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 wi
We all like to stand on the corpses of giants; it
makes us seem taller, but one should note, that
it makes the footing mushy. A superficial
attachment of the historical limits of the
situationists to a particular set of technologies
or their social configurations is very old and
very tired ne
ephemera "Immaterial and affective labor: explored" issue released
The new issue (7.1) of ephemera: theory & politics in organization,
entitled "immaterial and affective labor: explored," has just been
published at http://www.ephemeraweb.org. This latest special issue
offers a critical engag
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 el
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.
One reason for this is that in each "battle space", symbolic or real,
the stronger wants, well, to win. So if the increase of secrecy is
seen as empowerment, it's only natural that one will want opponents
(subjects) dis-empowered in that respect. Otherwise it would take all
the fun and profit from
On 6/11/07, Felix Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday, 10. June 2007 19:42, Morlock Elloi wrote:
>
> > If "empowerment" of the public by cheap self-publishing has demonstrated
> > anything, it is that a vast majority has nothing to say, lacks any
> > detectable talent and mimicks TV in p