nettime Claire Bishop’s Game: Subversive Compliance

2015-06-22 Thread David Garcia
Claire Bishop’s Game: Subversive Compliance through Strategic Exclusion. As that most straightforward of publishing platforms, the mailing list, also turns out to be one of the most resilient of the collaborative media forms to have emerged from the internet revolution, it makes sense for

Re: nettime Claire Bishop’s Game: S

2015-06-24 Thread David Garcia
institutional endorcement. Their eyes are fixed firmly on an external horizon. --- David Garcia # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text

Re: nettime Claire Bishop’s Game: Sub

2015-06-25 Thread David Garcia
Hi Armin, thanks for the feedback. And thanks for the recommendation to read Josephine's Berry's review which I missed. David does, to perpetuate this thinking in camps and then once more sullenly remark how unfair it is that the art world keeps leaving us out. I think a bit

Re: nettime Claire Bishop?s Game: Subversive Compliance

2015-06-28 Thread David Garcia
Hi Alan, I agree that Claire Bishop has made important contributions to scholarship and discussion in this domain, not least in the thorny question of the specator’s position in participatory practice. I think the lively discussions on the list is testimony to the value of her work. However

late to Volkswagen

2015-10-21 Thread David Garcia
Sorry that this is a rather late and somewhat synoptic addition to the recent thread on the Volkswagen scandal.. The Volkswagen case reminded me of case study (more of an anecdote really) related by the distinguished Sociologist the late Ulrich Beck. It was a story he told to

nettime Corbyn as a medium is the message

2015-08-30 Thread David Garcia
Corbyn the Medium is the Message- A Thought Experiment Partly in response to Alex Foti’s -rallying cry- posted this morning I thought it might be useful to indulge in the thought experiment by imagining that something hopeful may be happening in Britain. Obviously I mean the astonishing

From the Nuclear Family to the Quantum Family

2015-09-24 Thread David Garcia
The Quantum Family There has long been a question over whether the methodological "interiority" of the traditional 20^th century "literary novel" was equipped to say anything fresh about life in the technological society. Proponents of speculative or science fiction from Ballard to

Stuart Lee's Divine Comedy (of the Real)

2016-06-13 Thread David Garcia
-Stuart Lee's Divine Comedy of the Real - A Cancelled TV Show; so what! Here's a novel definition of neo-liberalism: A neo-liberal is a man who, if he saw the aurora borealis twinkling over a Scandinavian snowfield would only see a missed opportunity for a public private

Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

2016-02-13 Thread David Garcia
Where is the British Labor party's new radical leadership under Corbyn in relationship to the Diem initiative? Is it my imagination or is it non-existent? This is not simply a parochial question as within months a generational in/out referendum will be taking place in the UK and

President Trump... its gonna happen

2016-03-15 Thread David Garcia
President Trump… Its gonna happen A bit of a meme has sprung up recently having some ineffectual fun with the uncanny resemblance of Trump to Biff Tannen the bully from the 80’s hit movie, Back to the Future, its more than the physical resemblance, in the second movie of the series Biff is

Re: typology of leaking (was The Nefertiti 3D Scan Heist Is A Hoax)

2016-03-11 Thread David Garcia
On 11 Mar 2016, at 09:51, Felix Stalder wrote: > On 2016-03-09 02:29, nettime's_scanner wrote: >> >> https://cosmowenman.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/the-nefertiti-3d-scan-heist-is-a-hoax/ >> >> The Nefertiti 3D Scan Heist Is A Hoax > > I'm not sure I would call it a hoax. I

Re: salafi easter and finis europae: let's break the loop

2016-04-07 Thread David Garcia
Alex wrote: > if europe was over with the end of schengen, now it's deader than > dead. we're no longer europeans, but french, germans, italians, > spaniards (and catalunyans), belgians (whatever it means in a country > split along language lines with autonomous brussels being claimed > by

Re: Guardian > Monbiot > Neoliberalism -- the ideology at

2016-04-25 Thread David Garcia
> Now, you can respond like the Regulation school or even Deleuze and Guattari, > and say that capitalism continually changes certain axiomatic propositions, > in order that its major principle of endless accumulation through labor > exploitation can continue. That's what I think. But such a

Re: Paper Tiger programs: Media History for FREE!

