Alan Sondheim: [ciresearchers] FW: [TriumphOfContent] Chinese internet addicts stage mutiny at boot camp: ????
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7145877.ec eFrom??Times Online June 8, 2010 Chinese internet addicts stage mutiny at boot camp
Jane Macartney, Beijing
Fourteen young detainees overcame their guard and fled a boot camp regime of [...]

Geert Lovink: Ten Theses on Wikileaks by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens: Ten Theses on Wikileaks By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
These 0. "What do I think of Wikileaks? I think it would be a good idea!" (after Mahatma Gandhi's famous quip on 'Western Civilisation')
These 1. Disclosures and leaks have been of all times, but never before has a [...]

Alan Sondheim: sondheimogram x11: odyssey, laws, dance, whose, roma, 3+1, us, roma, socmed, retiring]: [digested @ nettime -- mod (tb)]
Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
From the East of Odyssey Performance: Text, Video, Stills 8.14.10 maxims, laws of form The Sparse Dance at Humlab Whose Bodies The Roma: Europe's favorite Scapegoat [...]

Christian Fuchs: Special issue tripleC: Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture: tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society.
Vol. 8. No. 2: Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture Edited by Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken, Marcus Breen http://www.triple-c.at/index. [...]

Patrice Riemens: wikilazy arguing: Actually, the whole Internet is an 'unintended consequence' with which Big Business has learned to live, but never really loved, and has lost humongous amounts of money - real, and even more, potential - in it (although some businesses became very rich in the process, thank you). [...]

John Young: wikilazy arguing: You have a point, jaromil, nostalgia is narcosis for those with little future.
Right you are, a medal for that, wizened perspective is no more perspicacious than blissful ignorance, irrational states of delusion reign at both ends of the endless gene string. Your sprout gobbles my manure. [...]

jaromil: wikilazy arguing:
hi Morlock,
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:03:17PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
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not just that, because...
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...what you define as "unintended consequences" can only be called so from a NATO perspective (and not even so much anymore, looking at the [...]

Flick Harrison: Heiner Muller's Macbeth nach Shakespeare: Greetings netizens,
I'm working on a media / video design for a new english translation of Heiner Muller's Macbeth Nach Shakespeare with GasHeart / Conspiracy Theatre in Vancouver.
Just wondering, has anyone seen any productions of this play that included video and / or projections? [...]

t byfield: goofy leftists sniping at the NYT: Herr Doktor Google has never been able to help out with a dim memory I have about a poobah at the NYT, on seeing a copy of _USA Today_ (a paper famous for colorful infographics and vending machines designed to look like TVs), say something like: "Now it's come full circle -- [...]

Patrice Riemens: Yuppie creativity marches on in Berlin ... (Wall Street Journal): Trust the WSJ to convince you that art and culture only come to their own ('grow up') when they represent marketable value and the 'lifestyle' associated with it ...
original to Wall Street Journal W/e 20-22 August 2010: http://bit.ly/d3I9P4 (for pics & inserts)
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mez breeze: Meet Milo The Virtual Boy: Cloud-Sculpting The Mind of a Synthetic Human: This TED talk [ http://bit.ly/cPXXTJ ] by Peter Molyneux:
*"...demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns -- recognizing and responding to you. [...]

patrick lichty: lucky german jugend: null bock auf facebook: Well, the issue of this is acculturation.
Maybe this is similar to the idea of heidegger's premise that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Not really - it's just that when the kids grow up with the Net, they have no conception of what living with Black and White TV is like... [...]

Morlock Elloi: wikilazy arguing (was: The Return of DRM): Not really. WL is an expression of technology.
Actors, motives and philosophies are incidental. It's a great example how technology shapes everything - from ethics to politics and all in-between.
In this particular case, the infrastructure for low-cost broadcasting [...]

xDxD.vs.xDxD: wikilazy arguing (was: The Return of DRM): [...]
i don't know (yet?) if it's poetry or politics, but here it goes: it would be incredibly interesting if all the wikileaks / iceland issues would turn out in the formation of the first official "information paradise" of the era of cognitive capitalism, just like there have been "fiscal paradises" in the previous capitalism, just around the corner.
what would it be? ethics? business? mafia? illuminati? power-2-the-hackers? natural evolution? global-something? what?
ciaociao xDxD

Flick Harrison: lucky german jugend: null bock auf facebook: I've been teaching digital art to 6-12 year olds for almost 10 years and I'm constantly amazed at how adept they are at finding the most useless things to do on the computer... I mean this in a good way.
They love figuring out how to zoom in on the screen, make it negative, etc. [...]

Flick Harrison: lucky german jugend: null bock auf facebook: I've been teaching digital art to 6-12 year olds for almost 10 years and I'm constantly amazed at how adept they are at finding the most useless things to do on the computer... I mean this in a good way.
They love figuring out how to zoom in on the screen, make it negative, etc. [...]

jaromil: wikilazy arguing (was: The Return of DRM): hi Morlock,
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 03:03:26PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
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but then, leaving aside concerns whether IPhone rubbers will redeem themselves out of idiocracy (even them representing already an evolved form of cyborg than the remote control basher) don't you think that [...]

Jeebesh: A critique of nonviolence:
dear all,
waves of euphoria and crisis crisscross public discourse in places like india in recent times. this is also a great time for lively debates and thinking. here is an essay by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay from kolkata. he is an scholar who comfortably traverses multiple [...]

Tjebbe van Tijen: Amsterdam: “This station is closed” yet another example of the decline of public services: Amsterdam: “This station is closed” yet another example of the decline of public services
August 16, 2010 by Tjebbe van Tijen
Today the subway in Amsterdam opens again after being closed for six weeks because of an administrative mistake. This is NO joke, this is the infamous world village of Amsterdam. Working on a tramway or railway or whatever way in this muddy village most often results in closing off for what seems to be an unlimited time, whatever traffic passage may be concerned. The contract with the building firm that was at the basis of the decision to close down the metro for six weeks, was refuted because terms could not be met, but nevertheless the subway was closed down, because as a spokesman said the subway drivers all had been send already with holidays… This left me wondering about the sublime working conditions: 6 week sin one go? As this is a segregated town – though in full denial of the fact – it is “only” the predominant ‘non-wester-allochtones’ that suffered (sorry for the Dutch Apartheid vocabulary, you may need to check Wikpedia for this) they especially need to travel back & forward from the suburban Bijlmer-ghetto to the inner city.
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It is (only) thanks to the upcoming SAIL tourist event where eager – entrepreneurs hope to welcome a million extra clients – that the wind will blow some life into the subterranean public transport system. The photograph above shows a clumsy sign at one of the entrances of the subway system at the Central Station. At the most central Waterlooplein subway station that can be seen from my window there was NO sign whatsoever about why the doors were closed and how to get to the Bijlmer-ghetto…
the full illustrated article can be found at
http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/amsterdam-this-station-is-closed-yet-another-example-of-the-decline-of-public-services/
Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects Dramatizing Historical Information http://imaginarymuseum.org web-blog: The Limping Messenger http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/

Geert Lovink: lucky german jugend: null bock auf facebook: SPIEGEL ONLINE, 08/06/2010They may have been dubbed the "Internet generation," but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. [...]