Re: 'The unrelenting horizonlessness of the Covid world'

2020-09-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
Yes always good to attack each other's pain. On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) wrote: Dear David and all, Oh boohoo. Nick Couldry cum suis are rather late to the party of general hopelessness and lack of future perspective that so many others have suffered from for decades

Re: Facebook

2019-11-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
Nauru re: refugee conditions. - Alan On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, tac...@riseup.net wrote: other social networks are possible https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50127713 Em 2019-11-04 21:29, Alan Sondheim escreveu: I'm in agreement here; I leave as little trace as I can. (Also trapped because I want

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
recommendation features, deliberate scrambling/obfuscation of users' data and trackable behaviours, etc. might be more successful in empowering users than simply encouraging them to leave the platform entirely. craig fahner - https://www.craigfahner.com/ On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:25 AM Alan Sondheim

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, mp wrote: On 03/11/2019 20:36, Alan Sondheim wrote: The loss is more important to me On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: 1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for sure;? 2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the p

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
mmon). So, in the end, I understand?that something would be lost by leaving FB - hence my first question! - but would it be possible to say that the loss is even more important while not quitting FB? My best, FN On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 11:14 AM Alan Sondheim wrote: I'm on it because there ar

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
I'm on it because there are a number of new media artists/writers/etc. including myself who form somewhat of a community - it's a way to distribute work, especially if one's not in academia or media industry. It's brutally flawed but also useful and it gives more scope to textual work than

Re: nettime past and future

2019-09-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
of extreme interest, re the nudge-horizon of compression/containment On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, tbyfield wrote: (I just dug this up -- maybe of interest.) - - - - - - - - - - - - 8< SNIP! 8< - A- - - - - - - - - - - To: nettim...@kein.org Subject: digestion digest From: nettime mod squad Date:

here we go again -

2018-05-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
05:15:40 +0200 (CEST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; nett...@kein.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;nettime-l@mail.kein.org Action: failed Status: 5.2.0 Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; can't create user output file [ Part 3: "Undelivered Message" ] Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 23:15:34 From: Alan S

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-05-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
"Jessi Slaughter", for starters Am 28/04/18 um 18:34 schrieb Alan Sondheim: I do wonder if hate speech isn't precisely the languages of desire? TV advertising around here is now based on jealousy and putdowns - buy this car and you'll triumph over your neighbors. Just the planting of a see

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Sat, 28 Apr 2018, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:07 AM, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: Query - again, I'm admittedly naive in these matters - Here's a current stat on Fb - As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Query - again, I'm admittedly naive in these matters - Here's a current stat on Fb - As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active users. In the third quarter of 2012, the number of active Facebook users had surpassed 1 billion, making it the first social network

thanks for your responses

2018-04-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
I want to thank Stephen and Sebastian for their responses, particularly Stephen's. - Alan # 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:

please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

2018-04-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html # 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:

from today's Washington Post - how to we resist this?

2017-10-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
The fascist creep in action: Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Wednesday that he reserves the right to jail journalists, if we have to. Here's his exchange with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: KLOBUCHAR: Will you commit to not putting reporters

notes from working with Mike Gurstein, 1997

2017-10-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
(please post if relevant) = Working with Mike Gurstein http://www.alansondheim.org/mike.txt From 1997, Nova Scotia, mainly Sydney, working with Mike Gurstein Revisiting, Notes and Pieces = # distributed via : no

Re: RIP Michael Gurstein

2017-10-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
Oh hell, Ted. I worked with him in Cape Breton and elsewhere in NS on Wiring Nova Scotia; we were close until he moved west. We worked together in Sydney; it was wonderful and necessary work. I hadn't heard from him in a while. Thank you for passing this on. He was amazing. Best, Alan On

Re: The Looming Impossibility of the Present

2017-10-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
For me, this depends on whose future, not an abstracted one, but one within which genocide all too easily inheres, where the extinction of a species is absolute; a few years ago Johannes Birringer and I co-moderated a discussion on empyre on absolute terror which centered, for me, around

Re: nettime nottime: the end of nettime

2015-04-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
I've been relatively quiet on nettime; I've submitted more than has been allowed through, and I found that disenheartening. At one point, one of the moderators answered with a critique that I felt should have appeared on the list, instead of privately. What I find missing, what for me was

nettime double apologies

2015-03-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
that last post went to the wrong list, I've been getting almost no sleep for weeks, apologies - == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tc.txt ==

nettime Broken World: Steerage and Steering Mechanisms

2015-01-25 Thread Alan Sondheim
Broken World: Steerage and Steering Mechanisms We are steerage. We do not arrive. */Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of

nettime Invisibility

2015-01-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
Invisibility http://www.alansondheim.org/cairn016.jpg Invisibility is the problem of our time, but there are so many! Most of our collapsing phenomenologies center on attention economies, acceleration, dromodology; these are epistemological problems, what might be examined, what should be

nettime Empyre list discussion on ISIS, Absolute Terror, Performance

2014-10-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
debate on Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual], looking at the ambivalences of terror, incomprehensible emotions, and our own complicity in the production of 'common sense' around terror. Co-moderators: Johannes Birringer and Alan Sondheim. About the empyre email list: http

nettime Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by DC Court (fwd)

