Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)

2007-06-13 Thread Ana Peraica
I am not sure if there are two Benjamins or one (I copy pasted emails that did not appear on the list) ? I forward these emails to Nettime ana benjamin wrote: interesting points on an ever-open issue. consider that without mass-media, would it be possible to say that very few people would

Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)

2007-06-12 Thread Ana Peraica
the role of the war reporter that has emancipated indicating a cultural Well, the text not immediately on that, but... need for the distant trauma in public Sometimes it's not so distant. People in Iraq do watch TV news reports about the war going on around them. Good if they have the

Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)

2007-06-12 Thread Benjamin Geer
On 11/06/07, Ana Peraica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking again on the role of the war reporter that has emancipated indicating a cultural need for the distant trauma in public Sometimes it's not so distant. People in Iraq do watch TV news reports about the war going on around them.

Re: nettime War profiteers in art (Biennale di Venezia, 2007)

2007-06-12 Thread Ana Peraica
Good if they have the electricity! Not quite common for war zones. Some people apparently have electricity often enough to make scathing comments about what they see on TV; blogger Riverbend is an example: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ good one! I actually believe more can be done with