Re: Aveda - Trademark on "Indigenous"

2003-08-25 Thread N Jett
I am not a lawyer (IANAL), not yet anyways - but from my somewhat informed view this could easily go either way in a US court, it really depends on what they do with it. Personally, I think it could easily be called a "generic" term, something that can't be covered by a trademark. Politically

Report: Giorgio Agamben. Stato di eccezione

2003-08-25 Thread Ned Rossiter
[here's a fascinating report from Brett Neilson on Agamben's latest book, yet to be translated. Among other things, the report nicely illuminates the Schmittian problematic of a 'state of exception' via the Schmitt-Benjamin dialogue, pointing out why such a juridico-political condition remains

The coming Internet Ice Age

2003-08-25 Thread Douwe Osinga
Slowly but unstoppably, the Internet is freezing over. Sites that used to be changing daily with fresh content produced by professional writers broadcast the same old news anno mid 2000 over and over, with their owners only sometimes posting a little article written in their free time. It is unavo