Re: [-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything?
Hi Micha, yes, thank you for sharing those precious links. At UCSD, very few students, faculty and staff that I've talked to knew about or support the strike do. Myself and a handful of other faculty, staff and students are striking, but is the very idea of a strike not viral but more based in monolothic constituencies and factory models of labor? No, I just think that after 3-4 decades of resting on dreams of unabated growth Americans (and Californians in particular) need to be re-educated and reawakened as to what it means to lose one's job, as to what it means to fight for it, and what it means to risk of losing your job for defending it. So thank you for taking on this rather humongous task ;-) To me it is not a matter of virality but of culture. People in Latin America, Asia, Europe and all over the world keep going on strike for defending their jobs, demanding higher wages, security on the workplace, etc. It is only in this country that three decades of brainwashing have led to the obliteration of historic memory (the cancellation of May1st being the most notable example), and to the perception that going on strike is somehow out of fashion. In actual fact, there exists a growing global movement to defend public education, and to build an entirely different model of knowledge sharing. You are probably familiar with this site: http://www.edu-factory.org which reports the news of 15 arrests at UCLA: http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=240:students-arrested-at-uclacatid=34:strugglesItemid=53 and whose picture eloquently show the response of public authorities to this growing mobilization. Perhaps the spreading occupations are more viral? I wonder about this as I start going on strike tomorrow and join actions at UCSD... Well, it is not up to me to say that strikes and occupations are just two sides of the same coin. ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything?
Its curious, the organizing of the UC strikes. There seem to be about 50 websites, several layers of organization who do not seem coordinated, and a strike call that (I might just be uninformed) was made without consultation with many people that now has shown to be at least nominally affective in getting us to strike. Talk about viral, I don't even think it has much to do with media for us or our students. Its more about an idea that makes sense, in a last ditch throw spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks kind of way. I do not mean that as dismissive in the very least. Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything. Occupy all the spaces of potential organizing. I 'm not think our students watch corporate media. They are online and in classrooms. They've heard about it from some bits on facebook and more traditional forms like talking to peers and teachers. Cara Baldwin mentioned that, in this traditional manner, Foucalt comes in to play big time here. Its clear to us that if all the students signed the damed petitions going around, it'd be pretty difficult for power to so blithely ignore opinion. And though surrounded on campus by universal agreement that the whole situation is just bad, they don't sign up. Its their internal cop. Insurrection. What about that. M On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:17 PM, feraly...@earthlink.net wrote: just appreciating you micha. thank you for this. -Original Message- From: micha cardenas / azdel slade azdelsl...@gmail.com Sent: Nov 18, 2009 2:24 AM To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: [-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything? Are the UC strikes and occupations viral? http://theimaginarycommittee.wordpress.com/ http://ucstrike.com/ http://www.facebook.com/?q=#/group.php?gid=127873822709ref=ts http://savingucsd.ning.com http://savingucla.ning.com/ http://www.newuniversity.org/2009/11/opinion/regents%E2%80%99-meeting-a-historic-opportunity/ http://ucop.cc Or are they an example of the way that viral media still relies on corporate media to get very large numbers? At UCSD, very few students, faculty and staff that I've talked to knew about or support the strike do. Myself and a handful of other faculty, staff and students are striking, but is the very idea of a strike not viral but more based in monolothic constituencies and factory models of labor? Perhaps the spreading occupations are more viral? I wonder about this as I start going on strike tomorrow and join actions at UCSD... -- micha cárdenas / azdel slade Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
[-empyre-] Critical Movement Practice, Viral Communication, and Design
Dear empyre, I just received a pix from Ashley Ferro-Murray at the University of Berkeley. Those of you on empyre will recall that she was a guest during our discussion on Critical Movement Practice. She is in the streets right now with many other graduate students, staff, and faculty from her department as well as many others in the humanities, rhetoric, film. Her department of Performance Studies has been supporting other students and staff who also went on strike a few weeks ago. The image reveals fully geared security who appear armed. She reports that some students are taking over a building as I write this and one student was accosted and beaten by one of the security team. The factory model of their political action has been generated by viral organization and communication that makes their efforts engaging, contagious, and efficient. How ironic as I sit here at my computer thinking about a new design rampage that seems to be brewing rampantly in the visual arts here in NY within the art world and our world at the university. Generated and I think influenced from digital technology and design initiatives, this shift appears to me at least to be void of models that engage politics and the economic crisis. It is the space that is situated between political and social action, viral communication, and design spectacle that prompted our discussion this month on empyre. Wishing I could be on the West side of the country right now. But I'm thankful for email, pix messages, and facebook which places me virtually there for now. In solidarity, Renate Hi Micha, yes, thank you for sharing those precious links. At UCSD, very few students, faculty and staff that I've talked to knew about or support the strike do. Myself and a handful of other faculty, staff and students are striking, but is the very idea of a strike not viral but more based in monolothic constituencies and factory models of labor? No, I just think that after 3-4 decades of resting on dreams of unabated growth Americans (and Californians in particular) need to be re-educated and reawakened as to what it means to lose one's job, as to what it means to fight for it, and what it means to risk of losing your job for defending it. So thank you for taking on this rather humongous task ;-) To me it is not a matter of virality but of culture. People in Latin America, Asia, Europe and all over the world keep going on strike for defending their jobs, demanding higher wages, security on the workplace, etc. It is only in this country that three decades of brainwashing have led to the obliteration of historic memory (the cancellation of May1st being the most notable example), and to the perception that going on strike is somehow out of fashion. In actual fact, there exists a growing global movement to defend public education, and to build an entirely different model of knowledge sharing. You are probably familiar with this site: http://www.edu-factory.org which reports the news of 15 arrests at UCLA: http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=240:students-arrested-at-uclacatid=34:strugglesItemid=53 and whose picture eloquently show the response of public authorities to this growing mobilization. Perhaps the spreading occupations are more viral? I wonder about this as I start going on strike tomorrow and join actions at UCSD... Well, it is not up to me to say that strikes and occupations are just two sides of the same coin. ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Art Cornell University, Tjaden Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: r...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.renateferro.net Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space http://www.subtle.net/empyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre Art Editor, diacritics http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/ ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] The Necrosocial and UCLA Students Mased in the Face as UC Regents Run!
