Locked Down / Charged Up - Trapped in the Somatic Deficit

er.com/aaronstein1/status/340789304806739969 2 - Zeynep Tufekci, “Is there a Social-Media-fuelled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki”, posted June 1, 2013, at: https://technosociology.org/ https://technosociology.org/?p=1255 [accessed: February 7, 2022] - Eric Kluitenberg Decembe

Beyond the tactical in media - new temporal scales for the war in Ukraine

dear nettimers, Like the conflict in Ukraine, the recent flood of commentaries and analyses on nettime (and elsewhere) has been overwhelming, and given this it seemed so far difficult to add anything more astute and articulate than what has passed here so far. Speaking as I assume for many, fir

Captured Alive - On living memory and digital archives

ability. In this sense living archives do not stand in contradiction to ‘conventional’ archiving practices. They can much rather act as complementary forces, combining dynamism and longer term preservation. Eric Kluitenberg, September 2021. References: 1 - The web dossier created around the pro

Re: International anti slavery BLM

Hi Molly, all, Just to chime in briefly from NL. It’s great to see the Dutch national museum for mostly pre-modern visual arts take up this gauntlet and producing a show that extends the rather meagre presentation of NL’s colonial past (and present! – don’t forget, there are still “overseas ter

Re: [EXT] Re: Thoughts on coups

Hi Brian, Sean, > On 25 Nov 2020, at 01:19, Sean Cubitt wrote: > > Eco-socialism yes - but only if the 'social' is rethought - and re-practiced > - no longer exclusively as human: The Commons is a better phrase, common > land, general intellect (including those forms it takes when congealed in

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 158, Issue 20

, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: why is it so quiet (in the US) (Eric Kluitenberg) > > >

Re: why is it so quiet (in the US)

HI Ted, all, Fascinating discussion in ominous times.. > On 16 Nov 2020, at 04:02, tbyfield wrote: > > The US is breaking down, so it's not at all surprising that some of its > language for describing the world would as well. From a continental European perspective I’m watching this spectacle

Re: why is it so quiet (in the US)

Hi Felix, all, The post-election situation in the US is very worrying in many respects. The darkest scenario, a slow coup d’etat against a clear election result has been suggested to me by several friends over the past few days. I can’t read the local situation that well, so it would be great t

Re: The Zombie Public – Or, how to revive ‘the public’ and public space after the pandemic.

Hello Michael, Let me try then to clarify my position a bit further. First about the lockdowns. I have conceded already that the lockdowns were probably necessary / inevitable because of the care system being totally overburdened. So in the first phase of this pandemic (I consider where we are

Re: The Zombie Public – Or, how to revive ‘the public’ and public space after the pandemic.

blic space’, but this condition is >> exactly what renders the necessary conditions for publicness null and void. >> I find that a troubling situation and I think it needs to be reversed. >> >>> 5. again, what parts of the world r u thinking of when u wrote this text

Re: The Zombie Public – Or, how to revive ‘the public’ and public space after the pandemic.

To what extent have the great European civil wars of the > twentieth century put to rest the collective passions of reciprocal > aggression? Is there any dark side to individual freedom on the Old > Continent? Can European democracies withstand the surging pressures of Affect > Spac

Re: The Zombie Public – Or, how to revive ‘the public’ and public space after the pandemic.

ough weather here in NL is terrible at the moment, maybe it is better wherever you are..?) -Eric > CHEERS! LIZ! Vote! > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 06.10.2020, at 13:31, Eric Kluitenberg wrote: >> >> dear nettimers, please note: >> >

The Zombie Public – Or, how to revive ‘the public’ and public space after the pandemic.

s-app-memo-discussed-giving-ministers-power-to-de-anonymise-users 8 - Press release, April 10,2020: Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/ 9 - See also: How

Re: Lev on the embarressment of digital art

hi all, I just visited the superb exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Mokum of Nam June Paik, and while some of the work feels a bit dated - most of it felt vibrant, topical, fun, over the top (in a good way), relevant, at times endearing, then again poetic even outrageous, nostalgic in other

Re: Might Rupert Murdoch be Art Basel's next big investor?

…and let’s not forget (alpha / suprematist) male… Dismantle and collectivise the whole lot! grrr… >:-(( -e. > On 30 Jun 2020, at 11:05, Cornelia Sollfrank wrote: > > this is how the invisible hand of the market becomes very visible… > and it's white and old and wrinkled > # dist

Re: coronavirus questions

Hi Sebastian, all, Good questions - though I have not much to say about the (‘radical’?) left. But the schizo-analysis question is interesting: > On 12 Mar 2020, at 09:21, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: > > - What is the perspective on coronavirus from the vantage point of > Schizoanalysis? Pro

Re: Supreme Court Rulling consequeces

Hi Ted, I appreciate that nettime should retain a focus on network-dynamics (in culture, politics, media, communication, art, etc.). However, I must say that I quite enjoy the ‘nettime-take’ on global political events (such as the impeachment enquiry in the US, the climate crisis, or Brexit).

Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content | Internet Archive Blogs

meanwhile around the corner... (not related to Brexit or Assange…) "Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content" https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/

Re: Christophe Guilluy: France is deeply fractured. Gilets jaunes are just a symptom (Guardian)

Thank you Brian for this statement, more clear than ever - I think you are getting to the root of the problem ‘signalled’ by the gillets jaunes protests. I have one simple question: What kinds of new institutional forms are required? Or phrased differently, what types of new political design are

Dr. Shahidul Alam Detained - Appeal for his Release #FreeShahidulAlam

Dear nettimers, Very disturbing news has just come in about the arrest of our friend, media-activist, curator, photographer, long time colleague Shahidul Alam in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We demand the immediate release of Shahidul Alam and condemn the disproportionate violence apparently exercised d

Re: Locating ArtScience

re: > > http://art.colorado.edu/research/Hall_Inhumanist-Manifesto.pdf > <http://art.colorado.edu/research/Hall_Inhumanist-Manifesto.pdf> > > Best, Gary > > On 11/12/2017 01:44, Eric Kluitenberg wrote: >> Dear Gary, >> >> Thank you for your highly artic

Re: Locating ArtScience

Dear Gary, Thank you for your highly articulate and critical questions, which deserve a far more thorough answer than I can provide here with limited time available. Still I want to respond in brief to some of the issues / problems you raised. > On 10 Dec 2017, at 19:58, Gary Hall wrote: >

Re: Locating ArtScience

Anthropocene" conversely points out how the original > notion of the anthropocene itself is contaminated with techno positivism. I > would agree that the crises we're facing are insufficiently addressed by the > mere combination of the two discourses of art and science, and tha

Re: Locating ArtScience

Thanks so much Brian, Very relevant critique. Without wanting to get stuck on a term, I was using the word ‘field’ partly because there is a field of practice that refers to itself as ArtScience (with a growing number of initiatives, organisations, museums even), towards which I wanted to take

Locating ArtScience

of practices, but it needs to be shaped / refined / re-articulated - probably an endless process. I appreciate any comments / criticism this might evoke - hope this is of interest to some of you. all bests, Eric — Locating ArtScience Eric Kluitenberg, Second draft, December 2017

Re: Constitutioanl radicalism

> techno-science,, and 'advanced capitalism': how do you distinguish phases of > capitalism, according to what schemes? (historical, paradigmatics, > geographical, cultural, biological?? etc.) thanks)- > > john. > > 2017-10-14 13:50 GMT+02:00 Eric Kluitenberg <mailto:

Re: Constitutioanl radicalism

Dear felix, Brian, Keith, Just a few notes here as comments on this discussion and the question of how to translate into "a political, social and cultural practice” that felix raised. Though I have critiqued Latour’s Thing politics in the “reDesigning Affect Space” essay also posted here a week

(Re-)Designing Affect Space - Preliminary elements for a conceptual model of Affect Space

dear nettimers, A slightly edited and hyperlinked version of this text has recently appeared on the excellent Open! online platform for art, culture, and the public domain. You can access and freely download the edited text here: http://www.onlineopen.org/re-designing-affect-space

Re: Why I won't support the March for Science

Fascinating discussion - this point of Bian seems crucial: > On 25 Apr 2017, at 05:38, Brian Holmes wrote: > > Times change and those who cling to outdated critiques become irrelevant > if not reactionary. One of the most urgent agendas of the present is the > transformation of the scientific

Re: Why I won't support the March for Science

Similar sentiment - in fact I am all for ‘alternative facts’, just different alternatives than the ones the Trump posse is proposing… -e. > On 23 Apr 2017, at 18:54, Florian Cramer wrote: > > Why I won't support the 'March for Science':* > > > 1) The central demand of the 'March for Science',

Re: England leaves Europe

Dear Brian, all, Slowly recovering from the immediate shock of the turmoil across the Canal (writing from Mokum, Holland), the sense of bewilderment by the string of events unfolding is hard to put into words - nettime helps a bit to find, and come to, terms to begin dealing with the situation

The Zombie of the author - In memoriam Remko Scha (September 15, 1945 - November 9, 2015)

exactly with this singular quest he became a unique idiosyncratic voice, somewhere in this shadowy land between the arts and the sciences. He will be deeply missed, by many, certainly by me. Eric Kluitenberg Amsterdam, November 20, 2015 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission

Re: choose-your-own adventure: a brief history of nettime

Dear nettimers, It feels a bit awkward to respond in this thread as the co-editor of the anthology this text is going to be part of, where I think the text is going to be a great contribution, a fascinating account of twenty years of from a first-hand perspective. However, I am dee

Re: nottime: the end of nettime

dear nettimers, So, nettime is not, for the moment going to disappear, and I'm for one quite happy about that. I feel ambivalent though about the way in which the issue of 'taking stock' of the current substance (or lack thereof) of the list and its extended constituency (to avoid t

Just out at Online Open: Affect Space - Witnessing the 'movement(s) of the square'

Dear nettimers, My latest essay just came out at the excellent open! online platform for art and the public domain. It's called Affect Space - Witnessing the `movement(s) of the squares'. Here is the link: http://www.onlineopen.org/essays/affect-space-witnessing-the-movements-

Re: Crisis 2.0 - the political turn

Thanks Brian and Sebastian for a timely and well considered text and response. I think the problem with people like Joschka is that they have become so embroiled in the existing political systems that they cannot think outside them anymore. What is needed here is a ???rupture???, one that can ope

Re: More Crisis in the Information Society.

Hi Mark, I was not suggesting that 'society' can be designed - a rather absurd idea indeed, but that we can 'design' democratic politics, which in my understanding means things like decision making procedures, oversight and control structures, protocols, both social and technological ones, forms a

Re: More Crisis in the Information Society

Dear Michael, nettimers, I can understand your exasperation about how an urgent and critically vital real-life political discussion reverts to an apparently 'academic' one, but in this case I think this is not entirely correct. You are right, however, in pointing out hat the discussion requires

Re: More Crisis in the Information Society

It seems to me that Felix is right in pointing out that the issues discussed here are primarily political. I consider in particular the emergence of a 'Deep State' largely outside of democratic (electoral) accountability and existing rights frameworks that Felix sketches here a deeply problemati

Tactical Media Connections - A public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present.

l Media Files online platform, which will also receive a thorough upgrade. www.tacticalmediafiles.net More details below. Best wishes, David Garcia & Eric Kluitenberg - Tactical Media Connections A public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections t

Contestation and Sustainability of the Digital Commons

Festival 2014. http://fields.rixc.lv/ Contestation and Sustainability of the Digital Commons by Eric Kluitenberg, Amsterdam, May 2014. There is a growing body of research and literature on shared resources of knowledge and cultural production as a commons [1]. Unsurprisingly much of this

Re: Post-digital - Mindful Disconnection: Counterpowering the Panopticon from the Inside (with Howard Rheingold)

file here: http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/article.jsp?objectnumber=48405 http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/mmbase/attachments/48433/Open11_Hybrid_Space.pdf bests, Eric - Mindful Disconnection: Counterpowering the Panopticon from the Inside Howard Rheingold and Eric K

