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Tjebbe van Tijen | 2 Aug 2011 15:08
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Emblem for the International Criminal Court: Iustitiae Languor

Emblem for the International Criminal Court: Iustitiae Languor

August 2, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen

The illustrated version with a link to the emblem source can be found at

http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/emblem-for-the-international-criminal-court-iustitiae-languor/

[tableau with 17th century emblem and picture of the International criminal Court in The Hague]

Iustitiae Languor/Justice Falls Down:

Indictment for Gaddafi but not (yet) for Assad makes one wonder and the symbol of Justitia as an impartial
being came to mind and it made me  search in one of the emblemata databases for the word ‘justice’, this
one popped up and though made in the 17th century it is still fitting four centuries later, where the
geo-political situation in the world often gets out of control, like an unbridled horse.

The emblem book (*) has the old German text on the facing page and it reads:

motto (de)
Gerechtigkeit gehet zu Grundt.
subscriptio (de)

GLeich wie ein wildes/ freches Pferdt
Stelt sich die Welt jetzundt auff Erdt/
Das wildt Pferdt leydet kein Gebiß/
Die welt die leydet kein Verdrieß/
Doch haßts vnd scheucht insonderheit/
Der Gesetz Recht vnd Gerechtigkeit.
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fiona.davies-24jMwgp+fRTvnOemgxGiVw@public.gmane.org | 3 Aug 2011 14:42
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bio-products trade

Police in Istanbul have 'taken into custody' several people thought to be
involved in the illegal trade in body parts in Turkey. They organisers of
the trades are alleged to have used facebook as the means of marketing for
sellers and maybe buyers. The page was still up last night on facebook.

Here's a link to an English version news article
http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=252327

As a visual artist just starting a project on the intersections between the
historic means and manner of trade and the contemporary for stuff like
bio-products, its almost hard to believe that a story like this is not too
good to be true or is it a giant hoax, hard to tell.
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Patrice Riemens | 3 Aug 2011 15:24
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Conor Friedersdorf: The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good (The Atlantic)

Kiddieporn appears to still function as the primary omnibus baseball bat
to smash 'the anarchy' on the Internet (with terrorism a good second). But
as with 'white slave trafficking' it will become interesting to see when
the concept itself that it seeks to represent will come under closer
scrutiny...

bwo support.antenna.nl

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/the-legislation-that-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/

The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good
By Conor Friedersdorf

The Atlantic, Aug 1 2011,

An overzealous bill that claims to be about stopping child pornography
turns every Web user into a person to monitor

Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography. To combat it,
legislators have brought through committee a poorly conceived, over-broad
Congressional bill, The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers
Act of 2011. It is arguably the biggest threat to civil liberties now
under consideration in the United States. The potential victims: everyone
who uses the Internet.

The good news? It hasn't gone before the full House yet.

The bad news: it already made it through committee. And history shows that
in times of moral panic, overly broad legislation has a way of becoming
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Heiko Recktenwald | 3 Aug 2011 20:02

Re: Emblem for the International Criminal Court: Iustitiae Languor

Am 02.08.2011 15:08, schrieb Tjebbe van Tijen:

> Indictment for Gaddafi but not (yet) for Assad makes one wonder

It is NOT the business of the ICC to protect human rights but to punish 
certain "crimes" and those "crimes" are in the same sphere of 
international politics as the UNSC and Assad. International penal law 
may have played a good role in the case of former Yougoslavia but in 
general it is political kitsch. Artist should not contribute to this.

One does not need the example of Assad to laugh about the indictment 
against Gaddafi, the case of Bashir is enough.

Some years ago everybody was talking of Empire. Who is more to blame for 
the massacres in Sudan, Bashir or those who gave weapons to the people 
in the South?

There are terrible things happening everywhere but international penal 
law is not the answer. We have to compare cases, as you did with Gaddafi 
and Assad, and do what is doable on an equal basis.

As the Romans said of the law: "Est autem a iustitia appelatum: nam, ut 
eleganter Celsus definit, ius est ars boni et aequi" (D. 1, 1, 1, pr.),

H.
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Angela Mitropoulos | 3 Aug 2011 17:48
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Re: Conor Friedersdorf: The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good (The Atlantic)

There has been some discussion and analysis of this, in relation to the 
internet but also politics more generally, but surely not enough.

