The Commodification of Ignorance

2022-06-06 Thread David Garcia
dern realists were not just by-standers. Artists like Courbet and “novelists like Dreiser and Zola were committed socialists’ naturalism was a political project as much as an investigative or an aesthetic one.” “Who” she asks, “are their counterparts today?" David

Re: irregular ukraine linklist

2022-05-12 Thread David Garcia
scared enough In this long read in this morning's Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/forgetting-the-apocalypse-why-our-nuclear-fears-faded-and-why-thats-dangerous David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net c

Fake News: The Commodification of Ignorance

2022-03-30 Thread David Garcia
Medienkultur A-Z: Fake News. Thu, 07.04.2022, 18:00–19:30 Factcheck on «Fake News» is a conversation with artist David Garcia, Dutch curator Annet Dekker, Swiss journalist Daniel Ryser and Ukrainian activist Kateryna Botanova. After an introduction David Garcia’s introduction

Re: The War to come ...

2022-03-20 Thread David Garcia
Apologies for the broken link to George Monbiot article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/russian-propaganda-anti-imperialist-left-vladimir-putin Best David From: Henk Borgdorff Date: Sunday, 20 March 2022 at 21:39 To: David Garcia Subject: Re: The War to come

Re: The War to come ...

2022-03-20 Thread David Garcia
Ted Byfield >Internationalism is an absolutely legitimate leftist stance too: >anti-imperialist I'm seeing here and elsewhere seems to be, more than anything >else, not just intellectually isolationist in its >origins but practically >isolationist in its consequences. And when it consigns other

A new avant-garde of Public Truth

2022-03-15 Thread David Garcia
Discussions querying the authenticity of the FSB dissident source do actually matter. And comes back to Brian Holmes intervention on the 26th of Feb in which he argued that we should celebrate the fact that in the run up to the war instead of trying to strategically manage the truth, the US

Re: FSB 'dissident' voice

2022-03-13 Thread David Garcia
The similarities between Grozev's description of the 'FSB dissident' case in the Youtube seminar and the contents of the text posted are so strong and the dates so close as to require (as a minimum) some clarification. David Garcia On 13/03/2022, 23:51, "thresholdpeople&qu

Re: FSB 'dissident' voice

2022-03-13 Thread David Garcia
I might be confused but I wonder if this statement at about 37 min into this youtube seminar given by Christo Grozev calls the veracity of this FSB dissident into question ? https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/insights-bellingcat-russias-ukraine-ambitions I remember reading

Re: The War to come ...

2022-03-11 Thread David Garcia
A missing element in most discussions here and elsewhere is a grasp of the material foundations that underpin The moving parts of geo-politics, particularly factors relating to the control of energy resources. A notable exception is Helen Thompson who's recently published Dis-order: Hard

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 173, Issue 13

2022-02-15 Thread David Garcia
the best and worst senses. David Garcia # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread David Garcia
extraordinary thing that has ever happened in modern economic history.” http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/the-unthinkable-has-to-be-thought-sean-cubitt/ Re-reading this article reminds me that at the time Brian was already deploying the concept of an eco-state.. David Garcia # distributed via

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread David Garcia
the limits and role state power will play as the climate crunch really starts to bite. This is when we will return to the earlier postings on this thread that spoke about the science wars. David Garcia From: patrice riemens Date: Saturday, 12 February 2022 at 08:51 To: , David

The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-11 Thread David Garcia
mad Johnsonian UK has the appearance of a hyper-weird outlier. But wipe the froth of the Johnson Cappuccino and he maybe less of an outlier than it first appears. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism

Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques

2022-01-22 Thread David Garcia
to the great manual on the active production of ignorance in the case of the tobacco industry being Robert Procter’s Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2011). David Garcia From: on behalf of Sean

Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques

2022-01-20 Thread David Garcia
will become the new frontline of politics..   David Garcia From: on behalf of "Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)" Date: Thursday, 20 January 2022 at 12:07 To: "nettim...@kein.org" Subject: Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racis

