Chris Grey: The Brexit aporia

< https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-brexit-aporia.html > Friday, 31 May 2019 The Brexit aporia Posted by Chris Grey As anticipated [5]in my post a month ago, Britain is well on course to squander the extension period, primarily by virtue of the Tory leadersh

Re: Critical literature on big tech corps?

All these suggestions so far seem good, but they mainly focus on 'tech' corporations, as if to suggest that some diffuse idea of technology is categorically different from everything else that corporations have been doing for centuries. One big problem with this is the relationship between thes

RIP Michael Gurstein

I'm sad to pass this news on. T < https://www.facebook.com/gurstein/posts/10155671874752457 > Michael Gurstein October 2, 1944 - October 8, 2017 Michael Gurstein was born on October 2, 1944 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Emanuel (Manny) and Sylvia Gurstein. While still an infant, the famil

Re: Barcelona: nationalism, municipalism?

On 4 Oct 2017, at 11:13, oliver lerone schultz wrote: I think this is a very relevant position for the nettime public, coming from xnet, right in the middle between progressive politics and critical digital culture... A few pointers re the internet angle — because they're at hand, not becau

Re: New "thought rhythms'

On 4 Oct 2017, at 5:58, David Garcia wrote: Don’t try to dig what we all s-s-say. Funny you should mention that. Some time back I saw some squib go by in which one of The Who said that rock is dead, and that that kind of creative energy has been flowing into rap. I'd like to think it was To

Re: The Copenhagen Letter

1998: http://technorealism.org/ HTH T PS: It's a pity that "We who have signed this letter will hold ourselves and each other accountable for putting these ideas into practice" didn't think to provide any obvious mechanism for seeing who signed it. If you look at the page source you'll find

Re: Can the Left Meme?

On 16 Jun 2017, at 13:25, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote: Lots of bad bits too. No amount of theory can paper over basic flaws in analysis. Thanks for your points below. But I am just not seeing the connection between your analysis of left vs right language politics and the basic flaws in th

Re: Can the Left Meme?

Lots of bad bits too. No amount of theory can paper over basic flaws in analysis. One of the more useful observations I've seen lately (can't remember the source, alas) is that in the current US political context rightists see violence as a form of speech whereas leftists see speech as a form

Re: The meaning of Macron (short answer: none)

On 6 May 2017, at 21:16, Morlock Elloi wrote: Tomorrow's elections will answer a simple question: is Europe fundamentally different from the US? So...is it? Cheers, T # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborat

Re: In Praise of Cash (or just another luddite nationalist

The rest of this "the left failed" thread is dismal, but not because it's right, true, or even accurate — it's mostly a variation on 'ritual hippie punching. In conservative-leaning circles (i.e., circles where identifying as 'leftist' would be unthinkable), hippie-punching usually comes at the

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

One of the quirks of this list, which is one reason I've loved it so much for so long (and that's no exaggeration), is its very European style. For many purposes, the US has served as a weird sort of Orient -- not just in the sense of a trope that encompasses an empirically geographical 'over t

RIP Nathalie Magnan

Many reports on Facebook confirm that Nathalie Magnan passed away yesterday, Sat 15 October 2016. Some nettimers knew her, a few more probably know of her, but most may have at most seen her name. What follows is a brief effort to cobble together a short memorial, partly in the hope that others wh

Revisiting Roger Ailes (from the nettime archives: 1995-12-07)

tration. I've only made two changes to the text, deleting an old PGP sig and contact info. Cheers, T - - - - - - - 8< SNIP! 8< - - - - - - - To: nettime {AT} is.in-berlin.de Subject: political media consultants (English) From: tbyfield {AT} panix.com (t byfield) Date: Thu, 7 De

Re: What were the first instances of hacking 4

This is a great question. I guess you've used the bog-standard method of looking it up? Etymology is pretty old-fashioned, I know, but you never know what you'll turn up -- like the Oxford English Dictionary's attestations of the phrase 'blow the whistle' in P. G. Wodehouse (1934) and Raymond C

Re: artfcity: Turbulence.org Going Offline

On 24 May 2016, at 19:35, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote: > BTW, note that one way to really 'write in private' is to use hardware > bought for cash while not carrying cellphone, connect to the network > in a crowded public space, without carrying cellphone or credit cards, > send one message thr

