Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[helen varley jamieson]

yes it is completely twisted; if half that amount was invested in things
that actually helped people have better lives, instead of killing them,
it would make such a big positive difference.

my grandmother had a teatowel on her wall (from the 1970s) that read
something like "it will be a great day when schools have all the money
they need and the air force has a cake stall to raise money for a new
plane" ... sadly that day is still a long long way off :(

On 17/11/15 12:32 57PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
> I don't believe that sadly (a lack of resources of course) but I am
> going to write some texts in English Swedish and Spanish the languages
> I know.
> Btw it's funny because something we discussed yesterday was the
> horrible expansion of NATO and the pledge of all alliance members to
> earmark two pro cent of the countries budget for military expenses 7
> trillion dollars going to drones to satellite surveillance to borders
> control to fences to weapons. Only the joint manoeuvres NATO countries
> did recently at the Mediterranean costed 400 million dollars.
> Imagine that money invested in civilian infrastructure in Africa or
> India in schools food or training for young ppl.
> Something who struck me today when I was writing about this meeting
> was the double standards we have to judge things: how many ppl has
> been killed randomly by drones attendants to weddings in Yemen and
> Pakistan recently the hospital where Medecins sans frontieres was
> working etc etcetera 
> But we mourn the Paris victims killed as randomly...
> I guess that's the wrecked logic of ISIS they kill us as collateral
> damage we kill them as randomly...
> Ana
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 17 nov 2015 kl. 15:07 skrev Gretta Louw  >:
>
>> Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an important
>> event. Is there going to be any video documentation of the meeting
>> released, do you know? Or other written documentation?
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Ana Valdés >> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan
>>> Palestine India Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries. Congo
>>> was specially strong since we are all a bit complice in their wars
>>> they are the world first provider of coltan and tantalum minerals
>>> needed to make drones and computers and mobile phones.
>>> Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in black
>>> UK and active against NATO delivered a powerful speech about NATO
>>> selling itself as the saviour of the civilized world.
>>> Write more tomorrow nice to share with you
>>> Ana
>>> They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool displaced
>>> ppl in millions
>>>
>>> Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson"
>>> >:
>>>
>>> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in
>>> black encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
>>>
>>> On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:

 The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
 

 Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer"
 >:

 Ana, this sounds so very good!
 happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?

> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés  > wrote:
>
> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read
> your message in the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to
> Bangalore in India where I am going to participate in a
> gathering of Women in Black an international network of
> women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind
> of war and occupation.
> We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as
> illegal as much we denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of
> Kuwait and the war between Iran and Irak. We are going to
> be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old timer
> activist in Greenham Common and professor in peace and
> conflict to Rebecca Jonsson one of the most outspoken
> critics of Natos expansion.
> We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation
> and Palestine fighting their own male models we are going
> to have Armenian women protesting the war in Nagorno
> Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of soldiers.
> >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to
> connect with women searching their missing relatives
> mostly courtesy of the US supported right wing militia.
> Cheers
> Ana
>
> Den 13 nov 

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[Ana Valdés]

Haha such a great motto! A friend I have said once looking at one derelict 
school:
"We are the first civilization in the world who keep our money in palaces and 
our children in shacks".
Ana

