nettime The Art of the Undercommons

2011-02-24 Thread Stevphen Shukaitis
The above is some truly lovely prose and evokes (though only faintly I'm afraid) the master of this genre to the nth degree, Konrad Becker, in his Strategic Reality Dictionary -- which however has the immense advantage of working back to the like of Giordano Bruno and John Dee as the

Re: nettime How a Library Saved My Life.

2011-02-24 Thread Goran Maric
Dear, Margaret, I am all with you in what you have said except in one thing. I am not sure that what I said is short sighted mentioning that I am not able to see substantial change going on. Also, I am not sure I mentioned that there will never be a change? I mean, there is change, but in

Re: nettime How a Library Saved My Life.

2011-02-24 Thread Margaret Morse
Dear Goran, please excuse me for miscontruing your statement about change and thank you for clarifying it here. I get hooked on posts from people who seem to me to be at the end of their rope. I am glad you are far from giving up. Far be it from me to compare degrees and kinds of

Re: nettime The Art of the Undercommons

2011-02-24 Thread John Young
This is certainly is fresh veggies, to disgest deeply and ponder the equal uselessness of politics and art, not hoary either/or complicity of mock, laborious, sterile opposition, plagiarism, copying, or as Brian Holmes is quoted, downright lying, meaning, wink, CIA fronting or some other

nettime Canuck MP shilling for music industry

2011-02-24 Thread Flick Harrison
Canada's copyright battles are in a holding pattern while Canada stumbles through 3 successive minority governments in almost 7 years. It's a hot potato that won't be sorted until someone has a safe majority to risk the bruising online guerre-a-outrance that would inevitably ensue. The

nettime John Naughton (The Observer/ Guardian): WikiLeaks books roundup – reviews: Domscheit-Berg and Leigh Harding

2011-02-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
origianl to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/20/wikileaks-books-roundup-reviews WikiLeaks books roundup – reviews Inside WikiLeaks by Daniel Domscheit-Berg; WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding Of the making of books about WikiLeaks,