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Alan Sondheim | 9 Feb 02:24
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Information Week discovers anonymous

This articles, composed of ten panels, fascinates me in its illustration 
of the somewhat clandestine; Information Week tends to remain corporate 
from top to bottom but makes for interesting reading.

"Mathew J. Schwartz 02/07/2012 Anonymous 'hacktivists' aim to expose what 
they call government and establishment hypocrisy. Take a closer look at 
the group, its offshoots, and its infamous attacks."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/security/attacks/232600322?cid=nl_IW_daily_2012-02-07_html&elq=618b922918214eaeb02d72afd9040891

- And take a look for a style of presentation based on listing "10 key 
facts" - a style adopted by any number of online magazines. Everything 
gets sewn up in the process, which is also entertaining and related (I 
think) to the hunt.

- Alan
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Dmytri Kleiner | 7 Feb 15:45
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Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

Transmediale 2012 is over. R15N is closed again, until the 
next occasion. As usual, lots of great people  at the 
festival, and lots to talk and think about.

On Saturday I attended the discussion "Commercialising Eros" with Jacob 
Appelbaum, Zach Blas, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Aliya Rakhmetova and 
moderated by Gaia Novati. Aliya Rakhmetova, supporter of sex workers' 
right working as a co-ordinator with SWAN, gave an overview of her 
organization and it's campaigns defending the rights of sex workers, 
including campaigns to fight violence against sex workers. Jacob 
Appelbaum went over his experience working in the IT department of 
smut.com, a leading internet pornography company, which he left as a 
result of his opposition to exploitive pay inequality at the company 
which paid the performers far less that the executives at the company. 
Liad Hussein Kantorowicz talked about her work as live erotic performer 
at a internet pornography site, and performed her job on the stage for 
her online clients while the other panelists gave their presentations. 
Zach Blas gave an overview of the work of the "Queer Technologies" art 
collective.

I enjoyed the presentations and discussions and applaud the panellists 
for their support of sex workers. One question stuck with me, I didn't 
expand upon it at the discussion, but I'd like to here.

Several of the panelists referred to the issue of consent as a 
justification for sex work and a way of arguing against legal 
repressions of sex work, and against the opposition against sex work 
that some feminists and other have, as well as a way to distinguish sex
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Patrice Riemens | 6 Feb 14:16
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Nathan Schneider: Planet Occupy (Harpers Magazine)

original to: http://harpers.org/archive/2012/01/hbc-90008434

bwo: http://www.nationofchange.org/anonymous-our-future-1328106234

Planet Occupy
By Nathan Schneider

Imagining an Occupied world

I recently learned about a revolutionist pamphlet published last year in
Spain called La Carta de los Comunes. It begins with an intriguing
conceit. Set in 2033 in a magical-realist Madrid, it tells of a population
whose bodies became physically hunched over in submission to a wealthy
few. At last, with their livelihoods nearly eviscerated, the people rise
up and take over their city. They resurrect the medieval notion of the
commons, creating a domain of shared resources apart from the market and
bureaucratic oversight. They learn to stand upright again. The pamphlet
then presents a Magna Carta for their new society.

I can't resist applying a similar futurism to Occupy Wall Street, the
phenomenon whose origins I describe in the February 2012 issue of
Harper's. Even the most hopeful young occupiers are starting to realize
that their revolutionary dreams might take longer to achieve than a
semester's leave from school -- and justly so. As I noticed during the
planning process, and have continued to see in the movement thus far, even
those most centrally involved are constantly discovering for themselves
where it is leading.

The question of what Occupy Wall Street is really about has been
notoriously thorny from the outset. The movement's attempts to craft
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Alan Sondheim | 6 Feb 23:56
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two essays on memory and annihilation


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>From performance with Monika Weiss, text written over six hours, at
Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Feb 6, 2012:

flying blind means working without network or planning
this is flying blind. this is a broken network.
what collapses is the software, the timing, the indication
that things aren't going to continue in this fashion, that what
is here is irretrievable
skies don't last forever
pain is what happens when the network collapses.
then there is nothing but bangu, the drum
there's nothing else but absence, exhaustion
there's no inscription, emptiness or depletion
depletion is what happens when the words disappear
when the words disappear, there is nothing more to be said.
there are no hearers, no listeners. there is the blank wall.
i am living in the blank wall.
software collapses. these pilots are dead. these pilots have all 
died. they died NOW when the film was shot.
these people can't stand up.
these people are in the network.
these people are out of the network, these people are the ends of 
it.
if you want to know where the internet goes, it goes here, it ends 
here.
it ends with these people HERE.
it ends with their dance-distortion, their ecstatic dance-distortion
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paolo do | 4 Feb 22:37
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European Forum in Rome: Income, Common Goods and Democracy // Rome 10-12 February, Teatro Valle

Throughout Europe, we are witnessing massive transfers of resources from
the public to the private sphere. The political responses to the crises are
defined by austerity measures and by cuts to social spending, driving
Europe further into recession.

>From Greece to Spain, from London to Rome, European people are increasingly
aware of the need for a different model of globalisation. From those
resisting the privatisation of resources (for example in Italy with the
water referendum, and currently in Romania) to the recent occupations of
public spaces against neoliberalism (for example in the UK and Spain), this
is the moment to construct and alternative Europe which is not a product of
neoliberal politics, but the political expression of European citizens.

Within this context, over forty organisations, networks and social
movements from eight European countries will meet in the 600-seat Valle
Theatre in Rome to organise a common front to construct an alternative
European model. This three-day forum will focus on the construction of
common transnational campaigns on the thematics of the commons and
guaranteed minimum income as well as the battle against precarity, also
utilising the new method provided with the European citizens? initiative.
The event will be a true opportunity to build European networks and
campaigns that will take concrete forms in follow-up meetings in Spain, the
UK, Romania, Bulgaria and France in the following months to continue the
work begun in Rome. The emphasis on concrete campaigns will be the starting
point to engage in a reflection on the revision of the EU Treaties, to
propose an alternative vision of Europe.

The Rome forum is organised by European Alternatives, the International
University College Turin, Teatro Valle, Centro Studi per l'Alternativa
Comune, Municipality of Naples, ARCI, Il Manifesto, Basic Income Network,
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Tjebbe van Tijen | 3 Feb 22:34
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Stadium ban for EU hooligans undermines civil rights

Stadium ban for EU hooligans undermines civil rights

February 3, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen

the illustrated and documented version with links can be found at:

http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/stadium-ban-for-eu-hooligans-undermines-civil-rights/

[tableau with fused picture of football hooligans with different national police officers in uniform and
an EU shield with the text "si  vis pacem para bellum"]

EUROPEAN FOOTBALL STADIUM BAN FOR HOOLIGANS… Ahmed Aboutaleb major of the City of Rotterdam rejoices
today the European Parliament initiative for an European level implementation of banning locally
convicted football hooligans from all EU stadiums.  (1) This law initiative has been long in the making. An
earlier document  by the Council of the European Union “Resolution of the Council on preventing and
restraining football hooliganism through the exchange of experience, exclusion from stadiums and
media policy” dates back to the year 1997:

The responsible Ministers invite their national sports associations to examine, in accordance with
national law, how stadium exclusions imposed under civil law could also apply to football matches in a
European context.

However much I dislike football hooligans this is a juridical precedent which will have far reaching
negative consequences for civil rights in general. Not only does it create yet another centrally managed
person database that can be accessed by all EU police forces (like data on persons DNA, illegal migrants
and so on) it is a further step in constructing a ‘central EU police force’ with all its inherent
dangers. Such an EU-wide anti-hooligan law also means multiplied condemnation – for a big part of the
European continent – on the basis of a local conviction.

Together with actual proposals (in the Netherlands) for ‘whole sale mass arrests’,  not only hooligan
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Flick Harrison | 2 Feb 20:32
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Email exchange between reporter, Transport Canada removed due to ‘copyright infringement’

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1125318--email-exchange-between-reporter-transport-canada-removed-due-to-copyright-infringement

OR

http://tinyurl.com/7jl6wk3

Wendy Gillis
Staff Reporter

Transport Canada says a copyright violation complaint it filed against Xtra.ca after the website
published correspondence between a reporter and a media relations officer has nothing to do with the exchange.

On Tuesday, Xtra.ca posted the complete on-the-record correspondence between Transport Canada and
reporter Andrea Houston using Scribd, a publishing website that allows users to upload documents to its
server and embed them in a webpage.

http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/UPDATE_Conservative_MPs_laugh_at_concerns_that_trans_people_face_flight_ban-11450.aspx

The document in question outlined Transport Canada?s airline identity screening regulationsallowing
air carriers to refuse to transport a passenger if he or she does not appear to be of the gender indicated on
the identification presented. The regulations have prompted outrage in the transgendered community,
and Xtra ? which specializes in gay, lesbian and transgendered news ? wanted to give readers complete
access to Transport Canada?s information, said Matt Mills, editorial director for Xtra Toronto.

But on Wednesday, Scribd removed the document, posting a statement that the document was ?removed due to
copyright infringement.?

Patrick Charette, the media relations manager with Transport Canada, confirmed Thursday that Transport
Canada filed the complaint, but only because it contained the direct email and phone number of media
relations officer Maryse Durette.
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Garrett Lynch | 1 Feb 21:38
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Re: Vincent Gallo versus Jillian Macdonald

Ridiculous, Jillian has many works in this vein.  Are we sure that this is legitimate?  Surely as a work dated
2004 a statute of limitations or a case for that would apply here?

