Organic Intellectual Work: Interview with Andrew Ross [REVISED]

http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/interview-with-andrew-ross/ Organic Intellectual Work Interview with Andrew Ross By Geert Lovink Does cultural studies scholar and labour activist Andrew Ross need to be introduced? I became familiar with the work of U.S. American researcher of Scottish

Organic Intellectual Work: Interview with Andrew Ross

Organic Intellectual Work Interview with Andrew Ross By Geert Lovink Does cultural studies scholar and labour activist Andrew Ross need to be introduced? I became familiar with the work of U.S. American researcher of Scottish decent in the early nineties when his co-edited anthology Techno

no comments?

This is what Rhizome made of it... Anyone at nettime has already seen this show and would like to comment on it? Best, Geert New Media History Refreshed As with any vibrant art form, new media finds itself historicized in multiple and evolving ways. Significant attention has been paid to whether

Interview with Vito Campanelli about Web Aesthetics

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"call for blogging code of conduct"

Dear nettimers, I wonder how many of you follow the 'Kathy Sierra' case and what you make of it. My first response was that this scandal was the final chapter of the A-list, the presumed consensus culture of prominent US-bloggers that got famous by linking to each other in the time when blogging w

radical sadness--exchange between ken wark and geert Lovink

Email exchange between Ken Wark and Geert Lovink Held during the week after Jean Baudrillard passed away. KW: You ask: what is radical sadness? That's an excellent question, and Jean poses it to us, so it's a good place to start. I have certainly felt a sadness since I heard Jean had

Re: shocklogs wikipedia entry

Thanks, Pit. Here an update. A while the entry deleted (again). What is kind of amazing is the Anglo-Saxon language policing, which term is and is not 'proper' English. An (English) wikipedia entry cannot be valid if it based on 'foreign language' sources now about that? Wikipedia is no

Greenpeace launches greenmyapple campaign

(after e-waste campaigns such as http://www.e-waste.ch/ this greenpeace initiative, targetted at apple, seems to be the next level, focussed on the production, and no longer on the recycling economy and the management of the waste side of computer use. geert) http://www.greenmyapple.org We lov

Re: shocklogs wikipedia entry

asically a neologism, and an imprecise one at that. Is Stile Project a "shocklog"? Lankiveil 05:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC). -- On 17 Jan 2007, at 11:54 AM, Geert Lovink wrote: > (dear nettimers, together with students of the masters-of-media blog at > the university of amsterdam i have b

shocklogs wikipedia entry

(dear nettimers, together with students of the masters-of-media blog at the university of amsterdam i have been working on a wikipedia entry about so-called shock logs or shock blogs. it is been an interesting experience to see that our entry has been deleted on a number of occasions because th

blogging, the nihilist impulse

. routledge only owns the rights to the english version. best, geert) http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-01-02-lovink-en.html Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse By Geert Lovink "An der rationalen Tiefe erkennt man den Radikalen; im Verlust der rationalen Methode kündigt sich der Nihilism

Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user

NUWeb: A project for Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user! Taiwan's National ChungCheng University announced, in a press conference held in Taipei on December 27, a Web 3.0 project with a goal to build a new Web that is for the user, by the user, and of the user. Prof. Sun Wu, the le

Interview with Saskia Sassen by Magnus Wennerhag

Denationalized states and global assemblages Interview with Saskia Sassen by Magnus Wennerhag http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-11-20-sassen-en.html "The liberal state has been hijacked for neoliberal agendas," says Saskia Sassen in interview, and in some cases even for "very modern despoti

old and new media: the fight is on

(Old and new media, once seen by some as a jolly hybrid, are ready for a fight. Watch this video: a clash between a 'journalist' and a 'shockblog' founder. Wikipedia reports that "on 30 November 2006, a senior journalist at The Daily Telegraph, Glenn Milne, had to be restrained and escorted fro

"in association with nettime.org"

> CYBERSALON @ THE DANA CENTRE > DIGITAL WORK & CREATIVE MAPPING > The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, > London SW7 5HE > Date: March 07 - to be announced > Cost: Cost and booking details to be announced > Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road > > A one

iTube, YouSpace, WeCreate

MyCreativity newspaper iTube, YouSpace, WeCreate Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter  **Have We Been Creative Yet?** Conferences on 'creative industries' have become a set feature in many countries over the past few years. They usually consist of government policy-makers, arts administrato

