nettime Tirana Hunger Strike
Tirana Hunger Strike Dear friends, Douglas, Philippe and I were shocked when we arrived to Albania to discover the massive protest in Tirana. Following a demonstration of 200,000 people, 200 citizens and 22 MPs started a hunger strike to ask for democracy. We launched a live streaming video page to help bring attention to their cause. Below is the letter from the Hunger Strike Committee. ?Anri Sala, Philippe Pareno and Douglas Gordon www.opentheboxes.com www.opentheboxes.org www.opentheboxes.net Tirana, May 04, 2010 The Hunger Strike Committee Re: Letter to the members of International Community and Media Dear Friends, We, 22 members of parliament and 200 citizens of Albania, concerned about the fate of democracy in our country have decided to engage in the ultimate form of democratic protest by going on a hunger strike in the name of the cornerstone of any democracy: free and fair elections. Our demand is simple and democratic: a full and thorough parliamentary inquiry into the elections of June 28th 2009, including the opening of the ballot boxes and the examination of the electoral material contained therein. Our demand is not motivated by a yearning for power, but by the aspiration that the next elections are guaranteed against falling prey to the same machinations and manipulations. For nine months we have tried in vain to realize our constitutional right to transparency only to be denied in all our efforts through the arrogance of a government that is no longer constrained by the Constitution in its actions. Nor has the government reacted to the massive show of support for our cause on the part of the citizens of Albania. 200,000 Albanians protested in Tirana in the name of the transparency of their votes and yet their government turned a deaf hear to this most democratic of demands. Prime Minister Berisha speaks of a court decision that stands in the way of transparency but he has never, in ten months been able to show this decision to the public for the simple reason that it does not exist. We also regret the fact that this lie construed by Berisha as an alibi in order to avoid the transparency of the elections, has been instrumentalized by a significant portion of Albania's friends and partners. Faced with the obstinate, illegal and arrogant denial of our constitutional right to transparency, aware of the crucial importance of our cause to the future of free and fair elections and democracy in Albania, we have decided to escalate our action by engaging in an open ended hunger strike accompanied by protests in every town and village of our country. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Critical strategies in art and media gets it wrong
In the newly published, brief conference book or booklet , “Critical strategies in art and media:Perspectives on New Cultural Practices” at one point Ted Byfield (on the panel) asks the sensible question: “I’d like to ask a question to some of my elders here.We’ve heard various references to 1968 here, but what did all those ‘68ers have in 1967?” The transcript continues, “Audience: Drugs!” Byfield then asks ”Any other suggestions about what they had before the efflorescence that apparently surprised even them?” “Jim Fleming [one of the two convenors and moderators]: Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll.” Fleming then added something about the relative affluence (of students?) in the ’60’s, -- itself a highly debatable assertion. Fleming’s answer is glaringly incomplete, at best. The fact that the participants and the audience accepted it indicates why the whole enterprise of the conference was virtually meaningless, I submit. I was finishing up my Ph.D. In ’68, therefore older than many if not most of the participants in the events, in which I also had a minor role. Let me try therefore to list in no definite order some of what we had in ’67 or earlier in the ‘60‘s that helped lead to ’68: The feelings against racism and for justice and equality that emerged from reaction to the Nazis after WWII, from the civil rights movement and the anti-colonial movement, all of which were well in evidence before ’68; Un-precedented numbers of young people in the universities and colleges, as the baby-boom generation had begun to reach early adulthood; Television news showing the civil-rights and anti-colonial movements in action along with other demonstrations, offering easy-to-understand and compelling role models of resistance; John F. Kennedy’s inaugural and anti-individualist line “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”, along with the founding of the Peace Corps; The continued opposition to the activities of groups such as the House un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and, related to that, the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in ’64; The Port Huron Statement of ’62 that founded SDS, and called for a variety of democratic socialism; the founding (’66) of the Black Panther Party The ’62 publication of Michael Harrington’s “The Other America,” and of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”; the ’63 translation of Fanon’s (’61) “Wretched of the Earth;” Malcolm X’s ‘ 65 “Autobiography.” In the US, at least , the draft, which put all young men in jeopardy of having to go and fight the Vietnam war, which, as it dragged on, along with its repercussions (such as the self-immolation of Buddhist monks) was also seen on TV; New and relatively cheap jet travel, which enabled many semi-affluent young people to mix with their cohort in other countries, thus adding a sense of a single wide youth movement; The relatively recent Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, such as the hunting down of Che, (and the influential pamphlet by Regis Debray “Revolution in the Revolution”) and Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which was understood idealistically as democratizing decision making and opposing the stultifying power of bureaucrats and experts. Even LBJ’s ‘ 64 promise of the “Great Society.” Note that neither anything which would have gone under the rubric of art nor the sort of people’s media discussed in the conference played a very strong role, although certainly sermons in the southern black churches or Mario Savio’s impromptu speech from on top of a captured police car in Berkeley in ’64 did do so. The most prominent artform in moving people to take political stances was probably not rock, but rather folk and folk-like music, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, early Dylan, etc. (In derision, Tom Lehrer wrote [in about ’65] : “We are the Folk Song Army, Everyone of us cares. We all hate poverty war and injustice, Unlike the rest of you squares.” But that just proves that those who listened to folk songs in concert or recordings or more informally heard a distinct and intended political message.) Also movies, such as “Dr. Strangelove” and If helped increase opposition to established authority, and probably novels such as “Catch 22’ (’61) and even “Lord of the Rings.” But most of the relevant factors had more to do with the confluence of demographics, new technologies, the lessons of recent history, the examples of other and on-going social movements, etc., and frankly political statements and actions.1968 was to some degree a high tide but also a turning point in all these political movements, in some ways leading directly to a conservative backlash, though also helping to institutionalize certain gains and demands. “Critical strategies” fails to take into account comparatively wide picture of the current situation, instead focusing on “art” as a source of political inspiration and action all by itself. This is of course a narrow and very
Re: nettime The Return of DRM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 hi Morlock, I've waited to reply your mail for almost a week now in the vain hope that someone would join us on the fields of this prose: this is becoming now such an inspiring piece of lyricism, so pleasant to read, you truly are a good writer! but unfortunately it seems noone dares. maybe we are becoming embarassing, as the drawback of lyricism is that of loosing touch with reality, we are fading into a science fiction enactment.. On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 04:39:37PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: I'm skeptical about the ability of us free from ... to use imagination to hack into minds of zombies and provoke the Change. right. all national TV stations are well guarded; but still, some of us are working in those structures of control! most probably because of their skills are becoming crucial to the task, rather than because of some long term social engineering we would be playing... [...] To put it bluntly, no one gives a flying fuck for your imagination. If you don't have an industrial strength media pump you are spitting into the river. now it is quite naive of you to say that: ignoring the power of asymmetrical warfare in contrast to the enthropy pulling out of unidirectional technical advancements. contrary to popular perception these days, we are not in such a bad historical moment for digital cultures: most post-modern critics drop off our ship exasperated by the pressure of new labour issues raising, while the financial pressure is deflected from the mega-corporations to hit the proletariat. But It looks like when the tear-gas hits the rioting crowd: those who are not prepared obviously fall first, look for shelters and the day after will blame the black bloc for actually having a plan - deja vu. Forming armies of mechanical turks is just a desperate preemptive attack driven by the rusty corporate juggernaut before the real battle starts: while they've played all their cards, we have prepared a little but diverse and effective arsenal, which still has to enter play. There is no