Re: Boston bomb-terrorism-art-marketing scare
To my mind this is indicative of an emergent resonance condition whereby, generally speaking, the action and the reaction out-do each other while engaged in an idiot chase to score "positive feedback credits". The more ridiculous the police action, the more ridiculous the cause - Cassius Belli for the Idiot Age. -b On 2/1/07, kanarinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday a bunch of LED signs with cartoon characters from a TV show > shut down the city of Boston. They were installed on bridges, > overpasses, etc. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Again -Re: history lesson
Sorry for my language... I want to say that I quite agree Keith's prospective hypothesis - that is purely logical and an emergent observation of several facts yet accomplished. A FR translation could be cool for critically inform the electoral process in FR which consists (equally from each part) in a big misinformation on this context. I think that the critical analysis from the struggle of class to expect prospective hypothesis yet now is short as argument, but a relative argument of fossil effects (the spectral) playing their feed-back that may counts from a part. But what can be the other parts? Actually Empiricism merging materialism in sciences obviously produce interesting results (notoriously in medical and molecular biology). So I think that at a term the only emergent solution included solution for the global organizations will be to liberate the re-localisation. The mastering deregulation of the activity having often be the very solution of empiricism to get the people out of the largest economical catastrophes, by the way of a stochastic adaptation of the economical activity and of the resources (I evocate for example the economical "displanning" being suddenly adopted in China as a social mean to front the suspension of the Soviet assistance: that was the "one hundred flowers")... Probably nowadays this could integrate the respect of the environment. Surely this could appear after the largest effects of the announced extended catastrophe till the hardest impact in the continental West. But at the view of the prime effects before the general catastrophe may be a preventive vaccine can obviously being the experimental re-localisation. There is a first tentative from the new South American republics. But so hardest the global orders are (trading and bank) with paramilitary means to convince the insurgents, than the pressing can make turn perverse this republics by the necessity of resisting (we know it since the consequences from the communist wars) or break them, whatever being so much courageous and interesting to tribute others through their proper local experiments. But EU could be another topology of diverse experiments, which I am afraid that Angela Merkel with her exigency of a global constitution for destroy the eventual federate practices - increasing turpitude under the net of "oligarchist" interests at the European power - will impeach (except the insubordination but regrettably this possibility formerly written in the French law has been taken out of the human rights adopted by the community in 1989)... The only hard problem which remains being that there is not possible deregulation without dislocation of the power which centred the plans;-) but adapt by itself or get it disappear by another part. At the proper moment of communist China the emerging consequence was the greatest political question from which the cultural revolution was beginning as a war between two powers inside the party as a national frame of the decision of the State to the country for what then the cultural revolution had to extend outside the party; it was both the question of the intervention of the soviet part through its allies inside the party but the major question was that one of the success of the economical reflation from the step of the deregulation. >From another part their is a second argument which tends to edify the hypothesis of a general re-localisation: the question of the reheating of the earth by greenhouse effect has probably and mostly a part of solutions in the re-localisation (as well the question of the global production as well the question of the global distribution being notoriously contributing Contributing to the energetic reasons of the increasing and accelarating greenhouse effect. Thus maybe that all the learned indications and the dialectic tradition of the struggle of class are out-of-date in the anointed that we go towards a self realization of the libertarian conceptions of the world from its proper stochastic consequences being integrated by the human thought, as tribute of fact of the emergent solution of the life, without struggle for revolution. Nevertheless it likely seems that this prospective world can come true by saving the revolutionary violence ( we should not confuse the conditions and the things as we know nowadays how the civil war is the strategy of dominion not the proper revolutionary object what the dialectical device of pragmatic Marxism had often carried to believe). But at least this new world not as concept of "new" in modernity, but simple reality that globally had not appear before as merging abstracted solution from the local uses rules or traditions: as dislocating conception of material reality of the societies, risks not to be able to protect from the realization of the disasters announced beforehand, cause the obstinate tradition of reasoning in reproductive ideas instead of repeating to approve their validity or incapacity... It would b
Women and multiculturalism
Hi, trying to figure out something on women, multiculturalism and international relations, what international law can do. Women and multiculturalism seems to be women against fundamentalism, not just in western countries, the western modern lifestyle against an archaic lifestyle. "Honor" killings etc. But I dont want to see it from a western point of view. For me it is about poverty and participation. Life in Afghan villages, selling kids, brides, to rich neighbors as one case, women and football in Iran as the other. There are two ILO programs, women at the workplace and the women entrepreneur. I have the idea that it is a slow process, to go with tanks into Afghan villages is useless, we have to be patient. Women and football seems to be a good idea by the Iranian president. As spectator in Iran, but see also the Palestine women football team. Poverty and participation, what have I overlooked? H. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Greenpeace: After Vista, a deluge of E-waste to developing countries
Bwo the AsiaSource2 particiapants mailing list Manila, 3 February 2007--Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, could trigger a deluge of E-waste in developing countries, Greenpeace warned today. The group argues that with Vista, more companies and individuals may feel the need to replace their existing computers sooner as these become incompatible with the new operating system. The result: massive volumes of computer scrap in dirty recycling yards and dumpsites in the Philippines, Thailand, and in other Asian countries where most of the world's E-waste dumps are located. "With Vista, Microsoft could effectively hasten the obsolescence of half the world's PCs, especially in the absence of fully-functioning global take back systems for PCs," said Greenpeace Southeast Asia Toxics Campaigner Beau Baconguis. "Companies will feel the need to upgrade more computers sooner--and when they do, the world is unfortunately not prepared for the massive E-waste the upgrades will generate." "As it is, the current environmental policies of computer companies are not enough to provide an effective solution to the growing mountains of toxic electronic waste from computer components. Microsoft should have factored in these consequences and should have laid out mitigating measures to minimize the problem of obsolescence, before they started introducing new innovations. Innovation should not translate to more pollution," she added. A study conducted by SoftChoice Corporation stated that 50% of the current breed of personal computers are "below Windows Vista's basic system requirements" while 94% are not equipped to run on Windows Vista Premium edition. The ability of PCs to be easily upgraded is also important if the massive volumes of E-waste is to be prevented. Greenpeace has been engaging manufacturers of PCs and mobile phones to phase out toxic substances in their products and institute take-back mechanisms for the same products at the end of their useful lives. The demand comes with a challenge to PC manufacturers to design their products so that these may be easily upgraded, disassembled, and recycled properly. "We maintain that the useful lives of existing electronic and computer equipment should be prolonged as much as possible. In the end, this is about social responsibility. The idea that software innovation would result in more mountains of computer scrap ending up in the dumps of Asia and Africa, contaminating the environment, and affecting the health of communities, is both offensive and intolerable," said Baconguis. Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organization which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environment problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. origoinal to: _ FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community http://www.FindLaw.com Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email! http://mail.Justice.com ___ - End forwarded message - # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
