Re: Peter Weibel

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Tonight, ORF2 will be showing a documentary about Weibel which moved me 
quite a bit when I first saw it in 2010. It includes scenes of Weibel 
revisiting some of the places of his difficult childhood.


I advertise this here because I think that Weibel was an important, if 
sometimes controversial figure, and this film is a reminder that most of 
us have private lives that directly inform what we do professionally, 
without this connection always being visible.


Best regards,
-a

PS: If you don't have an opportunity to see it on Austrian live-TV this 
evening, you can perhaps watch it from the ORF online mediateque. (If 
the link does not work outside Austria, try accessing it with the TOR 
browser?)

https://tvthek.orf.at/live

 Weitergeleitete Nachricht 
Betreff: 	PETER WEIBEL - MEIN LEBEN Sendung auf ORF 2, 6.3.2023, 23.15 
Uhr, anläßlich des plötzlichen Todes von Peter Weibels

Datum:  Sun, 5 Mar 2023 17:49:06 +0700
Von:Assistant 

Liebe Mitstreiter, Fans und Freunde von Peter Weibel,

*Anläßlich Peter Weibels plötzlichen Todes sendet der ORF 2 am Montag 
den 6.3.2023 um 23.15Uhr

unseren Dokumentarfilm PETER WEIBEL - MEIN LEBEN.*

Der Film erzählt, wie aus Peter Weibel, dem Flüchtlingskind aus dem 
Heim, der berühmte Medienkünstler und Direktor des ZKM, und einer der 
brillantesten Denker unser globalen Zeit wurde.

(ausführlicher Infotext siehe Link:)
https://tv.orf.at/program/orf2/peterweibe100.html

"Peters Leben begann mit Flucht, Lagerbaracken, Ausschlägen. Die Mutter 
gibt ihn ins Kinderheim. – und was für eine geniales, erfolgreiches, 
multiverses Leben entsteht dann, weiter geprägt von dieser Kindheit.

Das hat mich am meisten berührt beim Drehen von PETER WEIBEL – MEIN LEBEN.
Kurz vor seinem 79sten, kurz vorm Abschied vom ZKM, kurz vorm Ruhestand 
in seinem Bibliotheksfahrstuhlhaus in Wien, ist dieses Leben plötzlich 
zu Ende. Und ich dachte, er macht einfach immer so rastlos weiter, die 
Inspiration wird nicht versiegen… - Schön, das ich diesen Film mit ihm 
machen durfte.“ Marco Wilms, Regisseur.


Buch und Regie: Marco Wilms
Kamera: Lutz Reitemeier, Marco Wilms
Schnitt:Andreas Radtke
Ton:Marc Witte, Maximilian Preiss, Jacob Ilgner
Sound Design:   Jürgen Schulz
Mischung:   Christian Riegel
Musik / Music:  Moritz Denis, Eike Hosenfeld, Tim Stanzel
Produktionsleitung: Marlen Burghardt, Marco Wilms

HELDENFILM
Parasolstr. 12
70599 Stuttgart

email: off...@heldenfilm.de
www.facebook.com/heldenfilm



Am 03.03.23 um 11:48 schrieb Heiko Recktenwald:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ein-geistesgegenwaertiger-bazon-brock-zum-tod-von-peter-weibel-dlf-216f83df-100.html


Brock is special, but thefre is something in it. Weibel was allways 
learning. He was a very political person. Very critical of TV 
revolutions. With Virilio on Rumania. And he was an actor too. See 
Wiener Brut with Peter Turrini etc. He did check tickets in the subway.


Am 02.03.23 um 18:18 schrieb Timothy Druckrey:

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2023-03/peter-weibel-medienkuenstler-zkm-karlsruhe-tod

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/peter-weibel-dead-zkm-media-art-1234659384/

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Fwd: The Machine at the Heart of Man: Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism

[Andreas Broeckmann]

(apropos cybernetics, society, urban planning - a parallel Greek case to 
the chilean CyberSyn?)



Betreff: 	Onassis Stegi presents The Machine at the Heart of Man: 
Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism

Datum:  Sat, 21 Jan 2023 11:00:07 +
Von:e-flux 


The Machine at the Heart of Man: Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational 
Modernism


An exhibition on data and human communities from the ’60s to today

January 28–February 26, 2023

Onassis Stegi
107 Syngrou Avenue
117 45 Athens
Greece

https://www.onassis.org

The exhibition examines one of the most pressing and transformational 
conditions of the last half century—the overlapping and intertwining of 
cities, people, and information systems. The exhibition shows this in 
two episodes. The first covers the prescient use of computers in the 
1960s by the Greek architect and internationally celebrated planner of 
cities, Constantinos A. Doxiadis through the work of DACC—the Doxiadis 
Associates Computer Center. The second episode traces these 
computational practices to present day Athens, with new research into 
the physical form, technical administration, and territorial spread of 
city and state border management systems.


Each episode pivots around a population group and a form of information 
collection. In the 1960s, Doxiadis Associates ran The Human Community , 
a DACC-assisted study of Athenian residents that gauged their adaptation 
to the growth and pace of the postwar city. The exhibition includes The 
New Human Community, a critical restaging of Doxiadis’ survey conducted 
with recently arrived residents and refugees. The Machine at the Heart 
of Man: Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism tracks how our 
contemporary and postwar periods are linked through techniques of data 
extraction and accumulation. In the exhibition, these two episodes chart 
Greece’s emerging informational geography, locating its boundaries, 
borders, and the data subjects they engender.


With its mainframe UNIVAC and spinning tape drives, DACC was a startling 
venture for an architecture office in the 1960s. Doxiadis belonged to a 
cohort of international architects and intellectuals appraising the 
implications of new digital technologies for the future of cities. 
Unlike his peers, who often considered this impact abstractly or 
theoretically, the techniques and products of computation were deeply 
integrated into Doxiadis’ practice. Spanning early analog data 
collection to later urban computation, the exhibition recasts Doxiadis’ 
practice through informational processes and automation, placing it 
within the emerging postindustrial logics of the 1960s and 1970s.


The exhibition also puts the Doxiadis Associates Computer Center in 
communication with our current debates on computation and community. For 
Doxiadis, community was an ideal of social integration and resident 
satisfaction. It was also a dynamic measure of urban scale seen via 
neighborhood boundaries made volatile by postwar upheaval and migration. 
For many residents of contemporary Athens, these local boundaries have 
multiplied and expanded to encompass state borders and their control 
systems. While The Human Community and DACC mark a pivotal early moment 
in the historical formation and articulation of computational urbanism, 
the information extraction technologies that appear at and through this 
contemporary border complex are its most current elaboration.


Concept, research, curation, and design: Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta

Executive direction: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Prodromos Tsiavos

Commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi. Organized in partnership 
with the Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives. With the support of the 
Greek Council for Refugees and Melissa Network. And with additional 
support from the Graham Foundation.

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Re: Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Folks,

Maybe, more productively, and as Allan has suggested, people can write 
small reports here about how (exactly) they are using the new Mastodon 
instance, and what their experiences are. I'd find that useful, and 
maybe it's a good time to learn and play together.


Regards,
-a


PS: Geoff, excuse my bluntness, but I think that the tone of your 
posting is completely inappropriate. Even for people who don't know the 
moderators personally, it must be clear that their commitment to the 
list and the project of Nettime is and has been substantial, and to put 
that in question in the form that you do here is in itself, for me, a 
mark of self-disqualification.


Just two things: I suggest that you strike through the word "we" in your 
posting and reconsider again who this acting subject might actually be; 
there is certainly no "we" here that can "identify", "create", or 
"decide". The composition of this 'connective' is much more feeble than 
you seem to think. And you are suggesting to send away the people who 
have been holding its foundations together, even though you admit to not 
knowing what that involves, technically, mentally, socially, 
communication-wise. (Maybe apply for an internship?)


Secondly, it may look like it for you, but Nettime is not and probably 
never will be an institution. It was much closer to that status 20 years 
ago. Its rules of operation are therefore different.


-a


Am 15.12.22 um 10:53 schrieb Geoffrey Goodell:

Dear Allan and all,

The wishful thinking on the part of the list maintainers was:

(a) that they would be forgiven for growing weary of running the service; AND

(b) that they would also continue to enjoy the self-gratification from
volunteering to provide infrastructure support to the community.

The inconvenient reality is that they cannot have both (a) and (b).

So, I suggest that we identify new list maintainers; after all, we all knew
that time for a successor would eventually come.  If this is just a matter of
configuring and running mailman3 on one of my mail servers, then I am happy to
do it myself, although I suspect that there are others here who are more
appropriate for the task.

Suggest that we create a committee of volunteers to receive the knowledge of
how to run the list (e.g.: the list of email addresses and their settings, the
mailman configuration files, the historical archive, and so on) and decide who
should do what.  Whether or not this makes some people uncomfortable, Nettime
has become a de facto institution and requires an institutional approach.

Best wishes --

Geoff



On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 10:07:16AM +0100, Allan Siegel wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I think Mastodon has certain things going for it but the experience 
is very

> different from the Nettime LIST...
>
> The group who orchestrated the change in environments should have 
prepared

> users for the change and described a framework on how this change could
> work. To suddenly basically dissolve one community and imagine it 
will just

> reappear someplace else involves some wishful thinking.
>
> best
>
> allan
>
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Re: Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks,

i'll just chip in my 2 cents worth: i hear the different arguments, i 
see the problems of the nettime project as it is (just look at the 
apparent demographics of those responding to this thread!), and i would 
probably abstain from a vote on the issue just because i'm in more than 
two minds about it. nevertheless, i know that for me personally the move 
of nettime away from e-mail would mean that i would, after 25+ years, 
probably lose the connection. like others here, e-mail is the medium i 
like for this kind of communication, and i don't see myself scrolling 
through nettime  postings on a social media channel. (i'm just presuming 
that i'd be confronted with "infinite scroll", which is perhaps the most 
depressing design feature of this still new 21st century. [i fear 
there's worse to come.])


a slightly more original point i can perhaps make is about technical 
(and archival) sustainability; check these out:


https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg0.html
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9511/threads.html

i know that simplicity and longevity are not values in themselves, but 
for people like some of us here, who have seen so many platformed 
promises come and go, it seems (to me) truly weird to believe that some 
'instance' of X will be able to deliver better results (or some 
necessary change), without increasing the number of problems elsewhere, 
and without delivering this project down one more slippery slope of 
digital oblivion. (When those messages quoted above were posted and 
first archived, CompuServe and AOL were still competing internet 
superpowers...)


i guess my attitude is conservative. so what? i don't think that getting 
older, and growing older together, intra- and inter-generationally, is a 
problem in itself. - instead, i'd love to hear from the folks who are 
eager to get onto that other channel, or platform, and who want to sing 
an 'ode to Mastodon', one that can match the odes to E-Mail that have 
been sung here over the past days. i'd be glad to be encouraged and told 
that the grass is really (!) greener over there.


-a



On 2022-11-30 at 13:30 -05, quoth Ted Byfield
mailto:tedbyfi...@gmail.com>>:
 > It's plainly true that we're hopping on the fediverse bandwagon,
 > so questioning the wisdom of that kind of precipitous action is,
 > without question, wise. (It's also true, though less visible,
 > that it's only the most recent move we've weighed.) But that
 > implies another question: is 'doing nothing' — or at least
 > following the same path wise? In the short term, sure, but in
 > the longer term no, I think. Doing that would all but guarantee
 > the list's historical weaknesses would only become more
 > ingrained, and with that the list would become more and more
 > insular.

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Re: Dodomenta, Diary from Kassel

[Andreas Broeckmann]

> Subject:  Dodomenta, Diary from Kassel
> From: "Jo van der Spek M2M" 
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:13:25 +0200

Folks, for those interested in a look at the discussions around 
documenta fifteen from outside the lumbung (dare I say, bubble), one way 
to start is this interview (in German) with the chairwoman of the 
scientific committee which is the latest focus of attention:


https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/documenta-debakel-wie-gehen-wir-mit-diskussionsverweigerung-um-dlf-kultur-ed86198f-100.html

Regards,
-a
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Re: The German "Open Letter" on Ukraine

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Here's my two cents worth, as a contribution to the debate; I concur 
with most of Alex's description of the German scenario, and would like 
to point out two things - but really just as footnotes:


German "Russo-philia" has many names; there were ties between the 
monarchies at least since the 18th century, many cultural and scientific 
ties going both ways in the 19th, and treks of exiles in the 19th and 
20th centuries, again in either direction. (I guess that there are 
studies about the reciprocity of despair about one's own country, at 
least in comparative literature, but maybe such an historical "balance 
of despair" [complementing those of "power" and "fear"] is also one of 
the foundations for the chagrin of the "Open Letter".)


One of the names in this bundle of relationships is called 
"Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft", the "East-Committee" of the 
German industry association BDI. It was founded in the 1950s, made its 
first cooperation contract with the Soviet Union in 1954, and was in the 
business of building gas pipelines (!) from 1970 onwards. - I can only 
speculate about how consecutive Federal governments have been lobbied 
and influenced by the Ost-Ausschuss and its interests.


Secondly, on the "Zeitenwende". Like others here, I regard the phrasing 
of this term critically (it has a special, unpleasant ring to it in 
German, a pathetic rhetoric that is usually associated with the right). 
But I think that the change we are experiencing indeed has a quality 
that seems different from what happened in 1999/2001, from the bombing 
of Belgrade to 9/11. There was a civic consensus throughout the last 
fifty years that Germany would stand back in the military aspect of the 
Cold War between the US and Russia (remember that this consensus was 
re-affirmed by Schröder in 2002 when he denied German participation in 
the US-led war on Iraq), and what I sense in the "Open Letter" is the 
attitude of that period when the honest hesitation and pacifist desire 
were somehow made possible and protected by NATO. We were somehow aware 
of this uncomfortable protection when we demonstrated against the 
stationing of Pershing II rocket systems in the early 1980s, but we were 
also honestly afraid of the war that our parents - from whose generation 
come some of the first signatories of this open letter - had lived 
through in the 40s. For me, the "change" that we are seeing now is a 
collective change in attitude. The decade-old German pacifist reflex 
(maybe to be written with a capital P?), a moral obligation that many in 
my 60s generation respected with pride, is fading. I see this in 
parallel with, and maybe effected by, the generational change (most 
members of the current German government were born after 1968).


Felix has called the coalition between the Greens and the conservatives 
"weird". I think it is weird only from the perspective of the 20th 
century assumptions about what it means to be left and right, 
conservative or progressive. These parameters have been shifting for a 
while, and when it comes to the relationship between the German Green 
party, and the economy, and pacifism, we might indeed see a phase 
change. This phenomenon looks "weird" only if you believe in "old 
physics". In the new time, we - and the "Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen 
Wirtschaft" - have to get used to the idea that Putin's war in Ukraine 
is spurring the defossilisation of the German chemical industry.


Regards,
-a


Am 18.05.22 um 10:04 schrieb Alex Text:

Hi everyone,

Olaf Scholz' term "Zeitenwende" (turn of an era) has been picked up a 
lot in the German debate and it is probably true as well for the radical 
left
which since 1989 was focussed on 2 developments: opposition to 
"re-unified" Germany and the development of the Green Party. During the 
90's
the process of dissolving the pacifist consensus was obvious within the 
Greens which was seen as a way to get ready to join the government.
After the election in the fall of 1998 this proved to be true very soon 
with NATO's bombing of Serbia because of Kosovo. This was the time of 
Joschka Fischers
infamous statement about the lessons from WW2 (instead of "Nie wieder 
Faschismus, nie wieder Krieg!" - never again fascism or war - he
said: "Nie wieder Auschwitz!" - never again Auschwitz - insinuating that 
in Kosovo industrial mass-murder needed to be stopped by military force).


Too often the Marx' quote about the repetition of history seems to make 
sense: as soon as Merkel (who had stayed in power as long as Kohl) was gone
and a "progressive government" was formed, Germany was involved in a war 
again... But this time things are quite different: what we have seen
during the Merkel years with the rise of the AfD is the development of a 
German version of "right-wing populism" which managed to usurp quite a few
former leftist positions: on the forefront the pacifist agenda. 
Actually, the founding of this party in 2013 was followed quite 

Re: Anne Applebaum

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Folks,

I'm not sure whether the following is useful for the forensis, but when 
I read this passage in Applebaum's piece:


"From the first days of the war, it was evident that the Russian 
military had planned in advance for many civilians, perhaps millions, to 
be killed, wounded, or displaced from their homes in Ukraine. Other 
assaults on cities throughout history—Dresden, Coventry, Hiroshima, 
Nagasaki—took place only after years of terrible conflict. By contrast, 
systematic bombardment of civilians in Ukraine began only days into an 
unprovoked invasion."


... I thought that there is something irritating in the fact that of the 
four cities she mentions where such assaults "took place only after 
years of terrible conflict", three - namely Dresden, Hiroshima and 
Nagasaki - were cities in the aggressing countries (Germany, Japan) 
whose leadership were, at that moment, in fact senselessly prolonging 
the war. And for the fourth example, Coventry, the claim is untrue, 
because German bombers destroyed the city at an early stage of the 
Second World War, on 14 November 1940; and even earlier they destroyed 
the cities of Rotterdam (14 May 1940), and Warsaw (25/26 September 1939).