Internet and the Intellectuals

Dear nettimers, as some of you will know this week IGF, the Internet Governance Forum (http://www.intgovforum.org/) is on in Athens. It's the forum that has been created by Kofi Annan after the the second World Summit on the Internet Society, held in Tunis, November 2005. There are over 1200 deleg

re: Important Thai education site closed

> From: somkiat tangnamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Oct 1, 2006 2:54 AM > Subject: Statement of the Midnight University > > Statement of the Midnight University > > "Opposing the Closure of Channels of Free Communication" > > Beginning on Friday September 29th, the Midnight University's website >

Pew: Experts assess Future of Internet

(report full of contradictions and yesterday's predictions. interesting that the growing international dimension of the Internet is not mentioned at all, except for a reference to mandarin. it is quite clear which narrow group of wasp expertocracy the pew internet project focused on here, and h

Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin

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re: Steve Cisler in search for ISEA 2006 blogs

> From: "Edward Shanken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Here are some more: > > http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ICSummit2006/wiki/ > > And some additional individual blogs listed here: > http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ICSummit2006/wiki/pmwiki.php? > n=Main.BlogList > > Edward Shanken > ISEA Rapporteur

more from steve cisler on isea conference streaming

> Streaming of ISEA main talks > open Quicktime player and put in this url: > rtsp://130.65.200.17/zero1.sdp I tried it and it > works > > higher bandwidth: > rtsp://130.65.200.17/zero1-hq.sdp > > S. Sassen talks at 4 pm California time. > > www.socialtext.net/isea2006/index.cgi for the > rapport

Steve Cisler in search for ISEA 2006 blogs

> The kiwis are writing a lot: > http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/list/by/ISEA > > ISEA by Proxy: Blog Collection 0.1 > > ISEA2006Rapporteur > http://www.eu.socialtext.net/isea2006/ > > media arts network [ma-net] > http://www.ma-net.org/isea.html North West UK > perspectives. > > CRUMB Crisis

Out-Cooperating the Empire? - Exchange with Christoph Spehr

http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/out-cooperating-the-empire- exchange-with-christoph-spehr/ Out-Cooperating the Empire? Exchange between Geert Lovink and Christoph Spehr on Creative Labour and the Hybrid Work of Cooperation I have just finished an exchange with Christoph Spehr, the

Adrian Lucas: Network-Subject Duality

(This is a short text that Adrian Lucas, a consultant on risk aggregation in Zuerich sent me. I thought it was interesting enough to forward it to nettime. Adrian gave permission to send it to the list. Geert) Network-Subject Duality By Adrian Lucas What the wave-particle duality is to physics

Yahoo! clear worst offender in censorship tests on search engines

(I heard from some in mainland China that the situation for ordinary Internet users has indeed deteriorated compared to one or two years ago. The question remains: is the censorship somehow still marginal or indeed already substantial? Or have we passed that point? /Geert) http://www.rsf.org Yaho

Support Iraqi Bloggers-Interview with Cecile Landman (Streamtime)

Support Iraqi Bloggers Interview with Cecile Landman By Geert Lovink Cecile Landman is a Dutch freelance investigative journalist, who specializes in the facts behind the news. One of the areas she researches and works in is Italy, a country she is passionate about. Cecile has often said to me

Re: nettime as idea

Felix Stalder writes: On 9 Jun 2006, at 10:38 AM, Felix Stalder wrote: > I agree, on many levels, nettime works quite well, so there is not an > urgent need to change something. But, this does not mean it cannot be > improved. Sure it can. But to do that, we need concrete ideas, what > would you,

Re: report_on_NNA

> 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 ? No, not at all

Re: report_on_NNA

Hi all, just a few comments. I enjoyed the Montreal nettime online and the tech worked out fine. It is really a shame that the announcement of this (online) event came through only hours after the event ended. The reason for this is simple. Ted and Felix should be thanked for their massive wo

definition of snarkyness

(While digging through the blogosphere I came across this German (?) theory prose on Revenge of the Blog. Net Criticism in the Age of Web 2.0? /geert) http://pitsch.wordpress.com/2006/04/04/snarkyness/ Snarkyness It would be wonder if American bloggers wouldn?t develope their ?own? jargon. We

