headers
lotu5 | 1 Sep 2005 08:09
Picon
Favicon

Re: Benjamin Mako Hill on Creative Commons

> Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software 
> Movement
> Author: 	Benjamin Mako Hill
> Contact: 	mako@...
> Date: 	Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:39:49 -0400
> Copyright: 	Creative Commons ShareAlike License

Hi Mako,

This is a great article. It reminds me of why I stopped developing Debian and decided
to focus my time working on Anarchist and Anti-Capitalist organizing. The sense of
disillusionment and the ultimate theme that CC is not enough resonates with me, while
it is different. Funny, as you were one of the main people to help me into Debian.

> Comparisons between CC and Free Software are hardly coincidental. The CC 
> website proudly describes the inspiration for the project as, in part, 
> "the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License (GNU GPL)." 
> Many of the minds behind CC (Lawrence Lessig, James Boyle, and others) 
> made important contributions to legal and philosophical discussions of 
> the Free Software movement before starting CC.

It would seem to me that the Free Software Foundation should have some input on this
issue in general. It seems that CC is using them as a reference point and using them to
gain credibility, so maybe they should provide a response to that use.

> Free software advocates have been able to use the free software 
> definition as the rallying point for a powerful social movement. Free 
> software, like the concept of freedom in any freedom movement, is 
> something that one can demand, something that one can protest for, and 
> something that one can work toward. Working toward these goals, Free and
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 7 comments |
headers
heiko hansen | 1 Sep 2005 13:57

Re: Happy Birthday: Ten Years After


even better would be to not move at all and to meet the other nettimers in
their current location. the list is truly distributed (geographically) and I
am sure that many members have crossed paths on the ether, not knowing that
they shop in the same supermarket. also, in that way the money for flight
tickets could be invested into a better bottle of wine, globally ...

h
Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
J-D marston | 1 Sep 2005 20:42
Picon

my website suddenly got popular, and now I have to pay

[subject line changed from 'Subject: nettime-l-digest V1 #1340'  <at>  nettime]

I'm wondering if any folks have had experience with this, fighting this
type of policy, or what rights - if any - I have in refusing to pay or this
policy... I've included my letter below.

Dear Rhizome-

I signed up for your starter plan (w/ Broadspire) some time ago -
usemenow.com.  While I was out of town this past weekend my website
suddenly became all the rage, thru various link depots, and my Traffic
jumped to stratospheric proportions.  In that time Broadspire did not take
the site down - seeing as my bandwidth had been egregiously exceeded - but
instead decided to take it upon themselves to keep the site up - at a cost
to me of over 700 dollars.  Obviously I cannot afford this, being that I am
not a commercial site, I would have never requested to keep it up at those
traffic levels.  Nor would I ever agree to exceed my bandwidth by that much
- the most telling proof is the fact that my plan is the cheapest plan
available, which allows for 1gb of traffic a month.  I got in total, 290gb
in 4 days.  In my past experience with webhosts, these kind of numbers are
a red flag, and they pull the plug and throw up a 'bandwidth exceeded'
error message, but not Broadspire.  They only pulled it when they attempted
to charge my credit card over 718 dollars.  I need to know what, if any,
legalities you had in your relationship with Broadspire as they are
refusing to communicate their policy on bandwidth overages.  If indeed
Broadspire's legal contract is to charge overages without consent from the
owner, I would sincerely reconsider your relationship with Broadspire, and
at the least, let your hosted folks know about this.  It is unacceptable
business policy.
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
stevphen shukaitis | 3 Sep 2005 17:50

The Connection Between the War Against Terrorism, Economics and Media-Art

The Connection Between the War Against Terrorism, Economics and Media-Art

Researchers, activists and media-artists meet on the Trans-Siberian train
from Moscow to Beijing September 11th - 20th 2005.

