Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale
Morlock, your comment is pithy, but it's a bullshit comparison. Just because it sounds good doesn't mean it's true. Access to the body is much more intimate than access to the brain. since when is the brain *not* totally unified w/ the body and vice versa? [despite Descartes is pumping his fist in the air, yeah, keep 'em separate! it keeps ma dream alive] I'm waiting to see consciousness/brain/mind existing without said body in complete continuous connection... Entering the body occurs through any receptive field of the Self, and I'd call it the very definition of intimacy when one is expressing energies that are entering an Other's body *and changing the neurosensory system itself,* for that effect is to change how the Other experiences the world... jh # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale
Several replies indicate wide-spread religious attitude towards intellect, a brain-body separation reminiscent of the traditional theories of language before biolinguistics put them out of business. Writing inane papers involves very physical changes in the brain, some more some less permanent. On the tissue level they are comparable to changes in vaginal walls during commercial sex, but vaginal walls recover better than the brain (proof: it is easier to recall inane paper than a particular cock.) Whether gray matter is more or less 'intimate' than nether regions depends on the individual sensitivity and is best left to individual preferences and finances. While I'd personally prefer to be fucked down there, it can't support my lifestyle. Do you actually not understand the difference between selling your physical body and choosing to write inane academic papers? because it sounds good doesn't mean it's true. Access to the body is much more intimate than access to the brain. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime ACTA Act
|-- Width: 72 Chars - Fixed Font: Courier New, 10 ---| For the n0name newsletter by Ali Emas ACTA Act In the subway I had to ask three young women, who had tacked the word on their jackets or put it on their mouth protection, What is ACTA?. One of them just said: Youtube. This direct and perfect hook-up of the locutive and the illocutive parts within the act of speech in the speech act theory the act of speeking which linguistically always means something extralinguistic, by which Reality and Adress of its Finding coincide, caused in my case -- smart online -- already the perlocution, this action convinced for operation, in which the result of the speech act time-wise coincides with its execution. I don't remember, had forgotten every plea. The trade agreement that has been protested in February was already not up-to-date anymore in the seconds of the selection of apppropriate search engines and was discarded by the government in a play of words, ad acta in the words of the electronic press. But the act and its linguistical appeal (or the other way round), did they not fall apart in this? If this agreement complicates juridically more than it resolves for the capital, therefore harms the mittelstand, and when the resistance forms en massive while simultaneously they abandon the intentions to ratify the agreement, to what extend therefore is conscient what ACTA means (modified quote Markus Beckedahl, netzpolitik.org)? Some wrote about the ratio of distribution and that a tightened Copyright Law would not bring the little author any profit. Exactly the piratistic ostensible self-employment. Or do they want Diversity? In front of the Mall, in cheap gold and red stone before the concrete, the mobile sausage vendors are standing in the cold and the even attacked ACTA will do nothing. The Office for Public Order and Regulation says: Prohibition would be an intervention in the freedom of trade. So prohibition, the tightened protection of the Copyright Holder of the idea to let people even those in wheelchairs sell sausages with hawker's trays would disturb diversified competition. At this point locution, illocution and perlocution coincide again: The assertion in language about the fact of business competition and the course of action with the help of an assertion in language and the persuasion by this speech act are one. What kind of tape with the sign ACTA at the mouth changes that? Again merely the Power of Speech instead of the Power of Activeness. Both are separable despite of Speech Activism. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale
as my wrists, neck, shoulders, back, and butt remind me, writing (whether inane or not) is a profoundly embodied practice. academics sell their bodies as do day laborers and sex workers. see martha nussbaum's whether from reason or prejudice. which is not to suggest these activities are all the same, but to question what makes selling sex different from other ways we sell ourselves? and then we also have to consider different types of sex work (and indeed different types of sex - must it involve penetration??), and how these finer gradations tend to blur into other types of affective labor and other types of relationships that involve economic exchange. -c # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
