Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

2016-04-30 Thread Kath O'Donnell
catching up on these discussions. my mind has been offline for past month or so, not taking in any new input. stil getting my head around the term and its impact or method relating to art. my first thought was that I wanted to slow down too, so I enjoyed Ruth's response to Annie's post below. I

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread Simon Biggs
I worked at Edinburgh University until 2014. All staff were required to report, under the Prevent program, any signs of radicalisation. Of course nobody ever did. However, there was a well publicised case at Nottingham University a few years ago when a PhD student borrowed a book on Al Qaeda

[NetBehaviour] accelerate to Bangor

2016-04-30 Thread Simon Mclennan
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[NetBehaviour] Auto-Re: accelerate to Bangor

2016-04-30 Thread 土木建筑学院
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[NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 06:51 PM, erik zepka wrote: > > And when the questions, as both Ruth > and Alan have effectively talked about, get to a realm of inhuman > problematics, ecological, species-threatening, who should advise then? Deodands:

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread Michael Szpakowski
You are extremely fortunate  , Johannes, be working in the UK in a place it hasn't reached -it is enshrined in law.  I can only assume that someone at your institution is resisting its implementation, or that it simply hasn't been implemented there yet  . Is poke earlier to a friend at South

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 06:59 AM, Pall Thayer wrote: > I love those NASA posters and actually have one hanging on my wall! I imagine ones with a similarly confident visual aesthetic and verbal phrasing presenting a future in which full automation / post-capitalism / etc. have already happened (and were

Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 06:42 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote: > >> >> An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls' >> proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the >> gallery declined). It would have been a critical exposure

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist health policy

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/04/16 01:41 PM, Edward Picot wrote: > The Royal College of Physicians have just announced their approval of > e-cigarettes. There was a controversy about them in the States recently -

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
Thank you so much for this. In the U.S. Islamophobia is at an all-time high as you know, and here too it tends to be disguised except for Trump's followers. With Trump etc., it's out in the open and reminds me of the early Nazis, beer-hall putsch and all, very frightening. And frightening

[NetBehaviour] gone world nowhere text

2016-04-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
gone world nowhere text http://www.alansondheim.org/mung5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/mung.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/mung4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/mung3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/mung2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/mung1.png mung [2016/04/29 19:11] Flight Band: All

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 24/04/16 04:52 PM, Gretta Louw wrote: > Death to the ludicrous, imperialist notion of 'mastery'! >From the Manifesto: "14. [...] Real democracy must be defined by its goal — collective self-mastery. This is a project which must align politics with the legacy of the Enlightenment, to the

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear all never heard of it. when doing some fact checking, 'prevent' seems to have been a government counter terrorist initiative, for the past ten years, not entirely successful I read. But in the arts and educational arenas where I work, it's not a factor nor has anyone ever approached me to

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread Michael Szpakowski
and here's a slightly more populist ( but very good) take on it from, bizarrely, Metro, the free London daily paper:http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/01/professors-are-being-told-to-spy-on-their-students-heres-what-you-need-to-know-5789770/ cheersmichael From: Alan Sondheim

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread Michael Szpakowski
It is a compulsory duty on all working in education in the UK to report to the authorities concerns about vaguely defined signs of "radicalisation" ie. to spy on their students. It is clearly directed principally against Muslims but the examples I give in my letter show that it is also open to

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
from what I gather, I agree; can you say more, for the non-British on the list, exactly what Prevent is? racial profiling in schools? thanks, Alan On Sat, 30 Apr 2016, ruth catlow wrote: Hi Michael, I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly what is at

Re: [NetBehaviour] email about "prevent"

2016-04-30 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Michael, I appreciate your response to this process, and for highlighting so clearly what is at stake. I no longer hold a permanent post in a Higher Education institution but have been shocked to read in the press, and to hear from those of my peers who do, about increasing pressure to