http://blog.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6808 <pre>Keith: Fine question! Because technology defines the *environment* in which we live -- so regardless of what "we" bring to the situation, the *ground* of our experience is the SAME! ECONOMY means (etymologically) "how we manage our household" and whether its Pretoria or Mumbai or Jakarta or Berlin, in crucial respects we have all been living in the "same" house for quite awhile now. This of course is the theme of GLOBALIZATION -- which was already in place in the 1950s, pre-saged with the Arthur C. Clarke's initial article on geo-stationary satellites intended to "beam" the same television shows to everyone on earth. That is, of course, exactly what happened. Furthermore, following WW II, one group of elites "managed" the world economy -- since they were the "winners." They set up the UN, the IMF/World Back, the CIA and directly ran the "re-invention" of the German and Japanese economies. They defined the Cold War down to the level of "hiring" virtually every intellectual and</pre> Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-17T13:16:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6807 <pre> European Sociological Association (ESA): Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research Conference “Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism“ October 18-20, 2012. University of the Basque Country, Bilbao Abstract submission deadline: May 31st Keynote talk: Peter Golding "Why a Sociologist should take Communications and Media Seriously” Submission information: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/ESA_RN18_CfP2012.pdf Dear colleagues, In my role as chair of the European Sociological Association’s (ESA) Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research, I want to invite you to submit abstracts for presentations at the RN18 conference “Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism“. The deadline for submission is approaching – May 31st. The conference will provide opportunities for presenting ideas in the field of the critical study of media, communication &amp; society, for networking, and for meeting pe</pre> Christian Fuchs 2012-05-17T17:41:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6801 <pre>Sotheby's: offer your art handlers a fair contract Sign the petition at = http://www.change.org/petitions/sotheby-s-offer-your-art-handlers-a-fair-c= ontract May 1, 2011 For the past eight months, Sotheby's has locked its 43 unionized art = handlers out of work. Rather than negotiating a fair contract with its = employees, the company has issued a set of demands: the gutting of the = art handlers' union, the elimination of health insurance and other = benefits, and the replacement of full-time skilled workers with = temporary unskilled laborers. Sotheby's has decided that the handling of priceless artworks is an easy = job; that low-paid temporary workers with little training or incentive = can manage the constant stream of artifacts into and out of the world's = largest auction house. The 43 locked-out workers who have made art = handling their career know this is not true. There have been no negotiations. In meeting after meeting, Sotheby's has = stalled, preferring instead to extend the lockout in th</pre> anton vidokle 2012-05-01T21:50:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6800 <pre> I don't want to suggest that everything is business as usual, but my understanding is that this is pretty normal in financial crises in capitalism, when there is a shortage in the money supply, and governments abandon the 'keysian solution'. Certainly where i live banks seem to be refusing to loan to anyone who cannot immediately pay them off - which basically means small business and normal people cannot borrow. So, to a certain extent the 'bottom' end of the economy, (which has never been provided for first) is finding it hard to get credit, and given that credit seems to have been the main source of spending then spending will decline. Whether this will eventually fix itself or not i don't know. But i have no idea what this has to do with 'new media', the decline of mass media, or indeed conspicuous consumption. My point was that conspicuous consumption still seems to flourish in the new media field, where status spending fits in with market drives and status claims. I'm also not sure that the mass</pre> Jonathan Marshall 2012-05-15T23:10:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6799 <pre>Commercialization makes your online rights irrelevant, more thoughts from my talk with &lt; at &gt;ioerror at #rp12 Last week I wrote about one of the topics Jacob Appelbaum and I discussed at our talk at Re:publica 2012 {1}; that as a result of the commercialization of the Internet, we have moved from free and open social platform, to the centralized social media monopolies we know today. Today I want to mention another issue that we covered, how commercialization is putting an end to the Internet as a public space. It's import to understand that it's not that capital does not want to fund free and open platforms, or that capitalists choose not to: capital simply can not do so. Capital can not fund free and open platforms because capitalists must capture profit or lose their capital, and thus for-profit platforms that can not capture profit must eventually vanish. In order to capture profit, capitalist funded platforms must introduce choke-points and/or toll-gates into there platforms, because their b</pre> Dmytri Kleiner 2012-05-15T12:29:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6798 <pre>Hello Nettimers. Below is an essay response to an installation/intervention artwork I made last year as part of a series of commisions by Letting Space - an organisation producing site-specific works in commercial spaces left vacant since the 2008 market contractions. My project broke into the inner architecture of a 9 floor office block and took over the building's lighting system to run it via a data feed replaying that day's stock market activity. To some degree, this project was shaped by consumption of Nettime discourse. cheers, Colin LINK: http://www.lettingspace.org.nz/essay-market-testament HOPE IS NOT ABOUT WHAT WE EXPECT Martin Patrick looks retrospectively at Colin Hodson?s April 2011 Letting Space project The Market Testament "If art and politics meet at all, it?s in the obligation to work concretely in the present toward an ideal that may never be fully attainable" - Barry Schwabsky, The Nation, 12 Jan 2012 Cinematic Disasters I spent my otherwise uneventful small town pre-adolescence</pre> colin hodson 2012-05-14T02:42:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.internet.nettime/6797 <pre>Jon: Sure -- the inability of any of the "developed" economies to grow. For some "unexplained" reason -- which is not simply because people are "poor" or have no "disposable income" or "are worried about the future" -- *demand* just isn't there to re-energize the "treadmill" required to grow the GDP. Furthermore, the widely understood "mechanism" used to generate demand in excess of *needs* -- in particular, the psychological impact of mass-market advertising -- has dramatically faded in its effectiveness and the presumed "replacement" of *targeted* advertising has failed to live up to expectations (as widely understood by those in this business.) In addition, those who have been "polling" US consumers about their attitudes over the past 20+ years, such as DYG Inc., have noticed a change that has grown over the past decade -- across all "demographics" and "cohorts" -- that shows a significant shift away from "quantity" to "quality" of life. LESS-is-MORE began to be a very</pre> Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-13T22:21:11 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.internet.nettime