Supporting Iraqi Radio Journalists (interview with Anja Wollenberg)

Supporting Iraqi Radio Journalists Interview with Anja Wollenberg, Media in Cooperation & Transition (Berlin/Amman) By Geert Lovink Media in Cooperation & Transition (MICT) is a Berlin-based organization that was founded in late 2004 out of a radio program that was conducted as Iraq

THE WAR TAPES

(is this where tactical media is, right now, giving camcorders to US soldiers, in the hope they will shoot interesting footage? i bet they will. hard not to, i would say. anyone seen this film yet? /geert) http://www.thewartapes.com/ In March 2004, just as the insurgent movement strengthened, sev

"free upload, free download" (Euro Mayday Parade 006)

(May 1 is approaching, nettimers in Eurostan, time to hit the streets! Glad to see that "free upload, free download" has been included in the colorful list of demands. Let's pray for nice weather. Enjoy. /Geert) http://www.euromayday.org/ Party, action & protest for social equality in Europe The

blogonomics according to carr

(for me nicholas carr was one of the most interesting net critics of the past season. carr's rough type blog is one of the best places if you want to look for critical google watching. below you will find his sobering statistics on what it means, in economic terms, to blog. /geert) http://www

Review of Doug Aitken's book, by Peter Lunenfeld

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk- lunenfeld16apr16,0,6075568.htmlstory?coll=cl-bookreview The order of things By Peter Lunenfeld April 16, 2006 'Broken Screen: Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative: 26 Conversations With Doug Aitken' Edited by Noel Daniel D.A.P/Distribut

let's go negative and join snubster

(snubster is a unique social network for all those who acknowledge and foster the power of negativity. come on you closet adornians, this your chance. always hated orkut, myspace and friendster? there you go, /geert) http://www.snubster.com/ New Anti-Social Networking Site April 5, 2006 11:25 a.

Citizen Lab releases Psiphon

Hi, has anyone tried this one out yet? I wonder how many nettimers keep track what Citizenlab is doing and if you are, like me, also promoting things like www.ngoinabox.org. /geert --- OLIVER MOORE Toronto Globe & Mail Monday, February 13, 2006 TORONTO -- More than fifteen years after the Berl

First Monday Special Issue on Urban Screens

http://firstmonday.org/issues/special11_2/ Urban Screens: Discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society By Pieter Boeder and Mirjam Struppek Introduction to First Monday, Special Issue #4: Urban Screens: Discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society (February

Re: Frank Rieger: We lost the War--Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

On 9 Jan 2006, at 6:37 AM, Florian Cramer wrote: > I admire the perfect Carl Schmitt-ian (and by implication, Leo > Straussian) rhetoric of this manifesto: The rhetoric of the emergency > state, political friend-vs.-enemy antagonism, and its view of the > status > quo of democracy. You mean adm

Frank Rieger: We lost the War--Welcome to the World of Tomorrow

(Between Xmas and New Year, Rop Grongrijp (NL) and Frank Riegel (DE) held two impressive but surpringly depressive speeches at the 22nd Chaos Computer Club conference in Berlin. Below you'll find Frank contribution. Forwarded to nettime with the permission of the author. /geert) From: [EMAIL P

Joost Smiers: Abandoning Copyright: A Blessing for Artists, Art, and Society [u]

(posted to nettime with the permission of the author. /geert) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abandoning Copyright: A Blessing for Artists, Art, and Society By Joost Smiers de Volkskrant, 26 November 2005 http://www.culturelink.org/news/members/2005/members2005-011.html (English translation of original

are you creative? [u]

From: "Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The ?Campaign for Creativity? (C4C) is the undisputed winner of the Worst EU Lobbying Award 2005! No less than 85% of the over 8000 people that took part in the online voting identified C4C as the most deceptive corporate lobby campaig

Re: Paris Burning [u]

may i add this interview with alain finkelkraut and a response by canadian writer edna paris? i found them on the just-watch list. i really like this debate on nettime, however the (relative) absence of french postings slightly worries me. maybe i am wrong. i understood there was and still is deba

