http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6831 <pre>For some time I have been teasing my few economically literate friends on a possible Grexit &amp; Gre-re-entry for Grece's Euro blues, aka the 'Montenegro solution': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro_and_the_euro In an op-ed in today's issue of Le Monde, that is also, in my view, French economist and EHESS boss Jacques Sapir's take, when he writes that nobody appears to notice that the (next) Greek government _could_ (i) repudiate the entire Greek debt juncto the Troika demands, while at the same time (ii) ordering the Greek Central Bank to issue (in print or in scrip) as many Euros as it needs to keep the wheels of the country's economy moving. Meanwhile, Montenegro's rock star Rambo Amadeus, who already gave us the slogan "Don't Happy, Be Worry!" , is now the official Montenegro entry for the Baku Eurovision Song Contest Festival. His take on all this: Euro-Neuro, with hilarious (English, well, sortof) texts and funky images. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6S-FNLv2jQ Don't Happy, Be Worry</pre> Patrice Riemens 2012-05-25T15:28:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6830 <pre>Jon: Thanks for trying to wrestle with all this. While the analysis being discussed has been available for 50+ years, it has only rarely been considered as applicable to current events. The developments of the past 10+ years and, in particular, the current economic "crisis" compels us to at least try to apply this approach to see if it yields fruitful understanding of our predicament. The points that I have been making could be summarized as -- 1) The nature of the *economy* is shaped by the behaviors and attitudes of the people who live in that economy. We all make the world what it is. 2) These behaviors and attitudes are, in turn, "formed" by technological environment in which these people live. The world makes all of us what we are. 3) We are now in the midst of a *radical* shift in this technological environment -- from a mass-media (i.e. broadcast/one-way) "analog" economy to a *digital* (i.e. talk-back/two-way) economy. 4) Accordingly, we should expect to see changes in </pre> Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-24T14:04:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6829 <pre>Back Patches and Elbow Patches Zack Furness From the introduction to Punkademics: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=436 The position being taken is not to be mistaken for attempted education or righteous accusation. -Operation Ivy, “Room Without a Window” I think the moment at which I realized I was actually turning into a college professor was not on the first day I taught a class in 1999, but when I was listening to an old Operation Ivy tape about a year later and found myself wanting to sit the band’s singer, Jesse Michaels, down to have a frank discussion. Specifically, I wanted to ask him why, in a song written to both illuminate the politics of ideology (“walls made of opinions through which we speak and never listen”) and express the need for open-mindedness and self-reflexivity, would he choose to intentionally denounce the educational function of his lyrics from the outset? Not being a complete idiot nor unfamiliar with the band, I obviously realized that the song “Roo</pre> Stevphen Shukaitis 2012-05-24T10:32:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6828 <pre>I'm sorry, but as far as i can understand the argument goes something like this: New media: is digital, networked, allows many to many, many to one, and one to one 'conversation'. Its portable and distributed. It allows manipulation (to an extent) of images, sound and so on. It is not consumerist. Apple: makes equipment which is digital, networked, allows many to many, many to one, and one to one 'conversation'. Its portable and distributed. It allows manipulation (to an extent) of images, sound and so on. It is consumerist. Therefore apple is not new media..... Still think this argument is assuming a future which is not here yet in order to analyse what is happening now which is fine but the future is divined not observed I would say the argument actually implies: 1) 'New media' can be consumerist (just its revenues have been constantly overestimated if it does not involve physical objects) or 2) 'old media' is not dead, and may not die. If, as mark writes: "Kids waiting in line for a new iPhone -- h</pre> Jonathan Marshall 2012-05-23T23:56:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6827 <pre>To give some background to this article. Woolworths is one of Australia's duopoly of supermarket retailers. They own heaps of other retailing business as well as well as lots of gambling outputs. They, along with Westfarmers have gradually been crushing rival businesses in all forms of consumer activity. They make very good profits and growth of profits. They have been pushing impulse consumption through digital media. This is what they think about digital media: http://www.smh.com.au/business/phone-addicts-keep-shopping-fixes-alive-20120521-1z16u.html Woolworths's digital multi-channel expert, Penny Winn, told a Trans-Tasman business lunch yesterday how smartphone users had become increasingly fixated by their devices and that shopping was a natural addition to their use. Noting how 1.6 million people had downloaded the Woolies phone app, Winn said smartphones had become a part of our make-up as if we were addicted to them. ''I guess the one thing about these things is that it's almost like a heroin </pre> Jonathan Marshall 2012-05-23T23:11:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6826 <pre>Nettime: Michael Wolff, who I met 15 years ago when negotiating to buy a business from him, is a very smart