubbles trying trying to keep each other up by leaning against one another: a fragile bitcoin market on the one side and a dysfunctional art market on the other side. with the simple idea idea to create those crazy prices and to to lure luring

Re: The War to come ...

2022-03-11 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
why not cutting stuff short: the war is going brilliantly. 3 goals have alread been achieved 1) keep the Russians out 2) the Americans in 3) the Germans down. (Lord Ismay) Now, please: harshest sanctions ever, in order to also reach the last goal: 4) Fuck the EU! (Nuland) Mission almost

Re: FSB 'dissident' voice

2022-03-14 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
bcs it's most likely a British secret service related fakenews pseudo-activist astroturf propaganda site, sponsored by the integrity intiative: here a bunch of links, of which Craig Murray is the most credible source, the others to be taken with a grain of salt:

Re: Irregular Ukraine Linklist

2022-03-16 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
add this: Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor on the situation in Ukraine and Washington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFngc_8RiVc Am 16.03.2022 um 09:08 schrieb Geert Lovink: Compiled for/by INC Ukraine page and more tech meets tactical media initiatives

Re: Irregular Ukraine Linklist

2022-03-16 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
careful about whom and what to support. s Am 16.03.2022 um 12:05 schrieb Ted Byfield: On 16 Mar 2022, at 4:45, Stefan Heidenreich wrote: add this: Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor on the situation in Ukraine and Washington: It seems strange to see

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 174, Issue 40

2022-03-17 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
Re: Irregular Ukraine Linklist (Ted Byfield)    2. Re: Irregular Ukraine Linklist (Stefan Heidenreich)    3. More Ukraine links (Michael Benson) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ted Byfield mailto:tedbyfi...@gmail.com>> To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org <mailto:net

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 174, Issue 40

2022-03-17 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
, Ted On Mar 17, 2022, 18:26 -0400, Stefan Heidenreich , wrote: it's a double bind + cognitive dissonance problem: for most western intellectuals, after years of fighting for the right causes (which I also supported and keep supporting) it is very difficult to realize that one has

Re: What is Eurasianism?

2022-03-12 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
bcs we shouldn't (care about it) my impression is that the current ruins Eurasian modell give a noisy echo of old Mackinder / Mahan / Spykman ideas, plus a Schmittian worldwiew. Old times: different technology, different media, different military. Maybe it still prevails in the

Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques

2022-01-20 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
Science thrives with doubts and diversity. And ends with apodictic calls to stop discussions. Sorry to say, Florian: your statement sounds to me like an attempt to block a very much needed debate. The comparison with intelligent design is itself a propagandistic trope. Even being "provax", I'd

Re: Germany's geopolitics

2023-03-04 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
Hi Pit, with the thread firmly back in the closet, I thought to give a second look at your text. Let me try to better point out the Schmittian fallcy: it looks at the situation assuming the wrong actors, as in realist 'nations'. Parts of the world operate indeed 'post-westphalian' - but not

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-17 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
Black Soil white money ... a short summer of the end of the history of (neoliberal) globalisation, mediated, of course, by the rise of the Internet. to be followed by an ugly autumn of global warming, pandemic profiteering, reactionary autocrats challenging the liberal white oligarch

Re: Germany's geopolitics

2023-03-01 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
oh yes: we're being prepared to see China rise and shine as the next big enemy. You can bet on "Chinagate" coming soon :) but: that's exactly how far the Schmittian aproach holds. No inch further. Let's face it: the reference to Schmitt builds an intellectual phantasy with very little

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-12 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
Hi Brian, thank you so much for this very reasonable request for comments. I've had already written off nettime (as "NATO-shit-list" .. as one participant used to frame it). Your bleak view looks very likely, but it's not the only possible outcome. So, against all odds, let me sketch a

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-13 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
- the defeat of NATO could lead to a "decolonization" of Western Europe (not that this by itself leads to positive results. Repressive "liberal" fascism remains as likely an outcome as some sort of independence.) Oh my, what this is supposed to mean, only chatGPT can explain. well, people

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-13 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
t mutually exclusive, most wars of independence were both struggles for self determination and proxy wars between the great powers, there are always many wars within each war... Oh my, what this is supposed to mean, only chatGPT can explain fies aber lustig x Ana On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 6:00 P

Re: Stormy weather? Daniele Ganser edit

2023-02-14 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
in the US security apparatus see it also as a proxy-war, but I think also Biden's theme of democracy-vs-authoritarianism plays a role. I don't think it's a given that a republican administration under Trump would have done the same (even if some in the military would still ha

Re: Stormy weather? Daniele Ganser edit

2023-02-14 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
I invite Stefan to explain what he suggests we should do instead. nothing. Let people make their own judgement and cite whomever they want to cite. Best Stefan # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text

Re: Stormy weather? Daniele Ganser edit

2023-02-14 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
lectual and activist heir of Sophie Scholl? Cite whomever they want to cite. m On 14 Feb 2023, at 13:32, José María Mateos wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 01:21:54PM +0100, Stefan Heidenreich wrote: I invite Stefan to explain what he suggests we should do instead. nothing. Let people

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-15 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
Hi Felix, there is a problem in your analysis: your framing is only one amongst many others, equally possible. For example, from the viewpoint of the realist school (Mearsheimer) or the geo-economic perspective (M. Hudson) the situation looks very different. Let me sketch it briefly: Well,

Re: Stormy weather? Daniele Ganser edit

2023-02-14 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
Funny, that mail sounds in tone and attitude to me like something I've encountered last time in the Berlin Stasi-archive. The censor has spoken ... s Am 14.02.23 um 17:07 schrieb Ted Byfield: On 14 Feb 2023, at 4:48, Michael Guggenheim wrote: I sent an email to NLR alerting them to this