Interview with Lisa Parks [u]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Interview with Lisa Parks Date: 1 November 2005 2:49:46 PM To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Out There: Exploring Satellite Awareness Interview with Lisa Parks By Geert Lovink http

A conversation between Jos? Luis Barrios and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer [u]

>From: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 28 October 2005 5:24:23 PM (Dear Nettime, here is an interview I did with Mexican critic Jos? Luis Barrios. It recycles a bunch of ideas but also discusses recent interactive works and public art pieces. Issues covered by this text include

call to nettime moderators to change email address/systems [u]

Dear all, over the past months or longer each time my postings to nettime-l@bbs.thing.net ended up somewhere in a spam filter. Each time I have been waiting for days to see if something would happen. Then I have to send the posting to one of the moderators, Felix Stalder, who then puts my contr

Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter: Dawn of the Organised Networks [u]

[from Fibreculture Journal - issue 5, http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue5/index.html - special issue: "Multitudes, Creative Organisation and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour"] "Dawn of the Organised Networks" Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter At first glance t

(CRIS): WSIS and Human Rights in Tunisia (Modified by Geert Lovink) [u]

(Interesting report from the communication rights campaign coordinator Se?n ? Siochr? who recently visited Tunisia, the host country for the second world summit on the information society (wsis) that will take place in Tunis, mid November. Next week a third and last preparatory meeting tak

Hernani Dimantas: Linkania--the Hyperconected Multitude [u]

From: Hernani Dimantas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (posted to nettime with the permission of the author. /geert) Linkania - The Hyperconected Multitude By Hernani Dimantas "I link therefore I'm." Edward Wilson 1 Thinking of citizenship in the web society is increasingly complex. How do chaos and orde

Richard Rogers and Anat Ben-David on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and transnational issue networks (Modified by Geert Lovink) [u]

The Palestinian-Israeli peace process and transnational issue networks: The complicated place of the Israeli NGO. By Richard Rogers and Anat Ben-David The study investigates the potential consequences of the predominance of the human rights frame in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The human r

Hacking Public Spaces in Vilnius, an interview [u]

Hacking Public Spaces in Vilnius Politics of a new media space inside the Lietuva (soviet) cinema Interview with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas By Geert Lovink Ever since I met Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas in 1999, two contemporary artists from Lithuania, they have been in search for an art s

GIEP HAGOORT: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A EUROPE BOTTOM UP [u]

(this is the big debate, wherever you go in europe, creative industries yes or no... so, are you creative yet? /geert) ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A EUROPE BOTTOM UP mentality and method INTERVIEW WITH GIEP HAGOORT Professor Art & Economics Chairman Research group Art & Economics/Cultural Entrepreneu

from the browser front [u]

(after mobile phone, art & design and open source browsers, here the anti-terror broswer. /geert) UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING BROWSER TO FIGHT TERRORISM Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) are developing browser technology that endeavors to identify hidden connections in vast col

NL: Municipality wants to ban hacker gathering

http://www.whatthehack.org/ Municipality wants to ban hacker gathering The organisers of 'What the Hack', the 2005 edition of a series of famous Dutch outdoor hacker conferences, were told that their conference will not receive the municipal permit needed for the event to happen. 'What the Hack"

media activism a la century 21

http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/ Sunday, May 22, 7/6c "Piestewa Family" - SEASON FINALE In a two-hour special, the design team builds a new home for the family of a fallen Native American heroine killed in Iraq -- PFC Lori Piestewa -- and constructs a center for Native American military

Rachel Konrad: For Some Techies, an Interminable Workday

(welcome to the flat world, techies and geeks. no fun, no choice? worth reading! /geert) For Some Techies, an Interminable Workday By Rachel Konrad (AP) SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The traffic jam ended hours ago, the parking lot is nearly empty and fluorescent lights are dimmed at PortalPlayer Inc., w

Statement by Toni Negri re: Windschuttle article in The Australian

(fwd. on request of the conference organizers to nettime-l. more on this case can be found on the www.fibreculture.org list. /geert) The following is a statement written by Toni Negri in refutation of the allegations made against him by Keith Windschuttle in _The Australian_ (16 March 2005): h

