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Tatiana Bazzichelli | 7 Jan 14:22
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A Reflection on the Activist Strategies in the Web 2.0 Era


Hi,

I would like to share with the Nettime readers a personal review of
the past Activism-Hacking-Artivism Camping, the first collective
meeting of the Italian aha@... mailing-list, which focuses
on hacktivism and netculture. I would also like to propose some
reflections on social networking vs. freedom of communication in the
Web 2.0 social platforms, which was a much discussed issue during our
meeting.

*A Reflection on the Activist Strategies in the Web 2.0 Era*
Towards a new language criticism
by Tatiana Bazzichelli

// A networking art platform //

The ahaCamping took place on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October 2008
at the S.A.L.E independent exhibition space in Venice (The Salt
Warehouses, Dorsoduro 187-188). It was organized and managed directly
by the subscribers of the AHA mailing list (aha@...), which is
hosted by the Italian independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in
the Net). The AHA mailing list is the core of the networking project
AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism (www.ecn.org/aha), which I founded in
Rome in 2001 and later developed in Berlin from 2003 to 2008.

The AHA project is a networking art platform created to promote
hacktivism and art on the Internet related to the Italian net
culture and underground movement. AHA project has contributed to the
creation of a network of relations and practices through exhibitions,
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Alan Sondheim | 8 Jan 10:45
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sondheimogram [x5: HNY, migraine, self-induct, how to, incomplete]

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Alan Sondheim <sondheim@...>

     HAPPY NEW YEAR ANNUAL HAPPY NEW YEAR VIDEO!   
     writing under migraine   
     Self-Induction
     How to view The Accidental Artist exhibition in Second Life    
     incomplete generation  

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:16:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@...>
Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR ANNUAL HAPPY NEW YEAR VIDEO!   

HAPPY NEW YEAR ANNUAL HAPPY NEW YEAR VIDEO FROM AZURE AND ALAN
AND JULU TWINE AND ALAN DOJOJI AND OUR CAT OSSI WHO SHOULD COME FIRST
AND HOPE EVERYTHING IS BETTER!
http://www.alansondheim.org/happynewyear.mp4

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Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:30:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@...>
Subject: writing under migraine   

writing under migraine
writing this with eyes shut - the light flashes are brilliant, slight buzz
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Patrice Riemens | 9 Jan 18:26
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Harv Stanic: ASCII: Amsterdam Subversive Code for Information Interchange.


ASCII .- ... -.-. .. ..
    Amsterdam Subversive Code for Information Interchange
    --- Internetworkspace --- 1998 - 2..?

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    Internetworkspace  - A  free  and open  place  with free  internet
    access,  aggregating point  for all  people interested  in hacking
    together, or  simply hanging around  or on the net  while learning
    Free and OSS, creating and  mixing chaos for all people interested
    in free flow of information across any new or old medium.

    ..................................................................

    The idea of ASCII was conceived in late 1998 as there was the need
    for  a non-profit  'internetworkspace'  running on  free and  open
    source  software, and  spreading  the word  of  it's necessity  to
    enable, educate and prepare  people for the upcoming internet age,
    on-line privacy, as  well as need for people  to meet and exchange
    ideas and information face to face.

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    click  start  to  stop
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    Early  1999 in  its  first  incarnation cloaked  as  a cafe  ASCII
    emerged in a squatted house  with big shopping windows in a ground
    floor on the Herengracht, in  the historic center of Amsterdam, by
    installing Linux  on few  older machines and  opening our  door to
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nils.roeller | 9 Jan 14:58
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Turing


Indian Poet Sampurna Chattarji and myself are exchanging reflections on Turing:

The Imitation Game 

This machine has never felt pain.
Never slept in a too-soft bed dreaming of murders committed centuries ago, never drunk too much red wine and
bared its soul to its drinking companion, talking of everything but love.

This machine has never 
felt the pit of snakes in its stomach drop down past the reach of rope and basket, past the help of hands, has
not known what it might be like to wake up wishing it were dead.

This machine has never worn 
a too-big straw hat to keep out the sun on an October afternoon, never laughed so much its belly ached, never
sat sipping tusli tea from a borrowed glass under a winter moon, listening to an old Hindi song sung by a
young South Indian voice…

This machine has never wolfed down 
aloo parathas, astonishing its male companions with an appetite so unfeminine, because this machine has
never known what it is to be feminine, it has rarely thought about its sex, or gender, it has seldom paused to
listen to the sound the trees make when its opposite approaches.

This machine has never felt 
that something was missing from its life, for this machine has not known what a life is or that it has one and
could, if it liked, have contemplated what it meant to live.

This machine has not known contemplation, 
just as it has not known the smell of a beloved armpit, the shape of cut fingernails, the way each room changes
as you enter and leave, touching everything, pulling the books off shelves, unsettling the curios,
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Hans Bernhard | 14 Jan 18:19
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Superenhanced by UBERMORGEN.COM, Text DOMENICO QUARANTA

SUPERENHANCED
http://www.ipnic.org/superenhanced

Written by Domenico Quaranta

On the creative panorama of UBERMORGEN.COM, which ranges from the  
cold aesthetic of conceptual art, to the functional look of diagrams,  
the minimal semblance of pixels, the anonymity of reportage and the  
retro feel of noir and teletext, SUPERENHANCED stands out for its  
attractive, glossy, almost glamorous look. It is as if the torture  
team at Guantanamo had hired UBERMORGEN.COM to work on an image  
campaign to relaunch the popularity of practices getting a hard time  
in the media, such as Enhanced Interrogation and Extraordinary  
Rendition. UBERMORGEN.COM as the Oliviero Toscani of the CIA...
But while it is true that UBERMORGEN.COM, as in other projects,  
sacrifices a direct attack for the oblique and subtle strategy of  
overidentification, it is also true that it would be difficult to  
imagine a harsher condemnation of torture and its reappearance in a  
legalized, no less abhorrent, guise.