2016-04-29 Thread David Garcia
From: [1]deedeehall...@gmail.com There is an old saying: April is the cruelest month. Certainly for me this past month has been especially cruel. I have been working to help clear the two offices (Paper Tiger and Deep Dish) that have been an important workplace

will someone explain

2017-02-02 Thread David Garcia
) the political equivalent of Blitzkrieg in which the sheer speed and number of initiatives create panic and confusion in his enemies? Where, if any, are the lilekly constraints and when, if at all, will they be able to actually constrain? David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

2017-01-26 Thread David Garcia
no such qualms.. Any thoughts on this ? David Garcia > > 10. The present crisis being virtually ushered in by Trump must be met > with a crisis of our own making. > > As things increasingly disintegrate, it will not be possible to remake > what has become undone. Awash

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread David Garcia
Sadly not in Berlin.. But also the same HUG! --- d a v i d g a r c i a On 24 Feb 2017, at 12:15, Shulea wrote: # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net

Re: The Meme Wars

2017-01-16 Thread David Garcia
ight meme magicians is that exposure of the workings of power is a poor substitute for taking power. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the n

Re: Greek reality board game.: 'Pawnshop- Days of Mistrust' (Ruth Catlow)

2016-09-07 Thread David Garcia
and possible futile game -I reman a remainer-. david garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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

Re: PeerValue conference review on INC MoneyLab blog

2016-09-14 Thread David Garcia
I agree.. And perhaps David Graeber's well known "bullshit jobs" essay which also looked at the energies that might be released when people were given the economic possibilities to shape their own time and labour. Along with the fear that this possibiliy engenders as "the devil

Re: [SPAM] PTS post trump syndrome - the suicide of the west

2016-11-10 Thread David Garcia
e of campaign down to the attitude that this blunder revealed. And we must achieve all of this without slipping into what Auden called -the windiest millitant trash- or worse into tribalsised, lefist version of ad hominem attack (you Blairite!), or other forms of hate speech ourselves. Its a tall or

Re: Franco Berardi & Geert Lovink: Zero Work is the Tendency, Negative Money is the Tool

2016-11-02 Thread David Garcia
accompany that conclusion and begin the detailed work of both opposition and re-design. Above all it means holding fast to the idea that democracy must mean halting the drift towards reducing social justice to market justice andopen boarders to barbed wire, forced marches and conscentration camps

The Meme Wars

2017-01-13 Thread David Garcia
tp://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/02/06/fascinating-fascism/ If any of you are around in Amsterdam next Thursday Jan 20th 10.00hrs -13.oo hrs and would like to join us please register at: E-mail: meme-...@hotmail.com Thanks David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial us

Re: John_Berger (5 November 1926 - 2 January 2017)

2017-01-03 Thread David Garcia
lling-1983.html David Garcia --- # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/ma

Martin Bosma the Steve Bannon ofthe Netherlands

2017-03-19 Thread David Garcia
Geert Wilders has his own Steve Bannon - His name is Martin Bosma an early player in Amsterdam's Tactical Media games. Martin Bosma, chief ideologue and consigliere of Gert Wilders, cut his political teeth in Amsterdam's Tactical Media scene of the 1990s. And so when Bosma joined team Wilders

Re: Phillips/Beyer/Coleman: "false assumption that

2017-04-21 Thread David Garcia
Hi, there is a very informative essay published a month ago on Motherboard by Whitney Phillips, Jessica Beyer and Gabriella Coleman with the rather long title Trolling Scholars debunk the Idea that Alt.right’s Shitposters have Magic Powers. These three ethnographic researchers have been

Re: Why I won't support the March for Science

2017-04-23 Thread David Garcia
3) Just as opposition against Trump creates false solidarity with neoliberals, opposition against climate change-denying, creationist etc. politics can create false solidarity with a Popperian understanding of research and knowledge. (Coincidentally, Popper's philosophy

Nagle's Question..

2017-08-16 Thread David Garcia
Referencing Angela Nagle’s short piece for the Baffler -Goodbye Pepe-The End of the alt-right- Nagle (that most astute chronicler and interpreter of the dynamics behind the rise of the alt-right) has written piece on how Charlottesville and the death of Heather Heyer, marks the end of a

Re: [spectre] the EU's first rogue state

2017-08-10 Thread David Garcia
So Patrice… shouldn't the anti-democratic neo-liberal structures of the EU, that actually forbid radical socialist restructuring and are able to enforce these strictures by means of what Varoufakis called “fiscal waterboarding” give us some pause for thought? This leftist scepticism on the

Re: Who said the US is boring?

2017-08-17 Thread David Garcia
rather than a citizen, a patient, a student or a passenger. But being re-categorised is no guarantee of being better looked after, or that our best interests will be served. David Garcia On 17 Aug 2017, at 07:05, Keith Hart <ke...@thememorybank.co.uk> wrote: > Brian, > > T

Re: The alt-right and the death of counterculture

2017-07-10 Thread David Garcia
Felix Stalder wrote.. > > Looking back, the shortcomings of the approaches "emanating out of > Amsterdam", say tactical media in particular and, but the cultural/media > left more generally, seem to be twofold, in my view. > > First, while the intuition about the necessity to interrupt the

Re: Up with moderation

2017-08-19 Thread David Garcia
Many thanks to the Mods.. On 19 Aug 2017, at 04:12, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Agree on both items. > > a) Cheers! > > b) The moderators need to be coerced back, by any means, to clunky and > imperfect moderation. > >> As moderation arguably allowed nettime to survive

You Want it Darker..he kills the flame

2017-09-20 Thread David Garcia
You Want it Darker.. He kills the flame. -Is this the point when Liberalism becomes a fighting creed? Stephen King has no monopoly on evil clowns. We Brits can certainly compete with Boris Johnson, a kind of inverted vampire clown (he shrivels when out of the spotlight). Buried in his

New "thought rhythms'

2017-10-04 Thread David Garcia
New "thought rhythms'- announce the fact that Rock (including Punk) is dead. The old rhymes of largely white indy (largely white) guitar bands superseded by Hip Hop and Grime.. As my kids grow up I realise that though I can hear that the UK movement Grime and US Hip Hop are powerful .. on

Reckless Boat Burning

2017-10-11 Thread David Garcia
Like Cortez burning his boats to make it impossible to take a backward step the nihilistic kamikaze UK brexiteers are fighting tooth and nail to close off every exit. This is not based on confidence in their position it is because they know that with every passing day it is becoming

Re: Brexit democracy

2017-11-13 Thread David Garcia
On 13 Nov 2017, at 09:21, Alex Foti wrote > The problem of the revolutions of 2011 is that they failed to produce durable > organization and to use their term institutions of the common, save for > limited success on the municipalist front. Now that nazi-populism is >

Re: Brexit democracy

2017-11-06 Thread David Garcia
ommon Market". He believed we would never fit in. We may learn from our mistakes and future generations may have a change of heart (there are signs of this) but for now, sadly.. very sadly de Gaulle may have been right. David Garcia > > Brexit: Democracy robbery? > > > > I

Re: Locating ArtScience

2017-12-09 Thread David Garcia
nterdsicciplinarity). While we are on the subject of Latour.. here is a terrific review of, Facing Gaia: 8 Lectures on the new climate regime.. http://www.publicbooks.org/we-have-never-known-mother-earth/ David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderate

Re: Paul Mason: Trump is a symptom of the new global disorder, not the cause

2018-06-14 Thread David Garcia
On 14 Jun 2018, at 10:28, Alex Foti wrote: > paul mason doesn't get national-populism right - he called the current > italian rightist government "neoliberalism in one country" (what??) - yes we > need a big progressive front like the one varoufakis is building - for europe > - too bad

The Revenge of Folk Politcs

2018-06-05 Thread David Garcia
Published in full on the Transmediale Journal transmediale.de/resource/journal …...The Revenge of Folk Politics…….. 2016 witnessed the revenge of “folk politics”. Of all the assumptions that were overturned by the success of the Alt-right insurgency, one of the most surprising is the

Re: Towards a Non-facebook

2018-05-28 Thread David Garcia
s open-ended. As Marres wrote “not treating social relations and activity as a given and unchanging but as a set of activities, patterns and forms that may shift expand and are thus transformable, digital technologies can be said to invite an experimental approach to sociality”. David Garcia

Re: social media critique: next steps?

