Re: "call for blogging code of conduct"
http://lavachequilit.typepad.com/la_vache_qui_lit/2007/04/post_2.html best, Angela Geert Lovink wrote: > Dear nettimers, > > I wonder how many of you follow the 'Kathy Sierra' case and what you > make of it. [...] # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Under the beach ...
This might be of some interest, on the not-so-recent 'race riots' in Cronulla (Sydney - postcolonial, post-multicultural border policing and changing patterns of work. http://www.metamute.org/en/Under-the-Beach-the-Barbed-Wire best, Angela ___ # 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
RE: 12th night
Thanks for this Brian. I have a couple of questions, addressed to you as well as anyone else who might have a take on them but, first, a couple of remarks. : No one will miss the historical irony: the : emergency powers on which the curfew is : based come from a 1955 law that was drafted for : application in the colony of : Algeria. In this regard, might I mention Lorenzo Veracini's "Colonialism Brought Home" up on Boderlands, http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/issues/vol4no 1.html The other thing worth noting is Thierry Bardini's description of the riots as 'flashmobs', in the most recent CTheory entry: http://ctheory.net Anyway, you noted the recent privatisation of electricity, which forms something of the political-economy in which the more spectacular moment of the riots exists in. What I wanted to ask is whether there is anything worth reading about the political-economy of informal labour, as well as the informal and/or illegalised economy, that surrounds the estates, particularly in relation to income supports (or the absence of them). Perhaps this is a question about the relation between 'precarity' (as well as its more explicitly 'activist' milieu of the EuroMayDay protests) and the riots. There are obviously connections to be made, but they seem (from this distance at least) to exist in quite different spaces and registers. The other question is whether anyone has considered the implications of recent events in relation to the French vote against the EU constitution, particularly given the complaints that this vote signalled a kind of nationalist protectionism, but also and not least, because the sense of 'the French vote' assumes that all of those in France voted. Am I right in assuming that the voter turnout from the cites was low? best, Angela http://archive.blogsome.com # 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
hunger strike
A group of detainees in Australia's internment camp on Nauru are currently on hunger strike. Boats travelling 4,000 kms from Australia are currently 8 days away from Nauru. For more information: http://flotilla2004.com Angela ___ # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
flotilla2004.com
flotilla2004.com There are currently boats travelling 4,000 kilometres to Australias internment camp on Nauru. This is the most recent culmination of a series of protests against successive Australian governments policies of interning undocumented migrants. The boats are presently at the halfway mark and, weather permitting, expected to reach Nauru by June 20. The crews have been threatened with imprisonment for crossing borders without the proper papers. The importance of the internet to the communication and character of noborder protests is here amplified by distance, threats of violence and the risks of sea travel. __/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ Some background It is well known that since 1989, successive Australian Governments have administered a notorious policy subsequently referred to the mandatory and non-reviewable detention of all those who arrive by boat and without papers. This was a response to the (by international comparison) extremely small rise in undocumented boat arrivals after 1989 - many from the Middle East, Vietnam and Cambodia - whose internment was often successfully challenged through legal action. The post-1989 regime of border policing effectively and over time legislated that the refugee determination process exist outside the rule of law in the form of ministerial and administrative dictate and be discharged through concentration camps and military intervention. It is also well known that in 2002, protesters on both sides of the barbed wire scaled the fences at the Woomera internment camp in South Australia and a number of escapes occurred. Woomera, which closed shortly after this, was emblematic of the Australian Governments strategy of interning undocumented migrants in remote, rural camps as a means of containment and control. Woomera was located 1,000 kilometres from the nearest capital city (Adelaide) and, for a time, held the largest number of detainees. 2002 was the culmination of four years of protests by detainees in Australias internment camps, including hunger strikes, the destruction of buildings, and mass escapes. Many of those protests were met with tear gas, riot police and the use of chemical restraints. Following this, the Australian Government shifted its strategy toward a combination of dislocation and electrification in an attempt to decompose the protests against the post-1989 regime of the camps. The so-called Pacific Solution was introduced which established camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea (Manus Island) funded by the Australian Government and managed by the International Organisation for Migration. Australian military vessels would forcibly remove undocumented boat arrivals from territorial waters and Australian islands, and transport them to those camps in the Pacific. In Australia, a new technology of internment was constructed (such as at Baxter) which replaced the grim (but scalable) coils of barbed wire and steel fences with hi-tech, refined systems of electronic barriers, surveillance and a greater reliance on technological and chemical restraint. (The Government has also budgeted for another of these hi-tech camps in Broadmeadows, Melbourne to replace the current, smaller one in Maribyrnong.) The result of these changes to the architecture of the camps were immediate: the protesters outside Baxter in 2003 were unable to get close to or even within sight of any of those imprisoned there, many of whom had been relocated from Woomera. Whereas Woomera2002 had managed to break with the symbolic character of protests by those outside the camps; Baxter2003 signalled the restoration of such, and subsequently ushered in a decline in the impetus of the movements against the camps. __/__/__/__/__/__/ Flotilla 