My feeling is that Applebaum makes these claims in order to affirm how 
bad the Russian attacks on Ukraine are. I agree they are, but as in most 
other cases, such historical comparisons get one into a quagmire of 
'measuring' death and destruction, which, when these comparisons are 
demonstrably wrong, play into the hands of the adversary.


-a


Am 01.05.22 um 21:00 schrieb allan siegel A Train:

Hello Nettimers
I find it odd that Anne Applebaum's questionable commentary on the 
events - and historical references - in Ukraine are uncritically posted 
here. Anne Applebaum is a notorious right-wing ideologue of the 
unquestionable neoliberal persuasion who has been lauded for her attacks 
on left-leaning politics (to say the least). As the conflict in Ukraine 
becomes increasingly enmeshed in the myopic politics of the cold-war and 
as America descends into pre-civil rights post war policies it becomes 
increasingly important to consider who is describing reality and from 
what vantage point. Most people in the U.S. still believe that the 
atomic bomb was used to save the lives of U.S. soldiers and to end WW 
II. A very questionable assumption. Saber rattling by Biden and others 
indebted to military contractors won't bring democracy to Ukraine or 
necessarily even peace.

Best
Allan


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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 11:34:10 +0200 (CEST)
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Subject:  Anne Applebaum:
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NB, just a reminder: I do not necessarily share all the viewpoints 
expressed in texts I 'filter' for nettime. I just find them 
interesting &/or worthwhile to take cognizance of.


Aloha,

I was induced to search for this article by an excerpt in Domani's 
excellent international affairs supplement 'Scenari'. It is useful to 
remeber that the complicated (euphemism) relationship between Russia 
and Ukraine have a long, and sad, history. Meanwhile Russion foreign 
affairs minister Lavrov has sortof reactivated the themes developed 
below. In short 'we'  -and not only Ukrainians - are all nazis. 
Nobody's gonna believe that, least of 'm himself, but as talking point 
('element de language' as the French have it) it's quite frightening ..

Have a sunny day all the same!
p+7D!



Original to:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/06/ukraine-mass-murder-hate-speech-soviet/629629/ 





First comes the dehumanization. Then comes the killing. By Anne 
Applebaum, >

The Atlantic, April 25, 2022

In the terrible winter of 1932?33, brigades of Communist Party 
activists went house to house in the Ukrainian countryside, looking 
for food. The brigades were from Moscow, Kyiv, and Kharkiv, as well as 
villages down the road. They dug up gardens, broke open walls, and 
used long rods to poke up chimneys, searching for hidden grain. They 
watched for smoke coming from chimneys, because that might mean a 
family had hidden flour and was baking bread. They led away farm 
animals and confiscated tomato seedlings. After they left, Ukrainian 
peasants, deprived of food, ate rats, frogs, and boiled grass. They 
gnawed on tree bark and leather. Many resorted to cannibalism to stay 
alive. Some 4 million died of starvation.
At the time, the activists felt no guilt. Soviet propaganda had 
repeatedly told them that supposedly wealthy peasants, whom they 
called kulaks, were 

Re: Proposition on Peak Data

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Am 08.04.22 um 08:38 schrieb Geert Lovink:


One day, soon, people will wake up in disbelief, realizing that data is 
dead. The point is not to overcome the dark side of data, regulate IT 
giants and establish ‘responsible’ governance but to lay networked data 
amassing aside. Once system maintenance subsides, data gathering regimes 
fall in disrepair. Relational databases may still exist but one day they 
will simply stop bothering us. Fuelled by organized unbelief the 
invasive, sneaky, manipulative side of the measure mania fades away. 
Rarely anyone will remember the data religion.



Geert's conclusion reminds me of two other encouraging visions of 
ultimately failing data-collection:



Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski: a.k.a. (2001)

http://josephinestarrs.com/lx/?page_id=17


... and the short fable "On Exactitude in Science" (1946) by Jorge Luis 
Borges:


... In that empire, the art of Cartography reached such perfection that 
the map of a single province occupied the whole of a city, and the map 
of th empire took up an entire province. With time, those exaggerated 
maps no longer satisfied, and the Colleges of Cartographers came up with 
a map of the empire that had the size of the empire itself, and 
coincided with it point by point. Less addicted to the study of 
Cartography, succeeding generations understood that this extended map 
was useless, and without compassion, they abandoned it to the 
inclemencies of the sun and of the winters. In the deserts of the west, 
there remain tattered fragments of the map, inhabited by animals and 
beggars; in the whole country there are no other relics of the 
geographical disciplines.
Suárez Miranda: Viajes de varones prudentes, libro cuarto, cap. XLV, 
Lérida, 1658.

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Re: Further on Russian Orthodoxy vs Ukraine

[Andreas Broeckmann]

On the topic of the Orthodox Church, it is worth taking notice of the 
slightly confusing fact that there are three separate religious units 
involved:


- the Russian Orthodox Church [RPTs]
- the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate [UPTsMP]
- the Orthodox Church of Ukraine [PTsU]

Within this constellation, there had already been tensions, which are 
now coming to a head: there are parishes of the UPTsMP cutting ties with 
the Moscow Patriarchate and joining the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and 
even more remarkably, the parish of the Russian Orthodox Church in 
Amsterdam has also split from Moscow. (There must be similar discussions 
in RPTs and UPTsMP parishes all over the world, I presume.)


[... and since, as Kelaidis notes in the article that Michael forwarded, 
the Patriarch's "office was just a few centuries ago (a blink of the eye 
in the memory of the Christian East) located not in Moscow, but Kyiv", 
the idea of a 'return to Kyiy' might develop traction - not only for 
Russian crusaders to 'liberate' their 'Kiev', but also for Orthodox 
Christians to abandon the Moscow Patriarchate in favour of the less 
belligerent Kyiy Patriarchate, bringing about a new schism and perhaps 
another, yet-non-existent unit, the 'Russian Orthodox Church of the Kyiy 
Patriarchate'.])


Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is clearly part of Putin's propaganda battle; 
but the actual influence of the church and church leaders on the Russian 
population, on the Russian military ranks, and on individual soldiers, 
is disputed, and might also be subject to change. Kirill is presumably 
not only making new friends...


Some links:

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-the-role-of-the-orthodox-churches/a-61063614

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/thanks-to-russia-ukrainians-swell-ranks-of-kyiv-patriarchate/

https://www2.stetson.edu/religious-news/220329b.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/13/russian-orthodox-church-in-amsterdam-announces-split-with-moscow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church


Am 07.04.22 um 21:55 schrieb Michael Benson:
Concerning the role of Orthodoxy in the war over Ukraine, I just wanted 
to pass this link on, from the interesting online publication RD, or 
Religion Dispatches (FAQ: Is RD a religious publication? Answer: No. 
It's not. Q: Then why do you have "religion" in your name? A: Because 
it’s a magazine _/on_/ religion. It's the subject our writers cover):


https://religiondispatches.org/the-russian-patriarch-just-gave-his-most-dangerous-speech-yet-and-almost-no-one-in-the-west-has-noticed/ 


by Katherine Kelaidis




But then, about halfway through, the sermon took a turn for the shocking 
and dangerous. It was at about the point that he acknowledged where he 
stood: in a cathedral built not so much for the glory of God as for the 
glory of Russian military might. Here the Patriarch said he had come to 
address the leaders of their Russian forces, and through them, their 
troops. He reminded the assembled congregation of Vladimir Putin’s 
favorite propaganda point in this war: that Russia was fighting fascism 
in Ukraine just as it had in the Second World War.


And then the Patriarch, whose office was just a few centuries ago (a 
blink of the eye in the memory of the Christian East) located not in 
Moscow, but Kyiv, offered up a version of history that simply erases 
Ukraine from the map. Kirill blames “various forces” (i.e. outsiders, 
including—one would imagine—the West) that emerged in the Middle Ages 
for what he regards as a false division between Russia and Ukraine. In 
fact, he doesn’t even acknowledge there are such people as Ukrainians, 
referring to all involved parties (including, perhaps, one could 
speculate, Belarusians) as “Holy Russians.”




Patriarch Kirill’s sermon on the Sunday of St. John Climacus does no 
less than refuse to acknowledge the distinction between Russian and 
Ukrainian culture and identity, and it denies Ukraine’s right to exist 
as a sovereign nation, both historically and in the present. 
Furthermore, it legitimizes the ongoing violence as necessary and even, 
perhaps one could argue, holy.


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Re: The War to come ... / dependency on Russian gas imports

[Andreas Broeckmann]

> Some European countries, such as Germany, have left themselves little
> choice but to buy Russian gas.

Since this is a major point of current debates, here's a piece of info 
regarding the respective dependency on Russian gas imports by different 
European countries:


https://infogram.com/1plr56gwlkqklkbqemlvqqk7pphz2lj02we

from:

https://www.bruegel.org/2022/02/preparing-for-the-first-winter-without-russian-gas


Am 11.03.22 um 11:24 schrieb David Garcia:


  'Profits from Russia's Fossil Fuel Energy Power Russia's War Machine and 
Ukraine Suffers'

The West's Failure to Comprehend Russia's Geopolitical Power in the Age of 
nuclear weapons
Has Resulted in Tragedy

By Helen Thompson



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Re: The War to come ...

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Folks,

I want to add two thoughts to this discussion. They both concern the 
terminology of the "spheres of influence" and "imperialism".


I'm not a political scientist and presume that there are elaborate 
debates about this elsewhere. What I notice in the current discussions 
is that this narrative is frequently used to either justify, or explain, 
the Russian military attack on Ukraine. (One tendency seems to be to 
call the US "imperialist", whereas Russia appears to have understandable 
security concerns, or is provoked to be worried about its security.)


I don't believe that such "spheres" (or empires) exist 'per se'; they 
exist as powerful constructs, they are part of elaborate trade, 
financial and military dependencies, but this "imperiological" 
narrative, so long as it focuses on a supposed main imperial actor, 
cannot really account for the aspect that some actors (in our case e.g. 
the formerly socialist countries of central Europe) might actively 
choose, if not desire the participation in such a set of relations (for 
reasons of security, prosperity, freedom of travel and work for its 
citizens, etc.).


The impression that Prem's analysis might be marred by the conceptual 
limitations of "imperiology" is underscored by the fact that his 
examples (anecdotal, but no doubt valid examples) relate only to the US. 
The stories about Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or Latin America would become 
more complicated and perhaps inconsistent if they took the perspectives 
of Turkey, France, Germany, Poland or Latvia into account. All of these 
are NATO countries, but it is not easy to simply address them as "the 
West". - I raise this point, because the discussion we are having here 
is not only one on mechanics of geopolitics, but also on morals, and in 
such a discussion it is important to keep the differences within such 
sets of relations in mind.


My second point is that the imperiological narrative is itself a weapon 
in this war (and other wars), in that it implies the claim for concerns 
(or interests) that transgress national borders, and that therefore have 
to be "dealt with" outside a country's own territory. The important 
point is that as a general principle, the imperiological narrative 
_legitates_ such actions (we are currently talking about the Russian 
military attack on Ukraine, but this of course concerns all sorts of 
other such "transgressions" that have been mentioned; a German version 
of this was defence minister Peter Struck's claim in 2002 that "German 
security is also being defended at the Hindukush").


I'm 'realist' enough to know that a potential threat by a neighbouring 
or more distant country (or a non-state agent like IS or Al Qaida) can 
be actual, or that it can really be felt - and thus become a reason for 
action.


However, I also believe that it might be a step forward to work on the 
delegitimation of the imperiological narrative by changing the 
perspective, away from the apparent 'imperial' actors (like Russia, or 
the US), and towards the interests and fears of the non-imperial actors 
(like, in the current case, Ukraine, Latvia, Hungary, Moldova, and 
others). [Perhaps it is the same conceptual gesture that feminisms make 
to reddress gendered power relations?] What if the "empire" or "sphere 
of influence" was a figment that, more than anybody, serves the 
'imperial' actors who therefore try to uphold this narrative?


We have already heard here that it appears difficult to reconcile the 
imperiological narrative with the legitimacy of the interest of "minor" 
countries. What if the minoritarian perspective became the basis of the 
mechanisms of legitimation in international relations? (If you now say, 
"naa, impossible, get real", then you should consider that your 
imperiological realism might in fact be part of the problem.)


Another advantage of such a move might be that we would, just perhaps, 
be spared some of the senseless comparisons (also imperiological at 
heart) that weigh one bombed city against another, and one occupied 
country against another. All of these brutalities and destructions are 
reprensible, and their comparison does not reduce anybody's burden - 
existential or moral - that they bring.


Regards,
-a


Am 10.03.22 um 15:43 schrieb Prem Chandavarkar:

Hi Brian,
Good to hear from you and to be in an exchange of thoughts with you once 
again.


My thoughts:

Let me start with your question on NATO’s eastward expansion. Yes - on 
principle, one cannot deny the freedom of the Eastern European states to 
choose their alliances. But the consequences must be dispassionately 
assessed. Security could be on offer from an alliance toward the West, 
but security concerns from Russia, as the military power to the East, 
must be factored in the equation, particularly from the possibility of 
their destabilising security. This was foreseen in the cable sent by 
William Burns in 2008 which I cited in my previous email, where he 
predicted 

Russia lost the war already

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Russia's war against Ukraine was lost from day one. The people in Russia 
must now decide how they want to get out of the mess their leadership 
created.


Russia can never win this war. It will not be able to suppress the 
resistance of the Ukrainian people who, even if Russian troops were to 
occupy major parts of the territory, would continue to offer both 
civilian and armed resistance to this occupation. This resistance would 
not end.


Even if Russia were to capture President Selensky and remove him from 
office, there would be others who would take Selensky's place, Ukrainian 
brothers and sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, and comrades. The sequence 
of brave selenskys who will lead the democratically legitimised 
Ukrainian resistance against Russia will not end.


And even if Russia were to occupy Ukrainian cities and depose the 
government, the economic sanctions of the international community would 
stay in place and would, sooner rather than later, ruin Putin's economic 
and social power base in Russia. This erosion will not end.


The ongoing attacks, the killing and military violence that the Russian 
military is inflicting on the Ukrainian people and its cities and lands, 
are heartbreaking. They are heartbreaking because of the current loss of 
lives, the hardship and destruction. But they are also so heartbreaking 
because they are so utterly futile. They are a form of murder and 
destruction whose result can only be the defeat and humiliation of the 
Russian perpetrators.


The most pressing question is therefore whether Russian soldiers and 
military leaders, all those who participate in Putin's campaign, or 
support it, or have done nothing to stop it, whether these people want 
to continue their role in this senseless campaign, at the end of which 
they will without doubt stand as the parias of the world, as the Cain 
who killed his Ukranian siblings. That part of the story will also not 
end, if the war is not ended very soon.


Andreas Broeckmann
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Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Dear David,

please, fact-check; this is incorrect:

> the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is
> the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials

You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in fact 
elections and democratic confirmations:


"The president-elect selects potential Vice-Presidents and Commissioners 
based on suggestions from EU countries. The list of nominees has to be 
approved by all EU heads of state or government, meeting in the European 
Council. ... Following Parliament's vote[*], the Commissioners are 
appointed by the European Council. ..."


(* Remember that, in autumn 2019, the European Parliament rejected the 
Romanian and Hungarian commissioners-elect first proposed by U. von der 
Leyen, due to "conflicts of interest.")


If the Commission is ruled, as you claim, by a "neo-liberal orthodoxy", 
then this selection process shows that the problem is much bigger than 
just the assembly of Commissioners. (And arguably the EU of 2021 is not 
any more the EU of 2010.)


Moreover, the "most powerful decision-making body in the EU" is clearly 
the European Council:


"The members of the European Council are the heads of state or 
government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council President 
and the President of the European Commission."


As we have seen in the last years, the role of the European Parliament 
has been strengthened gradually, if too slowly.


Otherwise, thank you for pointing out some of the problematic concepts 
and levels of argumentation in the reference text!


Regards,
-a


Am 15.09.21 um 11:57 schrieb d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk:
Thanks Paolo for this very interesting article. Just a few questions 
that I imagine will be answered by reading the book.


I am unclear what is meant here by ‘the state’. Is it interchangeable 
with ‘government’? Does the argument that neoliberalism (market 
fundamentalism) is being replaced by ‘neostatism’ mean that you see 
neoliberalism as a kind of polity or set of constitutional arrangements 
rather than an economic orthodoxy?


To take one example the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is 
the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials whose 
principal task is to ensure that no national election of a member state 
will ever overturn the parameters of the neo-liberal orthodoxy. Anyone 
who doubts this should remember what happened to Greece in the debt 
crisis of 2009/10. So do you see the Commission as an example of a 
‘neostate’? Or is it something else again? Is the EU Commission included 
in the book?