guy -- particularly about advertising. Listen to what he says. There is no there there. We are now in a DIGITAL economy and Facebook was "sold" (by its own management) as if we were not! Here is the "exchange" that has occurred over the past few days on the *public* Facebook page of David Kirkpatrick, ex-Fortune writer and author of "The Facebook Effect" -- * _David Kirkpatrick_ (http://www.facebook.com/DavidKirkpatrick) * Two salient points in this NYT article. A portfolio mgr's quote: "It's a huge disappointment. Investors were expecting easy money on this one." Which means Wall Streeters presumed immediate gains should be theirs, not FB's. Illogical. And the fact Amazon similarly dropped post-IPO. Back then only true believers recognized Amazon's long term potential. Perhaps the same is true here. Which leaves the question for now, re FB stock--how</pre> Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-23T15:22:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6825 <pre>&lt;http://www.technologyreview.com/web/40437/"&gt; The Facebook Fallacy For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web. * Tuesday, May 22, 2012 * By Michael Wolff Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it. Given its vast cash reserves and the glacial pace of business reckonings, that will sound hyperbolic. But that doesn't mean it isn't true. At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our time: that the Web, with all its targeting abilities, can be a more efficient, and hence more profitable, advertising medium than traditional media. Facebook, with its 900 million users, valuation of around $100 billion, and the bulk of its business in traditional display advertising, is now at the heart of the heart of the fallacy. The daily and stubborn reality for everybo</pre> nettime's_bear 2012-05-23T11:47:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6824 <pre>chris mann &lt;chrisman-KealBaEQdz4&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Capitalism is FINISHED -- As a Result of the Internet! Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Capitalism is FINISHED -- As a Result of the Internet! Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org COMMUNISM Has Arrived (in fact, a long time ago)! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:35:45 -0400 Subject: Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Capitalism is FINISHED -- As a Result of the Internet! From: chris mann &lt;chrisman-KealBaEQdz4&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; isnt the point rather that people invest in apple coz its walled garden aesthetic is the most like television? i mean if the digital is the suburban expression of the quantum, an ode to the death of causality (seattle used to be kneedeep in mormans who believed the (ms) pc to be the democratised urim and thummim of a new age), then of course theres going to be a push for things </pre> nettime's_antithesis 2012-05-23T02:56:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6823 <pre>JORGE ZORREQUIETA and the DISPOSICIÓN FINAL: when will he show any remorse? May 22, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen For the full illustrated and documented article will links go to: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/jorge-zorrequieta-and-the-disposicion-final-when-will-he-show-any-remorse/ This is old news about a book by the Argentinian author Ceferino Reato who managed to interview the former Argentinian dictator Jorge Rafaela Videla in prison and for the first time having Videla speak about the real numbers of people killed by his regime in his vision (7 to 8 thousand persons). The book was published in Argentina a few months ago, but it merits special attention in the Netherlands because the Dutch Royal House has a family relation with one participant in the Videla regime. This relationship has been constantly half denied and underplayed. The policy of the Dutch Royal House and Dutch governments is one of low profile on this issue, in the hope it will be forgotten. When I checked today th</pre> Tjebbe van Tijen 2012-05-22T22:58:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6822 <pre>&lt;http://occupytheory.org/read/we-didn-t-know-it-was-impossible-so-we-did-it-the-quebec-student-strike-celebrates-its-100th-day.html&gt; "We didn't know it was impossible, so we did it!" The Quebec Student Strike celebrates its 100th day Malav Kanuga Origins of an unlimited general strike ("grève générale illimitée") Students in Quebec are marking their 100th day of an unlimited general strike on Tuesday, May 22nd, the culmination of the most stunning mass protest movements of recent months and North America's largest student movement in years. In fact, the mobilizations in Quebec might just be Canada's[9] Arab Spring. Students have been organizing against tuition hikes for nearly one and a half years, when the Quebec government first proposed to raise tuition fees by 75% over five years (amended to 82% over seven years by the government at the end of April). Before the general strike began in February, protests, demos, trainings, letter writing campaigns and a</pre> nettime's_roving_reporter 2012-05-23T01:34:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6821 <pre>for all who are interested in this debate and participation - looking forward to see you my best Dmitry *Berlin, Sunday, June 3rd, 19:00h, Flutgraben* *Address:* Am Flutgraben 3 12435 Berlin +49 30 5321 9658 ArtLeaks invites you to a public working assembly around the issues that are at the core of the group?s mission ? exposing instances of abuse, corruption and exploitation in the art world. This is the official public launch of our platform, which began to operate in September 2011, and will be followed by a series of debates