Re: Spamming the Data Space – CLIP, GPT and synthetic data

2022-12-31 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
For what it is worth, I would suggest to keep “spamming” in the title of your paper, Francis. It it a value judgment but I would assume the whole point it to call out BS when you see it - flood like quantities of images generated by positive feedback loops fueled by “biased” algorithms written

Re: Covid and the crisis of neo-liberalism - (...always) look on the bright (regenerative) side...?

2021-09-16 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
hi everyone interesting conversation indeed, apologies for being late to the party. thanks, martin, for sharing these references. On the note of bright regenerative side I just thought share David Holmgren's latest post, who is one of Australia's leading perma culture guru or "permis". It is a

Re: Fascist "trolls," meta

2018-11-08 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
Dear list - just to reiterate: AB was an alt-right hack of nettime? times certainly are changing ... (apologies for the slow response). i did find one website that mentioned his membership of Medborgerlig Samling (Med) or Citizens' Coalition. i lack swedish language and context understanding to

Re: Grand narratives vs Identitarianism

2018-11-01 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
Dear nettime list - a little late to the party (and it seems the conversation has already moved on …) i do like to pose some observations/ questions that this thread has triggered for me — although i must admit that i have not read marx (nor rosseau) myself. that’s probably me just being lazy as

Re: Nagle's Question..

2017-08-16 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
Well... What we witnessed in Germany in the naughties and early 2000 and still going today I suppose is the public claiming of "nationally liberated zones" particularly in the east if Germany but not exclusively. This included a larger group of neo-fascists (I can't recall exact number atm)

Re: Bifo: Democracy is not possible in Europe & Reply by Varoufakis

2017-07-11 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
dear nettimers - i am very curious about and would very much appreciate to hear some views on the concept of the "bioregion" in the context of this thread about "outernationalism" (Frédéric). this is not meant as "the solution" to the humanitarian crisis we are in (including finding the much

Re: Live Your Models

2016-05-07 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
Hi Florian - Thanks for sharing this. The critique of folk politics is an interesting one. Although I share Brian's view about to focus on a more convergent approach "to work constructively with the many forms of resistance". I also feel like that a small scale approach, although maybe not the

Re: Return of the F-scale - and How to Respond

2016-03-04 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
Hi Alex - Just a quick question from my end. The topic of spirituality does get mentioned occasionally on nettime. I remember Marc Stahlman describing Norbert Wiener as a spiritual Tolstoyian...:) I also believe that majority on this list would agree with you that what we try to

Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

2016-02-17 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
Hi everyone - As I wasn't present and have been only following the DIEM25 launch through bits and pieces online (and from down under). However, on the not of transparency, I came across one correspondence between German Eu politician Sven Giegold (The Greens) and Janis Varoufakis

Re: what if we were all right but all wrong?

2015-08-31 Thread jan hendrik brueggemeier
Thanks for this Alex! In terms of new intellectual synthesis / political philosophy I thought Ocalan's fusing of Kurdish workers party as in the case of the PKK with Bookchin/Biel (Eco-Anarchism/Eco-feminism) is pointing in am interesting direction - and at least for insular me came as a surprise