Mockism

2022-01-10 Thread David Garcia
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Re: Social media and mass mobilization in Chile's presidential election

2021-12-23 Thread David Garcia
happy to occupy old and new social media spaces unchallenged.  David Garcia # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailma

The Jersey Assembly

2021-12-02 Thread David Garcia
). It is at least worth debating whether or not it is in citizens’ assemblies that knowledge and politics meet in the most generative way. And if there is any truth in this why this movement is still so far below the public radar? David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use

Re: notes on cancel culture

2020-08-14 Thread David Garcia
Rather than disappearing entirely down the rabbit hole of definitions and interpretations, uses and misuses of the term “cancel culture” I wanted to risk returning to Garry Hall’s earlier cautionary remarks about my uncritical use of "terms and concepts like ‘argument’, ‘careful judgement’,

Re: notes on cancel culture

2020-08-14 Thread David Garcia
el culture, are you saying that people who speak out against what they > are experiencing as violence should not talk in the name of "discourse"? How > is that democratic? > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 3:14 PM David Garcia > wrote: > Thanks Gary, > > for critically pulling me

Re: notes on cancel culture

2020-08-14 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Gary, for critically pulling me up on an un-problemtized use of a variety of liberal bromides. Particularly telling is your last point about the danger of unwittingly putting myself at odds with the legitimate rage of oppressed groups whose tactics have been pilloried by both liberals

Re: notes on cancel culture

2020-08-14 Thread David Garcia
sts join forces with Dialogical artists of the "social turn” to forge some kind of transitional bridge to a less toxic public sphere. Any thoughts? David Garcia https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/lrb-conversations/press-the-red-button?utm_source=LRB+icymi_medium=email_campaign=20

Re: notes on cancel culture

2020-08-09 Thread David Garcia
Right wing scaremongering about ‘cancel culture’ is identity politics for privileged commentators who have learned well how to play the victim card. Is it even possible to imagine a space beyond our current moronic inferno which boils everything down to one or other existential tribal

Re: discussing zoom fatigue

2020-07-10 Thread David Garcia
example not only for the lecture style but also a good example of making the subject resonate with current circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjBb1psf3eA=1s=IwAR1EUiTUC-XVKh7VUAeWxz_GYnkik5V-GbPUB213LHHdG_AWFpcIC9vj-u8 David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without

Re: the solution to zoom fatigue

2020-07-07 Thread David Garcia
Hi Geert et al, sorry if this is boringly pragmatic but I have found this checklist for holding successful Zoom Webinars to be very handy. It comes from the very interesting Quentin Stafford-Fraser’s blog Satus-Q https://statusq.org/archives/2020/07/05/9701/ Best David # distributed

Re: the necropolitics of the BLM uprising?

2020-06-09 Thread David Garcia
. WW2). Would it for example be acceptable for a state to intervene to prevent genocide? Would that fall under the category of a ‘just war’ which CAE could never endorse ? David Garcia On 9 Jun 2020, at 02:15, ku...@mx.kein.org wrote: > > uprising is a tactic that can be calle

Hiding behind the Virus

2020-05-08 Thread David Garcia
In a twitter discussion with a Brexiter I suggested that we would soon know whether the Brexit decision had been a wrong or right as the consequences unfold, his response was highly instructive "Don’t think there’s a right or wrong, the country will just be run in a different way, given

Fauci's early plague years

2020-04-06 Thread David Garcia
the relationship between the political class, experts and citizens. David Garcia # 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: http://mx.

Re: coronavirus questions

2020-03-12 Thread David Garcia
On 12 Mar 2020, at 08:21, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: > > But also: > > - What is the perspective on coronavirus seen from where you are? What > are the most interesting or surprising narratives that are emerging > in your neighborhoods or communities? > > - Given that social media just

The Quiet Hegemon

2020-01-29 Thread David Garcia
fference for UK is that we will no longer be helping to shape those rules. Which is a pity as the EU is by no means benign. Welcome to the world of sovereign impotence. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

Populist anger is ‘a gift wrapped in barbed w

2019-12-17 Thread David Garcia
in barbed wire. Its people shouting please let us be involved’ ”. David Garcia # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman

The L Word the F Word and Contemporary UK Politics

2019-12-09 Thread David Garcia
If Law and Policy Blog sounds like a boring read think again. Alan Green, David Alan Green is one of the most astute commentators on politics that is UK centered but with implications that are important for us all.