2018-01-16 Thread David Garcia
so doing infrastructural politics. David Garcia On 15 Jan 2018, at 19:16, Florian Cramer <flrnc...@gmail.com> wrote: > One could argue that today's mainstream social media critique has finally > caught up with the critical media theory of 10-15 years ago. The major > arguments have a

Re: What does Trump get right?

2018-08-05 Thread David Garcia
ism. These questions are too localised to go into here but they do serve to demonstrate that once grass roots movements on the left start coming close to the kitchen of power the heat will definitely be turned up. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permi

Quick Review..

2018-09-09 Thread David Garcia
' or 'mind-set' that equivalent sub-cultures on the left badly need to learn. David Garcia# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/ma

Re: Quick Review..

2018-09-11 Thread David Garcia
Yes thanks Florian- so interesting to read this mangling of Gramsci by Yiannopolous. The extraordinary images of him cavorting in a bath of pig’s blood in a scandalously naive (or simply cynical) NY Chelsea gallery, purportedly mourning the lives lost to Islamic fundementalism- he looked for

Re: Quick Review..

2018-09-11 Thread David Garcia
Whoops Sorry yes it should have read Hermann Nitsch On 11 Sep 2018, at 14:02, bronac ferran wrote: > Has Hermann become Friedrich here? > Or is it vice versa? > > On 11 September 2018 at 08:56, David Garcia > wrote: > Yes thanks Florian- so interesting to read this m

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-14 Thread David Garcia
imensional approach in an era when multi-dimensional thinking and acting is required. David Garcia On 13 Mar 2018, at 23:26, Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What do you mean by "confronting on an infrastructure level" and > > "libe

Re: Reflections on Florian Cramer & Angela Nagle, discussion

2018-03-07 Thread David Garcia
Hi Florian, thanks to you and Angela Nagle for the fascinating discussion in Berlin.. I wish I had been present but at least we have the recording.. I take your point that you and Angela soon took the conversation away from sub-cultures and as you indicate in the paragraph below the focus is

Un-friend my Heart - Ilana Gershin on Facebook

2018-03-24 Thread David Garcia
Un-friend my Heart - Revisiting Ilana Gershin on Facebook Despite being nearly a decade old its a good time to take another look at the work of anthropologist Ilana Gershin’s work The Ethics of Disconection in Neo-liberal Age on Fb pioneering role of schooling a generation in becoming

Re: Bad news for Brexit Junkies! - worse news for Labour and remainers

2018-10-16 Thread David Garcia
piece of useless cosmetic surgery about to be perfomed of an ageing dowager suffering from severe delusions of grandure. David Garcia On 16 Oct 2018, at 07:35, Patrice Riemens wrote: > On 2018-06-17 11:15, Patrice Riemens wrote: >> BonDi! >> In today's Guardian/Obs

Re: Bad news for Brexit Junkies! - worse news for Labour and remainers

2018-10-16 Thread David Garcia
gt; dissident relationships to further this - likely to include Orban. > > The British are aware that contingency planning in France has not yet reached > operational unit level even in the GIGN because the general French > presumption is that the British government is genuinely eng

Re: Identity and difference

2018-10-26 Thread David Garcia
own in my face from pathological > cry-bullies. > Back to Marx! Meanwhile, prepare for Trump round 2. "The Left" has learned > nothing but lost its roots. Next Bolsonaro in Brazil. I'm spending this > winter in Rio. > Best > Alexander Bard > > Den fre 26 okt. 20

Our revels now are ended

2018-11-10 Thread David Garcia
if we don’t we to will learn the hard lesson that politics may have an aspect of theatre but it is NOT theatre .And that politicians may enjoy the brief applause of the ‘audience’ but be left to face the longer term anger of the “citizens” they sacrificed to their vanity and delusion. David Garcia

Re: Taking sides

2018-11-06 Thread David Garcia
Yes please. This tiny splinter of the community says. Bard just stop. David On 6 Nov 2018, at 04:30, Lunenfeld, Peter B. wrote: > Hello All - > > Bard asked if the community wanted him to cease and desist. My vote > is yes. Not only are his politics abhorrent, he’s not here to engage in

what's your problem dude ?

