Re: James Bridle: Review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Guardian)

Can't wait to read these. I just started it last night but already feel like it's very reductive and suggests that this mode of extractive capital begins in 2001 with Google where there's a huge body of theory (autonomist Marxism etc) that explores the rise of these tendencies from the 1960s/1970s

Re: James Bridle: Review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Guardian)

thanks! On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:26 AM David Garcia < d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk> wrote: > Felix wrote: > > > Mozorov puts lots of emphasis on her lack of engagement with other > > theories of contemporary capitalism and her unwillingness to considers > > options beyond the market. An

Re: Tactics&Practice #7: CRITICAL ENGINEERING, Ljubljana, 26-27 March 2019

Thanks for sharing this. R On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:50 AM Marcela Okretič wrote: > Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is glad to announce: > > > > *Tactics&Practice #7* > > *CRITICAL ENGINEERING* > > *Radical Tools for Interventions in Infrastructure* > > https://aksioma.org/

Libra: The Bank of Facebook

Below is a response to Facebook's announcement that it's releasing a digital currency and wallet. Rachel *The Bank of Facebook* Marshall McLuhan argued that money is communication. This rings particularly true at a time when so many platforms are entering the payments space. The US payments

Has net-art lost political significance?

What characterises media art interventions in the context of ‘surveillance capitalism’, platforms and the gig economy? Are these practices still meaningful or, as F.A.T. Lab claimed in 2015, have they lost political significance in the face of global platforms? Can we still speak about ‘tactic

Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

a bit >> earlier history than what you are looking for. I write about “warchalking” >> and other kinds of social media based information spaces, hacks. From that >> experience I’d bet you will be best off in the arts. If there is writing >> being done it would be fro

Re: limits of networks...

> Dear all, >> >> Maybe I can take the opportunity to plug in to the running discussions >> by shamelessly plugging the announcement of the next transmediale >> festival which aims to deal exactly with the topics of networks, as it >> appeared here as a recurring common

a reading list for 'what comes after tactical media'

Hi everyone, I'm starting to think about an elective for postgraduates of studio art and art theory next semester that looks at network art, and hacktivism after 2015. I think this ties in somewhat with the 'after networks' theme of last year's Transmediale and also to this year's theme of refusal

Re: a reading list for 'what comes after tactical media'

he might have. And *Catcher in the Rye* as a Ulysses story, > walking around, going on a circuit, etc. Or other images even: the two > lobsters uncovered in clouds of steam, Dr. Van Dervander, "I alone have > lived to tell the tale" (p. 47), the suit in blue and gray, most of

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

I haven’t followed the latest surge in NFTs as much as I’d like, but I wrote this, among other things, on cryptokitties, NFTs and art as a derivative https://circaartmagazine.net/a-celestial-cyberdimension-art-tokens-and-the-artwork-as-derivative/ I’m interested in why now though, beyond growing

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

l artist known for this fluorescent light tube sculptures. A buyer > who has lost the certificate of authenticity wants to know what her Flavin > is now “worth”. Nothing it turns out; she lost the right to call her light > bulb a Flavin, or crucially to resell it as such, when she lost the &

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

n and a third unnamed party. On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 6:23 PM Felix Stalder wrote: > > > On 14.03.21 14:25, Rachel O' Dwyer wrote: > > The article includes a discussion of economic *'signalling' *that was > > prompted by conversations with Ruth Catlow whic

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

The best smart contract code is the cryptokitty code! Information on cattributes and cloning etc. But yes. With a few exceptions where people actually encode images into the hash (see https://cryptograffiti.info) the only thing you own with cryptoart is the act of ownership itself. People sometimes

Re: Francesca Bria: Our data is valuable. Here's how we can take that value back

While I think that it's great to discuss the politics of projects such as DECODE, I don't see the utility of using a short op-ed written for a general Guardian-reading audience as the jumping off point for that. Why not engage with the project's more detailed reports and technical documentation an

Re: Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice (whole Version)

Hi Marc, Thanks a million for your exciting article. I’m responding hastily because I have only a little time before crèche pick up and also because that’s the joy of Nettime J Maybe we can tease some of this out further in subsequent conversation. I very much liked this article as a reflecti

Re: Turin Complete User

Thanks Olia, really looking forward to reading this. R On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 8:58 PM olia lialina wrote: > Dear Nettimers > > It's a book! > > TURING COMPLETE USER – RESISTING ALIENATION IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION. > > https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/972 >

Re: MONEYLAB NFT ESSAY PRIZE

brilliant. My students just did an essay of this kind for an art and money module. Going to share this with them now :) On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:51 PM Geert Lovink wrote: > *Popular search query: "Making Millions with NFTs!"* > > Empowerment or Trap? Jackpot or pocket money? You be the judge. T

Re: Big list of existing academic Bitcoin research

This is brilliant Brett! Thanks so much for sharing it. Rachel On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Brett Scott wrote: Hi all, I decided to build a rather large database of academic research on Bitcoin. If you'd like to see it, here is the link [2]https://docs.goog

Re: nottime: the end of nettime

I was really sad to read this. I really value the nettime list. I can't think of another forum that allows me to connect to these issues on a daily basis. I can't think of another group that I subscribe to that has the same depth of discussion. That's not to say that these group discussions and com