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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
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
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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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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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To: nettime {AT} is.in-berlin.de
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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