Hola all, The Necrosocial and UCLA Students Mased in the Face as UC Regents Run! http://savingucsd.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-necrosocial-and-ucla abrazo, Ricardo Dear empyre, I just received a pix from Ashley Ferro-Murray at the University of Berkeley. Those of you on empyre will recall that she was a guest during our discussion on Critical Movement Practice. She is in the streets right now with many other graduate students, staff, and faculty from her department as well as many others in the humanities, rhetoric, film. Her department of Performance Studies has been supporting other students and staff who also went on strike a few weeks ago. The image reveals fully geared security who appear armed. She reports that some students are taking over a building as I write this and one student was accosted and beaten by one of the security team. The factory model of their political action has been generated by viral organization and communication that makes their efforts engaging, contagious, and efficient. How ironic as I sit here at my computer thinking about a new design rampage that seems to be brewing rampantly in the visual arts here in NY within the art world and our world at the university. Generated and I think influenced from digital technology and design initiatives, this shift appears to me at least to be void of models that engage politics and the economic crisis. It is the space that is situated between political and social action, viral communication, and design spectacle that prompted our discussion this month on empyre. Wishing I could be on the West side of the country right now. But I'm thankful for email, pix messages, and facebook which places me virtually there for now. In solidarity, Renate Hi Micha, yes, thank you for sharing those precious links. At UCSD, very few students, faculty and staff that I've talked to knew about or support the strike do. Myself and a handful of other faculty, staff and students are striking, but is the very idea of a strike not viral but more based in monolothic constituencies and factory models of labor? No, I just think that after 3-4 decades of resting on dreams of unabated growth Americans (and Californians in particular) need to be re-educated and reawakened as to what it means to lose one's job, as to what it means to fight for it, and what it means to risk of losing your job for defending it. So thank you for taking on this rather humongous task ;-) To me it is not a matter of virality but of culture. People in Latin America, Asia, Europe and all over the world keep going on strike for defending their jobs, demanding higher wages, security on the workplace, etc. It is only in this country that three decades of brainwashing have led to the obliteration of historic memory (the cancellation of May1st being the most notable example), and to the perception that going on strike is somehow out of fashion. In actual fact, there exists a growing global movement to defend public education, and to build an entirely different model of knowledge sharing. You are probably familiar with this site: http://www.edu-factory.org which reports the news of 15 arrests at UCLA: http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=240:students-arrested-at-uclacatid=34:strugglesItemid=53 and whose picture eloquently show the response of public authorities to this growing mobilization. Perhaps the spreading occupations are more viral? I wonder about this as I start going on strike tomorrow and join actions at UCSD... Well, it is not up to me to say that strikes and occupations are just two sides of the same coin. ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Art Cornell University, Tjaden Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: r...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.renateferro.net Co-moderator of _empyre soft skinned space http://www.subtle.net/empyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre Art Editor, diacritics http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/ ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Ricardo Dominguez Associate Professor Hellman Fellow Visual Arts Department, UCSD http://visarts.ucsd.edu/ Principal Investigator, CALIT2 http://calit2.net Co-Chair gall...@calit2 http://gallery.calit2.net CRCA Researcher http://crca.ucsd.edu/ Ethnic Studies Affiliate http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/ Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate http://cilas.ucsd.edu Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Board Member http://hemi.nyu.edu University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0436 Phone: (619) 322-7571 e-mail: rrdoming...@ucsd.edu Project sites: site: http://gallery.calit2.net site:
