Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread IR3ABF
economical needs continue to force people to sell their body out of despair and not out of consent. This expresses imo the issue at stake: the lack of a fundamental critic regarding the economics involved in 'sex workers', for defining the 'need' to sell once bodily 'labour' out of despair is

nettime MOE-landers: statistical category as a basis for discrimination by Dutch PVV VVD political parties

2012-02-10 Thread Tjebbe van Tijen
MOE-landers: statistical category as a basis for discrimination by Dutch PVV VVD political parties February 9, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen The fully illustrated (including videos) and documented version can be found as always on:

Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread Morlock Elloi
And how exactly is selling access to the pussy fundamentally different from selling access to the brain? A precarious intellectual worker may have, out of dispair, to sell access to his brain to do some inane academic papers to further the official ideology, or to do some computer programming to

nettime Enter the Swarm: Anonymous and the global protest movements.

2012-02-10 Thread Felix Stalder
dear nettimers, here's my take on the endlessly fascinating Anonymous story. Written for LeMondeDiplo, where it appears in the current issue in a slightly edited version and under a different title. All the best. Felix Enter the Swarm: Anonymous and the global protest movements

Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread IR3ABF
Dear Margaret You are absolutely right in not buying that last sentence It should read: -- So an intimate and inter-personal exchange where the financial equilibrium is not of primary interest will be preferable and leaves out the socially and economically consensual dogmatics and leave the

Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread Flick Harrison
When I hear the word sex trade worker I'm reminded of the phrase collateral damage. Cleaning up the language doesn't change the situation. If the word prostitute hurts your feelings - it SHOULD. It's humiliating work. I agree that it's master-slave, and that's what the customer is buying -

Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread Margaret Morse
Dear Morlock, Do you actually not understand the difference between selling your physical body and choosing to write inane academic papers? MM On Feb 10, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote: And how exactly is selling access to the pussy fundamentally different from selling access to

Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread Sam Dwyer
We must compassionately consider the plight of the inane and opinionated as not a choice, but as a sad, symptomatic consequence of the capricious capitalist mechanism. All too frequently, surplus idleness is thrust upon those who are ill-prepared to receive the burden. Can you not understand