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<nettime> Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!
NotWorking Youth: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!: Internet for Democracy.
Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!
http://www.internetfordemocracy.net http://www.internetfordemocracy.net/sign.php http://www.internetfordemocracy.net/petition.php
"Today the enemy is not called Empire or Capital. It's called Democracy. [...]
http://www.internetfordemocracy.net http://www.internetfordemocracy.net/sign.php http://www.internetfordemocracy.net/petition.php
"Today the enemy is not called Empire or Capital. It's called Democracy. [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Michael H Goldhaber: A scenario for World War III:
[...]
At least dating back to Vietnam, the main justification for ongoing American Wars have been the necessity of "supporting our troops," and not wasting the lives that have already been lost. Doing that with robots alone seems fairly difficult, and the robots are not, as yet, cheap. [...]
At least dating back to Vietnam, the main justification for ongoing American Wars have been the necessity of "supporting our troops," and not wasting the lives that have already been lost. Doing that with robots alone seems fairly difficult, and the robots are not, as yet, cheap. [...]
<nettime> Victims to their own volatile intent
Bruce Sterling: Victims to their own volatile intent: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/formalnotation.pdf
1 Digital / Media Art and the Need for a Formal Notation System
Digital and media art forms include Internet art, software art, computer-mediated installations, as well as other non-traditional art forms such as conceptual art, [...]
1 Digital / Media Art and the Need for a Formal Notation System
Digital and media art forms include Internet art, software art, computer-mediated installations, as well as other non-traditional art forms such as conceptual art, [...]
<nettime> A scenario digest [Rob Myers, Heiko Recktenwald, John Hopkins]
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<nettime> A scenario digest [Rob Myers, Heiko Recktenwald, John Hopkins]
nettime's dr doom: A scenario digest [Rob Myers, Heiko Recktenwald, John Hopkins]:
From: Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> Subject: Re: <nettime> A scenario for World War III Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:22:59 +0000 To: nettime-l at kein.org
On 05/03/10 10:52, Keith Hart wrote:
[...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_2000#Original_setting [...]
From: Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> Subject: Re: <nettime> A scenario for World War III Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:22:59 +0000 To: nettime-l at kein.org
On 05/03/10 10:52, Keith Hart wrote:
[...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_2000#Original_setting [...]
<nettime> Trickster City / Authors Launch text
Jeebesh: Trickster City / Authors Launch text:
dear all,
enclosed is the authors intro text on the launch of the book Trickster City : Writings from the belly of a metropolis. (Penguin, 2010). The authors shared their thoughts on writing and the city during the launch of the book. Here is the english translation.
happy reading. [...]
enclosed is the authors intro text on the launch of the book Trickster City : Writings from the belly of a metropolis. (Penguin, 2010). The authors shared their thoughts on writing and the city during the launch of the book. Here is the english translation.
happy reading. [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Brian Holmes: A scenario for World War III:
Thanks to Keith for an extremely provocative bit of historical
imagination. Equally important to air would be the scenarios of a new
kind of fascism, which would necessarily attend on war, and whose
initial contours, very different from the mid-twentieth century [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
John Young: A scenario for World War III:
The writings and lectures of Robert Mundell are relevant to this.
Mundell, Economic Nobelist, provided the intellectual framework for
the Euro and is now a prime advisor to the Peoples Republic of ChinaA Canadian by birth, long in the United States, educated in the [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Michael H Goldhaber: A scenario for World War III:
Hi Keith,
With all due respect, though many of your premises make good sense, and one should never underestimate the stupidity of those in power (especially not today or in the near future, with the US govt basically adrift) I don't think your WWIII scenario ( to the limited extent it even is one) holds much water. It's true that financial manipulations could be considered war by other means, but that hardly implies they would turn to actual war. Neither China, Russia nor the US orEurope has the number of large families willing to surrender a substantial proportion of their children as cannon fodder, which was not the case a few generations ago. countries are far more interdependent now, and so anything approaching full-scale war between advanced countries including the BRIC ones seems pretty self-defeeating.
Of course, in away we are already in sort of World War, what with the ongoing Congo crisis, Sudan, Somailia the Iraq and Afghan wars, the still hot Islamic south of Russia, and the looming crisis over Iran. But these are wars fought substantially by proxy and in very poor places, for the most part. The dangers of either nuclear war or even full-scale conventional war between well-armed rivals are so obvious tht even the current crop of leaders are far toointellignet to risk any such adventure. After all, the whole reason for sabre rattling against Iran is that they may get nukes, but that does not mean that even India or Pakistan would be foolish enough to start a nuclear war against one another. the US has still more constraint on it, and will for sometime to come.So do Russia and China.
