Thanks for this, Olia.
So while Western intellectuals prop him up as the latest incarnation of the
Rasputin > Zhirinovsky trope — a subspecies of Orientalism, imo — at least one
Russian outlet is taking the piss.
But if people are really wedded to the tragic worldview, we could deb
s been appointed General Director of Channel One.
At an emergency meeting, the Board of Directors of Channel One decided to
terminate the contract with Constantine Ernst.
A well-known Russian philosopher and political scientist Alexander Dugin has
been appointed as the new general director of &q
Hi everyone,
I'd like to share some news about recent developments in Madrid that might
lead to the disappearance of Medialab-Prado in less than a week.
By the end of January, Marcos García, former director of the center
announced he would not be renewed on his position. This sparked some alarms
--- if you don't know it, condemned to repeat it, farce, tragedy and
collapse:
On 12/10/2020 10:45, John Young wrote:
>
>> So long as heirarchical structures endure, with the few managing the
>> many from any ideological or intellectual top down control, it is
>> unlikely much will change for
So long as heirarchical structures endure, with the few managing the
many from any ideological or intellectual top down control, it is
unlikely much will change for most humans. Royalty of thought is so
deeply embedded in "advanced" societies it is nearly unavoidable.
Being on top is
ugh education and wealth in the hands of progressives to get the votes;
to get the steam; to get the press.
My money is on this progressive wave of politicians - Buttar, AOC,
Khan...These figures are representative of one of the many America's that
Brian mentions (Neyrat). But, these politicia
Not a precise match between modernity and bourgeois democracy, but close enough
to provoke reflection. Still, while bourgeois democracy and fascism may both
show aspects of modernity, such as rationalization of “production” and its
corollary destruction, that does not make them ethically
On 10/10/2020 19:45, Keith Sanborn wrote:
> Again the "always already.”
>
> What if fascism is not a mask? The voices of the dead should be listened to.
Waves and particle, apples and oranges. My way, your way, anything goes
tonight.
Zygmunt Bauman, who is dead and spend considerable time
Again the "always already.”
What if fascism is not a mask? The voices of the dead should be listened to.
What if it is?
I will not take a revisionist line, but there is a qualitative and quantitative
difference between bourgeois democracy and fascism. They are not identical. In
the larger
On 10/10/2020 16:37, Brian Holmes wrote:
>
> So in the end, I agree with Zak a lot more than I thought at first, but
> still not entirely. You ought to post more often, Zak.
>
> Solidarity, Brian
I don't know what Zak meant exactly and there are certainly immediate,
good reasons to vote for
se wars, and why so many soldiers sign up voluntarily for one,
two, three tours of "duty," which itself is a sickening misnomer for the
betrayal of humanity. Sure, I well understand that many people left behind
by the capitalist economy are lured into the military, and I respect and
suppor
Zak McGregor wrote:
>
> Then the cycle will never end. For people outside the USA, Biden poses
> probably an even greater risk to their lives than Trump. The US left needs to
> realise that they a. can't effect meaningful change through the ballot, and
> b. need to bring the entire system down
Zak,
Not certain that I am following you accurately, as it seems as if you are
presenting us with the devil’s choice - choosing between one’s own survival or
perishing for the sake of your unspecified “greater risk”.
I’m not sure of your citizenry but as a woman living in the USA at this
Dear Zak,
Your insightful comments below would make all self-respecting revolutionaries
proud.
> Then the cycle will never end. For people outside the USA, Biden poses
> probably an even greater risk to their lives than Trump.
Could you be more specific about this?
> The US left needs to
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 19:00:39 -0400
Keith Sanborn wrote:
> We are talking about the death of even the semblance of bourgeois democracy.
> And in its place not revolutionary socialism, or an anarchist utopia, but
> death-dealing fascism. Given the choice, I will vote for bourgeois democracy
>
True with respect to Tienanmin, but Mao was a believer that political power
grows out of the barrel of a gun. He sent in the army in 1967 to end the
“cultural revolution” he had begun. The reference to Andrew Jackson, for those
not familiar with some of the intricacies of US History refers to
Though there is much in this exchange to discuss, I'll limit myself to a
correction on a peripheral point: it wasn't Mao that sent in the army. It was
Deng. As long as we're on the issue of how the US is perceived, how homogenous
or heterogeneous it is, , I think it's not such a small thing to
he New
> School, most of them women, were in a state of shock and for good reason: one
> shared with the class that after Trump’s win had been announced she was
> walking down the street near the “campus” in New York City and a young guy
> walked up to her and said, “Now I can grab yo
with bourgeois
democracy and voting, yes even in the face of historical voter suppression. We
need to support those fighting against that and help where we can. We need a
pragmatic, empirical approach rather than a strictly theoretical one. I refuse
to give in to the “always already” endgaming
? Does that
even need to be asked here?)