Re: Morales Longa, Vita Brevis

2019-11-26 Thread David Garcia
Perhaps the opposite kind of equally insidious political appeal is the suduction of those who have mastered the art of 'getting away with it'. A famous example is the image of Boris Johnson as London Mayor in the run up to the Olympics stuck on a wire suspended high in the air

The leader thing...

2019-11-08 Thread David Garcia
candidacy to lead the Labour party lend credance to these claims and mean we can dare to use the dangerous word authenticity in the case of both Corbyn and Johnson. What you see is likely to be what you will get. But with radically different destinations. David Garcia 08/11/2019

Some open questions.. some leading questions

2019-10-14 Thread David Garcia
ly happen in the public domain where are the frontiers of invention for collective action to transform the public domain and make it fit for a 21st century democracy: a knowledge democracy ? -More questions most welcome- Thanks David Garcia # distributed via : no com

Supplement and correction

2019-10-07 Thread David Garcia
. He also pointed out an error in my piece. Forensic Architecture’s submission on the NSU case was actually was made to a Citizen Tribunal not to the Parliamentary Commission. https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/events/tribunal-unravelling-the-nsu-complex David Garcia# distributed

Re: Moving On- Beyond the Evidence..The Rise of Evidentiary Realism

2019-10-04 Thread David Garcia
Hi Simona, yes I see your point. And I very much respect the work you have done with the illegal art practitioners. And I understand the link you are making. I am happy to reflect and re-draft the article on my blog to better reflect reality.. that is after all the good thing about nettime’s

Re: From "call out" to "call in"

2019-10-01 Thread David Garcia
must have some accountability over. > oppression isn't private business between individuals. > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 7:14 AM David Garcia > wrote: > In a wokshop I attended the other day on the growing prevalence of the > polerisation or hyperpartzan nature of public > di

From "call out" to "call in"

2019-10-01 Thread David Garcia
In a wokshop I attended the other day on the growing prevalence of the polerisation or hyperpartzan nature of public discourse a guy who self identified as gay spoke up and described how since the Brexit vote he was aware of an increased hostility. But, certainly in the context of the workshop

Re: Moving On- Beyond the Evidence..The Rise of Evidentiary Realism

2019-10-01 Thread David Garcia
-on-recreating-a-horrific-syrian-jail David Garcia # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http

Moving On- Beyond the Evidence..The Rise of Evidentiary Realism

2019-09-29 Thread David Garcia
- Beyond the Evidence - The Rise and Rise of Evidentiary Realism http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/beyond-the-evidence-2/ At a time when right wing populist demagogues routinely denounce experts and expertise a movement of interdisciplinary artists and researchers has emerged whose work

Fwd: Supreme Court Rulling consequeces

2019-09-25 Thread David Garcia
Begin forwarded message: > From: Richard Barbrook > Subject: Re: Supreme Court Rulling consequeces > Date: 25 September 2019 15:07:42 BST > To: David Garcia > Reply-To: rich...@imaginaryfutures.net > >> Cummings’ passion for Bismark and game theory

Supreme Court Rulling consequeces

2019-09-25 Thread David Garcia
ed grass roots base that you just can’t fake. The Tories keep trying but still cannot come close to matching them. In my oppinion Corbyn (aka Magic Grandpa) will ride again in November… here’s hoping. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated

what is to be done

2019-09-08 Thread David Garcia
listening to the Ted and Felix discussion is great thanks Shulea and others who made this happen.. Alongside the mailing lists and Nettime should feature a regular radio program. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

