Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
of course if you came and visited us, that might take care of the problem :-) - Alan On Wed, 31 Aug 2016, Johannes Birringer wrote: the clunky email discussion lists do not always work as well (as this spontaneous & wild one here) when they are moderated and controlled and when there is

Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-31 Thread BishopZ
I hear what you are saying, and the conversation has ventured pretty far afield. I agree that Images are bad at math. They are bad at most hard sciences. But anthropology is just as complex as astrophysics, and images are much more prominent in soft sciences. Images do have long duree- they are

Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-31 Thread Johannes Birringer
the clunky email discussion lists do not always work as well (as this spontaneous & wild one here) when they are moderated and controlled and when there is a fictive membership (hundreds, thousands?) that do not engage in debates so that the extended discussion, as Alan seems to think it

Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Bishop, it's not the complexity of images; it's the long duree, which is different. If you're interested, say, in particle physics, images of Feynman diagrams or accelerators won't go anywhere towards understanding how the universe is. You need math, quantum theory, quantum field theory,

[NetBehaviour] SELFHOSTED / Critical Engineering Intensive, 7-9 Sept 2016

2016-08-31 Thread Danja Vasiliev
Get last seats in this Critical Engineering Intensive! //---> SELFHOSTED, 07-09 September 2016 With Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev at Weise7 studio, Berlin Decentralise! This 3-day intensive walks participants through

Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-31 Thread BishopZ
Can images not be so complex? Pinterest satisfies all of your concerns except the part about words. It takes just as much thought to use it well, as reading an essay. Pinterest is a (the only?) curatorial mass medium, and curation takes time. Some people try to use it like Fb or a Blog and

Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
I love the conversation inside Android! I can imagine plays written like this, it would be an interesting genre. I'm on Win10 however and it may be a bit different. On Fb I'm not that worried; what occurs on the surface is pretty much what I see (I've set so many precautions across the

Re: [NetBehaviour] What the hell with Snapchat?? Help!

2016-08-31 Thread BishopZ
The issues of privacy are different depending if you are talking about the NSA, Facebook or Wikileaks. It is difficult to be pro-privacy in all three discussions. In terms of Facebook or Snapchat privacy, as James pointed out, be careful when simply reading the words. On Android, there are more

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cover version/The Girl from the North Country

2016-08-31 Thread Michael Szpakowski
Hi Edward I'm glad I led you into fun pastures! My personal favourite version is the Dylan /Cash duet on Nashville Skyline which is a masterpiece of compressed and austere smoulder. That was in my head when I made my version, which I'm delighted you like!warmest wishesmichael From:

[NetBehaviour] Pawnshop - the Greek Reality Board Game.

2016-08-31 Thread furtherfield
Pawnshop - the Greek Reality Board Game. What is the relationship between state corruption and economic collapse in Greece? Lina Theodorou, artist and creator of the board game 'Pawnshop', talks with Furtherfield’s Ruth Catlow about Grexit, Brexit, and crisis in Europe. ""Theodorou tells me that