American Academy of Arts and Sciences calls for "restoring trust in American business"

(comments below on 'corporate responsabilty' report is somewhat predictable as Mokhiber and Weissman have been calling for conviction for corporate crime for years, without success as of yet, but interesting nonetheless. see link for press release and table of content. /geert) http://www.amaca

icannist & venture capitalist joi ito meets italian squatters (Modified by Geert Lovink)

http://joi.ito.com/ 18:00 JST =BB Joi's Diary - Media and Journalism - Sharing Economy Yesterday, I had a meeting with some of the Italian Indymedia community at a squat. In most countries squatters are considered criminals and local law has very little tolerance for them. In Italy, the squa

computer use in iraq (from slashdot)

(Dear nettimers, this might be of interest for you. It certainly was for those of us involved in the www.streamtime.org campaign. This Adam gives an amazing inside view on what's happening on the ground, beyond what mainstream media report about Iraq. Best, Geert BTW. LUG stands for Linux Users

Information War Intensifies as Unrest in Kyrgyzstan Continues (ONI)

(the same people in toronto recently launched the www.civiblog.org service. /geert) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Information War Intensifies as Unrest in Kyrgyzstan Continues Special Coverage: Information War Intensifies as Unrest in Kyrgyzstan Continues - Motives Remain Unclear as Disruption

manifesto by thierry chervel (launch of signandsight)

Dear nettimers, since yesterday an english version of the German 'perlentaucher' site (www.perlentaucher.de) is online. It was Janos Sugar would pointed me to this great online resource a couple of years ago. It's daily updated site/e-newsletter that summarizes the 'cultural pages' of German and

Henk Oosterling: Radical medi@crity (Modified by Geert Lovink)

(posted to nettime with the permission of the author. henk oosterling recently gave a talk in berlin with similar ideas at transmediale 05. the text also appeared in the german magazine babel. /geert) From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Radical [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Xs4all By Henk Oosterling Automobility: su

what would be nettime's reading list?

(Would it include Empire, Crowds and Power, Male Fantasies, a Foucault, Ahrendt or even Deleuze? How much history (of science)? How much would politically correct and which titles would really be useful? Geert) http://www.techcentralstation.com/022704C.html The Problem with Dead White Males By A

The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)

Notes on the State of Networking By Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider February 2004 (Written for the free theory paper Make World #4, printed in 10,000 copies and distributed at the Neuro-Networking in Europe-festival in Munich. URL: www.makeworlds.org). No longer the society, the political

tomorrow: grey tuesday

"Grey Tuesday" Civil Disobedience Planned February 24th Against Copyright Cartel DOWNHILL BATTLE (February 18, 2004) -- A coalition of websites will join in an online protest to offer free downloads of a critically acclaimed album that is being censored by a lawsuit threat from EMI Records. The ac

Euro Manifesto to Support Minority Community Media

From: "eslube" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.multicultural.net/manifesto/index.htm A EUROPEAN MANIFESTO to support and to underline the importance of minority community media In the member states of the European Union there are thousands of minority community media initiatives, involving tens of

wsis digest no. 6

World Summit on Information Society Nettime Digest, no. 6 February 14, 2004 1. Global Forum on Internet Governance (March 25-26, NYC) 2. Experts' Round at ITU 3. ICC Paper on Clearing Up Confusion Over Internet Governance 4. re: ITU Internet Governance Workshop 5. ICANN's At Large Advisory Committ

have you also missed the Internet-Free Day?

http://www.globalideasbank.org/internet-free-day/html/index.html (thanx to Mieke Gerritzen for fwd.) The Global Ideas Bank, the primary website for new ideas to improve society (what we call social inventions), is promoting Sunday January 25th 2004 as the fourth International I

Media Philosophy: An Email Exchange with Frank Hartmann

Discipline Design: The Rise of Media Philosophy An Email Exchange with Frank Hartmann (Vienna) By Geert Lovink Lately, in German speaking countries a 'media philosophy' debate has unfolded. If you fear you missed something, don't worry. Unfortunately, there is not much at stake

esther dyson: "let the people rule" (aspen vs. geneva)

http://www.edventure.com/conversation/article.cfm?Counter=367986 The Accountable Net by Esther Dyson Talk of Internet governance is in the air. The recent United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva, issued a statement saying that "authority for Internet-rela