Skickat från min iPhone

> 17 nov 2015 kl. 18:04 skrev helen varley jamieson 
> :
> 
> yes it is completely twisted; if half that amount was invested in things that 
> actually helped people have better lives, instead of killing them, it would 
> make such a big positive difference. 
> 
> my grandmother had a teatowel on her wall (from the 1970s) that read 
> something like "it will be a great day when schools have all the money they 
> need and the air force has a cake stall to raise money for a new plane" ... 
> sadly that day is still a long long way off :(
> 
>> On 17/11/15 12:32 57PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>> I don't believe that sadly (a lack of resources of course) but I am going to 
>> write some texts in English Swedish and Spanish the languages I know.
>> Btw it's funny because something we discussed yesterday was the horrible 
>> expansion of NATO and the pledge of all alliance members to earmark two pro 
>> cent of the countries budget for military expenses 7 trillion dollars going 
>> to drones to satellite surveillance to borders control to fences to weapons. 
>> Only the joint manoeuvres NATO countries did recently at the Mediterranean 
>> costed 400 million dollars.
>> Imagine that money invested in civilian infrastructure in Africa or India in 
>> schools food or training for young ppl.
>> Something who struck me today when I was writing about this meeting was the 
>> double standards we have to judge things: how many ppl has been killed 
>> randomly by drones attendants to weddings in Yemen and Pakistan recently the 
>> hospital where Medecins sans frontieres was working etc etcetera 
>> But we mourn the Paris victims killed as randomly...
>> I guess that's the wrecked logic of ISIS they kill us as collateral damage 
>> we kill them as randomly...
>> Ana
>> 
>> Skickat från min iPhone
>> 
>> 17 nov 2015 kl. 15:07 skrev Gretta Louw :
>> 
>>> Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an important event. Is 
>>> there going to be any video documentation of the meeting released, do you 
>>> know? Or other written documentation?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
 On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Ana Valdés  wrote:
 
 Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan Palestine 
 India Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries. Congo was specially 
 strong since we are all a bit complice in their wars they are the world 
 first provider of coltan and tantalum minerals needed to make drones and 
 computers and mobile phones.
 Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in black UK and 
 active against NATO delivered a powerful speech about NATO selling itself 
 as the saviour of the civilized world.
 Write more tomorrow nice to share with you
 Ana
 They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool displaced ppl in 
 millions
 
 Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson" 
 :
> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black 
> encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
> 
>> On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>> The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
>> 
>> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" :
>>> Ana, this sounds so very good!
>>> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>>> 
 On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés  wrote:
 
 Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message 
 in the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I 
 am going to participate in a gathering of Women in Black an 
 international network of women committed to peace and dialogue and 
 against all kind of war and occupation. 
 We denounced the invasion of   
   Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as much we denounced Saddam Husseins 
 annexion of Kuwait and the war between Iran and Irak. We are going to 
 be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old timer activist in 
 Greenham Common and 
 professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca Jonsson one of the most 
 outspoken critics of Natos expansion. 
 We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and 
 Palestine fighting their own male models we are going to have Armenian 
 women protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of 
 soldiers. 
 >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect with 
 >women searching their missing 

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[Ana Valdés]

I don't believe that sadly (a lack of resources of course) but I am going to 
write some texts in English Swedish and Spanish the languages I know.
Btw it's funny because something we discussed yesterday was the horrible 
expansion of NATO and the pledge of all alliance members to earmark two pro 
cent of the countries budget for military expenses 7 trillion dollars going to 
drones to satellite surveillance to borders control to fences to weapons. Only 
the joint manoeuvres NATO countries did recently at the Mediterranean costed 
400 million dollars.
Imagine that money invested in civilian infrastructure in Africa or India in 
schools food or training for young ppl.
Something who struck me today when I was writing about this meeting was the 
double standards we have to judge things: how many ppl has been killed randomly 
by drones attendants to weddings in Yemen and Pakistan recently the hospital 
where Medecins sans frontieres was working etc etcetera 
But we mourn the Paris victims killed as randomly...
I guess that's the wrecked logic of ISIS they kill us as collateral damage we 
kill them as randomly...
Ana

Skickat från min iPhone

> 17 nov 2015 kl. 15:07 skrev Gretta Louw :
> 
> Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an important event. Is 
> there going to be any video documentation of the meeting released, do you 
> know? Or other written documentation?
> 
> 
> 
>> On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Ana Valdés  wrote:
>> 
>> Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan Palestine India 
>> Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries. Congo was specially strong since 
>> we are all a bit complice in their wars they are the world first provider of 
>> coltan and tantalum minerals needed to make drones and computers and mobile 
>> phones.
>> Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in black UK and 
>> active against NATO delivered a powerful speech about NATO selling itself as 
>> the saviour of the civilized world.
>> Write more tomorrow nice to share with you
>> Ana
>> They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool displaced ppl in 
>> millions
>> 
>> Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson" 
>> :
>>> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black 
>>> encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
>>> 
 On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
 The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
 
 Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" :
> Ana, this sounds so very good!
> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
> 
>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés  wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message 
>> in the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I am 
>> going to participate in a gathering of Women in Black an international 
>> network of women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind of 
>> war and occupation. 
>> We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as much we 
>> denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war between Iran 
>> and Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old 
>> timer activist in Greenham Common and professor in peace and conflict to 
>> Rebecca Jonsson one of the most outspoken critics of Natos expansion. 
>> We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and Palestine 
>> fighting their own male models we are going to have Armenian women 
>> protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of soldiers. 
>> >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect with 
>> >women searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of the US 
>> >supported right wing militia.
>> Cheers
>> Ana
>> 
>> Den 13 nov 2015 18:21 skrev "Johannes Birringer" 
>> :
>>> 
>>> Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim and I 
>>> moderated an online discussion on ISIS and terror & performance,
>>> (empyre list), and some of it may have spilled over here or you were of 
>>> course aware of the worsening of the situation in Syria and Iraq.
>>> The discussion, I think, also of course also hit closer to home when we 
>>> ponder what terror means to us, or how we think it and what our
>>> histories and political affiliations or stands are, or have been.
>>> 
>>> I remember after the debate last November, Alan and I tried to find a 
>>> publisher to see whether the raw, emotional, intense yet diversely 
>>> positioned and often poetic articulations of the participants
>>> could be published, but we had no luck. Earlier this year I tried to 
>>> write again about terror, ISIS, masks,  and also 

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[dave miller]

I agree - brilliant quote - I think this is it:

http://izquotes.com/quote/66959

On 17 November 2015 at 12:40, Ana Valdés  wrote:

> Haha such a great motto! A friend I have said once looking at one derelict
> school:
> "We are the first civilization in the world who keep our money in palaces
> and our children in shacks".
> Ana
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 17 nov 2015 kl. 18:04 skrev helen varley jamieson <
> he...@creative-catalyst.com>:
>
> yes it is completely twisted; if half that amount was invested in things
> that actually helped people have better lives, instead of killing them, it
> would make such a big positive difference.
>
> my grandmother had a teatowel on her wall (from the 1970s) that read
> something like "it will be a great day when schools have all the money they
> need and the air force has a cake stall to raise money for a new plane" ...
> sadly that day is still a long long way off :(
>
> On 17/11/15 12:32 57PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>
> I don't believe that sadly (a lack of resources of course) but I am going
> to write some texts in English Swedish and Spanish the languages I know.
> Btw it's funny because something we discussed yesterday was the horrible
> expansion of NATO and the pledge of all alliance members to earmark two pro
> cent of the countries budget for military expenses 7 trillion dollars going
> to drones to satellite surveillance to borders control to fences to
> weapons. Only the joint manoeuvres NATO countries did recently at the
> Mediterranean costed 400 million dollars.
> Imagine that money invested in civilian infrastructure in Africa or India
> in schools food or training for young ppl.
> Something who struck me today when I was writing about this meeting was
> the double standards we have to judge things: how many ppl has been killed
> randomly by drones attendants to weddings in Yemen and Pakistan recently
> the hospital where Medecins sans frontieres was working etc etcetera
> But we mourn the Paris victims killed as randomly...
> I guess that's the wrecked logic of ISIS they kill us as collateral damage
> we kill them as randomly...
> Ana
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 17 nov 2015 kl. 15:07 skrev Gretta Louw < 
> gretta.elise.l...@gmail.com>:
>
> Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an important event. Is
> there going to be any video documentation of the meeting released, do you
> know? Or other written documentation?
>
>
>
> On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Ana Valdés < 
> agora...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan Palestine
> India Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries. Congo was specially
> strong since we are all a bit complice in their wars they are the world
> first provider of coltan and tantalum minerals needed to make drones and
> computers and mobile phones.
> Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in black UK and
> active against NATO delivered a powerful speech about NATO selling itself
> as the saviour of the civilized world.
> Write more tomorrow nice to share with you
> Ana
> They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool displaced ppl in
> millions
> Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson" <
> he...@creative-catalyst.com>:
>
>> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black
>> encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
>>
>> On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>>
>> The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
>> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" < 
>> a...@poemproducer.com>:
>>
>>> Ana, this sounds so very good!
>>> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>>>
>>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés < 
>>> agora...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message
>>> in the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I am
>>> going to participate in a gathering of Women in Black an international
>>> network of women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind of
>>> war and occupation.
>>> We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as much we
>>> denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war between Iran and
>>> Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old timer
>>> activist in Greenham Common and professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca
>>> Jonsson one of the most outspoken critics of Natos expansion.
>>> We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and Palestine
>>> fighting their own male models we are going to have Armenian women
>>> protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of soldiers.
>>> >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect with
>>> women searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of the US supported
>>> right wing militia.
>>> Cheers
>>> Ana
>>> Den 13 nov 

[NetBehaviour] Access Space - Instrument-Builder Residency - Final Call

[Jake Harries]

*Instrument-Builder Residency*

The Hugh Davies Project, in collaboration with Access Space, seeks an
instrument-builder to take up a two-week residency in Sheffield in early
2016.

The aim of the residency is to build an instrument, or instruments, in the
style of English experimental musician and instrument-builder Hugh Davies,
whose instruments involved the amplification of repurposed every-day
objects via contact microphones and magnetic pickups. Two of his
instruments—the Shozyg, and the Springboard—are briefly described below
(see Background).

Towards the end of the residency, the resident will deliver a workshop
exploring the instrument-building, amplification, and performance/playing
techniques used. We are also considering the possibility of an on-site
exhibition, in which an instrument or instruments could be displayed.

This residency is being hosted by Access Space, Sheffield
(*http://access-space.org/
*) as part of an Arts and Humanities Research
Council funded project, ‘Hugh Davies: Electronic Music Innovator’, led by
Dr James Mooney (University of Leeds) in partnership with Dr Tim Boon (The
Science Museum, London). Some further information on the project can be
found here:*http://hughdaviesproject.wordpress.com
*.

*Background*

Hugh Davies (1943–2005) was an experimental musician, musicologist, and
composer, who became well-known in avant-garde and improvised music circles
for his unique and often playfully eccentric musical instruments,
self-built using every-day objects and found, re-purposed materials.

One of Davies’s instruments, called the Shozyg (built in 1968), consisted
of three fret-saw blades, a ball-bearing mounted furniture castor, and a
small metal spring, mounted inside the covers of a book. (The book happened
to be an encyclopaedia covering the alphabetic range of topics from SHO to
ZYG—hence the instrument’s name.) These objects were amplified via
*piezo-electric
contact microphones*, such that the tiny vibrations—otherwise practically
inaudible—could be heard via loudspeakers. It was designed to be played
with the fingers, or with the aid of accessories like screwdrivers, small
electric motors, toothpicks, etc. A brief video of Davies playing the
Shozyg can be seen here: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPT9A0IsGgs
*.

>From 1970 onwards, Davies built a family of a dozen instruments that he
called Springboards. These comprised a number of springs—anything from one
to more than twenty—mounted on wooden blockboard in various different
arrangements, and amplified via *electromagnetic pickups* mounted in holes
chiselled out of the blockboard. On some of the Springboards the springs
were mounted in parallel, rather like the strings on a stringed instrument;
in others they were mounted in a ‘fan’ shape. In some of the later
Springboards, interesting effects were achieved by connecting springs
together in a ‘web’. The Springboards could be plucked, played with
accessories, or ‘bowed’ with a single hair from a violin bow.

Davies built over a hundred instruments in his life time. For some further
discussion of Davies’s instrument-building practice, its background, and
subsequent influence,
see:*https://hughdaviesproject.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/conference-presentation-on-hugh-daviess-self-built-instruments/
*
.

