Re: I Am For... 1961

And don’t forget his stop frame live animation “Fat Feet.” > On Jul 19, 2022, at 7:52 PM, Molly Hankwitz wrote: > >  > dear d.garcia, > > thank you for posting this manifesto/poem. i read that Oldenburg had died > yesterday. another legend to say goodbye to. unfortunately, artists get >

Re: Anne Applebaum

Debord says somewhere, whenever someone who is an enemy agrees with me, I look for the errors in their logic. Debord does not use the word ennemi, but it was the most general paraphrase I cd invent without access to the original as I am in transit. Apparently her errors are historical;

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Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 174, Issue 40

Shd have been “you’ll” > On Mar 17, 2022, at 1:27 PM, Keith Sanborn wrote: > >  > If you liked the invasion of Ukraine, you love the Russian invasion when it > comes to Beograd. > >>> On Mar 17, 2022, at 1:08 PM, Miro Visic wrote: >>> >>

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 174, Issue 40

If you liked the invasion of Ukraine, you love the Russian invasion when it comes to Beograd. > On Mar 17, 2022, at 1:08 PM, Miro Visic wrote: > >  > So nettime turned into NATO shit list. > >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 09:48 wrote: >> Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to >>

Re: FSB, Christo Grosev, Bellingcat

Has it occurred to anyone that Bellingcat cd have been set up by the FSB in an attempt to discredit them? I can imagine a scenario where a “trusted insider,” who has been allowed to leak certain truthful information, in a time of war give false information which he knows will be publicized in

Re: Is Russia losing in Ukraine? Indian army generals respond (Times of India video)

Interesting perspective. The interview questions were well-researched and posed quite pointedly as one might expect. Otherwise, it seemed that both generals had their own biases, some ideological. Chauhan was clearly either an apologist for Russia or badly informed ("We don’t know what the

Re: The War to come ...

It seems the matter is now resolved. Here’s the link: https://vimeo.com/user5077443/the-beauty-of-force Keith > On Mar 9, 2022, at 7:57 PM, Keith Sanborn wrote: > > Hi nettimers, > > For some reason my vimeo account has been “automatically flagged” making all > my video

Re: The War to come ...

Hi nettimers, For some reason my vimeo account has been “automatically flagged” making all my videos suddenly private. Who knows why? Perhaps because there are Cyrillic characters in the title of this one? Very odd. I have submitted a ticket to vimeo support. I’ll post if/when my account

Re: The War to come ...

When I was in Russia in 2008 for 5.5 months, I recorded a lot of tv footage. The piece linked here is based on a series of commercials on Telekanal Zvezda (i.e. The military’s own star channel, complete with red star). At the time, all I remember them showing besides these commercials were old

Re: Rebecca Solnit: It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin network (Guardian)

Again, it’s the Lansing Institute, but… https://lansinginstitute.org/2021/01/08/russian-involvement-in-the-capitol-building-attack/ The Southern Poverty Law Center identified a "Russian Insider” Charles Bausman, linked to various hate groups, among those invading the Capitol wearing a Trump

Re: Almost zero

like the Ukrainians are going to fold. In fact I >> still don't understand the strategy. Can a country of 40 millions, with a >> large number of combat veterans, reservists and militias, be subdued by >> 200,000 foreign troops? As the generals say, tell me where

Re: Almost zero

l don't understand the strategy. Can a country of 40 millions, with a >> large number of combat veterans, reservists and militias, be subdued by >> 200,000 foreign troops? As the generals say, tell me where this ends. >> >> >> >>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022

Re: Almost zero

llions, with a large > number of combat veterans, reservists and militias, be subdued by 200,000 > foreign troops? As the generals say, tell me where this ends. > > > >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 1:13 AM Keith Sanborn wrote: >> Making their intelligence public did no

Re: Almost zero

Making their intelligence public did nothing except possibly tip Putin off to its sources. It was, in the technical register, actionable. And yet there was no action: don’t provoke him by bringing in troops. Bringing in troops might have been the very thing to deter him from acting though he

Re: deep humanities initiative

Interesting that at a time when planetary survival is in jeopardy, analysts shd return to a geological metaphor. Does history then equal stratigraphy? > On Apr 25, 2021, at 11:27 AM, Brian Holmes > wrote: > >  >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 3:27 AM wrote: > >> >> This depth narrative has

Re: THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism

IRACY, with Wu Ming 1, > Florian Cramer and myself, you can find the video here: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9U9bQUlSs > > More info about the event (scroll down): > https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays > > All the best, and enjoy! > > Tatiana > >

Re: A Dead Professor Is Teaching an Art History Class

;> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 12:43 PM Keith Sanborn wrote: >> And academics mostly get screwed on books too. >> >> > On Feb 1, 2021, at 12:10 PM, tbyfield wrote: >> > >> > Sort of like a book. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Ted &g

Re: A Dead Professor Is Teaching an Art History Class

And academics mostly get screwed on books too. > On Feb 1, 2021, at 12:10 PM, tbyfield wrote: > > Sort of like a book. > > Cheers, > Ted > >> On 1 Feb 2021, at 11:42, nettime's post-mortem slave wrote: >> >> How a Dead Professor Is Teaching a University Art History Class > <...> > #

Re: made for TV, made for social media

Put another way, was it the burning of the Reichstag or the storming of the Winter Palace? or neither? > On Jan 8, 2021, at 7:47 AM, mp wrote: > >  > >> On 08/01/2021 04:07, Keith Sanborn wrote: >> Dear John, >> >> There is a difference between a

Re: made for TV, made for social media

Dear John, There is a difference between a fascist coup attempt lead from above and a mass insurrection. Keith > On Jan 7, 2021, at 5:05 PM, Molly Hankwitz wrote: > >  > LOL John Young...Congressional rituals appeared overly dainty and passe, it > is true... > > To Felix... > > is

Re: why is it so quiet (in the US)

The current state of the institutions in the US is that with legislative bodies in bitter deadlock, the executive branch, ie, the President, effectively rules by fiat (“executive orders”). The bad news is that there is too much decision-making power in the hands of the Senate, where a narrow

Re: why is it so quiet (in the US)

Trump has given the military in the US more than adequate reasons to not go along with an attempted coup by their “Commander in Chief.” This, however, brings up the troubling prospect of their becoming a player in domestic politics. They have in the past played a role via the various state run

Re: Not One

identical. Roosevelt does not equal Hitler. > On Oct 10, 2020, at 3:04 PM, mp wrote: > > > > On 10/10/2020 19:45, Keith Sanborn wrote: >> Again the "always already.” >> >> What if fascism is not a mask? The voices of the dead should be listened to. > >

Re: Not One

Again the "always already.” What if fascism is not a mask? The voices of the dead should be listened to. What if it is? I will not take a revisionist line, but there is a qualitative and quantitative difference between bourgeois democracy and fascism. They are not identical. In the larger

Re: your response

I’m sure your workers’ paradise will make you happy. At least in your mind. That’s the only place it will ever exist, since you are doing anything about the corrupt regime in which you live. > On Oct 10, 2020, at 5:08 AM, Zak McGregor wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:00:45 -040

Re: your response

the worst aspects of capitalism will lead inevitably to its salutary self-destruction, which, btw will be the self-immolation of the planet. > On Oct 10, 2020, at 4:13 AM, Zak McGregor wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 12:30:03 -0400 > Keith Sanborn wrote: > >> I wd like to kno

your response

Hi Zak, I wd like to know why you think Biden is worse. A Biden regime wd at least repress the growing fascist militias here. Perhaps news didn’t reach you about the plot to kidnap and try (implicitly then execute for treason) the female Democratic governor of Michigan foiled by the FBI. Her

Re: Not One

t; > -- > > Resident Artist, 18th Street Arts Center > IG: type_rounds_1968 > danswang.xyz > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 9:30 PM, Keith Sanborn wrote: > > We have even seen those actions in the street here, though more as

Re: Not One

about *preserving* democracy or *creating* democracy for their > constituencies. I think it’s possible to recognize the difference and it > matters in understanding what you are fighting for and with whom. > > Apologies for any crossed-wires, misunderstandings. > > best, >

Re: Not One

. Given the choice, I will vote for bourgeois democracy any time. Keith Sanborn > On Oct 6, 2020, at 2:42 PM, Ryan Griffis wrote: > > Tue, 6 Oct 2020 11:12:55 -0500, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > >> A subject, be it collective or individual, is always divided. The One

Re: Global Surveillance in the Data Society

Let’s don’t forget the other 9/11. The one in Chile. > On Sep 11, 2020, at 4:40 AM, Tatiana Bazzichelli wrote: > > Dear Nettimers, > > I would like to invite you to take part in the discussion at our event > of today, September 11. > > LIVE today from 5pm CEST: Global Surveillance in the

Belarus

FYI There is little theoretical here, just plain ugly facts. Keith Belarus Presidential Election Exit Poll Abroad: Tsikhanouskaya – 86.88% Lukashenko – 3.90% These are the results of the exit polls conducted at the polling stations located outside of the Republic of Belarus for the

Re: Minneapolis notebook: The terribly complex environment of 2020

Dear Max, You might want to direct your call for non-violence to the police, who on live tv tossed tear gas into a peaceful protest, attacked journalists and protesters. Or to the police agents provocateurs or to the out of town Bugaloo crowd responsible for a lot of the destruction. Or to

Re: The Communist Manifesto 2015 WTF

Either Morlock was pranking or it's a case the greatest skeptics being the most gullible. # 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:

Re: Latin as revolutionary act?

Well, doesn’t one have to assume the proposition was presented as an ironic gesture? I can’t really judge the sophistication of the schoolboy phrase presented on the basis of style but in the age of machine translation it was easily decoded by google translate. Consider the source. > On

Re: Shame of going against the tribe

Shd have said, “they do not have…” though the aggression of the masculinist discourse stinks of testosterone even if it shd not keep them out of competing in the Olympics under whatever gender flag they fly. > On May 3, 2019, at 9:59 PM, Keith Sanborn wrote: > > It a world of pseudo

Re: Shame of going against the tribe

, as far as we know, he does not have the codes for the nuclear football. Keith Sanborn > On May 3, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Jaromil wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Joseph Rabie wrote: >> >> Perhaps Morlock should be given the choice between coming out - that >> is t

Re: Managing complexity?

controlled-robot which assembled with great precision mechanical wrist watches. Further East, the first Casio watches were soon to appear. Keith Sanborn > On Mar 30, 2019, at 4:19 PM, Brian Holmes > wrote: > > The idea that the current global disorder results from a failu

Re: scaling the humiliation

The dualism is so Debordian: the integrated spectacle has split again into slightly mutually contaminated variants of the concentrated and diffuse spectacles. > On Feb 14, 2019, at 6:33 PM, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Rampant hypocrisy aside, it's interesting to note that regulating

Re: Taking sides

One can say gender and identity are de facto markers of disenfranchisement and hence of class. It is the understanding of “class” which needs deeper analysis. And it is the undoing of hierarchies of gender and identity within class struggle which might make possible future advances. On Nov 6,

Re: Quick Review..

It is a suitable conflation, considering the reductive appropriation by Nazis of F. Nietzsche. > On Sep 11, 2018, at 4:43 PM, bronac ferran wrote: > > Happens all the time > "There are also red secrets in the world, actually, only reds. > Notices about Filtered Results > > >> On 11

Re: Mechanical Turkish

A simple matter of an algorithm. I almost said automation > On Jan 28, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > The Ludovico Technique has certainly been improved. > > I wonder if the handset operators have already started to time and serve > political/ideological

Re: Mechanical Turkish

longevity in their job is of the content moderator. Wd the digital natives fare any better than the digital immigrants who have had experience of “the real”? Keith Sanborn > On Jan 27, 2018, at 7:01 PM, Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Agree. It's about machine-mediat

Re: Catalonia And Brexit: The Same Nationalism

I wonder how the potus wd handle a California or New York independence vote? Since he’s trying his best to fragment and crash the country, he might welcome it. > On Oct 9, 2017, at 7:50 AM, "i...@conservas.tk" wrote: > > I absolutely agree with the content, but ... really?

