I am not keen on using this adjective but this is truly AWESOME: the
conservative German Feuilleton mobilizes Habermas against European cyber-Neelie
(Kroes, that is). True, Schirrmacher (the author and editor of the FAZ) being
who he is has put on the comforting Dr. Doom coat of cultural pessimi
Since several people asked me off-list about my own opinion on
Enzensberger's piece and my reasons for posting it here, the best answer I
can give is an essay I completed just a few weeks ago for _A Peer-Review
Journal_ (APRJA, http://www.aprja.net), an Open Access journal on digital
culture edite
If you have a confidential message use poetry for encryption.
"Moazzam Begg, who spent three years in Guant?namo Bay before being
released without charge in January 2005, began writing poetry as a way of
explaining what he was going through. He knew that everything he wrote
would be censored, so u
I don't think that Enzensberger's text is to be taken seriously - the
tone is so light-hearted that it might well be that it isn't even
intended to be. His suggestions are so far off the social reality of
technical systems and media usage, that it is hard to take them as
anything but the flippa
Quoth Cornelia Sollfrank:
> Thanks for sending via email.
>
> Imagine you would have had to hand-write the information and send it to all
> subscribers of nettime via postcard;-)
Well in fairness the postcard suggestion was "If you have a
confidential message", which I'm pretty sure doesn't co
Thanks Cornelia, and Florian for making the translation. I don't mind the piece
but what misses here is a bit of self-reflection of a writer who has been
inside the media realm his entire life, and who is unable to put his own
'offline romanticism' in the larger picture of the (German) history o
Hi all,
I'm late to this party, but here are more resources for artists and anyone else
keen on keeping culture alive for the long haul. All are premised on the
conviction that storage is not preservation.
* Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory
First academic book on digital preser
(As Franco Berardi aka Bifo will be one of the speakers at MoneyLab in
Amsterdam on March 21/22, I was curious to find out that he has associated
himself with the Greek leftist Syriza party, lead by Alexis Tsipras. Will I be
able to vote for Bifo, here in NL, I wondered. He answered: "Tsipras i