such thing as digitally autonomous network. You don't know how to make transistors, chips, routers and computers in a sustainable way. do we really need all that? maybe when we talk about digitally autonomous networks we speak about two different notions of digital. a piece of paper with an address and a meeting time can be even more digital than a twit - and less traceable. but then, what are we talking about here, just software being digital? and just technology being human? can't believe that. it's not so bad c'mon :) You are wasting your time in symbolic hobby revolutions. of course! I'm totally into that, living life as an hobby! :) ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: B2D9 9376 BFB2 60B7 601F 5B62 F6D3 FBD9 C2B6 8E39 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQQcBAEBCAAGBQJL7p4gAAoJEAslGzkIl3JRPVkgAKlf9p6ydTPE8pfOfsV24RxR 0zl8l6z1UJ3Gffb0e29g8l/v0OZ3mERHcJTwsSSDxzPV5mapeul70gkW1C4LDSL3 HFyAwQnAiHW2h9sVwSEhKX4d+gIQjvMUxZLeJ0qW+jN3wtyp5ZmecfIHYCuIfGLC iY1iPt8qX+HUHYypvsq2nbxIIYdSiuny09Y0gpDqlA+alQCjDoHU6D4cJxUXUqxI sVOpLg6WqIdq6SjYSAMcHryLmywdnBeRMKGwv2wlUBYMRYP06TK9MFFxTahYjy2O ITddjhc7g5r3WYY6Zt03BSYa8C75+WQ3V45jqsD0CLOAdsoY/5Vie2UPDwsHav34 ZX2Bsi5P61t07d6mBOgPk4+bQTBQi5zfKCT07E/yE/Y29gJhnwoaWPhOr0yoluXF hpEPbg3eD7w18XUFDaEuyUhomnx9BnmkLmqnkVKBdWb9HCOU77NXlKKMxtk5s5Yb 5zuF1vKamrcumlT0JxxtZALD+RWALzIigNxFXczYMPNoLbjo9WBTI4ykyWBCYOm7 pk56GCrWax9l803q64LboaGklxCp8DakxqxaWmlH1AzIaAvzCijiJOdj6TfHdyWd L9Q54tfV+3oahTh+ljbcP/nCXks70rmdd+3t9wUfGceoVduKQ72dQ8tahwxTU561 74MhFa+Hai6T1K46FLVPmQKEqfuPuZRandjp2S1mhvjVVWc/s/Q7PhByE/lOaA35 py6fZLCJhL7JYY3Kq8NhBVbBj1u+BaajVyoCd6vYYSTlJo9JaTPQBNlMDoAoyey3 ZTKDHluSpEqF67wsgUYF5hqQC6+BKvIqb4TOs0iqNEszUjz8UxTmI8kRROF85/u9 s3gCQkORLNW5WLK4MW/T46fabXHwyZ82GogSQAAKBQm0q1NmmmhBBidxCAD5Z54c 80Wi6yQMoNVwkowVqxq/oBsT1MdUixFAygSy469UZQMFjh+OWtx/8kmvhVmk2PnS oDN9txo9jN5PRkfc7Kdi1FHsSrxzkxpLv0TORqeWP57HKL2BpmuliWO0pYPcHead yVGA5BvJj/4gQzaWGgwc3867BKXQBk2WRMySCODPsECvepPghKfm2/BtTXw+OgsA etUV29avZmlahPVLLwT7nEux4yMVwQkJJXo777n66ZlMemm0u7PlsLQNRULl83qA g37aNRD3yYZgNROH0M7vymn0LwAshnTRFTel/h0QojfOQ+CCZSpwJSg40wtnJhtS FsYbqHKjr8sKw0qWX6BoTWNHJaby7D2MHfOgwwdVoHbtwapTBnqyM1eGdFw/V1bs LPWlUsUCy4aHBBgoRcWnkUx4IrfpZGXmgbD4CxsyLi4qeoveIAko+EGMNK4CxU8= =Tt4Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Fwd: End of occupation of Mansion building / Middlesex University
Begin forwarded message: From: Eric Alliez eric.all...@free.fr Date: May 16, 2010 12:34:05 AM GMT+01:00 Subject: End of occupation of Mansion building / Middlesex University REAL EMERGENCY FOR ALL SUPORT INITIATIVES! Thanks! Eric Dear all, As many of you may already know, the students decided to end their occupation of the Mansion building this afternoon, and the campaign has posted a statement at http://savemdxphil.com/ 2010/05/15/the-occupation-is-over-the-campaign-continues/. The occupation has had a tremendous impact, both at Middlesex and on sympathetic campuses all over the world. We assume that the University will not proceed with any further legal or disciplinary threats against any of the people involved. Needless to say, if this assumption turns out to be misplaced then the Philosophy staff at Middlesex and, for sure, many of our colleagues in and out of UK will do everything in their power to defend students and their supporters. Middlesex Philosophy # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime FCC Urged to Support Local Media, PEG TV
Alliance for Communications Democracy http://theacd.org/ PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rob Brading, r...@metroeast.org, 503-667-8848 x 318 COMMUNITY GROUPS URGE FCC TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL, PUBLIC MEDIA CALL FOR ENFORCEMENT OF LOCALISM RULES WASHINGTON (May 13, 2010) -- Hundreds of community groups and local residents from across the country urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week to strengthen local democracy, media diversity and public safety by supporting the nation's largest network of community-based media organizations -- Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Access cable TV centers. As local newspapers close, media companies consolidate, and national broadcasters dominate radio television, PEG Access centers are increasingly the only source of community news, civic programming, diverse views and local emergency information, said Alliance for Communications Democracy (ACD) President Rob Brading of MetroEast Community Media in Gresham, Oregon. As the FCC takes the pulse on media in America with its Future of Media proceeding, ACD, a 22-year-old coalition of local media groups, sounded the alarm that the FCC must take decisive action today to ensure that tomorrow's media landscape includes local voices and community access to media infrastructure. ACD called on the FCC to enforce laws that prevent cable and video giants from discriminating against local PEG channels. ACD specifically urged the FCC to take action against ATT's U-verse cable system that degrades PEG quality and functionality. There is a very real threat to our democratic institutions and way of life if there is not a sufficiently broad range of opinions expressed in the media and there is no practical means by which the average citizen can participate in the public dialogue. said Dr. Laura Linder, a professor of communication at Marist College in New York. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski launched the Future of Media proceeding to assess whether all Americans have access to vibrant, diverse sources of news and information that will enable them to enrich their lives, their communities and our democracy. The Chairman's call for comments was a met by outpouring of voices describing how the nation's 3,000 PEG Access centers are critical to local democracy and civic participation in communities nationwide. ### ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNICATIONS DEMOCRACY http://theacd.org/ a...@mnn.org # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Imaginary Futures - introduction to the Polish edition
This introduction was written for 'Przyszłości Wyobrażone: od myślącej maszyny do globalnej wioski' - the Polish translation of 'Imaginary Futures' which was published by Muza SA: http://www.muza.com.pl/?module=okladkiid=41865 === I was sitting in a lecture theatre at University College London listening to the speakers at the final session of the Solidarity/solidarities conference on the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe. Jan Dzierzgowski had worked hard on this translation and I owed it to him to write a smart introduction for its Polish readers. Where better to find inspiration than at this retrospective look at the demise of the Cold War? Imaginary Futures is a book about the political and cultural impact of the technological prophecies which emerged from this geopolitical confrontation. Computers and the Net are much more than useful tools. For over half a century, they have also embodied utopian dreams in the service of imperial ambition. During the Cold War, the American and Russian empires competed not only to control space, but also to own time. The nation that was pioneering the future in the present could claim leadership over the peoples of the world. The Berlin Wall might have fallen and the Russian troops have returned home, but this technological determinist ideology has proved to be remarkably persistent. The cheerleaders of neo-liberal globalisation have spent the past two decades pointing out American predominance over the computer industry and the Net – and then ordering the rest of the humanity to adopt their socio-economic panaceas of US-style privatisation, deregulation and financial speculation. By painstakingly explaining the history of the imaginary futures of artificial intelligence and the information society, my aim is to equip the readers of this book with the knowledge to refute this passé argument. The next time that someone tells you that the post-industrial utopia is just around the corner, you can reply that this prediction is nothing more than recycled McLuhanism. The Cold War is over – and so are its made-in-America imaginary futures. If I needed confirmation of this book’s relevance, I could find it in the air of melancholy at the Solidarity/solidarities conference. This event was being held to mark the 20th anniversary of the wonderful historical moment when the Stalinist monopoly over political power was breached for the first time: the 4th June 1989 multi-party elections to the Polish parliament. Within a few months, the old order was being swept away across Eastern Europe - and decades of mendacity and oppression had come to an end. Yet, as I sat in the lecture theatre, the closing session of this conference seemed to be as much a memorial service for frustrated aspirations as a celebration of revolutionary victories. One Polish member of the audience ruefully admitted that he and his compatriots now enjoyed that greatest of European privileges: being able to complain in public about how dreadful everything was. The excitement of 1989’s ‘springtime of the nations’ seemed like a distant memory when the region was being battered by the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s. Adding to the misery, its governments were still in thrall to the ideological choices that had been made during the transition to national independence and political pluralism. Neo-liberal economic policies didn’t just mark the break with the impoverished Russian empire, but also a commitment to American post-industrial modernity. The new elites of ‘new Europe’ had made the mistake of swapping one Cold War superpower’s imaginary future for that of the other. While I was listening to the downbeat discussion at the Solidarity/solidarities conference, I cast my mind back to when I first realised that our continent was on the brink of a momentous