I am curious whether your analysis of the neo-state addresses the 
current position of ‘liberal democracy’which (for better or for worse) 
is in a (over used word) crisis. It seems to me that the liberal view of 
the state continues to trade on the old the increasingly tired old ruse 
of making a virtue of obscuring the answer to the question, who governs? 
  them or us, people or government. This deliberate ambiguity is the 
beating heart of classical liberalism and seen as a way holding the line 
between tyranny vs mob rule. But its effect is simply to keep the status 
quo in place.  This dubious magic trick (once described as the 
manufacturing of consent) has apart at the seams to be replaced by a 
techno/populist logic that depends on the ‘manufacture of dissent’.


None of this hall of mirrors would matter if we were not facing a 
climate emergency that needs decision, action and immediate deep change.


I am looking forward to reading the book.

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Re: Covid and the crisis of neo-liberalism

[Andreas Broeckmann]

please (Daniel Ross), define "absolute failure (of the West)".

-a

ps: i suggest to leave room, in this definition, for failures of yet 
other proportions.


pps: looks like adjectives are generally up for grabs these days and 
might become redundant rubble, if not signifiers of the opposites, like 
"precise(ly)" in many philosophical discourses.



Am 02.09.21 um 23:44 schrieb Sean Cubitt:

thanks for circulating Patrice

there's a great piece responding to similar issues byDaniel Ross (aka 
Stiegler’s translator):


https://mscp.org.au/plague-proportions/this-pandemic-should-not-have-happened 




a flavour:
"Anthropogenic climate change and the systemic limits with which it is 
associated indeed define the fundamental emergency situation with which 
we are confronted today. The possibility of facing up to this emergency 
depends on recognizing that this accident must become our necessity, a 
necessity whose impure technological, but also social, economic and 
political conditions are alone what make possible the exercise of 
collective intelligence, belief, wisdom and decision. The temptation is 
always to say that freedom and democracy are the fundamental 
requirements for making good collective decisions, and yet the 
/absolute/ failure of the West over the past two years means that these 
ideas must /absolutely/ be subjected to critique, where the latter is 
/never/ a denunciation, but an interrogation of their ‘pharmacological’ 
limits"


seán

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Les Immatériaux, working paper about Epreuves d'écriture (1985)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Dear colleagues,

in the spirit of Nettime's "collaborative text filtering", I take the 
liberty to send this information regarding a text-in-progress about the 
writing experiment done in the framework of the exhibition Les 
Immatériaux, "Epreuves d'écriture" (1985). - You will find the 
introductory abstract below, as well as the link to the PDF of the full 
text.


http://les-immateriaux.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Broeckmann_On_Epreuves_d_ecriture_DRAFT_20210625.pdf

I would be curious to get feedback about this attempt to provide a 
detailed account of the conceptualisation and realisation of this 
important historical project.


Best regards,

Andreas

--

On Epreuves d'écriture, the collaborative writing project of Les Immatériaux

Andreas Broeckmann

When the exhibition Les Immatériaux opened at the Centre Georges 
Pompidou in Paris in March 1985, its three-part catalogue contained – 
beside the Inventaire and Album – a volume entitled Epreuves d'écriture. 
This 260-page book, whose title translates as "printing proofs", but 
also as "writing tests", or "the ordeals of writing", was the result of 
a collaborative writing project that the curatorial team of the 
exhibition, working at the Centre de Création Industrielle (CCI), had 
organised in the autumn of 1984. Between October and December 1984, 26 
authors – philosophers, scientists, artists, writers – were each 
equipped with an Olivetti M20 desktop computer, networked through a 
telephone modem to a central server housed at the CCI, and were invited 
to write short texts about a set of 50 pre-selected keywords. According 
to the "rules of the game" (règle du jeu) that they were given, the 
authors were asked first to propose definitions of the keywords, and 
then to expand on their own texts, or to comment on those of the other 
participants. This process resulted in over 500 mostly short texts, many 
less than ten lines long, which were, after the end of the writing 
phase, assembled into the first volume of the exhibition catalogue. 
During this editorial process, some of the texts were additionally 
adapted for presentation on the public Minitel network. In the 
exhibition, the project was presented as the central element in the 
large, final space called the Labyrinthe du langage which comprised a 
number of screen-based artistic and literary projects. Here the Epreuves 
d'écriture project could be consulted on five Minitel terminals, 
positioned in a semi-circle around the centrally displayed Olivetti M24 
server.


The Immatériaux exhibition as a whole was curated by the philosopher 
Jean-François Lyotard and by the design theoretician Thierry Chaput. The 
Epreuves d'écriture project was based on an idea by Chaput, and was 
organised by the CCI project manager Nicole Toutcheff, the editor 
Chantal Noël, and the editorial assistant Elisabeth Gad. Both Chaput and 
Lyotard took a keen interest in the project and participated in the 
realisation process.


These basic parameters of the Epreuves d'écriture project have been 
known and occasionally recounted ever since its first presentation in 
1985. Chaput and Lyotard describe the overall plan in their introduction 
to the catalogue publication, "La raison des épreuves", and in a 
"Post-scriptum" that Lyotard co-authored with Elisabeth Gad, Chantal 
Noël and Nicole Toutcheff, the editors offer insights into their 
experience supervising the writing process, as well as an analysis of 
the results. The main treatment of the project in the secondary 
literature can be found in the monographs about Les Immatériaux by 
Antonia Wunderlich and Francesca Gallo. Wunderlich provides a summary 
description of the overall project and an account of the evaluation by 
the editors in the "Post-scriptum". In contrast, Gallo takes a more 
topical approach and, after a general account of the project, offers a 
series of short text excerpts which reflect the impact that the new 
media technologies had on contemporary art and theory, here elucidated 
through quotations from different authors on the keywords interaction, 
image, immateriality, interface, and simulation.


The present text recounts for the first time the conceptualisation and 
the realisation of the Epreuves d'écriture project. It offers a detailed 
analysis of the contributions by the different authors, and of the 
interaction between them. The text aims to evaluate the specific 
significance of the Epreuves d'écriture by providing a contextualisation 
of the project with regard to other such early examples of network-based 
and collaborative writing experiments. The text describes the gradual 
elaboration of the concept which evolved in close conjunction with its 
technical realisation. The deployed technical network infrastructure and 
software, both of them specially developed to allow the reading and 
writing, uploading and downloading of texts

Re: TREATY PEOPLE

[Andreas Broeckmann]

hey brian, thanks for sending this moving report.

it strikes me that these Treaty People actually have treaties to refer 
to which, if they were honoured, would create bearable situations -- in 
comparison with so many other situations where there are only bad deals 
or "contracts" that were rotten in the first place, or straightforward 
robbery.


i found this reference to "what it means to be treaty people":

https://thevarsity.ca/2017/05/20/what-it-means-to-be-treaty-people/

regards,

-a


Am 12.06.21 um 20:03 schrieb Brian Holmes:
The Mississippi River springs from innumerable lakes and wetlands in 
northern Minnesota, where the indigenous Ojibwe harvest wild rice. In an 
insane and suicidal world, what could be more beautiful than a rolling 
green protest camp full of activists chanting "Water is life"?


We got up early last Monday and made our way to the previously secret 
location. It was a construction site: a pumping station along the route 
of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline, which, if ever completed, would send 
almost a million barrels of Tar Sands crude every day to US refineries 
and Gulf Coast exporters. We were there to blockade, lock down on the 
equipment and ultimately get arrested by the police: civil disobedience 
by around two hundred people, with hundreds more in active support. 
Meanwhile another, even larger group was heading for peaceful and 
prayerful protest near Coffeepot Landing, at an Enbridge construction 
easement where the pipeline would cross beneath the nascent Mississippi, 
only a few yards wide at that point. Those folks are still there, 
camping on the easement, after the indigenous sheriff decided on 
conscience that he could not repress their action.


I can tell you that it was blazing hot in the sun, that it was fabulous 
to lock arms with your neighbors and find out why they had come to stare 
down the cops, and that in a world condemned by speed and greed, there 
is no better use of your precious time than a pipeline protest to 
protect the rights of the people whom colonial capitalism has always 
tried to eliminate, in order to create the disaster that is now facing 
all of us.


Jane Fonda spoke quite wonderfully while I sat in the shade of a 
bulldozer, but incomparably more inspiring were the voices of Winona 
LaDuke, from Honor the Earth, and Tara Houska, an indigenous lawyer and 
founder of the Giniw protest camp.


When the fuzz finally came out in force, late in the afternoon, they 
were fast to invade and seal the pump station perimeter, but slow to 
extract the activists who had locked down on the machines. Those of us 
who were outside the gate at that moment formed a line and advanced 
right up to the noses of the cops, chanting for hours till the sun set 
with glorious colors and they finally came for all of us. The local 
jails were full by then, so we would only get citations. They zip tied 
our hands behind our backs and dragged us over to some bare bulldozed 
ground. As I went down in the dust, a cry rose up: "Who are we?" 
Everyone roared back with one voice: "Treaty People!"


A protest action takes bodies and plans, concepts and visions. This 
action was exquisitely planned to reveal the water and wild rice at one 
site, the destructive equipment at another. The vision was clear: a 
restoral of indigenous life in the territory, coinciding with a drawdown 
of fossil-fuel infrastructure. And the concept was far-reaching.


If we didn't know it already, we learned at the camp that the treaties 
made between native tribes and the early US state were "the supreme law 
of the land," enshrined in the Constitution, but honored only in the 
breach. Those treaties gave the tribes who signed them rights to hunt, 
fish, gather and carry out ceremonial activities on the treaty territory 
forever, even though indigenous ownership of the land would be 
restricted to much smaller reservations. Today those treaty rights must 
be extended to entire ecosystems, because resource extraction, overuse 
of water and relentless industrial pollution threaten every aspect of 
native lifeways.


It takes two to make a treaty, and it takes two to uphold it. At the 
camp, indigenous leaders encouraged us to think, not only about them, 
their sufferings and their dreams, but about ourselves, who we are, 
where we came from and how we got to this place. As the descendants of 
European settlers, and/or as citizens of the United States, we have not 
only rights, but also unique and important treaty obligations. The 
colonial capitalist state is a traitor to its own law. Protest, 
political engagement and active solidarity have become ways that we, as 
individuals and groups, can begin fulfilling our part of the bargain.


Who am I in the era of climate change? My ancestors came from the 
British isles and the Dalmatian coast. I was born in San Francisco, 
surrounded by an extraordinary natural environment. Yet today I live in 
a scorched world, whose probable destiny became 

(fwd) Book of Anonymity – fresh from the press!

[Andreas Broeckmann]

*Book of Anonymity*

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Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Dmytri, for me, the conversation stops here:

> However, as we all know, the government of China enjoys broad support
> from it's people.

> After all, by every measure they are doing better
> than we are in terms of getting what they want from their government.

I'm not in the "we" group of your first statement, and I doubt the 
second. (It's strange that you decline to know enough about prisoners, 
but this you are sure enough of for all of us, readers.) For someone who 
complains so much about people around him shouting (even if they 
aren't), you shout a lot... The self-declared Stalinists of the 
Marxistische Gruppe at my university in the 1980s sounded like this; and 
they were also always right, and kept on shouting until everybody was 
exhausted and the lecture was declared over. I always thought that 
Western Stalinists were people hopping between denial, apology, and 
assertion (at that time, with regard to the USSR, but exactly at the 
pitch you also choose to singsing).


If this was a conversation, I might ask what, in your view, is "Stalinism".

Regards,
-a


Am 18.01.21 um 22:03 schrieb Dmytri Kleiner:

On 2021-01-18 21:09, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:


i find it unbearable though to see untenable claims of "mccarthyism"
made against somebody who just stays in an argument, when anybody in
his right mind should know that we must reserve the "mccarthy"
reference to cases where livelihoods are threatened, or destroyed, of
people who speak their mind.


But you didn't have an issue with the allegations of "stalinism" these 
claims where made in response to.

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Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks, i know that there are peace negotiations under way among left 
intellectuals and activists on this list; i hope they will be fruitful.


i find it unbearable though to see untenable claims of "mccarthyism" 
made against somebody who just stays in an argument, when anybody in his 
right mind should know that we must reserve the "mccarthy" reference to 
cases where livelihoods are threatened, or destroyed, of people who 
speak their mind. (i think that there is no need for moderation here; it 
is easy to ignore the people whose contributions you're not interested 
in; and it is possible not to respond to provocations.)


i find it equally unbearable that this thread should end without 
reference to the political prisoners that are being made and held and 
convicted in the PRC and the territories it controls. many of them are 
people like us. they require our solidarity.


(as an example of many such documents - why are they necessary? - i send 
a resolution of PEN International from two months ago.)


regards,
-a

https://pen-international.org/who-we-are/annual-congress/2020/pen-resolution-on-china

The Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, on its 86th annual 
Congress online, 2 to 6 November 2020;


PEN International is increasingly concerned over the systematic erosion 
of the right to freedom of expression in the People’s Republic of China 
(PRC), and the ongoing government crackdown against those who engage in 
peaceful expression. These concerns echo those expressed in previous 
years through resolutions adopted at several of its annual Congresses, 
most recently at its 85th World Congress in September 2019. Despite some 
welcome releases since then, including Huang Xiaomin, Xu Lin and Liu 
Xianbin,[1] the public space for free speech has continued to erode 
across the country. At least 12 members of the Independent Chinese PEN 
Centre (ICPC) are still imprisoned or detained, while dozens more have 
suffered various forms of harassment and travel restrictions, reflecting 
the ongoing persecution of the Centre’s membership. In the 2019 Case 
List,[2] PEN International has documented 39 cases of writers in various 
forms of detention in the PRC, the highest of any country featured.


The severity of the crisis in Xinjiang remains of the utmost urgency. 
With reports of as many as 1.8 million Uyghur and other minorities being 
held in extra-judicial re-education camps,[3] the PRC government has 
shown no sign of relenting in the face of mounting international 
condemnation.[4] By design, the intensity of the crackdown has had a 
devastating impact on the Uyghur identity in the region, with detainees 
forced to undergo intensive political indoctrination and coerced to 
renounce their deepest beliefs.[5] Among those held in the camps are 
hundreds of Uyghur writers, poets, scholars, translators, and other 
public figures, many of whom have had no communication with the outside 
world since they were indefinitely detained without trial.[6] Examples 
of those detained include world renowned scholar Rahile Dawut,[7] a 
leading expert on Uyghur folklore at Xinjiang University, who 
disappeared without a trace while travelling from Xinjiang to Beijing in 
December 2017. Perhat Tursun, one of the world’s greatest Uyghur 
writers, was reportedly disappeared by the security services in January 
2018 and has been sentenced to sixteen years’ imprisonment.[8]


Throughout the PRC, the government has continued its crackdown on civil 
society, limiting the space for free expression and controlling access 
to information. Authorities have utilised the latest technological 
advances to create an increasingly panoptic surveillance apparatus,[9] 
providing extensive powers to monitor and shape public discourse through 
censorship and propaganda. The resulting climate of repression impacts 
every strata of Chinese society, and is perhaps most starkly illustrated 
by reports that the PRC government initially sought to silence Dr Li 
Wenliang when he attempted to raise awareness about the dangers of 
COVID-19,[10] resulting in a public backlash against a government that 
has prioritised control over the health of its citizens.


Efforts by the PRC government to impose greater controls on society have 
also accelerated across the country’s outer regions. In Hong Kong, a 
territory which has long acted as a sanctuary for those fleeing 
persecution in the mainland, the promulgation of the national security 
law marks the latest assault on the territory’s unique rights and 
protections.[11] The sweeping language used in the law provides 
government authorities with broad discretion to arbitrarily redefine the 
limits of expression,[12] posing a potential threat to anyone who 
expresses dissenting views of the Hong Kong or PRC governments. PEN 
International continues to call for the release of three Hong Kong-based 
writers and publishers, Gui Minhai, Yao Wentian and Wang Jianmin.[13] 
Gui Minhai, who is a member of 

Re: [EXT] Re: Thoughts on coups

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Sean, Brian, others, thank you for the interesting and engaging 
contributions. (Some of it gets a bit cryptic since it refers to 
political discourses that are not immediately apparent, at least to this 
reader, but that's generally OK for a most-of-the-time lurker.)


Sean Cubitt wrote (Nov 24, 2020 at 3:53 PM):
> Any 21st century politics has to be formed by an alliance of the
> excluded - human, ecological and - I would add, though it needs a
> longer argument - technological.

(25.11.20 um 01:19):
Rancière argues that politics occurs when the excluded demand a part in 
their governance - a demand that changes government permanently (as 
women and ex-slaves have done already). It is unthinkable that oceans 
and mountains should have a seat in government, just as it was 
unthinkable for women - and still is unthinkable for migrants - to have 
a say in how they are governed. The unthinkable has to be thought.


I wonder whether you could expand on this a bit; I understand the 
argument (I don't know whether you would call it posthumanist, for lack 
of a better word I would), but i cannot get my head around the idea how 
the anthropo-logical systems of political representation, of governance, 
could be transformed into systems that would encompass nonhuman beings, 
incl. technological, as equals.


