Ask nettime: What Is the name of the year 2020?

[via https://thegermanissue.com/texts/what_is_the_name_of_the_year_2020.html] What Is the Name of the Year 2020? This summer, when re-reading Peter-Paul Koch's essay "Making safe for historians,"(1) I was, once again, reminded that years should be treated as names, not as numbers. This may be

Fwd: [thingist] The War Is Coming

The War is Coming For Ghayath al-Madhoun and his million Arab poets 1. I decided to leave Syria the day a stray bullet passed in front of my eyes. That day I realized my homeland was not my homeland, my blood not my blood, and my freedom belonged to a freedom fighter who didn't think to ask my

Re: This is what fascism looks like

> current inhabitant of the White House wants to live there for twelve more > bright white years - and his supporters, like football fans or players with > brain injuries, see only him, know only him, live only through his callous > and brutal words and gestures. > > Trump has

The Virus Is Our Idea of Ourselves

The Virus Is Our Idea of Ourselves by Claire Fontaine "Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, 'I would prefer not to.'" [1] "In The Undercommons if we beginc anywhere, we begin with the right to

Re: What is a global energy regime shift?

> On Jun 23, 2020, at 10:41 AM, Felix Stalder wrote: > >> The notion of climate justice is >> beginning to build bridges between different social movements. > > This, as I understand is, is the entire purpose of the green new deal > and marks a substantial change from traditional green

The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis: An Account and

The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis An Account and Analysis In this anonymous submission, participants in the uprising in Minneapolis in response to the murder of George Floyd explore how a combination of different tactics compelled the police to abandon the Third Precinct. The

Re: what exactly is breaking?

> On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:30 PM, Iain Boal wrote: > > > On 14 Jun 2020, at 02:40, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: > > > > "... i'm not a historian, but i'm certain > > that when columbus set foot in the americas, he came with the best > > intentions, and even the spanish probably didn't arrive with

Re: what exactly is breaking?

> On Jun 13, 2020, at 5:19 PM, Max Herman wrote: > Neither political party in the US is really denying climate change or racial > inequality much these days. There is bipartisan support for green > infrastructure initiatives to help reboot the economy, a green deal if not a > new one, and

we breathe again

# machine-translated without any further editing # you may want to read the original, here: # https://lundi.am/Nous-respirons-a-nouveau WE BREATHE AGAIN "We know from history, no force is unbeatable" Appeared in Monday, June 8, 2020 (Monday, June 246, 2020) May 25, 2020: another image of

Re: what exactly is breaking?

And I know this is kind of lame, but... what if the breaking we're seeing is > the first rearticulation of what is going to evolve into a broad, radical, > international movement, one whose scope, diversity and determination will > surpass even the revolts of the 1960s, committed to end the

Re: what exactly is breaking?

> On May 31, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Felix Stalder wrote: > > what exactly is breaking? the short answer is, of course, the patience of people who keep getting murdered. but this is not new. see london 2011, athens 2008, paris 2005. WHITE SILENCE = CONSENT, but also WHITE AGITATION =

France Against the Robots (Jean-Marie Straub)

France Against the Robots The word "revolution" to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution - as one speaks of a planned economy. The

economy or life

ECONOMY OR LIFE https://lundi.am/IMG/arton2929-resp1440.jpg "- Can't you see, can't you all see, you speakers, that it is we who are dying, and that here below the only thing that really lives, is the Machine? We created the Machine, to fulfill our will, but we can no longer bend it to our

digitally drunk

GENDER-BLOG DIGITALLY DRUNK By Simon Strick tweet / teilen / mail "everyone in their online classes now", sami @sahirous, reddit meme It is not by accident that my partner did her first session of e-teaching a bit drunk. I will do the same tomorrow when my first session comes up. We both

Fwd: Re: What the Virus Said

> On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Eric Kluitenberg wrote: > > So we might ask, what does the COVID-19 emergence look and feel like from > the perspective of the virus itself? How does it experience the hostility > with which it was met upon its emanation into the existent? Now that Eric's

What the Virus Said

WHAT THE VIRUS SAID “I’ve come to shut down the machine whose emergency brake you couldn’t find.” paru dans lundimatin#, le 19 mars 2020 You’d do well, dear humans, to stop your ridiculous calls for war. Lower the vengeful looks you’re aiming at me. Extinguish the halo of terror in which

Re: coronavirus questions

> > On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Eric Kluitenberg wrote: > > > Hi Sebastian, all, > > Good questions - though I have not much to say about the (‘radical’?) left. > But the schizo-analysis question is interesting: > >> On 12 Mar 2020, at 09:21, sebast.

coronavirus questions

I have a couple of coronavirus questions. These are neither necessarily mine, nor did they arise in anticipation of satisfying answers. - What is the perspective on coronavirus from the vantage point of the Radical (minoritarian) Left? (This is a very different question from: What is the

Re: Reportback from the Parana Delta

munist way of dealing with non-humans look like? Not sure if nettime is the right place to ask this, though. best, sebastian On 03/05/2019 04:11 PM, nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org wrote: Message: 2 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 12:11:36 -0300 From: Brian Holmes To: nettime Subject: Reportback from the Pa

Re: Peak Anger Rocks

> Perhaps people have resigned to change after the high expectations of the > 1960s. Added to this is the lack of alternatives of capitalism, that is, the > omission of the vision of another social organization. That another world is > possible, believe less and less, while it is becoming

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

> On May 5, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Anni Roolf wrote: > > Here's the call: > Facebook has disrespected our personal data and disregarded the spirit of our > user agreements. To demonstrate our collective power as users, log out of > Facebook and Instagram May 25 – June 1.