2018-09-30 Thread David Garcia
.. it was just a cover version” Maybe this ‘squib’ will also appear on Bruce’s blog. David Garcia# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org

notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-17 Thread David Garcia
My friend Eric Kluitenberg asked for my local view of the current situation in Brexania. It gave me the chance to pull some threads together. Some caveats this is a view from the sidelines. The journalists are all suffering from as much confusion and exhaustion..as the rest of the population.

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Keith, yes I am an an enthusiastic follower of Fintan O’tool’s writing and lectures. Its instructive that in both the cases we have mentioned from Ireland and India both in different ways victims of English post-collonial delusion. The fact that Ireland barely featured in the refferndum

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Keith for fleshing out the wider political context for our “little local difficulty” that sprang from Cameron’s reckless gamble that had everything to do with the Tory party and resulted in a deep national psychosis. Sorry if this sounds like histrionics but its how it feels. I want

Re: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe

2018-12-05 Thread David Garcia
open up these agencies to civic scrutiny and intervention). David Garcia On 4 Dec 2018, at 07:37, Geert Lovink wrote: > Dear Nettimers, > > we’ve written the discussion text below as a proposal, a strategic > contribution and are curious what you make of the ideas and questions we > raise

Re: Seth Abramson: We need a new kind of journalism (Guardian)

2018-11-24 Thread David Garcia
way of insight or illumination by introducing the term “curatorial” to the methods and the journey that take us from journalism to history.. And isnt this another sign that "curatorial” is rapidly becoming an overextended concept in danger of losing all meaning. David Garcia On 24 Nov 201

Re: Quick Review..

2018-09-13 Thread David Garcia
serious engagement with -and even allergy- to power. But its an exaggeration to say there is no analysis. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more in

Re: No evidence of digital wrong-doing...

2019-01-28 Thread David Garcia
I agree Felix that it is probably too late for Brexit..but... there remains a chance that the parliamentary log jam means that other options cannot gain a majority and there is enough of a realisation that ‘crashing out without a deal’ would be a disaster to make another referendum least worst

Re: No evidence of digital wrong-doing...

2019-01-28 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Carlo, no need for an either/or choice here. I’d be interested in any examples you have of liquid democracy in action and yielding concrete results. > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 09:35:35AM +0000, David Garcia wrote: >> Brilliant as O’tool’s artcle is, he and oth

*No Euphoria No Carnival just Fatalism*

2019-03-24 Thread David Garcia
ll be hard to enact in the time available and unlikely that May (or a caretaker PM) would agree to play "Postman-Pat" but this at least is a roadmap to one possible course to salvation. David Garcia - Back on the Brexit Couch -# distributed via : no commercial use without permission

Re: Chris Grey's latest Brexit commentary

2019-03-23 Thread David Garcia
consensus for a plan in a matter of days. Otherwise the EU will gather around the sick bed with grave faces and (with some relief) allow nature is allowed to take its course. David Garcia -off to the march not sure why- On 23 Mar 2019, at 00:02, tbyfield wrote: > <

Re: Not Brexit

2019-04-08 Thread David Garcia
Corbyn may been wise in what looks like fence sitting as it opens up the possibility of him acting as honest broker in some future vote.. There is no simple way out of the “mad riddle" of Brexit. David Garcia On 8 Apr 2019, at 14:53, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Dear all, >

More news from the front-line of Brexshit Bollocks

2019-02-21 Thread David Garcia
Sorry (Patrice) and other nettimers bored with the subject. But just a bit more from the front line of the Brexit Bollocks Car Crash With less than 1000 hours from the cliff edge. A new level of distraction and idiotic complexity has emerged with the arrival this week of the so called

Mad-Hatter’s Tea Party

2019-03-16 Thread David Garcia
a rabit staring at the head lights coming towards me. From my Brexit Central Sofa David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.k

At last the brexit dividend

2019-03-11 Thread David Garcia
A true Democracy: All United in Ignorance- Despite promises that this would be the ‘crunch week’ when the second “meaningful (HA!) vote" was to be held. It is looking increasingly likely that despite solumn promises the Olympic level can-kicker May will again defer the vote replacing it with