upheaval. The implosion of the Russian empire might have been a big surprise to expert opinion in the West, but it wasn’t to me. A Polish leftie had predicted what would happen in 1984 – and the opinions of someone who is on the side of the workers are always more credible than those who only think what is allowed to be thought. Trust your own, that’s what I say. “It’s all over, you know. No one believes in the system. Not the workers, not the peasants, not even the bureaucrats.” Elcia was a Solidarnösc activist who had fled to London after the 1981 military coup. We’d first met when she and her friends were making a programme for their fellow refugees on Our Radio: 103.8FM. They would knock on the door of the house in Kilburn where the studio of this pirate station was based and proudly announce that the “mad Poles” had arrived to do their show. Yet, beneath this bravado, there was the sadness that they faced long years of exile from their homeland. Scattered across London were the exiles from the 1953 Berlin Uprising, the 1956
Re: nettime Critical strategies in art and media gets it wrong
Michael: I entered UW Madison in '66 and had a moderate role in the events of '68, as well as a front-row seat (since I lived on Gilman Street.) Recall that the radicals in Madtown were often red-diaper babies from New York, at that time, and you'll get the flavor. It was -- for most involved -- much more of a PARTY than an inclination to join a party (i.e. SWP, CPUSA, RU, etc.) Get arrested -- get laid! I later joined SDS and became a serious Luxemburgist but that was long after the tear-gas had disappeared. The arguments about who had the better parties between the counterculture and the anti-war movement has been widely chronicled, often by those who think that someone (i.e. usually the CIA) was behind the SDRR to try to siphon off support from the protests. The fact that the CIA had actually infiltrated the leadership of the Mobilization (and related organizations) somehow gets left out in that analysis. Famously, many tell the story of the Grateful Dead concert in New Haven that wiped out a protest march at Yale pretty much tells it all. Sorry . . . but SDRR was the correct answer. Mark Stahlman 'New York CIty In a message dated 5/18/2010 11:09:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mgo...@well.com writes: In the newly published, brief conference book or booklet , ???Critical strategies in art and media:Perspectives on New Cultural Practices??? at one point Ted Byfield (on the panel) asks the sensible question: ???I???d like to ask a question to some of my elders here.We???ve heard various references to 1968 here, but what did all those ???68ers have in 1967 ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Critical strategies in art and media gets it wrong
The radical right of radical rights of extreme self-interest could be added to the list of pre-1968 influences. And the aesthiticization of politics and culture was on the rise, again, then getting a toehold, now a hegemon, primarily through the supremacism of literature over the other arts, succinctly through the vaunting of criticism -- alway text, blind to other types -- then, the hypervaluation of critical theorism now, legal theory the undergirder of privileged discourse. The mutual admiration of critical theorists and lawyers and their hegemonic declaration of a nation of laws, not of men, nicely comports the demand that literacy is must have to be a responsible citizen, that is a believer in writ. It is not often noted that critical theorists and lawyers are conjoined in the radical rights of extreme self-interest, indolent and duplicitous. Other hegemons pre-68 are the rise of publishing, including publish or perish employment terrorism which produced agri-businesses of printed matter of much bulk and low nourishment, volumes as well as fattened bibliographies and resumes. Perhaps most pertinent for this hangout is the rise of academies of great bulk and low nourishment which herded youngsters into forced feeding pens, still going on, under the rubric of necessity of higher education or else marginalization and you bet, terrrifying poverty. Those to whom this was done are compelled to repeat it. Yes, there were subcultures of this in the arts and sciences, learning from the success model of the BBA and MBA. 1968 was a peak aestheticization of politics without risk. That drug of pretenstiousness is still widely consumed. Ponder May 68 in France: its delirium remains insurpassable, while 68 elsewhere is imginary nostalgia of the deadhead. Pre-68 sex and rock and roll was mostly prophilactic braggardy, when exposed to the post-68 actuality, STD, AIDS and overdose cleansed the experimenters seduced by marketers, then and now aided and abetted by aged addicts practicing critical theorists peddling apologia for justice system incarceraters. In 68 youthism became the superdrug, and still is the elitism of choice for marketers of education in bulk via this very medium. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime The Return of DRM