2014-01-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:49:47 From: NAMAC j...@namac.org To: sondh...@panix.com Subject: Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by DC Court Connecting You to the Media Arts Community Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality In a blow to Net

nettime even in the u.s. -

2013-12-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
even in the u.s. - i was in Providence in the late 60s/early 70s doing computer art, showing in 71; there were people working with lightshows earlier than that. these histories are all canonic histories and ignore - at least in this country - a lot of what went on. chris funkhouser's

nettime Death of a Hospital

2013-07-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
Death of a Hospital Today we went to the LICH, Long Island College Hospital, for neurology issues. The hospital is being closed down so developers can build condominiums there. In our area there are seven 30+ storey buildings, condominiums scheduled for the next few years. Current condos go for

nettime Do we still engage?

2013-06-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
Do we still engage? Do we still engage with Sartre? Do we still read Derrida? Do they speak to us? Does Heidegger speak to us? Does Husserl? Is Hegel still critical to our thinking? Does anyone read Sartre? Does anyone think through Derrida? Do we think we've absorbed Badiou? Is Badiou

nettime Incident at YYZ Toronto International Airport

2013-05-01 Thread Alan Sondheim
Incident at YYZ Toronto International Airport We were in Toronto for the HASTAC Conference at York University. We left Sunday late afternoon. At the airport we checked our bag. We then took the bag through customs. We went through several stages. We had the bag tagged. We showed our

nettime the HASTAC docx file as rtf - this might be easier

2013-04-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - some people couldn't open the http://www.alansondheim.org/hastac.docx file; please try http://alansondheim.org/hastac.rtf - this might be easier. Both will probably download the file to your download directory; it should be easy to open from there. Feedback welcomed. Thanks, Alan #

nettime ========================================= dead music (fwd)

2013-01-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
= dead music = i do dead music: music of the dead, music by the dead, music for the dead. sometimes someone listens over my shoulder until our bones fall off. our bones are bright bracelets but the music goes

nettime the difference between the new fiction and the old

2012-12-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
the difference between the new fiction and the old is simple: we're increasingly forced to recognize that we're buffeted in the universe, that we're atom to mountain, that we're increasingly irrelevant outside our own self-interest. so the narratives are narratives of buffeting, of forces

nettime RATTLING THE REPUBLICANS

2012-09-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
RATTLING THE REPUBLICANS http://www.alansondheim.org/rattling.mp3 I want to rattle the Republicans; I want to SHAMANIZE them I want to rattle their evil I want to SEND THEM TO HELL All I can do is PLAY my MUSIC and play my SHAMANIC TRANCE I did do TRANCE along with the DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION I

nettime Internet immediate future, through E-Week

2012-06-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
You might want to check the following out; one of the things that fascinates me is the enormity of the next - and yet we continue to theorize as if it's somehow comprehended. I'm part of the Electronic Literature Organization for example, and mostly see the same names over and over again - and

nettime Recent Books I'm In and Why They're Good

2012-05-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
Recent Books I'm In and Why They're Good Ok, this is a bad way to begin reviews/announcements of some recent books that discuss my work (in the midst of others of course); I'm not sure how to do this modestly, or whether modesty would even be an issue. For me these books have been important

nettime Aesthetics of Improvisation: Intermissions, Interruptions, and Digressions in Performance

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
Aesthetics of Improvisation: Intermissions, Interruptions, and Digressions in Performance At the Sunday talk/video/dance given by Foofwa at the 92nd St. Y, he talked about the relationship between complex choreography and inter- ruptions in his piece based on Cage, THiRtEEn. We talked about

nettime Prisonhouse of Age

2012-03-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
Prisonhouse of Age Something has to be said about age and ageism, which is so pervasive in our culture, that we're held down, tied up, unable to move. I'm told I look good for my age; that I play like a much younger person. In a performance I hear that a dancer, who died at 68, was in the middle

nettime Information Week discovers anonymous

2012-02-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
This articles, composed of ten panels, fascinates me in its illustration of the somewhat clandestine; Information Week tends to remain corporate from top to bottom but makes for interesting reading. Mathew J. Schwartz 02/07/2012 Anonymous 'hacktivists' aim to expose what they call government

nettime two essays on memory and annihilation

2012-02-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
== From performance with Monika Weiss, text written over six hours, at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Feb 6, 2012: flying blind means working without network or planning this is flying blind. this is a broken network.

nettime sondheimogram [x8]

2012-01-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
[digested @ nettime == mod (tb)] Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com PAIN.TXT: On (severe) Pain War Against War, Krieg dem Kriege in silence here the idiotic poverty of pain For Occupy Wall Street, Jesus' Third Way * Eyebeam Window Gallery

nettime Interview with Katherine DiPierro, re: my Eyebeam residency

2011-10-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
Interview with Katherine DiPierro, re: my Eyebeam residency http://eyebeam.org/blogs/katherinedipierro/eye-to-eyebeam-a-conversation-with-alan-sondheim (her other interviews are excellent as well) # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated