ACTIVATION: Collective Strategies to Expose Injustice

2019-11-04 Thread Tatiana Bazzichelli
Dear nettimers, We're happy to invite you to the first community conference of the Disruption Network Lab, ACTIVATION: Collective Strategies to Expose Injustice, on Saturday 30 November 2019. Location: Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin Schedule: 11:00 - 14:00:

Friendly reminder: Call for organisations

2019-11-04 Thread he...@machfeld-foundation.net
Hello out there! We are happy to announce our 1st official CALL FOR ART ORGANISATIONS! If you are working as an organisations in the field of contemporary art feel free to participate in our call. Short description: The aim of the MACHFELD-Foundation is to promote contemporary art through

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Geoffrey Goodell
Carsten -- well said, and thank you for the trenchant characterisation of the problem and initial thoughts on how we might resolve it. Your observation that certain businesses have become infrastructure is spot-on. I think you're also right to link the platform businesses [1] with privately

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
Similar example. I never had a Facebook account, either personal or with my projects in the fields of media and participative urbanism, but often had to lurk through my collaborators or intern in order to get to circles I wanted to access. Now I am starting a new project curating the

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Carsten Agger
On 11/3/19 5:28 PM, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on > Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this > "social" (?) network. > > This >

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread mp
On 03/11/2019 20:36, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > The loss is more important to me > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: >> 1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for sure;? >> 2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the possibility of >>

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, mp wrote: On 03/11/2019 20:36, Alan Sondheim wrote: The loss is more important to me On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: 1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for sure;? 2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the possibility of

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Craig Fahner
maybe it's not so much a question of whether facebook's policies are bad (of course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine facebook's more predatory policies and evade its data collection regimes and

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
I'm in agreement here; I leave as little trace as I can. (Also trapped because I want my own work to remain.) This reminds me of the fight I had on YouTube with Viacom and YouTube (later) re: my banning which went on for a couple of years, a fight I finally won. YouTube has its own

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread olivier auber
José Maria said "We can't have more awareness." I'm sure we can. Many people suspect that FB is bullshit but very few have a clear explanation. #MyFacebookInvoice was one of my many attempts to draw attention to the fact that: 1 - FB is only the almost automatic result of a choice of protocols