[NetBehaviour] what is a name on Google+
http://www.artisopensource.net/screenshotGPLUS.png Today i connected to Google+ and this attached image appeared. Here is the english translation of the text: It looks as if the name you used does not conform to our Rules on names. According to these rules, you need to use for your profile the same name you use in your real life. Possible nicknames, last names from when you were not married and so on are to be inserted in the Other Names section of your profile. For now only profiles associated to single individuals are permitted: profiles of companies and other entities will be introduced by the end of the year. You profile will be suspended until you change your name to adapt it to the Rules on Names: you will not be able to use all the functions of Google's services which require an active profile, such as Google+, Buzz, Reader and Picasa. You will be able to use other Google services, like GMail. We know that Google+ and its Rules on Names can create difficulties for some users. We hope that you will want to keep being one of us; if you feel like leaving, make sure to copy your information first, and then click here to leave Google+. And, below, a big blue button with Change your Name written across it. There are a few things which I find truly horrifying in this message, starting from the first sentence It looks as if the name you used does not conform to our Rules on names. the idea of rules decided by someone on what i can call myself, is truly horrible, and brings forth terrifying scenarios. And then: According to these rules, you need to use for your profile the same name you use in your real life. What? this is not real life? And what is real life? An office? A line at the post office? A policeman asking for your documents? And what if I live, work and study using this Other Name? And, by the way, how do you know what my real name is? Are you following me? Did you install cameras in my house? Did you talk to my friends about it? And what if I used a fantastic John Smith instead of xDxD.vs.xDxD, would it be better, because it is a regular name? with a first and last name? like a proper, working, professional human being? You profile will be suspended until you change your name to adapt it to the Rules on Names well: byebye Google+ xDxD.vs.xDxD ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] what is a name on Google+
At a Pecha Kucha talk a couple of weeks ago, someone summed it up nicely by reminding us that any form you fill in, is basically a marketing form and you are taking part in market research. I like this explanation. It frees you up to play with 'who' you are on the network. It also means that the only way you can claim back or even stake out a 'piece of land' is by owning your own land/web domain. There are problems of course, if you can't afford a private space. The trick, I think is to play with expectations. But you are right, if you want to be known by a certain name, who is it that decides you should not have that one? xDxD.vs.xDxD is as good a name as any! Best M On 11 Aug 2011, at 10:53, xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote: http://www.artisopensource.net/screenshotGPLUS.png Today i connected to Google+ and this attached image appeared. Here is the english translation of the text: It looks as if the name you used does not conform to our Rules on names. According to these rules, you need to use for your profile the same name you use in your real life. Possible nicknames, last names from when you were not married and so on are to be inserted in the Other Names section of your profile. For now only profiles associated to single individuals are permitted: profiles of companies and other entities will be introduced by the end of the year. You profile will be suspended until you change your name to adapt it to the Rules on Names: you will not be able to use all the functions of Google's services which require an active profile, such as Google+, Buzz, Reader and Picasa. You will be able to use other Google services, like GMail. We know that Google+ and its Rules on Names can create difficulties for some users. We hope that you will want to keep being one of us; if you feel like leaving, make sure to copy your information first, and then click here to leave Google+. And, below, a big blue button with Change your Name written across it. There are a few things which I find truly horrifying in this message, starting from the first sentence It looks as if the name you used does not conform to our Rules on names. the idea of rules decided by someone on what i can call myself, is truly horrible, and brings forth terrifying scenarios. And then: According to these rules, you need to use for your profile the same name you use in your real life. What? this is not real life? And what is real life? An office? A line at the post office? A policeman asking for your documents? And what if I live, work and study using this Other Name? And, by the way, how do you know what my real name is? Are you following me? Did you install cameras in my house? Did you talk to my friends about it? And what if I used a fantastic John Smith instead of xDxD.vs.xDxD, would it be better, because it is a regular name? with a first and last name? like a proper, working, professional human being? You profile will be suspended until you change your name to adapt it to the Rules on Names well: byebye Google+ xDxD.vs.xDxD ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Various interesting links relating to the recent looting riots.