UBERMORGEN.COM adopts the language of marketing, because this is  
precisely what countries are now using to revamp and justify  
practices that, in name only, they eradicated decades ago. This  
ascetic, functional, hypocritical language, where “Cold Cell” means  
exposure to extreme cold before interrogation, “Waterboarding” is a  
controlled form of drowning, “Attention Slap” is a beating,  
“Extraordinary Rendition” means kidnapping, and “Enhanced  
Interrogation” is torture, from its mildest to most brutal forms  
(where the death of the prisoner is regarded as “collateral damage”)  
is the weak link in the phenomenon, and it is there that
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onto | 14 Jan 17:47
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The War Against Preterrorism: The ‘Tarnac Nine’ and The Coming Insurrection

http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/

by Alberto Toscano*

I. The Case
On 11 November 2008, twenty French youths are arrested simultaneously in
Paris, Rouen, and in the small village of Tarnac (located in the
district of Corrèze, in Franc's relatively impoverished Massif Central
region). The Tarnac operation involves helicopters, one hundred and
fifty balaclava-clad anti-terrorist policemen and studiously prearranged
media coverage. The youths are accused of having participated in a
number of sabotage attacks against the high-speed TGV train routes,
involving the obstruction of the train's power cables with
horseshoe-shaped iron bars, causing material damage and a series of
delays affecting some 160 trains. Eleven of the suspects are promptly
freed. Those who remain in custody are soon termed the 'Tarnac Nin',
after the village where a number of them had purchased a small
farmhouse, reorganised the local grocery store as a cooperative, and
taken up a number of civic activities from the running of a film club to
the delivery of food to the elderly. In their parents' words, 'they
planted carrots without bosses or leaders. They think that life,
intelligence and decisions are more joyous when they are collectiv'.[1]
....

The rest is at:
http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-war-against-preterrorism/

* A slightly abridged version of this text will appear in Radical
Philosophy 154. I thank the editorial collective of RP for permission to
republish the text here.
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Unknown | 15 Jan 02:41

Happiness machine...

Interesting! A fascinating set of programmes on propaganda/public
relations... etc. FN

Happiness Machines (part 1 of 6)
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kp24ZeHtv4

Happiness Machines (part 2 of 6)
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ8UkkVAdM&feature=related

The Century of Self: Happiness Machines part 3
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=_UM7rEBYarI&feature=related

Happiness Machines (part 4 of 6)
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOaugmZTmD8&feature=related

Happiness Machines (part 5 of 6)
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64Pgm-YJ4s&feature=related

The Engineering of Consent (part 6 of 6)
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOaugmZTmD8&feature=related

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Joe Karaganis | 13 Jan 21:14
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SSRC-ICA and VAI-SSRC prizes

Hi all -

(With apologies for cross-posting), SSRC has some new opportunities that
may be of interest:

Now in its second year, SSRC is sponsoring three awards with the
International Communications Association:  

*	COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AS COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
	
*	COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE
	
*	COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AS AN OPEN FIELD

Nominations for the ICA awards are now open, with a January 31 deadline.
Nominations have to come from ICA members, but there are no restrictions on
nominees.   Prizes will be awarded at ICA in May.   

See http://www.icahdq.org/aboutica/awards.asp or below for more details.  

SSRC is also co-sponsoring a new fellowship with the Van Allen Institute, a
New York-based non-profit that fosters innovation in the architecture and
design of public life:

*	THE NEW YORK PRIZE FELLOWSHIP IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

For this year's competition, VAI and SSRC seek proposals from researchers,
designers, and architects investigating the spatial conditions and
implications of contemporary intellectual property regimes.  Awards include
project funding up to $10,000, stipend, work and gallery space at the
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Andrew Orlowski | 15 Jan 10:29
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Re: Happiness machine...

Why not give it the correct attribution? This is the first film in  
Adam Curtis four-part series "The Century of the Self" from 2002 for  
the BBC.

Curtis very rarely does interviews, this is one of two at The Register  
from 2007:

mp3: 		 
http://go.theregister.com/podcast/2007/11/20/adam_curtis_audio1_44100.mp3
transcript:	 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/adam_curtis_interview/print.html

official site: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml

full episodes streamed:

1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151
2: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614
3: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811&hl=en
4: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036

downloads in ogg, mpeg format:

1: http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0
2: http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart2of4
3: http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart3of4
4: http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart4of4_0

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Torben Olander | 15 Jan 09:31
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Re: Happiness machine...

Adam Curtis is indeed a very interesting filmmaker

You can check out the whole series here at archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/the.century.of.the.self

They host a number of works by Adam Curtis and have made them available in
several formats, so we can avoid the youtube quality and logo.

all the best

Torben

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