Re: New "thought rhythms'

The displacements in artistic labor are at once predictable—at least in « the West »—and often merely generation. What interests me more is what you might call the grandfather effect. Where a new generation goes in search of an artistic forbearer. It cd be an heroic forbearer two generations

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

Rupture or rapture: limited nuclear war is an oxymoron, no matter who believes it to be meaningful. > On Aug 14, 2017, at 7:29 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > Urban populations ... no one will waste nukes on peasants. Peasants and the > ruling class will survive. > > Do

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

on science" for "hard science." One of their typical popular arguments is to fix on the word "theory" in "the theory of evolution" and reduce it to the popular sense of "theory" as "opinion" as in, "Well that's your theory." Keith Sanborn

Re: CEU

How can I add my name to a letter of support, or to whom shd I address a letter of support for CEU? I did not find that information on the links provided. Did I miss it? Keith Sanborn > On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:49 AM, János Sugár <s...@c3.hu> wrote: > > (btw in Hungary

Re: BComu Global: America needs a network of rebel cities

l. have moved closer to China and Russia in authoritarianism. Keith Sanborn > On Nov 28, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Sandra Braman <bramansan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Over 350 cities in the US took the position that they would not go along > with particular provisions of the

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

the future for all of us. This is thuggery and Mussolinian fascism. There are very dark days ahead in the wake of the Trump victory. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. It IS worse than you are making it out to be. Keith Sanborn # distributed via

Re: Arrest Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman in North Dakota After Covering

Amy Goodman showed courage by being there and her reporting may have helped deescalate the violence deployed against the protesters but click on the link and watch the video of the protesters, who kept their heads, who refused violence, who cd have killed the dogs, dogs with their own blood

Re: Adam Phillips > Doomsday Savior? How Paul Ryan Will Pick the Next President

into a Constitutional crisis which a deadlocked Supreme Court cannot resolve. Is Mitch McConnell is in effect creating the groundwork for a coup d'??tat? Keith Sanborn > On Mar 18, 2016, at 11:45 AM, nettime's_workaround <nett...@kein.org> wrote: > > < > http://www.hu

Re: Tagging Banksy: Using Geographic Profiling to Investigate a Modern Art Mystery

particular originating districts were more prone to produce violent officers. Keith Sanborn > On Mar 4, 2016, at 8:02 AM, nettime's evil scientist <nett...@kein.org> wrote: > > The pseudonymous artist Banksy is one of the UK?s most successful > contemporary artists, but hi

Re: nettime Spanish woman fined €800 for po

Franco is back from the dead and bigger than ever. On Aug 19, 2015, at 6:25 AM, nettime's gagged reader nett...@kein.org wrote: Stephen Burgen in Barcelona Sunday 16 August 2015 12.09 BST Last modified on Monday 17 August 2015 00.00 BST

Re: nettime nottime: the end of nettime

April folz! On Apr 1, 2015, at 1:35 AM, nettime mod squad nett...@kein.org wrote: Dear Nettimers, present and past -- ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and

Re: nettime Call for publication of all Snowden papers gets louder

I think Geert is right to call for the full publication of the Snowden dossier. 1. We don't know what else is in it. So far it's been interesting and important. We shd know the horizons of what Snowden saw and was able to take away. It will allow us to know more and possibly to gain perspective

Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism.

structure and grammar; it seems at best only to go through a spell check before going live. And sometimes not even that. But then journalism has very infrequently possessed anything like what might be called integrity. Keith Sanborn On Oct 20, 2014, at 10:32 AM, t byfield tbyfi...@panix.com

Re: nettime Will your insurance company subsidize your quantified self?

It wd be interesting to make public how that figures into actuarial tables. On Apr 14, 2014, at 5:02 AM, mp m...@aktivix.org wrote: On 14/04/14 09:58, Felix Stalder wrote: We continue to feel this product will differentiate itself with existing wearable products primarily from a health

Re: nettime Douglas Belkin, Caroline Porter: Corporate Cash Alters University Curricula (WSJ)

Wonder how long that specific skill set will last before those who invested their time and lives in it are chucked out in the trash. Meanwhile their Ivy League managers with less specialization will continue to adapt and to reign. These are the new cyberserfs. Learning security at a University

Re: nettime Post-Postism,

It's sometimes difficult to distinguish between a Luddite geezer (in the Ame rican sense) and a person of age and wisdom with an historical perspective. ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

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

Though there are ups and downs, the numbers published here do support your interpretation of a general downward trend. On Jan 23, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Matthew White m...@vne.net wrote: On Jan 21, 2014 11:48 PM, Keith Sanborn mrz...@panix.com wrote: Where do your numbers come from! Here

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

One detail, which begs others: California was NOT historically the birthplace of mass entertainment. That dubious honor belongs to the combined forces of NY and NJ. The industry moved west to avoid the grip of the motion picture patents trust, for better year round conditions for filming outside

nettime Fwd: [mfalist] More Rotterdam

, ???The Swedenborg Room??? researched the cinematographic space as a utopian space. Keith Sanborn is a media artist and theorist based in New York. His theoretical work has featured in a range of publications such as Artforum, and books to catalogues published by MoMA, Exit Art

Re: nettime Modern Computer Systems Are Complex - Film at 11

Both are good articles. IMHO, yours is the better one as it speaks from grim experience rather than making a pastiche of famous names and sexy quotes. I had read your piece when you first posted it. It squares clearly with what I know from small experience using assembly language years ago and

Re: nettime The Vegetative Prince Will Not Wake Up: Dutch Prince Friso medical ethics and the ordeal of social inequality

I was incredulous myself. Google Remenlink report and you will find the numbers are closer to 6,000 involuntary terminations of life On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Karin Spaink ka...@spaink.net wrote: On Aug 28, 2012, at 06:12 , martin hardie wrote: he figures i refer to were from the first

Re: nettime Naomi Wolf: This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers (Gu...

This is the psychology of global capital. It is the psychology of the spectacle. Its not clear the concerns you mention are primary for people in Damascus whose families are being bombed, raped, shot, and mutilated, or for the various liberation armies throughout sub-Saharan Africa who are

Re: nettime Naomi Wolf: This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers (Gu...

ever listen to the daily news from Africa? You are living on Fantasy Island, boss. And apparently you did not witness OWwherever police tactics (physical high and low tech ones as well as information technology based ones) first hand. Keith Sanborn On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:44 AM, newme

Re: nettime The insult of the 1 percent: Art-history majors

The phrase Let's be honest has strong echoes of what the relatively non-political Barthes says about Let's be frank…: it opens the door to stupidity or worse: to the naturalization of opinion as fact, I.e. reification. On May 6, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Armin Medosch ar...@easynet.co.uk wrote:

nettime OWC

-univocal series of declaration(s) of a State of Exception from the bottom up. An exception to the exception. Keith Sanborn On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Moritz Geremus mor...@randomcreations.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 22:20 -0500, Brian Holmes wrote: On 10/18/2011 03:47 PM, Moritz

Re: nettime Karl Rove: Occupy Wall Street protesters are just plain kooky (WSJ Op-ed)

numbers they are already gone. Keith Sanborn On Oct 15, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl wrote: Now you're all back from your local 'occupy' demo (I was at the Amsterdam one, which was fun. My favorite placard, featuring the famous Muppet Show character, read: 99% of all

Re: nettime some more nuanced thoughts on SWARTZ

according to the logic of potlatch than that of capitalist accumulation. Keith Sanborn On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Marco Ricci and...@fatbombers.com wrote: sorry David Golumbia, but.. ehm.. do you get any money from JSTOR if one of your articles is being purchased? If yes, well