Re: Ten Theses on the Panama Papers

On 7 Apr 2016, at 4:15, Florian Cramer wrote: Berger is by far not the only one with this opinion. After I posted his article here, WikiLeaks retweeted the link to Nettime's archive and Berger's piece. Before, Wikileaks tweeted the following (so we can consider it WikiLeaks' official position on

'responsible' handling of the Panama Papers

Here's a mail I just sent to a list devoted to discussion of 'responsible data.' Cheers, T - - - - - - - 8< SNIP! 8< - - - - - - - Hi, all -- I appreciate that a forum devoted to responsible data is what it says on the tin, but I want to question the reflexive assumption that journalists'

Re: Ten Theses on the Panama Papers

On 5 Apr 2016, at 9:17, Patrice Riemens wrote: 7. Leaks have become unquestionable. With earlier disclosures, the authenticity of documents leaked could always be credibly disputed. Nowadays the authenticity of materials obtained thru electronic leaks, due to its sheer magnitude and the one to

Re: Return of the F-scale

On 28 Feb 2016, at 23:29, Brian Holmes wrote: Those are my thoughts, Really great. What follows is more chiming in than replying to you per se, Brian. Though I do want to amplify one thing you said: You know, by simple math of wealth and access, I'm of the privileged. But I'm frankly afra

Re: thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last

On 23 Nov 2015, at 23:48, John Hopkins wrote: It's Amurika, so if the students can post a letter-writing animation on Vine it will be deemed a massive strategic success ... clicktivism-clacktivism ... demands for everything from a Gaussian grade distribution skewed hard to A+ A A- to classroom-b

Re: choose-your-own adventure: a brief history of nettime

David, I agree that it's always great to see how Brian situates ideas with incredible breadth. Maybe you should've asked him to write an essay about nettime for your tactical media anthology. :^) But I want to question your account of the time. The rubble of the twin towers was an anthill comp

Re: VW

On 3 Oct 2015, at 15:07, Florian Cramer wrote: If you carefully read my points here on Nettime, then it shouldn't have escaped you that I defended this funding (against Ted) and actually consider it a good case of repurposing company profits for public research and education. No, I didn't say

Re: VW

Jaromil, I agree with much of what you say, so I'll try to find a focused place where a response might actually get somewhere. On 2 Oct 2015, at 10:31, Jaromil wrote: Relying on open-source metaphor-mantras ('Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?') to analyze peculiar dynamics of the

Re: VW

On 25 Sep 2015, at 20:59, Michael Gurstein wrote: Thanks Ted, very useful. I guess what I'm curious about is the motivations, individual and/or corporate thought processes/incentives etc. that underlie the initial decision to go down this path and then the multitude of decisions at various le

VW

A few thoughts about the VW scandal The VW scandal may not seem very nettimish, but I'll argue that it is. This'll take a while, because it is, as they say now, #epic. If you're interested, read on. Cheers, T There are a few 'immaterial' sectors we're used to thinking of as somehow uniquel

Re: Rice Seminar - Chronotopic Imaginaries: The City in Signs,

On 12 Sep 2015, at 15:39, John Young forwarded: As Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, once put it, there is "one centralized Achilles' heel" to the Web's otherwise decentralized system: computers may be free to talk to each other, but only if they abide by given naming conventions. This

Lori Emerson: What's Wrong With the Internet and How We Can Fix It: Interview With Internet Pioneer John Day

Via RISKS loriemerson July 23, 2015 What's Wrong With the Internet and How We Can Fix It: Interview With Internet

Re: “Greece Brought a Latte to a

Felix, I think you're too pessimistic. Greece faced a long, dark tunnel before Tsipras became PM, and they face one now -- maybe on worse objective terms than before, as many think. In the short time Syriza has led Greece, the nation's economy has deteriorated seriously. Tsipras is compromised

Re: What should GCHQ do?

You make some excellent points, Morlock, but -- if I understand your first sentence correctly -- most of what I said doesn't follow from an ironclad assumption that there are two sides. A simple proof: the DIY approach you advocate would have the same effect of ~privatizing records. Why? Becaus

Re: What should GCHQ do?

