nettime The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

2014-01-22 Thread allan siegel
Hello, Thanks Brian for the snapshot history lesson; what seems to be glossed over in your letter is this salient point: Not only in California, but across the world there are new oligarchies who dispose (of us) more or less as they please. Unlike the student movements of 2009, I don't think

Re: nettime The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

2014-01-22 Thread KMV
I have certainly seen these changes during the past eight years that I have lived in California, near Sacramento. However, the green initiatives cannot be simply written off that way considering our miserable air quality, the water rationing that has just started, the loss of pollinating insects,

nettime Californian digestology [3x: sanborn, lauriault, hopkins]

2014-01-22 Thread nettime's_dfh
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Re: nettime The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

2014-01-22 Thread Vesna Manojlovic
Hi, On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, allan siegel wrote: Thanks Brian for the snapshot history lesson; +1 Precisely,and exactly what kind of planning/organizing/conceptualizing is necessary (or possible) I'd like to pint to two sources of possibility and/or hope:

nettime Harassing People for Watching a Movie in a Cinema

2014-01-22 Thread Felix Stalder
I remember, a couple of years ago, Sebastian Luetgert speaking about the real frontier of copyright wars being personal memory. That if you really want to enforce copyright, you have to force people to forget, to erase from memory, say, films immediately after watching them. At the time, it

Re: nettime Harassing People for Watching a Movie in a Cinema

2014-01-22 Thread William Waites
We used to say, back when collaborating with Steve Mann in the late 1990s that it isn't a camera, it's a visual memory prosthetic. I think it's an accurate description. It's disappointing that the writer was intimidated into giving up all of his memories to the police in order to clear his name

Re: nettime Harassing People for Watching a Movie in a Cinema

2014-01-22 Thread Allister Clisham
Yes, I saw this disturbing news about the Gadgeteer and his run in with ICE (the DHS). Rather amusing though because I received two invites to join (/buy) the google glass explorer program yesterday as well. After reading the article, my desire to wear a device that could potentially incriminate

Re: nettime The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Holmes
On 01/22/2014 03:06 AM, allan siegel wrote: exactly what kind of planning/organizing/conceptualizing is necessary (or possible) not simply as a defense against the OS of a corporate totalitarianism but to envision and plan a new trajectory of possibilities altogether? Allan, always so