Re: don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-02 Thread David Garcia
/Britannia_Unchained Worth a visit just for the cover.. David Garcia On 2 Sep 2019, at 14:14, Morlock Elloi wrote: > An interesting proposition: it's about terminal illusions of grandeur. > Abstract below, full text at > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10./1467-923X.1

Re: don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-01 Thread David Garcia
ions. This has echoes in a number of other countries. But perhaps you are lucky enough not to live in one of those countries and can simply turn your back and say why should 'we’ care. Whoever this big “we” are Best David Garcia On 1 Sep 2019, at 15:36, Harv Stanic Staalman wrote: #

don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-01 Thread David Garcia
he same. It may be time to candidly embrace Project Fear and say yes I am fearful for this country’s future. Not fear as paralysis or ‘flight’ but as the driver that unites the fragments in a for call to action to begin the restoration of parliamentary democracy. It won’t be easy. David Ga

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-24 Thread David Garcia
. Its a great time to be a constitutional lawyer or a curious observer from another land, but its a bad time for the rest of us. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-23 Thread David Garcia
as a new arm of government as important as the judiciary, the executive and the legislature Acknowledging this status would force us to think about how we make these bodies more transparent and accountable and ultimately improving their interface to the citizenry. B David Garcia On 23 Aug

Re: From Meat Loaf to Penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-20 Thread David Garcia
d sheets, models and statistics or expert commentary will not help us. David Garcia # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/l

From Meat Loaf to Penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-20 Thread David Garcia
n yet of displaying. For all the wrong reasons the coming months will be ‘interesting’ David Garcia # 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: http://mx.kei

It goes beyond the Meat Loaf Problem

2019-08-17 Thread David Garcia
ho can win the confidence of enough MPs to work across the political tribes? There is a great deal at stake for all us poor Brits. David Garcia# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultura

Re: limits of networks...

2019-07-02 Thread David Garcia
On 1 Jul 2019, at 15:24, Kristoffer Gansing wrote: > discussion of > networked forms seems to be returning at the moment, maybe especially > also on a list like nettime, because it seems as if it disappeared from > the big "digitalisation" debates that are now anyway everywhere. (except > for

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 141, Issue 66

2019-06-30 Thread David Garcia
g out and requesting contributions)..and please not too much meta-discussion. David Garcia On 30 Jun 2019, at 11:31, Allan wrote: > hello, > Seems Nettimers suffer similar illusions of those entrenched in other forms > of social media. Disconnected or detached from face-to-

The Uses and Abuses of Citizens’ Assemblies

2019-06-16 Thread David Garcia
by misapplying them as part of a poorly thought through piece of political expediency. David Garcia - Brexit Correspondent for Radio Patapou-# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics

*Farage's as Hyper-leader * A Knoweledge Free Zone* - by Design

2019-05-27 Thread David Garcia
*Farage's as Hyper-leader and the cult of disintermediation* It is no longer news (if it ever was) that the big winners in the UK’s European Parliamentary elections were the Bexit Party or rather the Nigel Farage party. This was a remarkable achievement bearing in mind his party has only been

Good Ship Mary.... Celeste

2019-05-21 Thread David Garcia
The Good Ship Mary….Celeste After the kind EU allowed us a deferral till Halloween a strange paralysis has descended on the land. May has not been much seen. She appears laid out like the sick king in Parsifal waiting for one of her bold knights of the cabinet table to go forth and bring her

Interiors

2019-05-03 Thread David Garcia
possible”. His point is that there is a basic difference between fiction grounded in the *interiority* of characters on the one hand and film and TV on the other. One of the many achievements of 8th Grade is that it opens new doors to demonstrate that this is no longer true.. if it eve

At last a real crisis.