On 24 May 2015, at 7:09, William Waites wrote: And so we have arrived at the economic problem. The business model of advertising has the same basic requirements as mass surveillance. Thwarting one by decentralisation and ensuring confidentiality of communications means thwarting the other. Impro

Re: nottime: the end of nettime

Felix and I didn't plan any particular follow-up to the announcement, in part because we didn't know how people would respond. First, nettime isn't shutting down. I don't even know how we'd do that, or if Felix and I would 'have the right' to do that. I see moderating nettime as service to --

Re: The Greek elections?

Flick, the Schäuble-Varoufakis press conference today was very interesting, so you might want to watch it: http://youtu.be/hlbJHSsnOBs -- the action starts after 7:30 or so. At around 30:00, Varoufakis addresses some of what you talk about -- and, given the anodyne setting, he's shock

Re: Call for publication of all Snowden papers gets louder

On 16 Nov 2014, at 12:20, Molly Hankwitz wrote: Go, Geert! Great thought. Also, a great and powerful demonstration of how publishing is out if bounds to censorship today! I wouldn't bet on that. Exploring the net's potential as a kind of 'middleware' to facilitate material production has bee

Re: Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of "Highbrow Journalism".

John (H), I'm not sure how it helps anyone to say that the declining editorial quality of a posh magazine is inexorably linked in some thermodynamicky way with the ultimate fate of the universe. If it is, then so is everything else, which doesn't really lead us anywhere but a metaphysical wormh

Re: Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of "Highbrow Journalism"

On 15 Oct 2014, at 20:30, gab fest wrote: > Organized envy sounds like a fair characterization. But the > organization is small and centered on a few friends and associates of > Medina. Then there are others engaging in opportunistic one-offs on > Twitter and Facebook, at various levels of enga

Re: Guillaume Lachenal: Ebola: a brilliantly scripted

. Cheers, T <http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9809/msg00119.html> * To: nettime-l {AT} Desk.nl * Subject: EXTREMELY DISTURBING NONSENSE * From: t byfield * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:53:15 -0400 * Sender: owner-ne

Re: algorithmic regulation [+ [RISKS] Risks Digest 28.15]

On 11 Aug 2014, at 7:10, d...@geer.org wrote: > I was the keynote speaker at Black Hat last week, and while > preparing the talk (*) read up a bit on the (new to me) term > of art "algorithmic regulation." That term and the concept > behind it seem to be on-topic for this list. A bit of Google >

Re: algorithmic regulation [+ [RISKS] Risks Digest 28.15]

On 11 Aug 2014, at 7:10, d...@geer.org wrote: > I was the keynote speaker at Black Hat last week, and while > preparing the talk (*) read up a bit on the (new to me) term > of art "algorithmic regulation." That term and the concept > behind it seem to be on-topic for this list. A bit of Google >

Re: More Crisis in the Information Society

Florian, unfortunately, I agree with what I think is the gist of what you wrote -- but didn't say anything to justify your various rebuttals. So, for example, I noted that there's a fracture between how people working roughly political science and the humanities understand what it means for so

Re: More Crisis in the Information Society

One curious thing about this discussion is that most of the people involved are speaking from their experiences on faculties involved, broadly, speaking, in 'digital culture.' This field sits in an odd conceptual space between design, art, 'technology' (e.g., computer science), and critical fie

Re: tensions within the bay area elites

amc...@gmail.com (Thu 05/15/14 at 12:17 AM -0700): > These are corporations operating in a pseudo-Capitalist economic system, > doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing. There is no such thing as > evil in this context, only logical self-interest. > > You either regulate their behavior, o

Re: tensions within the bay area elites

On May 13, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Brian Holmes wrote, but not in this order: > Why the military robots? Why not remember Manuel De Landa's little book, War > In the Age of Intelligent Machines, which caused such a stir in its day? De > Landa predicted that computers would gain autonomous intelligen

conjunctural analysis

Brian wrote: > To do a conjunctural analysis is to expose yourself, not only to > error, but far in advance of that, to the immediate scorn of those > whose greed and fear make them toe the dominant line (it most often > reduces to cynical passivity). The academy, it's sad to say, is > filled wit