Garrett
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On 1 Feb 2012, at 05:48, nettime-l-request@... wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:18:41 -0500
> From: Andres Manniste <andresmanniste@...>
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> Subject: <nettime> Vincent Gallo versus Jillian Macdonald
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> Artist Jillian Mcdonald has run into trouble with Vincent Gallo, who is 
> represented at the Whitney Biennial this year. It is about her 2004 
> work, "To Vincent, With Love",
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John Young | 1 Feb 12:05
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Re: M. Mills & J. Ottino: The Coming Tech-Led Boom (Wall Street Journal) - and more!

A wonderful prognosis for continuing US imperialism backed by
irresistable military power, heirarchical wealth generation for the
top tier managers-WSJ-millionaires of business and education 
enhanced by financial concealment and reduced taxation, glorification
of youth exploitation for consumption, jobs, NGO penitence, and 
machinic warfighting, and the promise of mid-level manager-teacher-
inventor-engineer-vulture capitalist rewards for manufacturing 
hypnotic widgets to bedazzle masses of lower paids sports fans, 
blessed by home-flag-waving creed recitation required of every 
place where US bribery infects with those three supremacist
cure-all tonics. 

An exact repetition -- cloud computer generated by a student-
unmanned drone -- of the rationales for nationalism, indoctrination,
chauvinism, capitalism, marketism, militarism, and degraded, 
stratified populace undergirding every global aggression since 
the invention of royal triumphalism. 

Nary a downside, darkside, foul-side, sick-side, disease-free,
war-nowhere-in sight except in recruiting media, everything 
coming up Masterpiece Theater spic and span, rising tide
raises all boats, trickle down benefits of great ideas of the western
world, ruled by benevolent masters so fucking greedy and conceited 
they cannot grasp the hatred they breed. 

As with the invention of crypto-nationalist MSM, WSJ is a font
of pig kissing psy-op-ed.
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Patrice Riemens | 1 Feb 08:54
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M. Mills & J. Ottino: The Coming Tech-Led Boom (Wall Street Journal) - and more!


Let's beat the cold (in Europe at least) and inaugurate February with a
'radiant future' piece from our favorite Prawda (back for grabs atop the
paperdump container at the economics faculty of the university of
Amsterdam, despite the 'paid circulation' scandal of last November ...)

Original to:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577140413041646048.html

The Coming Tech-led Boom
Three breakthroughs are poised to transform this century as much as
telephony and electricity did the last.

By MARK P. MILLS AND JULIO M. OTTINO

In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year recession.
Nineteen more followed—along with a century of phenomenal economic growth.
Americans in real terms are 700% wealthier today.

In hindsight it seems obvious that emerging technologies circa
1912—electrification, telephony, the dawn of the automobile age, the
invention of stainless steel and the radio amplifier—would foster such
growth. Yet even knowledgeable contemporary observers failed to grasp
their transformational power.

In January 2012, we sit again on the cusp of three grand technological
transformations with the potential to rival that of the past century. All
find their epicenters in America: big data, smart manufacturing and the
wireless revolution.
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Tjebbe van Tijen | 31 Jan 15:35
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17th CENTURY SPIN FOR FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE: I

17th CENTURY SPIN FOR FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE: I

the illustrated and link-documented version can be foudn at: 

http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/17th-century-spin-for-francois-hollande-i/

January 31, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen 

[tableau with François Hollande and Balthasar Gracián + maxime}

17th CENTURY SPIN FOR FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE: Oráculo Manual of the art of prudence by Balthasar Gracián
(1601-1658). Almost daily (on French news) we see the foolish triumphalist behaviour of one of the very
few alternatives to the reign of Sarkozy, and his UMP, François Hollande of the SP. Mass rallies and
visits to pre-arranged supportive crowds as if he  has already acquired the presidential seat. Election
to the royal position of French president is – sadly – first of all a matter of ‘rhetorics’ and not
of a party program. Person comes before content. The 21st century SPINS of Hollande are in my view hopeless
and lead him to electoral disaster. I recommend a more classic SPIN, the study of the classic ‘art of
prudence’ and the best master remains Balthasar Gracian a 17th century priest at the Spanish court, who
published a pocket book (hand oracle) from which I will quote in the coming election time. This is the first
maxime, number xix (19):

Arouse no Exaggerated Expectations on entering. It is the usual ill-luck of all celebrities not to fulfil
afterwards the expectations beforehand formed of them. The real can never equal the imagined, for it is
easy to form ideals but very difficult to realise them. (1)

—–
(1)  English translation under the (alternative) title “The Art of Worldly Wisdom” done by Joseph
Jacobs, [1892] in an on-line edition at Sacred Texts web site.

The Spanish original text “Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia” is on-line also in HTML format at the
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