2019-04-30 Thread David Garcia
to go as the "Irish backstop" or "Article 50" instead. As the sage once said life is such a box of chocolates. All Quiet on the Western Front. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # col

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-12 Thread David Garcia
,c2787466 Sweden may be less of a stooge for US ambitions than the UK (who is desperate to please the US as they imagine that it offers a solid alliance economic and geo-political alliance post-brexit). David Garcia On 12 Apr 2019, at 01:58, Morlock Elloi wrote: > The principal

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-11 Thread David Garcia
Given the nature of the allegations agree to Swedish request for extradition. But refuse extradition to US for allegations related to publishing activities. On 11 Apr 2019, at 18:02, Morlock Elloi wrote: > What was the voluntary part? Lifelong imprisonment in the US or execution are >

Re: Not Brexit

2019-04-08 Thread David Garcia
Corbyn may been wise in what looks like fence sitting as it opens up the possibility of him acting as honest broker in some future vote.. There is no simple way out of the “mad riddle" of Brexit. David Garcia On 8 Apr 2019, at 14:53, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Dear all, >

Re: Not Brexit

2019-04-07 Thread David Garcia
the Union Blue flag. Its time to use the ballot box to translate this into a new impulse of democratic involvement in ways that could ultimately send positive democratic ripples through the EU’s flawed institutional hierarchies. David Garcia On 7 Apr 2019, at 09:23, Ariston Theotocopulos

*No Euphoria No Carnival just Fatalism*

2019-03-24 Thread David Garcia
ll be hard to enact in the time available and unlikely that May (or a caretaker PM) would agree to play "Postman-Pat" but this at least is a roadmap to one possible course to salvation. David Garcia - Back on the Brexit Couch -# distributed via : no commercial use without permission

Re: Chris Grey's latest Brexit commentary

2019-03-23 Thread David Garcia
consensus for a plan in a matter of days. Otherwise the EU will gather around the sick bed with grave faces and (with some relief) allow nature is allowed to take its course. David Garcia -off to the march not sure why- On 23 Mar 2019, at 00:02, tbyfield wrote: > <

Re: Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn

2019-03-20 Thread David Garcia
the contrary it is their fading into the the background to become ‘the environment” that makes them so powerful frequently insidious and so vital to contest. David Garcia On 19 Mar 2019, at 19:13, Brian Holmes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:28 AM Francis Hunger > wrote: >

Re: Banality of code

2019-03-19 Thread David Garcia
There is a lift in the Universtity of Portsmouth UK in which among all the normal buttons there is one that simply reads “random”. On 19 Mar 2019, at 05:19, Morlock Elloi wrote: > The most scary recent example I've seen are the new elevators: there are no > buttons/controls inside. They will

Mad-Hatter’s Tea Party

2019-03-16 Thread David Garcia
a rabit staring at the head lights coming towards me. From my Brexit Central Sofa David Garcia # 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: http://mx.k

Re: more brexit spam.. sorry

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
campaign for re-election. Yes really ! I think I may be a bit too "long in the tooth” to offer myself as a candidate and oppose him but I am tempted. David Garcia PS are we having fun yet :-(( On 13 Mar 2019, at 22:45, Keith Hart wrote: > > “No deal can’t be taken of

more brexit spam.. sorry

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
as it is the fucking table. David Garcia# 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org

It is the table

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
Hi Keith, many thanks for your kind words.. I recomend this from the excellent Stephen Bush https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/03/theresa-may-has-been-defeated-again-time-she-isnt-one-denial In this very worrying article about just how far parliament is from actually waking

Re: At last the brexit dividend

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
h a >> series of indicative (non-binding) votes to see what there is a majority >> for. Maybe there is no majority >> for anything.. or maybe parliament can get its act together and build a >> workable process… withing 2 weeks!! Aaah >> >> David >>

Re: At last the brexit dividend

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
. or maybe parliament can get its act together and build a workable process… withing 2 weeks!! Aaah David On 13 Mar 2019, at 10:55, Keith Hart wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:42 PM David Garcia > wrote: > A true Democracy: All United in Ignorance- > Total fucking insanit

At last the brexit dividend

2019-03-11 Thread David Garcia
A true Democracy: All United in Ignorance- Despite promises that this would be the ‘crunch week’ when the second “meaningful (HA!) vote" was to be held. It is looking increasingly likely that despite solumn promises the Olympic level can-kicker May will again defer the vote replacing it with