WWII did plenty to help lift the industrialized world out of the Depression, through rampant, and not so creative destruction. The equivalent no w though is hardly thinkable, even by a Hitler, should one arise. that leaves the question of how to increase worldwide aggregate demand, and I generally agree there is no simple answer, but China and India are certainly doing their best to find such a way, through rapidly expanding their own growth. I don't happen to think that will be enough, but that is partly because I think the new post-capitalist attention economy is growing much faster, and the future will be more in that direction. This will lessen the importance of states even further, and with that lessening, war will be even more useless. Terrorism is till a fair wart y to attract attention, but not to hold it, so I don't see that mode of warfare as having much future either. Cultures will compete in something more akin to a global version of American Idol.
But of course, even if that is all true, the cataclysm to fear still will be global warming,a bout which not much, it would appear will be done in time.
Best, Michael
With all due respect, though many of your premises make good sense, and one should never underestimate the stupidity of those in power (especially not today or in the near future, with the US govt basically adrift) I don't think your WWIII scenario ( to the limited extent it even is one) holds much water. It's true that financial manipulations could be considered war by other means, but that hardly implies they would turn to actual war. Neither China, Russia nor the US orEurope has the number of large families willing to surrender a substantial proportion of their children as cannon fodder, which was not the case a few generations ago. countries are far more interdependent now, and so anything approaching full-scale war between advanced countries including the BRIC ones seems pretty self-defeeating.
Of course, in away we are already in sort of World War, what with the ongoing Congo crisis, Sudan, Somailia the Iraq and Afghan wars, the still hot Islamic south of Russia, and the looming crisis over Iran. But these are wars fought substantially by proxy and in very poor places, for the most part. The dangers of either nuclear war or even full-scale conventional war between well-armed rivals are so obvious tht even the current crop of leaders are far toointellignet to risk any such adventure. After all, the whole reason for sabre rattling against Iran is that they may get nukes, but that does not mean that even India or Pakistan would be foolish enough to start a nuclear war against one another. the US has still more constraint on it, and will for sometime to come.So do Russia and China.
WWII did plenty to help lift the industrialized world out of the Depression, through rampant, and not so creative destruction. The equivalent no w though is hardly thinkable, even by a Hitler, should one arise. that leaves the question of how to increase worldwide aggregate demand, and I generally agree there is no simple answer, but China and India are certainly doing their best to find such a way, through rapidly expanding their own growth. I don't happen to think that will be enough, but that is partly because I think the new post-capitalist attention economy is growing much faster, and the future will be more in that direction. This will lessen the importance of states even further, and with that lessening, war will be even more useless. Terrorism is till a fair wart y to attract attention, but not to hold it, so I don't see that mode of warfare as having much future either. Cultures will compete in something more akin to a global version of American Idol.
But of course, even if that is all true, the cataclysm to fear still will be global warming,a bout which not much, it would appear will be done in time.
Best, Michael
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Patrice Riemens: A scenario for World War III:
Hee Matze,
Well it was not my opinion, I referred to what was written in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). I do not believe seriously in it either, but with the proviso "expect the unexpected" - very irrational decisions may be made in politics - see Yugoslavia (*) [...]
Hee Matze,
Well it was not my opinion, I referred to what was written in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). I do not believe seriously in it either, but with the proviso "expect the unexpected" - very irrational decisions may be made in politics - see Yugoslavia (*) [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Matze Schmidt: A scenario for World War III:
Thanks, but I am not so sure about "Germany is the most likely candidate
to leave the Euro" -- the reason is, as long as the EURO can hit the
USDollar, e.g. on the oil market, it will. So the euro is the weapon for
the European interests. Sure Greece etc. [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Matze Schmidt: A scenario for World War III:
Let me add and relativize: the PIGS
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/PIIGSmap.png/300px-PIIGSmap.png)
are in deep debts of the FRG. Greece's political=financial/economical
system will be soon taken over by German capital interests (no joke and [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Patrice Riemens: A scenario for World War III:
Not read Keith's note yet (shame! get out of here! ;-) but just read
an opinion in the Wall Street Journal - always fun read for pinko's
like me - and it was a bit, err, disquieting...
The fun part was about 'nominal rigidities' vs 'real' ones. To cut [...]
The fun part was about 'nominal rigidities' vs 'real' ones. To cut [...]
<nettime> A scenario for World War III
Keith Hart: A scenario for World War III:
Sunam Son from Chicago wrote to me to ask what I meant by my occasional
references to a possible World War III. I wrote this in reply. It's not what
I think will happen, but all the nasty bits brought into one scenario.
http://thememorybank.co.uk/2010/03/05/world-war-iii/
1. [...]
http://thememorybank.co.uk/2010/03/05/world-war-iii/
1. [...]
<nettime> [propaganda] _netart latino database_
nilo casares: [propaganda] _netart latino database_:
[...]
este libro ha sido editado para poner en circulación quinientas copias facsimilares (treinta y cinco de ellas numeradas y firmadas por el autor) de la _netart latino database_ de brian mackern, adquirida por el meiac el uno de enero de dos mil ocho por noventa y nueve céntimos de euro. [...]
