Re: nettime Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12
On 05/09/2012 10:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote: On 05/08/2012 05:52 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: The curiously absent question is why there should be social media in the first place, and 'media' in general. Lascaux. Notice that memes and image macros are a regression to pictorial signs. Image macros are an indexical and ironic discourse of interrelated images put into tension with text. I'm not sure that images represent a regression, post-dating language as they do. - Rob. # 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 Another insult of the 1 percent: everybody does it!
My friend at Yahoo, a senior engineer, tells me that his co-workers are in a lather. Their CEO, known for a leadership style, reorganization strategy, and corporate housecleaning method akin to swinging a double-headed axe blindfolded, apologized twice last week for having made the mistake not of lying, but of including an ³inadvertent² false credential on his resume: that he had earned an undergraduate degree in computer science when in fact he hadn¹t, and had only a degree in accounting. This, in a company and a Silicon Valley professional environment full of engineers with honestly hard-earned CS degrees from Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, Cal Poly, Michigan, Purdue, Georgia Tech, etc, etc. The man has not been fired yet. Because apparently ³everybody does it.² Or ³it doesn¹t matter.² Or ³it¹s no big deal.² Or because the board just won¹t hold another multi-millionaire accountable. They just won¹t. Neutrality? Complexity? No. The question is this: how does one group of people make another group of people do something that they really don¹t want to do? http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yahoo-ceo-20120509,0,4505704.story http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/09/technology/yahoo-ceo-resume-reactions/index. htm Dan W. ... -- http://prop-press.typepad.com/ http://www.prop-press.net/ http://www.midwestradicalculturecorridor.net/ # 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 Welcoming the Iraqi invasion of Holland
On the occasion of the action by refugees-on-the-street who started a camp outside the Collective Center at Ter Apel in the north of the Netherlands on the 8th of May, Jo van der Spek of M2M wrote the following column. These migrants are supposed to return voluntarily to their country, because the Dutch government believes that they are not in danger there. However the governemnt in Iraq refuses to take them back if they are forced. So they have nowhere to go to, no right to be here and no way to go there. But they act together for a chance to live and live better than before. Why not? Welcoming the Iraqi Invasion Act Finally it is not the USA that invades The Hague, in order to prevent the application of international justice to American citizens- soldiers. No, it's Iraqi citizen-migrants occupying common ground in the north of the Netherlands in an effort to force a radical change in the application of human justice to migrants that are so far denied acces and basic rights. This act of occupation by a fast growing number of mainly Iraqi refugees-on-the-street is well timed and also well suited to create an uplifting experience amidst the general lethargy that still covers Holland like a blanket of mental smog. Like so many times before in history an external agent, through an unexpected and autonomous action, is now intervening in the Dutch political landscape, at a moment that everyday political life is in a highly unstable state: no government, a parliament trying to gain legitimacy and a queen dying to hand-over sovereignty to her son. The direct cause for this current limbo lies in the response to the economic recession and the European conditions forcing even a rich country like Holland to take extreme measures of austerity. However, the cornerstone of change, the hinge on which the minds and hearts of a significant section of youth and mindful adults may move, is the approach towards migrants and world affairs in general. Poverty is moving in and migrants are dying on the shores of Europe. Soon we will be drifting together if we don't take drastic action. Finally we see the face of globalization reflected in the mirror that Brussels and Ter Apel are holding up for us to see. We see Geert Wilders as just another make-over of Batman, unmasking himself as just another copy cat of Pim Fortuyn, only adding to the pitiful frustration of the merciless masses voting for him, proving once again time for messiah is over. One man will not make the difference. Ask Obama. Finally the Joker hits back. After two exercises last winter led by Somali brothers and sisters camping in the cold outside the deportation complex of Ter Apel, now the weather is fine and time is ripe for the real thing. These poor asylum seekers, strangled by foreign police and immigration service IND, mentally broken by the thousands in administrative detention, suffocated by laws and lawyers, made dependant on charity and church, are finally showing who they really are: human! They can really move! They are not victims but actors! They can be tourists like you and me! So let us not help the occupiers in Ter Apel. Let us not support them, don't give them tents, blankets or telephone credit. Do not bring your redundant laptops, I-pads or even worn-out army boots and leather jackets to their field of honour. No, embrace their exemplary autonomous action, join Ali Aziz and Hadi Abu Sanad like in the 16th century we embraced the House of Orange, invading the Dutch swamps at nearby Heiligerlee.Temperature is rising, parliamentary politics is exhausted, corporate business is selling out to China's communists and Mexican coke dealers. We got to save ourselves. We are here, we the people, we make the difference, we have no borders to cross, we have no cross other than our own indulging in apathy. Let's throw it off and start the summer. Leave your squat and camp out. Send your children abroad after the exams and restore disorder at home. Forget your mortgage, bury your debts and love your neighbour. Let migrants invade this place and help us chase away the ghosts of Rawagade, Srebrenica, the Schiphol Fire and most of all the mist of mental misery hanging over us. Jo van der Spek m2m.streamtime.org # 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 Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12 (Lascaux)