Re: NSA-spying-on-Europe outrage somewhat disingenuous

ke...@thememorybank.co.uk (Wed 07/03/13 at 09:57 AM +0200): > This observation does not undermine Brian's or Marko's, but the > perspective oif comparative law amplified to tak ein broader cultural > practices might lend some precision to what we expect when private and > public law meet. Wolfgan

Re: Means of production: The factory-floor knowledge

morlockel...@yahoo.com (Sat 03/23/13 at 12:18 PM -0700): > "Desktop publishing", now 20+ years old, had the same false premise. > Ability to typeset and print at home did not change publishing world > much. The same big publishers are making the same money today, and > choose what they want to pri

no need for Mute

Mute magazine has been running a crowd-funding campaign for the past several weeks, and happily they've met their goal. Which means there's no *need* to send an appeal to nettime. Indeed, if anything, they should be acknowledged for their principled restraint in that regard. Most would-be crowd-fu

Re: Naomi Wolf: This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers (Gu...

Silly Keith, don't you get it? "Guns" -- a proxy for all PHYSICAL aggression -- are just *props* in the "theater" of warfare. Sure, they "work" in the sense of actually destroying human bodies and the "fear" of them has actual, empirical consequences; but from a HISTORICAL perspective, "we're all

Re: What do you think about .art?

r...@robmyers.org (Sat 03/10/12 at 06:25 PM +): > Also, I demand a .marx domain. The question's moot now because NTIA just announced that it was canceling the RFP for IANA: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=e90ec616702fd6c52c91c0e67ccbf501&_cview=0 In plai

Re: Portland Occupation's tactical innovation

jhopk...@neoscenes.net (Wed 01/04/12 at 12:41 PM -0700): > hei tim -- [Ted, thanks.] > From what I've looked found, those vets who return to police or > other public/private sector law enforcement/security-related > positions are around 1:8. That does not include ones who stay in the > military

Re: Portland Occupation's tactical innovation

jhopk...@neoscenes.net (Sun 01/01/12 at 05:24 PM -0700): > It's worth keeping in mind that in the next months and years > (already!), police ranks are being filled with well-equipped, > well-trained, and battle-hardened Iraq/Afghanistan vets. They have > been tested under extreme conditions far b

Re: Debt Campaign Launch

Unless I missed it, no one in this thread seems to have noted what might be the most significant factor in this ~debate -- that edudebt used to be dischargeable in the US. This was a bete noire of the financial industry, which since the late '70s has pushed to make it inescapable. I remember sus

from the archives: 9/11 ten years after

< http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0109/msg00125.html > to: Nettime subject: Re: Personal accounts of the bombings [4x] from: t byfield date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:40:48 -0400 <...> > As a New Yorker, it's so utterly weird to sense, in

Re: unprintability (part 1)

charles.bald...@mail.wvu.edu (Sun 08/21/11 at 02:39 PM -0400): > Do not print this book I had a similar experience with them when they refused to print the book _Cablegate: The Complete Wikileaks Datadump_, Volume 1, which consisted of 200 pages of apparently random 2-bit snow. http://www.netti

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on SWARTZ

OK, guys, it's safe -- he's gone. Finally, we can stop pretending to be ~4000 international leftoids and really let our freak flags fly. Let me tell you, I'm *totally* excited! After thirteen years of co-moderating this list, Felix and I can finally change its stupid name. I mean, WTF does "netti

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on SWARTZ

dgolum...@gmail.com (Sat 07/23/11 at 09:52 PM -0400): > but the questions remain. Did Swartz ask JSTOR for permission? It seems > likely to me that JSTOR would have been willing (and probably still would be > willing) to work with a researcher to provide either data or access to data > to ask the

Re: Rapture billboard

m.reinsboro...@qub.ac.uk (Sun 05/29/11 at 09:34 PM +0100): > does anyone have more info on this Rapture dynamic that happened in USA. > is it true that a surprisingly large number of people in the USA belief > in "rapture" Current evangelical ideas about the rapture are only the latest incarnatio

Re: ISEA 2011 fees

jhopk...@neoscenes.net (Sun 05/22/11 at 10:31 PM +1000): > It is merely, as Ted Kaczynski suggested once upon a time, the drift > towards the soothing confirmation of hyper-socialization? This > being a drift away from idiosyncrasy and a trust in one's own life > experience and the relevance of