[...]
este libro ha sido editado para poner en circulación quinientas copias facsimilares (treinta y cinco de ellas numeradas y firmadas por el autor) de la _netart latino database_ de brian mackern, adquirida por el meiac el uno de enero de dos mil ocho por noventa y nueve céntimos de euro. [...]
<nettime> [[[news-Struggles]]] .:: edu-factory.org ::.??
isabella pinto: [[[news-Struggles]]] .:: edu-factory.org ::.??:
www.edu-factory.org
*Occupation at CSU Fullerton*
FULLERTON, California ? As of 3AM, CSU Fullerton?s 8-story Humanities building has been barricaded from the inside by some fairly heavy materials. Their communique below. Why Occupy? And Why the Humanities Building? (Updates Follow)[...] [...]
*Occupation at CSU Fullerton*
FULLERTON, California ? As of 3AM, CSU Fullerton?s 8-story Humanities building has been barricaded from the inside by some fairly heavy materials. Their communique below. Why Occupy? And Why the Humanities Building? (Updates Follow)[...] [...]
<nettime> into futurism i will make my stand
Alan Sondheim: into futurism i will make my stand:
into futurism i will make my stand
http://www.alansondheim.org/futurism.mp4
this Lunarcharsky for futurism. digital futures you? You've written of futures - possible futures, for the beautiful, beautiful futures out of drowned, invisible, submergence, details details pictures images future this futures world it all it this its digital futures its beautiful drowning, sail like a great ship of state into uncharted waters, darkened futures, futures, & I will love you, will love you forever. My darling, I am the future and I won't even be there, I leave you this presence of futurism, and because, among the beautiful drowning, i will not be there, and because i will not be there, and among them, you will see me there, among starlight futurisms among stars and nighttime skies, O Skies! I shall not see these, i shall not see these, i shall not see these skies, these seas, i shall not see them, O Skies! O Seas!
into futurism i will make my stand
http://www.alansondheim.org/futurism.mp4
this Lunarcharsky for futurism. digital futures you? You've written of futures - possible futures, for the beautiful, beautiful futures out of drowned, invisible, submergence, details details pictures images future this futures world it all it this its digital futures its beautiful drowning, sail like a great ship of state into uncharted waters, darkened futures, futures, & I will love you, will love you forever. My darling, I am the future and I won't even be there, I leave you this presence of futurism, and because, among the beautiful drowning, i will not be there, and because i will not be there, and among them, you will see me there, among starlight futurisms among stars and nighttime skies, O Skies! I shall not see these, i shall not see these, i shall not see these skies, these seas, i shall not see them, O Skies! O Seas!
<nettime> $i$ekiana dige$$$t [x4: margrz, braman, ptqk, blace]
nettime's_paymaster: $i$ekiana dige$$$t [x4: margrz, braman, ptqk, blace]: Re: <nettime> anybody knowing how much a Zizek gig costs?
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Sandra Braman <braman at uwm.edu>
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<nettime> Netherlands March 3, 2010 municipal elections: voting to loose your voice for 1500 days
Tjebbe van Tijen: Netherlands March 3, 2010 municipal elections: voting to loose your voice for 1500 days: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/netherlands-march-3-2010-municipal-elections-voting-to-loose-your-voice-for-1500-days/
Netherlands March 3, 2010 municipal elections: voting to loose your voice for 1500 days
March 3, 2010 by Tjebbe van Tijen
Voting day in the Netherlands? [...]
Netherlands March 3, 2010 municipal elections: voting to loose your voice for 1500 days
March 3, 2010 by Tjebbe van Tijen
Voting day in the Netherlands? [...]
<nettime> anybody knowing how much a Zizek gig costs?
John Young: anybody knowing how much a Zizek gig costs?:
Depends on how many persons are invited to a dinner to watch him
eat ravenously and monologue, eat and razor, eat and slash, eat and
disembowel.
Bring a largish wallet, he can empty awesome buckets while expounding torrents of verbal mesmer.
Push back your chair toward the end, there will be a thunderous acidic belch, a roving eye will lock onto a hypnotized female as an eagle spies a rodent, then, swoosh, off he will fly scattering crumbs and clouds of halitosis, the ecstatic untenured feebly yodeling.
The performance is worth every centavo, and there's nothing to match it from a stage without food to energize his engine or with lumbering idiots trying to sabotage his Formula 1 casanovaic.
There will be blood when his manifold servants complete their theses of warlockery.
Bring a largish wallet, he can empty awesome buckets while expounding torrents of verbal mesmer.
Push back your chair toward the end, there will be a thunderous acidic belch, a roving eye will lock onto a hypnotized female as an eagle spies a rodent, then, swoosh, off he will fly scattering crumbs and clouds of halitosis, the ecstatic untenured feebly yodeling.
The performance is worth every centavo, and there's nothing to match it from a stage without food to energize his engine or with lumbering idiots trying to sabotage his Formula 1 casanovaic.
There will be blood when his manifold servants complete their theses of warlockery.