My specific reference to the election of 1920 in Florida, for example, is not
one that easily lends itself to a falsely simplistic binary pitting revolution
against a compromised bourgeois democracy. Nor is it some distant, irrelevant
historical story
and actualized under the Trump regime must
be stopped. Think of Biden/Harris as a tourniquet applied to staunch fatal
bleeding.
Let me end with this: the day after Trump was elected, my students at the New
School, most of them women, were in a state of shock and for good reason: one
shared with the class
Tue, 6 Oct 2020 11:12:55 -0500, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
> A subject, be it collective or individual, is always divided. The One is an
> imposture.
Thank you Frederic, for stating what I would have hoped was a shared
understanding of nation-state politics, especially on an internationa
, should I say: France = Macron = neoliberal
authoritarianism? No, I will not do that because I know about the forces
and spirits that in France reject this lethal equation.
We should not forget that Trump and his unmasked clones only represent one
dimension of the US.
Reducing a country to those who
Please circulate widely. We are looking for a participants and a couple
more speakers. Happy to answer questions from the list too. Its a rolling
deadline, but we're hoping to make a decision about attendance by late
September.
AI Commons Workshop
*Imagining an* *AI* *Commons: A One-Day Workshop
Dear all,
https://mur.at/ is hosting a one week worklab "block that chain" in
October this year. Here is the open call
https://mur.at/post/call-for-participation/
Looking forward to your submission.
Cheers,
--
j.hofmüller
Optimism doesn't alter the laws of physics.
Subcomma
IN SUPPORT OF THE METROPOLITAN SOCIAL HEALTH CENTRE OF ELLINIKO (MKIE)
The state company of ELLINIKO A.E. issued last week an ultimatum
demanding "Metropolitan Social Health Centre of Elliniko" (MKIE) to
evacuate its premises in the publicly owned old airport of Elliniko.
This is in order to
>
> ...
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks guys for your opinions on blockchais, But neither pointing to
> authority in the matter (apprently we are all experts all the time) nor
> polemicizing against a non-mature technology will help me in
> understanding the phenomena. let's get back to the subject in ten
.
This reminds me that there is one sensible use of blockchain: public key
directory. Too bad no one uses PGP any more.
Which brings me to another really interesting question: why don't DNS
CAs use blockchains for storing certificate chains, instead of burning
them into browsers via custom deals
>
>
> That article is technical nonsense. 'Blockchain' that has PoW consisting
> of 1.6 second of handset CPU is trivial to fake. And where is the
> consensus? Car does the same? Or is car running 500KW GPU cluster doing
> hash verified by ... who? Cheap PoW ("Proof of Work") is contradiction
> in
On 2 Mar 2018, at 15:17, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> We need blockchain powered nettime! BLOCKTIME!
block.critique
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LETS currencies much more
interesting, such as (e.g.) the Puma in Seville,
https://monedasocialpuma.wordpress.com/
One important difference from Bitcoin etc. is that the scope of LETS
currencies are strictly local - they simply don't work outside of their
area. Also, they are strictly community
, the bad thing about the Blockchain-based dystopian
> visions is that everything bad that you could conceivably do with a
> Blockchain you could do better and much more efficiently with an
> ordinary database.
>
> So there are definitely reasons to worry about the future surv
Message
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our
world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian)
Date: 2018-03-03 09:30
From: Patrice Riemens <patr...@xs4all.nl>
To: Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com>
Cc: Eduard Karel de Jong <edu...@dejon
u could do better and much more efficiently with an
ordinary database.
So there are definitely reasons to worry about the future surveillance
nightmare, but Blockchain is not one of those reasons, because it
won't ever make much of a difference in the technological sense. Its
hype might, but Blockch
the future surveillance
nightmare, but Blockchain is not one of those reasons, because it won't
ever make much of a difference in the technological sense.
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fficiently with an
ordinary database.
So there are definitely reasons to worry about the future surveillance
nightmare, but Blockchain is not one of those reasons, because it won't
ever make much of a difference in the technological sense. Its hype
might, but Blockchain itself is useless outside
in terms.