Re: At last the brexit dividend

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
h a >> series of indicative (non-binding) votes to see what there is a majority >> for. Maybe there is no majority >> for anything.. or maybe parliament can get its act together and build a >> workable process… withing 2 weeks!! Aaah >> >> David >>

It is the table

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
Hi Keith, many thanks for your kind words.. I recomend this from the excellent Stephen Bush https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/03/theresa-may-has-been-defeated-again-time-she-isnt-one-denial In this very worrying article about just how far parliament is from actually waking

Re: At last the brexit dividend

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
. or maybe parliament can get its act together and build a workable process… withing 2 weeks!! Aaah David On 13 Mar 2019, at 10:55, Keith Hart wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:42 PM David Garcia > wrote: > A true Democracy: All United in Ignorance- > Total fucking insanit

Re: Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn

2019-03-20 Thread David Garcia
the contrary it is their fading into the the background to become ‘the environment” that makes them so powerful frequently insidious and so vital to contest. David Garcia On 19 Mar 2019, at 19:13, Brian Holmes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:28 AM Francis Hunger > wrote: >

Re: Banality of code

2019-03-19 Thread David Garcia
There is a lift in the Universtity of Portsmouth UK in which among all the normal buttons there is one that simply reads “random”. On 19 Mar 2019, at 05:19, Morlock Elloi wrote: > The most scary recent example I've seen are the new elevators: there are no > buttons/controls inside. They will

more brexit spam.. sorry

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
as it is the fucking table. David Garcia# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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

Re: Why I have stopped reading about Brexit

2019-02-15 Thread David Garcia
Resolving the Brexican Standoff Don’t stop just yet Patrice just the wrong moment as we come to the final episode of series 1 of the neverending Brexit Box Set. As we know May is playing Eastwood in the Mexican stand off in the Good the Bad and the Ugly a confrontation in which no strategy

Re: James Bridle: Review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Guardian)

2019-02-11 Thread David Garcia
Felix wrote: > Mozorov puts lots of emphasis on her lack of engagement with other > theories of contemporary capitalism and her unwillingness to considers > options beyond the market. And, really, not even Wikipedia is ever > mentioned (expect as a source once) and Free Software only in relation

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-28 Thread David Garcia
Patrice, is completely right.. One of the amendments to May’s “deal" (sadly it will not succeed-it ay no longer be in play) is one to be put by Stella Creasy which would mandate more time by suspending article 50 not simply to delay the innevitable but of a final vote but a vote supported by

Re: Paul Mason: Britain's impossible futures (Le Monde diplomatique, English edition)

2019-02-04 Thread David Garcia
Paul Mason wrote: > The left at a crossroads > > By the end of February it is likely that May’s attempt to renegotiate Brexit > will fail, stockpiling of food and medicines will increase, and sterling and > growth will fall sharply. In an atmosphere of crisis, May’s bluff will be > called.

Re: Not Brexit

2019-04-07 Thread David Garcia
the Union Blue flag. Its time to use the ballot box to translate this into a new impulse of democratic involvement in ways that could ultimately send positive democratic ripples through the EU’s flawed institutional hierarchies. David Garcia On 7 Apr 2019, at 09:23, Ariston Theotocopulos

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-12 Thread David Garcia
,c2787466 Sweden may be less of a stooge for US ambitions than the UK (who is desperate to please the US as they imagine that it offers a solid alliance economic and geo-political alliance post-brexit). David Garcia On 12 Apr 2019, at 01:58, Morlock Elloi wrote: > The principal

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-11 Thread David Garcia
Given the nature of the allegations agree to Swedish request for extradition. But refuse extradition to US for allegations related to publishing activities. On 11 Apr 2019, at 18:02, Morlock Elloi wrote: > What was the voluntary part? Lifelong imprisonment in the US or execution are >

Re: more brexit spam.. sorry

2019-03-13 Thread David Garcia
campaign for re-election. Yes really ! I think I may be a bit too "long in the tooth” to offer myself as a candidate and oppose him but I am tempted. David Garcia PS are we having fun yet :-(( On 13 Mar 2019, at 22:45, Keith Hart wrote: > > “No deal can’t be taken of

*Farage's as Hyper-leader * A Knoweledge Free Zone* - by Design

2019-05-27 Thread David Garcia
*Farage's as Hyper-leader and the cult of disintermediation* It is no longer news (if it ever was) that the big winners in the UK’s European Parliamentary elections were the Bexit Party or rather the Nigel Farage party. This was a remarkable achievement bearing in mind his party has only been

Good Ship Mary.... Celeste

2019-05-21 Thread David Garcia
The Good Ship Mary….Celeste After the kind EU allowed us a deferral till Halloween a strange paralysis has descended on the land. May has not been much seen. She appears laid out like the sick king in Parsifal waiting for one of her bold knights of the cabinet table to go forth and bring her

At last a real crisis.

2019-04-30 Thread David Garcia
to go as the "Irish backstop" or "Article 50" instead. As the sage once said life is such a box of chocolates. All Quiet on the Western Front. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # col

Interiors

2019-05-03 Thread David Garcia
possible”. His point is that there is a basic difference between fiction grounded in the *interiority* of characters on the one hand and film and TV on the other. One of the many achievements of 8th Grade is that it opens new doors to demonstrate that this is no longer true.. if it eve

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 141, Issue 66

2019-06-30 Thread David Garcia
g out and requesting contributions)..and please not too much meta-discussion. David Garcia On 30 Jun 2019, at 11:31, Allan wrote: > hello, > Seems Nettimers suffer similar illusions of those entrenched in other forms > of social media. Disconnected or detached from face-to-

Re: limits of networks...

2019-07-02 Thread David Garcia
On 1 Jul 2019, at 15:24, Kristoffer Gansing wrote: > discussion of > networked forms seems to be returning at the moment, maybe especially > also on a list like nettime, because it seems as if it disappeared from > the big "digitalisation" debates that are now anyway everywhere. (except > for

It goes beyond the Meat Loaf Problem

2019-08-17 Thread David Garcia
ho can win the confidence of enough MPs to work across the political tribes? There is a great deal at stake for all us poor Brits. David Garcia# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultura

Re: From Meat Loaf to Penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-20 Thread David Garcia
d sheets, models and statistics or expert commentary will not help us. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/l

From Meat Loaf to Penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-20 Thread David Garcia
n yet of displaying. For all the wrong reasons the coming months will be ‘interesting’ David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kei

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-24 Thread David Garcia
. Its a great time to be a constitutional lawyer or a curious observer from another land, but its a bad time for the rest of us. David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics

Re: don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-01 Thread David Garcia
ions. This has echoes in a number of other countries. But perhaps you are lucky enough not to live in one of those countries and can simply turn your back and say why should 'we’ care. Whoever this big “we” are Best David Garcia On 1 Sep 2019, at 15:36, Harv Stanic Staalman wrote: #

don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-01 Thread David Garcia
he same. It may be time to candidly embrace Project Fear and say yes I am fearful for this country’s future. Not fear as paralysis or ‘flight’ but as the driver that unites the fragments in a for call to action to begin the restoration of parliamentary democracy. It won’t be easy. David Ga

Re: from Meatloaf to penalty Shoot Outs

2019-08-23 Thread David Garcia
as a new arm of government as important as the judiciary, the executive and the legislature Acknowledging this status would force us to think about how we make these bodies more transparent and accountable and ultimately improving their interface to the citizenry. B David Garcia On 23 Aug

Re: don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-02 Thread David Garcia
/Britannia_Unchained Worth a visit just for the cover.. David Garcia On 2 Sep 2019, at 14:14, Morlock Elloi wrote: > An interesting proposition: it's about terminal illusions of grandeur. > Abstract below, full text at > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10./1467-923X.1

what is to be done

2019-09-08 Thread David Garcia
listening to the Ted and Felix discussion is great thanks Shulea and others who made this happen.. Alongside the mailing lists and Nettime should feature a regular radio program. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

Re: Moving On- Beyond the Evidence..The Rise of Evidentiary Realism

2019-10-01 Thread David Garcia
-on-recreating-a-horrific-syrian-jail David Garcia # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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

From "call out" to "call in"

2019-10-01 Thread David Garcia
In a wokshop I attended the other day on the growing prevalence of the polerisation or hyperpartzan nature of public discourse a guy who self identified as gay spoke up and described how since the Brexit vote he was aware of an increased hostility. But, certainly in the context of the workshop

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