BMM by a Knock Out!

2007-06-02 Thread David garcia
i/entertainment/6714287.stm David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the

Re: sad news

2007-04-27 Thread David garcia
ms of hospitality, warmth and education, changing the way I saw many things. As Ricardo is no longer here in person nettime (I hope he might agree) is as good a place as anywhere to say goodbye. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated maili

A creative (un)commons

2007-04-24 Thread David garcia
book launch. These small sessions will be the basis from which to plan the more substantial (Un)common Ground expert meeting planned in Amsterdam for September 2007, as a partner event at Picnic 07. Below (for those interested) is a more formal announcement abo

Re: Are Cities Good For Creativity?

2006-09-08 Thread David Garcia
Text and photographs: Rafael Estefania, BBC Mundo David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettim

Re: RE: nettime as idea

2006-06-13 Thread David Garcia
John, I feel double about what you say. Your right and many lists have been destroyed by endless self meta-discussion. On the other hand from time to time it may be needed for at least a little while. To clear the air. And that has something to do with the peculiarity of a list as a social/publi

Re: nettime as idea

2006-06-12 Thread David Garcia
rried out in close collaboration with the moderators and should take a very different approach and tone from some of the peremptory notifications we have seen on this thread. And above all they should seek to work imaginatively with the fact that nettime has found a powerful way of addressing our mo

Re: report_on_NNA

2006-06-10 Thread David Garcia
>>For the sake of clarity Geert are you putting yourself forward for >>all the hard work involved in being part of the next stage in the >>'rotation'. you are proposing or is this a prompting that others >>rather than yourself should put themselves forward to take up this >>burden ? On Jun 9, 2006

Re: report_on_NNA

2006-06-08 Thread David Garcia
On Jun 8, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Geert Lovink wrote: > > >Ted and Felix should be thanked for their >massive work, move on and rotate, leaving others (a bigger group, I >would suggest) to moderate the central nettime-l list. For the sake of clarity Geert are you putting yourself forward for all the h

Re: Latino political influence in the US?

2006-05-03 Thread David Garcia
In Europe the mainstream media are representing the US approach to this issue as playing very differently from populist politics of Europe. And for once with more humanity and good sense. The general media perception from this side of the pond is that the issue does not seem to be polarize opinion

Liminal Spaces. Ramallah Event

2006-02-25 Thread David Garcia
Separation Fence/ Wall. speakers list: friday: speakers - Khalil Nizm, Khaled Horani, Ilan Pappe Saturday : Erden Kosova, Azra Aksamija, Simona Nastac, Francis Mckee sunday: Charles Esche, Reem Fadde, David Garcia artists participants : Sameh Abboushi (PAL), Azra Aksamija (BO/ US), Ayreen Anastas

Diminishing Freedoms

2006-01-27 Thread david garcia
Diminishing Freedoms On a visit to Brazil in 2004 I stayed with Grazilia Kunsch an important artist who is also a committed political activist. Part of her work is ?hosting? foreign visitors at her house ?Casa Grazie?. To be hosted by Grazie is a delight, not least for her wonderful breakf

Re: FW: [IP] Craigslist Planning To Shake Up Journalism

2005-12-01 Thread david garcia
media are eventually dragged kicking and screaming. Most interestingly the area which is least examined is that which lies between the mainstream media and the bloggers. The independents upon whom both extremes of the media feeding chain increasingly depend but rarely acknowledge. And this commentar

Yes Men Meet the BBC in Amsterdam

2005-11-29 Thread david garcia
ch vaunted 'objectivity'; after all declared Pierre Merle of ARTE France, 'although you were hoax victims there is no reason for you to take it personally'. David Garcia: Amsterdam - End forwarded message - # distributed via : no commercial use without permission

Mohammed Mongrel

2005-11-02 Thread david garcia
ou may have about how this platform might be developed. David Garcia Begin forwarded message: > From: harwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 31 October 2005 23:13:57 GMT+01:00 > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > Subject: Mohammed Mongrel > > Mohammedb.jpg - a new

Happy Birthday: Ten Years After

2005-08-30 Thread david garcia
h realizing? * Do the numbers represent a critical mass? * Where shall we meet? * How should it be "organized"? * Will there free beer as well as..? David Garcia - End forwarded message - # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderat

Re- Casa logic

2005-05-31 Thread david garcia
y happening to Telestreet? Here's hoping that the prize is for a living growing network not only the legacy of a great idea David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultu

Re: Landscape Painting of the Information Age

2005-05-20 Thread david garcia
often overlooked and falsified any act of recuperation should also include a fuller account of the good reasons why Romanticism was repudiated. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text

Re: tv-tv copenhagen

2005-03-07 Thread david garcia
sibility to trigger some unforseen model of open, fluid "moving image" collaboration. Perhaps nettimers can point to some existing examples that might inspire the Outloud group. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list f

Amsterdam: Berlin

2004-12-01 Thread David Garcia
he quote he used most often was Bishop Butler's "Everything is what it is and not another thing " for Berlin "liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.. The truth has never made men free, and freedom did not alway

Reviews of Books and the law of unintended consequences

2004-09-08 Thread David Garcia
ical media is one of the ways in which the weak turn the tables on the strong" is demonstrated by the sight of both former and current "super powers" rendered impotent. These horrors are grass roots media activism at their most devastatingly effective. David Garcia # distributed v

Re: Prisoner Abuse:

2004-05-17 Thread David Garcia
ieties) on the atavistic requirements of indiscriminate blood sacrifice to avenge 9/11 and the corroborating need to re-enforce a badly shaken sense of global sovereignty. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # c

"A Global Sense of Place"

2004-04-14 Thread David Garcia
n Telestreets will take the project down pathways unconstrained by the puppet show of national party politics. The ways in which this process is already occurring are helping to a relatively new kind of *situated metropolitan tactics*. From this perspective, rather than imagining that the networks

Re: wromng signals

2003-12-22 Thread David Garcia
"body politic" and, as such, voyeuristically adored." Extract from "Hollywood, Violence and the Construction of War Zones" (presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles (March 2000)- Quoted in Publicity's Secret, J

wrong signals

2003-12-15 Thread David Garcia
bent on prosecuting a war against terror in which the twenty-four hour news machine is mobilized to disseminate images that do little more than fan the flames of hate. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collabo

Re: Reverse Engineering Freedom and make world paper#3

2003-10-17 Thread david garcia
Thanks for responding Florian. > geert and me are certainly not so tired that we would prefer to lay > back and refer to universal principals... One reason I took the approach of your essay to be rather universalising or "totalising", was the claim made early in the essay that: >We've transcen

Re: Of Men and Monuments

2003-10-01 Thread David Garcia
th poignant and instructive. The same can be said of societies and other collectives as we saw when Martin Luther King used the Lincoln Memorial as the backdrop against which to re-draft the American dream for a new generation. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permiss

Re: Reverse Engineering Freedom and make world paper#3

2003-09-24 Thread David Garcia
at pleasure in reading the inspirational texts Geert and Florian but they also give the sense that it might be time for a slightly different tone. For at least some critical internet culture to proclaim less heroically, Zarathustra style, from lofty peaks. Maybe alongside charismat

Re: incoming! digest [valentine (x2), cantsin]

2003-03-26 Thread david garcia
quot;liberation" but if this horror were to last much longer then just maybe history might repeat itself and as with Vietnam the accumulation of resistance might eventually weaken the resolve of what must (in all its God fearing conviction) be trully one of the most shameful US administrations

The Scuds

2003-03-25 Thread David Garcia
surprisingly at no point has any evidence whatsoever been presented that the missiles launched were in fact Scuds, it just left hanging as part of the drip, drip drip from the spin, rumor lie machine. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderat

Zizek and the Real

2003-03-14 Thread David Garcia
Slajov Zizek begins his recent volume "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" with an extraordinary anecdote in which Brecht can be found waving encouragement to a column of Soviet tanks on its way to crush a workers up-rising. Zizek goes on to explain that it was "The harshness of the v

FW: [N5M4 editorial] New and final dates for Next 5 Minutes 4 Festival

2003-02-14 Thread David Garcia
ANNOUNCEMENT OF FINAL FESTIVAL DATES FOR NEXT 5 MINUTES 4 Amsterdam, February 14, 2003 We are pleased to announce the final festival dates for Next 5 Minutes 4 - International Festival of Tactical Media in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The dates of the festival are: Friday September 12, Saturday S