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grischinka teufl | 1 Mar 14:52
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Google INC. vs Wisdomized Clouds


Dear Nettimers,

I am not shure it this fits into the discussion about google, and it is 
no scientific intention behind this text at all,
but after presenting this text as part of GWEI from ubermorgen.com in 
berlin its on my harddrive and i want to put it out.
so dont take it to serious and maybe you will have fun by reading this 
piece planed as a - spoken word slam lecture -
for transmediale 08....

GTX

Google INC. vs. Wisdomized Clouds
Author: Grischinka Teufl

Part of: GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself
Hans Bernhard, Alessandro Ludovico, Lizvlx, Paolo Cirio

Transmediale 08 – Conspire
Bilderberg: Saturday 02.02.2008 13:30

What we already know! Google is a winner story and the representation 
of the anglo-american dream as well. Two students (Larry Page and 
Sergey Brin) rule the internet out of their dormitory room by the 
simple idea of a search-engine. With the powerful page-rank algorithm – 
it’s nothing about pages, it’s about Larry Page the inventor of the 
algorithm – they set up a new paradigm of dealing with information in 
the net. We all know how the story is going on, now we have become 
googlers, googling ourself and others out (of the game). Today we face
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Alan Sondheim | 3 Mar 08:17
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Filter and being (notes for NSF workshop on codework) - comments greatly appreciated -


Filter and being (notes for NSF workshop on codework - comments
greatly appreciated!)

I want to generalize writing and coding as _inscription,_ and
emphasize that the world as we know it is already inscribed, encoded
and decoded. The lifeworld isn't analogic and / or mute; it's discrete
and presencing.

One way of thinking about this is in terms of _filtering._ The usual
model of information - transmitter/(channel|noise)/receiver (and
so forth) - implies that there is a form of coherency and, if not
comprehension, at least 'mutual orientation of cognitive domains,'
between sender and receiver. I'd argue that this orientation occurs
through filtering which is always present, fuzzy, and possessing a
political economy of its own.

Filtering isn't active or passive, inscribed or inscribing, and
informa- tion itself is non-existent, nothing, a form of particulate
matter with an ontology derived from organisms and apparatus.

Once we start (or end) here, writing splits; on one hand it becomes
_wryting_ - a state of material transformation, transmission, and
reception; and on the other, it becomes malleable, a spew interpreted
as symbols. Here is the moment of creative freedom which also splits -
on one hand into or through unbounded, rule-less 'creative' writing,
drawn from an organism's interior - and on the other, a fuzzy
collocation of coding, languages, kludges, protocols, drawn equally
from interior impulse and external restraints (economic, etc.) or
goals that may be transformed in the process of inscription.
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Dmytri Kleiner | 2 Mar 23:05
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Re: Copyleft Porn Praxis and Subversion over Sabotage, was: The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage


Hello, your SIS project is interesting, I was a judge for cum2cut last
year, I agree that free pornography is an interesting movement, for
many reasons.

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:02:44 -0800 (PST), lotu5@... wrote:

> If we are going to critique Creative Commons, or those seeking a
> "GPL society" for being complicit in global capitalism, it seems
> that we should start with their inspiration, the GNU Public License
> (GPL) itself, and its relation to capitalism.

Part of the case against the Creative Commons is that goes against
the primary objective of the GPL, which the protection of the rights
of the consumer not the producer, as the case of the "some rights
reserved" creative commons and that it does not define any standard or
freedom. Criticism such as these are also made by those that support
the GPL, including Stallman.

> Yet, to generalize that all Creative Commons licenses are in favor
> of corporations is an oversimplification. For example, one can
> license one's work under a Share Alike Creative Commons license,
> which is the closest approximation of the GPL itself. Do we consider
> the GPL to be as friendly to global capitalism as the remix license?
> I don't.

Very few artistic works are licensed under the ShareAlike, most are
licensed under more restrictive licenses, including yours.

The "Creative Commons" monolithic brand identity obscures this fact,
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Karl-Erik Tallmo | 3 Mar 05:49
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text/sound compositions


Hello all!