More news from the front-line of Brexshit Bollocks

2019-02-21 Thread David Garcia
Sorry (Patrice) and other nettimers bored with the subject. But just a bit more from the front line of the Brexit Bollocks Car Crash With less than 1000 hours from the cliff edge. A new level of distraction and idiotic complexity has emerged with the arrival this week of the so called

Re: Why I have stopped reading about Brexit

2019-02-15 Thread David Garcia
Resolving the Brexican Standoff Don’t stop just yet Patrice just the wrong moment as we come to the final episode of series 1 of the neverending Brexit Box Set. As we know May is playing Eastwood in the Mexican stand off in the Good the Bad and the Ugly a confrontation in which no strategy

Re: James Bridle: Review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Guardian)

2019-02-11 Thread David Garcia
Felix wrote: > Mozorov puts lots of emphasis on her lack of engagement with other > theories of contemporary capitalism and her unwillingness to considers > options beyond the market. And, really, not even Wikipedia is ever > mentioned (expect as a source once) and Free Software only in relation

Re: Paul Mason: Britain's impossible futures (Le Monde diplomatique, English edition)

2019-02-04 Thread David Garcia
Paul Mason wrote: > The left at a crossroads > > By the end of February it is likely that May’s attempt to renegotiate Brexit > will fail, stockpiling of food and medicines will increase, and sterling and > growth will fall sharply. In an atmosphere of crisis, May’s bluff will be > called.

Re: No evidence of digital wrong-doing...

2019-01-28 Thread David Garcia
I agree Felix that it is probably too late for Brexit..but... there remains a chance that the parliamentary log jam means that other options cannot gain a majority and there is enough of a realisation that ‘crashing out without a deal’ would be a disaster to make another referendum least worst

Re: No evidence of digital wrong-doing...

2019-01-28 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Carlo, no need for an either/or choice here. I’d be interested in any examples you have of liquid democracy in action and yielding concrete results. > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 09:35:35AM +0000, David Garcia wrote: >> Brilliant as O’tool’s artcle is, he and oth

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-28 Thread David Garcia
Patrice, is completely right.. One of the amendments to May’s “deal" (sadly it will not succeed-it ay no longer be in play) is one to be put by Stella Creasy which would mandate more time by suspending article 50 not simply to delay the innevitable but of a final vote but a vote supported by

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Keith, yes I am an an enthusiastic follower of Fintan O’tool’s writing and lectures. Its instructive that in both the cases we have mentioned from Ireland and India both in different ways victims of English post-collonial delusion. The fact that Ireland barely featured in the refferndum

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Keith for fleshing out the wider political context for our “little local difficulty” that sprang from Cameron’s reckless gamble that had everything to do with the Tory party and resulted in a deep national psychosis. Sorry if this sounds like histrionics but its how it feels. I want

notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-17 Thread David Garcia
My friend Eric Kluitenberg asked for my local view of the current situation in Brexania. It gave me the chance to pull some threads together. Some caveats this is a view from the sidelines. The journalists are all suffering from as much confusion and exhaustion..as the rest of the population.

Re: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe

2018-12-05 Thread David Garcia
open up these agencies to civic scrutiny and intervention). David Garcia On 4 Dec 2018, at 07:37, Geert Lovink wrote: > Dear Nettimers, > > we’ve written the discussion text below as a proposal, a strategic > contribution and are curious what you make of the ideas and questions we > raise

Re: Seth Abramson: We need a new kind of journalism (Guardian)

2018-11-24 Thread David Garcia
way of insight or illumination by introducing the term “curatorial” to the methods and the journey that take us from journalism to history.. And isnt this another sign that "curatorial” is rapidly becoming an overextended concept in danger of losing all meaning. David Garcia On 24 Nov 201

Our revels now are ended

2018-11-10 Thread David Garcia
if we don’t we to will learn the hard lesson that politics may have an aspect of theatre but it is NOT theatre .And that politicians may enjoy the brief applause of the ‘audience’ but be left to face the longer term anger of the “citizens” they sacrificed to their vanity and delusion. David Garcia

