gency that you
> diagnose with such consummate precision. Go ahead, look at all that, take
> some time to put it all in the balance, and reconcile the results with your
> horror at anyone who attempts a 'why' explanation of complex world events.
>
> thoughtfully, Brian
>
> On Fr
Andre, you really nailed it.
As some may have noticed, the US in particular is suffering from, let's
say, a *maldistribution of agency*. It's mostly imaginary, but like all
imaginaries, it functions like a mass-magic spell: its very unreality
makes it that much more real.
The left — not a good
On 15 Feb 2023, at 20:02, Pit Schultz wrote:
> In terms of the green transition, this war is already a huge setback,
The Economist:
> This complexity makes it difficult to discern whether the tumult in energy
> markets has aided or impeded the energy transition. To assess the overall
>
On 14 Feb 2023, at 4:48, Michael Guggenheim wrote:
> I sent an email to NLR alerting them to this quote. Maybe I was not the only
> one. I was hoping, and suggesting, they would add a comment to D’Eramo’s
> text, explaining who Ganser is, and maybe asking D’Eramo to explain to the
> reader why
Geoff —
Thanks for this. I agree with the outlines of what you say, and with most of
the detail too. Felix and Doma have their own perspectives, so this is just me.
I'm not sure what you mean about a recurring argument, but that's not to
suggest you're mistaken. As a mod, I probably see
< https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58169 >
networks.h-net.org
Dickey on Century, 'Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy, and the
Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age' | H-Sci-Med-Tech
Author: Michael Century
9–11 minutes
Michael Century. Northern Sparks:
<
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/alexander-dugin-darya-putin-russia-ukraine-assassination
>
/// There are many in the West happy to take him at face value, as 'Putin's
Brain' or 'Putin's Rasputin'. He is not, though, and never has been especially
influential. He has no personal
This Twitter thread by Kamil Galeev on Dmitry Galkovsky is really worth reading:
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1533154409722658824
Notable:
"People think with words. If you want to change the way people think about
things, you *must* be giving those things new names. If you
On 12 May 2022, at 6:05, podinski wrote:
> "Why I Can't Wave a Ukrainian Flag – A Dissenting Teach-In on Russia's
>
> Invasion" by Daniel Herman
>
> [https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183040](https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183040)
This is a wordy, milquetoast variation on
On 5 May 2022, at 8:38, Michael Benson wrote:
> In a windy piece in the NYRB on her last book, Jackson Lears
> tries to palm Applebaum off as someone under the influence
> of behavioral economist Karen Stenner, who (he says) views
> ideological differences as "merely" reflections of varying
>
Allan, WRT Russia/Ukraine one notable feature of the current US political
landscape is that a fair number of ostensible leftists are making arguments
that are remarkably similar to fascist trolls like Tucker Carlson. I'm no fan
of Applebaum's at all, so when I saw her name I was skeptical; but
Happy (and not not) to say I agree with all of this — really well put, Brian.
Two thoughts:
(1) As you probably know, "lustration" also refers to a more or less formal
process of governmental and social transformation — basically, an alternative
to more rigorous truth-and-reconciliation
viewpoints.
Ted
On Mar 20, 2022, 17:03 -0400, David Garcia
, wrote:
> 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 isolati
On 19 Mar 2022, at 13:42, I wrote:
> I read Streeck's essay when it first appeared, and my sense was that you
> could string together many of the points he makes and arrive at very
> different conclusions.
Someone pointed me to this FAZ piece on Streeck's essay:
n-generalnym-direktorom-pervogo-kanala
>
>
> Panorama is like Onion or Titanic in Germany
>
>
>
> On 19 Mar 2022 18:54, Ted Byfield wrote:
>> via Facebook. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is it should be an
>> opportunity to see a bit more c
via Facebook. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is it should be an
opportunity to see a bit more clearly whether Dugin is really so significant.
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Alexander Dugin has been
I read Streeck's essay when it first appeared, and my sense was that you could
string together many of the points he makes and arrive at very different
conclusions.
His historical analysis is strong, but at key points it hinges more on
simplistic grievances than facts, or as close as we can
This is my favorite debate strategy: when you don’t have a substantive
argument, just say your interlocutors are incapable of understanding the truth.
It works for Macgregor’s fanboys on Fox, no reason it shouldn’t work on
nettime.
Cheers,
Ted
On Mar 17, 2022, 18:26 -0400, Stefan Heidenreich
On 16 Mar 2022, at 4:45, Stefan Heidenreich wrote:
> add this: Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor
> on the situation in Ukraine and Washington:
It seems strange to see this on nettime.
Macgregor is a Putin apologist who's called Zelensky a "puppet," accused him
On 15 Mar 2022, at 0:07, Brian Holmes wrote:
> The American theory was produced after the 2005 Isreal-Lebanon war which
> resulted in the Israelis finally exiting the South of Lebanon. Origin of
> the concept is a guy named Hoffmann, 2007 (bit.ly/3MPtEVc). This is
> distinct from the Russian
Felix gets it, imo.
Not sure about elsewhere, but the 'special relationship left' — the US
certainly and the UK as well, I think — has been stuck in a rut. OT1H hard-ish
doctrinaire 'anti-imperialist' formations robotically denounce NATO in the
monolithic, one-sided terms Felix points out;
I took the noise about Surkov with a grain of salt, because it was obvious even
at the time that "he" was an orientalist trope — a Svengali-Rasputin figure,
maybe with an added dash of vulgar Baudrillard. The fact that that *trope* —
not the actual person but the figure — still exerts such
sed
>
> seems a perfect subliminal reflex (I won't say knee jerk response) ...
>
> as ever
>
> B
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 13:26, Ted Byfield wrote:
>
>> Alan, your question seems right on. I think there's an answer — it's just
>> not very satisfying.
&l
he actual problem is hoarding...
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:06 PM Ted Byfield wrote:
>
>> This kind of 'concern trolling'–esque appropriation of leftish discourse
>> in the service of rightish agendas is becoming pervasive in the US at least
>> — and elsew
This kind of 'concern trolling'–esque appropriation of leftish discourse in the
service of rightish agendas is becoming pervasive in the US at least — and
elsewhere, I'm sure, albeit with less detail.
As with most of these discursive tendencies it's first and foremost impersonal,
which can
So, basically, magic is indistinguishable from any sufficiently advanced
technology. I mean, if we can't distinguish the two, then the observation
should cut both ways, right? But Arthur C. Clarke's formulation, "any
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," is the only
I agree with Brian that Facebook's "rebranding" isn't an urgent problem in its
own right, but I disagree with the rhetorical gambit of introducing a preferred
subject by dismissing another. There are lots of genuinely important subjects
that never get a word on nettime, and it isn't hard to see
The first page opens with a “fable” about a lifeless town, but she puts that
conceit to rest just a few paragraphs later: “This town does not actually
exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere
in the world. I know of no community that has experienced all
Tacticalmediasplained!
On 27 Apr 2021, at 5:52, d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk wrote:
But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more
compelling than all
of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate
relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale,
NFTs don't strike me as intrinsically interesting, but the seeming
inability of conventional leftish/academic to address them *is*
interesting. I'd be hard-pressed to think of another time when it seemed
so clear that the force of criticism has been *to categorize* — that
is, to dispense with
I have a few thoughts: the first has to do with these one-off comments
about "deep," the second has to do with the gender aspect of this thread
in just five messages long. They're related, in a way.
(1) DEEP
Somewhere in my piles of scribbles I have some notes for an essay on the
poetics of
On 23 Apr 2021, at 19:11, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
What is “Deep Humanities”?
This seems like your basic Silly Valley 'branding' proposal powerpoint,
right down to the gobsmacking conceit that what they're doing is 'deep,'
which implies that what everyone else has been doing — like for the
On 18 Mar 2021, at 13:21, I wrote:
Felix, what you're talking about looks theoretical, but at root these
are really just questions of provenance, which the art world knows
about only too well.
Lo and behold:
<
< https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-brexit-aporia.html >
Friday, 31 May 2019
The Brexit aporia
Posted by Chris Grey
As anticipated [5]in my post a month ago, Britain is well on course to
squander the extension period, primarily by virtue of the Tory
On 10 Jan 2018, at 5:18, Prem Chandavarkar wrote:
The move from an underdeveloped to developed economy is described as a
gap in resources, but it is much more of a gap in knowledge
Free markets are praised as being efficient. However, markets are not
efficient in promoting innovation and
On 31 Dec 2017, at 14:11, Brian Holmes wrote:
the idea of 'dual-use' technologies... is mostly a clerical
distinction
So the people behind the DARPA Grand Challenges are clerics?
Ted, we could have a relatively boring discussion about how US
military investments have played a role parallel
On 30 Dec 2017, at 16:51, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, deep conspiracy and that
Bitcoin creator(s) actually did bother to read "Austrian economics"
(neither of which I think is probable - looks like a parallel
construction), and chose a hard limit instead of
On 30 Dec 2017, at 8:51, Felix Stalder wrote:
And besides, the ever rising transaction costs (because of the low
number of exchanges that can be settled per second, which Zooko puts
at
3, rather than 7) make it as an actual means of exchange almost
useless
for everyday transactions
So Bitcoin was a failure, in your view, except that whoever designed it
didn't have goals or their goals were random, because $TECHNOLOGY? Or
something like that. It's hard to make sense of some of what you're
saying. I think I agree with some of your less grumpy points – for
example, I
On 29 Dec 2017, at 10:01, Florian Cramer wrote:
The *goal* of the Bitcoin proof of concept was 'an electronic payment
system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any
two
willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need
for a
trusted third party.' So
I lost interest in Bitcoin a while ago beyond occasionally ruing the
alt.fact that, after spending years and years paying attention to
cypherpunks+ lists, I guess I could have been one of the first few
hundred people to screw around with it. So what I say here is based
largely on happy
All these suggestions so far seem good, but they mainly focus on 'tech'
corporations, as if to suggest that some diffuse idea of technology is
categorically different from everything else that corporations have been
doing for centuries. One big problem with this is the relationship
between
I'm sad to pass this news on.
T
< https://www.facebook.com/gurstein/posts/10155671874752457 >
Michael Gurstein
October 2, 1944 - October 8, 2017
Michael Gurstein was born on October 2, 1944 in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada to Emanuel (Manny) and Sylvia Gurstein. While still an infant,
the
On 4 Oct 2017, at 11:13, oliver lerone schultz wrote:
I think this is a very relevant position for the nettime public,
coming
from xnet, right in the middle between progressive politics and
critical
digital culture...
A few pointers re the internet angle — because they're at hand, not
On 4 Oct 2017, at 5:58, David Garcia wrote:
Don’t try to dig what we all s-s-say.
Funny you should mention that. Some time back I saw some squib go by in
which one of The Who said that rock is dead, and that that kind of
creative energy has been flowing into rap. I'd like to think it was
1998: http://technorealism.org/
HTH
T
PS: It's a pity that "We who have signed this letter will hold ourselves
and each other accountable for putting these ideas into practice" didn't
think to provide any obvious mechanism for seeing who signed it. If you
look at the page source you'll find
On 16 Jun 2017, at 13:25, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote:
Lots of bad bits too. No amount of theory can paper over basic flaws
in analysis.
Thanks for your points below. But I am just not seeing the connection
between your analysis of left vs right language politics and the basic
flaws in
Lots of bad bits too. No amount of theory can paper over basic flaws in
analysis.
One of the more useful observations I've seen lately (can't remember the
source, alas) is that in the current US political context rightists see
violence as a form of speech whereas leftists see speech as a form
On 6 May 2017, at 21:16, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Tomorrow's elections will answer a simple question: is Europe
fundamentally different from the US?
So...is it?
Cheers,
T
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#is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#
One of the quirks of this list, which is one reason I've loved it so
much for so long (and that's no exaggeration), is its very European
style. For many purposes, the US has served as a weird sort of Orient --
not just in the sense of a trope that encompasses an empirically
geographical 'over
to the text, deleting an old PGP sig and
contact info.