There was the Livejournal Strikethrough of 2007 
<http://fanlore.org/wiki/Strikethrough>. The Northern Territory 
Intervention in Australia (which, among other things, banned internet 
porn; and as it unfolds has become a series of significant reforms to 
welfare, generally awful ones) 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Territory_National_Emergency_Response>. 
Some good discussion/analysis at this last year 
<http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/Week-of-Mon-20101025/002859.html>. 
And there was, of course, the furor over the Bill Henson exhibition in 
Sydney a few years back.

There are three books I'd recommend: Lauren Berlant's The Queen of 
America, which discusses the rise (during the period of the Reagan 
presidency) of a politics of the American fetus and the American child; 
Joanne Faulkner's, The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About 
Children; and Lee Edelman's No Future.

That said, I've not come across a sustained history/analysis of this in 
relation to the internet specifically. I'd be interested to know if I've 
missed something along those lines. It's become so pivotal to the 
reorganisation of politics, welfare, communication, and more besides, 
that -- while I know that criticism is often circumvented by the more or 
less explicit accusation that critics must be defending child porn (or 
worse) -- I wonder at the rarity of intellectual and political bravery. 
I also wonder whether it's at all possible to analyse emerging forms of 
internet censorship without confronting this aspect.
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Tjebbe van Tijen | 8 Aug 2011 15:36
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Gay Pride Canal Parade 2012: who is next to come out?

Gay Pride Canal Parade 2012: who is next to come out?

August 8, 2011 by Tjebbe van Tijen

A fully documented version with web-links and a 'tableau' illustration can be found at:

http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/gay-pride-canal-parade-2012-who-is-next-to-come-out/

Gay Pride 2012, who is next to come out?  The Dutch army and the National Bank (DNB) are only a few official
institutions that participate with a boat of their own in the yearly Canal Parade of Gay Pride Amsterdam.
Themuseum and cultural sector is presented with their own boat (Amsterdam Museum | Bijbels Museum | De
Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam | EYE/Filmmuseum | FOAM | Hermitage Amsterdam | Het Concertgebouw | Het Nationale
Ballet | Joods Historisch Museum | Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest | Museum Van Loon | Nationaal
Historisch Museum | Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme en Congressen | Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest |
Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder | Rijksmuseum | Scheepvaartmuseum | Stedelijk Museum | Tassenmuseum
Hendrikje | Tropenmuseum | Van Gogh Museum) a never ending list. Even the government has their own
(contested) boat - though the prime minister Rutte choose to profile himself at a more straight mass party
around the corner on the same day as the Canal Parade: ‘Dance Valley’ . A Dutch Hindu boat was a newcomer
this year following the trend of Christian, Islam and Jewish gay representation, during an event that
seems to aim at embracing ‘the whole’ of Dutch society. But certain key sectors of the Netherlands
keep ‘missing the emancipation boat’, fail the institutionalised ‘coming out’: Dutch
football business, the Dutch Royal House of Orange (and they have several nice boats ready to take part)
and a boat of a section of this society that is thought to consist mainly of macho heteros, the Dutch Mafia.
Here is an underworld that should be targeted, stimulated to ‘come out of their closets’. One can
already enjoy the vision of a ‘parade of sails’ of hash and cocaine boats chaperoned by armoured
speedboats, with the crew dressed in proper t-shirts and sunglassed criminals with their water-pistols
doing ‘bang, bang, bang’.

[tableau with a movie poster, a pink t-shirt and pink water-pistol]
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Patrice Riemens | 9 Aug 2011 15:59
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Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London

Glued to the Beeb as I have been the last few days, I do have my opinions
on the origins and consequences of, tag "Anarchy in the UK" happening
right now, and I triggered a discussion on that subject on the INURA list,
where I found ref to this text, which I think is most worthwhile. So no
substantial comment for now (it may come), but just going for one of the
purposes of this list: text filtering.

Cheers, patrizio & Diiiinooos!

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

Original to:
http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html
(do check it out for background & more!)

