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Alan Sondheim | 1 Jun 04:09
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Alan Sondheim <sondheim@...>

     Eifachfilm Cacirca's installation (and some changes in mine) in SL
     borrowers    
     end of the tether     
     Purblind
     The Oddyssey Show going down in a few hours - last chance to see it
     Compression of Originary Bodies  
     Second Life Odyssey Party (and some practice jpgs)!  
     Second Life - Group notice: PARTY !!!!
     "Hello. Miss Dixon. And the Sum Pngs."     
     the lost Lost text  
     terpsichoreographic unit (t.u.)     
     World  (theory saying nothing)
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@...>
Subject: Eifachfilm Cacirca's installation (and some changes in mine) in SL

Eifachfilm Cacirca's installation (and some changes in mine) in SL

There's an installation by Eifachfilm Vacirca in Second Life - if you go
to my installation at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 then go
to the area to the right with the strange texture - there's a three or
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Leutha Blissett | 1 Jun 11:05

Re: An Artist's Guide for Editing Wikipedia.


I'm not sure that Miltos' proposal will work.

What is really needed is critical articles published elsewhere which
can be cited as references.

I think Rob Myers point about there being no New Media Art WikiProject
(yet), is very pertinent.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council for how
wikiprojects work.

I agree with Rob that the starting point should be with the current
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Visual_arts

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Visual_arts

Also
check:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_a
rts#Psychocinetic_Art as an example of a particular discussion.

What arts practitioners can do is provide images in the public domain
which can be used to illustrate articles.

all the best

Leutha
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J.R. Pybus | 3 Jun 15:19

CFP Archive and Everyday Life Conference


"The Archive and Everyday Life" Conference
May 7-8, 2010
McMaster University

Confirmed Keynotes: Ann Cvetkovich (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma,
Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures), Angela Grauerholz (At Work and
Play: A Web Experimentation), Ben Highmore (The Everyday Life Reader;
Everyday Life and Cultural Theory), Michael O'Driscoll (The Event of
the Archive)

This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and
other cultural workers to examine the intersecting fields of archive
and everyday life theory. From Simmel through Mass Observation to
contemporary Cultural Studies theorists, the objective of everyday life
theory has been, as Ben Highmore writes, to "rescue the everyday from
conventional habits of the mind…to attempt to register the everyday in
all its complexities and contradictions." Archive theory provides a
means to explore these structures by "making the unfamiliar familiar,"
hence opening the possibility of generating "new forms of critical
practice." The question of a politics of the archive is critical to the
burgeoning field of archive theory. How do we begin to theorize the
archive as a political apparatus? Can its effective democratization be
measured by the participation of those who engage with both its
constitution and its interpretation? 

"Archive" is understood to cover a range of objects, from a museum's
collection to a personal photograph album, from a repository of a
writer's papers in a library to an artist's installation of found
objects. Regardless of its content, the archive works to contain,
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Karl-Erik Tallmo | 5 Jun 02:54
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What has copyright to do with democracy?

In view of recent debates, not the least those in Sweden, I wrote 
this article about the democratic aspects of copyright legislation. 
Many people today claim that copyright and democracy are incompatible 
concepts, that copyright infringes the privacy of readers and other 
cultural consumers etc. I believe it is not that simplistic:

>What has copyright to do with democracy?
>
>Abstract: The debates on whether or not copyright and democracy are 
>compatible concepts are not new. It has been discussed since the 
>1700s and concerns a form of separation of powers. Copyright is a 
>monopoly, but at the same time, when copyright came, it was a strike 
>at another form of monopoly, the printers' rights, with their roots 
>in the guild system. Copyright could not occur until censorship was 
>abolished, and it can actually be seen as a complement to the 
>freedom of expression. Copyright was early associated with privacy 
>issues. However, if proportionality is not followed in the 
>maintenance of law, both integrity and freedom of expression could 
>be threatened.

This text is part of the annual book "For or Against the Citizenry: 
Power sharing", which is published for the third time by the 
democracy study group D2D. It is available free of charge on the web.

Read the whole article at:
http://www.nisus.se/archive/090525e.html

Karl-Erik Tallmo

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Domenico | 5 Jun 16:23
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Killed by Google / Ucciso da Google

Con la presente intendo informarti che Google ha disabilitato, con  
iniziativa unilaterale, il mio Account Google. Il che significa:

- che l'email quaranta.domenico@... non ? pi? attiva. Se  
desideri contattarmi, ti prego di scrivere a qrndnc@... o 
dom@... . Se mi hai scritto nelle ultime ore
all'indirizzo 
Gmail, per favore  girami la mail su questi indirizzi;
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saranno pi? aggiornati e non sono  pi? di mia propriet?;
- che le dispense e i documenti che ho caricato su Google Documents,  
seppure ancora accessibili, non saranno pi? aggiornati e non sono pi?  
di mia propriet?;
- che i miei canali Picasa (http://picasaweb.google.it/quaranta.domenico/ 
) e Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/domenicoquaranta) non saranno  
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Account. This means:

- that the email address quaranta.domenico@... is no longer  
active. If you want to contact me, please use qrndnc@... or 
dom@... . If you wrote me in the last few hours, please 
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claudia bernardi | 5 Jun 16:09
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edu-factory [[[ News ]]] ..::Global Conflicts in the Universities::..

www.edu-factory.org

 *Global University.  **Labour, Struggles and the Common within the Crisis*

*Gioved?, 11 Giugno  2009 - Universit? di Roma ?La Sapienza?, Facolt? di
Lettere*
[ program and call
]<http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:11-june-la-sapienza-rome-global-university-labour-struggles-and-the-common-within-the-crisis&catid=37:meetings&Itemid=55>
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Massive student protests in Nanjing, China Thousands of college students in
Nanjing clash with police, 30 injured*
*Thousands of students fought with police in the southern Chinese city of
Nanjing after the city? s administration officers beat up student vendors.
The incident occurred on Monday evening, 18 May, at a time of high alert for
the ?communist? authorities ahead of the 20th anniversary of the June 4th
Massacre.* [...]
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Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? *
*The public has become all too aware of the term "bubble" to describe an
asset that is irrationally and artificially overvalued and cannot be
sustained. The dot-com bubble burst by 2000.* [...]