You are imputing that all of the following: women, ex-slaves, migrants, 
oceans, mountains, [technics], are all "excluded" in a way that can be 
overcome. I would maintain that what may have been unthinkable for some 
people in some places in some past (that women, ex-slaves, migrants 
would have a say in how they are governed), is of a different order, not 
only because it relates to the way in which humans treat other humans 
(thus an intra-anthropological issue), but because these once excluded 
individuals and groups can speak for themselves in a human language.


I agree that all humans must factor the oceans, mountains, trees, etc., 
into the way they live on the Earth (some do), and I also agree that 
capitalism systematically treats these as cheap or free resources. (But 
maybe it is not only capitalism, but homo sapiens in general? What has 
brought about and sustained the non-nature-exploitative civilisations?)


But I wonder what the "voice" of the oceans, mountains, trees is going 
to be. Will that "voice" be the storms, the droughts, the fires? Or will 
it be the voice of human scientists (some of whom search for the 
sentience of trees and stones, while others support geo-engineering, and 
yet others look for the next site for open pit mining)?


And then there is the question of how the "technological" is brought 
into the alliance of the excluded...


Regards,
-a
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Re: on the embarrassment of digital art

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Dear friends,

thank you for this strange conversation.

To start somewhere: Like some others I don't think that media art 
festivals etc. should be considered as gateways to museal recognition. 
They are sites of discourse and celebration, and laboratories, where of 
course a lot of the time things don't succeed, but we continuously learn 
to fail better next time. (If you prefer commercial TV shows, whether 
streamed or cabled, maybe the messiness of art labs is not for you.)


The danger of technical obsolescence of media art has been the concern 
of some people, not least in the museums that collect such artworks; 
some of them struggle to create protocols for preservation, others have 
made efforts to document and contextualise artworks so that they can be 
shown in class etc. (like for instance mediaartnet.org and 
digitalartarchive.at). Anybody who is seriously worried about potential 
loss or inaccessibility should support these initiatives.


As regards the topics which artworks deal with, I'm surprised, like 
Eric, about the call for "humanness". Of course human relations and 
emotions are important potential topics and they are relevant in much 
digital and postdigital art. But the engagement with technology, which 
forms such an important kernel in media art, brings about a necessary 
and often critical anti-humanism when addressing, for instance, the 
"human-machine conundrum". Aesthetically, it can give pleasure and pain, 
and pleasurable pain.


If we seriously engage with what concerns us and other people, how can 
we be embarrassed about that? Of course, there are moments of failure 
and things that turn out to have been a waste of time, but that's what 
everybody does (a coral waiting for plankton to drift by...). And there 
are also the moments of gratification. Artists whose work I respect 
have, for instance, challenged the fallacies of Virtual Reality, they 
have raised questions about the efficacy of online agency, or 
highlighted the political and ecological dilemmas of digital culture.


This last point might in fact be something to be embarrassed about, i.e. 
the complicity of the way we live - "we" here meaning the people who 
read this message on Nettime, using some digital device that is chained 
to the ecological desaster of modern industry, and capitalism. But 
again, I see a lot of people struggling for a way out of this 
embarrassment, fully aware that even doing our best might not be enough.


Regards,
-a
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Re: notes on cancel culture

[Andreas Broeckmann]

what some others think and say:


"Cancel Culture": free speech in danger? (15 July 2020)

https://www.eurotopics.net/en/243756/cancel-culture-free-speech-in-danger#

After an open letter in which more than 150 authors, scientists and 
activists including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Noam Chomsky 
complain of an intolerant culture of debate, discussion of the so-called 
"Cancel Culture" continues. Commentators also take very different views 
on whether "the free exchange of information and ideas is becoming more 
restricted every day".



Cancel Culture: Problem oder Gespenst? (19 August 2020)

https://www.eurotopics.net/de/246143/cancel-culture-problem-oder-gespenst



Am 06.08.20 um 12:46 schrieb Geert Lovink:

Delete Your Profile, Not People  by Geert Lovink

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Re: discussing zoom fatigue

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks, has somebody made a detailled, media-critical comparison
between these different systems and their functionality? (for the
teaching i did, we used "Cisco Webex Meetings")

just my two-pennies worth this monday morning: one of the complicating
issues is, for me, that depending on the choices people make in their
own client software, the way in which the same online meeting is
experienced by the participants can be quite different. another aspect
of this are the "decisions" taken by the intervening technical systems
of "automatic" adaptation to bandwidth, audio noise reduction, etc.

in terms of psycho-social questions, it might also be worth looking
at the field of primary and secondary schools where the questions of
individual and group engagement should be different from university
seminars, and yet different from thematic, goal-oriented online
meetings...

regards,
-a


Am 03.07.20 um 11:27 schrieb Geert Lovink:


I am trying to gather experiences of what’s now called ‘Zoom fatigue’. 
Of course this is by no means limited to Zoom and extends to Microsofts 
Teams and Skype, Google Classrooms etc. 




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Re: what exactly is breaking?

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Folks,

thank you for these insightful reflections on the situation in the US;
I would like to come back to a point that Felix made in his initial
question:


I, like probably most nettimers, I have been observing the
fracturing of the US with increasing horror (knowing that Europe,
over the last 70 years, has usualled followed the US, for good and
bad).


Which trends of "usually following the US" do you have in mind here?

I don't know how to agree, seeing a very diverse picture in the EU and
beyond - governments run by a range of liberal, liberal-nationalist,
social democratic, populist right, populist left, etc. etc. parties;
a rather stable, if weak, set of foreign policies; a general support
for international cooperation and institutions; a general turn towards
more "green" politics.

I'm not saying that all is good in Europe, but I see "trends" in
Europe that are decoupled from, if not in opposition to, what has
been happening in and around the US in the last 20 years. What you
say may have been true for the 50 years before that. (From a German
perspective, and in terms of foreign policy, a crucial shift was
during the Schroeder-Fischer red-green coalition, when Germany went
from supporting the 1999 NATO airstrikes against Serbia, to declining
to join the US-led alliance in the war against Iraq in 2003.)

(And parallel developments of decoupling could probably be described
for other countries and global regions that in the 20th century were
more dependent on the political influence from the US, than they are
now - with other influences and dependencies coming in their place, of
course.)

Others have already argued that what we might be seeing during these
years is the withdrawal of the US from global leadership, and a
self-isolation from what is happening elsewhere. In the past, it would
have been unthinkable to have a global consensus without the US - on
military issues (but now: Syria, Libya), or on ecological/industrial
development (but now: the Paris agreement that most countries hold on
to, despite the US). But it is now becoming not only a possibility,
but even a necessity, to develop international institutions like the
WHO or UNESCO without the USA.

Whether and how all of this is related to the internal situation
in the US, and whether this isolationism is an effect of the white
nationalism of which Trump-as-president is a symptom, I don't know.
What I see are the self-destructive cynicism of the isolationism (like
the US, in the hope for autarchy, using extensive fracking and thus
destoying the environment in their own lands), and I can only hope
that a more solidary imagination will guide political developments
post-Corona - there and elsewhere.

Felix, to conclude, I doubt that the situation in the US elicits a
global leadership crisis. It must be taken seriously as something that
can have major repercussions also on an international level, both
regional and global. But it needn't be a blueprint for anyone.

Maybe, here in Europe, and in Asia, and elsewhere, we have to start
worrying about the US in a different, in a new way...

Regards,
-a




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Re: Ben Tarnoff: These Are Conditions in Which Revolution

[Andreas Broeckmann]

friends, is my impression right and does this text really employ no
international perspective whatsoever, its "our political horizons"
being firmly limited to those of the US of A?

what an amazing way of thinking about the ongoing processes in a
globalised economy...

... and maybe, given the topic of revolution, also a critical
limitation of imagination: "what if" that revolution (which i, for
one, also fear) started elswewhere in the USAE, the united states of
america empire? (or, what if, somewhere beyond)

have a good week,
-a


Am 20.04.20 um 08:51 schrieb nettime's avid reader:

THESE ARE CONDITIONS IN WHICH REVOLUTION BECOMES THINKABLE
BEN TARNOFF

4.07.2020

https://communemag.com/these-are-conditions-in-which-revolution-becomes-thinkable/

In a few months, Covid-19 has remade our political horizons entirely.






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Re: V2 publication, To Mind Is to Care, now available as PDF

[Andreas Broeckmann]

... the PDF has now been made available:

https://v2.nl/archive/articles/free-access-to-pdfs


Am 23.03.20 um 10:34 schrieb Andreas Broeckmann:


On the question of "care", which he importantly raises, I have greatly
benefited from reading the essays in "To Mind Is to Care", published
by the V2 in Rotterdam last year (disclaimer: former colleagues of
mine):

'To Mind Is to Care', edited by Joke Brouwer & Sjoerd van Tuinen,
proposes ethico-aesthetical models of care, in which science does
not search for deterministic outcomes, technology does not lead to
abandonment, politics does not induce indifference, and art is not
marginalized.

https://v2.nl/publishing/to-mind-is-to-care




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Re: Il Manifesto: Let's get the network data

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks, it's probably no surprise that we are getting, only this morning, 
two reposts that advocate a more aggressive employment of data-driven 
measures, both implying that data privacy may have to be curtailed in 
the service of public health. (i've excerpted the crucial passages from 
both messages below.)


in germany, the minister for health yesterday had to withdraw a law 
proposal that would have gone in this direction, in the face of strong 
protests, incl. from the ministry of justice.


i wonder what the options for technical solutions might be that could be 
more acceptable for people concerned about data protection and civil 
rights. (to me, the italian appeal to the benevolence of the GAFA seems 
all too naive, though understandable in the desperate situation in 
italy.) would it perhaps even be possible to think forward, to consider 
improvements to the technical systems that would give smartphone users 
(are we talking about anybody else?) a greater level of control about 
their data profiles, at least in the long run? or other real advantages?


just speculating...

-a



Am 26.03.20 um 11:28 schrieb William Waites:
>
> Marcel Salathé: I fear we will need stronger measures
>
>  Interview by Sylvie Logean for Le Temps
>  Original: 
https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/marcel-salathe-crains-ne-devions-aller-vers-mesures-plus-strictes

>  Translation by William Waites
>  2020/03/25



> Marcel Salathé:> The only way to manage this health crisis, in the 
absence of treatments

> and while we wait for an effective and safe vaccine - which we know we
> won't have before 9-18 months - is to attack the problem as the Asian
> countries have done: with large-scale testing, isolating the sick, and
> tracing people who have been in contact with infected people and
> isolating them in turn if necessary. This strategy, recommended by the
> World Health Organisation and which we could accomplish in Switzerland
> while protecting personal data, has the immense advantage of enabling a
> rapid and active extinction of local outbreaks, while avoiding strict
> confinement for a long period of time.




Am 26.03.20 um 09:59 schrieb nettime's avid reader:


EDITORIAL
Let's get the network data

EDITION OF THE 03/25/2020

POSTED 24.3.2020, 19:12

We are a group of journalists who want to join the country's effort
against contagion.





But as information workers we know that all of this will be a dead
letter if we don't have the data to power these tools.

Without data we die.

Government and European institutions must ask those who have these
data to make them available to health and administrative authorities
to limit the damage.

The great service providers: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, know
a lot, if not everything, about social relationships, mobility, the
mood, the physical conditions, of millions and millions of Italians,
we talk about those Italians of more dynamic and competitive areas,
living on the net, constantly talking to the net.

We need to know what happened in February, how it is possible that
the volcano exploded in Italy, and above all we must now enclose the
contagion areas, identifying the most dangerous groups precisely in
the passage from north to south of the wave of the coronavirus.

Only the databases of these profiling powers would allow us to
hopefully fight this war.

As the European Commission claims, it is not a question of
expropriating anyone.

We ask these large corporations for collaboration, we want
institutions to get attention for concrete cooperation.

We would like the government to get positive answers from those who
are partners in the public administration, from companies that are
collecting invaluable masses of data for the movement of a large part
of the population on their e learning and smart working platforms.

We have read that Mark Zuckerberg fears a collapse of his servers
due to the excess of users by quarantined citizens. Then he too
should bring these people out of the house by shortening the time
of isolation, help governments to georeference the real areas of
transmission of the virus.

A platform that gathers almost half of the earth's population is in
itself a common good, a universal service.

Let these great technological brands gain the honor of being an
essential part of our lives by using the virality of the network
against the virality of the disease.

They know a lot, if not all. They know where, how and when the
contagion opportunities have arisen, the rush of the virus has
accelerated.

Can all this be made available to the country right away?

Owners of these platforms can elaborate, trace calculate the crisis
points, developing graphs that make us understand in Lazio or Campania
or Sicily what is about to happen.

Let them independently give us the results of this elaboration.

We don't want to get our hands in their drawers. Let the owners of
these drawers make us win this battle, to save victims, to limit
suffering, to save 

Re: Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks, thanks for the repost of the thoughtful text by Panagiotis
Sotiris. For me an important question about this discourse of
responsibility and solidarity is, in how far it can be scaled to
larger populations, and transnationally. People need emotional
reference points for this...

On the question of "care", which he importantly raises, I have greatly
benefited from reading the essays in "To Mind Is to Care", published
by the V2 in Rotterdam last year (disclaimer: former colleagues of
mine):

'To Mind Is to Care', edited by Joke Brouwer & Sjoerd van Tuinen,
proposes ethico-aesthetical models of care, in which science does
not search for deterministic outcomes, technology does not lead to
abandonment, politics does not induce indifference, and art is not
marginalized.

https://v2.nl/publishing/to-mind-is-to-care

(currently only available as print, maybe contact the editors to see
whether they can make a digital version available; it is a nicely
designed and produced book, so well worth having as book-book...)

Regards,
-a



Am 22.03.20 um 20:14 schrieb nettime's avid reader:

Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?
by Panagiotis Sotiris • 14 March 2020

https://criticallegalthinking.com/2020/03/14/against-agamben-is-a-democratic-biopolitics-possible/





To put this question in a different way: Is it possible to have
collective practices that actually help the health of populations,
including large-scale behaviour modifications, without a parallel
expansion of forms of coercion and surveillance?

Foucault himself, in his late work, points towards such a direction,
around the notions of truth, parrhesia and care of the self. In this
highly original dialogue with ancient philosophy, he suggested an
alternative politics of bios that combines individual and collective
care in non coercive ways.

In such a perspective, the decisions for the reduction of movement
and for social distancing in times of epidemics, or for not
smoking in closed public spaces, or for avoiding individual and
collective practices that harm the environment would be the result of
democratically discussed collective decisions. This means that from
simple discipline we move to responsibility, in regards to others
and then ourselves, and from suspending sociality to consciously
transforming it. In such a condition, instead of a permanent
individualized fear, which can break down any sense of social
cohesion, we move to the idea of collective effort, coordination and
solidarity within a common struggle, elements that in such health
emergencies can be equally important to medical interventions.





And in the current conjuncture, social movements have a lot of room to
act. They can ask of immediate measures to help public health systems
withstand the extra burden caused by the pandemic. They can point to
the need for solidarity and collective self-organization during such
a crisis, in contrast to individualized “survivalist” panics.
They can insist on state power (and coercion) being used to channel
resources from the private sector to socially necessary directions.
And they can demand social change as a life-saving exigency.

Panagiotis Sotiris is an adjunct faculty member of the Hellenic Open
University and editorial board member of the Historical Materialism
Journal.

Reposted from https://lastingfuture.blogspot.com/ with author’s permission.




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Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Hey Felix,

thanks for describing the cascade... Since you do not address the
question, even though you quote it, I presume the implicit answer you
offer is that under the current regime "suspending these obligations"
is not an option, or unthinkable? (or taboo?)

How is that to be understood...? [please, reverse by 6 months, back to
autumn 2019, just for a moment] - Is the option of "suspending these
obligations" _more_ or is it _less_ "unthinkable" than, say, putting
half the global population under curfew for eight weeks, at the risk
of total economic breakdown?

Regards,
-a



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Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Dear Sean, folks,

thanks for the useful historical references. I've already gone on
record here as being against speculations on who should die in what
way.

I do ask myself, though, about the role of capital, rent, and
interest, in the current crisis. There will be people, here and
elsewhere, in a much, much better position to reflect on this, so
take it as an idiot's question if you like. But: if a major economic
problem at the moment is that people have to pay their rent, or
service the credits and mortgages they took out, why does the State,
under these severe circumstances, currently make such an effort
to help people pay tribute to capital, rather than suspend these
obligations?

I presume that there are many reasonable answers to this, and maybe
it is really stupid and unpractical to even think in this direction,
at least in a situation like the current one which is neither
revolutionary, not truly catastrophic.

The reason why I think the question of private property is part
of the conversation is that my rent-paying yoga-teacher, Felix's
friend-to-hug, and the person lining up outside the gun store, - they
all form part of the cast of the social, psychological and political
scenarios that Felix and Brian are discussing. - I feel it might be
good to be very precise about people's specific interests in this
situation, what they have to lose or to win, and thus also what their
motivation might be for defending it. (And Felix, sorry, but just
because you say "good riddance" to Western individualism, it doesn't
mean that the queue outside the gun store will dissipate, nor will the
desires expressed there...)

Regards,
-a




Am 20.03.20 um 01:01 schrieb Sean Cubitt:







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Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Hey Brian, folks,

the question is well put - thanks for this.