*Facilities*

Refab Space is Access Space's DIY Fablab and Hackspace. As well as the
usual bench top workshop facilities including power tools, saws and drills,
Refab Space is also equipped with a 3D printer, precision laser cutter, CNC
router, and digital embroidery machine. The idea is that with just a few
pieces of technology, one can create a huge diversity physical objects made
from a vast number of materials, for an enormous number of different uses.
Designs can be created on a computer, although Davies’s own approach was
rather more lo-fi than that.

Artists using Refab Space are demonstrating how one can stretch and expand
the boundaries of what one can do with these technologies.


*Person Specification*

You will have experience of designing and constructing sound-producing
devices from every-day, found, re-purposed, or otherwise ‘ad hoc’
materials, for use in the performance of experimental, avant-garde, and/or
improvised music. Experience in the use (and perhaps construction) of
piezo-electric contact microphones and electro-magnetic pickups is also
essential.

Prior experience of running workshops with multiple participants, and/or
practically focussed teaching is also essential, as the residency will
involve running a workshop.

A background in electroacoustic music or experimental sound art would be
beneficial, and an open mind as to what kinds of sounds might be considered
‘musical’ is essential; see the video mentioned previously 

[NetBehaviour] Freedom of Information Description Full Disclosure

[Alan Sondheim]

Freedom of Information Description Full Disclosure

http://www.alansondheim.org/disclosure.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/fathersdeath.mp4

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New Photography, ZERO foundation, Mary Flanagan, Cat of the Day,
RE/Search Publications, National Poetry Foundation, Perforations
34: 

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[Gretta Louw]

Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an important event. Is 
there going to be any video documentation of the meeting released, do you know? 
Or other written documentation?



> On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Ana Valdés  wrote:
> 
> Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan Palestine India 
> Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries. Congo was specially strong since 
> we are all a bit complice in their wars they are the world first provider of 
> coltan and tantalum minerals needed to make drones and computers and mobile 
> phones.
> Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in black UK and 
> active against NATO delivered a powerful speech about NATO selling itself as 
> the saviour of the civilized world.
> Write more tomorrow nice to share with you
> Ana
> They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool displaced ppl in 
> millions
> 
> Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson" 
> >:
> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black 
> encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
> 
> On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>> The encounter starts today check  
>> www.womeninblack.org 
>> 
>> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" > >:
>> Ana, this sounds so very good!
>> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>> 
>>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés < 
>>> agora...@gmail.com > 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message in 
>>> the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I am going 
>>> to participate in a gathering of Women in Black an international network of 
>>> women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind of war and 
>>> occupation. 
>>> We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as much we 
>>> denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war between Iran and 
>>> Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old timer 
>>> activist in Greenham Common and professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca 
>>> Jonsson one of the most outspoken critics of Natos expansion. 
>>> We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and Palestine 
>>> fighting their own male models we are going to have Armenian women 
>>> protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of soldiers. 
>>> >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect with women 
>>> >searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of the US supported 
>>> >right wing militia.
>>> Cheers
>>> Ana
>>> 
>>> Den 13 nov 2015 18:21 skrev "Johannes Birringer" < 
>>> johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk 
>>> >:
>>> 
>>> Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim and I 
>>> moderated an online discussion on ISIS and terror & performance,
>>> (empyre list), and some of it may have spilled over here or you were of 
>>> course aware of the worsening of the situation in Syria and Iraq.
>>> The discussion, I think, also of course also hit closer to home when we 
>>> ponder what terror means to us, or how we think it and what our
>>> histories and political affiliations or stands are, or have been.
>>> 
>>> I remember after the debate last November, Alan and I tried to find a 
>>> publisher to see whether the raw, emotional, intense yet diversely 
>>> positioned and often poetic articulations of the participants
>>> could be published, but we had no luck. Earlier this year I tried to write 
>>> again about terror, ISIS, masks,  and also confront what may be my own 
>>> phantasms or prejudices towards militant Islam and also towards
>>> Western states and their necropolitics, and I grappled  to understand a 
>>> little bit better what state formation might mean for those fighting on the 
>>> ground in the middle east.
>>> 
>>> Driving on the motorway today, listening to BBC2, i was baffled when a 
>>> fundraiser for "Children in Need" was interrupted by the DJ who brought 
>>> news from US killing, by drone, of presumably
>>> one of the men on the videos released by ISIS, the presumed "Jihadi John"; 
>>> the person assumed to be this man pulverized by the drone rocket (including 
>>> all those in the car). Strangely, I then had to listen
>>> to the british prime minister praising the US commando strike and also 
>>> saying - referring to the Islamic State as an “evil terrorist death cult" – 
>>> that "Mr Emwazi is a barbaric murderer. This "will be a strike at the heart 
>>> of ISIL,
>>> and it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and our 
>>> allies harm we have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and we 

