I've been active long ago, and lurking for a decade or more, with only sporadic
comments and adds: this look like a good prod to get us silent majority out of
the closet.
the thing that keeps nettime valuable is a) the contributors, timeliness, and
swift smart dialogues and b) that there still
John writes:
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 08:48:41 -0700
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Technological development puts pressure on social institutions. We need
a system of governan
ussian hegemony, and so attracts serious money
and - to return to another key term - expertise.
And to repeat: a technology that opened on non-human participation in
collective decisions would be a convincing argument for technological
solutions. Is there anything to look out for?
sea
tion
in settler colonies we might begin to find models for global political
engagement - necessarily requiring political-technical invention because time
is so short
bring back the poli-technics?
Sean
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e
that operates at the global level required to address the excluded and
colonised ecology
this seems to have wandered a long way from Brexit . . . but to quote an
American poet, "what you depart from is not the way"
sean
Sean Cubitt
Department of Media, Communications and Cul
. Your notes and
my intuitions suggest that this time round we have to reverse that: the task
may be to aestheticise - to drag politics back to the pursuit of truth and the
common good, and a beauty whose character is utopian and ecological
Sean Cubitt
Department of Media, Communications and
Hi Franz (and David etc)
the question of a green new deal can't be separated from capital and what
alternatives we might build
Utopianism is debarred by a large tract of the Marxist tradition I grew up
with, but we need some now. So
1. No country that restricts the free movement of people sh
impropriety and the results of a
major enquiry into Russian interference and donations to his party. Obscurity,
especially in latin, is not a gurantee of anything
perhaps ancient Greek . . .
Sean Cubitt
Goldsmiths, University of London
(U of Melbourne from Jan 2020
- not necessarily in other languages, but in the world of motorbikes and
ashtrays (two words I do not find in my latin dictionary)
sean
Sean Cubitt
Goldsmiths, University of London
from 2 jan 2020: University of Melbourne
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The term 'public health' has never quite gone away, even when privatised
medicine pretended that private health could be purchased.
The Spanish flu of 1919 is often cited; more apposite perhaps were the great
cholera epidemics of the latrer 19th century. The proximity of the underclass
to the
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From: Andreas Broeckmann
Sent: Friday, 20 March 2020 8:32 PM
To: Sean Cubitt ; nettime-l@mail.kein.org
Subject: Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health
Dear Sean, folks,
thanks for the useful historical references. I've already gone on record
here as
n
From: Andreas Broeckmann
Sent: Friday, 20 March 2020 8:32 PM
To: Sean Cubitt ; nettime-l@mail.kein.org
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Dear Sean, folks,
thanks for the useful historical references. I've already gone on rec
ump is of the permanent apocalypse persuasion
now back to managing the crisis . . .
best to y'all
sean
Sean Cubitt
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Grattan Street
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
scub...@unimelb.edu.au
New Book: Anecdotal Evidence
https://global.oup.com/academic
duties would make a good start
best
sean
Sean Cubitt | He/Him
Professor of Screen Studies
School of Culture and Communication
W104 John Medley Building
University of Melbourne
Grattan Street
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
scub...@unimelb.edu.au
New Book: Anecdotal Evidence
https://global.oup.
kets of their billionaire
donors at home and - increasingly - abroad.
The 2016 election was a tragedy. This one is a farce. Probably Ishtar: a hugely
expensive production that no-one wants to watch
best of luck finding a way out!
sean
Sean Cubitt
Melbourne/Australia
scub...@unimelb.edu.au
Hi Brian
my mail seems to have got lost so - in response to your question about what
other places are thinking, here's my note from Australia
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Sent: Monday, 5 October 2020 8:47 AM
To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
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though it needs a longer argument -
technological
sean
Sean Cubitt | He/Him
Professor of Screen Studies
School of Culture and Communication
W104 John Medley Building
University of Melbourne
Grattan Street
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
scub...@unimelb.edu.au
New Book: Anecdotal Evidence
https:
;intellectual property' - commons as peer-to-peer ecology/economy may start
from undoing at least property as core concept of western Enlightenment. That
this implies undoing the 'proper' as the principle of individualism is one way
to recognise where anarchism belongs to capital
on-archism, many vs. few,
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On Tue,
The thread - on the way to dissolution - has been fascinating and I've not much
to add except that the list of topics avoids almost every major achievement of
the humanities (and therefore the reasons why governments, pressure groups etc
like to attack them).