Re: Taking sides

2018-11-06 Thread David Garcia
Yes please. This tiny splinter of the community says. Bard just stop. David On 6 Nov 2018, at 04:30, Lunenfeld, Peter B. wrote: > Hello All - > > Bard asked if the community wanted him to cease and desist. My vote > is yes. Not only are his politics abhorrent, he’s not here to engage in

Re: Identity and difference

2018-10-26 Thread David Garcia
own in my face from pathological > cry-bullies. > Back to Marx! Meanwhile, prepare for Trump round 2. "The Left" has learned > nothing but lost its roots. Next Bolsonaro in Brazil. I'm spending this > winter in Rio. > Best > Alexander Bard > > Den fre 26 okt. 20

Re: Bad news for Brexit Junkies! - worse news for Labour and remainers

2018-10-16 Thread David Garcia
gt; dissident relationships to further this - likely to include Orban. > > The British are aware that contingency planning in France has not yet reached > operational unit level even in the GIGN because the general French > presumption is that the British government is genuinely eng

Re: Bad news for Brexit Junkies! - worse news for Labour and remainers

2018-10-16 Thread David Garcia
piece of useless cosmetic surgery about to be perfomed of an ageing dowager suffering from severe delusions of grandure. David Garcia On 16 Oct 2018, at 07:35, Patrice Riemens wrote: > On 2018-06-17 11:15, Patrice Riemens wrote: >> BonDi! >> In today's Guardian/Obs

what's your problem dude ?

2018-09-30 Thread David Garcia
.. it was just a cover version” Maybe this ‘squib’ will also appear on Bruce’s blog. David Garcia# 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: http://mx.kein.org

Re: Quick Review..

2018-09-13 Thread David Garcia
serious engagement with -and even allergy- to power. But its an exaggeration to say there is no analysis. David Garcia # 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 in

Re: Quick Review..

2018-09-11 Thread David Garcia
Whoops Sorry yes it should have read Hermann Nitsch On 11 Sep 2018, at 14:02, bronac ferran wrote: > Has Hermann become Friedrich here? > Or is it vice versa? > > On 11 September 2018 at 08:56, David Garcia > wrote: > Yes thanks Florian- so interesting to read this m

Re: Quick Review..

2018-09-11 Thread David Garcia
Yes thanks Florian- so interesting to read this mangling of Gramsci by Yiannopolous. The extraordinary images of him cavorting in a bath of pig’s blood in a scandalously naive (or simply cynical) NY Chelsea gallery, purportedly mourning the lives lost to Islamic fundementalism- he looked for

Quick Review..

2018-09-09 Thread David Garcia
' or 'mind-set' that equivalent sub-cultures on the left badly need to learn. David Garcia# 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: http://mx.kein.org/ma

Re: What does Trump get right?

2018-08-05 Thread David Garcia
ism. These questions are too localised to go into here but they do serve to demonstrate that once grass roots movements on the left start coming close to the kitchen of power the heat will definitely be turned up. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permi

Re: Paul Mason: Trump is a symptom of the new global disorder, not the cause

2018-06-14 Thread David Garcia
On 14 Jun 2018, at 10:28, Alex Foti wrote: > paul mason doesn't get national-populism right - he called the current > italian rightist government "neoliberalism in one country" (what??) - yes we > need a big progressive front like the one varoufakis is building - for europe > - too bad

The Revenge of Folk Politcs

2018-06-05 Thread David Garcia
Published in full on the Transmediale Journal transmediale.de/resource/journal …...The Revenge of Folk Politics…….. 2016 witnessed the revenge of “folk politics”. Of all the assumptions that were overturned by the success of the Alt-right insurgency, one of the most surprising is the

Re: Towards a Non-facebook

2018-05-28 Thread David Garcia
s open-ended. As Marres wrote “not treating social relations and activity as a given and unchanging but as a set of activities, patterns and forms that may shift expand and are thus transformable, digital technologies can be said to invite an experimental approach to sociality”. David Garcia

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