Various interesting links relating to the recent looting riots. Here is a list to links of interesting articles and videos relating to the recent riots, I found some these links elsewhere some I have read seen already, but worth visiting if one wants an overall context... wishing all well. marc =:engage The Salford riots and the greed of the disenfranchised: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/10/salford-riots-greed-disenfranchised An eyewitness perspective on the riots in Salford and Manchester: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/08/483314.html #riotcleanup or #riotwhitewash?: http://universityforstrategicoptimism.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/riotcleanup-or-riotwhitewash/ #Riotcleanup: a physiognomy of an old fascism restored: http://thethirdestate.net/2011/08/riotcleanup-a-physiognomy-of-an-old-fascism-restored/ London rioters resent media image of hooded teen thug: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/10/us-britain-riots-hackney-idUSTRE77946F20110810 An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one): http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html Eyes Wide Open in London: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/08/10/eyes-wide-open-in-london/ Riot Thoughts: http://willwiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/riot-thoughts.html A FITWatchers view of the riots: http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/2011/08/10/a-fitwatchers-view-of-the-riots/ Recreational looting in perspective: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2011/08/09/14135 Riots: The left must respond, by James O'Nions : http://www.redpepper.org.uk/riots-the-left-must-respond/ The Riots: A grim mirror image of neoliberal Britain, by Tom Fox: http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-riots-a-grim-mirror-image-of-neoliberal-britain/ Criminality and Rewards - Max von Sudo: http://libcom.org/library/criminality-rewards-max-von-sudo Britain and its Rabble: http://aspleasesme.blogspot.com/2011/08/britain-and-its-rabble.html Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris: http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4142 From Self-Mutilation to Self-Organisation: http://nomadicutopianism.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/158/ North London Solidarity Federation's Response to the London Riots: http://solfed.org.uk/?q=north-london-solfeds-response-to-the-london-riots The London Riots: On Consumerism Coming Home to Roost, by Zygmunt Bauman: http://tinyurl.com/3b4y9g9 There is a Context to London's Riots which Cannot be Ignored. Cif piece in Guardian by Nina Power: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-london-riots 'Panic on the Streets of London', blogpost by Laurie Penny: http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html 'AA+ for the Rioters?' blogpost by The Free Association: http://freelyassociating.org/2011/08/aa-for-the-rioters/ Statement by Arts Against the Cut: http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/ 'A Message to a Country on Fire', statements by London Anti-Cuts Space: http://anticutsspace.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/a-message-to-a-country-on-fire/ 'London riots: the underclass lashes out': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html 'Five Quick Points on The Riots', by Kenan Malik: http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/five-quick-points-about-the-riots/ 'Don't Moralise, Don't Judge, Don't Take Pictures - It's Time for the Riots to get radical, Daniel Harvey: http://thecommune.co.uk/2011/08/09/don%E2%80%99t-moralise-don%E2%80%99t-judge-don%E2%80%99t-take-pictures-%E2%80%93-it%E2%80%99s-time-for-the-riot-to-get-radical/ Tottenham: Neoliberal Riots and the Possibility of Politics, by William Wall: http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4151 London Riot Pt 2, Arts Against the Cuts: http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/london-riot-pt-2/ Report from members of The Commune about rioting in Hackney: http://thecommune.co.uk/2011/08/09/london-riots-quick-report-from-hackney/ Also: Badiou article about the 'Banlieue riots' in France (2005). Worth a read now: http://infinitethought.cinestatic.com/index.php/site/index/badious_lorganisation_politique_on_the_french_situation/ Riots: The left must respond http://www.redpepper.org.uk/riots-the-left-must-respond/ Darcus Howe on the BBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJgILxGK0o Interesting interview from the London Streets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmo8DG1gno4feature=player_embedded Interview with Tottenham local the morning of Sunday 7th August: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=CJQHWwEpwAY Truly extraordinary speech by Fearless and Brave Lady to Hackney London rioters:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SHKhvVjLIcfeature=youtu.be Darcus Howe and Richard Seymour on Democracy Now: Wednesday, August 10, 2011: http://www.democracynow.org/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves
I've been drinking a glass of horse blood every morning for the last 34 years. But my penis still hasn't grown any larger... From: Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com Date: 11 August 2011 00:19:30 BDT To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Nice someone remember the old gifted writer Cordwainer Smith. I read it when I was quite young and became impressed with his theory of making people with animal qualities, people similar to cats who could see in the dark, people strong as lions, fast as leopards... He was a weird person, worked for FBI or the CIA. Ana On Aug 10, 2011, at 21:08, Annie Abrahams bram@gmail.com wrote: May the horse live in me Interesting experiment, interesting storytelling, but far beyond reality She explained to Centre Press that the whole process made her feel “hyper-powerful, hyper-sensitive and hyper-nervous.” She added: “I had a feeling of being superhuman. I was not normal in my body. I had all of the emotions of a herbivore. I couldn’t sleep and I felt a little bit like a horse.” Interpretation, wishful thinking - bullshit. Anyone who had medical tests done in an hospital to check out the heart and who has been injected with chemicals knows it needs little (these chemicals) to make you feel a completely different person. (anxious, calm, nervous etc) Chemicals have a deep impact on our being (all drug users know this too), feelings, experiences of ourselves, so it's no wonder horse proteins make you feel changed, anything would. I like the experiment, the discussion it triggers, but I abhor the biased language used by these artists. In my opinion it doesn't take science serious, only uses it for something else. Yours Annie On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 10/08/11 18:17, marc garrett wrote: Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves By Olivia Solon Laval-Jeantet and her creative partner Benoit Mangin (working as collective Art Orienté Objet) were keen to explore the blurring of boundaries between species in the piece, entitled May the Horse Live in Me. Laval-Jeantet prepared her body to accept the horse blood plasma by getting injected with different horse immunoglobulins over the course of several months. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/horse-blood-art ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Looting-Give our Kids a Future: Unity demonstrations in North London on Saturday
We have wonderful, local community activists in Haringey. : ) R Saturday, 1pm Give Our Kids a Future! A North London Unity Demonstration 1pm from Gillett Square, Dalston to Tottenham Green This march is called by The North London Assembly, a temporary Assembly which saw 70 local community activists meet at the North London Community House on Tuesday 9th August to discuss our reaction to the riots of early August in Tottenham and Hackney. It includes people from many Turkish and Kurdish community groups, like Day Mer and Gik Der, and also the Haringay and Hackney Alliances for Public Services who are all supporting this march. We state that this is not us seeking to represent the community but it is our attempt to try to bring unity to the community in which we live. It is neither supporting nor condeming the events but seeking the most positive outcome from them. This will be a positive and peaceful march with an Assembly at the end for people to express what they are thinking about recent events. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260822497262285 ___ Activists mailing list activi...@sustainableharingey.org.uk http://sustainableharingey.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/activists_sustainableharingey.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] must ... not ... panic ...