Steven Clift's WSIS speech: Democratic Evolution or Virtual Civil War?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven Clift) Happy New Year. Below is my speech from Geneva where I shared a panel at the WSIS with the Foreign Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, Nicholas Negroponte, and Stephen Coleman from Oxford among others. As the media hype wagon continues to roar on the use

Wolfgang Schirmacher on Net Culture

appraisal of the herd mentality in humans retains its validity even under present conditions in the Internet. Internet critics Geert Lovink and Pit Schulz [www.fiveminutes.net] see in it the workings of a "multi-cultural mass conformity, full of micro-practices and management of the self.

world social forum digest

(official homepage of the World Social Forum (Mumbia, January 16-21): http://www.wsfindia.org/. I wonder who from nettime will be attending the wsf in Mumbia (I am not...) and if someone would like to a report or diary from there and if others perhaps would like to co-compile this nettime digest wi

Vittorio Bertola: WSIS: What Is It 'Really' All About?

Vittorio Bertola: WSIS: What Is It 'Really' All About? Until a few weeks ago, almost everyone in the Internet governance circus seemed to ignore the very existence of WSIS. After it popped up on international newspapers, however, things have been chan

how was the summit? a helpful list in case your friends ask you

http://www.worldsummit2003.org/ How was the summit? A helpful list in case your friends (or any reporters) ask you Geneva/Berlin, 16 December 2003. Compiled by Rik Panganiban and Ralf Bendrath. The Good ICT4D Exhibitions It was quite inspiring seeing the hundreds and hundreds of great exhibitio

wsis digest no. 5

World Summit on Information Society Nettime Digest, no. 5 December 18, 2003 1. Allan Liska: More Questions Than Answers 2. WSIS Report by Jo van der Spek 3. Richard Stallman on WSIS 4. OurMedia Clemencia Rodriguez reports 5. Wolfgang Kleinwächter (Telepolis, in German) 6. World Summit

wsis digest no. 4

World Summit on Information Society Nettime Digest, no. 4 December 11, 2003 (I arrived in Geneva today. In between all activities I made this quick digest. It also contains some 'old' info. Over the weekend I hope to compile more actual information. For more 'live' information please visit the htt

ICANN or UN? (Declan)

This posting of Politech Declan seems to representative of the U.S. libertarains and academics' postion towards WSIS--at least I have not yet heard other voices. This position seems to mix up national governments with UN, as if they are one and the same. But even more remarkable is their defense o

Interview with Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network)

Interview with Stephen Marshall Guerrilla News Network's Digital Documentaries By Geert Lovink The political videos of Guerrilla News Network are a challenging affair, both in terms of its content, aesthetics and distribution. Deeply hybrid, GNN is crossing boundaries in such a professiona

Jonathan Peizer: The Quiet Revolution In Non-Profit Capacity Support

From: "Jonathan Peizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Satisfying Donor and Non-Profit Objectives: The Quiet Revolution In Non-Profit Capacity Support By Jonathan Peizer The economic downturn of the last three years once again served to highlight the tenuous institutional capacity most non-profits are forc

Info on HighNoon--remote online project during WSIS

High | Noon call by geneva03 initiative! 1 Towards HIGHNOON In recent years media activism has evolved globally from local pirate radios, video activist groups and paper zines into complex networks of alliances that use ICT to bridge the physical gap in txt, visual and sonic media, as well as thos

Interview with Milton Mueller

Trail and Error in Internet Governance ICANN, WSIS and the making of a global civil society. Interview with Milton Mueller By Geert Lovink In 2002 MIT Press published Milton Mueller's Ruling the Root, one of the first detailed investigations into the Internet domain name policies. In it Mu

about Cicrle ID

Insight through Connected Intelligence http://www.circleid.com/ CircleID: collaborative intelligence hub for the Internet's core infrastructure & policies CircleID Network is a unique collaborative hub that shares the control of its content with the community it serves. Matters discussed here ar

Wim Nijenhuis: A Cloud of Dark Knowledge (thesis summary)

