Re: The fiction of the creative industries

2011-09-24 Thread Brian Holmes
On 09/24/2011 06:00 AM, Florian Cramer wrote: > Therefore, almost every > position paper on the creative industries starts with impressive > economic figures. In the Netherlands, the most recent of these is > "Creatieve industrie in topvorm", a report of the "Topteam Creatieve > Industrie" chaire

Latest video from ongoing Wall Street Occupation

2011-09-24 Thread Martyna Starosta
My friend Iva Rad and I just finished a video about the ongoing Wall Street Occupation which started last Saturday, September 17: NOBODY CAN PREDICT THE MOMENT OF REVOLUTION We want to share insights into the formation of a new social movement as it is still taking shape in real time. The video w

The fiction of the creative industries

2011-09-24 Thread Florian Cramer
[This text was written for the emergency issue of the journal "Open" by the Dutch Foundation for Art and the Public Space (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte / SKOR) SKOR/Open is one of the arts organizations to lose their funding in the Netherlands. The complete (Dutch-language) emergency issue o

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2011-09-24 Thread Doug Henwood
BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Freshly posted to my radio archive: September 24, 2011 I visit the Occupy Wall Street demos (my report in words and pictures is here) • Rohit Malpani, Oxfam advisor, on land grab

Re: Debtors' of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors' Party.

2011-09-24 Thread Dmytri Kleiner
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:19:25 +0200, Matze Schmidt wrote: > Well, you've been telling that the the workplace is not the place where > appropriation is felt. Feeling and knowing are diffrent types of > consciousness or awareness. To feel "I'm not exploited" does not mean > that your're not. And I

Re: Debtors' of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors' Party.

2011-09-24 Thread Matze Schmidt
Hello, > The party was used as an example of a "cause" based party, which I argue > can not mobilize the masses, and therefore can only remain politically > fringe. I agree, the Pirates can only mobilise their clients, that is the "Hypermobile 'Class'" (symbolic workers). The probabaly best orga

Re: Debtors' of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors' Party.

2011-09-24 Thread Dmytri Kleiner
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:09:41 +0200, Matze Schmidt wrote: > Hi Dmytri, > > yes, but the paryt was simply your kind of proposition to the rest of > the text. The party was used as an example of a "cause" based party, which I argue can not mobilize the masses, and therefore can only remain politi

Re: Debtors' of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors' Party.

2011-09-24 Thread Matze Schmidt
Hi Dmytri, yes, but the paryt was simply your kind of proposition to the rest of the text. And: > It is not in the workplace that the > appropriation is felt, but rather after work, when they go home to pay > their bills. this is maybe a slightly too simple view on what's called free or leisur