young filly, to be sure a colt or coltress, injected herself with my blood this morning, feeling very week ... she's become neurotic ... ah well ... == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rd.txt == ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves
Hi Annie (and all), I will inject (arf) on this one. Deleuze/Guattari's becoming animal seems relevant. DG are often accused of being unpragmatic and playing hard and fast with science, but of all the philosophers I read, I find them curiously pragmatic. To summarize: they suggest the existence of various planes/strata, some of which would be animal biology, human psychology, art, and symbolic language/iconography. At any time these planes can intersect. Such intersections are forms of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The relevant question is -- what new emergent futures may result from these intersections, and where may they lead that is efficacious? The goal of all this de/re-territorialization is not that science (in this case, biology) should be utterly disregarded and merely mythologized. The goal is that science be seen as only one of many ways in which undifferentiated being/immanence has stratified/territorialized, rather than seeing science as *the* overarching plane through which all other being must necessarily be understood. Having said all that, the key to performoing Deleuzean experiments in de/re-territorializations is *rigor.* Many deterritorializations (forms of body modification, s+m) simply wind up reterritorializing in a whirlpool spiral that ends in death. So for instance (as in Cronenberg's Dead Ringers), you can only literally reconfigure your internal bodily organs for so long before your body rebels and you die. And death is not all that promising a place to wind up (at least for those of us who remain; it doesn' really lead anywhere new or efficacious). The other thing to be avoided is what seems to be happening in this particular art piece -- a bit of biological engagement coupled with a whole lot of human psychological [mis]interpretation (as Annie points out) and a whole lot of artistic symbology. What *actually* changes in the immanent/affective world? -- not a lot. Yes, the piece has pragmatically provoked us to have this theoretical conversation (happening on the plane of langauge), but a Rothko painting can (still) trigger a theoretical conversation, so that is nothing particularly new. This is why I like Stelarc's biological experiments (particularly as interpreted by Brian Massumi) better than Eduardo Kac's biological experiments. Because Stelarc's practice moves beyond mere symbology and on toward something more rigorous, something that actually modulates bodily affect (if only in a limited, prototypical way). For the same reason, the Porridge/Breyer pandrogyne expermients exert more agency (at least on a biological strata) than Orlan's surgery experiments (which are still admirable, but more on a symbolic strata). So even something like this: http://www.euroartmagazine.com/artUps/1177409414.jpg (Rebecca Horn's Finger Gloves), which just involves wood and not horse blood, actually alters a human body much more affectively/pragmatically than does an infusion of horse blood. Horn's entire physical posture and her way of being in the world is changed. So the stilts with horse hooves are doing way more than the blood. The horse blood is like vampire or cannibal mythology -- working on the plane of symbolism , ritual, theater, spectacle. Of course, symbolism and ritual are strata in the world that do actually change the world. No doubt. But again, as Annie observes, the piece is doing something other than what its artist is claiming -- the blood infusion is more like Beuysean shamanism and less like Deleuzean becoming animal. (Makes a good viral youTube video, though.) cf: http://www.amazon.com/When-Species-Posthumanities-Donna-Haraway/dp/0816650462/ http://www.orlan.net/works/performance/ http://www.genesisbreyerporridge.com/pandrogyne-images.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2MntBUwUxY http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075995/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094964/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Pankejeff http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=310 http://squarewhiteworld.com/2009/12/10/stop-screaming-ideas-are-the-voids-of-the-body-penetrating-connexions-self-serving-excerpts-from-stephen-barbers-the-screaming-body/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdxRPavquIQ [4:14-6:40] Best, Curt Message: 15 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:08:45 +0200 From: Annie Abrahams bram@gmail.com Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves May the horse live in me Interesting experiment, interesting storytelling, but far beyond reality She explained to Centre Presshttp://www.centre-presse.fr/article-145011-dans-les-veines-de-l-artiste-coule-le-sang-de-cheval.htmlthat the whole process made her feel ?hyper-powerful, hyper-sensitive and hyper-nervous.? She added: ?I had a feeling of being superhuman. I was not normal in my body. I had all of the emotions of a herbivore. I couldn?t sleep and I felt a little bit like a horse.? Interpretation, wishful thinking - bullshit.
Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves
How about your consumption of hay? M -Original Message- From: netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org [mailto:netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wright Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 4:56 AM To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood,Wears Hooves I've been drinking a glass of horse blood every morning for the last 34 years. But my penis still hasn't grown any larger... From: Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com Date: 11 August 2011 00:19:30 BDT To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Nice someone remember the old gifted writer Cordwainer Smith. I read it when I was quite young and became impressed with his theory of making people with animal qualities, people similar to cats who could see in the dark, people strong as lions, fast as leopards... He was a weird person, worked for FBI or the CIA. Ana On Aug 10, 2011, at 21:08, Annie Abrahams mailto:bram@gmail.com bram@gmail.com wrote: May the horse live in me Interesting experiment, interesting storytelling, but far beyond reality She explained to Centre Press http://www.centre-presse.fr/article-145011-dans-les-veines-de-l-artiste-cou le-le-sang-de-cheval.html that the whole process made her feel hyper-powerful, hyper-sensitive and hyper-nervous. She added: I had a feeling of being superhuman. I was not normal in my body. I had all of the emotions of a herbivore. I couldnt sleep and I felt a little bit like a horse. Interpretation, wishful thinking - bullshit. Anyone who had medical tests done in an hospital to check out the heart and who has been injected with chemicals knows it needs little (these chemicals) to make you feel a completely different person. (anxious, calm, nervous etc) Chemicals have a deep impact on our being (all drug users know this too), feelings, experiences of ourselves, so it's no wonder horse proteins make you feel changed, anything would. I like the experiment, the discussion it triggers, but I abhor the biased language used by these artists. In my opinion it doesn't take science serious, only uses it for something else. Yours Annie On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Rob Myers mailto:r...@robmyers.org mailto:r...@robmyers.org r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 10/08/11 18:17, marc garrett wrote: Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves By Olivia Solon Laval-Jeantet and her creative partner Benoit Mangin (working as collective Art Orienté Objet) were keen to explore the blurring of boundaries between species in the piece, entitled May the Horse Live in Me. Laval-Jeantet prepared her body to accept the horse blood plasma by getting injected with different horse immunoglobulins over the course of several months. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/horse-blood-art http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/horse-blood-art http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/horse-blood-art ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves
For a second forgetting D/G, it seems to me that if it were shamanic, it would in fact be a form of becoming-animal; I've read a fair amount into Inuit and Native American shamanism at times, and this is paramount. But the artist is working within the art-world, and the real content of the piece it seems to me is one of risk - a foreign blood presenced within what we assume is a natural order of fluidity. What I miss btw in Stelarc is precisely the shamanic, the becoming - it's attachments, no matter how organic, and while he puts his body at risk (as does the artist here), the mind is busy with the theorization of prosthesis. In this way, it's kind of a 19th-century approach: to become-X means to combine (human, X) in a formal manner... Anyway, when one speaks of 'rigor,' I do think of the long and endless philosophical discourse on scientific experimentation; I tend not to think of exempla. But that's probably just me. - was going to make a pun about hoarse blood, too much speaking and theorizing... but thought better of it .. but then . - - alan == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rd.txt == ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Links
Prime Minister's attack on social media unwarranted: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/david-cameron Britain considers mask ban; may use army if unrest continues: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/L8ZttTMJcus/britain-considers-mask-ban-may-use-army-to-suppress-future-unrest.html data and maps from the London riots: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/Ongw5ZXz_vw/twitter-storm-data-journalism-maps-bitrot.html Police use Flickr to identify London riot suspects: http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/09/police-use-flickr-to-identify-london-riot-suspects ‘Anonymous’ plans to ‘destroy’ Facebook on Nov. 5: http://www.kurzweilai.net/anonymous-plans-to-destroy-facebook-on-nov-5 Gamification is Bullshit: http://www.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml My Eight Hours of Hell in a Content Farm: http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/my-eight-hours-of-hell-in-a-content-farm/ Aesthetics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ak14hkAiU ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] because I can, in a clearing place, so many lives, so many sounds
because I can, in a clearing place, so many lives, so many sounds http://www.alansondheim.org/jalala.mp3 this is the world of the crumbling edifice I leave behind, because I say: only edifices crumble, all edifices crumble the gateways of edifices appear with the clarity of crystals and disappear with the radioactivity and trauma of smoky quartz gateways are neither closed nor open but depend upon stanchions stanchions are neither vertical nor horizontal but depend upon a space-time metric and it goes and for a moment, I am managing these sounds, and for a moment I am offering you an edifice, that you may theorize, that you may think upon it, that you may think ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
