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Rasa Smite | 4 Apr 10:32
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CALL for papers: acoustic space nr.7: spectropia

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

Acoustic.Space. Issue nr. 7: SPECTROPIA - on spectral ecology and art

We are seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic Space journal 
(nr.7) to be published for the next  Art+Communication festival 
(http://rixc.lv/08). Entitled SPECTROPIA, this year festival edition 
will take place in Riga, October 16 - 19, 2008.

The print journal, Acoustic Space is a forum for net.radio, sound art 
and creative explorations in the networked electro-acoustic 
environments. Now in its 7th edition, Acoustic Space - SPECTROPIA 
issue investigates the rapid transformation of the usage of the radio 
frequency spectrum that we are witnessing in the 21st century. It 
doesn't refer only to a quantitative increase in mobile, satellite 
and wireless networks, locative and pervasive media, but also to a 
qualitative shift in the way people communicate and the way spectrum 
is used in arts, education, science and commerce. The recent 
scientific research and artistic explorations of electromagnetic (EM) 
spectrum will be published in this issue, in order to introduce which 
chances and risks this tranformation process bears for artists and 
the populations at large.

For the first time, Acoustic Space journal will come out as 'peer 
review' (refereeing) publication. It will be published by the MPLab 
(Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University in collaboration with the 
RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga, Latvia.
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Michael Weisman | 3 Apr 02:40
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FW: [UDC] Academic research for media reform - a symposium for scholars

Nettime and CMR members (and you know who you are);

I want to encourage all Nettime and CMR members to attend the
(inter)National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis in July.  Amit?s
offer described below lets you get the early bird registration if you attend
both the academic conference and the main conference.  Both are excellent
events and you will not be sorry.  There will be many people attending from
all over N. America and the world, and I have suggested you might want to
contact others attending to setup a dinner or drinks event to help people
meet each other.  

The main conference will be a very large affair with between 3000-5000
people.  The academic conference is a few hundred.

I encourage you to post info about the NCMR to your lists.

Mike Weisman

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> From: "Amit M. Schejter" <schejter@...>
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:58:20 -0400
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> Subject: [UDC] Academic research for media reform - a symposium for scholars
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> Dear friends and colleagues,
>  
> This is a quick update and reminder about the symposium for scholars
> <http://www.freepress.net/conference/academic08>
> <http://www.freepress.net/conference/academic08>  which will take place in
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stevphen shukaitis | 7 Apr 13:00

Governance and the Undercommons

Governance and the Undercommons
Stefano Harney

The Third Term
1.	Governance is a third term, beyond sovereignty or  
governmentality.  Although the term governance may still mark a form  
of government.  It is longer only a political term.  Governance is  
also now a term of the economy, not in the sense that the economy is  
also governed, as in corporate governance, but as economy itself.   
Governance is a form of economic production itself.

2.	Sovereignty establishes the public and private.  Governmentality  
makes this establishment of the private productive, through the  
production of the public.  Governance today marks the emergence of  
the public as directly productive.  No longer is the public, in all  
its micropolitics of subjectivity and macropolitics of population, an  
instrument for creating a private that can then be exploited.  Today  
the public itself in all its anti-social glory, because the public is  
the most anti-social moment of capitalist society, is also a direct  
and dominant source of capitalist wealth.  This is because the public  
holds all of the social qualities of the general intellect up to the  
light, making the general intellect obvious even in its disfiguration  
in the figure of the public, and offering up this captured aspect of  
the general intellect for exploitation.

3.	Governance puts the public to work, or, perhaps we could say,  
after Mario Tronti, governance is the new labour process.  Mario  
Tronti said the capitalist brings only this labour process, brings  
only work, while the worker brings her class relation, her  
socialisation, and her living labour, in short she brings the
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Beograd Gazela | 6 Apr 17:49

[Beograd Gazela Newsletter] Veröffentlichung der deutschen Ausgabe / Release of theGerman edition

please scroll down for the english version

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 Beograd Gazela Newsletter
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Wir freuen uns, auf die Ver?ffentlichung der deutschen Ausgabe von Beograd
Gazela -- Reisef?hrer in eine Elendssiedlung beim Drava Verlag hinzuweisen.
Im Lauf des Fr?hjahrs folgen die weiteren Ausgaben auf romani (ebenfalls bei
Drava), serbisch (beim Belgrader Verlag Rende) und englisch.
www.beogradgazela.net 
www.drava.at

Beograd Gazela -- Reisef?hrer in eine Elendssiedlung
Lorenz Aggermann, Eduard Freudmann, Can G?lc? 