I have just released my new collection "Molly B. Whips It Out" with 
text/sound compositions. (It has unfortunately been very much 
delayed, due to technical problems as well as because of my chronic 
illness.)

Eight of the 19 tracks on this CD are available on the web for free 
(together with eight additional tracks not on the CD at all). See 
http://www.nisus.se/molly/

The CD contains text/sound compositions, influenced by the concrete 
poetry and sound compositions of the 60's, such as the work made by 
people like Bengt-Emil Johnsson, Ake Hodell or Henri Chopin, Charles 
Dodge and Charles Amirkhanian.

I used the computer for filtering texts (Macintosh Hypercard!), 
synthesizing speech from text and also in order to add some sampled 
instruments for some of the pieces, for instance some effects with 
percussion and bass clarinet.

Karl-Erik Tallmo

Stockholm, Sweden

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ewen | 3 Mar 23:31
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AllPeers Service Shutting Down Today


this is really sad news....

http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2008/03/03/allpeers-service-shutting-down-today/

PEER PRESSURE

AllPeers Service Shutting Down Today
Monday March 03rd 2008, 4:25 pm Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:AllPeers, Firefox
Posted By: Matt and Cedric

It is with deep regret that we inform our users, friends and fans that we
will be shutting down the AllPeers service today. We are tremendously
proud of the product that our team has built, and we remain convinced of
the potential of adding social features like file sharing to the web
browser. However, we have not achieved the kind of growth in our user base
that our investors were expecting, and as a result we are not able to
continue operating the service.

The past few years have been an incredible adventure for us. We would like
to thank all of the amazing people who have helped us along the way. This
includes countless users who provided us with valuable feedback about how
to improve our product; the Mozilla community, who has proven to us that
“community” is more than just a word when it comes to open source
software; the many volunteers who spent hours translating each AllPeers
version into fifteen different languages to make it available to
non-English speakers across the world; and the friends and family who have
supported us as we pursued what undoubtedly seemed like a crazy dream.
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global anticapitalistconspiracy | 4 Mar 02:21
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Dissolution, a sci-fi story


///Excerpted from postpedia.477nm.holo, visible spectrum, v. 365.3,
dated 3.23.2056///

The dissolution began in 2012, just as the Mayans predicted.

So many forces came together in so many battles in 2012 that by the
end of the year, the United States was effectively split into 6
small nations and the era of the Holy American Empire had ended in
fragmentation.

///We are still living in the time after the split, reveling in it,
the ambiguity, the liberation, all the while fighting off the forces
at the border with the ammunition we can get our hands on. When Alex
goes out for supplies, I always feel a little bit of fear. This
morning ze (Wikipedia, Gender Neutral Pronoun) borrowed my leg warmers
and knitted scarf, as the winter winds continue, with winters colder
than any year before. After the summer's drought, so many trees died
and so many wildfires cleared out the agricultural fields that this
winter is even harsher because of the added wind chill and the lack
of food. Our position in the area formerly known as the Grapevine, in
the mountains south of Bakersfield and north of Nuevo Los Angeles is a
critical one, but the weather is harsh and keeping ourselves supplied
is a constant effort.///

+++First communique from the Human Liberation Front, January 1, 2012

We are the Human Liberation Front. It is likely that you will be
reading this document, or sections of it, through a mediated form such
as the corporate media, television news or online video feeds like
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Luca Bertini | 4 Mar 10:51
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(hai)


Geostationary satellites
playing broken telephone game.

Discretely.
Confidentially.
22.400 Miles above our heads.

Sharing each others an unknown and reserved message - which  
occasionally gets several minor changes which  transform its logic,  
but not its grammatical coherence - involved satellites completely  
ignore what happens out of their comfortable circle.

They just silently keep working on their conversation. With a message  
which is nowhere. For a public they don't want to reach.

HAI - japanese term for "i agree with you"/"you are right" - is a  
project  under construction, with the technical support of Opensky,  
Eutelsat.

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More informations: www.h-a-i.info

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Satelliti geostazionari
che giocano al telefono senza fili.