One aspect to add is that most of these data are already available to 
the GAFAM complex, and (more or less) voluntarily delivered to them by 
smartphone users all the time; so one may want to ask just _how_ making 
them available to governments, or publishing them, is worse, or different.


I would say _that_ these are definitely different trajectories of 
subjectivation, not least in the politico-philosophical perspective that 
you suggest; but I also believe that it will be worth specifying _how_ 
they are different. (Something that will also have to factored in is 
that, for various reasons, people have more or less trust in their 
respective governments, and in their fellow citizens.)


A question regarding the described activities to "use mobile phone data 
to monitor public health efforts": would they be superfluous (and the 
necessary data readily available) if the GAFAM complex (at this point, 
against the rules) collaborated with the respective governments, or if 
their accumulated data were requisioned?


Just speculating about who knows what...

-a


Am 18.03.20 um 20:34 schrieb Brian Holmes:




Presumably the app connects the individual's phone account and all its
associated location info to a purpose-built database, while at the same
giving the state the legal authority to use the data. Some accuracy gain in
the geolocation is also claimed. The aim is to use the app after
full-population lockdown is over, in order to halt the formation of new
clusters. This would allow for the epidemiological management of individual
mobility over the 18th-month period before a vaccine can be rolled out
massively. Mobility-management enforced by the police, if you did not
gather that already. 





In South Korea where this kind of app was first developed, all the
information is made public, apparently to promote public trust in
government (???). People have made map interfaces to visualize the data.
Check it out:

https://coronamap.site





If applied in the Western societies - as the Italians intend - this would
represent a fundamental change in the social contract. Combine it with
unlimited state intervention in the economy and the mobilization of
corporations and the military for production, health care and border
closure, and you're looking at social changes far beyond what happened
after 9/11.

It has been obvious for years that Anthropocene conditions were going to
force a transformation of the state, in order to deal with new problems
emerging at the level of the population, and ultimately, of the species.
Just as the neoliberal globalization paradigm is now clearly over, it seems
that political liberalism itself will now undergo a sea-change in terms of
the theoretical inviolability of individual rights. In the face of this,
there seem to be two broad options for civil society response:

-- Publicly refuse any infringement of previously existing rights, while
privately maintaining the psycho-philosophical stance of the autonomous
individual; or

-- Participate critically in the elaboration of new population- and
species-level norms for the being-in-common of a fully cybernetic society
-- but on the ethical basis of what kind of "general intellect"

If anyone is looking for a core problem in philosophy or political science
to work on over the next few months, maybe this is it. I reckon the
questions above are not exclusive alternatives. Instead they begin to mark
out the contested/consensual space in which the new social paradigm will
emerge. No ready-made answer on the basis of preexisting concepts and
attitudes can fill that space.

thoughtfully yours, Brian



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Re: Should mobile phone data be used to monitor public

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks,

maybe a stupid question, but do we know which data exactly are being
handed over to authorities here? are they, for instance, GPS data
collected by and harvested from the devices, or login data from
transmission units?

and another point: what is actually being tracked here is of course
not the position of people (or human bodies), but the position of
smartphones (and also dumbphones?). it is just presumed that these
phones are always close to their human owners. (usually, from what
i have learned, they are either in a pocket, or on a string, on the
clothed body, or somewhere at max. arm's length distance.)

is it imaginable that significant numbers of people walk around
in public (or even assemble in groups; or participate in "corona
parties") without carrying a mobile phone?

considerations like this can probably be dismissed, in the bigger
picture, as statistically insignificant (minoritarian?).

which would suggest that the mobile phone does in fact function as an
"electronic ankle bracelet" (i'm sure some would today prefer to call
them "tags") that is worn or carried voluntarily. - will it be one of
the future security measures that people are not allowed to be without
a mobile phone, especially when they move around in public?

abroeck

PS: the austrian article felix posted contained a description of
fairly elaborate anonymisation efforts on the part of A1.

Germany:

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/wie-breitet-sich-das-coronavirus-aus-rki-bekommt-handydaten-von-deutscher-telekom/25655144.html



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FWD: re: switching to teaching online

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Rebecca Barrett-Fox offers thoughtful advice for lecturers and
professors considering to move their teaching online:


Please do a bad job of putting your courses online

I’m absolutely serious.

For my colleagues who are now being instructed to put some or all of
the remainder of their semester online, now is a time to do a poor
job of it. You are NOT building an online class. You are NOT teaching
students who can be expected to be ready to learn online. And, most
importantly, your class is NOT the highest priority of their OR your
life right now. Release yourself from high expectations right now,
because that’s the best way to help your students learn.

If you are getting sucked into the pedagogy of online learning or
just now discovering that there are some pretty awesome tools out
there to support students online, stop. Stop now. Ask yourself: Do I
really care about this? (Probably not, or else you would have explored
it earlier.) Or am I trying to prove that I’m a team player? (You
are, and don’t let your university exploit that.) Or I am trying to
soothe myself in the face of a pandemic by doing something that makes
life feel normal? (If you are, stop and instead put your energy to
better use, like by protesting in favor of eviction freezes or packing
up sacks of groceries for kids who won’t get meals because public
schools are closing.)

Remember the following as you move online:

... read on here:

https://anygoodthing.com/2020/03/12/please-do-a-bad-job-of-putting-your-courses-online/





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Re: less (net time) is more

[Andreas Broeckmann]

nina, i take the liberty to comment on your message anyway, since i fail 
to get the joke.


why override the good intention? why narrow it down to your favourite 
prejudices? everybody who posts here and makes him- or herself visible 
to others would (in this "convivial dream nettime") be a potential 
mentor; if you want morlock or alice to check up on you posting, go 
ahead, and if you prefer a panos or jaromil, go through them. (it's only 
an idea to suggest that it might sometimes be a good move to first ask 
somebody else whether it's the right thing to post, now...)


it looks like some lurkers here are waiting for encouragement, rather 
than a slap in the face.


"best" what?

-a


Am 12.06.19 um 16:39 schrieb "Nina Temporär":

Dear Andreas,
I know you mean it in a good way and are simply speculating...

...but just as little reminder - "mentor system": Yikes, that is
the perfect tool to render it most likely that hierarchies reproduce
themselves. It is gonna be like the vatican then. o_O

Also, as the problem of the list has been so far that it was mostly
white men "in their best years" (not saying old, am against ageism
ever since i start to turn old myself ;)) who are posting here,
what would be the solution: Older men mentoring younger women??
...
...
(don't need to comment on that ;))

...
...

Best N
*Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2019 um 16:06 Uhr
*Von:* "Andreas Broeckmann" 
*An:* nettime 
*Betreff:* Re:  less (net time) is more
panos, friends,

i like this idea, especially because it highlights what is valuable
about many of the exchanges that include the conviviality of arguing.
(once upon a time, in the later 1990s, there was a string of such
meetings... [incl. big arguments about joint projects like the READ ME
publication])

i also like how panos's proposal gives a mild hint that loneliness might
be one of the ghosts that have haunted nettimers in the last months, or
longer.

maybe instead of creating a strict rule ("no single-author e-mails"),
panos's suggestion can be taken as an encouragement for all of us people
before posting: to whom can i show this before it gets posted?

so, "ideally", any message would come from a relay-person, a mentor
chosen by the author...

ok, i see the problems of such a system, but i like the feeling of being
in this "convivial dream nettime" for a while... ;-)

regards,
-a

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Re: less (net time) is more

[Andreas Broeckmann]

panos, friends,

i like this idea, especially because it highlights what is valuable 
about many of the exchanges that include the conviviality of arguing. 
(once upon a time, in the later 1990s, there was a string of such 
meetings... [incl. big arguments about joint projects like the READ ME 
publication])


i also like how panos's proposal gives a mild hint that loneliness might 
be one of the ghosts that have haunted nettimers in the last months, or 
longer.


maybe instead of creating a strict rule ("no single-author e-mails"), 
panos's suggestion can be taken as an encouragement for all of us people 
before posting: to whom can i show this before it gets posted?


so, "ideally", any message would come from a relay-person, a mentor 
chosen by the author...


ok, i see the problems of such a system, but i like the feeling of being 
in this "convivial dream nettime" for a while... ;-)


regards,
-a


Am 11.06.19 um 23:03 schrieb panayotis antoniadis:


Dear all,

I have been following since a few years and tried many times to write
but for some reason never pressed the send button.

It is perhaps that I was always wanting to suggest somehow obvious,
simple things, which have been said before many times. But I do think
that it is important to keep trying with the simplest ideas.

So, for me a possible future for mailing lists would be to simply make
face-to-face contact an integral part of their main "communication
protocol".

I don't know, a few people meeting more or less randomly and then making
the habit to send a common e-mail to a list would be cool. Then a
possible proposal for the future of nettime: Single e-mails forbidden!
People should send to the list only if they are at least with one more
person discussing live the content of their common e-mail.

In any case, if we are serious about privacy, sovereignty, ecology, etc,
we need less not more data, even if they "belong to the people".

Instead of claiming for more private, secure, user-owned data I think we
should actively question first data itself, and demand less connected
things, less blockchain world savers, less online groups, etc.

Anyway, I am happy that I finally sent my first e-mail to nettime
without thinking too much about it :-)

Best,

Panos
http://nethood.org/panayotis/

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Re: two 'meta' notes (was Re: rage against the machine)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

ted,

i'm ready to call this a disagreement and to leave it at that: you say 
that it is my remark that "misdirects [the discussion] away from what 
matters most"; and i, to the contrary, think that it is morlock's 
"figure of speech" that misdirects the attention from what a civilised 
and moral response might be, and that's what i tried to say: mind your 
language.


i guess that using "burning at the stake" as a figure of speech is 
easier done if you don't imagine someone actually getting hanged, or 
shot, or killed in the gas, or the like; if, like me, you think that 
these are not such unlikely options to happen literally, not 
figuratively, the air smells different; and that may be due, as you and 
i infer, to being "over-sensitive".


i have no idea why you impute that, because of this sensitivity, i might 
be allergic to power; we can discuss the Nuremberg or Srebrenica or NSU 
trials over a drink some day, but generally, i believe that long prison 
sentences (or the prospect thereof) can already do a lot, and, for me, 
we must not respond "proportionally" to crimes.


i completely agree with you that people working in any industry should 
be held accountable for their decisions and deeds (even if the damage 
done is sometimes immeasurable); even the serious threat of being taken 
to court over the marketing tricks that morlock described in his msg, 
would perhaps (as you also suggest) help to alleviate things.


finally, even more than i fear people who make flippant remarks about 
burning others at the stake, i am afraid of those who think that 
"broad-base popular support" is a confirmation for anything. but then 
that's just me.


i guess the message of this missive is: don't let your language be 
carried away by your anger, even if that anger is due.


be safe,
-a



Am 23.03.19 um 18:00 schrieb tbyfield:

(2)

On 23 Mar 2019, at 6:54, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:

friends, call me over-sensitive, but i think that nobody should be 
burned at the stake for anything in any country; i say this also 
because this flippant kind of rhetoric poisons the reasonable debate 
that is so urgently needed on the matters at issue here. (to the 
contrary, i am glad that some civilised countries find forms of 
punishment other than that for actual wrongdoing.) - unfortunately, in 
a world where people get imprisoned and killed for all sorts of 
things, there is little room for such dark humour... when all the 
stakes have been taken down everywhere, we'll be able to laugh about 
this joke again, perhaps.


Andreas, you're over-sensitive. Much as Brian's flight into abstraction 
misdirected discussion away from concrete facts and struggles, your 
focus on the brutality of Morlock's remark — which I'm pretty sure was a 
figure of speech, not a specific advocacy for burning at the stake over 
drawing and quartering or crucifixion — misdirects it away from what 
matters most: penetrating the corporate veils that limit liability. If 
multinational corporate sovereignty is to be a key part of the new 
global regime, we need concrete strategies for isolating and punishing 
corporate criminality. Boeing's reputation has suffered: another 
airline, Garuda, canceled a $6B order for ~50 737s, and more are likely 
to follow. But minimizing shareholder value isn't enough. We need 
regulatory systems with teeth as sharp as those used in war-crimes 
tribunals. Polite anti-corporate rhetoric won't change anything, but 
identifying specific culprits within corporations and making them pay 
dearly for their crimes will change everything. Best of all, it can be 
applied to other imponderables like massive-scale fraud, environmental 
degradation, arms manufacture, abuses of privacy, and all the rest. For 
that reason, it *will* have broad-base popular support, sooner or later. 
The first question is what will finally trigger it, and the second 
question is whether we've laid solid groundwork for effective 
progressive responses.


And that begs an important question that leftoids aren't prepared to 
answer because, in a nutshell, they're allergic to power: what *would* 
be appropriate punishments for people who, under color of corporate 
activity, engage in indiscriminate abuses of public trust.


Cheers,
Ted

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Re: rage against the machine

[Andreas Broeckmann]

friends, call me over-sensitive, but i think that nobody should be 
burned at the stake for anything in any country; i say this also because 
this flippant kind of rhetoric poisons the reasonable debate that is so 
urgently needed on the matters at issue here. (to the contrary, i am 
glad that some civilised countries find forms of punishment other than 
that for actual wrongdoing.) - unfortunately, in a world where people 
get imprisoned and killed for all sorts of things, there is little room 
for such dark humour... when all the stakes have been taken down 
everywhere, we'll be able to laugh about this joke again, perhaps.

-a


Am 23.03.19 um 05:46 schrieb Keith Hart:
"There is no excuse for such criminal product packaging. Anyone doing 
it or defending it should be burned at stake in any civilized country. 
The fact that it will not happen is the best statement about the times 
we live in."


  I agree. Thank you for the clarity of your writing in this thread, 
much the best that I have seen on this subject.

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Re: It is the table

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Folks, what a situation!... I like how Stephen Bush writes:

"[May's] motion, unless amended, has no more force and will have no more 
impact than if MPs voted against the forces of gravity. You cannot vote 
against falling off the cliff when you have already jumped off the 
cliff, which is what MPs did when they voted to trigger Article 50 back 
in 2017. You can only vote to open your parachute – that is to say, for 
either an exit deal or to revoke Article 50."


(at least the British scores in rhetorics and sense of humour remain high!)

His recommendation: "The only real way to “take no deal off the table” 
is with legislation saying that in the event no accord has been ratified 
by 29 March, Article 50 will be revoked."


(... which means that MPs would have to vote that they'd rather have the 
UK remain, than leave the EU in a no-deal Brexit; however much I 
personally like that idea, it seems less likely to me that MPs would 
dare vote to revoke Article 50, and more likely that the laws of gravity 
might persist...)


-a



Am 13.03.19 um 15:40 schrieb David Garcia:

Hi Keith, many thanks for your kind words..

I recomend this from the excellent Stephen Bush

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/03/theresa-may-has-been-defeated-again-time-she-isnt-one-denial

In this very worrying article about just how far parliament is from 
actually waking up to what it needs to do technically if they are to

actually take no deal of the table..

Actually a little thought would lead all involved to realise that as no 
deal is the default position. So ’no deal' can’t be taken off the table

because it IS the table!

Best

David

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Re: Find your identity

[Andreas Broeckmann]

The headline ready "Overview of types of negative-decadent youths in the 
GDR" - useful when you're out observing people and you want to get it 
right in your report... - or useful when in conversation with your 
Führungsoffizier, your leading officer, to specify the negative 
tendencies you've spotted.


Someone could perhaps make a comparison to the self-profiling that 
people are, these days, asked to deliver on the so-called social media.



Am 26.11.18 um 23:08 schrieb Morlock Elloi:

STASI identity determination chart:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsynyjYWoAE0qy7.jpg

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Re: apropos "relax dear"

[Andreas Broeckmann]

friends, i'm an active lurker on this list since 1996; my answer to 
angela's question ("What is Nettime's policy on whether or not it should 
give fascists a platform from which to recruit?") would be that 
"nettime" probably doesn't have a "policy" on anything, other than the 
openness to questions; i'm sure there are people here who can put this 
in a more nuanced theoretical language, but i imagine the list and the 
discourse it supports as "in flux" and as something that takes its shape 
through the things that people write, and through the ways in which they 
respond to each other. - in the given case, the point for me would be 
not to ask what some (general) "policy" might be, but to state clearly 
and concretely that i'm against allowing anything that smacks of fascist 
trolling or recruitment. a statement like this constitutes the quality 
of this list which has, as its "policy", only a certain, vague 
collective spirit which requires critical voices like angela's to 
express their opinion. therefore: i support ted's decision to moderate 
some of the contributions since, given 22 years of trust-building, i 
believe he is acting in the spirit of the list and the discourse it 
serves to constitute.

(not sure whether this is an answer to julia's question.)
regards,
-a


Am 05.11.18 um 01:57 schrieb Julia Röder:

about that

 > dear angela,
 > relax dear.
 > it is ok.
 > noone is recruiting anyone here.
 > chill.
 > best,
 > w

so, is that it? silence about this from the whole list except from angela?
do you all not say anything because you think this is trolling or this 
is normal??