2004 Having circulated as an audacious, but regarded as impractical, strategy after Woomera2002, the idea of shifting the protests against the camps to the northern waters of Australia became an imperative with the inauguration of the Pacific Solution. After Baxter, Hopecaravan distributed a call for boats to travel to the internment camp on Nauru. That voyage is currently underway, with boats presently located at the halfway mark, and expecting to reach Nauru by June 20. The Nauru Government which - given its current fiscal woes and recent economic bankruptcy - relies on the continuing funding of the camp as a source of revenue and employment, has threatened to suspend maritime convention (the Law of the Sea) and forcibly seize the boats. They have also threatened to imprison the Flotilla crews as undocumented boat arrivals. This has not deterred the crews, who nevertheless require ongoing support and communication. Regular updates are available at flotilla2004.com, as are crew b-logs, instructions on sending text messages to the crews, and detailed background reports. The Australian Government, for its part, has adopted the pose of detached benevolence - an echo of its previous, farcical contention that it
RE: Hardt & Negri "Counseling the aristocrats"
Re Proyect's response: >>On the aut-op-sy mailing list, they call the latest analysis "mad" as if H&N woke up one morning and decided for some ungodly reason to back the Empire against imperialism<< There is no 'they' -- this is easily ascertained by reading the various responses on the autopsy list. For my part, I said that I was hardly shocked, that it was consistent with other parts of their writings and other more recent articles. What trotbots like Proyect cannot quite comprehend, however, is that it is possible to not be a member of The Party, that Negri & Hardt - however intersting and useful (or unintersting) their work is at times, they have never been leaders of any party except in the imaginations of those for whom one cannot think or act without congregating around leaders and programmes. Negri and Hardt were always a small, prolific and eloquent but hardly representative, part of what might be for awkwardly described as 'autonomists' -- despite attempts to produce a brandname, this has never been the case or successful. Part of the problem for English-language readers is that this is easily occluded, but there are English-language sources for ascertaining the broader terrain of the Italian radical left from which so-called 'autonomism' sprung, such as Steve Wright's _Storming Heaven_ -- a review of which is available at: http://www.generation-online.org/t/stormingheaven. htm And for Marina and anyone else having trouble with the link I sent earlier, The full link for the archives is: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/spoons/a rchive1.pl?list=aut-op-sy.archive it might be wrapping on the email. The current month's archives are at: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/spoons/a rchive1.pl?list=aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy.0404 which is also likely to wrap (so, copy the whole line and putting it into the address bar rather than just clicking). Angela ___ # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hardt & Negri "Counseling the aristocrats"
There are much more interesting criticisms of the Hardt & Negri piece than the rantings of a trotskyite whose consistent preoccupation (and accusation against others) is that others are famous when he is not. To be sure, Hardt & Negri have done no one, let alone themselves a favour in their recent article; but surely there are better criticisms of it to read than the dross churned out by Proyect. Some of those are here: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/spoons/a rchive1.pl?list=aut-op-sy.archive ... sans the collapse of any recent european philosophy into some unfied conspiracy against the correct path outlined by Lenin, and sans any yearnings for storming the winter palace. Angela ___ # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Old Left etc
I'm not a fan of the WSF project: the numerous criticisms of that project as an attempt to establish a kind of 'alternative' policy cabal, with all that this has implied about those 'with the expertise to set policy' and its mediatory demeanour, are well known, I think; but not raised in this thread. What is raised in this thread is a concern over the rhetorics of old/new. Fine; such rhetorics are hardly, well, new. Haggling over the datestamp however, doesn't amount to a persuasive argument for defending that which is located by one's interlocutors in the camp of the 'old,' surely. Speaking of rhetorics: complaining, as you do, that Aditya is involved in a polemic reminiscent of 'old-style purges and, then, proceeding to complain that s/he is spending too much time arguing with others of colour and not enough against multinational capitalism, is verging on the accusation of 'traitor' -- it is not clear whether the inflection here is 'class traitor', 'race traitor' or both. As for this, which I guess is the substantive point of your argument: : I perceive as a chic anti-globalizationist stance that : dismisses any concern for nationalism, or such quaint : ideas as cultural integrity and cultural identity as : either crypto fundamentalist or passe. Isn't there a contradiction between 'anti-globalisation' and adopting crit of nationalism? Ok, too literal... maybe. What do you mean by 'concern for nationalism'? You mean 'support', yes? What are the reasons for not dispensing with nationalism, in Latin America or elsewhere, exactly? Which is to say: what reasons are there for continuing to view left wing nationalism as progressive? And, what does 'cultural integrity' mean? If you mean to imply that the borders of any given nation-state are coincident with the delineations of particular cultures (that any 'national culture' is homogenous), then I think that you are indeed asserting a (in your words) crypto-fundamentalist nationalism that, unfortunately, is neither quaint nor passe but dominant (in both my part of the world and yours) and, I think, frightening. That you aspire to a world in which one's 'cultural integrity' should and can be defended by the nation-state, while charging those who do not share such a view as tantamount to treachery is, I think, also frightening. The view that there is somehow a contradiction between international and national systems should have been passe a long time ago, around 1893. Cheers, Angela ___ # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
