Re: Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread IR3ABF
Dear Margaret You are absolutely right in not buying that last sentence It should read: -- So an intimate and inter-personal exchange where the financial equilibrium is not of primary interest will be preferable and leaves out the socially and economically consensual dogmatics and leave the acti

Re: Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-10 Thread IR3ABF
> economical needs continue to force people to sell their body out of > despair and not out of consent. This expresses imo the issue at stake: the lack of a fundamental critic regarding the economics involved in 'sex workers', for defining the 'need' to sell once bodily 'labour' out of despair i

Re: Occupy Wall Street and the rest 0%

2012-01-22 Thread IR3ABF
Regarding the discussion about what is and was is not 'The Occupy Movement', i stumpled upon the follwing text (see link) http://occupyeverything.org/2012/zero-percent/ I think this is an extremely valuable addition to the discussion as it expresses not the 'mainstream' 99 % but focus on a mor

Re: more on Kittler

2011-11-23 Thread IR3ABF
some notes on previous comments regarding media theory: Between media activism and media theory in ten steps 1. theory unfolds between act and thought 2. practice unfolds between becoming and being 3. art unfolds acting 4. acting unfolds time 5. becoming unfolds being 6. man becomes human throu