Message: 1
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 11:12:54 +1100
From: Angela Mitropoulos mailto:angela.mitropou...@gmail.com>>
To: Nettime mailto:nettim...@kein.org>>
Subject: Re:  apropos of nothing

It is a simple and straightforward question that I would like
answered. It
makes no inferences about whether recruitment is effective, or even
deliberate rather than aesthetic. But I'm grateful for the evidence
you've
furnished, dear, about the way in which women are told to calm down and
shut up, no matter the tone they take, so that those who think women and
black people are less than human and not entitled to take up space
can keep
ranting on at length about how everyone other than white guys are
less than
human. I mean, I'm grateful that you've illustrated the reason why I
asked
this question in the first place. That said, I have no interest in
debating
this further.

I simply repeat my question, and would like it answered. Preferably
in the
negative. But if in the affirmative, then I would like to suggest that
Nettime be shuttered because any benefit it had for creating a
better world
has long past. The world doesn't need a longform version of Gab, or
Gab for
that matter.

Angela

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[Andreas Broeckmann]

oh, but Olia, don't be surprised, you know this from way back when...: 
these kinds of ideological tropes appear as _essential_ and _truthful_ 
to the believers and the ideologues, whereas they appear as "arbitrary, 
inconsistent and meaningless" only to skeptics and non-believers. (And 
we know what can happen to such heretics...)


Francis Hunger calls it "Enhanced Pattern Recognition"; but it is 
unlikely that the believers and ideologues of "AI" will follow his 
suggestion.


Regards,
-a



Am 23.03.18 um 15:40 schrieb olia lialina:

what really strikes me (not only in this text but in so many of the last
three years) is arbitrary, inconsistent and just meaningless use of the
term AI. And this from people who are actually doing it!


On 22.03.2018 18:37, Morlock Elloi wrote:

Twitter thread from GOOGL ML employee:


François Chollet

The world is being shaped in large part by two long-time trends:
first, our lives are increasingly dematerialized, consisting of
consuming and generating information online, both at work and at home.
Second, AI is getting ever smarter.

These two trends overlap at the level of the algorithms that shape our
digital content consumption. Opaque social media algorithms get to
decide, to an ever-increasing extent, which articles we read, who we
keep in touch with, whose opinions we read, whose feedback we get.

Integrated over many years of exposure, the algorithmic curation of
the information we consume gives the systems in charge considerable
power over our lives, over who we become. By moving our lives to the
digital realm, we become vulnerable to that which rules it -- AI
algorithms.



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CFP: Conf. Politics of the Machine (Aalborg, May 2018), deadline 22 Dec 2017

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Call for Proposals

Conference

POLITICS OF THE MACHINES – ART AND AFTER
EVA-Copenhagen 15-17 May 2018

Deadline (500 word proposals): 22 December, 2017

http://www.eva-copenhagen.dk

The question of how the machine impacts and contextualizes artistic 
production and perception is the overall topic of this conference. 
Recent research on the impact of machines and technology on art places 
the machine in the centre of ‘ecologies’ (Fuller), ‘archaeologies’ 
(Parikka) and ‘aesthetics of interaction’ (Kwastek) pointing towards a 
‘techno-ontology’.


However, the growing interest in describing the phenomenon of the 
‘computer’ as the electronic machine has risked to keep both the 
computer and technology more broadly trapped within a logic in which 
technology appears as our transcendence from which we ‘cannot escape’ 
(Heidegger, Zizek). Whereas the matter of technology should always be 
approached critically, the focus on machines as ‘digital’ and 
‘electronic’ hides the alternative, experimental and different 
ontologies and materialities of the machine and the correspondingly 
different epistemologies they may operate in. Throughout his writings, 
Bruno Latour, for instance, develops a thinking based on the notion of 
the ‘politics of things’, which may also give our relation to machines a 
less immaterial and semiological bias. How are the relationality and 
operationality of machines being negotiated into cultural and social 
ontologies?  With this conference we want to address the politics of 
machines and the ‘inescapable’ technological structures, as well as the 
critical infrastructures of artistic production in-between human and 
non-human agency.


Where do experimental and artistic practices  work beyond the human / 
non-human dualisms and  into biological, hybrid, cybernetic, vibrant, 
uncanny, overly material, darkly ecological, critical, (etc.) machines?


We welcome submissions that take a fresh approach to the politics of the 
machine, and exemplify, analyse and/or contextualize alternative and 
experimental ontologies and epistemologies of art beyond dualisms.


We are calling for proposals within nine streams or framings:

- Emotional Machines
- Cyborgs/Hybrids
- Religion, Technology, and Art
- Algorithms and Intelligence in Art After Aesthetics
- Machines of Atmospheres
- Wet Machines
- Robots in art
- Returns of the machine
- Institutional Presentations

All papers will be published online on the British Computer Society 
platform. More information will follow.


Submit a proposal of a maximum 500 words via the website.

http://www.eva-copenhagen.dk/pom-call-for-proposals/


Important dates:
- Deadline for abstracts – extended: December 22, 2017
- Deadline for submission of papers: March 10, 2018
- Registration for conference: 13 April, 2018
- After a double-blind review process, the papers will be presented at 
the conference, May 15-17, 2018.

- Final paper for peer-review: 15 June, 2018
- Camera-ready paper submission: 1 September, 2018

The conference is hosted by Aalborg University Copenhagen and IT-U 
Copenhagen in collaboration with EVA London, Computer Arts Society, 
British Computer Society, and DIAS Gallery Copenhagen.

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Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

This is very sad news. The worrying started when Armin could not come to 
set up the Technopolitics Timeline exhibition at NGBK in Berlin last 
month - and it is now a shock to hear that he passed away so soon...


This thread on nettime has become, with its autobiographical 
reminiscences, somewhat of a collaborative portrait to which I also want 
to add. Armin will forgive me if, in the best, most friendly possible 
way, I start by saying that he was a charming pain in the ass. We first 
met in 1993 or early 1994 on the MS Stubnitz in Rostock and our 
acquaintance of over two decades has seen us quarrel more often than 
agree. When we were younger, we took ourselves very seriously and 
quarrelled in earnest, but later (particularly memorable was a dusk till 
dawn discussion we had at one of the RIXC festivals in Riga, maybe ten 
years ago) we understood that we had one of those very productive 
dissenting relationships that one should not take too emotionally. We 
first started arguing when in 1994 the report that I wrote for my future 
colleagues at V2 in Rotterdam, evaluating the possibilities and 
difficulties of potential collaborations with the Stubnitz project, 
turned out more critical (I thought: more realistic) than Armin could 
stomach at that moment. The ship went on its first big tour for the 
white nights of 1994 to St. Petersburg, a trip that Armin invited me to 
join and that I missed because I had a PhD thesis to finish at that 
moment. (A year or so later, the Stubnitz project was bankrupt and left 
the members of the group in debt, a burden that haunted Armin and his 
colleagues for many years afterwards; most of them, including Armin, 
left Rostock and the ship to do other things, while Urs Blaser and 
others stayed and still keep the ship afloat, currently in Hamburg.)


Armin's projects since, some of which have already been mentioned here, 
bridged in a unique way media activism and art, and for those of us who 
followed his work, the trajectory from his early TV activism days in 
Vienna with his own project Radio Subcom, through Stubnitz and the 
visionary art, science and technology exhibitions he curated with RIXC, 
to his book on the European 1960s New Tendencies movement - this 
trajectory is consistent and makes perfect sense, down to the fact that 
the latter book was also sort of a home-coming, dealing with an artist 
movement whose Croatian base in Zagreb was a mere three-hour drive from 
Armin's home town of Graz.


Our first direct contact that I remember after the 1994 conflict was 
when he invited me to contribute a text about Daniela Plewe's internet 
art project Muser's Service for an exhibition in the North East of 
Germany, very appropriately titled "Geben und Nehmen" (giving and 
taking). Collaboration, sharing and generosity are three of the big 
themes that I associate with Armin's professional practice. The earliest 
source that I can find at the moment is a booklet that was produced by 
Hans Ulrich Reck and others at the Angewandte in Vienna in 1994, 
entitled "Fernsehen der 3. Art" (television of the third kind). Armin's 
contribution argues for strategies for the integration of art into the 
mass media - with a focus on TV at the time, though he does say (without 
mentioning the word "Internet") that soon TV "will be transformed into 
an interactive meta-medium and a multi-facetted interface that will 
enable anything from private video-conferencing to video-shopping."


Coming from a provincial, punk and activist background, Armin was always 
very upfront and unafraid to pick an argument if there was one to pick. 
So in this forum of media activists meeting in Vienna in the aftermath 
of the first Next 5 Minutes conference, Armin said stuff like: "The 
so-called critics of the mass media, like the particularly fervent TV 
tribe of camcorder activists, the 3D-rendering species and other 
techno-heads, these are really the last true fans of TV."


He'd say things like this, partly because he knew that they would 
irritate people, and partly because he knew that they were true and 
needed saying. This is one of the character traits that made Armin 
special, and we can only hope that there will be more and other angry 
young people from the Central European borderlands, ready to throw a 
spanner in the works when a spanner needs to be thrown.


Farewell, Armin, and thanks.

-ab



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Re: John_Berger (5 November 1926 - 2 January 2017)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

... and a rare occasion to see and hear Berger speak - he gave almost no 
interviews in his later years:


http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/062921-000-A/john-berger-oder-die-kunst-des-sehens

(luckily, much of this recent German-French documentary is subtitled)

-a


Am 02.01.17 um 20:53 schrieb Felix Stalder:


John Berger is dead. He died today, at the age of 90. Orbits are surely
being written right now. However, Sally Potter's birthday thoughts
from last November seem a more apt and personal way of remembering.
"Ways of Seeing was, together with Robert Hughes' "Shock of the New",
one of the first books about art I read as teenager. It stayed with me
ever since.






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Re: RIP Nathalie Magnan

[Andreas Broeckmann]

... what a sad piece of news... Nathalie was an amazing, cheerful, 
unrelenting activist, a great teacher and friend.


Here on nettime, she should also be remembered for editing, together 
with Annick Bureaud, a French language publication of a number of texts 
and theories that have informed and shaped discourses here:


Connexions - art, réseaux, media. Paris, ENSBA, 2002.
ISBN: 2-84056-079-8

May she rest in peace, and may her legacy live and kick ass.

-a


Am 16.10.16 um 17:31 schrieb t byfield:


Many reports on Facebook confirm that Nathalie Magnan passed
away yesterday, Sat 15 October 2016.


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Re: Bankers on ecstasy (but is the party over?)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

just an aside: the artist Simon Denny participates in this year's 9th 
Berlin Biennial with a three-part installation; each part looks like (or 
rather, is) a trade fare-style booth for a company that is in the 
crypto-currency business (Ethereum, 21 Inc, and Digital Asset Holdings); 
together with an Ex-GDR postage stamp designer, Denny also designed 
ficticious stamps for these companies. I took a picture of Denny 
explaining the Etherium set-up during the opening days, two weeks before 
reality kicking in on Etherium. (In the background you can see part of 
the equally utopian socialist wall decoration in the hall of the former 
government building, Staatsratsgebäude, that faces the equally virtual 
reconstruction site of the Prussian royal palace...)


http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=154

glitch or premonition?


-a


Am 17.06.16 um 19:24 schrieb Jaromil:


dear nettimers,

following up the crypto-money craze on "Blockchains", the diva setup
of Ethereum we-will-run-the-computer-of-the-world (and you will all be
assimilated or obsoleted) left a big crater this morning (CET time)

http://uk.businessinsider.com/dao-hacked-ethereum-crashing-in-value-tens-of-millions-allegedly-stolen-2016-6

(US is just waking up to it, many more articles will likely come)


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Re: The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Am 10.06.16 um 18:30 schrieb Frank Rieger:


I do see a large difference between the US and the European scene
though. The "celebrity" problem you diagnosed is most prevalent in the
US. The idea of "rockstar" hackers, programmers etc. has never taken so
much hold in Europe or Germany.


Am 10.06.16 um 15:19 schrieb carlo von lynX:
>
> With today's attention economy the formation of celebrities can only 
> be limited by the adherence to a gatekeeping organization.


Where does this "becoming-celebrity" actually take place, and where is 
it played out? I guess it must have something to do with passing a 
certain threshold of attention into the mainstream media (interviews, 
being named as a lifestyle example)?


How does this relate to the "protective shield" that such public 
attention can also form for somebody who is potentially vulnerable?


And what role do events like (a few local examples) the CCC congress, 
transmediale, re:publica play in this, given their relatively new reach 
into broader, non-expert audiences, and mass media attention?


Regards,
-a

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Re: Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Felix, I find it somewhat relieving to be told in such clear prose.

And at least one of the task for Nettimers seems set, too: identify 
Eric's 12 apostles! Applicants must have:


- led large private and public organizations (maybe it should say "or"?);
- experience in Silicon Valley (strange rule, but that's what it says);
- excelled at identifying and adopting new technology concepts;
- want to help the Pentagon become more innovative and adaptive in 
developing technology and doing business;
- be able to advise on rapid prototyping, iterative product development, 
complex data analysis, the use of mobile and cloud applications and 
organizational information sharing. (again, maybe this should say "or"?)


(I assume that for reasons of trust and national security "the 12" must 
probably also be US citizens? Anyway, I guess the rule "must want to 
help the Pentagon" is sufficiently limiting the pool of candidates.)


-a


Am 03.03.16 um 14:53 schrieb Felix Stalder:


[There was a time, when it was difficult to trace things like the
"industrial-military-media complex". Just a year ago, Assange spent
an entire chapter to detail the close link between google and the US
administration (though, he focussed on the state "deptartment). Now,
it is all naked and obvious, proudly advertised. "To solve new and
emerging problems" is quite an euphemism for what the Pentagon does,
though. Felix]

<...>

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Re: "A traumatic day for the SVP, a Great Day for

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Hey Patrice,

yes, good news, but let's not forget that the same sovereign voted 
"against mass immigration" two years ago (Feb 2014), bringing 
Switzerland into direct conflict with the EU which, for instance, 
immediately cancelled collaboration on the EU student exchange program 
Erasmus because, under the new rule, there would have been restrictions 
on how many European students can come an study in CH. At the time, the 
response from people like us was much more disheartened. The sovereign 
is moody.


http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2014-02/schweiz-volksabstimmung-einwanderung

Greetings,
-a

Am 29.02.16 um 14:39 schrieb Patrice Riemens:


This is about the clear rejection by the Swiss people (a.k.a. 'the
sovereign') of the SVP's (right-wing populist, and alas, popular, party)
'initiative' - to be adopted or rejected by popular vote - whereby
foreigners would be expelled, without process or recourse, from the
country after a mere two brushes with law in ten years (fare dodging on
the tram, or speeding on the road would qualify as such). It was a mad,
mad, proposal, which would never have made it into law, as it conflicts
big time, both with Swiss constitutional law, International law and
European treaties to which Swizerland is signatory, but all the same ...

In German original, for the plurilingual nettimers!
original to:
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/ein-schrecklicher-tag-fuer-die-svp-ein-grosser-tag-fuer-die-schweiz/story/13366835


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Re: Art and Google Earth API question

[Andreas Broeckmann]

dear esther,

probably also affected is this excellent work by Marc Lee from Switzerland:

http://www.1go1.net/index.php/Main/PicMe

project page: http://www.pic-me.com
(for me it works best using Safari, not Firefox)

greetings,

-a

Am 03.12.15 um 09:52 schrieb Esther Polak:


Dear Group,

On December 15 Google will terminate the Google Earth API. Is anybody
aware of other networked art, besides of JODI's GEO GOO
and our www.250miles.net/map that make use of this plugin and that
we can only experience one more week?

Thank you very much,
Esther Polak

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Re: thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last

[Andreas Broeckmann]

which country is this coming from? which "nation"?

Am 23.11.15 um 06:49 schrieb nettime's_occupant:

>< http://www.thedemands.org/ >
>
>Across the nation, students have risen up to demand an end
>to systemic and structural racism on campus. Here are their
>demands.
>
>Note: These demands were compiled from protesters across the
>country. These are living demands and will grow and change
>as the work grows and changes. If you have demands that are
>not listed, please send them to s...@thisisthemovement.org or
>@samswey.
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Re: VW

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Am 27.09.15 um 23:09 schrieb Florian Cramer:


WWII. As far as I know, all profits that the state of Lower Saxony
makes from its remaining 20% share go into the endowment. And, Leuphana
is a state university of Lower Saxony.