Dear Nettimers, below you will find the English summary of the long awaited thesis of the architecture critic and Virilio expert Wim Nijenhuis. The original text is in Dutch, but at least there is this text to give you an idea about the range of topics and ideas in this magnus opus. For those who

wsis digest no. 2

World Summit on Information Society Nettime Digest, no. 2, October 24, 2003 (alternative counter activities gather at http://www.geneva03.net) 0. Tough issues face Information Society summit 1. World Web Summit Worries Journalists 2. Unions Want Employment Issues on Agenda 3. Temporary Cy

open source software--a comparative study

The Open Society Institute has released A Guide to Institutional Repository Software , by Raym Crow. The guide compares five programs, all OAI-compliant and all open-source. It includes a detailed comparison

While Californians vote... Arnold Unplugged (Greg Palast)

Arnold Unplugged Greg Palast, October 4, 2003 - GNN. It's hasta la vista to $9 billion if the Governator is selected It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance wi

Negroponte: not crazy enough

Negroponte: Tough times? Go crazy - Wired News Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab and Ireland's Media Lab Europe, dismisses any notion that R&D labs should focus on conservative ideas with short-term payoffs. In fact, Negroponte notes that the biggest criticism from backers is that

wsis digest no.1

World Summit on Information Society Nettime Digest, no. 1, October 1, 2003 0. BBC: Sharp Divisions at Preperation Meeting 1. ITU press release 2. AMARC: Community media groups call for empowerment agenda at WSIS 3. Mosaic newsletter 4. Tunisia and WSIS 5. Monika Ermert: Dog fight over World Summi

review of George Monbiot - The Age of Consent

Do we know what we want? Review of George Monbiot, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order, London: Flamingo, 2003 (published in the US by The New Press, early 2004). By Geert Lovink No doubt the times they're a-changing when internal strategic debates of the 'anti glo

Gordana Novakovic: Electronic Cruelty

From: "gordana.novakovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'Electronic Cruelty' Gordana Novakovic (presented at: 'user_mode' Symposium: Tate Modern, London; 2003; 'Consciousness Reframed 2003' Conference: CaiiA, University of Newport, Newport; 2003; [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. Academic List; 2003) Is it the form

STUDY FOREWARNS ESCALATION OF INTERNET RESTRICTIONS

(usual outcome but shoking anyway. did anyone in geneva go to that presentation of this report? geert) PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CENSORSHIP STUDY FOREWARNS ESCALATION OF INTERNET RESTRICTIONS Corporations are now vying with governments to gag free speech and impede Intern

WSIS? WE SEIZE!

(thanks to diplomatic efforts of deedee halleck and others there is a new wsis declaration drafted by the groups that will organize parallel counter-activities during the world summit on the information society in geneva. the text--a compromise after lengthy debates--was written and discussed durin

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH FOR THE INTERNET? (Oxford Internet Institute)

From: "Enquiries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH FOR THE INTERNET? 'While the battle for digital access is being won in Britain, government and business now face a struggle to convince everyone that the Internet is worth using,' concludes Professor Richard Rose of the Oxford Internet In

call for a campaign to save amsterdams free media

(posted to nettime-l with the permission of the authors. there are efforts under way to get this campaign up and running. a lot of the communication will in the first instance be coordinated via nettime-nl. more information such as email addresses, lists and blogs will be available next week durin

for those who attend n5m4: swap meet

From: "Renee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CLAIM YOUR BLANKET WHILE SUPPLIES LAST: SWAP MEET For the Next 5 Minutes 4, De Geuzen is organizing a swap meet where tactical traditions, such as buttons, flyers, T-shirts, pie throwing, stencils and stickers can be displayed and generally talked about. For

Re: possible nettime model

One solution would be a seperate announcement list. Fibreculture, the Australian network of new media researchers and artists, has its own announcement list. It works quite well. On the main list, which is still open, there are around 750 subscribers. The announcement list is closed (in order to re

Proposal: World Forum on Communication Rights during WSIS

From: "Sean O Siochru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One day "World Forum on Communication Rights" during WSIS This introduces a proposal to hold a one-day World Forum on Communication Rights alongside the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in December 2003. The CRIS campaign (Communication Rig

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