Thank you Molly - I think that this is a necessary and important critique
of Debord and most writers of that period.
On Nov 4, 2017 7:15 PM, "Molly Hankwitz" wrote:
I am not sure from the initial posting whether it was posted in jest and
tongue in cheek but do you think, fellas, we could start i
I am not sure from the initial posting whether it was posted in jest and
tongue in cheek but do you think, fellas, we could start insisting on an
Internet that —“subjugates living human beings” instead of “men only”—?
C’mon...ok - took the bait, but honestly,
let us not exclude women and children
I think Debord would have been delighted that this would be called
demagoguery, esp. considering thesis 207 from SOS:
"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement.
Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s
phrase, makes use of his expressions, er
Machine translated from German at
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Auto-Nomie-3878881.html . Beware of
potential subversive edits and memes injected by the GOOGL translator.
I've noticed that the translated text has curious
Debordian/Baudrillardian odor, which makes me wonder if all English
tr
Debord compiled a list of citations and misappropriations that he
himself used in writing La Société du Spectacle, to help translators:
http://juralibertaire.over-blog.com/article-releve-des-citations-et-des-detournements-de-la-societe-du-spectacle-42307956.html
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Marc
On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 23:23:
Here is the version modified with a single substitution (I especially
liked one with the 'capital'):
The gender is not a collection of networks, but a social relation among
people, mediated by networks.
...
The basically tautological character of the gender flows from the simple
fact th
As a clarification, this was Marcell's email from a couple of days ago,
sent to the internal list of the Digital Cultures Research Lab at the
Leuphana University, where Marcell is doing his PhD. Felix was CC-ed on it,
so he forwarded it to the nettime list. Thanks Felix!
Now in our fourth day of b
dear colleagues,
some of you might heard from me or tomi about a decade long struggle
with our cultural centre in zagreb. it is hard to make it short but
the story involves promises from the state (and city of zagreb) to
give back real estate to serbian minority (taken back in the days
after worl
This sort of rhetoric fills me with unease, as it is too easy to come up with
statements as far reaching as they are unsubstantiated.
Slapping "internet" in the place of "spectacle" to catch a ride on Debord's
revulsion in the face of modern capitalist society is a form of demagogy. It
sounds g
is this your hack or who can i attribute?
> On 03 November 2017 at 10:16 Ian Alan Paul wrote:
>
> The internet is not a collection of networks, but a social relation among
> people, mediated by networks.
>
> ...
>
> The basically tautological character of the internet flows from
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