Re: #occupyGezi

hi, I've just reposted this one on Tactical Media Files (with permission of the author Zeyned Tufekci): http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/article.jsp?objectnumber=62623 http://technosociology.org/?p=1255 Not exactly 'on the ground', but close... bests, eric # distributed via : no commerc

Re: crowd-funding on nettime

Dear all, Dmytri, I think that Felix and Dmytri are making the right point here: the absence of a sharing culture around kickstarter and similar projects. On 4 sep. 2012, at 13:53, Dmytri Kleiner wrote: > On 31.08.2012 12:28, Felix Stalder wrote: >> But in practice, as far as I can see, there

Charting Hybridised Realities: Tactical Cartographies for a densified present

en willing submission to various forms of corporate, state and social coercion, and vital social and political critique and contestation. It's maxim here: Relish your own commodification, embrace your perverse subjectivity, in order to escape the perversion of subjectivity. Eric Kluiten

Review of Josephine Bosma's, Nettitudes: Let's Talk Net Art (2011)

in my opinion. Reproduced here with kind permission of the journal editors. Best wishes, Eric -- Review of Josephine Bosma's, Nettitudes: Let's Talk Net Art (2011) by Eric Kluitenberg Nettitudes, the new book by Josephine Bosma, is an important contribution to the ofte

Re: Media Squares: On the new forms of protest and their media, int. seminar, Friday September 30, Amsterdam

es gained from the background of tactical media (against which we are holding this gathering) can help to better understand some of these dynamics. Thank you for these important comments, much appreciated and most helpful to clarify some of the urgent issues on the table. Pity we can't &#x

Media Squares: On the new forms of protest and their media, int. seminar, Friday September 30, Amsterdam

r End Program: 17.00 uur Program Overview: 10.30 - Opening / Introduction: Eric Kluitenberg (Tactical Media Files / De Balie) Part I - Repositioning WikiLeaks 11.00 - 11.20 - Presentation: Daniel van der Velden (Metahaven) 11.20 - 11.30 - Responses 11.30 - 11.45 - Discussion 11.45 - 12.05 - Geert Lo

Tracing the Ephemeral: Tactical Media and the Lure of the Archive

be found at: www.tacticalmediafiles.net Enjoy the read! bests, Eric Tracing the Ephemeral: Tactical Media and the Lure of the Archive by David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg "Tactical Media emerged when the modest goals of media artists and media activists

Re: The Tactics of Camping / tactical abandonment of the media apparatuses (disconnectivity)

EN11 The Syrian experience (and elsewhere) to me seems a case in point as to why it is so important to question (and strengthen) the possibilities for disconnectivity. Thanks again for raising these points, and sorry for my delayed response. Bests, Eric > Also, my first post on nettime. H

The Tactics of Camping

aking this discussion a bit further than the necessary mobilisation statements witnessed so far. http://blog.tacticalmediafiles.net/?p=106 bests, Eric - The Tactics of Camping by Eric Kluitenberg, June 20, 2011. Yes We Camp! Michel de Certeau observed that the tactics employed by

Fwd: Response New Media & Art Institutions to Governmental Cuts

FYI - joint statement of new media cuklture / arts organisations in The Netherlands: From: V2_ Date: June 17, 2011 10:52:01 GMT+02:00 Response New Media & Art Institutions to Governmental Cuts Source of innovation is eliminated http://www.v2.nl/news/response-to-governmental-cuts Netherlands,

Alternative economies and the funding cutbacks + a few words on the situation in NL

nettimers, Soory for cross-posting. This comment on a huge discussion currently waging on the Spectre listfolows up on the ISEA discussions and the waning of public infarstructures for experimental and media arts, etc.. I thought this was relevant enough to also post it here, it's just a sketch

Re: ISEA 2011 fees

dear nettimers, I've been tempted to enter this discussion, then thought too many people already have said everything, but I see that the discussion has continued traction. I would like to try and weigh in here from a more practical - organiser - perspective, and reflect on issues of scale and