Self-conscious-artists-everywhere: By now, Lascaux has grown principally into a massive conservation/preservation industry mobilizing vast resources and hundreds of experts, many more than those actually concerned with its artistic content. Lascaux was NOT meant to be art! These are paleolithic, proto-religious paintings made by pre-historic humans who were not YET self-conscious. Human mentality has undergone *multiple* fundamental changes since then and the mental life that produces *art* today would be completely unfathomable to those who made these cave paintings. In fact, ancient Egypt also had no art. Those objects and hieroglyphics that amaze us are overwhelmingly religious and were not meant to be publicly displayed or enjoyed by an audience at all -- which is why they largely come to us from sealed burial chambers. They were meant for the gods who were presumed to be walking among us. Rarely are museums honest about these matters. I once went to an exhibit in Israel where the curators went out of their way to make this point in the catalog and display tags but this seems to be very uncommon. Merlin Donald's 1993 Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition would be a good place to start to better understand these changes. _http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Modern-Mind-Evolution-Cognition/dp/0674644840 /ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1336651426sr=1-1_ (http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Modern-Mind-Evolution-Cognition/dp/0674644840/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UT F8qid=1336651426sr=1-1) Our confusion about such things is a reflection of how deeply we have forgotten the origins of our own culture, under the propaganda effects of mass-media, and why the digital renaissance now underway will come as a surprise to so many people. Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY # 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 Help Iraqi resistance in Ter Apel (NL)
On the 8th of May 2012 refugees-on-the-street again started a camp outside the Collective Center at Ter Apel in the north of the Netherlands These migrants are supposed to return voluntarily to their country, because the Dutch government believes that they are not in danger there. However the government in Iraq refuses to take them back if they are forced. So they have nowhere to go to, no right to be here and no way to go there. But they act together for a chance to live and live better than before. Finally it is not the USA that invades The Hague, in order to prevent the application of international justice to American citizens- soldiers. No, it's Iraqi citizen-migrants occupying common ground in the north of the Netherlands in an effort to force a radical change in the application of human justice to migrants that are so far denied acces and basic rights. This act of occupation by a fast growing number of mainly Iraqi refugees-on-the-street is well timed and also well suited to create an uplifting experience amidst the general lethargy that still covers Holland like a blanket of mental smog. Like so many times before in history an external agent, through an unexpected and autonomous action, is now intervening in the Dutch political landscape, at a moment that everyday political life is in a highly unstable state: no government, a parliament trying to gain legitimacy and a queen dying to hand over sovereignty to her son. The direct cause for this current limbo lies in the response to the economic recession and the European conditions forcing even a rich country like Holland to take extreme measures of austerity. However, the cornerstone of change, the hinge on which the minds and hearts of a significant section of youth and mindful adults may move, is the approach towards migrants and world affairs in general. Poverty is moving in and migrants are dying on the shores of Europe. Soon we will be drifting together if we don't take drastic action. We now see the face of globalization reflected in the mirror that Brussels and Ter Apel are holding up for us to see. We see Geert Wilders as just another make-over of Batman, unmasking himself as just another copy cat of Pim Fortuyn, only adding to the pitiful frustration of the merciless masses voting for him, proving once again time for messiah is over. One man will not make the difference. Ask Obama. Finally the Joker hits back. After two exercises last winter led by Somali brothers and sisters camping in the cold outside the deportation complex of Ter Apel, now the weather is fine and time is ripe for the real thing. These poor asylum seekers, strangled by foreign police and immigration service IND, mentally broken by the thousands in administrative detention, suffocated by laws and lawyers, made dependant on charity and church, are finally showing who they really are: human! They can really move! They are not victims but actors! They can be tourists like you and me! So let us not help the occupiers in Ter Apel. Let us not support them, don't give them tents, blankets or telephone credit. Do not bring your redundant laptops, I-pads or even worn-out army boots and leather jackets to their field of honour. No, embrace their exemplary autonomous action, join Ali Aziz and Hadi Abu Sanad like in the 16th century we embraced the House of Orange, invading the Dutch swamps at nearby Heiligerlee. Temperature is rising, parliamentary politics is exhausted, corporate business is selling out to China's communists and Mexican coke dealers. We got to save ourselves. We are here, we the people, we make the difference, we have no borders to cross, we have no cross other than our own indulging in apathy. Let's throw it off and start the summer. Leave your squat and camp out. Send your children abroad after the exams and restore disorder at home. Forget your mortgage, bury your debts and love your neighbour. Let migrants invade this place and help us chase away the ghosts of Rawagade, Srebrenica, the Schiphol Fire and most of all the mist of mental misery hanging over us. Jo van der Spek http://m2m.streamtime.org # 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 Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12 (Lascaux)
Religion is no more credible than art, to describe Lascaux, perhaps much less so due to its hyper-explanatory application to cultures (also an aggregatingly suspect term) from a polished view, to gloss raw material with a narrative rationale likely to appeal to consumers, or best, to funders of research most responsive to religious attribution especially if slathered with nationalistic significance. Holy Land, Mecca, Wall Street. Sanctification of cultural sites world monuments is no different than cathedralization nor museumification nor illusory non-proliferation of WMD. And glorification and disparagement of these preenings is a given, verily red-neckish, Marxian, atheistic aesthetic of duplicity. Yet nations promote chauvinistic tourism as a leading industry right up there with faith-based lotteries, voting, and, pathetically, higher education's critical thinking of fey jadism of the cloud mind. Internet monumentalism joining millions of minions ant-hiving at mouse, keyboard, and network as if constructing a pyramid, each ant nudging a blip of quartz up the pile. Look back from ahead, ah, yes, the Lascaux syndrome favoring the imaginary past to avoid anxiety of what's now, fear of what's coming. Nobody venerates the comforting past like the aged. # 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 nettime-fr has a new start
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