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dmitry vilensky /chto delat?/ | 6 Jun 13:12
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8 days of hunger strike - activists in Petersburg protest the arrest of artist Artyom Loskutov

On May 15, the young contemporary *artist Artem Loskutov was arrested*
in his native Novisibirsk and charged with possession of a narcotic
substance (marijuana) by the local branch of the Interior Ministry's
notorious Center for Extremism Prevention (Center "E"). Loskutov and
his supporters claim that the police planted the marijuana in his bag
in order to incriminate him. As one of the organizers of the annual
"Monstration" -- a flash mob street party in which young people march
with absurdist, non-political slogans -- Loskutov had long been an
objection of the Center's attentions. At a pre-trial custody hearing
on May 20, it was revealed that the Center had been tapping the phones
of Loskutov and his friends for the past six months. In April and on
May Day itself, Loskutov had been summoned to the Center for
"discussions," and his parents had been called and told that their son
was a member of a dangerous sect. The circumstances of the case and
the way that he was arrested thus point to a campaign of intimidation
directed both at Loskutov and his fellow "monstrators" in Novosibirsk.

The Loskutov case has sparked a massive outcry in Russia's activist
and art communities. In the past three weeks, artists, activists, and
ordinary concerned citizens all over Russia have carried out a series
of pickets, protests, and actions in Loskutov's defense. The most
inspiring of these actions has been *a "plein air" hunger strike*
organized by several young artists in Petersburg, now in its second
week. The artists encamped themselves in a park next to city hall and
began producing paintings and drawings whose central theme is the
increasingly brutal police repression of social activists and
left-wing artists in Russia. The hunger strikers have issued three
demands. First, they want a criminal investigation of the mass arrests
by riot police of a group of young anarchists on May Day in Petersburg
despite their having obtained official written permission to march
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Angela | 5 Jun 09:39
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tripled crises and their discontents

Since discussions on nettime - around new New Deals, neoKeynesianism, 
but also remarks on usury in threads on conflicts within the 
universities - formed part of the inspiration for the essay, I append 
the link:

"In Praise of Usura"
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/in_praise_of_usura

Related, and we thought worth mentioning in the above piece (apologies 
if they've already been circulated):

- Dion Dennis, "Domestic Wars Redux: Obama, Digital Prohibition and the 
New 'Reefer Madness'" http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=607

- Tatjana Greif, "Euro-Sins and the New Inquisition" 
http://www.reartikulacija.org/RE6/ENG/queer6_ENG_greif.html
(also http://www.reartikulacija.org/RE6/ENG/intro_transmediale.html)

I'd be interested in reading other critical accounts, those that take a 
step away from the lure of the announcement of crises as lurch toward 
the restorative.

I've only now come across the most recent edition of ephemera 
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/9-1/9-1editorial.pdf
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/index.htm

best, Angela
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Heiko Recktenwald | 6 Jun 11:42
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Re: What has copyright to do with democracy?

Good question, I asked the same, when I read some remarks claiming a 
connection. IMHO is is plain nonsense!

Your argument that copyright is a monopoly is weak. You could say the 
same about property. Property as a monopoly against thieves. Both are 
absolute rights against everybody  In contrast to contracts that give 
rights against certain people only.

And that printers had such a monopoly is weak as well. Printers did what 
they wanted. As a matter of fact. Like thieves and users of P2P networks 
worldwide do what they want.

But rights may be weak as well in certain situations. When you dont 
secure your bicycle in certain parts of some towns thieves may come and 
steal it.

People may not care about your copyright as well. Copyright is usefull 
in the internet too, see Google v. the publishers, but the enforcement 
is rather difficult. It is fun to have a library of mp3s. And unlike 
bicicles that are still expensiv mp3s cost nothing to produce as far as 
copying is concerned. Nobody believes the arguments of the music 
industry when it comes to mp3s from the 70s, oldies. The catalogue of 
the internet is much bigger than the catalogue. In the case of google 
books as well.

Copyright is more or less just disapearing in certain cases in the times 
of the internet by what people actually do. But this is anarchy, not 
democracy. The natural status according to Hobbes. I would not even call 
it a revolution. A revolution is some new law, here we have nothing.
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mazzetta | 6 Jun 23:44
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Re: Killed by Google / Ucciso da Google


> This night I've been killed by Google. If you want to know more and  
> understand if you'll be the next, go on reading.

basic steps to avoid or minimize this kind of accidents are
1) backup your blogs (being part of: back up everything you don't wanto 
to loose)
2) use different email addresses to subscribe for free services, 
payement services and sending mail and a fourth account as 
google/blogger identity

remember that free services providers (and not only those) can collapse 
at any time, go out of business etc, be always ready to bridge this 
accidents, neither Google will last forever

cheers

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