nettime Police raid Williamsburg anarchist media collective
http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2010/04/14/police-raid-anarchist-media-collective-3-days-before-nyc-film-festival/ Police raid anarchist media collective 3 days before NYC film festival The Fourth Annual Anarchist Film Festival in being held on Friday April 16th, 2010 in New York City. This year?s festival is being held to honor the life and work of Brad Will, a film-maker and movement activist allegedly assassinated by the Mexican government in Oaxaca on October 27th, 2006, as he was filming a popular uprising. On April 13th, according to a statement put out by members of the Independent Anarchist Media (I AM) Collective: ?in Brooklyn NY, the NYPD entered without a warrant 13 Thames Art Space, a Bushwick based art and performance space where members of the Independent Anarchist Media (I AM) Collective have been organizing the Fourth Annual NYC Anarchist Film Festival in honor of Brad Will. Two plainclothes detectives entered first, followed quickly by a Lieutenant and vans full of blue shirt officers. After corralling everyone present in the back room, they searched the space and detained two members of the collective. The I AM collective was preparing for the NYC Anarchist Film Festival, a showcase of resistance movements and insurrectionary events from around the world presented from an anarchist and anti-authoritarian perspective. Our response to the raid: regardless of these attacks, the film festival will happen as planned on Friday April 16, 2010 at Judson Memorial Church. The voice of decentralized creative communities will not be silenced by police repression. They cannot raid us, because we are everywhere. Video of the police raid was posted on the Internet. Federal agents were also reported to be present at the raid. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Digital Humanities Manifesto
On Mar 14, 2009, at 10:33 PM, Evan Buswell wrote:
AND the operations defined in each system mirror each other.
Isn't this redundant? Unless of course, the system is defined in
such a way that it places limits on what operations are definable,
which isn't the case with mathematical numbers, nor (theoretically)
digitality. I'm pretty sure that's right, but I'd be interested to
hear otherwise.
First, are we talking about a two-state device that never changes
state? In that case isomorphism isn't redundant, it's irrelevant
since the only operation you have is the identify operation. I
thought we were talking about a binary device that could change
state. So, say, a light switch where define 0 as the light being
off for 1 second and 1 as the light being on for one second. Then
we need some convention for specifying when the transmitter begins
sending numbers (The light is off for 60 seconds. Have 60 '0' been
sent or is nothing being sent? Or has the number been sent and I
missed receiving it.) We also need some convention to identify a
single number (8 bits, 16 bits, or every bit transmitted) But all
this gives is the ability to send numerals. Do we also include the
ability to indicate operations to be performed on the numerals sent?
Also: dichotomous (digital) states are not isomorphic with the natural
numbers, they are isomorphic with binary numbers, i.e. the set [0, 1],
not the set [0, 1, 2 ...]. To get the latter, you need to construct a
system of mapping an arbitrary number to a *set* of digital states,
of which many such systems exist and compete---see, e.g., endianness.
To actually be isomorphic with the natural numbers, you would need
an infinitely large set of states, effectively canceling the digital
nature of the supposed device, as each state would be infinitely close
to (in practice, indistinguishable from) another state.
But then, when we actually deal with the natural numbers, as a whole, we
deal more with natural numberness than with each discrete number.
I don't understand what you mean by numberness.
This is something a digital system is perfectly capable of representing.
I guess it's less that (countable) numbers are isomorphic to digital
states than (countable) numberness is isomorphic with digitality.
I'm not sure what you mean by digitality if we decide we cannot
represent all of the natural numbers.
But this is getting into pretty ill-defined territory.
If we decide to limit the size of number to, say, 8 bits then we
could describe this using modular arithmetic. So 1+1 = 2 but 1+ 255 =
0. Then we would be modeling the numbers {0.1,2,...255} So we would
have addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division mod 256.
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Re: nettime Digital Humanities Manifesto
What exactly do we mean by isomorphism? There is the mathematical definition of isomorphism where two systems are isomorphic if and only if there is one-to-one correspondence between the objects in each system AND the operations defined in each system mirror each other. The natural numbers are not just the sequence denoted by the decimal numerals 0,1,2,3,4, They are that plus the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division along with the relationships of less than, greater than, and equals. Just because a collection of things can be numbered doesn't make that collection isomorphic to numbers in the strict mathematical sense. Furthermore although we may speak of binary and decimal numbers there are, strictly speaking, just numbers which have binary or decimal representations and these representations are strings of characters. So there are, strictly speaking, binary numerals but not binary numbers. When we learned our arithmetic in grade school we learned algorithms for operating on strings of decimal digits. Am I misunderstanding something? Flick Harrison wrote: I think the main problem I have in this discussion is that I can't say that a lightswitch is isomorphic with numbers. Nor is a telegraph button. On Mar 10, 2009, at 3:05 PM, inimino wrote: Isomorphism is not equality. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
