Can Organized Networks Make Money for Designers

2007-05-14 Thread Ned Rossiter
Design Mai Digitalability Symposium Tools, Talents and Turnovers: New Technologies in Design Berlin, 12-13 May, 2007 http://www.designmai.de Session: Working Environment and New Business Models 'Can Organized Networks Make Money for Designers?' Ned Rossiter My interest in this

The Contagion of Style

2007-04-18 Thread Ned Rossiter
Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink (eds) Style First, Birkhauser Publishers, 2007. ‘The Contagion of Style’ [with apologies & thanks to Akseli Virtanen for my plagiarism of 'communication without ends'] Ned Rossiter Did you catch it? That wonderful virus of style? Don’t look fo

Interview_with_Su_Tong: "Created_in_China"

2006-05-20 Thread Ned Rossiter
Interview with Su Tong: "Created in China" By Ned Rossiter, September 2005 In September 2005 I met with Su Tong, Executive Director of Created in China Industrial Alliance (CCIA, http://www.ccia.net.cn/), a non- governmental organization responsible for the cultural development prog

Re: Network, Swarm, Microstructure

2006-04-19 Thread Ned Rossiter
Felix, I'm really surprised you persist with the idea that networks (as protocols) are without hierarchies: > > All networks can be defined by their protocols, [...] Protocols enable > interaction without a hierarchy. Because in that same first paragraph you contradict yourself: > in order t

Re[2]: Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity and New Institutional Forms

2006-04-15 Thread Ned Rossiter
Brian and Felix have opened up rich mines in this thread, but for now I'd like to turn to your posting Albert. For me, democracy is the territory of the state and its failure. For that reason, I find that to think networks is think beyond democracy. Certainly when speaking of the networks we

Re: Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity and New Institutional Forms

2006-04-12 Thread Ned Rossiter
hi Felix, sounds like you're grumpy today. On 10 Apr 2006, at 15:17, Felix Stalder wrote: > to speak of an organized network, makes no sense to me. All > networks are > organized, by definition. That's right. And it's point Geert and I noted in the first line of our 'dawn of the organised n

Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity and New Institutional Forms

2006-04-10 Thread Ned Rossiter
Finnish Social Forum, Helsinki, 1-2 April, 2006 'Autonomous Research' seminar http://www.prodemokratia.net/suomensosiaalifoorumi/ 'Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity and New Institutional Forms' video: http://www.m2hz.net/uusityo/index.php?title=3DNed_Rossiter_1_4 Ned R

The Twilight of the Anglosaxon Model (by Brett Neilson)

2005-12-29 Thread Ned Rossiter
via: < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following is an English language version (slightly longer) of an article published in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto yesterday. http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/28-Dicembre-2005/ art82.html Thanks to Ange, Ben and others who helped me shape these o

closing down the creative industries

2005-10-18 Thread Ned Rossiter
[a bizarre idea that somehow tightening IP laws will presumably increase "innovation" in the creative industries. And how are more 'robust' laws put into effect anyway? Enhanced encryption methods, better data surveillance, larger legal bureaucracy to flush out pirates? Is this what's meant by 'm

Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Thoughts

2005-10-09 Thread Ned Rossiter
[this brief report has been written for Leonardo magazine and the ISEA'06 Latin American-Pacific/Asia New Media Initiative, http:// isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnms.html] 'Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Thoughts' Ned Rossiter During a teaching stint at Tsinghua University i

Conference review: Capturing the Moving Mind

2005-10-05 Thread Ned Rossiter
[from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following review of the 'Capturing the Moving Minds' conference was published in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto on 2 October 2005. The Italian version is available at: http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/02-Ottobre-2005/art83.html I append an English v

closure of Media Lab Europe

2005-01-19 Thread Ned Rossiter
[what does this tell us about the media lab model? aside from the hype-economy that attends the media lab & the ultimate disinterest by government to invest in institutions of the knowledge economy, does this also say something about the limits of scale? is there a lesson here for networks that se

Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks

2004-09-28 Thread Ned Rossiter
The Italian Effect: Radical Thought, Biopolitics and Cultural Subversion Sydney University, September 9-11, 2004. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/rihss/italianeffect.html Ned Rossiter 'Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks' [short version] I am a Stalinist

Report on Creative Labour Workshop

2004-04-30 Thread Ned Rossiter
Report: What's to be Done? Activism Today workshop & screenings Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, 10 December 2003 http://www.fibreculture.org/arte.html By Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter In Florian Schneider's documentary The Unorganisables (2002),[1] R

Organised Networks

2004-04-22 Thread Ned Rossiter
The Life of Mobile Data: Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity April 15-16, 2004 University of Surrey, England http://risome.soc.surrey.ac.uk/conference.htm 'Organised Networks Institutionalise to give Mobile Information a Strategic Potential' Ned Rossiter, Centre for Medi

Agamben: No to Bio-Political Tattooing

2004-01-15 Thread Ned Rossiter
[via Brett Neilson] http://truthout.org/docs_04/011304H.shtml No to Bio-Political Tattooing By Giorgio Agamben Le Monde Saturday 10 January 2004 The newspapers leave no doubt: from now on whoever wants to go to the United States with a visa will be put on file and will have to leave

Report: Creative Labour and the role of Intellectual Property [part 2/2]

2003-09-29 Thread Ned Rossiter
, Manuel and Ince, Martin. Conversations with Manuel Castells (Cambridge: Polity, 2003). Caves, Richard. Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000). Clemens, Justin. The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory: Institution, Aesthetics, Ni

Report: Creative Labour and the role of Intellectual Property [Part 1/2]

2003-09-29 Thread Ned Rossiter
something more substantive, read on] [PART 1/2] Report: Creative Labour and the role of Intellectual Property By Ned Rossiter, September 2003 Here's my report based on the survey I conducted for the fibrepower panel initiated by Kate Crawford and Esther Milne - Intellectual Property-Intel

Report: Giorgio Agamben. Stato di eccezione

2003-08-25 Thread Ned Rossiter
[here's a fascinating report from Brett Neilson on Agamben's latest book, yet to be translated. Among other things, the report nicely illuminates the Schmittian problematic of a 'state of exception' via the Schmitt-Benjamin dialogue, pointing out why such a juridico-political condition remains

Creative Industries and the Limits of Critique from Within

2003-06-05 Thread Ned Rossiter
nglish, University of Melbourne, 4 June 2003 'Creative Industries and the Limits of Critique from Within' Ned Rossiter 'Every space has become ad space'. -- Steve Hayden, Wired Magazine, May 2003. Marshall McLuhan's (1964) dictum that media technologies constitute a

Processual Media Theory and the Art of Day Trading

2002-12-16 Thread Ned Rossiter
;The Uses of the Internet' panel, convened by: Dr Gerard Goggin, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland Dr Elaine Lally, Institute for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney DRAFT PAPER 'Processual Media Theory and the Art of Day Trading' Ne