Re: [-empyre-] Chicana Gang of Coyotecks - Todays v iral report on the Transborder Immigrant Tool
Todays viral report on the Transborder Immigrant Tool. What the viral echos have taught us about the hactivating the redesign for the next level of the project: from now on bang.lab/EDT will now call our selves a Chicana Gang of Coyotecks!! (a thought from our research poet). The strain is spreading - a short guide: Last Updated: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 3:59pm An activist Chicano professor at a taxpayer-funded university has created special technology to help Mexicans enter the United States illegally by mapping the safest routes through the notoriously rigorous southern border desert http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/nov/u-s-prof-maps-out-safe-routes-mexicans-heading-north Phone apps for illegal immigrants Foreign Policy - #8206;Nov 17, 2009#8206; Tue, 11/17/2009 - 7:45am I can only guess what Bill O'Reilly has to say about this. Probably, something along the lines of Ban all phones! http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/17/phone_apps_for_illegal_immigrants A GLOBAL POETIC POSITIONING SYSTEM BY NEZUA. WRITTEN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 2009 10:44 AM ART, ACTIVISM, AND TECHNOLOGY MAESTROS will wield the paintbrushes that splash a poetic hue of dawn over the cracking and flaking façades of injustice that today, stand, smoking, hulking, and hovering over la tierra y nuestra primavera! http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2009/11/18/a-global-poetic-positioning-system/ WEDNESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2009 Crossing Borders - Technology From Both Sides http://nobordersbrighton.blogspot.com/2009/11/crossing-borders-technology-from-both.html NEWSru.com #1052;#1077;#1082;#1089;#1080;#1082;#1072;#1085;#1094;#1072;#1084;, #1085;#1077;#1083;#1077;#1075;#1072;#1083;#1100;#1085;#1086; #1087;#1077;#1088;#1077;#1089;#1077;#1082;#1072;#1102;#1097;#1080;#1084; #1075;#1088;#1072;#1085;#1080;#1094;#1091; #1089; #1057;#1064;#1040;, #1087;#1086;#1084;#1086;#1078;#1077;#1090; #1084;#1086;#1073;#1080;#1083;#1100;#1085;#1099;#1081; #1082;#1086;#1084;#1087;#1072;#1089; NEWSru.com - #8206;11 hours ago#8206; #1055;#1088;#1086;#1075;#1088;#1072;#1084;#1084;#1072; Transborder Immigrant Tool #1088;#1072;#1073;#1086;#1090;#1072;#1077;#1090; #1089; #1087;#1086;#1084;#1086;#1097;#1100;#1102; GPS #1080; #1103;#1074;#1083;#1103;#1077;#1090;#1089;#1103; #1072;#1089;#1089;#1080;#1089;#1090;#1077;#1085;#1090;#1086;#1084; #1076;#1083;#1103; #1087;#1077;#1088;#1077;#1089;#1077;#1082;#1072;#1102;#1097;#1080;#1093; #1075;#1088;#1072;#1085;#1080;#1094;#1091;. #1055;#1088;#1080;#1083;#1086;#1078;#1077;#1085;#1080;#1077; #1076;#1077;#1081;#1089;#1090;#1074;#1091;#1077;#1090; #1082;#1072;#1082; #1082;#1086;#1084;#1087;#1072;#1089;, ... Flüchtlings-Hilfe mit GPS taz - #8206;10 hours ago#8206; Das Transborder Immigrant Tool soll demnächst illegalen Einwanderern das Passieren der Grenze zwischen den USA und Mexiko erleichtern - und sich auf jedes ... O Globo Aplicativo móvel aponta melhores rotas para imigrantes ilegais que vão do ... O Globo - #8206;Nov 17, 2009#8206; Para ajudar essas pessoas a enfrentar as intempéries do deserto, um grupo de ativistas criou a Transborder Immigrant Tool, um aplicativo que mapeia as ... November 20, 2009 9:26 AM New GPS tool will help immigrants cross border BY CINDY CARCAMO The Orange County Register http://www.ocregister.com/news/border-220422-people-desert.html Some Tweet stats: http://topsy.com/tb/www.viceland.com/int/v16n11/htdocs/follow-the-gps-225.php Abrazos, Chicana Gang of Coyotecks! -- Ricardo Dominguez Associate Professor Hellman Fellow Visual Arts Department, UCSD http://visarts.ucsd.edu/ Principal Investigator, CALIT2 http://calit2.net Co-Chair gall...@calit2 http://gallery.calit2.net CRCA Researcher http://crca.ucsd.edu/ Ethnic Studies Affiliate http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/ Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate http://cilas.ucsd.edu Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Board Member http://hemi.nyu.edu University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0436 Phone: (619) 322-7571 e-mail: rrdoming...@ucsd.edu Project sites: site: http://gallery.calit2.net site: http://pitmm.net site: http://bang.calit2.net site: http://www.thing.net/~rdom blog:http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