Penny Red
Panic on the streets of London.
Posted August 9, 2011

I’m huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my
city burn. The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and running
street battles in Hackney, of police horses lining up in Lewisham, of
roiling infernos that were once shops and houses in Croydon and in
Peckham. Last night, Enfield, Walthamstow, Brixton and Wood Green were
looted; there have been hundreds of arrests and dozens of serious
injuries, and it will be a miracle if nobody dies tonight. This is the
third consecutive night of rioting in London, and the disorder has now
spread to Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol and Birmingham. Politicians and police
officers who only hours ago were making stony-faced statements about
criminality are now simply begging the young people of Britain’s inner
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Christian Fuchs | 10 Aug 2011 16:07
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Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism

Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, 
“Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism
A blog post comment on the role of social media in the UK riots by 
Christian Fuchs

“One formula [...] can be that of the mob: gullible, fickle, herdlike, 
low in taste and habit. [...] If [...] our purpsoe is manipulation – the 
persuasion of a large number of people to act, feel, think, known in 
certain ways – the convenient formula will be that of the masses”. — 
Raymond Williams

“What is true of London, is true of Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, is 
true of all great towns. Everywhere barbarous indifference, hard egotism 
on one hand, and nameless misery on the other, everywhere social 
warfare, every man’s house in a state of siege, everywhere reciprocal 
plundering under the protection of the law, and all so shameless, so 
openly avowed that one shrinks before the consequences of our social 
state as they manifest themselves here undisguised, and can only wonder 
that the whole crazy fabric still hangs together”. This passage could be 
a description of the social conditions in the United Kingdom today. It 
is, however, a passage from Friedrich Engels’ report about the “Working 
Class in England”, published in 1845.

In his book “Folk Devils and Moral Panics, first published in 1972, 
Stanley Cohen shows how public discourse tends to blame media and 
popular culture for triggering, causing or stimulating violence. “There 
is a long history of moral panics about the alleged harmful effects of 
exposure to popular media and cultural forms – comics and cartoons, 
popular theatre, cinema, rock music, video nasties, computer games, 
internet porn” – and, one should add today, social media. “For
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Richard Barbrook | 11 Aug 2011 19:12

The Davos Parallax

Hiya,

I was asked to provide an introductory piece which would be inspired
by my book 'The Class of the New' and Stanislaw Lem's 'Cyberiad' for 
one of the panels at the European Cultural Congress in Wroclaw on 
8th-11th September. Here is my mash-up of these two texts into a 
summer SF tale for the readers of nettime...

Richard

http://www.culturecongress.eu/en/theme/theme_cyberiad/barbrook_davos_parallax
http://www.culturecongress.eu/en/event/exhibition_tomorrow_never_dies

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The Davos Parallax

a fable inspired by Stanislaw Lem

Richard Barbrook

As their rocket ship raced away from the watery planet, Trurl turned
to Klapaucius and exclaimed: “That was a job very well done!”

His companion laughed: “We certainly played an excellent trick on
some very unpleasant personages. Our creation has swept away
the masters of Terra without any violence or suffering. History will
record that the G20-CMP-MMORPG is one of our finest pieces of work! ”

It was when the blue moon was rising in the third quadrant of the red
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Antonio A. Casilli | 11 Aug 2011 19:26
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Why censoring social media would be the such a bad idea: a social simulation experiment about #UKriots

Dear Nettimers,
building on Christian Fuchs's excellent post on social media mobs, with my
colleague Paola Tubaro we have designed a social simulation experiment to
show why Internet censorship (as just proposed by David Cameron) would be
such a bad idea.
The complete post (including figures, tables, and code) is available here
:
http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2011/08/11/is-a-social-media-fuelled-uprising-the-worst-case-scenario-elements-for-a-sociology-of-uk-riots/
Cheers,
---a

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IS A SOCIAL MEDIA-FUELLED UPRISING THE WORST CASE SCENARIO? ELEMENTS FOR A
SOCIOLOGY OF UK RIOTS
By Antonio A. Casilli & Paola Tubaro

	“It's time we heard a little bit less about the economic and sociological
justifications for what is in my view nothing less than wanton
criminality”. (Boris Johnson, public speech London, Aug 9, 2011)

	“We are not social scientists. We have to deal with urgent situations”
(Paul McKeever, Police Federation Chairman, SkyNews Aug 11, 2011)

	“Nowadays sabotaging the social machine involves reappropriating and
reinventing the ways of interrupting its networks”. (The Invisible
Committee, The Coming Insurrection, Semiotext(e), 2009, p. 112)

--Why social media bring democracy to developing countries and anarchy to
rich ones?
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