This is actually a good illustration of utter bullshit that passes for
'technology'.
We need blockchain powered nettime! BLOCKTIME!
see for instance Porsche's one blockchain per car:
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e that much of the projected ideas around
blockchains may be solved with common techniques. and that blockchains
still need some further development. but once the proof is cheap and the
transactions are fast, it scales well enough. and there will be thousand
blockchains. see for instance Porsche's one blockchain pe
I have hard time understanding how is blockchain special, unique, and
apart from other technologies, relative to dystopian outlook in the article.
The only difference between blockchain and prior technologies (public
cryptography, including signatures and certificates, databases, etc.) is
the
d services from a distance on micrological scales.
“As far as agency is concerned, the law holds that things and media
are strictly passive.” Cornelia Vismann
Without doubt, one of the most common and important techniques since the
advent of massified networked computing has been the basic com
;
The confluence of the religious component for the masses, and a fuzzy
possibility of grabbing control of money flows from the traditional
players, appears to be the winning combination. One feeds the other.
Since anything a blockchain can be put to use to can be done more
easily, more efficiently
this for? To write down exactly what for the
posterity? Decisions from the City Hall? Property tax records?
Population count? How are you going to deal with clerical errors? Why
are you doing this?
Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead
Crypto technology is coming
interesting, usually reflecting a
(slightly?) more mainstream take on issues being discussed on this list
(pro memoria: social media critique and the 'told you so' faktap).
Worse still I am part of the minority (of more than one, fortunately,
but less so of hackers, unfortunately) who thought from day
On 23-02-2018 13:11, Patrice Riemens wrote:
Original to:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/blockchain-reshape-world-far-right-ahead-crypto-technology
Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead
Crypto technology is coming to a crossroads
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/blockchain-reshape-world-far-right-ahead-crypto-technology
Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ah
right is one step ahead
Crypto technology is coming to a crossroads. Those who want to use it to
radically redistribute wealth must take urgent action
By Josh Hall
Fri 23 Feb 2018
Alice Weidel is the co-leader of Alternative für Deutschland.’
Photograph: Axel Schmidt/Reuters
Attack
tizing
miracle inducing products.
To build a Post-Siriza, one thing for sure is the Left to close down this
type of platform/ideology out from the (de)construction. Or it's a sham.
Respectuously,
JohnnyTan
2017-10-24 6:07 GMT+02:00 Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com>:
> One shou
One should be carefully following 19th CPC National Congress. It's more
relevant than Drudgereport.
Tl;Dr: that no one will separate China from its components (Taiwan &
South China Sea island) was mentioned 9 times. The Party will maintain
strict control of all Chinese politics.
1.4 bil
com>:
> The article below illustrates what happens when ideologies die ... except
> one, the will for power. There is nothing exciting offered today except
> conquering the world, killing half the population and ruling the stone age
> remnants with high tech. The alternatives are so fu*ki
The article below illustrates what happens when ideologies die ...
except one, the will for power. There is nothing exciting offered today
except conquering the world, killing half the population and ruling the
stone age remnants with high tech. The alternatives are so fu*king
boring - saving
e powers that be fuckin'
us up and preventing any resolution to the terminal crisis of the
postwar imperial order.
Why don't we work on that in the context of one of your university
projects, Allan?
best, Brian
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Hello,
As Brian Holmes has stated, "Yesterday's vote is a stunning development and it
foreshadows the possible end of an era shaped, in many positive respects, by
1968 and the immense and diverse forces of liberation that flowered in its
wake.” This is only partially true; but, nevertheless,
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Subject: Re: nettime The Greek elections?
From: Flick Harrison fl...@flickharrison.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:00:56 -0800
On Jan 28, 2015, at 02:02 , mp m...@aktivix.org wrote:
The linear, one
Geert Lovink Patrice Riemens
The Bitcoin Experience - Part One
We admit: we are fazed and befuddled by the Bitcoin phenomenon. And we
are getting more so as we progress - or think to progress - in getting
to grips with it. It has meanwhile become clear that Bitcoin, probably
to the chagrin
One Chain to Rule Them All
by Eduard de Jong
Original on the INC/MoneyLab website:
http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2014/12/16/one-chain-to-rule-them-all/.
See also:
http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2014/03/23/edward-de-jong-towards-an-open-e-currency-system/.