Br.  224 Seiten
Preis: EURO 19.80; CHF 35.90
DRAVA 2008. ISBN: 978-3-85435-533-5

Obwohl es in Europa eine ganze Menge an Elendssiedlungen gibt, fragt kaum
jemand danach, warum es zu deren Entstehung kommt, wie es sich darin leben
l?sst und wie der Ort den Alltag seiner BewohnerInnen pr?gt. Besonders
auff?llig wird dies am Beispiel jener Elendssiedlung unterhalb der
Autobahnbr?cke Gazela in Belgrad: t?glich fahren Zehntausende daran vorbei
und dennoch gibt es kaum glaubw?rdige Informationen ?ber die Siedlung und
die Menschen -- in ?berwiegender Mehrheit Roma -- die dort zu wohnen
gezwungen sind.

Beograd Gazela -- Reisef?hrer in eine Elendssiedlung richtet den Blick auf
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Patrice Riemens | 8 Apr 12:22
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Meanwhile in Zimbabwe ...

>From the Financial Gazette (Harare)
(http://www.fingaz.co.zw)

A Taste Of The Sweet Life

Election day feast at Explorers
Charlotte Malakoff

At the bar, every component was perfect

There were palpable waves of pre-election hysteria last Friday evening in
the Avondale shopping centre.

Last minute shoppers flocked into supermarkets buying up whatever
foodstuffs they could afford, seemingly laying down supplies for a long
siege. Whenever Zimbos are faced with the prospect of a stayaway, a price
increase or a contentious election, their first reaction is to buy food,
and lots of it.

The millennium bug, preparation for which reputedly cost the British
Government £396 million, turned out to be a non-event. In a similar way,
Saturday March 29 dawned bright and clear, and contrary to 'worst case
scenario' predictions, everyone I encountered seemed cheerful, serene and
intent on placing their vote.

As my purchases the day before had not included any food, George and I
decided to eat out before heading for the nearest polling booth.
A pizza or a toasted sandwich would do, so we made our way back to the
Avondale shops. Needless to say, the Italian Bakery and St Elmos were both
closed. Voting is a serious business, requiring concentration and
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Karin Spaink | 9 Apr 05:31
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Response to Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur' (lenghty)


For some nettimers, this might come a bit late, since Keen's book was  
published in 2007. However, the Dutch translation was published this  
week, and he was invited to Amsterdam to do a big lecture tonight. I  
was invited to be his opponent.

Later this week, I'll put the lecture on my blog - http://blogger.xs4all.nl/kspaink/ 
  .

A bad case of nostalgia

Globaliseringslezing 8 april 2008: The Cult of the Amateur

Deciding upon the manner of my response to Mr Keen’s book required  
much, much more time than composing the response itself. It’s truly  
seductive to be scathing about the The Cult of the Amateur. Making an  
inventory of the book’s sloppy argumentation, its fallacious  
reasoning, its myopic stance, its uncritical praise of copyright, its  
unwitting foot soldiery of the entertainment industry, its selective  
choice of facts and its misquotations would be quite to the point –  
especially since Mr Keen accuses ‘today’s internet’ of being unwitting  
foot soldiers, sloppy, myopic, uncritical, selective,  
misrepresentative and fallacious.

             But I’d rather not. Many of these points have been raised  
elsewhere, and rather convincingly so – by amateurs and professionals  
alike, I might add. Instead, my endeavour will be to come up with a  
series of points that I haven’t seen addressed elsewhere: the public  
and the private sphere, the press and impartiality, and commercials.
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Tilman Baumgärtel | 9 Apr 11:53

[Fwd: [aseac] breaking news - indonesian goverment blocked youtube and some websites]

-- 
Dr. Tilman Baumg?rtel 
Film Institute, College of Mass Communication, 
University of the Philippines
www.tilmanbaumgaertel.net

Sender: aseac@...
From: dimas jayasrana <corporate_art_whore@...>
Reply-To: aseac@...
Subject: [aseac] breaking news - indonesian goverment blocked youtube and some websites
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:47:47 -0700 (PDT)
To: hard2refuse@...

Deer all,

just a little break news since two days a go, Indonesian government
by the departement of communication and infromation (depkominfo) .
started to give an ultimatum to all internet service provider(ISP) in
indonesia, to block all domain that contains downloadable material,
link about film FITNA. start from youtube, then myspace, multiply, and
i dont know yet what else. at least from Speedy (belongs to Telkom -
owned by the state) those web already blocked .

it will not stop there, because there is a possibility that the
government will block Google domain, and for this you can imagine
what will happen next. it could be block all kind of blog web based
(blogspot, wordpress, and so on), because now they just legitimate
a policy that could banned every blog that assumed giving bad
information or
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Alex Foti | 9 Apr 10:42
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chiki-chiki precario: the runaway hit of spring 008!!!!


if this ain't viral dunno wot is!

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=TiWTlSrgALU

chiki chiki mayday, lx

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mayday terrassa

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=TiWTlSrgALU

when eurovision meets euromayday... or something like that!

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Mieke Gerritzen | 10 Apr 06:46

Next Nature in Los Angeles


We are living in a time in which the 'made' and the 'born' are  
fusing. Hypoallergenic cats are already on the market. Plants are  
used as sensors, information displays and chemical factories. Animals  
are being augmented and branded. Young girls are provided with  
hypernatural vaginas, modeled after the photoshopped vaginas seen in  
Playboy magazine. In response to donor organ shortages, researchers  
are working on a 3D organ printer. Real nature is not green. It is  
out of control. Games have become jobs. Second life is not  
sustainable. Digital world metaphors are boomerang into our physical  
environment. Everyday robots give massages and take care of the  
children. RFID chips open doors, they might be infected, but  
nonetheless are edible.

The extent to which new technologies are intervening in the  
constructive, material, aesthetic and social practice of everyday  
life can hardly be underestimated. Highways, airports and  
supermarkets are part of our natural environment. Our established  
image of nature needs to be updated.

Next Nature; the nature caused by human culture. Nowadays, children  
know more corporate logo's and brands than bird or tree species. Our  
technological world has become so complex and uncontrollable it has  
become a nature of its own. Wild systems, genetic surprises,  
autonomous machinery and beautiful black flowers. Nature changes  
along with us.

The Biggest Visual Power Show on Next Nature is an intellectual show  
between a conference and a pop concert. From movies to live  
performance. From physical experience to virtual imagination.
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nettime's avid reader | 10 Apr 11:32

Dropping like a lead imperialist balloon


Dropping like a lead imperialist balloon
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/09/lead_and_imperialism/index.html

The irony and pathos gets laid on pretty thick in Monday's New York Times' 
story on how thieves, motivated by high prices for lead, are stripping 
British church roofs of the increasingly precious metal.

The irony:

>     One of the oddest consequences of the historically high price is
> that idyllic corners of Britain -- a nation that gave birth to the
> Industrial Revolution -- are suddenly feeling the strain of Asia's
> industrialization.

The pathos:

>     Still, she said, churches like hers would remain vulnerable, in part
> because respect for faith traditions is often too weak to offset the
> temptation of cashing in on global markets. "We increasingly seem to live
> in a world where the question 'Is nothing sacred?' so easily springs to
> mind," she said.   

But at Ultrabrown, Manish Vij sees history replaying itself, along a new 
vector of force.

>     For centuries, of course, the British gouged gems from temple to
> tomb, laid claim on egg-sized rubies and sapphires from Indian mines,
> stole priceless statues from Indian museums. They denuded the
> subcontinent of raw natural resources and shipped them to be finished in
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