Cheers,
T
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Subject: political media consultants (English)
From: tbyfield {AT} panix.com (t byfield)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 01:36:29 -0500
[What follows is an ex
This is a great question. I guess you've used the bog-standard method of
looking it up? Etymology is pretty old-fashioned, I know, but you never
know what you'll turn up -- like the Oxford English Dictionary's
attestations of the phrase 'blow the whistle' in P. G. Wodehouse (1934)
and Raymond
On 24 May 2016, at 19:35, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:
> BTW, note that one way to really 'write in private' is to use hardware
> bought for cash while not carrying cellphone, connect to the network
> in a crowded public space, without carrying cellphone or credit cards,
> send one message
On 7 Apr 2016, at 4:15, Florian Cramer wrote:
Berger is by far not the only one with this opinion. After I posted
his article here, WikiLeaks retweeted the link to Nettime's archive
and Berger's piece. Before, Wikileaks tweeted the following (so we can
consider it WikiLeaks' official position
Here's a mail I just sent to a list devoted to discussion of
'responsible data.'
Cheers,
T
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Hi, all --
I appreciate that a forum devoted to responsible data is what it says on
the tin, but I want to question the reflexive assumption that
On 5 Apr 2016, at 9:17, Patrice Riemens wrote:
7. Leaks have become unquestionable.
With earlier disclosures, the authenticity of documents leaked could
always be credibly disputed. Nowadays the authenticity of materials
obtained thru electronic leaks, due to its sheer magnitude and the one
to
On 28 Feb 2016, at 23:29, Brian Holmes wrote:
Those are my thoughts,
Really great.
What follows is more chiming in than replying to you per se, Brian.
Though I do want to amplify one thing you said:
You know, by simple math of wealth and access, I'm of the privileged.
But I'm frankly
On 23 Nov 2015, at 23:48, John Hopkins wrote:
It's Amurika, so if the students can post a letter-writing
animation on Vine it will be deemed a massive strategic success ...
clicktivism-clacktivism ... demands for everything from a Gaussian
grade distribution skewed hard to A+ A A- to
On 3 Oct 2015, at 15:07, Florian Cramer wrote:
If you carefully read my points here on Nettime, then it shouldn't
have escaped you that I defended this funding (against Ted) and
actually consider it a good case of repurposing company profits for
public research and education.
No, I didn't say
Jaromil, I agree with much of what you say, so I'll try to find a
focused place where a response might actually get somewhere.
On 2 Oct 2015, at 10:31, Jaromil wrote:
Relying on open-source metaphor-mantras ('Would you buy a car with
the
hood welded shut?') to analyze peculiar dynamics of
On 25 Sep 2015, at 20:59, Michael Gurstein wrote:
Thanks Ted, very useful.
I guess what I'm curious about is the motivations, individual and/or
corporate thought processes/incentives etc. that underlie the initial
decision to go down this path and then the multitude of decisions at
various
A few thoughts about the VW scandal
The VW scandal may not seem very nettimish, but I'll argue that it is.
This'll take a while, because it is, as they say now, #epic. If you're
interested, read on.
Cheers,
T
There are a few 'immaterial' sectors we're used to thinking of as
somehow
On 12 Sep 2015, at 15:39, John Young forwarded:
As Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, once put it, there is
"one centralized Achilles' heel" to the Web's otherwise decentralized
system: computers may be free to talk to each other, but only if they
abide by given naming conventions.
Via RISKS http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/28.81.html
http://loriemerson.net/2015/07/23/whats-wrong-with-the-internet-and-how-we-can-fix-it-interview-with-internet-pioneer-john-day/
loriemerson
July 23, 2015
What's Wrong With the Internet and How We Can Fix It: Interview With
Internet
On 24 May 2015, at 7:09, William Waites wrote:
And so we have arrived at the economic problem. The business model of
advertising has the same basic requirements as mass
surveillance. Thwarting one by decentralisation and ensuring
confidentiality of communications means thwarting the other.
Felix and I didn't plan any particular follow-up to the announcement, in
part because we didn't know how people would respond.
First, nettime isn't shutting down. I don't even know how we'd do that,
or if Felix and I would 'have the right' to do that.