Discretamente,
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Ronda Hauben | 6 Mar 07:02
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Security Council's sanctions against Iran like WMD scenario?


Hi - I thought folks would find this article I did for Telepolis
about how the Security Council passed the sanctions against Iran of
interest. It is all strikingly reminiscent of the Iraq scenario. Ronda

Article in Telepolis:

 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27434/1.html
New Sanctions on Iran
Ronda Hauben 05.03.2008

Dubious Data from US to IAEA Sets Basis

The UN Security Council has
imposed<http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sc9268.doc.htm>(1) a
new set of sanctions on Iran passing resolution 1803 by a vote of 14-0
with one member, Indonesia, abstaining.

On the surface it seemed that this was just another round of sanctions
from the UN Security Council in response to Iran's failure to answer
the questions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and
to stop its nuclear enrichment activity as the Security Council in
two prior resolutions had required (1737, 1747) According to Britain,
France and Germany (who is not on the Council, but one of the sponsors
of the Security Council resolution ), and the U.S. this new set of
sanctions (1803) was necessary to let Iran know that it was necessary
to stop its enrichment activity and to buy its enriched uranium from
other sources like other countries are doing.

There had been some opposition from the non permanent members of the
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Greg J. Smith | 5 Mar 05:08
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Serial Consign Design/Research Blog - Recent Posts of Interest


Hello Nettime,

I'm a first time caller, long time listener of this great
tech/arts/politics resource. Inspired by a recent Marc Garrett post
summarizing some recent Furtherfield content I thought I'd introduce
myself and my blog Serial Consign to the nettime community. A lot of
the material I write about falls squarely in line with the calls and
discourse distributed through nettime.

Serial Consign is a blog which addresses design, representation and
broader digital culture. It is authored solely by me, but I try to get
out there and get other people to talk about their work and process
as much as possible. Specific areas of focus include datasthetics,
digital representation of space and network culture. Some posts which
really capture the essence of my online writing project:

Ways of Seeing Digital Space - A post exploring the connections
between architectural representation and the "game space" of recent
progressive gaming titles such as Portal, Echochrome and The Night
Journey - http://serialconsign.com/node/146

Paper Space: An introduction - A synopsis of some of my architectural
thesis research from 2007 on the collision of database culture and the
newspaper industry. With discussion the graphic design & layout of the
newspaper as a medium and some discussion about the work of Adrian
Holovaty - http://serialconsign.com/node/110

Large-Conversations - A discussion about some new web
services/projects that facilitate intertextual conversations. This
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Brian Holmes | 6 Mar 12:44
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Year Zero Amsterdam Creative City

Hello everyone -

Merijn Oudenampsen, who gave such a great talk on the Creative City back 
at the my-CI conference in Amsterdam in November 06, has now published 
a new version of his ideas in Variant magazine:

http://www.variant.randomstate.org//pdfs/issue31/31CreativeCity.pdf

The article is excellent, with many sharp insights and lots of valuable 
resources in terms of bibliography. And above all, if anyone actually 
wanted to start critiquing the creative city -- rather than just oozing 
with it on the way up to illusory middle-class complacency and 
blindness -- then they could take his article as an inspiration. I 
mean, as an inspiration to leave the whole Creative Industries 
discourse behind and focus on reality again.

In particular, Merijn points out the old-fashioned and boring truth, 
that the reason the huge boom in urban decoration and entertainment is 
even possible, is that cities in the developed and financialized world 
are thriving on their ability to exploit a division of labor that has 
relegated production to the far reaches of Empire--or in some cases, 
just to the suburbs or the provinces or the former East, where the 
creatives don't have to see it. The Creative Industries hype only makes 
sense in the capitals and major cities of "democracies" that are able 
to recruit the so-called best and brightest (or maybe the most 
compliant), while leaving whole classes, populations and regions to 
sink into decay, ecological crisis and war. So doesn't this mean that 
what we really need to hear about is the Uncreative City?

I must say, however, that I am still glad that Merijn singles out and
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