Re: Stormy weather?

One more war nested in the Donbas/Ukraine war: Putin wants to believe this is a civil war. Despite everything the West threw at revolutionary Russia, despite its own errors and catastrophes, despite the devastation of the Great Patriotic war, Russia emerged in 1945 with a greater landmass than

Re: Its a Language thing

just a small correction to david's post: "The UK doesn't have a market of hundreds of millions of people," he writes: "it did once but we voted to leave". In fact the vote was over leaving the European Union. Mad King Boris decided that meant also quitting the common market, which wasn't on the

Re: Proposition on Peak Data (John Preston)

hi John and nettimers just a small corrective: you describe data as 'intentionally gathered', which seems okay, and not inapprpriately extended to non-human intentions as in the case of the fuel gauge. My car-driving knowledge is limited (the equivalent is probably how much I crave a coffee

Re: Utopia is finally over

thanks Brian - as ever an astute analysis It's intriguing how every autocrat this year hankers for the period round 1945-9: Modi wants to go back to Partition; Xi keeps claiming the revolution; Trumpistas want to return to the Eisenhower era (For what it's worth Boris seems to want to return to

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

two short reflections on Brian's point on the corporate state: the alt.right's libertarian situationism (which Brits recognise as Dominic Cummings' cash from chaos doctrine) is an extension of Mount Pelerin's belief that the state should a) shrink and b) be subject to 'law' - but clearly not

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

: David Garcia Sent: Saturday, 22 January 2022 10:45 pm To: Sean Cubitt ; nettime-l@mail.kein.org Subject: [EXT] Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques External email: Please exercise caution

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

some notes from a manuscript on Truth I've been working on: the problem seems to be one of inadequate distrust The problem with neo-populists is not that they distrust the media but that they trust them too much (and trust the wrong media). They do not seem to distrust advertising,

Re: Covid and the crisis of neo-liberalism

sorry to hear about the wrist injury John: hope the gardening's good. On population: 1. if you're right, abandoning the one-child family policy may be the most significant political decision of the first part of the century - both the policy and its termination might appear autocratic? 2. is

Re: Covid and the crisis of neo-liberalism

his definition, for failures of yet > other proportions. > > pps: looks like adjectives are generally up for grabs these days and > might become redundant rubble, if not signifiers of the opposites, like > "precise(ly)" in many philosophical discourses. > > > Am 02.09.2

Re: Covid and the crisis of neo-liberalism

thanks for circulating Patrice there's a great piece responding to similar issues by Daniel Ross (aka Stiegler’s translator): https://mscp.org.au/plague-proportions/this-pandemic-should-not-have-happened a flavour: "Anthropogenic climate change and the systemic limits with which it is

Re: deep humanities initiative

The thread - on the way to dissolution - has been fascinating and I've not much to add except that the list of topics avoids almost every major achievement of the humanities (and therefore the reasons why governments, pressure groups etc like to attack them). Feminism arose in the 1970s not

Re: Thoughts on coups

ian Holmes To: "nettime-l@mail.kein.org" Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: Thoughts on coups Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:20 PM Sean Cubitt wrote: The unthinkable has to be thought. > That's exactly it. I like th

Re: [EXT] Re: Thoughts on coups

may start from undoing at least property as core concept of western Enlightenment. That this implies undoing the 'proper' as the principle of individualism is one way to recognise where anarchism belongs to capital and when it doesn't Think local, act global s Sean Cubitt | He/Him Professor

Re: Thoughts on coups

s a longer argument - technological sean Sean Cubitt | He/Him Professor of Screen Studies School of Culture and Communication W104 John Medley Building University of Melbourne Grattan Street Victoria 3010 AUSTRALIA scub...@unimelb.edu.au New Book: Anecdotal Evidence https://global.oup.co

Fw: A question in earnest (Max Herman)

Hi Brian my mail seems to have got lost so - in response to your question about what other places are thinking, here's my note from Australia From: Sean Cubitt Sent: Monday, 5 October 2020 8:47 AM To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org Subject: Re: A question in earnest

Re: A question in earnest (Max Herman)

e and - increasingly - abroad. The 2016 election was a tragedy. This one is a farce. Probably Ishtar: a hugely expensive production that no-one wants to watch best of luck finding a way out! sean Sean Cubitt Melbourne/Australia scub...@unimelb.edu.au New Book: Anecdotal Evidence https://gl

Re: "Consume revolutionary media"

would make a good start best sean Sean Cubitt | He/Him Professor of Screen Studies School of Culture and Communication W104 John Medley Building University of Melbourne Grattan Street Victoria 3010 AUSTRALIA scub...@unimelb.edu.au New Book: Anecdotal Evidence https://global.oup.com/academ

Re: covid: neoliberalism superspreader, nationalpopulism

D Cummings, are Nietzschean anarcho-capitalists who want apocalypse now in order to smash the existing (moral, political) sytem and create their own; while Trump is of the permanent apocalypse persuasion now back to managing the crisis . . . best to y'all sean Sean Cubitt School of Culture and Communicatio

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

: Andreas Broeckmann Sent: Friday, 20 March 2020 8:32 PM To: Sean Cubitt ; nettime-l@mail.kein.org Subject: Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health Dear Sean, folks, thanks for the useful historical references. I've already gone on record here as being against speculations on who

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

Broeckmann Sent: Friday, 20 March 2020 8:32 PM To: Sean Cubitt ; nettime-l@mail.kein.org Subject: Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health Dear Sean, folks, thanks for the useful historical references. I've already gone on record here as being against speculations on who should die

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

The term 'public health' has never quite gone away, even when privatised medicine pretended that private health could be purchased. The Spanish flu of 1919 is often cited; more apposite perhaps were the great cholera epidemics of the latrer 19th century. The proximity of the underclass to

morales / lingua franca

- not necessarily in other languages, but in the world of motorbikes and ashtrays (two words I do not find in my latin dictionary) sean Sean Cubitt Goldsmiths, University of London from 2 jan 2020: University of Melbourne # distributed via : no commercial use without permission

Re: Latin as revolutionary act?

impropriety and the results of a major enquiry into Russian interference and donations to his party. Obscurity, especially in latin, is not a gurantee of anything perhaps ancient Greek . . . Sean Cubitt Goldsmiths, University of London (U of Melbourne from Jan 2020

CO2 tax (was: left wing climate denial (franz schaefer)

Hi Franz (and David etc) the question of a green new deal can't be separated from capital and what alternatives we might build Utopianism is debarred by a large tract of the Marxist tradition I grew up with, but we need some now. So 1. No country that restricts the free movement of people

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

and the common good, and a beauty whose character is utopian and ecological Sean Cubitt Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW From: Brian Holmes Sent: 25 August 2019 07:43 To: Sean

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

level required to address the excluded and colonised ecology this seems to have wandered a long way from Brexit . . . but to quote an American poet, "what you depart from is not the way" sean Sean Cubitt Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths,

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

ind models for global political engagement - necessarily requiring political-technical invention because time is so short bring back the poli-technics? Sean From: Max Herman Sent: 23 August 2019 21:00 To: Sean Cubitt ; nettime-l@mail.kein.org Subject

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

, and so attracts serious money and - to return to another key term - expertise. And to repeat: a technology that opened on non-human participation in collective decisions would be a convincing argument for technological solutions. Is there anything to look out for? sean Sean Cubitt

from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

John writes: Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 08:48:41 -0700 From: John Preston To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org Subject: Re: From Meat Loaf to Penalty Shoot Outs Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Technological development puts pressure on social institutions. We need a system of

Re: Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can change it.

I've been active long ago, and lurking for a decade or more, with only sporadic comments and adds: this look like a good prod to get us silent majority out of the closet. the thing that keeps nettime valuable is a) the contributors, timeliness, and swift smart dialogues and b) that there

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

sses of unbridled profit and set to building peer-to-peer alternatives now so we have the organisations we need when the shit hits the fan Free the human seven billion! Sean Cubitt Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6

Re: Adam Tooze: Politics don?t matter; market forces shape our world (The Observer/Guardian) (Brian Holmes)

Thanks for sharing the Tooze essay. Brian's last lines of comment hjit on a remarkable metaphor >A full connection to the global financial markets would be the equivalent >of throwing gasoline on China's economic bonfire. At the very least, >geopolitical embers will fly. nettimers might like

Re: social media critique: next steps?

ens <patr...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > Sounds like "What Does The Ruling Class Do When It Rules" > > https://www.versobooks.com/books/292-what-does-the-ruling-class-do-when-it-rules > > Ciaoui, p+7D! > > > On 2018-01-16 12:27, Sean Cubitt wrote: &

Re: social media critique: next steps?

The algorithms of the ruling class are in every epoch the algorithms of the ruling class -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:59 +0100 From: Florian Cramer > Cc: Nettime

Re: Speculative Intergalactic Network

would it be more useful/interesting to establish communication with planet Earth? “If a lion would speak, we would not be able to understand it” (Wittgenstein) but it is clear that lions (rivers, forests, oceans, reefs, animals etc) do speak; but that we refuse to listen. Nowhere in the galaxy

Re: Brexit democracy

I came late to Brown’s writing, and was deeply impressed: the diagnosis of individualism seems even more astute living for a few months in the States. I’d throw into the mix some thoughts from Laclau’s On Populist Reason: that the unit of social action is neithe rindividuals nor groups, and

Re: nettime nottime: the end of nettime

of journals allows considered response to urgent issues, please post Sean Cubitt Professor of Film and Television; Co-Head, Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime

Re: nettime Adam Curtis: BUGGER

The history of the British secret state's incompetence is a rich field. Ezra Pound and WB Yeats were arrested as foreign agents while out walking during the time they spent at Stone Cottage near the Sussex coast. The incident is memorable because of Yeats' involvement in the renewal of interest