. Creative Resistance - New Media as Soft Arms [Call for submissions]
"How to avoid life itself becoming an immaterial product?" When the abstract (as a better circumscription of creative/culture/knowledge) industries consumes its own producer, the eternal immaterial Heilstaat is reached, forever lost of its materiality , the human race at last is able to fulfill its final goal, the complete abandonment of all things earthly and material. Body without organs as a final solution. Human life itself as commodity. Makeable on demand, like the right to reproduce as you like it. Body shopping in the real world. The destruction of criticism. Health care, the whole health industries, societys policy towards privileging certain gen technology driven program which purpose is to repopulate the world full of happy, creative people. Chinas campaign of excluding potential parents from adoption by judging them by there weight. Reasoning: fat people produce fat people, which is not of our liking. An exhibition, currently in Amsterdam where the corpses of executed Chinese criminals are exposed to entertain the public. People tend to forget their past. Only one generation ago, there was a strong discourse on how to shape society with the remembrance of Dresden, Hiroshima and Auswitch as hinter-though. It looks like this particular view is abandoned, and very naïve the same roads are once again taken. To take a position in this field of conflicting and immense influential mechanisms is important and difficult to achieve. Destructing the past as a promise for the future? There are more questions then answers, that is why we have to produce good questions to be able to demarcate the necessary steps to be taken , not to repeat ourselves and making the same mistakes over and over again on a much bigger scale. New media has to be armed as a protective force to defend the future. Subvert! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nictoglobe invites you to send a short (max 500 words) submission which reflects upon creative resistance new media as soft arms as an starting point to develop a more profound and public, artistic led discussion about this subject. Send your submissions as a word document attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with - creative resistance - as subject. Deadline 30 Juni 2007. All entries will be published in the summer issue of Nictoglobe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Andreas - Editor - www.nictoglobe.com _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann