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

te at the time - it was > international, in several languages, and a platform for neonazi organization. I see the damage too. I also see where you're coming from (ironically by glancing over a few Facebook posts of yours, post Trump, and then post that). I'm "with you", which is not a

Re: please read - and how can this possibly be combatted?

> please read - and how can this possibly be combatted? 1. The New York Times is not a trustworthy source. 2. The title image/animation serves a purpose. It's quite openly pornographic: exploits a subject, produces arousal, presents as objects some mysterious others, asks: how would

Re: On #deletefacebook in the Netherlands

> #deletefacebook > Facebook Liberation Army with love -seb > On Apr 12, 2018, at 4:52 PM, Geert Lovink wrote: > > Dear nettimers, > > it’s been a busy week here in NL with the Facebook exodus movement. Numbers > of people that left are of course very hard to estimate

Re: Bad ZAD news ...

https://taranis.news/2018/04/la-2e-bataille-de-notre-dame-des-landes-jour1-9-avril-2018/ Maybe this is a good time to watch: Shinsuke Ogawa - Nihon Kaiho sensen: Sanrizuka no natsu AKA The Battle for the Liberation of Japan: Summer in Sanrizuka (1968) In 1968, Ogawa decided to form Ogawa

Re: Rude Awakening: Memes as Dialectical Images by Geert Lovink & Marc Tuters

> On Apr 4, 2018, at 12:16 PM, Geert Lovink (1) wrote: > > Over the past years, in part through memes, a great many previously > disaffected young people became attracted to politics.(17) In this regard, > the notion of “red-pilling” became a central trope, a kind of right of

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

here in bombay, no-one cares about the cambridge analytica storm. there's wind from the east, an unprecedented heatwave, the aadhar cyclone, and a series of savage social media shitstorms that just doesn't want to end. south asia's largest garbage dump (deonar), however, is currently not on fire,

Re: The meaning of Macron (short answer: none)

> And as for dear Sebastian's bitter but welcome comments on this thread: > Yes, of course politics is political theatre. It always has been, as > thinkers from Machiavelli to Guy Debord have always been quick to point > out. Jan Söderqvist and I even predicted in "The Netocrats" in 2000 > that

Re: The meaning of Macron (short answer: none)

When I was reading your conversation, I couldn't help but in my mind begin to substitute the political parties with football clubs, and their managers for the candidates. Is Real still alive, now that Barca has taken a beating? Did we all underestimate Juventus? Will Chelsea trash Arsenal? Are we

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump + 10 Preliminary Theses on

When I saw the "10 Preliminary Theses on Trump", what made me feel uneasy was, mostly, a matter of form: that the "10 Theses" format seemed strangely anachronistic, inadequate for a phenomenon like Trump, and that of all the attributes one could have possibly picked, "preliminary" looked like

January 30, Time To Wake Up

January 30, Time To Wake Up "The media always has taken Trump literally. It never takes him seriously." (Peter Thiel) What is beginning to dawn upon Americans is that the exact opposite is true: That by taking Trump seriously, they completely misunderstood what he was telling them and vastly

Russia? China? It's bored kids you should fear, and Minecraft!

TL;DR: If this is already too long, forget it. But here's the bottom line: If you want to continue debating "foreign cyber-warfare targeting Western democracies" without looking like an utter clown, you should read the articles linked below. Specifically (3), which is the most illuminating

January 23, Trump Question

January 23, Trump Question So let me play the inverse of devil's advocate for a moment: Lets assume this is all on track. Market capitalism is coming apart, just like state capitalism around 1990. Ruthless financialization has finally broken the century-old bond between deterritorialization

a disaster happened today

"The greatest music library in the world is gone." "Saddest day of the year for music. Even Bowie and L. Cohen death can't beat that." "I can't really begin to explain how much of a loss this is. This was the biggest digital repository of music the world has ever seen. Spotify, iTunes, even

Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

I wasn't in Europe at the time, so I didn't attend the DiEM25 launch. From afar, it sounded like a typical Volksb??hne event (1). But I wasn't there, and so I forgot about it again. Reading about it now though, it all sounds a bit like a joke. Lets start with the name. I have no idea what it

Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest

Just to add that Sean and Marcell are being sued - not by a company, but by an individual, - not by an author, but by a translator, and - not by someone classically "creative", but by a person whose work mostly consists in exploiting the differential between French and Canadian copyright

nettime An outrageous defeat, not for Greece, but for the European project

Full transcript of Yanis Varoufakis' other first interview since resigning, on Australian radio this Monday. http://textz.com/txt/Phillip_Adams_-_Interview_with_Yannis_Varoufakis_(2015-07-13).txt An outrageous defeat, not for Greece, but for the European project Phillip Adams: A week ago, a

Re: nettime Crisis 2.0 - the political turn

that is hard to imagine can be ruled out, especially if you're able to influence the outcome yourself. But my feeling is that our era's reasoning has long become Bayesian, and that it has become harder to insist on demanding the impossible. Sebastian, your post is thoughtful and bitterly

Re: nettime Crisis 2.0 - the political turn

Needless to say that the same Joschka Fischer, on December 29 in a column for the Austrian Standard titled Greek Fever, European Disease [1] (which may be a rehashed version of the text you're quoting from), wrote the following: The Euro crisis appears to be over. [...] [But] in many EU member

nettime textz.com: Complete Historical-Critical Edition (2014)

The textz.com Complete Historical-Critical Edition ARG starts on October 30, 2014, 6 PM UTC at 48.7797,9.1813 o__o http://t /##\_ extz.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering