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Tjebbe van Tijen | 2 Sep 14:40
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Public transport & privacy: how a tram or bus ticket can become an ethical question

I did write a longer text on the introduction if a new national chip  
card system in the Netherlands (OVchipkaart) a system that can keepo  
track of all passenger movements over time and thus intrudes on  
privacy. The main text is in Dutch, but the 6 tableau pictures have  
extensive English captions which give you some idea of the argument.

Public transport & privacy: how a tram or bus ticket can become an  
ethical question
http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/privacybeleid-een- 
ethische-en-historische-en-niet-een-juridische-kwestie/

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Tjebbe van Tijen
Imaginary Museum Projects
Dramatizing Historical Information
http://imaginarymuseum.org
web-blog: The Limping Messenger
http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/
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nettime's_spam_kr!k!t | 2 Sep 15:32

nettime-l, The Crash Puzzle: 911 Crash, Princess Diana's Crash, and The Peace.

     [orig From: Jack O'Connor <___.sneyke <at> ___.net.il>

Tel Aviv, Wednesday, 2nd 2009 01:30 IDT.

  nettime-l,

 From what I see from the behaviour of the yield curve and thanks to 
the heroic behaviour of my troops.
 I am at the present moment feeling pretty sure that The Crash on Wall 
Street will take place tomorrow at 5:10 PM IDT.

My Troops have been given the order to bring the Yield on the __ Years 
US Treasury Bonds below 4.150% at the opening of the US financial 
Markets.

 The New Forces of Evil are losing their hold on every single Market: 
Minerals, Bonds and Stocks.

>From The Crash every single financial Market will be closed till they 
hear the Shoffar in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur: The Beginning.

For Security Precautions Read the Article:

The Crash Puzzle: 911 Crash,
 Princess Diana's Crash, and The Peace.

  I am, nettime-l, yours sincerely,

  Shalom P. Hamou
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marc garrett | 3 Sep 15:45
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Class Wargames presents The Game of War - HTTP Gallery


Sorry for any cross posting...

Class Wargames presents
The Game of War Weekend at the HTTP Gallery.

http://www.http.uk.net/events/gameofwar/

Sat 26th September:
Participatory demonstration - Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter.

Sun 27th September:
World Premier of Class Wargames film - The Game of War.

The Situationist Raoul Vaneigem famously wrote "There are no more
artists since we've all become artists. Our next work of art is the
construction of a full-blooded life." - The Revolution of Everyday Life.

Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game
while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as
his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn’t just a
game - come and learn how to fight and win against the oppressors of the
spectacular society! Join the Class Wargames crew, Richard Barbrook,
Fabian Tompsett, Ilze Black and others, in redefining political and
contextual territories.

On Saturday the 26th, Class Wargames presents 'Marcel Duchamp meets Blue
Peter', a day of making and playing Guy Debord's The Game of War.

Sunday is the World Premier launch of the Class Wargames' film - The
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Tjebbe van Tijen via Chello | 4 Sep 18:07
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A deadly beach party shooting in the Netherlands & the resurrection of the tactical media idea now with hooligans as actors and internet posters

On August 23 a big free for all party was organized near Rotterdam on  
the beach of in Hoek van Holland by the Dutch commercial televison  
and radio station Vewronica: Sunset Groove. Fifty thousand people are  
said to have massed together, but in the end, around midnight,  the  
groove turned into a riot leaving one man dead and six wounded after  
some unclear shooting incident. At first the local Roatterdam  
Hooligans group was pointed at as the ones that did the fatal  
shootingm but after a week or so the authorities had reluctanctly to  
confess that it was a police bullet that killed a dancer on the beach.

The article I have written is in Dutch, as it targets public opnion  
in the Netherlands in the first place... I have posted it on my blog  
The Limping Messenger and have also added some layers of English text  
telling a side story in the form of longer captions below a series of  
visualizations/tableaus.

The full version is to be found here:
http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/hoekje-om-bij-hoek- 
van-holland-zoooo-wat-een-kanker-er-wordt-gewoon-helemaal-geschoten/

The text has an epilogie in English and also the conclusive sentence  
of the article has been translated by me:

Hooligans are a product of the the entertainment industry and to  
solve the hooligan problem the cultural value system of this branch  
of our economy needs to be changed, irrespective whether it is about  
a football stadium or a beach party at Hoek van Holland.

Central in my story are the videophone movies posted right after the  
incident on Toutube and other public video sharing places. It made me
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Menno Grootveld | 6 Sep 21:46
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Re: A deadly beach party shooting in the Netherlands & the resurrection of the tactical media idea now with hooligans as actors and internet posters


Thank you Tjebbe for your illuminating commentary on the events of
August 23 on the beach of Hoek van Holland. I have to disagree to some
extent however about your assesment of hooliganism as a product of
the entertainment industry. While this may be true, something else is
true as well: in the current society of control hooligans represent a
kind of random resistance force. Big dance parties and football games
are events which are so massive that they are difficult to control, so
they invite people as it were to challenge the very control systems
that they are confronted with in their everyday lives. In that sense I
don't see a big distinction with the 'nozems' that you describe later
on and the punks of the late seventies. Only the level of violence
(and perhaps nihilism) has grown substantially, but I see that as
a mirror effect of the level of violence with which the society of
control attempts to keep us all in check and render us into obedient
citizens.

Menno Grootveld
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Geert Lovink | 7 Sep 21:44
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OUR RIGHT TO NET: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALESSANDRO GILIOLI


OUR RIGHT TO NET: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALESSANDRO GILIOLI
by Marco Mancuso

from Digimag 47 - September 2009
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1542
English version online soon

Digimag interviewed Alessandro Gilioli, well known journalist, writer,
editor and blogger of "L'Espresso"(monthly magazine edited by the
same editorial group of "La Repubblica") and Derrick de Kerckhove.
On July 14th 2009 a virtual strike took place, a strike on the main
Italian blogs, organized by Alessandro Gilioli with the collaboration
of bloggers from all political areas. The initiative asked Italian
blogs to stop posting all the same hour, and to just post the logo
of the protest online, with a link to the statement for the Right
to Net: http://dirittoallarete.ning.com/. The Social Networking
platform worked as a collector of posts and free opinions, as well as
a container for the images of all the bloggers who gagged themselves
by taking part in the protest. The project also involved a sit-in
and meeting in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7pm on Tuesday, the 14th of
July, and a symbolic gagging of the bloggers that were present as well
as the statue that represents the freedom of speech, the statue of
Pasquino. The reason of the protest was the Angelino Alfano (ITalian
Minister of Justice) decree on wiretapping, which has in fact "muted"
a whole series of bloggers on the Net, threatening them with legal
action and hefty fines. If the so-called obligation to rectify,
thought of 60 years ago for the Press, is imposed on all blogs (even
amateur ones) with the foreseen hefty pecuniary fines, it would
actually put a silencer on online conversations and freedom of speech.
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begum ozden firat | 5 Sep 12:06
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open letter to the istanbul biennial

Conceptual Framework of Direnal-Istanbul Resistance Days: What Keeps  
Us Not-Alive?

An open letter to the curators, artists, participants of the 11th  
International Istanbul Biennial and to all artists and art-lovers

We have to stop pretending that the popularity of politically engaged  
art within the museums,  and markets over the last few years has  
anything to do with really changing the world. We have to stop  
pretending that taking risks in the space of art, pushing boundaries  
of form, and disobeying the conventions of culture, making art about  
politics makes any difference. We have to stop pretending that art is  
a free space, autonomous from webs of capital and power.

It???s time for the artist to become invisible. To dissolve back into  
life.[1]

We have read the conceptual framework of the 11th International  
Istanbul Biennial with great interest and a grin on our faces. We  
have long understood that the Istanbul Biennial aims at being one of  
the most politically engaged transnational art events.  And what a  
coincidence! This year the Biennial is quoting comrade Brecht,  
dropping notions such as neolibreal hegemony, and riding high against  
global capitalism. We kindly appreciate the stance but we recognize  
that art should have never existed as a separate category from life.  
Therefore we are writing you to stop collaborating with arm dealers  
such as the Ko?? Holding which white wash themselves in warm waters of  
the global art scene and invite you to the life, the life of resistance.

The curators wonder whether Brecht???s question ???What Keeps Mankind
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Geert Lovink | 7 Sep 21:44
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OUR RIGHT TO NET: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALESSANDRO GILIOLI

OUR RIGHT TO NET: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALESSANDRO GILIOLI
by Marco Mancuso

from Digimag 47 - September 2009
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1542
English version online soon

Digimag interviewed Alessandro Gilioli, well known journalist, writer,
editor and blogger of  "L'Espresso"(monthly magazine edited by the same
editorial group of "La Repubblica") and Derrick de Kerckhove. On July  
14th
2009 a virtual strike took place, a strike on the main Italian blogs,
organized by Alessandro Gilioli with the collaboration of bloggers  
from all
political areas. The initiative asked Italian blogs to stop posting  
all the
same hour, and to just post the logo of the protest online, with a  
link to
the statement for the Right to Net:  http://dirittoallarete.ning.com/.  
The
Social Networking platform worked as a collector of posts and free  
opinions,
as well as a container for the images of all the bloggers who gagged
themselves by taking part in the protest. The project also involved a  
sit-in
and meeting in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7pm on Tuesday, the 14th of  
July,
and a symbolic gagging of the bloggers that were present as well as the
statue that represents the freedom of speech, the statue of Pasquino.  
The
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Norm Friesen | 9 Sep 19:41
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Call for Papers to Nettime - Media Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and German-Speaking Europe


Announcement - Media Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and
German-Speaking Europe 

April 8-10, 2010; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Proposals due: Nov. 27, 2010

Website: http://www.mediatrans.ca 

Ubiquitous and indispensible, media technologies have taken on an
epistemological or even ontological significance: we learn what we know,
and we become what we are, through print, TV, digital, mobile and other
communications. “No part of the world, no human activity,” as Sonia
Livingstone says, “is untouched…. Societies worldwide are being
reshaped, for better or for worse, by changes in the global media and
information environment.” Seeing media as a lens or even as an a priori
condition for understanding historical, social and cultural change has
become increasingly prevalent and urgent on both sides of the Atlantic.
However, with some notable exceptions, this work has been developing
independently, producing a wide-ranging if fruitful heterogeneity. On
the one side are the interdisciplinary and theoretically-engaged
Medienwissenschaften (media studies), and on the other, work developing
out of the Toronto school and a variety of theoretical and disciplinary
traditions. The purpose of this conference is to deepen and expand
transatlantic dialogue between North America and German-speaking Europe
(Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in the area of media theory -- and to
provide an opportunity for developing connections to other contexts as
well. Areas of research and scholarship relevant to this dialogue
include communication, philosophy, media literacy, and literary and
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Patrice Riemens | 11 Sep 11:54
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John Freeman: Not so Fast! A Manifesto for Slow Communication (WSJ)


bwo Wall Street Journal (August 21, 2009)
original at: http://tinyurl.com/ndokgn

Not So Fast
Sending and receiving at breakneck speed can make life queasy; a manifesto
for slow communication

By JOHN FREEMAN

The boundlessness of the Internet always runs into the hard fact of our
animal nature, our physical limits, the dimensions of our cognitive
present, the overheated capac­ity of our minds. "My friend has just had
his PC wired for broadband," writes the poet Don Paterson. "I meet him in
the café; he looks terrible—his face puffy and pale, his eyes bloodshot. .
. . He tells me he is now detained, night and day, in downloading every
album he ever owned, lost, desired, or was casually intrigued by; he has
now stopped even listen­ing to them, and spends his time sleeplessly
monitoring a progress bar. . . . He says it's like all my birthdays have
come at once, by which I can see he means, precisely, that he feels he is
going to die."

We will die, that much is certain; and everyone we have ever loved and
cared about will die, too, sometimes—heartbreakingly—before us. Being
someone else, traveling the world, making new friends gives us a temporary
reprieve from this knowledge, which is spared most of the animal kingdom.
Busyness—or the simulated busyness of email addiction—numbs the pain of
this awareness, but it can never totally submerge it. Given that our days
are limited, our hours precious, we have to decide what we want to do,
what we want to say, what and who we care about, and how we want to
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