Re: nettime Naomi Wolf: This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers (Gu...

2012-07-19 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Shure, but psychology plays a role in those wars as well. The psychologty of terror. Of permanent war without end. Interests and drones everywhere. See also the psychology of the renaming of the Westbank Syria is a very good example as well. Are there freedom lovers against a bloody dictator or

nettime London (pre-)Olympics: Round up ALL the usual suspects! (Guardian)

2012-07-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
original to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jul/18/graffiti-artist-adidas-banned-olympic Graffiti artist who worked for Adidas is banned from Olympic Games venues Darren Cullen is also barred from owning paint or using most public transport as part of pre-emptive police crackdown

nettime #FREEBASSEL

2012-07-19 Thread Geert Lovink
http://freebassel.org/ Bring Home the Loved and Celebrated Internet Volunteer Bassel Khartabil Detained in Syria! On March 15, 2012, Bassel Khartabil was detained in a wave of arrests in the Mazzeh district of Damascus. Since then, his family has received no official explanation for his

Re: nettime Naomi Wolf: This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers (Gu...

2012-07-19 Thread t byfield
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

Re: nettime Naomi Wolf: This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers (Gu...

2012-07-19 Thread Keith Sanborn
This is the psychology of global capital. It is the psychology of the spectacle. Its not clear the concerns you mention are primary for people in Damascus whose families are being bombed, raped, shot, and mutilated, or for the various liberation armies throughout sub-Saharan Africa who are