net.art auction on eBay

2002-12-09 Thread Richard Rinehart
hello Net-timers, For the first time, as part of it's annual fundraising art auction, New Langton Arts - an experimental media artists space in San Francisco, CA - is offering a symbolic portion of 3 net.art works for sale on eBay. On the one hand; this auction follows the tradition of art or

'Kill Kurds, Not Mumia'

2002-12-09 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110002741 WSJ.com OpinionJournal COMIC RELIEF 'Kill Kurds, Not Mumia' Having fun at Seattle peaceniks' expense. BY NAPOLEON COLE Monday, December 9, 2002 12:01 a.m. SEATTLE--On Thursday I found out that the helicopters I was hearing overhead

Re: re: joxe's empire of disorder (etc)

2002-12-09 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Ha, On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, McKenzie Wark wrote: > > As Are reminds us, the Digitital Millenium Copyright Act is no joke, and > there is already a criminal proceeding. Heiko points out that there are > 'traditional exceptions' in the WIPO treaties. I would say these reveal > a kind of 'class comprom

Antonio Negri "B as in Red Brigades"

2002-12-09 Thread Jim Fleming
Toni Negri: "One should be careful not to think of the Red Brigade as the sum-total of the 70s movement; nor should one think of that movement as set off in historical parentheses, an absolutely isolated, singular separate phenomena. In reality, the movement was rather a trajectory, a common ro

re;wark's review of CAE's book

2002-12-09 Thread TONGOLELE
I am very interested in the subject of CAE’s recent publication -- ie agribusiness' investment in genetically modified seed and food -- because of its role in enhancing neo-colonialist control over poor countries. At the same time, I am alarmed by the increasingly overt anti-postcolonial positio

What's going on in Venezuela??? [2x]

2002-12-09 Thread nettime's digestive system
Table of Contents: Rebelión_/_Narco_News'_Take_on_Venezuela?Mime-Version: 1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More Caracas News "Ricardo Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

NYTimes on Yes Men Bhopal hoax

2002-12-09 Thread McKenzie Wark
Bhopal Critics in Web Hoax Against Dow Chemical By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/technology/09DOW.html Last Tuesday, on the 18th anniversary of the lethal gas spill at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed thousands of people, journalists receive

re: joxe's empire of disorder (etc)

2002-12-09 Thread Brian Holmes
McKenzie Wark writes: the abstraction of property has proceeded through three rough phases. 1. The astraction of land as property... 2. The abstraction of the thing from the land... 3. The abstraction of information from the thing... Ken, concerning your three phases of abstraction, I'm just an

Ivan Illich

2002-12-09 Thread David Mandl
Ivan Illich A polymath and polemicist, his greatest contribution was as an archaeologist of ideas, rather than an ideologue Andrew Todd and Franco La Cecla Monday December 9, 2002 The Guardian Ivan Illich, who has died of cancer aged 76, was one of the world's great thinkers, a polymath whose ou

The Sad Decline of Indymedia

2002-12-09 Thread dr . woooo
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/12/08/2553147 posted by Reverend Chuck0 on Sunday December 08 2002 @ 10:35AM PST The Sad Decline of Indymedia by Chuck0 for Infoshop News It was a great idea when the Independent Media Center opened up its first website for the Seattl