Netbase (1995-2006)

2006-02-18 Thread Felix Stalder
Yesterday, there was a party in Vienna. It was a small, at times sombre, at times exuberant affair, fitting for the occasion. The final call for netbase, the institute for cultural technologies. Today, the doors remained closed and the website turned static. After more than a decade sailing hard

Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not... [2x]

2006-02-18 Thread nettime's one line collector
Table of Contents: Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not... "Jody Berland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not... Florian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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2006-02-18 Thread Murphy
On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Jody Berland wrote: > Let's have some global self-awareness here. > These are political thugs who wrap themselves in the cloak of religion. First they come for the cartoons, then they come for you. Robbin Murphy THE THING, Inc. Russian Chief Rabbi Echoes Muslim

RE: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not...

2006-02-18 Thread Joe Lockard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jody Berland Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:29 PM To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net Subject: Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not... It seems to me that in the midst of this intelligent convers

Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not...

2006-02-18 Thread Jody Berland
Well yes, I would have to agree with this, I was not asking for total relativism in world cultural policy but simply for more cultural reflexivity in the context of this discussion. I don't think one has to be a moral relativist (or Stanley Fish) to suggest that more geopolitical reflexivity a

Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not...

2006-02-18 Thread sascha brossmann
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:29:00PM -0500, Jody Berland wrote: > Freedom of speech amounts to a kind of religion in American > culture. It is only useful to term it a religion if you > acknowledge that it is a civilizational ideal and political > common sense for American culture the same way other

Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not...

2006-02-18 Thread Florian Cramer
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 um 18:29:00 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Jody Berland: > It seems to me that in the midst of this intelligent conversation, the > elephant sitting in the room is being missed. Freedom of speech amounts to > a kind of religion in American culture. I am not American. And

Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not...

2006-02-18 Thread Jamil Brownson
jody berland writes well about the american sacred cow of free speech, something observed more in the breech than universally, as it was often observed that americans have the RIGHT to speak out, but most do not do so, moreover, getting their voices to a PUBLIC audience is controlled by private med

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2006-02-18 Thread m . reinsborough
Here's the word "freedom" being used again. Nietszche did a genealogy of morals. Wendy Brown did a genealogy of identity politics (See her book: States of Injury (1995) Princeton University Press), anyone watching tv commercials today and comparing the use of the word "revolutionary" now in front o

Re: publication of "Jyllands-Posten" cartoons is not... [3x]

2006-02-18 Thread porculus
> scandal being > great for business ... btw many begin to find it's far too expansive for some pety & stupid & bad tasted (reminber yes its that way that proceed)scribble. nothing is stronger than market force for finding habermasian consensus..hoaa er be sure the greed of scandal is here good