and workshops in the near future. These present a unique opportunity to engage more directly with conditions of cultural work that affect not only artists but creative workers in general: those from the traditionally creative fields as well as those generally involved in cultural production. - see full text at http://art-leaks.org/2012/05/21/1st-artleaks-working-assembly-2012/ event at FB page http://www.facebook.com/events/176353445826756/ </pre> Dmitry Vilensky 2012-05-22T09:08:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6820 <pre>Radical Openness and #LiWoLi 2012 Tomorrow I head to Linz, Austria to participate in LiWoLi 2012. Thinking about "the challenges of a open practice" gets me thinking about what "radical openness" could mean. On the surface, it could just mean really, really, extremely, very open. But that's a overly colloquial understanding of the word radical, as in "totally rad," as opposed to "radical critique." Extreme or drastic is not necessarily radical. Radical requires a fundamental transformation, change so deep it goes to the root, the "radix". Radical has the a same linguistic root as "radish," the edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family. Thus, to be radical, a practice has to get at the root, to work towards a fundamental transformation, no matter how moderate or gradual. Radical openness would be not necessarily mean being as open as one could be, but rather working towards the fundamental obstacles to openness that exist, perhaps even in ways that are not open, or less open we might </pre> Dmytri Kleiner 2012-05-22T14:44:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6819 <pre>My interpretation is that the Occupy movement is largely fueled by those Americans (especially the young) who see their bleak future being realized and reinforced with each passing news cycle‹but those are people largely drawn from the segments of the population that even bother to pay attention to the news and current events. Though there is an anti-war/anti-imperialist element in the Occupy movement, the main motivation has been a will to confront the corrupt core of the US itself: massive taxpayer-financed write-offs, zero accountability, austerity in the form of a decayed infrastructure and underfunded or non-existent services for ordinary people, and, increasingly, attacks on the upper segments of the 99%. There is something beautifully selfish about the Occupy movement. For the growing population of poor urban youth of color, mis- or non-educated, segregated by space and media, overexposed to a toxic youth culture of anti-intellectualism, reductively sexualized human relationships, and moronic materi</pre> Dan S. Wang 2012-05-22T14:56:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6818 <pre>Thinking about the weakness of the US president, the weakness of the Democratic Party and the present weakness of the Occupy-Movement and its lacking of a real goal I propose to concentrate on President Obama. Since having red this ??. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/the-obama-contradiction_b_1464721.html (in short: with a little help from 9/11 bush and cheney deregulated american law and put more and more power in the hands of one man, the president and commander in chief. while not really scoring with his domestic plans (health care..etc) Obama tried to gain respect by increasingly showing up as some kind of warlord, having his own private &lt;more militarized CIA army&gt; and growing hordes of special fordes, 60'000 of them. now imagine all this power in Mitt Romney's hands?.. ?.I sincerely propose this: OCCUPY OBAMA (think of t-shirts, banners, stickers?.) The Occupy-Movement should try to force/invite the president to de- bush and de-cheney the USA. Therefore: OCC</pre> Geert Lovink 2012-05-21T09:54:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6817 <pre>Dear nettimers, as many of you probably know the Quebec's provincial government has recently passed an emergency law whose goal is to quash the massive student strike and demonstrations against tuition hike in public universities: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/quebec-passes-student-protest-law http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/massive-police-repression-victovillequebec-4th-may-protests/ http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/bernans/10930 http://cutvmontreal.ca/broadcasts/2012/5/18-3 Below is the press release for a day of action organized by Free University NYC in solidarity in New York on May 22. cheers, snafu ***** ANNOUNCING THE FREE UNIVERSITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH QUEBEC STRIKE!! Pop-Up Free University in Solidarity with the Quebec Student Movement LIST OF EVENTS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 22nd The Free University is hosting a pop-up occupation Tuesday, May 22nd in Washington Square Park at 5PM on the 100th day of the Quebec students? unlimited strike, already one of the largest student mobilizat</pre> Snafu 2012-05-21T15:44:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6816 <pre>Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Capitalism is FINISHED -- As a Result of the Internet! Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Jonathan Marshall &lt;Jonathan.Marshall-1dnWGznF1N8QrrorzV6ljw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Capitalism is FINISHED -- As a Result of the Internet! [conclusion of previous message that got truncated . . . ] McLuhan's *own* primary point about "software" is that it leads to PATTERN RECOGNITION -- not magic and not stupidity. Popular phrases like "get a clue" and "too much information" seem to support his insight. While he is mostly remembered for "the medium is the message" and "global village" -- both of which were phrases that were used by *advertisers* to promote their McLuhan wares -- in his *hey-day* the phrase he used most often when asked to </pre> nettime's_digestive_system 2012-05-20T23:27:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6815 <pre>Jon: As the folks at Apple will tell you, their advertising spend to "attract" customers (who Steve Jobs famously referred to as "bozos") -- such as the iconic "Think Different" campaign and even the original MAC Superbowl ad -- have largely occurred in MASS-MEDIA, where Apple can "control the message." Many people also *refuse* to buy APPLE products. Since I followed the company for 20+ years on Wall Street, they are quite happy to be a *minority* market-share holder. Apple is a *especially* good example of a company that doesn't let people "talk back" (i.e. the hallmark of mass-media, not the web.) Perhaps those who refuse are the "non-bozos" who are being (relatively) more rational? My comments about advertising are largely reports from people INSIDE that industry -- not my own "opinions." My guess is that you would benefit from talking to some advertising veterans to see what they have learned over the past 20+ years. I see from your resume and publications history </pre> Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-20T16:26:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6814 <pre> Mark writes lots of interesting things about advertising and his contacts within the advertising industry in response to my question "Still don't know why digital tech is driving this process...." the main point of which (forgive me if i'm misreading) is that previously techniques worked and that: However: AS i wrote earlier, i'm doubtful about this - especially given the marketing succes of Apple, and the way that people seem to throw away old phones and tablets in a rush to get the newest Apple thing, which often does not seem to be a necessary improvement. Indeed frequently to me, much cheaper items appear to be indetectably good. Somehow whenever apple plans to take over the world, or issues faulty products, it gets away with it, to a degree which would seem implausible for say, Microsoft. To me this means that at least one company has its advertising right, and either excess consumption or conspicuous consumption of its products is not being diminished by the web, and are being furthered by t</pre> Jonathan Marshall 2012-05-20T01:13:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6813 <pre> indeed, the argument of people like Rosa Luxemburg and Geoff Hodgson, was that capitalism needed all the other economies, (personal, gift, tribute etc) in order to survive. The problem is that it then converts all economies to Capitalist ones (which was of course Marx and Engels complaint in the manifesto - and used to be the complaint of conservative thinkers before they became 'taken in' by money and power) So the issue, for me, anyway, is the conflict between different types of economy, and the undermining of capitalism that comes about by its undermining of these other economies. How do things like trust become commodified, and then 'sell out'? How does art compete with having to be for sale? when there is no other way to live? How does free exchange of culture and ideas become inhibited to the extent that culture and ideas cannot prosper? or culture becomes corporatly owned? I'm not sure here. which is why i'd still like to retain some idea of 'the real' and its resistance. If tech defined </pre> Jonathan Marshall 2012-05-20T06:36:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6812 <pre>Dear nettimers, I am not very often participating in signature campaigns but this one =20= is really impressive. There is a real momentum here to put pressure on =20= Elsevier and other academic publishers who continue their ridicuous IP =20= policies concerning publicly funded academic research. Yours, Geert --- 11619 Researchers Taking a Stand. See the list Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for =20 years with little effect. These are some of their objections: =95 They charge exorbitantly high prices for subscriptions to individual = =20 journals. =95 In the light of these high prices, the only realistic option for =20 many libraries is to agree to buy very large "bundles", which will =20 include many journals that those libraries do not actually want. =20 Elsevier thus makes huge profits by exploiting the fact that some of =20 their journals are essential. =95 They support measures such as SOPA, PIPA and the Research Works Act, = =20 that aim to restrict the free exchan</pre> Geert Lovink 2012-05-17T08:23:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6811 <pre>marc Lafia &lt;marclafia2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; our world is teeming with empires: on networks, histories and { brad brace } &lt;bbrace-qx95VtOkOx/QT0dZR+AlfA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; kickstart - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:04:08 -0400 Subject: our world is teeming with empires: on networks, histories and From: marc Lafia &lt;marclafia2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; greetings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:06:30 -0700 (PDT) From: { brad brace } &lt;bbrace-qx95VtOkOx/QT0dZR+AlfA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Subject: kickstart http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bbrace/global-islands-project Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-ebooks/field-recordings -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters. An intensive examination of small islands and their paradi</pre> nettime's_tout 2012-05-18T21:09:40 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.internet.nettime