I see moderating nettime as service to
Flick, the Schäuble-Varoufakis press conference today was very
interesting, so you might want to watch it:
http://youtu.be/hlbJHSsnOBs
-- the action starts after 7:30 or so. At around 30:00, Varoufakis
addresses some of what you talk about -- and, given the anodyne setting,
he's
On 16 Nov 2014, at 12:20, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
Go, Geert! Great thought. Also, a great and powerful demonstration of
how publishing is out if bounds to censorship today!
I wouldn't bet on that.
Exploring the net's potential as a kind of 'middleware' to facilitate
material production has
John (H), I'm not sure how it helps anyone to say that the declining
editorial quality of a posh magazine is inexorably linked in some
thermodynamicky way with the ultimate fate of the universe. If it is,
then so is everything else, which doesn't really lead us anywhere but a
metaphysical
On 15 Oct 2014, at 20:30, gab fest wrote:
Organized envy sounds like a fair characterization. But the
organization is small and centered on a few friends and associates of
Medina. Then there are others engaging in opportunistic one-offs on
Twitter and Facebook, at various levels of
On 11 Aug 2014, at 7:10, d...@geer.org wrote:
I was the keynote speaker at Black Hat last week, and while
preparing the talk (*) read up a bit on the (new to me) term
of art algorithmic regulation. That term and the concept
behind it seem to be on-topic for this list. A bit of Google
and
Florian, unfortunately, I agree with what I think is the gist of what
you wrote -- but didn't say anything to justify your various rebuttals.
So, for example, I noted that there's a fracture between how people
working roughly political science and the humanities understand what it
means for
One curious thing about this discussion is that most of the people
involved are speaking from their experiences on faculties involved,
broadly, speaking, in 'digital culture.' This field sits in an odd
conceptual space between design, art, 'technology' (e.g., computer
science), and critical
On May 13, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Brian Holmes bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com wrote,
but not in this order:
Why the military robots? Why not remember Manuel De Landa's little book, War
In the Age of Intelligent Machines, which caused such a stir in its day? De
Landa predicted that computers would
Brian wrote:
To do a conjunctural analysis is to expose yourself, not only to
error, but far in advance of that, to the immediate scorn of those
whose greed and fear make them toe the dominant line (it most often
reduces to cynical passivity). The academy, it's sad to say, is
filled with
morlockel...@yahoo.com (Sat 03/23/13 at 12:18 PM -0700):
Desktop publishing, now 20+ years old, had the same false premise.
Ability to typeset and print at home did not change publishing world
much. The same big publishers are making the same money today, and
choose what they want to print in
Silly Keith, don't you get it? Guns -- a proxy for all PHYSICAL
aggression -- are just *props* in the theater of warfare. Sure,
they work in the sense of actually destroying human bodies and
the fear of them has actual, empirical consequences; but from a
HISTORICAL perspective, we're all dead in
r...@robmyers.org (Sat 03/10/12 at 06:25 PM +):
Also, I demand a .marx domain.
The question's moot now because NTIA just announced that it was canceling
the RFP for IANA:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunitymode=formtab=coreid=e90ec616702fd6c52c91c0e67ccbf501_cview=0
In
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0109/msg00125.html
to: Nettime nettime-l {AT} bbs.thing.net
subject: Re: nettime Personal accounts of the bombings [4x]
from: t byfield tbyfield {AT} panix.com
date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:40:48 -0400
...
As a New Yorker, it's
charles.bald...@mail.wvu.edu (Sun 08/21/11 at 02:39 PM -0400):
Do not print this book
I had a similar experience with them when they refused to print the
book _Cablegate: The Complete Wikileaks Datadump_, Volume 1, which
consisted of 200 pages of apparently random 2-bit snow.
dgolum...@gmail.com (Sat 07/23/11 at 09:52 PM -0400):
but the questions remain. Did Swartz ask JSTOR for permission? It seems
likely to me that JSTOR would have been willing (and probably still would be
willing) to work with a researcher to provide either data or access to data
to ask the
jhopk...@neoscenes.net (Sun 05/22/11 at 10:31 PM +1000):
It is merely, as Ted Kaczynski suggested once upon a time, the drift
towards the soothing confirmation of hyper-socialization? This
being a drift away from idiosyncrasy and a trust in one's own life
experience and the relevance of
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