(marginalia)

folks, i think this is besides the point, but before assumptions about 
the amounts of funding by the VolkswagenStiftung to Leuphana and its 
Centre for Digital Cultures get completely out of hand, i suggest that 
whoever wants to make claims about that should first do the research, 
e.g. here:


https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/funding-statistics.html

... probably to find that less than 20% (just a guess) of the funding 
for the CDC in the last 3 years (it has not existed longer) came from 
VolkswagenStiftung (more from EU-EFRE, same from DFG; besides, formally, 
Leuphana is also not a state university but a foundation, but since it 
is basically treated like a public university, that's probably a 
legalistic detail).


the german mass media are playing the game of "who knew what when" this 
morning.


personally, i am looking at the case mostly from the perspective of my 
small collection of software-induced fuck-ups, accidents, frauds, etc., 
which begin to pile up into a relief picture of the vulnerability of 
both the technical and social (belief) systems that our glorious 
"digitised culture" is relying on.


regards,
-a


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Re: "Speak Out with Snowden, Assange and Manning"

[Andreas Broeckmann]

hey geert,

i quite like the project as a piece of public art that invite people to 
participate and identify with an attitude of braveness. i don't see the 
celebration of particular personalities, certainly not heroism. the fact 
that the figures are all standing on chairs suggests that they have all 
been made, by circumstances and by their own decisions, to appear bigger 
than they actually are; and the empty chair suggests that it does not 
take much to stand in that row, that it is possible to join their ranks 
if you choose to stand up against, for instance, unjust state secrecy 
and the regimes of surveillance. (and remember, a hero or heroine need 
not be a saint...)


public communication, and the way in which we understand our own role in 
society, is often relayed by such exemplary figures; the narrative 
structure works even when everybody knows that these people are not 
exceptional in themselves, it's just that they chose to do something 
specific which many others in similar circumstances could also have done.


of course, this is not a very differentiated and critical piece, and no 
result of adornian negative dialectics; if it was, it would most 
probably not be in front of the UN building, and we would most probably 
not know about it.


what it ultimately means is up to the people who get on that chair, and 
who circulate the photographs, or repeat the story about it - like 
yourself, like myself. for me, it is a strong way of asking: what is it 
that someone is doing in the world, and does he/she take a stand, and 
stick his/her head out? of course, it is easy to step on the chair and 
have your picture taken; but with that picture comes a responsibility, 
or at least a claim, which one may then be asked to live up to.


so, as a popular piece of making people ask themselves an engaging 
question, i like it.


greetings,
-a


Am 14.09.15 um 20:16 schrieb Geert Lovink:


(tactical (media) arts or celebrity propaganda? let’s discuss
this. as you all know, I have been critical of the personality cult of
julian assange (coordinated by himself) and was happy to see that
snowden and manning and the (missing) barrett brown had other
approaches. this art work is not working with these differences and
instead glorifies the heroes in a usual way. or not? geert)

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Speak-Out-With-Snowden-Assange-and-Manning-Outside-UN-20150914-0009.html

Speak Out with Snowden, Assange and Manning Outside the UN



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Re: what if we were all right but all wrong?

[Andreas Broeckmann]

armin, folks,

i agree that it is urgent to complement the important humanistic
concerns with a re-politicisation of the so-called crisis; it is
important that we understand that the current arrival of refugees in
(some) european countries, as much as the turbulences on the global
financial markets, are the symptoms of political decisions that have
been taken elsewhere, and at other times. it is good to demonstrate
for a humane treatment of refugees and for open border politics, but
it is also important to intervene politically into the systems that
create the hardship which forces people to flee from their homes
- whether it is military interventions, or the support of corrupt
elites in the countries where the refugees are now coming from, or the
imposition of TTIP-style trade agreements through which EU-produce
is destroying local food markets in africa, forcing the young people
who worked in agriculture off their land, and into the refugee boats,
looking for the work in the very countries where the food is coming
from that is destroying their livelihood at home, for instance in west
africa.

to act on these systems is not a matter of clicking like-buttons,
and it cannot be done in innocently white t-shirts on the streets of
a shopping mall in vienna. (you may need a tie, or worse...) it may
mean, for instance, to protest and work to dismantle not only TTIP,
but also all the trade agreements that the EU has struck or wants to
strike with 'weaker' countries... :

http://www.euractiv.com/sections/development-policy/eu-africa-free-trade-agreement-destroys-development-policy-says-merkel

regards,
-a


Am 01.09.15 um 09:33 schrieb Armin Medosch:


On the other hand it reminded me a bit of that anti-Iraq war demo in
London where 1.5 million went. It was this "not in my name" feeling,
something to do with post-christianity and not wanting to be guilty
of inhuman behavior, but an absence of any deeper political analysis.
Last night's demo had no slogans except for "love", "together" and
"refugees are welcome here" and the speeches also dwelled on such
simple humanistic themes. On one hand slogans probably need to be so
simple to mobilize so many, but on the other hand the absence of any
deeper political analysis means that those 30.000 will not form the
nucleus of a new political movement ... which made me a bit sad in the
end ...






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Re: nettime Franco Berardi 'Bifo': I refuse to visit Germany [two

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Dear Bifo,

with all due respect, I find your argument untenable and 
counter-productive. I would particularly want to take issue with the way 
in which you call up the spectre of the German nation as a key agent 
in the current political and economic crisis of Greece.


As far as I can see, there is a huge propaganda operation at work at the 
moment in the different countries, and findings on public opinion 
there are communicated as part of that propaganda. In my view, the 
propaganda operation is there to occlude the maze of social inequalities 
in the European Union, and more importantly, to occlude the fact that 
what is at stake is the legitimacy (or not) of the global financial 
system that, in Greece, is represented by the Troika institutions. I 
understood Varoufakis' stake to be the challenge of elucidating - at 
least for a moment - the fact that this is the enemy that we are up 
against. Schäuble and Merkel have made themselves the mere house-keepers 
of a global financial system that is built on debt, - the Greek state 
and large portions of the Greek people are one of its latest victim. The 
World Bank, the IMF, many others have been building this system over the 
past 40 years. (For you to mention the [privately owned] Deutsche Bank 
in this context, rather than, for instance, Goldman Sachs, suits your 
polemical purpose, but your remark is little more than manipulative. And 
the idea that the plight of the Greek people can be improved by removing 
the current Merkel government is, in my view, ludicrous; there will be 
other Schäubles, just as - in another part of the playing field - 
Tsipras has been back in the talks with the Troika only days after the 
clear No from Greek voters.)


Bifo, I cannot understand how you can reduce the necessary political 
analysis of the current moment to the simplistic equation: Greek crisis 
= Schäuble/Merkel = the German State=Nation=citizens=population = 
heirs of Nazis. For me, this reduction smacks of the populism that has 
been used, throughout the last century, to find scape-goats for 
something (and in this case: for a global financial system), that in 
itself appears too complex, too dangerous, too stable, too whatever, to 
challenge.


I completely agree with you that German intellectuals, along with all 
others, have an obligation to critique that system and its vicious 
social effects, not only, but also in Greece. But I also believe that 
just as Berlusconi was not only an Italian but a European problem, and 
Fidesz is not a Hungarian but a European problem, - and both have not 
been reasons to boycott these other former Achsenmächte, - your 
disgust about people in Germany is awfully misplaced, and even if you 
feel like that, I believe that giving way to the sentiment is not the 
answer that the current moment requires.


Sincerely,

abroeck


Am 24.07.15 um 12:50 schrieb nettime's msg collector:


First Message: 9th July 2015


To the organisers of International Literature Festival Poetische
Quellen 2015 To the coordinators of 100 Jahre Gegenwart Eröffnung.

I thank you for inviting me to take part in the 14th edition of the
Festival in the day August 30, and to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt
in the days September 30-October 4rth.


However I must inform you that, although I accepted to participate in
your prestigious manifestations, I’m now obliged to renounce because
given the present circumstances, I refuse to visit a country whose
population is predominantly following the stance of the fanatical
persecutors of the Greek people and of the overall population of the
Eurozone.

...


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Re: nettime Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Rules for the digital world

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Am 10.03.14 02:58, schrieb Nick:

 Quoth Felix Stalder:

 Enzensberger's text was just a joke, and the FAZ printed
 it because it would stir controversy, not because it had much to
 offer intellectually.

 Was it really just a joke? I'm not so sure dismissing it as that is
 appropriate. Sure it necessarily isn't a deep critique of the power
 dynamics at play with some of the newer technologies people are
 using now, but it wasn't designed as that, and I for one find the
 provocations basically reasonable.

OK, then let's look at the rules one-by-one. (for reasons of time 
right now, i'll only do the first ones, you will get the drift..., and 
maybe somebody else will continue, add, contest.)


-a


my main critique is against the general thrust of HME's proposal, i.e. 
the suggestion that it is possible to resist as an individual. he 
admits the limited range of his proposals when he writes at the end: 
These simple measures can't solve the political problem that society is 
faced with. i think that he should have started his text with this 
admission, and then also make suggestions for strategies towards such 
solutions - which, of course, cannot be individualistic, but need to be 
collective, and political. (the title, Defend Yourselves! is of course 
borrowed from stephane hessel's manifesto, Indignez-vous!; it is a 
strange distortion to suggest that such defense, or indignation, can be 
effective in any way if performed in such privatistic ways as suggested 
in HME's rules.)




Published yesterday by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
http://www.faz.net/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung/enzensbergers-regeln-fuer-die-digitale-welt-wehrt-euch-12826195.html

This is an unauthorized, quick translation.


Defend Yourselves!

For those who aren't nerds, hackers or cryptographers and have better
things to do than keep up with the pitfalls of digitalization every
hour, there are ten simple rules to resist exploitation and surveillance:


i disagree: not only specialists like nerds, hackers or cryptographers 
should have a basic and differentiated understanding of the cultural 
techniques that digital technologies offer; by analogy, of course, you 
can always tell somebody that a vocabulary of 300-500 words is enough to 
read a tabloid newspaper and that should be sufficient for getting by; 
but would you really tell anybody to stop after those 300 words and then 
go do better things?



1
If you own a mobile phone, throw it away. You had a life before this
device, and the human race will continue to exist after its
disappearance. One should avoid the superstitious worship that it
enjoys. Neither those devices nor their users are any smart, but only
those who plug them to us in order to accumulate boundless riches and
control ordinary people.


accumulate boundless riches, control ordinary people - all this is 
pure polemics. is the longevity of the human race really the measure by 
which to assess the uselessness of the mobile (or smart?) phone? what 
about communication with your family or business partners? the examples 
of how mobile phones have improved business opportunities, learning, and 
communication in underdeveloped parts of the world. many services are 
affordable even for people with little money. - these examples should 
not legitimise over-pricing and data-veillance, but they put the simple 
throw it away in question. rather, the question is: can you afford not 
to have a mobile phone?




2
Whoever offers something for free is suspicious. One should
categorically refuse anything that passes itself off as a bargain, bonus
or freebie. It's always a lie. The dupes pay with their privacy, their
data and often enough with their money.


true, and well said, even though i don't agree with the categorical 
refusal, because we may want to, or have to, choose to make use of some 
of those services. i think that one should be aware of the price that 
one is paying, in whatever currency. - (besides, there was a campaign by 
the dutch ISP xs4all already in the 1990s, called Free is not free.)




3
Online banking is a blessing, but only for secret services and criminals.


i disagree: it can also also a blessing for those who don't have a bank 
counter within walking distance; a reality of the current banking system 
is also that it is often cheaper, in terms of banking fees, to make your 
transactions by online banking. which means that not to use online 
banking is something that you have to be able to afford. (the political 
answer, if such an answer was sought, could be to force banks to offer 
transactions at the counter at the same price as online transactions.) - 
and then the other question is whether other forms of banking are less 
of a blessing for secret services and criminals...



4
Governments and industries want to abolish cash. They would like to get
rid of a legal tender that anyone can redeem. Coins and bills are
annoying for banks, traders, security and fiscal authorities. Plastic
cards 

Re: nettime Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Rules for the digital world

[Andreas Broeckmann]

I don't think that Enzensberger's text is to be taken seriously - the 
tone is so light-hearted that it might well be that it isn't even 
intended to be. His suggestions are so far off the social reality of 
technical systems and media usage, that it is hard to take them as 
anything but the flippant and ironic Biergarten-remarks from an old man 
in the elite-quarter of München-Schwabing.


What is worrysome about this is that in a country where the government 
leader thinks that the Internet is uncharted land for all of us 
(Merkel, 2013), people who read a supposedly informed intellectual 
(Enzensberger) writing in a respected conservative newspaper (FAZ), 
might actually be mislead to think that the proposed privatistic 
head-in-the-sand strategy is a meaningful response to systems that 
affect human lives, economic and political processes on a far broader 
scale. Throwing away, as Enzensberger suggests, your mobile phone, not 
using online banking, or writing letters only by snale mail, would 
probably be as revolutionary as not reading the FAZ any more.


Welcome to Neuland.

-ab


Am 03.03.14 12:24, schrieb Geert Lovink:


Thanks Cornelia, and Florian for making the translation. I don't mind
the piece but what misses here is a bit of self-reflection of a writer
who has been inside the media realm his entire life, and who is unable
to put his own 'offline romanticism' in the larger picture of the
(German) history of ideas. Apart from this, it is also sad that he is
simply badly informed about the current state of the postal system in
the age of global surveillance. One link will do:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html
(U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement). Geert



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Re: nettime So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World

[Andreas Broeckmann]

dear michael, dear friends,

Am 02.01.14 06:06, schrieb michael gurstein:


Whether we will live in a world where one country and its 5 allies
have access to all worthwhile information which allows them to
control any possibility of dissent (even before it happens), control
the inputs into and outputs from elections or any form of political
campaign, control financial markets and bank accounts, control
the behaviour of individuals and ultimately groups and that's for
starters-those are things we can interpolate based on what we know,
not as would surely be more realistic, interpolating from what else
we can foresee-these guys as we all know, have access to effectively
unlimited financial resources and the brainpower that goes with it.


i am wondering about the all in your formulation all worthwhile 
information, the two any-s and the two control-s, and then about 
the brainpower that goes with unlimited financial resources. - is this 
really the issue, and is it such a vision of totalitarian surveillance 
what we should be most, or ultimately concerned about?


on the one hand, i am thinking about the many situations in which all 
this so-called intelligence was useless, or remained unused, or 
misinterpreted. i don't follow the progressivist drift of your argument. 
and on the other hand, i believe it is necessary to reflect on the 
distributed nature of all this data - for even in the data storages of 
the NSA it is only ever possible to analyse certain sets of information 
according to certain criteria. i am fully aware that personally i cannot 
fathom the complexity of what is computationally possible. yet, my 
commonsense tells me to not get psyched up when people speak of all, 
any, and unlimited, when either technology or people are involved.


michael, this of course does not undermine the general drift of your 
thoughtful text. what i would argue for is to start the exploration tour 
into answers to your question as a continuation of critical software 
studies (remember, for instance, matthew fuller's analysis of MS Word), 
and to rigorously apply the questioning of what software actually does 
in the contemporary big data mines, to study the ethnography of the data 
miners, etc., and to project the legal and political frameworks for a 
full democratic response.


regards, and all the best for 2014,

-ab


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nettime text about Postmedia Discourses

[Andreas Broeckmann]

the following might be of interest. comments are welcome, -a

Andreas Broeckmann: Postmedia Discourses. A Working Paper. (2013)

Abstract

The notion of postmedia has been the subject of debate for several 
decades. This text tries to highlight the main trends of those debates. 
My first hypothesis is that there are three different conceptions of 
postmedia which need to be looked at separately and which have to be 
understood as distinct: the notion of post-mass media (as 
conceptualised by Félix Guattari, Howard Slater, a.o.), the notion of 
the post-medium condition of contemporary art (Rosalind Krauss, 
Nicolas Bourriaud, a.o.), and the notion of the digital as post-media 
(Peter Weibel, Lev Manovich, Domenico Quaranta, a.o.). These three 
discourses are introduced, not with the aim of offering full, let alone 
critical analyses, but in order to facilitate a more differentiated 
approach to the notion of postmedia. My second hypothesis is that 
there are significant interferences between the different conceptions of 
postmedia and that interesting insights can be gained from a 
comparative reading of the three discourses. At the end, I hint at some 
of these interferences in order to suggest epistemological vicinities 
and distinctions between the three concepts, and in order to mark 
potential starting points for a discussion between the three rather 
separate discourse communities.


Read on:

http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Postmedia+Discourses


(The paper is 'work in progress'. Some of its ideas were first presented 
in a seminar at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in the spring of 2012 
and at the Unneeded Conversations symposium at the Faculdade de Belas 
Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAUP), in May 2012. The text will be 
included in: Unneeded Texts, Vol.2, Porto, i2ADS, 2014 (forthcoming))





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nettime from the archives: Internet as communal appartment and mass panopticon (Manovich 1996)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

from the archives:


ON TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY
Lev Manovich, 03.04.1996

... as a post-communist subject, I cannot but see Internet as a communal 
apartment of Stalin era: no privacy, everybody spies on everybody else, 
always present line for common areas such as the toilet or the kitchen. 
Or I can think of it as a giant garbage site for the information 
society, with everybody dumping their used products of intellectual 
labor and nobody cleaning up. Or as a new, Mass Panopticum (which was 
already realized in communist societies) - complete transparency, 
everybody can track everybody else. ...


http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2062/1.html



(ps: von der SU lernen, heisst siegen lernen?)