The conference "Capturing the Moving Minds" gathers a pack of people -- artists,
economists, researchers, philosophers, activists -- who are interested in the new
logic of the economy, the new form of war against terrorism and in the new
cooperative modes of creation and resistance, together in a space moving in time.
Spatially moving bodies and bodies moving in time (through the different time
zones) creates an event, a meeting that not really 'is' but 'is going on'.

Is this project about economics, is it political activity or a work of art? This
"boundlessness" or "indeterminacy", which always characterizes the creation of
new, is where the energy of the project is coming: The enterprise expresses and
exposes itself the "knowledge economy" in which it exists. It is something the
orthodox conceptions about work, action, economy and art are unable to grasp. In
this organizational experiment everybody is "alone together" like a pack of wolves
around a fire having neighbours to the left and to the right but nobody behind
their backs exposed to the desert.

There are 50 participants on the train involving well known media-artists,
frontline contemporary thinkers and political activists. The project has been
invited to participate in the International ARS2006 biennial at Kiasma Museum of
Contemporary Art in Helsinki and to arrange an exhibition at the Villa Croce
Museo d"arte contemporanea di Genova during summer 2006.

Pressconference and Opening Seminar Wed 7.9., 15:00-19:00, Hemeentie 33 A,
2nd Floor, Helsinki
15:00-15:20 Intro to the project, its themes and methods (Tuula
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Bruce Sterling | 4 Sep 2005 10:30
Picon

Oh to have lived to see the day


     From:       ctheory@...
     Subject:     [CTHEORY] Event Scene 164 - Katrina-Baghdad
     Date:     August 31, 2005 3:37:55 PM PDT
     To:       ctheory@...
     Reply-To:       ctheory@...

_____________________________________________________________________
  CTHEORY          THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE        VOL 28, NO 3
         *** Visit CTHEORY Online: http://www.ctheory.net ***

  Event-Scene 164   31/08/2005   Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
  _____________________________________________________________________

                          *************************

                             1000 DAYS OF THEORY

                          *************************
  _____________________________________________________________________

  Katrina-Baghdad: Initial Iterations of a Strange Attractor
  ===========================================================

  ~Dion Dennis~

  On August 30, 2005, George W. Bush was sent to the wrong place, at
  the wrong time, to deliver, in his pseudo-folksy ham-handed way, the
  wrong script: Bush's political choreographers crafted a speech that
  was delivered at a 60th anniversary commemoration of the end of World
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
sascha brossmann | 2 Sep 2005 11:43
Picon

Re: Happy Birthday: Ten Years After

on 9/1/05 1:57 PM, heiko hansen wrote:
> even better would be to not move at all and to meet the other nettimers in
> their current location. the list is truly distributed (geographically) 

i like that idea, but why not have *both*? i could pretty well imagine something
like a nettime relay race ;-) (well, maybe not a _race_) with local gatherings
hopping around the globe from one spot onwards to the next. not all at once but
distributed over a certain period time. this might also provide for an incremental
development/evolution of discussion topics compared to a one-time-one-place event.
schedules could be made according to other events to gain some momentum. in terms
of organisation i would like to opt for a 'let it grow' model. i would like to
suggest starting with collecting potential places (i.e. regions/cities),
events/dates, and last but not least interested people and see where we can go
from there. (wiki?)

best,

sascha brossmann

p.s.: concerning the topics suggested by david, i sense some relationship with the
discussion which has lately arisen on spectre (triggered by the situation of the
icc), so there could be a certain potential for cross-fertilisation...

--
:: 01@... ::. :: .. :... . .... .  .     .   .     .     .
:: www.brsma.de :: ..: .:. . :.. ..:  .   .  .   .  .       .
:: icq #121790750 ::.: .:.  :.  ::. .. .   ..   .     .   .     .
:: public key id 0x2EA549A0 ::.. :: . .  .  . ..    .    .   .
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 4 comments |
headers
Geoff Manaugh | 2 Sep 2005 19:12

Re: A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism)