I got few private cheers, but you are correct - any real discourse is gone from nettime. Few polite proclamations, news items from newager/treehugger/antiglobalist/neocommunist arenas, and that's it. Everything is so polite and acceptable. ARGUE WITH ME, FUCKERS! Now that I got that off my chest ... right. all national TV stations are well guarded; but still, some of us are working in those structures of control! most probably because of their skills are becoming crucial to the task, rather than because of some long term social engineering we would be playing... working in those structures of control == being those structures of control Do not underestimate the ability of the system to subvert. I think that, analogous to my prposition that technology caught up with behaviour, that systems also caught up with individuals. As units, we are pretty much same as we were thousands of years ago. You only have your lifetime to upgrade yourself. Societal systems evolve slower, but they have limitless mermories, or the state in automata theory. It is only question of time when will the slowly evolving system with continuous memory overtake human in terms of outsmarting each other. Maybe we are not there yet, but we're close. It's not AI that will create dystopia. It's the society itself once it matures enough. now it is quite naive of you to say that: ignoring the power of asymmetrical warfare in contrast to the enthropy pulling out of unidirectional technical advancements. Can you give me *one* example of effective asymmetrical warfare in socio-cultural arena? I don't see anything that even slowed down the invasion of consummerism and liberal capitalism. Don't get me wrong, I am not labelling either as bad or good. Just effective and without competition. contrary to popular perception these days, we are not in such a bad historical moment for digital cultures: most post-modern critics drop I can't begin to understand what would 'digital culture' mean. If you refer to the current prevailing implementations of communication technology, does it make 19th century a 'cellulose culture'? What do have bit carriers to do with culture designations? Why would that attribute be important? Forming armies of mechanical turks is just a desperate preemptive attack driven by the rusty corporate juggernaut before the real battle starts: while they've played all their cards, we have prepared a little but diverse and effective arsenal, which still has to enter play. Have you seen what happens when Indiana Jones meets ninja with knifes? do we really need all that? maybe when we talk about digitally autonomous networks we speak about two different notions of digital. a piece of paper with an address and a meeting time can be even more digital than a twit - and less traceable. OK, so let's imagine a network of highly motivated conspirators; let's imagine that they have opaque communications channels; let's imagine that they have years to prepare. What are they preparing for? What is the output? We are assuming here that they will influence someone outside the group (unlike being on nettime.) Is it purely informational, like they will tell the world something? Or is it something else, physical? Secret communications do not help when you are stashing something more than ideas. You do need technology, otherwise you're stuck with cargo cult rebellions: if we throw bricks here, then torch some cars there, then vote a bit, it will happen! No it won't. of course! I'm totally into that, living life as an hobby! :) Professionals can do it cheaper and in less time. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime nettime-ann Announcing: _feralC_ - A Socumentary
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Re: nettime Critical strategies in art and media gets it wrong
Martha, I perhaps incorrectly left out feminism because it seemed to me it flowered after '68, more than before. But that might have been more especially in the organized movement.( The first noted feminist march was in '70. The Stonewall riots were in '69. So both followed '68, with the happenings on many college campuses ,notably Columbia, as well as in France, Prague and Chicago.) Of course, The 2nd Sex came out well before. I did mention some books, but you are right about the others. Brecht was quite visible in the very early '60's. But how books are read, or even what drugs end up doing, depends on other factors, I believe. In the context of the times, Tolkien and the movie 2001 might have been as influential or more than anything you name, but Tolkien probably had a conservative intent. Reductiveness is in the eye of the beholder, it seems. Best, Michael On May 18, 2010, at 7:32 PM, martha rosler wrote: wrong? well, it depends on what you are referring to. ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