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[helen varley jamieson]

that's the one! i think the teatowel was produced by CND (can't find
that on the web tho ... )

On 17/11/15 1:45 59PM, dave miller wrote:
> I agree - brilliant quote - I think this is it:
>
> http://izquotes.com/quote/66959
>
> On 17 November 2015 at 12:40, Ana Valdés  > wrote:
>
> Haha such a great motto! A friend I have said once looking at one
> derelict school:
> "We are the first civilization in the world who keep our money in
> palaces and our children in shacks".
> Ana
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 17 nov 2015 kl. 18:04 skrev helen varley jamieson
> >:
>
>> yes it is completely twisted; if half that amount was invested in
>> things that actually helped people have better lives, instead of
>> killing them, it would make such a big positive difference.
>>
>> my grandmother had a teatowel on her wall (from the 1970s) that
>> read something like "it will be a great day when schools have all
>> the money they need and the air force has a cake stall to raise
>> money for a new plane" ... sadly that day is still a long long
>> way off :(
>>
>> On 17/11/15 12:32 57PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>>> I don't believe that sadly (a lack of resources of course) but I
>>> am going to write some texts in English Swedish and Spanish the
>>> languages I know.
>>> Btw it's funny because something we discussed yesterday was the
>>> horrible expansion of NATO and the pledge of all alliance
>>> members to earmark two pro cent of the countries budget for
>>> military expenses 7 trillion dollars going to drones to
>>> satellite surveillance to borders control to fences to weapons.
>>> Only the joint manoeuvres NATO countries did recently at the
>>> Mediterranean costed 400 million dollars.
>>> Imagine that money invested in civilian infrastructure in Africa
>>> or India in schools food or training for young ppl.
>>> Something who struck me today when I was writing about this
>>> meeting was the double standards we have to judge things: how
>>> many ppl has been killed randomly by drones attendants to
>>> weddings in Yemen and Pakistan recently the hospital where
>>> Medecins sans frontieres was working etc etcetera 
>>> But we mourn the Paris victims killed as randomly...
>>> I guess that's the wrecked logic of ISIS they kill us as
>>> collateral damage we kill them as randomly...
>>> Ana
>>>
>>> Skickat från min iPhone
>>>
>>> 17 nov 2015 kl. 15:07 skrev Gretta Louw
>>> >:
>>>
 Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an
 important event. Is there going to be any video documentation
 of the meeting released, do you know? Or other written
 documentation?



> On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Ana Valdés  > wrote:
>
> Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan
> Palestine India Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries.
> Congo was specially strong since we are all a bit complice in
> their wars they are the world first provider of coltan and
> tantalum minerals needed to make drones and computers and
> mobile phones.
> Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in
> black UK and active against NATO delivered a powerful speech
> about NATO selling itself as the saviour of the civilized world.
> Write more tomorrow nice to share with you
> Ana
> They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool
> displaced ppl in millions
>
> Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson"
>  >:
>
> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the
> women in black encounter goes. great that you are able to
> attend :)
>
> On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>>
>> The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
>> 
>>
>> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer"
>> >:
>>
>> Ana, this sounds so very good!
>> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>>
>>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird
>>> read your message in the lobby of Dubai airport on
>>> my way to Bangalore in India where I am going to