Anyone interested in more Isr/Pal/global military urbanism questions (as per Brian
Holmes's question, below), check out Bryan Finoki's recent news-grabs on Archinect:
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23879_0_24_0_C
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23708_0_24_0_C
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=P23454_0_24_0_C
And BLDGBLOG, of course, circles through that topic quite frequently...
GM
Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
tomislav medak | 5 Sep 2005 11:12
Picon
Favicon

TOUCH ME festival :: Abuse of Intelligence :: Sept. 8-17 :: Zagreb


------------------------------------------------------------------------
     | TOUCH ME festival - intersections of technology, science and art |
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
           | ABUSE OF INTELLIGENCE | Zagreb, Croatia | Sept. 8-17, 2005 |
           --------------------------------------------------------------
                                     | Container + Multimedia Institute |
                             --------------------------------------------
                             | Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 |
                             --------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The international festival _Touch Me_ presents contemporary art
production  at the intersection of science and technology. Including an
exhibition, performances and a symposium, it will tackle the topic of
Abuse of  Intelligence. This thematic framework arises from the need for
artistic  and cultural analysis of contemporary forms of violence and
systems of  control. Starting from the twofold meaning of "intelligence"
(implying both information and intellection), the project explores the
abuse of information and intelligence, but also the forms of structural
abuse  brought about by the technological organization of contemporary
social  processes - abuses relating to information, telecommunications,
media,  technology, science, the entertainment industry, etc. Alongside
the ethical and political problems of the info-sphere, the festival
explores the abuse and manipulation of techno-scientific discoveries
that disrupt, transform or create the living world and environment. The
festival takes places within Operation:City [www.operacijagrad.org].

------------------------------------------------------------------------
| exhibition and performances |
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Paul D. Miller | 4 Sep 2005 16:24
Picon
Favicon

On Military Hydrology: Levee City

[Policing the earth: a military helicopter surveys the streets of a 
flooded metropolis under martial law.]

It's too easy, not to mention slightly vindictive, to blame all of 
hurricane Katrina's catastrophic impact and aftermath on the Army 
Corps of Engineers; but it is worth remembering that New Orleans - in 
fact the near totality of the lower Mississippi delta - is a manmade 
landscape that has become, over the last century at least, something 
of a military artifact. To say that New Orleans is, today, under 
martial law, is therefore almost redundant: its very landscape, for 
at least the last century, has never been under anything *but* 
martial law. The lower Mississippi delta is literally nothing less 
than landscape design by army hydrologists.

New Orleans as military hydrology.

Or, military urbanism as a hydrological project.
According to The Economist , "For much of the 20th century the 
federal government tampered with the Mississippi, to help shipping 
and - ironically - prevent floods. In the process it destroyed some 
1m acres of coastal marshland around New Orleans - something which 
suited property developers, but removed much of the city's natural 
protection against flooding. The city's system of levees, itself 
somewhat undermaintained, was not able to cope."

When even people within the Army Corps of Engineers began to warn 
that the hubristic landscape design methods of the US military might 
actually be inappropriate for what is a very muscular, flood-prone, 
not-to-be-fucked-with drainage basin, the warnings were taken - well, 
frankly, they were probably taken to be blatantly unpatriotic,
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
nettime's broken pumps | 4 Sep 2005 12:25

new orleans [3x]


Table of Contents:

   has anyone heard word of my NOLA sweetheart?                                    
     Bill Spornitz <spornitz@...>                                                

   the heart of a geek still beats in Old Orleans                                  
     Bill Spornitz <spornitz@...>                                                

   New Orleans Crisis and US Govt Negligence                                       
     Ronda Hauben <ronda@...>                                               

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:24:24 -0500
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz@...>
Subject: has anyone heard word of my NOLA sweetheart?

... a little bar; the Alpine Club, attached to La Boheme restaurant. 
in the quartier..

the bartenders were volunteers, and carried pistols...

John Coltrane on the jukebox...

if you sat in the corner of the bar by the window you could feel the 
whole fucking planet spin around you....

I fear that the Alpine Club is lost!
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |

Gmane