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Re: nettime crowd-funding on nettime

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks,

first, in my experience, nothing takes 5-10 secs, and even if it does, 
there are always at least 24 instances of this which makes it 2-4 mins, 
plus x. (i think that proposals like keith's should come with a donation 
of personal time to get such simple routines started.)


second, maybe i'm too stupid, but if i understand keith correctly, he is 
suggesting that by allowing crowd-funding requests we might - at least 
here on the list - defetishize money and create a zone where the laws of 
capitalism (or its moral economy) are subverted, or at least ignored? 
because we integrate those requests into our dedifferentiated social 
relations? crowd-funding requests flushing alienation out of nettime's 
Windows?


i'd be surprised...

-a

Am 28.08.12 13:21, schrieb Patrice Riemens:

...

Keith has the best argument, immo. Esp the 5-10 secs part ;-) Myself was
thinking about a separate CF list, like we have announce (or had), but I think
Keith's suggestion is smarter: trust the mods  then go after yr intuition (
pocket-book). After all crowd-funding is a clear, and sympathetic alternative
to other types of (capitalist) sponsoring models. Maybe one should think about
an appropriate format (roughly) and also a clear 1st line announce, eg this
is a crowd-funding apeal?
Cheers, p+4D!



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Re: nettime crowd-funding on nettime

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks,

thanks for raising the question. my two euro-cents worth:

i think that the nettime list should not be used for crowd-funding
requests. this should continue to be a place of debate and
intellectual exchange, not another extension of the market of the
so-called social networks. nettime is so valuable still today because
it is not just another facebook group, because it has not 4.000
friends, but subscribers.

years ago the nettime-announcements channel was created to deal
with calls and announcements that were clogging the list and stifling
discussions. i feel that that would also be a good channel for
crowd-funding requests, if, that is: if!, someone or a group of people
comes forward, crowd-funding enthusiasts, committed net(time)workers,
whoever, who will do the necessary editing for such announcements and
requests to be edited, digested and pushed onto the main list no more
than once a month.

regards,
-a

Am 27.08.12 13:21, schrieb nettime's_mod_squad:

Or, one could argue the
opposite: that nettime has always resisted attempts (feeble as they
were) to monetize its network; that it has always sustained an economy
of non-monetary generosity; and that it should resist this attempt to
monetize the social as well.



ps: and thanks, mod's, for all the work that you put in - it's much 
appreciated!







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Re: nettime Fwd: e-flux's vision for the .art domain

[Andreas Broeckmann]

john, folks, just to clarify:

i forwarded the e-flux announcement to the nettime list to contribute
to the ongoing discussion about the topic; i share john's critique of
e-flux (and some of these people have names that are well-known in the
art world) posing as a community initiative when what they do is run
a business that, in a way that is as curious as it is problematic,
mixes financial, social and artistic interests. (coming to think of
it: maybe this situation is a good opportunity to ask our community
leaders at e-flux about our community's financial situation? ;-)

however, if there is any real benefit to be gained from running the
.art domain, it may well be that e-flux might still be easier to
talk to by people from the art scenes, than other candidates for the
TLD might be. i'm guessing and am not really too interested because,
somewhat like olia, i believe that the .art addresses will mostly be
in the .kitsch domain.

regards,
-a



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nettime Fwd: e-flux's vision for the .art domain

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff: 	Our vision for the .art domain, the issues involved, and what 
is at stake for the art community

Datum:  Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:07:06 -0400
Von:e-flux i...@mailer.e-flux.com


The .art domain

Visit http://www.artdomaincommunity.com to
learn more about our vision for the domain, the issues involved, and
what is at stake for the art community.


Dear Colleagues,

As you may already know, e-flux is currently applying for the rights to
administer *.art*, one of many forthcoming top-level domain names that
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is releasing 
with the hope of broadening the space of the internet and making it more 
legible.


We have developed a new site: *www.artdomaincommunity.com*
http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3322L=6573F=H where
you can learn more about our vision for the domain, the issues involved, 
and what is at stake for the art community.


The top-level domains will bring the internet into a completely new era, 
and this means that managing the .art domain will be a massive

responsibility with few historical precedents. *Visit our discussion
board*
http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3322L=6576F=H to
contribute your ideas on what you think the domain of art on the
internet should and could be.

Among the many parties that have applied to administer .art, e-flux is
the only one that represents a vast community of people who make, study, 
and present art to the global public—and we need your support! To grant 
the domains, ICANN needs to hear from the community of people who gather 
around these names.


*Between now and August 12, you can submit a public comment
http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3322L=6088F=H to
ICANN to say why you think e-flux deserves this opportunity.**
http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3322L=6088F=H **
http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3322L=6088F=H *The
comments will be considered by independent evaluators and will make a
real difference. Your endorsement comment can include your name, a link, 
and a little bit about you or your organization. It could also be a 
short note on how and why e-flux has been important over the years to

you, as an artist, curator, organization, writer, thinker, lover, or
practitioner of art.


Thank you!
e-flux


*P.S.* We are profoundly thankful for the numerous endorsements and
letters of support we have received so far from museums, art centers,
independent and artist-run spaces, academies, publications, galleries,
international professional associations, and individual artists,
curators, and critics.




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nettime Fwd: Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks, 30.08.-01.09.2012

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Datum: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:11:53 +0200
Von: Sebastian Vehlken sebastian.vehl...@leuphana.de
Betreff: Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic  
Networks, 30.08.-01.09.2012


Dear Colleagues,

we would like to inform you about the upcoming transdisciplinary conference

Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks.

It will be held from August 30th, to September 1st, 2012, in the  
Denkerei, Oranienplatz 2, 10999 Berlin.


Further information is also be found at the conference website at  
http://www.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods . If you are  
interested in this workshop, please register via this website.


We are looking forward meeting you in the Denkerei!
Kind regards,

Sebastian Vehlken and Tobias Harks.

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NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGIES. MEDIA AND MATHEMATICS OF DYNAMIC NETWORKS.
A transdisciplinary Conference.

Concept and Organisation: Tobias Harks (Mathematics, University of  
Maastricht) and Sebastian Vehlken (Culture and Media Studies, Leuphana  
University Lüneburg).


Conference languages: English and German

This conference is the Blankensee-Colloquium 2012, funded by the  
Kooperationsfonds of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for  
Advanced Studies.

Co-funded by Leuphana University Lüneburg.

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, Aug 30

14.00-14.30 Welcome Reception
14.30-14.45 Thorsten Wilhelmy (Institute for Advanced Studies,  
Berlin): Welcome Address
14.45-15.00 Tobias Harks (University of Maastricht) and Sebastian  
Vehlken (Leuphana University Lüneburg): Neighborhood Technologies – An  
Introduction


Panel 1: Neighborhood Connections

15.00-16.30
Shintaro Miyazaki (Berlin): Neighborhood Listening. A Media  
Archaeology of Packet Switching in the 1970s
Carolin Wiedemann (Studienstiftung, Berlin): Anonymous and the Desire  
to Keep Swarming


16.30 -16.45 Coffee Break

16.45-18.15
Katharine S.  Willis (University of Plymouth): Augmented  
Neighbourhoods – Locative Media and Changing Mental Models of Urban  
Places
Babak Ghanadian (niriu, Hamburg): From Virtual Strangers to Real  
Neighbours: niriu, the Local Network


18.15-18.30 Break

Keynote 1

18.30-20.00: Dirk Helbing (ETH Zürich): FuturICT – Global  
Participatory Computing for Our Complex World


20.00 Get-Together

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FRIDAY Aug 31

Keynote 2

09.30-10.45: Sándor Fekete (TU Braunschweig): Improving Traffic Flow  
by Local Methods


10.45-11.00 Coffee Break

Panel 2: Neighborhood Coordinations

11.00-13.00
Manfred Füllsack (Graz): Emergence and Downward Causation – Assessing  
the Impact of Neighborhood-Networks
Felix Salfner (HU Berlin): Global Knowledge from Local Measurements –  
Detecting spreading Anomalies in Complex Software Systems

Alex Hall (Google, Zürich): Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click

13.00-14.00 Lunch Break

Panel 3: Neighborhood Realities

14.00-16.00
Jens Krause (IGB Berlin): Collective Behavior and Swarm Intelligence
Verena V. Hafner (HU Berlin): Interactive Robotics
Gabriele Brandstetter (FU Berlin): Choreographing the Swarm –  
Relational Bodies

in Contemporary Performance

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

Panel 4: Neighborhood Architectures

16:30-18:00
Christina Vagt (TU Berlin): Buckminster Fuller: Neighborhood Design
Henriette Bier (TU Delft): Neighbourhood Technologies in  
Digitally-driven Architecture


19.30 Conference Dinner (for Conference Speakers)

--

SATURDAY Sep 01

Panel 5: Neighborhood Complexities

10.00-11.30
Martin Hoefer (RWTH Aachen): Contribution and Matching Games in Networks
Paul Harrenstein (TU München): It Takes All Kinds to Make a World

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-13.00
Stefan Thurner (MedUni Wien): tba (Complexity Science)
Felix König (TomTom, Amsterdam): Crowdsourcing in Navigation – How  
Selfish Drivers Help to Reduce Congestion for All


13.00-14.00 Lunch Break

Panel 6: Neighborhood Images and Politics

14.00-15.30
Matthias Trapp (HPI Potsdam): Neighborhood Visualization – Challenges  
and Strategies from a  Geovisualization Perspective
Andrej Holm (HU Berlin) and Lorenz Matzat (Medienkombinat Berlin):  
GentriMap – Geovisualisierung als Instrument der  
Stadtentwicklungsanalyse


15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-17.00
Claus Pias and Wolfgang Hagen (Leuphana University Lüneburg):  
Commentary and Concluding Plenary Session


17.00 End of Conference

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Contact:

NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGIES
Project Management
c/o Mayka Kmoth (Project Assistance)
Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg
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nettime Fwd: The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid

[Andreas Broeckmann]

 Original-Nachricht 
Betreff:The Art domain
Datum:  Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:02:40 -0400
Von:Art-Agenda art-age...@mailer.e-flux.com

*e-flux applies to develop the new .art internet domain*


Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to inform you about a new development that will have a
serious impact for art practitioners, institutions of art, and art
publics world wide.

The structure of the internet is about to shift in such a way that most
information pertaining to food will be found in a .food domain, while
most information on cars will likely be found in a .car domain, and so
forth. While at the moment this may appear to be a small technical
modification, it may have very significant consequences in the long run.
For many people, the internet has already become a major educational
tool. And while the internet is the first place we look to when we seek
to learn something, it also has a capacity that goes beyond this: as
millions of people around the world use the internet to find answers to
questions about art, the results they get will, over time, shape their
conception of art.

The authority that controls the internet by managing the database of
addresses of every website and webpage (ICANN), has accepted
applications and announced the list of companies who have applied to
open and manage new top-level domain names—what comes after the dot in
the web address: .com, .org, .uk and so forth. The application process
is now closed; nearly 2000 applications were submitted and more than 500 
new internet domains will be approved within a year, ranging from .baby 
to .berlin and .art.


A full list of new domains that will come into existence in a few months 
can be viewed _here

http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3067L=6090F=H_.

It is incredibly important for all of us that the Art domain on the
internet be developed by a knowledgeable and responsible party, and in a 
focused and accessible way. e-flux has applied for the rights to develop 
and administer the .art domain, with the hopes of maintaining and 
distributing such a domain in a way that emphasizes the quality,

content, and educational and ethical values of the art
community—something we have been able to achieve with the e-flux
announcement service for over a decade. Should we get the rights to
develop the Art domain, an advisory board of artists, art historians,
and curators will be formed to oversee the policies of this important
resource. We have also pledged to return a significant part of the
income produced by this service back to the art community, in the form
of grants and funding for art institutions and projects in places where
art funding is insufficient or entirely lacking.

Beginning in 1999 as an informal mailing list, e-flux is an artist-run
organization that has grown tremendously over the past ten years,
largely due to your involvement. In 2008 we were able to start a free
monthly journal whose readership now extends to many parts of the world.
We have published books and realized many projects, exhibitions,
lectures, and seminars, all of which were made available to audiences
internationally. Most importantly, we have been able to develop and
maintain a truly independent resource for information on contemporary
art that is trusted, highly regarded, and accessible to readers for
free. We envision the Art domain as an important resource for art
professionals, educators, institutions, and especially the public at large.

e-flux is the only applicant from the art community and we feel that
it's extremely important that the Art domain be managed from within our
community. The process of evaluating our application has started and we
are up against corporate investors and commercial interests, some of
whom have many millions to spend, and who have secured high power law
firms, etc.

For those of you who would like to learn more about e-flux's plans and
commitment to the art community as it regards to .ART TLD, please review 
our application at _here

http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3067L=6091F=H_.

We need your support to keep the domain of Art in the community of
people who make, study, present, and love art. ICANN is now accepting
public comments, which can be made via _this link
http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=91575N=3067L=6088F=H_. The
comments will be considered by independent evaluators and will make a
difference, and your endorsement would be deeply appreciated.

Sincerely,
e-flux


A draft endorsement comment could look like this:

Dear ICANN,

Our organization/individual practitioner, (insert name), is an active
member of the art community since (insert date / year). Our activities
consist of (briefly describe your organization or your professional
activity), as can be seen on our website (insert URL).

We fully support and endorse e-flux's application for the .ART TLD, and
share their forward-looking vision for this innovative name space.

Sincerely,
(insert name 

nettime (fwd) Michael J. Gross on the upcoming I.T.U. meeting in Dubai

[Andreas Broeckmann]

interesting read...
-a



World War 3.0

by Michael Joseph Gross

When the Internet was created, decades ago, one thing was inevitable:
the war today over how (or whether) to control it, and who should have
that power. Battle lines have been drawn between repressive regimes
and Western democracies, corporations and customers, hackers and law
enforcement. Looking toward a year-end negotiation in Dubai, where 193
nations will gather to revise a U.N. treaty concerning the Internet,
Michael Joseph Gross lays out the stakes in a conflict that could
split the virtual world as we know it.


I. Time Bomb

In 1979 the Dubai World Trade Centre dominated the skyline of Dubai
City, on the horn of the Arabian Peninsula. Today, the World Trade
Centre looks quaint, like an old egg carton stuck into the ground
amid a phantasma­goric forest of skyscrapers. But come December the
World Trade Centre will once more be the most important place in
Dubai City—and, for a couple of weeks, one of the more important
places in the world. Diplomats from 193 countries will converge there
to renegotiate a United Nations treaty called the International
Telecommunications Regulations. The sprawling document, which governs
telephone, television, and radio networks, may be extended to cover
the Internet, raising questions about who should control it, and how.
Arrayed on one side will be representatives from the United States
and other major Western powers, advocating what many call “Internet
freedom,” a plastic concept that has been defined by Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton as the right to use the Internet to “express
one’s views,” to “peacefully assemble,” and to “seek or
share” information. The U.S. and most of its allies basically want
to keep Internet governance the way it is: run by a small group of
technical nonprofit and volunteer organizations, most of them based in
the United States.

On the other side will be representatives from countries where
governments want to place restrictions on how people use the Internet.
These include Russia, China, Brazil, India, Iran, and a host of
others. All of them have implemented or experimented with more
intrusive monitoring of online activities than the U.S. is publicly
known to practice. A number of countries have openly called for the
creation of a “new global body” to oversee online policy. At the
very least, they’d like to give the United Nations a great deal more
control over the Internet.

cont. at

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/internet-regulation-war-sopa
-pipa-defcon-hacking





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Re: nettime FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT: ART / KNOWLEDGE / POLITICS

[Andreas Broeckmann]

folks,

just an aside: i think it is _ironic_ that a well-established and 
securely state-funded project like the Berlin-Biennale is seeking 
solidarity actions from small and independent institutions and groups, 
and that it is actually receiving such solidarity (solidary with what?), 
possibly due to a mix of curator-artist zmiewski's provocative clout, 
and a pinch of hope on the part of the partners to benefit from the 
association with an international art event like the biennale.


i respect the whole thing as part of zmiewski's scenography, in which 
the entire biennale (normally a curated group exhibition) becomes one 
big zmiewski happening (though still also a group exhibition, 
apparently), something that must have been calculated, if not the 
intention, when the Biennale board invited zmiewski as curator. i hope 
that everybody is going to have fun and benefit from the scenario, and 
personally i am in favour of the way in which zmiewski raises difficult 
ethical questions. however, i wonder whether solidarity actions, at 
least in the art field, will ever be the same again after this exercise 
in reciprocity.


wondering,
-ab

Am 22.03.12 17:50, schrieb paolo do:


For the 7. Berlin Biennale, the curator Artur ??mijewski has created a
political space where to explore the effects of art in society and the
connections with the current social and political situations. In this
scenario, several actors, institutions and political collectives that
share this approach have been invited to engage in ???solidarity
actions??? in accordance with the theme of the BB7.



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nettime Friedrich A. Kittler, 1943-2011

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Friedrich A. Kittler died yesterday, 18 October 2011, in Berlin.


http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,792511,00.html

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/zum-tod-von-friedrich-kittler-jede-liebe-war-eine-auf-den-ersten-blick-11497216.html

http://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article13667566/Der-letzte-Grosse-aus-dem-19-Jahrhundert.html



Friedrich Kittler beim Abschied aus der Sophienstrasse, Juli 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csDCdqU-DGY





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