Re: nettime WSJ editor: it's the politicians and their mignons, stupid!

2012-09-18 Thread Nicholas Knouf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's interesting---but perhaps not surprising---that the WSJ doesn't mention another speech by Andrew Haldane entitled The Race to Zero (http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/news/2011/068.aspx) where he specifically discusses the

Re: nettime Why I say the things I say

2012-05-06 Thread Nicholas Knouf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian, and others, Admire is a strong word. Admiration is for me something that happens only rarely. No, Brian, and others who might agree with his characterization of me, I do not admire Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Koch, Olin, or others. Their

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

2012-05-05 Thread Nicholas Knouf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warning: Personal narrative ahead. There's a certain cultural institution that many of us hold dear, as one of the primary loci of modern democracies: the public library. The institution of public libraries open to anyone in a community is of course

Re: nettime Galloway: 10 Theses on the Digital

2012-04-24 Thread Nicholas Knouf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pace Morlock, it's utter BS to cite a modeling paper as proof that information is stored in some sort of discrete form in the brain. If you read the article, you'll see it's based entirely on _modeling_. No experiments were done. It's a

nettime ISEA 2011 fees

2011-05-13 Thread Nicholas Knouf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Apologies if you have seen this already, but I think it's appropriate for nettime as well.) Hello nettime, I presume that there are many nettimers who are planning on attending ISEA 2011 in Istanbul this year. If you have not looked at the