(the upcoming INC MoneyLab
Two Papers Submitted Together,
One without Publication Fee
Open Science, Open Books, Open Journals
Peer Review Fast Publishing Open Access High Visibility
To Whom It May Concern
(the prescribed Twitter format), or by endlessly clicking the
'Like' button.
The first (human) boundary, the body, gets an even more brutal treatment.
One must physically adjust to the social media, by being instantly
reactive, and by training for a new digital mobility - literally so: the
motricity of one's
In the Facebook Aquarium Part One, section #9, 2 (end)
(...)
Paradoxically, the webization of the social by way of mass profiling
results in anti-social outcomes, since we all can become guilty by
association - and innocent by dissociation. And as human decision makers
are increasingly
. At that time Facebook
claimed 5 lakhs users. $50bn divided by 500 millions equals $100, with
other words each and every Facebook account holder is worth 100 $1 notes.
Would I be one of the (ueber)rich investors on Goldman Sachs' client list
who'd bet, let's say, $50m (and has thus become 0.1% owner
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part One, section #8, 1
Free Markets and Financial Bubbles
The radical transparency of Facebook users finds no equivalent in the
firm's own financial dealings, which are singularly opaque and openly
flout every rule of the market economy, despite
making up the network, the idea
to stay out (while being part of it) is a non-goer. The only way to stay
out is to not connect at all.
Privacy is therefore a pie in the sky: it only comes becomes manifest when
one realizes that it has been breached. Ever since the Echelon scandal
[33], everybody knows
transparency: 'our transparency with regard to machines shall make us
free' [30]. We have already deconstructed the assertion that you can't be
on Facebook without being your authentic self [31a]. The 'authentic
self', however, is a tricky concept. Authenticity is a process whereby one
is oneself with others
Part One, Section 6, # 1.
Public and Private, Ontology and Identity
Is what is private also public? According to Facebook, everything private
should tend towards becoming as public as possible. Public meaning of
course managed by, published on, and made available through Facebook, a
private
In the Facebook Aquarium, Part One, section 5, #3 ( end)
Now, one will better understand what the real implication is of the
statement attributed to Pierre Levy: No one knows everything, everyone
knows something, all knowledge resides in the Net(works). [22] This is a
very treacherous aphorism
Part One, Section 5 (The Performance Society), #2
Enthusiast technophiles, evangelists of mass on-line participation would
like us to believe that /distracted-attentive/ internauts are generating,
by the sheer virtue of their numbers, a humungous surplus value, ready to
be converted in cold
Part One, Section 5,1.
The Performance Society
To sum up: opening an account with/on Facebook means sharing digital
'materials' which make up virtual identities. I am what my behavior
on-line is. But spending time creating an on-line image of the self does
bear consequences for (one's) life off
Part One, Section 4.
Psychological Dynamics: narcissism, exhibitionism, and emotional porn
The first thing we share on Facebook is obviously our own identity, be it
through our (real) name, or, possibly, an avatar. Date of birth and sex -
at the moment two options only, male or female - must
NB, I am now in Casa Nostra! With view of the Sempione/Simplon!
Part One, section 2 The era of democratic attention-distraction, last part.
Evgeny Morozov is among those rare authors to have warned against the
(dirty) tricks of the Net, as well as against technology-worship and
Internet
and technological determinism was first of all a
polemical construct created to voice radical opposition against
enlightenment schools of thought, Frankfurt School critical theory (whose
dialectics of enlightenment at least recognized one positive 50% in
enlightenment philosophy) and post-marxist cultural studies
is:
This book and translation are published under Creative Commons license
2.0 (Attribution, Non Commercial, Share Alike).
Commercial distribution requires the authorisation of the copyright holders:
Ippolita Collective i...@ippolita.net
(Part One, #2,1)
The era of democratic /attention
Eugen:
It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started, claiming
that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant
to nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET . . .
Correct! However, based on my recent conversations with Bob Taylor, you
are leaving out
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 03:04:02PM +0200, robert adrian wrote:
Whenever you get a free offer there is usually a catch somehwere -
so when DARPA donated TCP IP free to the world
The apple was never poisoned. The principals who invented packet
switching and prototyped it were all
http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/in-an-internetworked-world-no-one-is-foreign
In an Internetworked World No One Is Foreign
by http://gurstein.wordpress.com/author/gurstein/ Michael Gurstein
As everyone knows there have been some startling and shocking
revelations concerning
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