Feminism arose in the 1970s not fro
I came late to Brown’s writing, and was deeply impressed: the diagnosis of
individualism seems even more astute living for a few months in the States. I’d
throw into the mix some thoughts from Laclau’s On Populist Reason: that the
unit of social action is neithe rindividuals nor groups, and cert
would it be more useful/interesting to establish communication with planet
Earth?
“If a lion would speak, we would not be able to understand it” (Wittgenstein)
but it is clear that lions (rivers, forests, oceans, reefs, animals etc) do
speak; but that we refuse to listen.
Nowhere in the galaxy i
The algorithms of the ruling class are in every epoch the algorithms of the
ruling class
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:59 +0100
From: Florian Cramer mailto:flrnc...@gmail.com>>
Cc: Nettime mailto:nettim...@kein.or
ens wrote:
>
>
> Sounds like "What Does The Ruling Class Do When It Rules"
>
> https://www.versobooks.com/books/292-what-does-the-ruling-class-do-when-it-rules
>
> Ciaoui, p+7D!
>
>
> On 2018-01-16 12:27, Sean Cubitt wrote:
>> The algorithms of t
Thanks for sharing the Tooze essay. Brian's last lines of comment hjit on a
remarkable metaphor
>A full connection to the global financial markets would be the equivalent
>of throwing gasoline on China's economic bonfire. At the very least,
>geopolitical embers will fly.
nettimers might like to
and with lived reality
it is active, creative, collective work, demanding and in the best sense
incompletable. This aesthetic commons is both the means and the goal
the solidarity of many nettimers, including lurkers like me, is a part of it,
certainly not worth throwing away over a neo-con DJ
st excesses of unbridled profit
and set to building peer-to-peer alternatives now so we have the organisations
we need when the shit hits the fan
Free the human seven billion!
Sean Cubitt
Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, Lon
thanks for circulating Patrice
there's a great piece responding to similar issues by Daniel Ross (aka
Stiegler’s translator):
https://mscp.org.au/plague-proportions/this-pandemic-should-not-have-happened
a flavour:
"Anthropogenic climate change and the systemic limits with which it is
associat
absolute failure (of the West)".
>
> -a
>
> ps: i suggest to leave room, in this definition, for failures of yet
> other proportions.
>
> pps: looks like adjectives are generally up for grabs these days and
> might become redundant rubble, if not signifiers of the opposite
sorry to hear about the wrist injury John: hope the gardening's good.
On population: 1. if you're right, abandoning the one-child family policy may
be the most significant political decision of the first part of the century -
both the policy and its termination might appear autocratic? 2. is the
some notes from a manuscript on Truth I've been working on: the problem seems
to be one of inadequate distrust
The problem with neo-populists is not that they distrust the media but that
they trust them too much (and trust the wrong media). They do not seem to
distrust advertising, softwar
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Subject: [EXT] Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics:
left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques
External email: Please exercise caution
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two short reflections on Brian's point on the corporate state:
the alt.right's libertarian situationism (which Brits recognise as Dominic
Cummings' cash from chaos doctrine) is an extension of Mount Pelerin's belief
that the state should a) shrink and b) be subject to 'law' - but clearly not
l
thanks Brian - as ever an astute analysis
It's intriguing how every autocrat this year hankers for the period round
1945-9: Modi wants to go back to Partition; Xi keeps claiming the revolution;
Trumpistas want to return to the Eisenhower era (For what it's worth Boris
seems to want to return to
hi John and nettimers
just a small corrective: you describe data as 'intentionally gathered', which
seems okay, and not inapprpriately extended to non-human intentions as in the
case of the fuel gauge. My car-driving knowledge is limited (the equivalent is
probably how much I crave a coffee af
just a small correction to david's post: "The UK doesn't have a market of
hundreds of
millions of people," he writes: "it did once but we voted to leave".
In fact the vote was over leaving the European Union. Mad King Boris decided
that meant also quitting the common market, which wasn't on the
One more war nested in the Donbas/Ukraine war: Putin wants to believe this is a
civil war.
Despite everything the West threw at revolutionary Russia, despite its own
errors and catastrophes, despite the devastation of the Great Patriotic war,
Russia emerged in 1945 with a greater landmass than
The history of the British secret state's incompetence is a rich field. Ezra
Pound and WB Yeats were arrested as foreign agents while out walking during the
time they spent at Stone Cottage near the Sussex coast. The incident is
memorable because of Yeats' involvement in the renewal of interest
al pace of journals allows
considered response to urgent issues, please post
Sean Cubitt
Professor of Film and Television; Co-Head, Department of Media and
Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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